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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 8 of 2002
(Enacting New Section 11.12.110 of the Salt Lake City Code)
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING NEW CHAPTER 11.12.110 OF THE SALT LAKE CITY CODE TO PROHIBIT WEARING MASKS WITH THE INTENT TO PERFORM OR WHILE PERFORMING SPECIFIED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, as follows:
SECTION 1. A new Section 11.12.110 of the Salt Lake City Code is hereby enacted to read as follows:
11.12.110 Wearing Masks With Intent To Commit a Crime is Prohibited.
A. Wearing mask prohibited. While wearing a mask, hood, or other device that alters one’s facial appearance, no person shall be or appear in any public place with the intent to: (1) avoid identification, while engaged in conduct prohibited by law; or (2) invite another person or group of persons to riot.
B. Definitions.
1. “Intent” means that design, resolve, determination, demonstration of will, or other mental state revealed from the spoken word, uttered sounds, acts or behavior which, when viewed under a totality of circumstances and inferred from facts, consummates in an outward corporal act or which effects a certain result.
2. “Public place” means a physical location within the corporate limits of Salt Lake City, including private property, to which members of the public not holding an ownership interest in such location have legal access. It includes but is not limited to premises holding state or City licenses to do business, including those which exclude minors, and all places of public accommodation under state law. However, the term does not include private dwelling areas or other locations where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
3. A violation of this section shall be punished as a Class B Misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon the date of its first publication.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City,
Utah, this 22nd day of
January, 2002.
Bill No. 8 of 2002.
Published: January 28, 2002.