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City Council Meeting 9-23-86
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER l388(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTIONS
11208, 11212, 11213, AND 11214 OF THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
section 11208 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION
11208.
Filing
of
statements.
Each candidate and each
committee
supporting
or
opposing
a
candidate or candidates or measure or
measures and each member of the Santa
Monica city Council, Santa Monica Rent
Control Board, Santa Monica Unified School
District Board of Education, or Santa
Monica Community College Board of Trustees
shall file with the City Clerk each
statement required under Chapter 4 of
Title 9 of the Government Code (Political
Reform Act of 1974).
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SECTION 2. Section ll2l2 of the santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION
112l2.
Candidatels
statement
of
Qualifications.
Each
candidate for Santa Monica City Council,
santa Monica Rent Control Board, Santa
Monica unified School District Board of
Education,
or Santa Monica Communi ty
college Board of Trustees may prepare a
statement
of
qualification
on
an
appropriate form provided by the City
Clerk.
Such statement may include the
name, age, and occupation of the candidate
and a brief description of no more than
two hundred (200) words of the candidate'S
education and qualifications expressed by
the candidate.
Such statement shall be
filed in the office of the City Clerk when
the candidate's nomination papers are
returned for filing. It may be withdrawn
but not changed, during the period for
filing nomination papers and until 5: 00
p.m. of the next working day after the
close of the nomination periOd.
The city Clerk shall send to each
voter together with a sample ballot, a
voter's pamphlet
which
contains
the
written statements of each candidate'S
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qualifications that is prepared pursuant
to this section.
The statement of each
candidate shall be printed in type of
uniform size and darkness and with uniform
spacing. The City Clerk shall provide for
or certify a Spanish translation to those
candidates who wish to have one, and shall
select a person where needed to provide
such translation from the list of approved
spanish
language
translators
and
interpreters of the Superior Court or from
an institution accredited by the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges.
The costs of printing, handling and
translating of any statement submitted
pursuant to this section shall be paid by
the city.
The city Clerk shall reject any
statement which contains any obscene,
vulgar, profane, scandalous, libelous or
defamatory matter, or any language which
in any way incites, counsels, promotes or
advocates hatred,
abuse,
violence or
hostili ty toward, or which tends to cast
ridicule or shame upon any persons by
reason of race, color, religion or manner
of worship, or any language or matter the
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circulation of which through the mail is
prohibited by Congress.
Nothing in this section shall be
deemed to make any such statement or the
authors thereof free or exempt from any
civil or criminal action or penalty
because of any false or libelous
statements
offered
for
printing
or
contained in the voter's pamphlet.
SECTION 3.
section 11213 of the santa Monica Municipal
Code, erroneously numbered Section 12114, is amended to read as
follows:
SECTION 11213.
Distribution of
Newsletter prohibited During campaign. No
newsletter or similar matter shall be
circulated by mass mailing or similar
method by the Santa Monica City Council,
Santa Monica Rent Control Board, Santa
Monica Unified School District Board of
Education, Santa Monica Community College
Board of Trustees or their administrative
officers as follows:
(a) Within eighty-eight (88) days
prior to any municipal election to approve
or disapprove any ballot measure.
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(b) within eighty-eight (88) days
prior to an election to select any member
of its governing body.
(c) After any member of its
governing body has filed a nomination
petition pursuant
to Municipal
Code
section 11000.
SECTION 4.
Section 11214 of the santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 11214.
Ballot Order.
In
any election for the Santa Monica City
council, Santa Monica Rent Control Board,
Santa Monica Unified school District Board
of Eduction, or Santa Monica Community
College Board of Trustees, the order in
which the name shall appear on the ballot
shall be determined by a casting of lots.
The ballot order of all candidates,
propositions, and ballot measures shall be
the same as the order which is drawn from
said lots.
SECTION 5.
Any provision of the santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this ordinance.
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SECTION 6. 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 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 7. This ordinance relates to the November 4, 1986,
municipal election.
Pursuant to City Charter Section 619 (a) ,
this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
immediately after the passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 8. 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.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 23rd day of September, 1986.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1388(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the city
council on the 23rd day of September 1986~ that the said
Ordinance was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city
Council on the 23rd day of September 1986 by the following
council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers:
Conn, Epstein, Jennings A. Katz,
H. Katz, Zane and Mayor Reed
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: Councilmembers:
None
Absent:
Councilmembers:
None
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