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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1-3006 OF THE COMMERCE CITY REVISED MUNICIPAL CODE TO CORRECT THE SECTION NAME, DEFINE PARK RANGER AS A PEACE OFFICER, AND ESTABLISH THE AUTHORITY OF PARK RANGERS TO ENFORCE ORDINANCE AND RULE VIOLATIONS RELATING TO THE USE OF COMMERCE CITY PARK PROPERTY
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Summary & Background
In the 2021 budget year, Council approved a proposed expenditure to have a Park Ranger from the Adams County Park Ranger Service provide supplemental supervisory, educational, and enforcement activities at City Park and Open Space properties. To memorialize that arrangement, Commerce City began negotiating an IGA with Adams County, establishing the parameters and details concerning the Park Ranger’s involvement with and dedication of their time to cover Commerce City parks, trails and open spaces.
In August 2021, a new category of peace officer was added by creating and amending CCRMC sec. 1-3006 through Ordinance 2343. The purpose of this Ordinance was to confer the authority on the Adams County Park Ranger to be able to lawfully perform enforcement activity on behalf of the City. To that end, Ordinance 2343 added the following language to the Municipal Code’s definition of “peace officer”:
"Persons with conferred authority. Persons to whom authority has been conferred expressly, pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement or contract approved by the city council or otherwise lawfully approved consistent with the charter and state law, to enforce municipal ordinance and code violations shall have authority to enforce municipal ordinance and code violations to the extent specified in such agreement or contract."
At the time of adoption, the newly drafted section 1-3006 included an erroneous section name. It was intended that in conjunction with the repeal of section passage of section 3-1102, this new section was to be named "Peace officers." The immediate ordinance corrects this error.
In September 2021, after further negotiations with the ...
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