HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-22 An Ordinance Amending Chapter 3 of Title 6 of the Vail Town Code, regarding Unlawfully Disobeying Peace Officers10/21/2025
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ORDINANCE NO. 22
SERIES 2025
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 3 OF TITLE 6 OF THE VAIL
TOWN CODE, REGARDING UNLAWFULLY DISOBEYING PEACE
OFFICERS
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF VAIL, COLORADO, THAT:
Section 1. Section 6-3A-5 of the Vail Town Code is amended to read as follows:
§ 6-3A-5 RESISTING AN OFFICER.
(A) Resisting arrest. It is unlawful for any person within the town to
knowingly prevent or attempt to prevent any peace officer, acting under
color of his or her official authority, from effecting an arrest of the person by
the use or threat of physical force or violence against the police officer or by
the use of any other means which creates a substantial risk of causing
physical injury to the peace officer.
(B) Obstructing a peace officer. It is unlawful for any person within the
town to knowingly use or threaten to use violence, force or physical
interference to obstruct or impair or hinder the enforcement of the provisions
of this code or the preservation of the peace by a peace officer acting under
color of their official authority or intentionally obstruct, impair or hinder the
prevention, control or abatement of fire by a firefighter acting under color of
their official authority.
(C) Disobeying a peace officer. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly
disobey the lawful or reasonable order of a peace officer given in the course
of a peace officer's official authority.
Section 2. If any part, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not effect the validity of
the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the Town Council hereby declares it would
have passed this ordinance, and each part, section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase thereof, regardless of the fact that any one or more parts, sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
Section 3. The Town Council hereby finds, determines and declares that this
ordinance is necessary and proper for the health, safety and welfare of the Town and the
inhabitants thereof.
Section 4. The amendment of any provision of the Vail Town Code as provided
in this ordinance shall not affect any right which has accrued, any duty imposed, any
violation that occurred prior to the effective date hereof, any prosecution commenced, nor
any other action or proceeding as commenced under or by virtue of the provision
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amended. The amendment of any provision hereby shall not revive any provision or any
ordinance previously repealed or superseded unless expressly stated herein.
Section 5. All bylaws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts thereof,
inconsistent herewith are repealed to the extent only of such inconsistency. This repealer
shall not be construed to revise any bylaw, order, resolution or ordinance, or part thereof,
theretofore repealed.
INTRODUCED, READ ON FIRST READING, APPROVED, AND
ORDERED PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL ON FIRST READING this 21st day of
October, 2025 and a public hearing for second reading of this Ordinance set for the 4th
day of November, 2025, in the Council Chambers of the Vail Municipal Building, Vail,
Colorado.
_____________________________
Travis Coggin, Mayor
ATTEST:
____________________________
Stephanie Kauffman, Town Clerk
READ AND APPROVED ON SECOND READING AND ORDERED
PUBLISHED this 4th day of November, 2025.
_____________________________
Travis Coggin, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Stephanie Kauffman, Town Clerk