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CA:RMM:rmd180/hpca
City Council Meeting 3-11-86
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1363(CCS)
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTION
2601 OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO THE USE OF THE CITY SEAL
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2601 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2601. Use of the city Seal.
(a) The purpose of this section is
to restrict use of the city Seal to
official city business.
(b) The city Clerk shall have
charge of the City Seal and shall affix
the City Seal to all certificates required
by law, by this Code, or by ordinance of
the City.
(0) Except as provided for in this
Section, no person, other than the city of
Santa Monica, shall reproduce, use, give
away, sell, or distribute any seal, or
facsimile thereof, purporting to be or
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represented to be the ci ty Seal of the
City of Santa Monica.
(d) city officers, City employees,
members of the City Council, and members
of city Boards and Commissions, may use
stationery and printed materials with the
city Seal, or facsimile thereof, while
acting within the scope of their office or
employment.
(e)
No person,
including any
elected officer of the City, shall use the
City Seal, or facsimile thereof I in any
correspondence or other printed materials
distributed in favor of or against any
ballot measure or in favor of or against
any candidate for public office.
(f) A recognized employee
organization may use the City seal, or
facsimile thereof, on stationery and
printed materials used in the scope of its
representa tion of city employees and on
articles of clothing intended for use by
city employees.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this ordinance I to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
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further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary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 competent
jurisdiction, 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
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 25th day of March, 1986.
I hereby certlfy
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ttat the forego1ng Ord inance No. 1363 (CCS)
was duly and regularly lntroduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 25th day of February 1986; that the said Ordlnance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meetlng of the CIty CouncIl on
the 25th day of March 1986 by the followIng CouncIl vote:
Ayes: Councllmembers:
Conn, EpsteIn, Jennings, A. Katz,
H. Katz, Zane and Mayor Reed
Noes: Councllmembers:
None
AbstaIn: Councllmembers:
None
Absent:
Councllmembers:
None
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