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ORDINANCE NO. I
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AMC CHAPTER 10.120.010
TO ADD BILL PATTON GARDEN TO EXISTING
ENHANCED LAW ENFORCEMENT AREA
Annotated to show deletions and additions to the code sections being modified. Deletions
are bold lined through and additions are bold underlined.
WHEREAS, Article 2. Section 1 of the Ashland City Charter provides:
Powers of the City. The City shall have all powers which the constitutions, statutes, and
common law of the United States and of this State expressly or impliedly grant or allow
municipalities, as fully as though this Charter specifically enumerated each of those
powers, as well as all powers not inconsistent with the foregoing; and, in addition thereto,
shall possess all powers hereinafter specifically granted. All the authority thereof shall
have perpetual succession.
WHEREAS, Bill Patton Garden area is adjacent to the existing Enhanced Law Enforcement
Area and although public is heavily landscaped and secluded from public view; and
WHEREAS, Bill Patton Garden is experiencing increased unlawful activity and becoming
an attraction for more such activity; and
WHEREAS, City of Ashland law enforcement considers it is necessary to include the Bill
Patton Garden to protect the public against health and welfare hazards posed by persons who
are attracted to Bill Patton Garden;
THEREFORE, THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 10.120.01013.1) is amended as follows:
10.120.010 Enhanced Law Enforcement Area and Persistent Violations, Misdemeanor
A. It is the intent of the City Council to protect discrete areas within the City that are
experiencing increased unlawful activity against becoming an attraction for more such
activity and to protect the public against health and welfare hazards posed by persons who
are attracted to these areas for opportunity to engage in or to contact others to engage in
unlawful activity.
B. The City Council finds that the following geographic areas within the City are particularly
affected by unlawful behavior and/or are subject to a disproportionate number of incidents of
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the unlawful activities comprising persistent violation as defined in AMC 10.120.020 below,
and declares each such area to be an enhanced law enforcement area:
1) Downtown Enhanced Law Enforcement Area, inclusive of Bill Patton Garden
Exhibit A;
SECTION 3. Savings. Notwithstanding this amendment, the City ordinances in existence at the
time any criminal or civil enforcement actions were commenced, shall remain valid and in full
force and effect for purposes of all cases filed or commenced during the times said ordinances(s)
or portions thereof were operative. This section simply clarifies the existing situation that
nothing in this Ordinance affects the validity of prosecutions commenced and continued under
the laws in effect at the time the matters were originally filed.
SECTION 4. Severability. The sections, subsections, paragraphs and clauses of this ordinance
are severable. The invalidity of one section, subsection, paragraph, or clause shall not affect the
validity of the remaining sections, subsections, paragraphs and clauses.
SECTION 5. Codification. Provisions of this Ordinance shall be incorporated in the City Code,
and the word "ordinance" may be changed to "code", "article", "section", or another word, and
the sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered or re-lettered, provided however, that any
Whereas clauses and boilerplate provisions, i.e., Sections 3-5 need not be codified, and the City
Recorder is authorized to correct any cross-references and any typographical errors.
The foregoing ordinance was first read by title only in accordance with Article X,
Section 2(C) of the City Charter on the ..:F day of , 2015,
and duly PASSED and ADOPTED this day of /7a{, , , 2015.
Barbara M. Christensen, City Recorder
SIGNED and APPROVED this day of YO-1 5.
J Stromberg, Mayor
Revi wed as to form:
David H. Lo City Attey
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