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ORDINANCE NO. 1799 SERIES 2020 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RESTATING THE REQUIREMENT TO WEAR A FACE COVERING WITHIN THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE 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 -Home 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 permitted some non- critical businesses to open with certain restrictions beginning May 1, 2020, and which regulation became 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 Ordinance No. 1799, Series 2020 Page 1 of 7