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(574) 235 -5980 <br />March 10, 2015 <br />Members of the Common Council <br />4"' Floor County -City Building <br />South Bend, Indiana 46601 <br />C`�pUiN ♦4�. <br />INS <br />Common Council <br />City of South Bend Indiana <br />Tim Scott, Council President <br />4'h Floor County -City Building <br />227 West Jefferson Boulevard <br />South Bend, Indiana 46601 <br />(574) 235 -9173 Facsimile <br />Re: Ordinance to Repeal Local Moped Regulations <br />Dear Council Members: <br />(574)235 -5567 TTY/TDD <br />On July 17, 2013, Council Member Karen L. White, Council Member Derek D. Dieter, and <br />Council Member Oliver J. Davis joined with me in sponsoring Bill No. 28 -13 which created local <br />moped regulations. <br />The final version of the Bill was passed by the Common Council on July 22, 2013, with the support <br />and input from Police Division Chief Scott Ruszkowski and Police Chief Ron Teachman. As <br />noted both in the public hearing held by the Health and Public Safety Committee and the public <br />hearing held by the Common Council, the ordinance addressed many public safety concerns which <br />were not being addressed by Indiana state law. The ordinance was signed into law by Mayor <br />Buttigieg and implemented thereafter by the South Bend Police Department. <br />With the Indiana General Assembly's enactment of HEA 1343, local communities in Indiana are <br />essentially preempted from having their own moped regulations. In light of that action by the state <br />legislature, the attached ordinance repeals all of South Bend's local regulations addressing mopeds <br />I recommend that this Bill be sent to the Council's Health and Public Safety Committee for review <br />a ositive recommendation to the Common Council. <br />N. Sincere <br />Ti ncil President <br />11 District Council Member <br />Attachment <br />Thank you. <br />Filed In Clerk's Office <br />M AR, 17 2015 <br />JCbltit� �'�ci>;aDE <br />CITY CLERK. SOUTH BEND, IN <br />