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CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO
INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER OHM
COUNCIL BILL NO. 19
ORDINANCE NO. 1804
Series 2024
TITLE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 19 ARTICLE IV OF THE WHEAT
RIDGE CODE OF LAWS CONCERNING DISPOSITION OF LOST OR
ABANDONED PROPERTY
WHEREAS, pursuant to its home rule authority and C.R.S. § 31-23-101, the
City, acting through its City Council (the “Council”), is authorized to adopt ordinances
for the protection of the public health, safety or welfare; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO:
Section 1. The introductory paragraph of Code section 19-80 is amended to
read:
Sec. 19-80. - Disposition if OF unclaimed.
If property held in custody remains unclaimed sixty (60) days after such
property is no longer required to be held in evidence pursuant to section
19-77, or sixty (60) days after such property has come into the possession
of the chief of police or thirty (30) days after the mailing of any letter of
notice provided for in section 19-79, whichever is the longer time, such
property may be retained by the police department and kept for use by the
city for training programs or otherwise, or disposed of from time to time by
the chief of police or his designee as follows:
(1) . . .
Section 2. Severability, Conflicting Ordinances Repealed. If any section,
subsection or clause of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be unconstitutional or
otherwise invalid, the validity of the remaining sections, subsections and clauses shall
not be affected thereby. All other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after final publication, as provided by Section 5.11 of the Charter.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND ADOPTED on first reading by a vote of 8 to 0 on
this 26th day of August 2024, ordered published in full in a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Wheat Ridge, and Public Hearing and consideration on final
passage set for September 9, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., in the Council Chambers, 7500 West
29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
READ, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final reading by
a vote of 8 to 0, this 9th day of September, 2024.
SIGNED by the Mayor on this 10th day of September, 2024.
Bud Starker, Mayor
ATTEST:
Margy Greer, Senior Deputy City Clerk
Approved as to Form
Gerald E. Dahl, City Attorney
First Publication: August 27, 2024
Second Publication: September 10, 2024
Effective Date: September 25, 2024
Published:
Jeffco Transcript and www.ci.wheatridge.co.us