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Council hears two ordinances: ‘proper lookout’ made an infraction; proposed local battery offense would be class B misdemeanor
Summary
Assistant City Attorney Matthew Griffin presented two ordinance items: clarifying 'duty to keep a proper lookout' and classifying it as an infraction, and a proposed local battery offense (class B misdemeanor) aimed at addressing certain non‑private‑area unwanted touching that state statutes may not cover.
Assistant City Attorney Matthew Griffin presented two related ordinance items to the council on Jan. 27. The first clarified the city’s existing 'duty to keep a proper lookout' language and proposed making that traffic offense an infraction to align it with comparable traffic violations. Griffin said the revision simplifies archaic wording and provides officers a tool to charge a lookout infraction when the officer did not…
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