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TC Ord. No. 1980-196 6 TOWN OF AVON ORDINANCE NO. 19 SERIES OF 1980 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 17, SERIES OF 1979, TO DEFINE THE OFFENSES OF "FOREIGN MATTER ON HIGHWAY" AND "SPILLING LOADS ON HIGHWAYS"; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF AVON, COLORADO AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Amendment Paragragh 6, Section H., "Text," of Ordinance No. 17, Series of 1979, is amended to read as follows: 6. Title 8, Chapter 8.24 is hereby adopted in its entirety including the footnotes, except as follows: Section 8.24.030 shall be amended to include the words, "Provided that firing or the dis- charging of such weapons was reasonable in light of all the attendant circumstances." following the words "person or property." in the eighth line of the text and the period at the end of that line shall be changed to a comma. Further, that Section 8.24.140 which sets out the penalties for violations of the preceeding sections, which penalties are also set out generally elsewhere in this Ordinance. 6 0 Further, that a Section 8.24.051 is added as follows: 8.24.051. Foreign matter on highway prohibited. (1) No person shall throw or deposit upon any highway, street, or alleyway any glass bottle, glass, stones, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon such highway, street, or alleyway. (2) Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any highway, street, or alleyway any destructive or injurious material or lighted or burning substance shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed. (3) Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway, street, or alleyway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway, street, or alleyway, from such vehicle. Further, that a section 8.24.052 is added as follows: 8.24.052. Spilling loads on highways prohibited. No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway, street, or alleyway unless such vehicle is constructed or loaded or the load thereof securely covered to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom; except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway. • Section 2. Violations and Penalties. It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision hereof. Any person who violates any provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment: provided, no person under the age of eighteen years shall be punished by imprisonment. Any such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which a violation of any provision of this code is committed, continued, or permitted by such person and shall be punished accordingly. Section 3. Severability If any provision, clause, phrase of section of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions, clauses, phrases or sections or applications of the Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and to this end the provisions or applications of this ordinance are declared to be severable. INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST READING, APPROVED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL, this n.,. ay of , 1980 and a public hearing on this ordinance shall be held at the regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Avon, Colorado, on the day of 1980, at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Offices Qf the Town. ATTEST: v• ArAe'lo V. Alpi, ay Patricia J. DoyVe/, Town g1er 0 INTRODUCED, PASSED ON SECOND READING, APPROVED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL, this 64- day of , 1980. This Ordinance will become effective on ~i 10-, 1980. V• 14614 V. Al ayor ATTEST: Patricia J. ~oyle, Tpwn Clerk STATE OF COLORADO ) COUNTY OF EAGLE ) SS TOWN OF AVON ) 2 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 12th DAY OF AUGUST, 1980 AT THE TOWN HALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING THE ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE N0.#80-19, SERIES OF 1980: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.17, SERIES OF 1979, TO DEFINE THE OFFENSES OF "FOREIGN MATTER ON HIGHWAY" AND "SPILLING LOADS ON HIGHWAYS"; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. 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 regular business hours. Following this hearing, the Council may consider final passage of this Ordinance. this notice given and published by order of the Town Council of the Town of Avon, Colorado. Dated this 23rd day of July, 1980. POSTED AT THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC PLACES WITHIN THE TOWN OF AVON ON JULY 23rd, 1980: THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE BENCHMARK SHOPPING CENTER, AVON POST OFFICE, THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF EAGLE VALLEY BOWL, THE PESTER GAS STATION, AND THE TOWN OFFICES, SECOND FLOOR, BENCHMARK SHOPPING CENTER.