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Ordinance amending Ordinance Number 12 of 2026, effective May 14, 2026, entitled, "Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, by adding Article IX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces, Chapter 495 - Protecting Community Spaces." to update the article number to XIX from IX.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Ordinance Number 12 of 2026, effective May 14, 2026, entitled, "Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, by adding Article IX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces, Chapter 495 - Protecting Community Spaces." is hereby amended as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Four: Public Places and Property is hereby amended to include a new Article XIX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces, and new Chapter 496 - Protecting Community Spaces as follows:
Article XIX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces
Chapter 496 - Protecting Community Spaces
? 496.01 Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this Section:
(a) Law Enforcement Officer. Any "peace officer" as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. ? 501 (relating to definitions).
(b) Judicial warrant. A warrant based on probable cause and issued by a judge appointed pursuant to Article III of the United States Constitution or a federal magistrate judge appointed pursuant to Section 631 of Title 28 of the United States Code. The term "judicial warrant" as used herein does not include administrative warrants issued by an immigration enforcement official, including those from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or an administrative immigration judge (IJ), relating to suspected violations of immigration law, such as an I-200 "Warrant for Arrest of Alien", I-205 "Warrant of Removal/Deportation", and any successor or similar forms.
(c) "Safe Community Place" m...
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