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ORDINANCE NO. 56-01 Please Substitute For ordinance No. 56-01, Placed on 1st Reading and Referred to Public Works Committee on 11/5/01, Placed on 2nd Reading 11/19/01 and Referred to Public Works Committee. BY: Corrigan, Roth, Seelfe, Smith. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to amend § 905.07, ANIMALS, set forth in Chapter 905, PARKS, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood thereby adding a new provision to prohibit the feeding of geese~ other wild animals and/or birds so as to discourage and otherwise deter the continued presence of geese at Lakewood Park. WHEREAS, there has been an ever-increasing and intolerable nuisance with the presence of geese and the resultant geese droppings in Lakewood Park creating both a health and safety hazard; and WHEREAS, members of the public who frequent the park, have been and continue to feed the geese and thereby encourage the continued presence of the geese in the park; and WHEREAS, in addressing the need to deter the presence of geese in Lakewood Park and further to protect the public in the use of the parks and the facilities located therein and/or to protect and preserve such parks, amendment to the above ordinance is necessary; and WHEREAS, this Coundl by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the eadiest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTIONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE cl-rY OF LAKEWOOD, and that immediate action is necessary in order to preserve the health, safety and welfare of the general public~ Now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CI-I'Y OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That §905.07 of the Codified Ordinances of the ab/of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: 905.07 ANIMALS. (a) Animals Prohibited. No dogs or other animals shall be allowed within the Parks. (b) Molestinq Animals. No person shall use any weapon, stick, stone or missile of any kind in the destruction or injury of or to, or in such manner as to disturb or molest, any wild or domestic fowl, animal or fish propedy within the park limits. shall be and is hereby amended to read as follows: 905.07 ANIMALS. (a) Animals Prohibited, No dogs or other animals shall be allowed within the parks,.with, the exception .of those animals specifically authorized by the Director of Public WORKS. (b) Feedino of Animals Prohibited. No person shall feed or otherwise provue food to geese, other-wild animals and/or birds within the parks. (c) Molesting AnimalS. No person shall use any weapon, stick, stone missile of any kind in the destruction or injury of or to, or in such manner, as to distUrb or molest, any wild or domestic fowl, animal or fish properly within the park limits. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council. concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal actions were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements.