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HomeMy WebLinkAbout020 - 12/26/1930 - RELATING TO IMPERSONATING AND RESISTING AN OFFICER (EMERGENCY ORDINANCE) r c J ORDINANCE NO 20 , 1930 BEING ATT MTERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATING TO IAIMERSONATING AND RESISTING AN OFFICER BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 Any person who shall within this City falselv represent himself to be a police or other officer of this City or who shall, without being authorized, exercise or attempt any duty, power or function of any City officer, or shall ninder, obstruct resist or otherwise inter- fere with any City officer in the discharge of his official duties or shall resist or attempt to prevent any such officer from arresting any person violating a City ordinance or shall attempt to rescue or in any manner assist in the escape of any person in the custody of an officer or confined in the City jail and any person who shall refuse to assist any police officer in making an arrest or in quelling any disturbance, when requested so to do, shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10 00 or more than $300 00 and costs, or in default of the payment of said fine and costs, shall be imprisoned as provided by law Section 2 In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preservation of public health, peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect uron its passage and publication, under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter -1- • 4 r Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council at a regular meeting held this 26th day of December, A D 1930 ATTEST Commissioner of Safety and Ex-Officio Mayor City Clerk STATE OF COLORADO ) ss County of Larimer ) I A J ROSENOW City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the fore- going ordinance, consisting of two (2) sections was duly pro- posed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 26th day of December, A D 1930, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express- Courier, a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of the Council, as an emergency ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter and thereafter and on to-wit the 29th day of December A D 1930, said ordinance No 20 was duly published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 29th day of December, A D 1930 City Clerk