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ORDINANCE NO. 1793 SERIES 2020 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE WEARING OF FACE COVERINGS WITHIN THE CITY. WHEREAS, the City of Louisville (the "City") is a home -rule city and municipal corporation duly organized and existing under and pursuant to Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and Charter of the City; and WHEREAS, the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic is causing widespread human and economic impacts to the City of Louisville; and WHEREAS, on March 15, 2020, the Mayor of the City of Louisville, pursuant to Chapter 2.32 of the Louisville Municipal Code and C.R.S. § 24-33.5-709, executed a Declaration of Local Disaster Emergency in and for the City of Louisville (the "Mayor's Declaration"); and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 27 adopted on March 16, 2020, the City Council continued in effect the Mayor's Declaration until terminated by resolution of the City Council; and WHEREAS, on March 25, 2020, Governor Jared Polis issued Executive Order D2020- 017 (the "Statewide Stay -at -Home Order") ordering Coloradans to stay in place through April 11, 2020 due to the presence of COVID-19 in the state, and which Statewide Stay -at -Horne Order was extended by the Governor through April 26, 2020; and WHEREAS, on April 24, 2020, Boulder County Public Health ("BCPH") issued a Public Health Order Adopting and Extending State Stay -at -Home Orders (the "Boulder County Stay -at - Home Order"), which continued in effect the terms of the Statewide Stay -at -Home order for those persons residing in Boulder County until May 8, 2020; and WHEREAS, in the Boulder County Stay -at -Home Order, BCPH found "the health conditions that led to the issuance of [the Statewide Stay -at -Home Order] have not abated in Boulder County"; and WHEREAS, on April 26, 2020, Governor Polis issued Executive Order D2020-044, introducing the "Safer at Home" phase of slightly relaxed regulation, which permits some non- critical businesses to open with certain restrictions beginning May 1, 2020, and which regulation will become effective within the City of Louisville upon the expiration of the Boulder County Stay -at -Home Order; and WHEREAS, in the Safer at Home order, Governor Polis provided that nothing in such order prevents a county or municipality from adopting more protective standards than those contained in the order, including but not limited to stay at home orders, mask wearing requirements in public, or additional protective measures and, if such local measures are adopted, they will Ordinance No. 1793, Series 2020 Page 1 of 6