ORDINANCE NO. 220276
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Amending Chapter 50, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Section 50-107, Tenting without consent of landowner, and Section 50-161, Loitering, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like number and subject matter, which will limit to private property the prohibition on tenting without consent of landowner, and, for a loitering in traffic violation, require that a person willfully obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the reasonable movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and prevent a person from being guilty of loitering unless such person has been given a reasonable opportunity to comply with an order from law enforcement to move on or disperse, after receiving actual notice or where notice was directed to them and was reasonably likely to come to such person's attention.
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WHEREAS, on November 4, 2021, the City Council passed Resolution No. 210993, directing the City Manager, in coordination with the City's Houseless Task Force, to develop standard operating procedures concerning encampments on public property in Kansas City, and to propose any appropriate, corresponding amendments to the City Code in order to effectuate such procedures; and
WHEREAS, in the course of the City Manager's and Houseless Task Force's work to develop such standard procedures concerning such encampments, City Code Sections 50-107 and 50-161 were identified for various revisions in order to effectuate such procedures, consistent with the recommendations of the City Manager and Houseless Task Force; and
WHEREAS, Sections 50-107 and 50-161 appear in the Chapter on Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions within the Code of Ordinances; and
WHEREAS, to clarify that the prohibition on tenting without consent of landowner in Section 50-107 only apply to private property; and
WHEREAS, for Section 50-161, to clarify that, for a person to be guilty of loitering in traffic violation, they...
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