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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agend <br /> Item No. <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 5, 1997 <br /> SUBJECT: Facilities Use Ordinance Modification <br /> DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING AND PUBLIC HEARING: No <br /> CENTRAL SERVICES Budget Amendment Reqd? No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> PAM JONES, ext . 2650 <br /> Ordinance <br /> N.C. Gen. Stat . § 14-409 .40 Telephone Number- <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider modifying the County' s facilities use <br /> ordinance to prohibit weapons of all kinds on County property. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Board was asked to consider an item earlier on <br /> this agenda which modified the Personnel Ordinance to address <br /> issues associated with Workplace Violence Prevention. In order to <br /> further prevent workplace violence, the Ordinance Which Regulates <br /> the Use and Operation of Facilities Owned or Operated By Orange <br /> County is presented for modification to reflect the expanded <br /> definition of weapons . Heretofore, the facilities ordinance has <br /> banned only concealed handguns . Weapons proposed to be prohibited <br /> on County property include the following: <br /> • a Firearm; <br /> • Firearm ammunition; <br /> • an explosive, corrosive, inflammable or radioactive substance <br /> or any weapon of mass death and destruction (except a small <br /> container of tear gas, pepper spray or mace used or intended <br /> to be used for personal defense) ; <br /> • a knife (other than a pocket knife with a blade not exceeding <br /> four inches long which provides for its point and cutting edge <br /> to be enclosed by its handle and which may not be opened by <br /> any throwing, explosive or spring action. ) <br /> Exceptions to the above listed items include: <br /> • a prohibited item when in the possession of a military or <br /> civil officer or employee of the United States, the State or <br /> the County when in discharge of their official duties and <br /> acting under orders requiring them to carry a weapon furnished <br /> or approved by a government official . <br />