TC Ord. No. 1988-01V .0
ORDINANCE NO. 88-1
SERIES OF 1988
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE
TOWN OF AVON AS IT RELATES TO PUBLIC NUISANCES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
AVON, COLOLOF.ADO, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Amendment. Chapter 8.24 Title 8 of
the Municipal Code of the Town of Avon is amended by the
addition of a new section as follows:
"8.24.035 Certain Species--Nuisance defined.
A. The following rodents are declared. to be detrimental
and injurious to the public health, safety, and welfare of
the inhabitants and property, both public and private, of the
Town, and they are determined and declared a public nuisance.
1. Richardson's Ground Squirrel.
B. Nothina contained in subsection A shall be construed
or intended to include within the definition of a public
nuisance any animal designated by a state or federal agency
as an endangered animal under state or federal law.
C. No owner of any lot, block, or parcel of ground within
the Town, nor any tenant or accent in charge thereof, shall
allow or permit said lot, block, parcel of around to become or
remain infested with Richardson's Ground. Squirrels, or Richardson's
Ground Squirrels nests or burrows. For the purpose of this.section,
"infestion" shall mean the presence of more than one Richardson's
Ground Squirrel burrow or nest per nine hundred square feet of
around.
D. Anv person, firm, business, or contractor undertaking to
remove, eliminate, or abate any nuisance as provided under this
section shall comply with all municipal, state, and federal
regulations and laws governing the taking, tranpina, killing,
and disposal of wildlife and wildlife nests or dens.
E. In the event the health department identifies the presence
of a communicable disease, abatement shall occur within the time
limit specified by the health department.
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Section 2. Severability. If any part, ssction,
sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason
held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; and the Town
Council for the Town of Avon hereby declares it would have
passed this Ordinance and each part, section, sub-section,
sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact
that anv one or more parts, sections, sub-sections, sentences,
clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST RP7T.nINC,, APPROVED AND
ORDERED POSTED, TLIIS 12th day of January,--.1988` and a'
public hearing on this Ordinance shall be held at the regular
meetina of the Town Council of the Town of Avon, Colorado, on
the 26th day of January, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal
Buildina of the Town of Avon, Colorado.
LAD11an 1`lotti .,ham, mayor
INTRODUCED, PASSED ON SECOND READING, APPROVED AND
ORDERED POSTED this 26th day of January, 1988.
Allan R. ttingh ' , Mayor
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STATE OF COLORADO )
COUNTY OF EAGLE ) SS
TOWN OF AVON )
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE TOWN COUNCIL
OF THE TOWN OF AVON, COLORADO, AT 7:30 P.M. ON THE 26TH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1988, AT THE TOWN HALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF.CONSIDERING
THE ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 88-1, SERIES OF 1988:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE TOWN OF AVON AS
IT RELATES TO PUBLIC NUISANCES
A copy of said ordinance is attached hereto, and is also on file
at the office of the Town Clerk, and may be inspected during
reaular business hours.
Following this hearing the Council may consider final passage
of this Ordinance.
This notice is given and published by order of the Town Council
of the Town of Avon, Colorado.
Dated this 12th day of January, 1988.
B
OV AVON,
atricia V. Db -l-e,
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POSTED AT THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC PLACES WITHIN THE TOWN OF
AVON ON JANUARY 13, 1988:
THE AVON POST OFFICE IN THE MAIN LOBBY
THE CITY MARKET IN THE MAIN LOBBY
THE PD QUIK STATION; AND
THE AVON MUNICIPAL BUILDING IN THE MAIN LOBBY