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Ordinance No. 1056 Page 4 DOCSOPEN\MU210\328\1072172.v2-1/28/26 2.02 PROHIBITION ON USE OF CITY-OWNED PROPERTY (A) All City-owned or City-controlled parking lots, ramps, vacant lots, and garages are not open to the general public without restrictions. No federal, state, or local government entity or personnel is authorized to use any city-owned or city- controlled parking lot or ramp, vacant lot, or garage as a staging area, processing location, operations base, or any other similar use including for enforcing civil immigration laws. Such spaces are not available to the general public for similar activities, and federal, state, or local government entities or personnel will not receive special or enhanced access to city property for operations enforcing civil immigration laws. Nothing herein shall prohibit the City police department from using any city property for any law enforcement purpose. (B) The city restricts access to non-public City spaces. Non-public City spaces are not open for the purposes of enforcement of civil immigration laws except with a judicial warrant or when access is otherwise required by law. City employees do not have the legal authority to consent to permit access to non-public City spaces in situations where a judicial warrant or other legal obligation would otherwise be necessary to gain access. (C) IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT. City departments shall collaborate to identify City-owned and City-controlled parking lots, ramps, vacant lots, and garages that either have been used, or are likely to be used in the future, as a staging area, processing location, operations base, or any other similar use for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws. City departments shall ensure that all such properties have clear signage indicating the property’s ownership by the City and that it may not be used for civil immigration enforcement as a staging area, processing location, or operations base. City departments shall ensure that, wherever appropriate and possible, physical barriers such as locked gates or bar gates are used to limit access consistent with Section 2.02. (D) NOTIFICATION. Any City employee who becomes aware of the attempted or actual use of a City-owned or controlled parking lot, ramp, vacant lot, or garage as a staging area, processing location, or operations base for civil immigration enforcement shall immediately report to their supervisor, who shall communicate that report to the City Manager. 2.03 NOTIFICATION OF ACTIVITY. Any law enforcement agency operating within the jurisdictional bounds of the City shall notify the City Police Department of its presence. Such notification shall be made in advance where the law enforcement agency’s presence within the City is reasonably foreseeable and that notification will not reasonably frustrate the law enforcement agency’s purpose. Notification shall be made to the Mounds View Police Chief by phone or email. The purpose of this notification is