Item 3: An Ordinance on Downtown Public Safety Zone

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ATTACHMENT B ORDINANCE NO. _______ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4.875 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971, AND EXTENDING THE SUNSET DATE FOR THE DOWNTOWN PUBLIC SAFETY ZONE. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds as follows: On December 8, 2010, Ordinance No. 20467 was adopted providing that Sections 4.873, 4.874, 4.875, 4.876, 4.877, 4.878 and 4.879 of the Eugene Code, 1971 (the Downtown Public Safety Zone), and the amendments made to Section 4.990 by Ordinance No. 20419, automatically sunset on April 30, 2012.The Council has determined that the April 30, 2012 sunset date of the Downtown Public Safety Zone provisions should be extended. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The lead-in paragraph of Section 4.875 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended to provide as follows: 4.875 Downtown Public Safety Zone - Issuance of Notice to Show Cause . When a peace officer arrests a person or issues a citation for any of the offenses enumerated in subsection (1) of section 4.874 of this code, the officer [shall] may also issue to the person being arrested or cited a notice to show cause. The notice shall require the person to appear at municipal court at a designated time within three (3) to five (5) business days, at which time the court will set a date and time for the hearing for the person to show cause why the person should not be excluded from the downtown public safety zone. The notice shall contain: Section 2. The sunset date of Sections 4.873, 4.874, 4.875, 4.876, 4.877, 4.878 and 4.879 of the Eugene Code, 1971, and the amendments made to Section 4.990 by Ordinance No. 20419, is hereby extended to April 30, 2014. The City Recorder is requested to note this sunset date on appropriate City logs. Section 3 . Notwithstanding Section 2 of this Ordinance, any enforcement actions commenced to enforce the downtown public safety zone provisions prior to the sunset Ordinance - Page 1 of 2