HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 4393 - Second Reading: Ordinance Amendment Relating To Pedestrian Skyway System
ORDINANCE NO. _____
AN ORDINANCE CREATING SECTION 9-9-4 AND
AMENDING SECTIONS 9-9-03 AND 9-9-02 OF
CHAPTER 9-9, TITLE 9 OF THE ROCHESTER CODE
OF ORDINANCES, RELATING TO PEDESTRIAN
SKYWAY SYSTEM.
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER DO ORDAIN:
Section 1. Section 9-9-4 of the Rochester Code of Ordinances is hereby adopted as
follows:
Sec. 9-9-4. - Penalties.
Violations of this chapter are declared to be misdemeanor offenses and are
punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.00 and/or 90 days in jail.
Section 2. Section 9-9-2 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 9-9-2. - Prohibited acts.
No person shall commit any of the following acts within the pedestrian skyway
system:
(1) Walk, stand, sit, lie, or place an object in such a manner as to block passage by
another person or to require another person to take evasive action in order to
avoid physical contact. If an impediment or obstruction is caused by the size of a
particular group of people, all persons within the group shall be equally subject
to this chapter.
(2) Stand upon any seat, railing, ledge or other fixture.
(3) Engage in disorderly conduct. Commit any act which tends to create or incite an
immediate breach of the peace. Such conduct shall include, but is not limited to,
fighting, racing, obscene language, noisy or boisterous conduct tending to cause
a breach of the peace, personally abusive epithets, words or language of an
offensive, disgusting or insulting nature, which epithets, when addressed to the
ordinary citizen are, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to
provoke a violent reaction of fear, anger or apprehension, and words which, by
their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the
peace.
(4) Operate any sound amplification above the level of conversational speech
without a permit. Play a radio, cassette recorder, compact disc player or other
sound emitting device in violation of section 8-7-8(e).
(5) Use skateboards, rollerskates, in-line skates, bicycles, scooters or similar
devices, except mobility assistance devices.
(6) Bring any non-service animal into the skyway system other than a police officer
with a police dog. Bring or cause to be brought any animal or allow any animal
under the person's ownership or control to be brought into the pedestrian
skyway system. This does not include a police or fire dog or a Seeing Eye,
hearing or companion animal for a sight impaired, hearing impaired or physically
disabled person certified by a recognized animal training organization.
(7) Throw, deposit, discard, or cause to be thrown, deposited, or discarded upon or
within any surface in the pedestrian skyway system any trash, garbage, refuse or
rubbish, unless the material was placed in a designated trash receptacle.
(8) Place graffiti unpermitted art, drawings, markings, etchings or scratches on any
surface in the pedestrian skyway system.
(9) Prop open any locked doors or damage any door, lock, security system or
remove any recording system. Commit any other act otherwise prohibited by
federal law.
(10) Smoke, including vaping.
(11) Urinate or defecate.
(12) Obstruct the free passage of others.
(13) Damage the skyway system or any of the fixtures
Section 3. Section 9-9-3 of the Rochester Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as
follows:
Sec 9-9-3. – Penalties Hours of Operation
Violations of this chapter are declared to be misdemeanor offenses and
are punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.00 and/or 90 days in jail.
All sections of the skyway system shall be open to the public between
the hours of 5:30 a.m. and midnight. Between the hours of midnight and
5:30 a.m. the pedestrian skyway system shall be closed and not open to
the public. This section shall not supersede any legally binding
agreements granting access to or from specific buildings to the skyway
system. This section does not prohibit pedestrian travel between the
pedestrian skyway system and parking garages or hotels.
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Section 4. This ordinance shall become effective as of the date of its publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS __________ DAY OF _______________, 2019
____________________________________
PRESIDENT OF SAID COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: __________________________
CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS _____ DAY OF ______________________, 2019.
____________________________________
MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)
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