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1400 COUNTY-CITY BUILDING <br />227 ~ JEFFERSON BOULEVARD <br />SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601-1830 <br />PHONE 574/ 235-9241 <br />Fax 574/235-9892 <br />TDD 574! 235-5567 <br />CITY OF SOUTH BEND STEPHEN J. LCIECKE, MAYOR <br />DEPARTMENT OF I1AW <br />CHARLES S. LEONE AIADEAN M. DEROSE <br />CITYATTORNEY May 19, 2008 CHIEF ASSISTANTCITYATTORNEY <br />Mr. Timothy Rouse _ <br />President, South Bend Common Council ~`-c~~~~-~v.~e, ` ~ ~~~ ~ ~-`~ ~~ I <br />4"' Floor, County-City Building <br />South Bend, IN 46601 <br />Re: Substitute Bi1126-08 -Amendment of Article 10 of Chapter 13 Concerning Firearms <br />Dear Mr. Rouse: <br />Please accept this Substitute Ordinance. Last week I followed your lead and reviewed in <br />depth the record of hearings concerning Bill No. 133-00. That caused me to reflect upon a comment <br />made by Councilman Varner concerning the confiscation of weapons. For reasons of employee <br />safety and possible constitutional concerns, I am removing from the previous Bill and from the <br />original Ordinance the portion concerned with the confiscation of firearms. When a City employee <br />.asks for the weapon wrongfully on the premises, it could possibly escalate the confrontation and <br />would not enhance the employee's safety. Once that penalty is eliminated, there is no need for <br />hearings addressing confiscated weapons, so that division of Article 10 is deleted also. <br />Besides those deletions and the renumeration resulting therefrom, the only other change is <br />the correction of a typographical omission in Section VI. <br />Again, for your convenience, I am also attaching a copy of the Article as it will appear if this <br />Bill passes without further change. <br />Very truly yours, <br />~~ <br />%-~"~ Thomas L. Bodnar <br />Assistant City Atto '°~°"°~'~ <br />TLB/cw <br />14 AY 2 1 2008 <br />~ot.~ vcc~1~ <br />THOMAS I,. BODNAR CHERYL A. GREENE 1~NN-CAROL NASH `i~'~/r .' <br />JEFFREY M. JANKOWSKI SHAWN E. PETERSON JEFFREY L. SANFORD JOHN E. BRODEN ~!_p1Ni~ <br />