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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20200918.tiffWELD COUNTY EMERGENCY CODE ORDINANCE 2020-06 IN THE MATTER OF REPEALING AND REENACTING, WITH AMENDMENTS, CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION, OF THE WELD COUNTY CODE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF WELD, STATE OF COLORADO: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, on December 28, 2000, adopted Weld County Code Ordinance 2000-1, enacting a comprehensive Code for the County of Weld, including the codification of all previously adopted ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before said date of adoption, and WHEREAS, the Weld County Code is in need of emergency revision and clarification with regard to procedures, terms, and requirements therein, inasmuch as the Weld County Health Officer has issued a Declaration of Pandemic Health Emergency, pursuant to Colorado State Statutes and Section 14-10-10 of the Weld County Code; therefore, this Ordinance is declared to be an Emergency Ordinance under the provisions of Section 3-14 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, that certain existing Chapters of the Weld County Code be, and hereby are, repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and the various Chapters are revised to read as follows. CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION Amend Sec. 2-1-10. - Conduct of meetings. A. The Board of County Commissioners shall conduct two (2) regular weekly board meetings on Monday and Wednesday of each week, to commence at 9:00 a.m. 1. A regular meeting may be canceled by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners passed and publicly announced at least ten (10) days prior to the canceled meeting date. 2. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk to the Board upon the written request of the Chair or of any three (3) members of the Board of County Commissioners. Each member of the Board shall be provided at least twenty-four (24) hours' written notice of such meeting, served personally or left at each member's usual place of residence. However, a special meeting called as herein provided may be held on shorter notice if all members of the Board of County Commissioners are present and have waived notice thereof in writing. A copy of the notice of a special meeting shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the Board of County Commissioners at the time such notice is given to cam -o9/ 8` members of the Board. No business shall be transacted at a special meeting unless the same has been stated in the notice of such meeting. 3. In the event that a legal holiday should fall on a Monday or Wednesday, there shall be no need to declare a cancellation of said meeting. 4. If at least three (3) Board members are unable to meet physically, Board meetings may take place using electronic communications that allow for a record of proceedings. If a Pandemic Health Emergency has been declared by the Weld County Health Officer, Commissioners may attend the Board meetings using electronic communications that allow for a record of proceedings. Remainder of Section — No change. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board that an emergency exists, inasmuch as the Weld County Health Officer has issued a Declaration of Pandemic Health Emergency, pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes and Section 14-10-10 of the Weld County Code; therefore, this Ordinance is declared to be an Emergency Ordinance under the provisions of Section 3-14 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board that the Clerk to the Board be, and hereby is, directed to arrange for Municode to supplement the Weld County Code with the amendments contained herein, to coincide with chapters, articles, divisions, sections, and subsections as they currently exist within said Code; and to resolve any inconsistencies regarding capitalization, grammar, and numbering or placement of chapters, articles, divisions, sections, and subsections in said Code. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board, if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held or decided to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that it would have enacted this Ordinance in each and every section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases might be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid. Read and Approved: March 18, 2020 Published: March 25, 2020, in the Greeley Tribune Effective: March 18, 2020 Affidavit of Publication WELD COUNTY EMERGENCY CODE ORDINANCE 2020-06 IN THE MATTER OF REPEALING AND REENACTING, WITH AMENDMENTS, CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION, OF THE WELD COUNTY CODE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF WELD, STATE OF COLORADO: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, on December 28,.2000, adopted Weld County Code Ordinance 2000-1, enact- ing a comprehensive. Code for the County of Weld, including the codification of all previously adopted ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before said date of adoption ae, WHEREAS, the Weld County Code is in need of emergency revi- sion and clarification with regard to procedures, terms, and re- quirements therein, inasmuch as the Weld County Health Officer has issued a Declaration of Pandemic Health Emergency, pur- suant to Colorado State Statutes and Section 14-10-10 of the Weld County Code; therefore, this Ordinance is declared to be an Emergency Ordinance under the provisions of Section 3-14 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of Colorado, that certain existing Chapters of the Weld County Code be, and here- by are, repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and the vari- ous Chapters are revised to read as follows. CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION Amend Sec. 2-1-10. - Conduct of meetings. A. The Board of County Commissioners shall conduct two (2) regular weekly board meetings on Monday and Wednesday of each week, to commence at 9:00 a.m. 1. A regular meeting may be canceled by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners passed and publicly announced at least ten (10) days prior to the canceled meeting date. 2. Special meetings shall. be called by the Clerk to the Board upon the written request of the Chair or of any three (3) mem- bersof the Board of County Commissioners. Each member of the Board shall be provided at least twenty-four (24) hours' writ- ten notice of such meeting, served personally or left at each member's usual place of residence. However, a special meeting called as herein provided may be held on shorter notice if all members of the Board of County Commissioners are present and have waived notice thereof in writing. A copy of the notice of a special meeting shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the Board of County Commissioners at the time such notice is given to members of the Board. No business shall be transacted at a special meeting unless the same has been stat- ed in the notice of such meeting. 3. In the event that a legal holiday should fall on a Monday or Wednesday, there shall be no need to declare a cancellation of said meeting. 4. If at least three (3) Board members are unable to meet physi- cally, Board meetings may take place using electronic communi- ", cations that allow for a record of proceedings. If a Pandemic Health Emergency has been declared by the Weld County Health Officer, Commissioners may attend the Board meetings , using electronic communications that allow for a record of pro- ceedings. Remainder of Section — No change. , BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board that an emergency exists, inasmuch as the Weld County Health Officer has issued a Declaration of Pandemic Health Emergency, pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes and Section 14.10-40 of the Weld County Code; therefore, this Ordinance is declared to be an Emergency Ordinance under the provisions of Section 3-14 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board that the Clerk to the Board be, and hereby is, directed to arrange for Municode to supplement the Weld County Code with the amendments con- tained herein, to coincide with chapters, articles, divisions, sec tions, and subsections as they currently exist within said Code; and to resolve any inconsistencies regarding capitalization, grammar, and numbering or placement of chapters, articles, divi sions, sections, and subsections in said Code. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board, if any section, sub- section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordi- nance is for any reason held or decided to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining por- tions hereof. The Board of County Commissioners hereby de- clares that it would have enacted this Ordinance in each and ev- ery section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one.or more sec- tions, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases might be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid. - Read and Approved: March 18, 2020 Published: March 25, 2020, in the Greeley Tribune Effective: March 18, 2020 The, Tribune March 25; 2020,.. -, STATE OF COLORADO County of Weld, I Jennifer Usher SS. of said County of Weld, being duly sworn, say that I am an advertising clerk of THE GREELEY TRIBUNE, that the same is a three days weekly plus Sunday newspaper of general circulation and printed and published in the City of Greeley in said county and state; that the notice or advertisement, of which the annexed is a true copy, has been published in said daily newspaper for consecutive (days): that the notice was published in the regular and entire issue of every number of said newspaper during the period and time of publication of said notice, and in the newspaper proper and not in a supplement thereof; that the first publication of said notice was contained in the Twenty -Fifth day of March A.D. 2020 and the last publication thereof: in the issue of said newspaper bearing the date of the Twenty -Fifth day of March A.D. 2020 has been published continuously and uninterruptedly during the period of at least six months next prior to the first issue thereof contained said notice or advertisement above referred to; that said newspaper has been admitted to the United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions of the Act of March 3,1879, or any amendments thereof; and that said newspaper is a daily newspaper duly qualified for publishing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws of the State of Colorado. March 25, 2020 Total Charges: $31.09 25th day of March 2020 My Commission Expires 08/13/2022 \\C LQ9-e-40 gL),J1L. k• * • • JERILYN L MARTINEZ (\ NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO NOTARY ID 20074006708 c MY COMMISSION EXPIRES FEBRUARY 19, 2023 Hello