15.       REPORT, Committee on Ordinances, recommending to the City Council to take “NO FURTHER ACTION” on a RELATED MOTION, Councillor Gomes, requesting that Legal Counsel Gerwatowski draft an Ordinance that would place regulations on replica guns in public spaces and would allow the New Bedford Police Department to confiscate these replica guns if someone under the age of 18 was found with the device and notify their parents; and further, that the Ordinance also ban anyone from carrying a replica gun within City limits, and that they be subject to arrest and fine.

15a.      RELATED MOTION, Councillor Gomes, requesting that Legal Counsel Gerwatowski draft an Ordinance that would place regulations on replica guns in public spaces and would allow the New Bedford Police Department to confiscate these replica guns if someone under the age of 18 was found with the device and notify their parents; and further, that the Ordinance also ban anyone from carrying a replica gun within City limits, and that they be subject to arrest and fine. (Referred to the Committee on Ordinances – January 14, 2016.)