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| | | | | | | | ITEM/TOPIC: Ordinance No. 19, Series of 2016, Second Reading, An Ordinance Amending Article B, Chapter 3, Title 4 of the Vail Town Code to Create a New Section Relating to the Private Use of Vehicle Immobilizers
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| | | | | | | | PRESENTER(S): Matt Mire, Town Attorney
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| | | | | | | | ACTION REQUESTED OF COUNCIL: Approve, approve with amendments or deny Ordinance No. 19, Series of 2016 upon second reading.
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| | | | | | | | BACKGROUND: The use of vehicle immobilization devices, or "boots," is a practice being employed by private property owners to enforce parking violations and in some circumstances payment in their lots as an alternative, or in addition, to the use of towing. Without state or local regulation, there is an increased opportunity for fraudulent and predatory booting practices that negatively impact the Town's citizens. The Town Council finds that private booting, so long as it remains unregulated, presents an appreciable risk to public safety and to property. As such, the Town Council, pursuant to its authority to protect and secure the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens, desires to prohibit the use of vehicle immobilization devices in the Town.
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