NS ORD-1997-008 Facilities Use Ordinance Modification

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i i ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agend Item No. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May S, 1997 SUBJECT: Facilities Use Ordinance Modification DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING AND PUBLIC HEARING: No CENTRAL SERVICES Budget Amendment Reqd? No ATTACI3ENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: PAM JONES, ext . 2650 Ordinance N.C. Gen. Stat . § 14-409 .40 Telephone Number- Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 967-9251 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE: To consider modifying the County' s facilities use ordinance to prohibit weapons of all kinds on County property. BACKGROUND: The Board was asked to consider an item earlier on this agenda which modified the Personnel Ordinance to address issues associated with Workplace Violence Prevention. In order to further prevent workplace violence, the Ordinance Which Regulates the Use and Operation of Facilities Owned or Operated By Orange County is presented for modification to reflect the expanded definition of weapons. Heretofore, the facilities ordinance has banned only concealed handguns. Weapons proposed to be prohibited on County property include the following: • a Firearm; • Firearm ammunition; • an explosive, corrosive, inflammable or radioactive substance or any weapon of mass death and destruction (except a small container of tear gas, pepper spray or mace used or intended to be used for personal defense) ; • a knife (other than a pocket knife with a blade not exceeding four inches long which provides for its point and cutting edge to be enclosed by its handle and which may not be opened by any throwing, explosive or spring action. ) Exceptions to the above listed items include: • a prohibited item when in the possession of a military or civil officer or employee of the United States, the State or the County when in discharge of their official duties and acting under orders requiring them to carry a weapon furnished or approved by a government official.