HomeMy WebLinkAbout3738 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 3529,
Section 2, Article III(A) 1979 and Ordinance
No. 3529, Section 2, Article I 1979, and
declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, the City COuncil of the City of Bremerton has
heretofore examined the existing ordinance defining the offense
of assault and found it to be too narrow in its scope in that
many types of conduct constituting an assault under state law and
common law are not prohibited by Bremerton's existing assault
ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council feels that expanding the scope
of the Bremerton Assault Ordinance will further the peace and
safety of the citizens of the City of Bremerton, now, therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: AMENDING ASSAULT ORDINANCE
Ordinance No. 3529, Section 2, Article III(A) 1979 is
amended to read as follows:
ASSAULT
A person is guilty of Assault when:
(A) With intent to cause bodily injury to another
person he causes or attempts to cause bodily
injury to any other person; or
(B) He knowingly causes bodily injury to another
person; or
(C) He recklessly causes bodily injury to another
person; or
(D) He intentionally engages in a physical act which
creates in another a reasonable apprehension and
fear of imminent bodily injury; or
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(E) He intentionally performs an unprivileged and/or
impermissible touching, striking, cutting or
shooting of another person, regardless of whether
any actual physical harm is done to the other
person.
SECTION 2: AMENDING DEFINITIONAL C~APTER OF THE BRF~MRRTON
MUNICIPAL CRIMINAL CODE
Ordinance No. 3529, Section 2, Article I' 1979, is amended to
include the following:
(1) "Physical act" means an act accompanied bY words
or threats, but not words alone.
SECTION 3: EMERGENCY
This ordinance is hereby declared to be passed on an
emergency basis due to the fact that the current ordinance fails
to adequately protect the citizens of the City of Bremerton,
Washington.
PASSED by the City Commissioners of the City of
Bremerton, Washington, signed by the Mayor and attested by the
City Clerk in authentication of such passage this /~ day of
September, 1982.
GENE NELSON
Mayor
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO
City Clerk