Public Places Bylaw Amendment

 

 

A Bylaw to amend the Public Places Bylaw No. 1177-80.

 

WHEREAS under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Municipal Government Act, Statutes of Alberta, Chapter M-26 and amendments thereto (hereinafter referred to as the “MGA”) a Municipal Council is authorized to do something by resolution or to do something without specifying that it be done by bylaw or resolution, it may be done by resolution or bylaw.

 

WHEREAS the council have determined that of the town bylaws, many are no longer relevant or current or have been updated or replaced by other bylaws without any reference to rescinding previous bylaws. 

 

NOW THEREFORE the Council in the Town of Olds, in the Province of Alberta, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:

 

SHORT TITLE: This Bylaw may be referred to as the, ‘A Bylaw to Amend the Public Places Bylaw No. 1177-80.’

 

Delete the following section:

 

Part 1 PUBLIC PLACES, AMUSEMENTS AND ASSEMBLIES

2. 

a) Any peace officer witnessing and believing, upon reasonable and probable grounds, that any person is conducting himself or herself in a disorderly manner in a public place or park under the jurisdiction of the Town, may order that person to leave the public place or park. 

 

b) Any person who fails, neglects or refuses to leave the public place or park when ordered to do so by a peace officer is guilty of an offense. 

 

c) In addition to prosecution, any person who fails, neglects or refuses to leave a public place or park when ordered to do so by a peace officer may be ejected, by force if necessary, from the said place or park. 

 

6. 

a) Pursuant to the authority conferred by the Alberta Lord’s Day Act, and subject to this bylaw, it shall be lawful for any person after 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon on a Sunday to provide, engage in, or be present at

 

i) any game, contest or sport

ii) any exhibition of an educational, artistic or cultural nature

iii) any theatrical performance, concert, recital, lecture or other performance, and

iv) any exhibition of moving pictures. 

 

Read for a first time this day of      November,    2008.

 

Read for a second time this day of      November,    2008.

 

Unanimous Consent for presentation of third and final reading this day of     November,      2008.

 

Read for a third and final time this      day of       November,         2008.

 

 

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Judy Dahl, 

Mayor

 

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Norm McInnis,

Chief Administrative Officer

 

SIGNED by the Chief Elected Officer and Chief Administrative Officer this   day of November, 2008.