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Title:
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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 1-7 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO CHANGE GENERAL PENALTY TO MATCH STATE LAW
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Minutes note:
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Councilmember Chris Moore said, Carol, could you kind of give us a little brief explanation of this? City Attorney Carol Duncan said, basically, at the beginning of our Code of Ordinances, we have like a fallback amount that fines can be set by the judge, and sometimes in our ordinances, the council will set a specific fine that they want for, you know, the first offense, second offense, third offense of a violation of that Code section. Sometimes it's just left general, and it reverts back to what we put at the beginning of our Code, and that has not been changed in years. It doesn't match state law. So it's just increasing the range that the judge can use to set those fines based upon what the state law range is that's allowable by city ordinance. It doesn't change any specific fine right now. The judge would still have to make that change, but it just gives them the range that the state law allows. Councilmember Moore said, I gotcha.
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Action text:
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A motion was made by Councilperson Chris Gibson, seconded by Councilperson John Street, that this matter be Passed. The motion PASSED with the following vote.
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