HomeMy WebLinkAbout065 - 06/04/1996 - REPEALING AND REENACTING CITY CODE PERTAINING TO INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC OFFICERS ORDINANCE NO. 65, 1996
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REPEALING AND REENACTING SEC. 17-63 OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS PERTAINING TO INTERFERENCE
WITH PUBLIC OFFICERS
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Sec. 17-63 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby repealed and reenacted
to read as follows:
Sec. 17-63. Interference with public officers.
(a) No person shall use or threaten to use violence, force, physical interference,
or obstacle to knowingly obstruct,impair,or hinder any peace officer,firefighter, city
employee, or other public official acting under the color of his or her official
authority to enforce the law or perform an official duty.
(b) When a peace officer acting under the color of his or her official authority is
enforcing the law or performing an official duty, no person shall, after having been
ordered by the peace officer to move on and away from the scene of the officer's
activity, knowingly remain in the officer's presence or engage in conduct that
disrupts, obstructs, impairs, or hinders the officer's enforcement of the law or the
performance of his or her official duty.
(c) To ensure that animals used in law enforcement or fire investigation activities
are protected from harm, no person shall knowingly obstruct, impair, or hinder any
such animal in performing its law enforcement or fire investigation activities by
using or threatening to use violence, force, physical interference, or obstacle.
(d) It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that a peace officer was
acting in an illegal manner if the officer was acting under the color of his or her
official authority. A peace officer acts "under the color of his or her official
authority" when, in the regular course of assigned duties, such officer is called upon
to make, and does make, a judgment in good faith based upon surrounding facts and
circumstances.
(e) The terms "peace officer" and "firefighter" when used in this section shall
mean a peace officer or firefighter in uniform or, if out of uniform, one who has
identified himself or herself by exhibiting peace officer or firefighter credentials to
the person charged under this section.
Introduced,considered favorable on first reading,and ordereSL}yabtished this 21 st da May,
A.D. 1996, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th gay of Ju , A.D. 1996,
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Mayor
ATTEST:
2' 1&0) City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 4th day of Ju D. 096. —'
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M—ayor / l
ATTEST:
City Clerk