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URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 1266
URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING AND RESTATING SECTION 8.40.040,
SUBPART C OF THE LAKE ELSINORE MUNICIPAL
CODE REGARDING DOGS ON LEASH IN CITY
PARKS
WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the substantial benefit to the
community of providing diversified recreational usage of the City's parks; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is concerned that the community lacks
safe and secure areas in which pet owners may allow their dogs to run and play
off-leash; and
WHEREAS, the City's current health and safety code provisions do not
allow for dogs to be off leash within the City's parks; and
WHEREAS, the City has learned that certain park areas are being
routinely used by the community members as unofficial "dog parks" and there is a
current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, or welfare from such
unregulated use which necessitates an Urgency Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an amendment allowing dogs
off-leash in a designated, controlled and regulated area will serve the community's
public health, safety, and welfare; and
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE,
CALIFORNIA, ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That 8.40.040, Subpart C, of the Lake Elsinore Municipal Code
is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
C. Dogs are permitted in City parks when on a leash except in specially
designated "off- leash" areas at such times and in accordance with such rules and
regulations as may be posted from time to time." Owners are responsible for
cleaning up and removing all dropping left by their animals.
SECTION 2. If any provision, clause, sentence or paragraph of this
Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held
invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions of this Urgency Ordinance
and are hereby declared to be severable.
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SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately. The City Clerk
shall certify as to adoption of this Ordinance and cause this Ordinance to be
published and posted in the manner required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Lake Elsinore, California, on this 13`h day of
October, 2009.
ROBERT MAGEE,
CITY OF LAKE Ell
ATTEST:
DEBORA THOMSEN
CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
BARBARA/ZEID LEIBOLD
CITY ATTORNEY
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE SS
CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE
I, DEBORA THOMSEN, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, California,
hereby certify that the foregoing Urgency Ordinance No. 1266 was introduced and
passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lake Elsinore on the
13th day of October, 2009, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Bhutta, Hickman, Magee, Melendez.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Buckley
ABSTAIN: None.
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DEBORA THOMSEN
CITY CLERK