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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 />4ourx "e�; <br />y <br />c. <br />u a <br />mss: <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 />Sincere <br />T1 0 ncil President <br />I" District Council Member <br />Attachment <br />Thank you. <br />Filed In Clerk's Office <br />A -17 X15 <br />16-9 W _V 0, I) <br />CITY CLERK, SouTH 13END, IN <br />