HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 20308 COUNCIL ORDINANCE NUMBER 20308
COUNCIL BILL NUMBER 4864
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING CRIMINAL TRESPASS AND
INTERFERENCE WITH A FIREFIGHTER; AMENDING
SECTIONS 4.805, 4.808 AND 4.990 OF THE EUGENE CODE,
1971; RENUMBERING SECTION 4.810 OF THAT CODE TO
SECTION 4.812; ADDING SECTIONS 4.810 AND 4.941 TO
THAT CODE; AND PROVIDING /~J~,l IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE
DATE
ADOPTED: February 9, 2004
PASSED: 8~
REJECTED:
OPPOSED:
ABSENT:
EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately
ORDINANCE NO. 20308
AN ORD]NANCE CONCERNING CRIMINAL TRESPASS AND
~NTERFERENCE W~TH A F~REFIGHTER; AMENDING
SECTIONS 4.805, 4.808 AND 4.990 OF THE EUGENE
CODE, 1971; RENUMBER~NG SECTION 4.810 OF THAT
CODE TO SECTION 4.812; ADDING SECTIONS 4.810 AND
4.941 TO THAT CODE; AND PROViDiNG AN ~MMEDIATE
EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The first paragraph of Section 4.805 of the Eugene Code, 1971, and
the definition of "Enter or remain unlawfully" in that section are amended, and the
definitions for "Coach," "inappropriate behavior," "Spectator," and "Sports official" are
added to Section 4.805 of that Code, in alphabetical order, to provide:
4,805 Trespassinq - Definitions. As used in sections 4.806 to 4.810, except
as the context requires otherwise:
"Coach" means a person who instructs or trains members of a team or
directs the strategy of a team participating in a sports event.
"Enter or remain unlawfully" means:
(a) To enter or remain in or upon premises when the premises, at the
time of such entry or remaining, are not open to the public or the
entrant is not otherwise licensed or privileged to do so; or
(b) To fail to Heave premises that are open to the public after being
lawfully directed to do so by the person in charge; or
(c) To enter premises that are open to the public after being lawfully
directed not to enter the premises.
"inappropriate behavior" means:
(a) Engaging in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening
behavior;
(b) Violating the rules of conduct governing coaches, team players and
spectators at a sports event;
(c) Publicly insulting another person by abusive words or gestures in a
manner intended to provoke a violent response; or
(d) Intentionally subjecting another person to offensive physical
contact.
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"Spectator" means any person, other than a team player or coach, who
attends a sports event.
"Sports official" means a person who:
(a) Serves as a referee, umpire, linesman or judge or performs similar
functions under a different title; and
(b) Is a member of, or registered by, a local, state, regional or national
organization that engages in providing education and training in
sports officiating.
Section 2. Section 4.808 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended as follows:
4.808 Criminal Trespass in the First Degree.
(1) A person commits the crime of criminal trespass in the first degree if
the person:
(a) Enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling;
(b) Enters or remains unlawfully in or upon premises that have
been determined to be not fit for use under ORS 453.855 to
453.912 as provided by administrative rules adopted by the city
manager under section 2.019 of this code;
(c) Having been denied future entry to a building pursuant to a
merchant's notice of t~espass, reenters the building during
hours when the building is open to the public with the intent to
commit theft therein; or'
(d) Enters or remains unlawfully upon railroad yards, tracks,
bridges or rights of way,.
(2) Subsection (1)(b) of this section does not apply to the owner of record
of the premises if:
(a) The owner notifies the law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction over the premises that the owner intends to enter
the premises;
(b) The owner enters or rernains on the premises for the purpose
of inspecting or decontaminating the premises or lawfully
removing items from the premises; and
(c) The owner has not been arrested for, charged with or
convicted of a criminal offense that contributed to the
determination that the premises are not fit for use.
Section 3. Section 4.810 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is renumbered as Section
4.812, and a new Section 4.810 is added to that Code as follows:
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4.8'10 Criminal Trespass at a Sports Event.
(1) A sports official may order a coach, team player or spectator to
leave the premises at which a sports event is taking place and at
which the sports official is officiating if the coach, team player or
spectator is engaging in inappropriate behavior.
(2) A person commits the crime of criminal trespass at a sports event if
the person:
(a) Is a coach, team player or spectator at a sports event;
(b) Engages in inappropriale behavior;
(c) Has been ordered by a sports official to leave the premises
at which the sports event is taking place; and
(d) Fails to leave the premises or returns to the premises during
the period of time when reentry has been prohibited.
4.812 Violatinq Privacy of Another.
(1) No person, other than an officer performing a lawful duty, shall enter
upon land or into a building used in whole or part as a dwelling not the
person's own without permission of the owner or person entitled to
possession thereof and while so trespassing look through or attempt
to look through a window, door or transom of the dwelling or that part
of the building used as a dwelling with the intent to violate the privacy
of any other person.
(2) No person shall knowingly make or record a photograph, motion
picture, videotape or other visual recording of another person in a
state of nudity without the consent of the person being recorded if, at
the time the recording is being made or recorded, the person being
recorded is in a place and circumstance where the person has a
reasonable expectation of personal privacy.
(3) No person shall, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual
desire of the person, be in a location to observe another person in a
state of nudity without the consent of the other person while the other
person is in a place and circumstance where the person has a
reasonable expectation of personal privacy.
(4) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall not apply to:
(a) Any legitimate medical procedure performed by or under
direction of a person licensed to provide medical service for
the purpose of medical diagnosis, treatment, education or
research, including, but not limited to, the recording of medical
procedures; and
(b) Any activity undertaken in the course of bona fide law
enforcement or corrections activity or necessary to the proper
functioning of the criminal justice system, including but not
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limited to the operation and management of jails, prisons and
other youth and adult corrections facilities.
(5) As used in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section, the following
terms and phrases mean:
Make or record a photograph, motion picture, videotape or
other visual recording. Includes, but is not limited to, making or
recording or employing, authorizing, permitting, compelling or
inducing another person to make or record a photograph, motion
picture, videotape or other visual recording.
Nudity. Means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-
pubescent human genitals, pubic areas or a post-pubescent human
female breast below a point immediately above the top of the
areola. Nudity includes a partial state of nudity.
Place and circumstance where the person has a reasonable
expectation of personal privacy. Includes, but is not limited to, a
bathroom, dressing room, locker room that includes an area for
dressing or showering, tanning booth and any area where a person
undresses in an enclosed space that is not open to public view.
Public view. Means that an area can be readily seen and that a
person within the area can be distinguished by normal unaided
vision when viewed from a public place as that term is defined in
Section 4.890 of this code.
Section 4. Section 4.941 is added to the Eugene Code, 1971, to provide:
4.941 Interference with a Firefiqhter or Emer~qencv Medical Technician.
(1) A person commits the crime of interfering with a firefighter or
emergency medical technician if the person, knowing that another
person is a firefighter or emergency medical technician, intentionally
acts in a manner that prevents, or attempts to prevent, a firefighter or
emergency medical technician from performing the lawful duties of the
firefighter or emergency medical technician.
(2) As used in this section, "emergency medical technician" means a
person who has received formal training in prehospital and
emergency care, and is state certified to attend any ill, injured or
disabled person. Police officers, firefighters, funeral home employees
and other personnel serving in a dual capacity one of which meets the
definition of "emergency medical technician" are "emergency medical
technicians" within the meaning of this section.
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Section 5. Section 4.990 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended by renumbering
Code section references from Section 4.810 to Section 4.812; and adding, in numerical
order, penalties for violations of new Sections 4.810 and 4.941 of that Code, as follows:
4,990 Penalties - Specific.
(1) Violation of the followinq sections is punishable by fine or
confinement in jail, or b~th, up to the amounts indicated opposite
each:
Section Penalty
4.810 500 fine or 30 days in jail, or both
4.812(1) 500 fine or 100 days in jail, or both
4.812(2) and (3) 5,000 fine or one year in jail, or both
4.941 500 fine or 30 days in jail, or both
Section 6. The City Recorder, at the request of, or with the concurrence of the City
Attorney, is authorized to administratively correct any reference errors contained herein or
in other provisions of the Eugene Code, 1971, to the provisions added, amended or
repealed herein. The City Recorder is requested to forward a copy of this ordinance to the
City's Municipal Court, Police Department and Prosecutor's office to ensure that they are
notified of the Code changes and that Section 4.8113 of the Code has been renumbered to
Section 4.812.
Section 7. An immediate effective date is necessary so that the City can begin
immediate implementation of amendments to the City's criminal code, which are being
amended in accordance with revisions made to the Oregon Revised Statutes that have
already gone into effect. Therefore, it is necessary for the preservation of the public health,
welfare and safety for this Ordinance to have immediate effect. This Ordinance shall
become effective immediately upon its passage by the City Council and approval by the
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Mayor, retention by the Mayor for more than ten days, or readoption over a Mayoral veto by
two-thirds of all members of the City Council.
Passed by the City Council this Approved by the Mayor this
day of February, :2004. 9th day of February, 2004.
City Reborder l~&~fsr"
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