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WHEREAS, the City Council finds and declares it has the power and authority to adopt this ordinance pursuant to C.R.S. § 31-15-103 (concerning municipal police powers), C.R.S. § 31- 15-401 (concerning municipal police powers), C.R.S. § 31-15-501 (concerning municipal authority to regulate businesses), Article XX of the Colorado Constitution (concerning municipal home rule), and the City of Louisville Home Rule Charter; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an emergency exists because the preservation of public property, health, safety, and welfare requires the City to take immediate action to ensure the health of all City residents, public and private employees, business patrons, and to ensure recipients of government services are protected to the greatest extent possible from transmission of COVID-19 while engaging in commercial and governmental transactions within the City during the Pandemic. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Section 7 of Ordinance No. 1794, Series 2020, is hereby amended to read as follows (words to be deleted stfieke ; words to be added underlined): Section 7. Effective Date This ordinance shall become effective at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2020 and shall continue in effect until midnight on June 30, 2020 August 30, 2020, unless earlier terminated or extended. Section 2. Except as amended by this Ordinance, all provisions of Ordinance No. 1793, Series 2020 and Ordinance No. 1794, Series 2020, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms. Section 3. The City Council herewith finds, determines and declares that this ordinance is genuinely and urgently necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety, and welfare because the COVID-19 Pandemic has presented an urgent need to ensure and provide for the promotion of health and the suppression of disease by preventing the spread of the virus within the City. INTRODUCED, READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED AS AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE BY TWO-THIRDS OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED this 23rd day of June, 2020. Ashley St z ann, Mayor Ordinance No. 1795, Series 2020 Page 2 of 3