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ORDINANCE NO. 15
(Series of 1977)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ASPEN MUNICIPAL CODE BY
THE ADDITION OF SECTION 8-3 THERETO WHICH SAID
SECTION CREATES A LOCAL AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO
MUNICIPAL ELECTION LAWS PERMITTING THOSE QUALIFIED
AND REGISTERED ELECTORS WHO MOVE FROM ONE PRECINCT
(WHERE REGISTERED) TO ANOTHER WITHIN THE CITY TO
VOTE IN THE PRECINCTS WHERE REGISTERED AS LONG AS
THEY ARE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF ASPEN ON ELECTION
DAY
WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council has determined that
many Aspen residents are disenfranchised merely for failure to
notify of a change of address and that this harsh result can
be ameliorated by the adoption of a local election code amendment
(as authorized by Section 2.1 of the Aspen Home Rule Charter)
permitting anyone to vote at the precinct where registered
provided that he is a resident of the City and files a notice of
change of address when voting,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO:
Section 1
That the Municipal Code of the City of Aspen,
is hereby amended by adding a section which said section
as follows:
Colorado,
reads
Section 8-3 Qualifications of City Elector.
In addition to those permitted to vote pursuant
to the provisions of the Colorado Municipal
Election Laws as now existing or hereafter amended,
electors otherwise qualified and registered who
have moved from the municipal election precinct where
registered to another precinct within the City shall
be permitted to cast their ballots for the election
· then being held at the polling place in the precinct
where registered so long as they are residents of
the City of Aspen on the day they offer to vote.
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Such persons shall be required to register their new
addresses at the polling place at the time of voting.
Section 2
If any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of
the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid
provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 3
A public hearing on the ordinance shall be held on
the ~day of ~ , 1977, at 5:00 P.M.
in the City Council Cha~ers, Aspen City Hall, Aspen, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED published as provided by
law by the Aspen City Council at its regular meeting held
March 28, 1977. ~~C~_/
Stacy S~andley II~- . /
ATTEST:
Kathryn ~. Haut
City Clerk
FINALLY approved, adopted and passed on the
day of ~
ATTEST:
, 1977.
~at ~°CYr/t andle~t /
Kathryn S~Hauter
City Clerk
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STATE OF COLORADO )
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COUNTY OF PITKIN )
CERTIFICATE
I, Kathryn S. Hauter, City Clerk of Aspen, Colorado,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was
introduced, read in full, and passed on
reading at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
C~ty of Aspen on ~g~J~, 1977, and publish-
ed in the Aspen Times a weekly newspaper of general circul-
ation, published in the City of Aspen, Colorado, in its
issue of ~zlz~~/ , 197 V, and was finally adopted
and approved at a regular meeting of the City Council on
~ // , 1977 , and ordered published as
Ordinance No. /~- , Series of 197 7 , of said City, as
provided by law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
the seal of said City of Aspen, Colorado, this
day of ~L~j , 197~
Kathryn S~Hauter, City Clerk