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Coun~Meeting 11-13-79
Santa Monica, ca~ic
ORDINANCE NO. 1141
(City Council Se~ies)
A\ ORDINA~C~ OF THE CI~Y COUNCIL
OF TF~ CITY OF SANTA MONICA
ADDI~G CHAPTER 8 TO ARTICLE rJ
OF THE SANTA ~ONICA M~NICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO CONSUMER PRO-
TECTION AND IN PAPTICJLAR ITEM
PRICING IN RE~AIL JROCERY STORES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA HONICA DOES
HEREBY O::1.DAIN:
SECTION 1. Chapter 8 is hereby added to Article IV
of ~he Santa Monica Municipal Code and shall read as
1'ollows:
Section 4801. Readable prices on packaged consuner
cor~odities; exemptions; definitions.
(a) Every retail grocery store or grocery department
within a general retail merchandise store shall cause to
have a clearly readable price indicated on each packaged
consumer commodity offered for sale.
(b) The Drovisions of this section shall not apply to
any of the following:
1. Any ~npackaged fresh food prod~ce, or to
consumer commodities Which are under three cubic inches in
size~ weigh less than three ounces~ and are priced under
thirty cents ($0.30).
2. Any consune~ co~nodity offered as a sale item
or as a special.
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3. Any business which has as its only regular
employees the owner thereof, or the parent, spouse, or
child of such owner, or, in addition thereto, not more
than two other regular employees.
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Identical items within a multi-item package.
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Iter,s sold through a vending machine.
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Any consu~er-owned cooperative food store,
owned and operated by its members, which sells food to its
Menbers, and not to the general public.
(c) For the purposes of this section:
1. "Consumer comnodity" includes:
(a) Food, including all material whether
solid, liquid, or Nixed, and whether si~ple or compound,
which is used or intended for consunption by hu~an beings
or domestic animals nornally kept as household pets, and
all substances or ingredients added to any such ~aterial for
any purpose. This definition shall not apply to individua~
packages of cigarettes or individual cigars.
(b) Napkins, facial tissues, toilet tissues,
~oil vrrapping, plastic wrapping, paper to~eling, and
disposable plates and cups.
(c) Detergents, soaps and other cleaning agents.
(d) Pharnaceuticals, including nonprescription
drugs, bandages, ~emale hygiene products, and toiletries.
2. "Grocery department" neans an area wi t~in a
general retail merchandise store which is engaged primarily
in the retail sales of packaged food, rather than food
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prepared for ir~ediate consumption on or off the premises.
3. "Grocery store" means a store engaged priJ11arily
in the retail sale of packaged food, rather than food
prepared for cons~J11ption on the Dre~ises.
4. "Sale iteI'l or special" neans any consumer
cOmBodity offered in good faith for a period of seven days
or less, on sale at a price below the normal price that
item is usually sold for in that store.
Section 4802. Violations; civil fines; Injunctions.
(a) The intentional violation of Section 4801 is
punishable by a civil penalty of not less than Twenty-five
Dollars (525.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
(b) Failure to have a clearly readable price indicated
on 12 units of the sane iten of the same cOmModity shall
constitute a presumption of intent to violate Section 4801.
(c) Every additional 12 units of the same item that
fail to have a price indicated on then shall constitute a
presunption of intent to violate Section ilSOl.
Cd) Each day that a violation continues shall also
constitute a separate violation after notification thereof
to the manager or assistant manager of the retail grocery
store or the grocery department of the general retail
nerchandise store and shall constitute a presuJ11ption of
intent to violate Section 4801.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
person may bring an action to enjoin a violation of Section
4801.
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(f) A~y person who violates Section 4801 shall be
liable to any person injured for a~y losses and expenses
thereby incurred, and for da~ages as provided in Section
4802(a) for intentional violations, in addition thereto.
The remedies set forth in this section shall apply only to
actions brought on behalf of a single plaintiff and shall
not apply to ~ultiple plaintiffs or class actions.
Section 4803. Unintentional error; no violation.
Improper pricing on the shelf or on the item due to ()
unintentional error shall not constitute a violation of
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chapter.
SECTION 2. Any Drovision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent ~herewlth, to trce
extent of such inconsistencies a~d no further, are hereby
repealed or modified to that extent necessary to affect the
provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of
any conpetent j~risd~ction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance.
The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed
this ordinance and each and eve~y section, subsec~io~,
sentence, clause or phrase not declared invalid or ~n-
consti~utional without regard to whether any Dortion of
~he ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
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SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the Ci~y Cle~k
shall attest to the passage of this ordinance. The City
Clerk shall cause the sa~e to be p~blished once in the o~ficial
newspaper within fifteen (15) days after its adoptior.. The
ordinance shall become effective after thirty (30) days
from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FOPM:
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RICHAR~ L~ KNICKERBOCKER
City Attorney
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED THIS
27th
DAY
OF
Kovember
J 1979.
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( /~ MA YOR[/
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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCEJ
No. 1141 J WAS DULY AND REGULARLY INTRODUCED AT A MEETING OF
THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 13th DAY OF November J 1979; THAT
THE SAID ORDINANCE WAS THEREAFTER DULY ADOPTED AT A MEETING
OF THE CI TY COUNC I L ON THE 27th DAY OF
BY THE FOllOWING COUNCIL VOTE:
Kovember ) 1979
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Bambrlck, Yannatta Goldway, Jennlngs,
Reed, Rhoden, Scott, van aen Steennoven
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: ~one
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ATTEST:
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