HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1969-0006 - Adopting Golden Penal Coder ~
BY COUNCILMAN.
0
ORDINANCE N0.~
Series of 1969
TITLE. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION AND THE PROMOTION OF THE
=C PEACE AND SAFETY WITHIN THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO,
ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE GOLDEN PENAL CODE, TITLE 8, OF GOLDEN RE-
VISED ORDINANCES OF 1965, AS APPROVED AND PUBLISHED IN 1967, BY THE
CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,COLORADO:
Section 1. Adoption. Pursuant to Article 34 of Chapter
139, Colorado Revised Statutes, 1963, there is hereby adopted for the
purpose of Preserving and promoting the public peace and safety within
the City of Wheat Ridge that certain primary code known as the Golden
Penal Code of the Golden Revised Ordinances of 1965, of which three (3)
copies of the primary code are filed in the Office of the City Clerk
of the City of Wheat Ridge, and may be inspected during regular business
hours, the same being adopted as if set out at length save and except
the following amendments and exclusions:
Code Section 8.04.010 is amended to read as follows:
Title. This chapter shall be referred to
anknown as the "Wheat Ridge Penal Code",
and reference to the city herein shall mean
the city of Wheat Ridge. (Adopted as part of
Code.) -
Code Section 8.04.070 is amended to read as follows:
Taking property of another. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to take, steal or carry
away any property of another that has the value
of less than one hundred dollars with the intent
to deprive or defraud the owner thereof. (Adopted
as part of Code
~ l1iz,~> zE ~ J
Code Section 8.04.140 is amended to read as follows:
Impersonating police officer. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to willfully, unlawfully
or fraudulently represent himself to be a police
officer, special police officer, or peace officer
of the city when he is not an authorized police
officer, special officer or peace officer of the
city, or to wear a metal or metal-like badge con-
taining the words "City of Wheat Ridge", "Wheat
Ridge Police Officer", "Wheat Ridge Police",
"Wheat Ridge Detective","Police Department; City
of Wheat Ridge", or any words of a similar
nature. ( Adopted as part of code).
Code Section 8.04.460 is amended to read as follows:
Poisoning animals. It shall be unlawful for
any persons to poison or to willfully place
or leave poisoned food anywhere within the city
where it may be eaten by domestic animals or to
leave poison or poisoned food outside the city
with the intention and in such proximity as to
posion a cat or dog within the city of Wheat
Ridge. ( Adopted as part of code).
Code Section 8.04.490 is amended to read as follows:
Permitting minors to frequent prohibited. Any
person or persons being the proprietor or keeper
of any public billiard table, pool table, pigeon
hole table, or shooting or card game,within the
city, who shall permit any person under age of
sixteen years to frequent or to be in or about
the same, or to engage in any game of billiards,
or any game, bet or wager whatever, in or about
such place, shall, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
( Adopted as part of code
Code Section 8.04.280 is hereby excluded and not adopted
by reference as part of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code.
Code Section 8.04.480 is hereby excluded and not adopted
by reference as part of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code.
Code Section 8.08.010 is hereby excluded and not adopted
by reference as part of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code.
Code Section 8.08.020 is hereby excluded and not adopted
by reference as part of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code.
-2-
Section 2. The following Sections, herewith set forth
in full, shall be come a part of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code herein
adopted:
(a) Section Window Peeping. It shall
be unlawful for any person to trespass upon the property owned or
occupied by another in the City of Wheat Ridge for the purpose of
looking or peeping into any window, door, skylight or other open-
ing in a house, room or building, or to loiter in a public street,
alley, parking lot or other public place for the purpose of wrong-
fully observing the actions of the occupants of such house, room
or building.
(b) Section Aiding and Abetting. Every
person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or
aids or abets in the commission of any act declared herein to be
in violation of the ordinances of this municipality, whether in-
dividually, or in connection with one or more persons as a prin-
cipal, agent, or accessory, shall be guilty of such offense, and
every person who fraudulently, forcibly, or willfully induces,
causes, coerces, requires, permits, or directs another to violate
any ordinance of-this municipality is likewise guilty of such
offense.
-3-
Section 3. Penalties for violation. The following
penalties, herewith set forth in full, shall apply to the pro-
visions of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code herein adopted:
(a) It is unlawful for any person to violate any of
the provisions of the Wheat Ridge Penal Code and any such viola-
tion shall be punishable as is hereinafter provided.
(b) Every person convicted of a violation of any
provision of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment not
exceeding ninety(90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 4. Application of ordinance. This ordinance
shall apply throughout the municipality of Wheat Ridge.
Section 5. Effect of ordinance. If any part or parts
of this ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid or uncon-
stitutional, such decision shall not effect the validity or con-
stitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this or-
dinance and each part or parts therof, irrespective of the fact
that any one part or parts be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 6. Short title. This ordinance may be known
and cited as the Wheat Ridge Penal Code.
Section 7. Emergency Clause. The Provisions of this
ordinance are necessary to the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety of the citizens of Wheat Ridge for the following
reasons:
-4-
1. No Public Health and Safety ordinances exist in the
City because the City having just completed incorporation August 20,
1969, has not heretofore adopted any ordinances controlling public
health and safety within the municipality.
2. Public Health and Safety ordinances are necessary to
allow police officers-of the-City of Wheat Ridge to preserve the.
public health and safety of the City of Wheat Ridge.
Section 8. Effective date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force five (5) days after publication following
final passage providing it shall have been passed by an affirmative
vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the members of the City Council;
otherwise, said ordinance shalltake effect thirty (30) days after
publication following final passage.
INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST READING, and notice of public
hearing ordered published on the 2nd day of October, A. D. 1969.
PUBLICATION.FULLOWIIVG FIRST READING AND public hearing
ordered this 23rd day of October, A. D. 1969.
PASSED,-ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final
reading this 14th day of November, A. D. 1969.
y ` Y t/
ALBS T NDE SON MA ❑R
s
ATTEST:
LOUISE F. TURNER CITY CLERKS
I_ .
~v
PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
Title 8
PUBLIC PEACE AND S<AFETY'
Chapters:
8.04 Penal Code
8.08 Discharge of Weapons and T+irewOrks
1. Explosives-See Chapter 7.6.28.
Intoxicating liquor--See Chapter 4.64.
73
Sections:
8,04.010
8.04.020
8.04.030
8.04.040
8.04.050
8.04.060
8.04.070
8.04.080
8.04.090
8.04.100
8.04.110
8.04.120
8.04.130
8.04.140
8.04.150
8.04.160
8.04.170
8.04.180
8.04.190
8.04.200
8.04210
8.04220
8.04.230
8.04.240
8.04.245
8.04.250
8.04.255
8.04.260
8.04.265
8.04.270
8.04.275
8.04.280
8.04.290
PENAL CODE
Chapter 8.04
PENAL CODE
Title.
Attempts.
Disturbing the peace.
Using force against another.
Vulgar language-Indecent conduct.
Molesting persons.
Taking property of another.
Resisting or hindering police.
Escape from jail or custody.
Rescuing or aiding escape from custody-Supplying
prisoner with contraband material.
Aiding police officers.
Malting false report of crime.
Giving false alarm of fire.
Impersonating police officer.
Impersonating city officers and employees.
Wandering or loitering without means of support.
Wandering or loitering during nighttime.
Obstructing traffic. _
Interfering with use of streets or sidewalks.
Destruction or removal of property.
Injury or removal of street signs.
Defacing or removing official notices.
Substances detrimental to health.
Keeping explosives unlawfully.
Dangerous weapon defined.
Carrying dangerous weapons generally.
Carrying concealed weapons.
Carrying weapons by law enforcement officers excepted
Discharging firearms.
Dicharge on private property.
Discharging air guns, slingshots, bows and arrows.
Confiscation of weapons.
Droken glass, nails, in streets, sidewalks.
75
. h l' • r. vN; ~ ..dw<ii..bF `v rt`~ ~p:NPrv U{~'".S~fasliYURiu.:°• ••3+::. ~ ....~..tiQ
U1,010-8.04.030 PUBLIC PLACE AND SAFETY
k
8.04.300
Placing objects on window sills.
8.04.310
Soliciting or begging for aims. _
8.04.320
Open lewdness.
8.04.330
Living on earnings of prostitute.
8.04.340
Residing in house of prostitution-Association with
prostitutes.
8.04.350
Association with drunkards for unlawful purpose.
8.04.360
Possessing or permitting gambling devices.
8.04.370
Gambling For hire.
8.04.380
Gambling, buncoing or swindling.
8.04.390
Distributing medicine or drug samples.
8,04.400
Soliciting subscriptions in public places.
8.04.410
Spitting in public places.
8.04.420
Concealing or receiving stolen property.
8.04.430
Intoxication in a public place.
8.04.440
Obtaining food or lodging by fraud.
8.04.450
Feed and care of animals.
8.04.460
Poisoning animals.
8.04.470
Lodging in barns, sheds, cars.
8.04.480
Minors in certain places.prohibited.
8.04.490
Permitting minors to frequent prohibited-Penalty.
8.04.500
Removal of doors from unused refrigerators.
8.04.510
Abandonment of refrigerators in. public place.
8.04.520
Abandonment and capping of cesspools, wells.
8.04.010 Title. This chapter shall be referred to and known as the
"Golden Pena
l Code," and reference to the city herein shall mean the city
of Golden. (Adopted as part of code).
8.01.020 Attempts. An act done with intent to commit any offense
prohibited by any ordinance of the city, and tending but failing to ac-
complish it, is an attempt to commit such offense; and every person who
attempts to commit an offense is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Adopted as
part of code).
8.01.030 Disturbing the peaicc. It shall be unlawful for any person
by noisy, riotous or tumultuous conduct, or by fighting or quarreling or
encouraging other persons to fight or quarrel, to disturb the quiet and
peace of the city or of any meeting or assemblage in the city. (Adopted
as part of code).
76
i
i
6
-
PENAL CODE 8.04.010-8.01.100
8.01.040 Using force against another. It shall be unlawful for any
person to willfully use force or violence against the person of another
except in self defense. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.050 Vulgar language--Indecent conduct. It shall be unlawful for
any person to use, in the presence of any other person, vulgar, profane,
obscene or indecent language, or to conduct himself in an indecent man-
ner. (Adopted as part of code).
8.01.000 Molesting persons. It shall be unlawful for any person to
willfully annoy, bother, molest, insult or offer an affront or indignity to
any person. (Adopted as part.of code).
8.04.Oi0 Taking property of another. It shall be unlawful for any
person to tape, steal or carry away any property of another that has the
value of seventy-five dollars or less with the intent to deprive or defraud
the owner thereof. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.080 Resisting or hindering police. It shall be unlawful for any
person to knowingly and willfully resist, oppose, hinder or delay any
police officer of the city, or any peace officer or deputy in any depart-
went, office or agency of the city government, in the discharge of any of-
ficial act or duty, or to neglect or refuse to obey any lawful order or
direction of any such police officer, peace officer or deputy, in the dis-
charge of any lawful act or duty. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.090 Escape from jail or custody. It shall be unlawful for any
person, with or without the use of force or fraud, to escape or attempt
to escape from confinement or custody in the city jail or any penal, cor-
r@ctional or custodial institution, or from the lawful custody of, or re-
straint by, an officer or other person, within the city. (Adopted as part of
code).
8.04.1.00 Rescuing or aiding escape from custody-Supplying prisoner
with contraband n.aterial. It shall be unlawful for any person to rescue,
or attempt to rescue, any other person from the custody of any police
officer of the city, or from any person legally having him in charge, or to
aid, or to, attempt to aid, the escape of any person from any such custody,
or from the city jail or any penal, correctional or custodial institution, or
to advise or encourage any such escape or to supply any person in cus-
tody or in jail with any weapon or any implement or means of escape,
77
3
~
8.04.1.10-8.09.160 PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
1r
or with any intoxicating liquor, opium, morphine-Or other narcotic drug.
(Adopted. as part of code).
8.01.11,0 hiding police officers. It shall be unlawful for any person
eighteen years of age or older, when requested or called upon by any
police officer of the city to render aid in malting an arrest, or to aid in
preserving the peace and safety of the city, or to aid in the execution of
the official duty of any police or peace officer, to willfully refuse or neg-
lect to promptly give such aid. (Adopted as part of code).
8.01•120 14aldng false report of crime. It shall be unlawful for any
person to knowingly falsely report or represent to any police officer, or
other officer or employee having the authority to receive such report,
that, he has suffered the loss of any money or property as the result of
robbery, assault, holdup, larceny or burglary, or to knowingly falsely re-
port the commission of any criminal offense under the laws of the United
States, the state of Colorado or any other state or territory, or under
the resolutions or ordinances of Jefferson county, any other county, this
city or any other city. (Adopted as part of code).'
8.04.130 Giving false alarm of fire. It shall be unlawful for any per-
son to knowingly falsely make or cause to be made any false alarm of fire;
provided, that this section shall not apply to any alarm given by authorized
personnel of the fire department in conducting drills of the department.
(Adopted as part of code).
8.01.1.10 Impersonating police officer. It shall be unlawful for any
person to willfully, unlawfully or fraudulently represent himself to be a
police officer, special police officer, or peace officer of the city when he
is not an authorized police officer, special police officer or peace officer
of the city, or to wear a metal or metal-like badge containing the words
"City of Golden," "Golden Police Officer," "Golden Police," "Golden De-
tective," "Police Department, City of Golden," or any words of a similar
nature. (Adopted as part of code).
8.01.150 Impersonating city officers and employees. It shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to willfully,-unlawfully, or fraudulently represent him-
self to be a city officer or an employee of the city and purporting to
perform the duties of any such officer or employee when he is not an
authorized officer or employee of the city. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.160 Wandering or loitering without means of support. It shall
be unlawful for any person, having no lawful business, calling or means
78
W
D
i
t
k
0
,e 2 f
4
PENAL CODE 8.04.170-8.01.220
:t
of support, to wander or loiter on the stiects or sidewalks or around public
places in the city. It shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this sec-
tion that the alleged violator has no visible business, calling or means of
w support. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.170 Wandering or loitering during nighttime. It shall be unlaw-
ful for any person wandering or loitering on the streets or sidewalks,
around public places, or on any private premises from ten p.m. until five
a.m., to fail to give a satisfactory account of himself on the demand of any
police officer. (Adopted as part of code).
(
T 8.04.180 Obstructing traffic. It shall be unlawful for any person to
obstruct in any manner any sidewalk, public highway, street or alley in
the city, or, for the purpose of annoyance or mischief, to place in any
doorway or driveway, or on any sidewalk, public highway, street or alley
in the city any box, barrel, cask, or other thing. (Adopted as part of code).
8:04.190 Interfering' with use of streets or sidewalks. It shall be un-
lawful for any person, alone or in a group or assemblage of persons,
i whose standing, remaining or congregation on any public highway, street,
alley or sidewalk in the city shall obstruct, interfere with or prevent the
free and unobstructed and reasonable use of that public highway, street,
alley or sidewalk by any other person, to fail or refuse to yield to the
reasonable use or passage of any other person on that public highway,
street, alley or sidewalk, or to fail or refuse to move on, disperse or cease
such obstruction or interference immediately upon being so ordered by
any police officer of the city or other authorized peace officer. (Adopted
as part of code).
8.04.200 Destruction or removal of property. It shall be unlawful for
any person to willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, break, impair, remove,
unlawfully interfere with, carry away, or in any manner injure any prop-
erty of any kind or character, public or private, not his own. (Adopted
as part of code),
8.04 9,10 Injury or removal of street: signs. It shall be unlawful for
any person without proper authorization to remove, deface, injure, or
destroy any street sign, or sign erected or placed in or adjacent to any
street indicating the name of such street. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.220 Defacing or removing official notices. It shall be unlawful
for any person, not an officer or employee of the city, to remove, destroy,
79
1
•
1
1
8.01.230-8.04.255 PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
tear down, or deface, either in whole or in part, or to mark or write upon,
change, obliterate, or mar, or.in any manner alter or change the writing,
printing, or signature, or any part of the writing, printing, or signature,
upon. any bulletin, legal notice or advertisement, poster or paper writing
of the city lawfully posted or placed in the city. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.230 Substances detrimental to h4 rifh. It shall be unlawful for
any person to allow or permit upon any premises owned, occupied or con-
trolled by him, or to discharge or deposit or permit to seep upon the land
of another, any substance detrimental to health, or any accumulation of
filth, rubbish, garbage, decaying animal matter, vegetable matter, or any
animal or human excrement, or septic tank effluent. (Adopted as part of
code).
8.01.9-10 Kceping explosives unlawfully. It shall be unlawful for any
person to make or keep any explosive or combustible substance in the city,
or carry it through the streets thereof, in a quantity, or manner pro-
hibited by law, or by city ordinance. (Adopted as part of code).
8.0-1245 I3angerous weapon defined. The term "dangerous weapon"
shall include, but not be limited to, firearms of any description, any BE,
gas-operated, spring or airgun, bowie knife or knife of similar construc-
tion, blackjacks, knucks, or any other instrument or dangerous weapon
capable of inflicting bodily harm. (Ord. 542 a 2; October 8, 1964).
8.04.250 Carrying dangerous weapons, generally. No person shall
carry, either concealed on his person or openly, any dangerous weapon
on the public way of this city, except when transporting to or from any
place where the same is to be or has been repaired, or to or from any
place where the same has been purchased or is to be placed for sale, or
transporting any such weapon to or from any place where target practice
is to be engaged in, or to or from any lawful hunting excursion. All guns
when being so transported shall be unloaded. No person shall carry in a
flourishing manner or handle in a flourishing manner any firearms of any
description, any BE, gas-operated, spring or airgun, or any other instru-
ment or dangerous weapon capable of inflicting bodily harm. (Ord. 542
1; October 8, 1964).
8.0-72-55 Carrying concealed weapons. It shall be unlawful for any
person to carry or wear concealed upon his person, or concealed in any
vehicle, a weapon, consisting of either a pistol, revolver, or other firearm,
or spring blade knife, dirk, dagger, stiletto, bowie knife, sword cane, any
80
i
D
~l
P-11 1
y
a,
}
PENAL CODE 8.0-1.260-8.04.275
1.
knife the blade of which is automatically released by a spring mechanism
or other mechanical device, or any knife having a blade which opens, or
falls, or is ejected into position by the force of gravity, or by an outward,
downward, or centrifugal thrust or movement, or any slungshot,, metal
knuckles, or any other dangerous weapon or instrument which may be
used to inflict injury upon the person of another. This section shall not
apply to police officers or other persons authorized by law or licensed by
the police chief or other authorized official to carry such concealed weap-
ons. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.260 Carrying weapons by law enforcement officers excepted. The
prohibition of Sections 8.04.250 and 8.04.255 shall not be construed to
forbid United States marshalls, sheriffs, constables, and their deputies,
and any regular, special or ex officio police officer, or any other law en-
forcement officer from carrying or wearing while on duty such weapons
as shall be necessary in the proper discharge of their duties. (Ord 542
4; October 8, 1964).
8.01.263 Discharging firearms. It shall be unlawful for any person
to fire, set off, or discharge any bomb, sun, pistol, or firearm of any kind
in the city, except that this section shall not apply:
(a) To police officers while in the lawful discharge of their duties;
(b) To persons practicing target shooting in a duly licensed shooting
gallery or at a target range maintained and operated by an organized
rifle or gun club affiliated with a national organization; or
(c) To persons firing, setting off or discharging shotguns in areas
within the city limits designated by the city council by resolution as areas
in which hunting with shotguns is permitted and at times during which
such hunting is legally permitted. (Adopted as part of code).
8.0=4.270 (Discharge on private property. The restriction of this chap-
ter shall not apply on private grounds or premises under circumstances
when such instrument can be fired, discharged or operated in such a man-
ner as not to endanger persons or property, and also in such a manner
as to prevent the projectile from traversing any grounds or space outside
the said private grounds or residence. (Ord. 542 : 3; October 8, 1064)..
8.04.275 Discharging air gums, slingshots, bout's and arrows. It shall
be unlawful for any person to shoot or discharge, or propel any missile
from, any sling, slingshot, spring gun, air pistol, air rifle or other air gum
or bow and arrow or crossbow recklessly or with intent to do bodily injure
to another or to destroy or damage property. (Adopted as part of code).
81
r
8.04 280 Confiscation of weapons. Upon the conviction of any person
of violating either Section 8.04.255, 8.04.265 or 8.04.275 of this chapter,
the chief of police shall confiscate the firearm, or other weapon or un-
lawful instrument carried, worn, concealed, drawn, exhibited, used, or
attempted to be used, fired, 'set off, or discharged in violation of those
sections, and shall dispose of them in the manner provided for the dis-
posal of unclaimed property, unless such disposal is contrary to law.
(Adopted as part of code).
8.04.290 Broken glass, nails in streets, 'sidesvallcs. It shall be unlawful .
for any person to throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited on
any street, alley, sidewalk or other public way, any broken glass, broken
crockery, nails or any other dangerous substance. (Adopted as part of
code)..
8.04.300 Placing objects on window sills. It shall be unlawful for any
person to place any object upon any window sill or other outside portion
of a building in such a position as to be above or near to a street or side-
walls unless that object shall be, securely fastened to prevent it from fall-
ing, or to permit any such object to remain in such position on any build-
ing or part of a building over which he shall have control or possession.
(Adopted as part of code).
8.04.310 Soliciting or begging for alms. It shall be unlawful for any
person to solicit or beg for alms in the city. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.320 Open lewdness. It shall be unlawful for any person to be
openly and publicly lewd or indecent, or to make openly and publicly any
indecent or obscene exposure of any part of his body or the body of
another. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.330 Living on earnings of prostitute. It shall be unlawful for any
person in the city to knowingly subsist in whole or in part on the earnings
of a prostitute. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.340 Residing in house of prostitution-Associatio i with prosti-
iaitcs. It shall be unlawful for any person to reside, work, or be in a
house of prostitution knowing it to be such, or to knowingly associate
with a prostitute for the purpose of prostitution, or aiding in that purpose,
or to solicit for any prostitute or any house of prostitution. (Adopted as
part of code).
82
J
t
PENAL CODE 8.01.350-8.04.410
8.04.350 Association with drunkards for unlawful purpose. It shall
be unlawful for any person to associate with any intoxicated person for
the purpose of theft or robbery from that intoxicated person or another
person. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04.300 Possessing or permitting gambling devices. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to have in his possession or to permit to be placed
or kept in any building, roam, or place owned, leased, occupied, or con-
trolled by him in the city, any table, slot machine, or other article, device,
or apparatus of any kind commonly used or operated for the losing or
winning of money or property, or both, upon any chance, or uncertain or
contingent event. (Adopted as part of code).
8.01.370 Gambling For hire. It shall be unlawful for any person to
participate in any game of chance conducted for hire, or to knowingly
be in a place where gambling is conducted for hire in the city. (Adopted
as part of code).
8.04.380 Gambling, buncoing or swinel:ling. It shall be unlawful for
any person to engage in gambling, bunco, or swindling games or operations
in the city, or to operate or have. in his possession in the city, devices or
apparatus for the purpose of swindling or defrauding others. (Adopted
as part of code).
8.04.390 Distributing medicine or drug samples. It shall be unlawful
for any person to scatter or distribute in the city any advertising matter
consisting of or containing a sample of any medicine or drug, unless it
shall be handed to and taken by a person twenty-one years of age or older
and unless that distribution is not otherwise prohibited by law. (Adop'Led
as. part of code).
8.04.100 Soliciting subscriptions in public places. It shall be unlawful
for any person on any public highway, street, alley, sidewalk, park, or
parkway in the city, or in any area, doorway, driveway, or entranceway
abutting thereto, to solicit the purchase of any subscription to any ma.-a-.
zinc, periodical, or other publication, or the purchase of any tangible per-
! sonal property, for delivery at a future time. (Adopted as part of code).
w : 8.04.41,0 Spitting in public places. It shall be unlawful for any person
to expectorate on the floors or walls of any public conveyance, public
building, or building open to the general public, or on any sidewalk in the
city. (Adopted as part of code).
83
8.04.420-8.04.480 PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
8.04.420 Concealing or reeeiOig stolen property. It shall be unlawful
for any person, with the intent to deprive or def4-. ud the owner thereof,
to buy, sell, receive, possess, conceal, withhold, or aid in buying, selling,
receiving, possessing, concealing, or withholding any property of another,
knowing it to have been stolen or wrongfully appropriated or taken.
(Adopted'as part of code).
8.04.430 Intoxication in a public place. It shall be unlawful for any
person to be intoxicated in a public placel'(Adopted as part of code).
8.04.440 Obtaining food or lodging by fraud. It shall be unlawful for
any person, with the intent to deprive or defraud, to obtain any food,
lodging or accommodation in any hotel, apartment house, restaurant,
cafe, boarding house, lodging house, or other similar establishment with-
out paying in full for it. (Adopted as part of code).
8.0=1.450 ]reed and care of animals. It shall be unlawful for any per-
son to keep or harbor an animal within the city without providing a suit-
able dry place for the housing thereof or to fail to provide a suitable
amount of wholesome food and clean water for the nutrition and comfort
thereof or to leave the p:°emises upon which such' animal is confined or
to which it customarily returns, for more than twenty-four hours, without
providing for the feeding and care of such animal in.the absence of such
person. (Adopted as part of code). .
8.04.460 Poisoning animals. It shall be unlawful for.any persons to
poison or to willfully place or leave poisoned food anywhere within the
city where it may be eaten by domestic animals or to leave poison or
poisoned food outside the city with the intention and in such proximity
as to poison a cat or dog within the city of Golden. (Adopted as part of
code).
8.04.470 Lodging in barns, sheds, cars. It shall be unlawful for any
person to lodge in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, car, or other
place not kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner
or person entitled to the possession thereof. (Adopted as part of code).
8.04:180 Minors in certain places prohibited. Any person under the
age of sixteen years who shall be found in any bar room, billiard room,
pool room, shooting gallery or card room within this city, unaccompanied
by a parent, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less
than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offense; provided, the
84
D
\I
,I
S
PENAL CODE 8.04.490-8.0-1.520
~r
4.
court shall have power to suspend or remit such fine. (Ord. 47 § 4, as
amended by Ord. 536; July 9, 1964).
8.04.490 Permitting minors to frequent prohibited-Penalty. Any per-
son or persons being the proprietor or keeper of any public billiard table,
pool table, pigeon hole table, or shooting or card game, within the city,
who shall permit any person under the age of sixteen years to frequent
or to be in or about the same, or to engage in any game of billiards, or
any game, bet or wager whatever, in or about such place, shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment not exceeding
ninety clays, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the
court. (Ord. 47 § 3, as mended by Ord. 447; September 11, 1959).
8.04.500 Removal of doors from unused refrigerators. It shall be
unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have in his or its posses-
sion, custody or control any deep freeze locker, refrigerator or ice box
which is not in regular, continuous use, or which is permanently stored,
unless such person shall have removed therefrom all doors, locks, and
fastening devices and latches. (Ord. 362 § 1; April 8, 1954).
8.04.510 Abandonment of refrigerators in public place. It shall be
unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to abandon, leave or place
any such deep freeze.locker, refrigerator or ice box in or upon any public
dump, waste or junk lot or area, unless all doors, locks and fastening de-
vices and latches shall have been first removed therefrom. (Ord. 362 § 2;
April 8, 1954).
8.04.520 Abandonment and capping of cesspools, wells. All wells,
mine shafts, cesspools, and vaults that are not in operation or use, or
shall have been abandoned, shall at the time of cessation of use and opera-
tion thereof, or the abandonment thereof, be filled with earth to the level
of the surrounding and adjacent area, or shall be covered with a concrete
cap or lid not less than four inches in thickness, or shall be surrounded
and enclosed by a fence of woven wire construction not less than six feet
in height. All gravel pits, clay pits, and other excavations that shall not
be in operation or use or shall have been abandoned shall upon such ces-
sation of use or -abandonment, be enclosed and surrounded by a woven
wire fence not less than six feet in height, or the pillars, columns, walls,
and sidewalls thereof shall be sloped in such manner and degree, as to
render such pillars, columns, walls and sidewalls, safe and free of clanger
of caving, sliding, or falling. (Ord. 363 § 1; May 13, 7.954).
85
i
v
8.08.010-8.08.020 PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
Chaptev 8.08
DISCHA1tGE OF WEAPONS AND TIREWOJJKS`
Sections:
8.08.0;0 Sale and discharge of fireworks.
8.08.020 Diseharge of firearms or explosives.
8.08.010 Sale and discharge of fire «;orks. It shall be unlawful for
any person to barter, sell, exchange or give away and for any person to
set off or discharge any firecrackers, torpedoes or other explosives or
noise malting fireworks, of any ]rind, within the city of Golden at any time,
provided that this chapter shall not be construed as prohibiting the sale
and use of fireworks for pyrotechnic display and exhibition purposes only,
under the written permission of the mayor being first had and obtained
therefor. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 157 as 1, 2; November 5, 1937).
8.08.20 Discharge of firearms or explosives.' Any person who shall,
in this city, discharge .a cannon or firearms of any kind, or in any manner
not otherwise specified cause to explode any gunpowder, blasting powder,
giant powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, or other thing containing combust-
ible or explosive material without permission of the city manager shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 22 ; 39; August, 11, 1879).
4
_ 2. Statutes relating to firearms--See Art. 12, Ch. 40, CRS.
3. Storage of explosives-See Chapter 10.25 of this code.
86
tt. .
D
1a''
CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
I, Louise F.
Turner hereby certify that Ordinance # o was
duly pasted by me
following first reading on the 30 -//,,day of
1969, at the following locations within the City of
Wheat Ridge:
Wheat Ridge Post Office
Wheat Ridge Branch Library
Westridge Sanitation District Office
Columbia Heights School
Prospect Valley Fire Department
Wheat Ridge City Office
I, Louise F.
Turner hereby certify that Ordinance #-JO- was
duly posted by me
following second reading on the f day of
/IJDUfNM13£~'
1969, at the above locations within the City of
Wheat Ridge.
Louise F. Turner
City Clerk
SEAL
i