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city Council Meeting 6-14-88
santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER l445(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 7810 TO
THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE PROHIBITING
THE PLACEMENT OF COMMERCIAL MATERIAL ON
UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 7810 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION
Prohibition
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7810.
Placing commercial Material on unattended
Motor Vehicles.
(a) No person shall distribute,
throw, place, or attach commercial
material of any kind whatsoever including,
but not
limited
to,
any handbill,
advertising circular, folder, booklet,
letter, card, pamphlet, sheet, poster,
sticker, banner, or notice, in, to, or
upon any unattended motor vehicle wi thin
the City of Santa Monica.
(b) A violation of this section
shall be an infraction punishable by a
fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars
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($100.00) . The penalty provided for in
this Section is in addition to any other
remedy authorized by law.
(c) Any aggrieved person, including
the City Attorney, may enforce the
provisions of this Chapter by means of a
civil action and may seek equi table
relief, including, but not limited to,
costs of any clean up, from the offending
party.
SECTION 2. 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further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary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.
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 competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this 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.
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SECTION 4. 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
thirty days from the date of its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS 0
city Attorney
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I hereby certify that
Adopted and approved
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Mayor
Ordinance No. l445(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 24th day of May 1988: that the said Ordinance was
thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City council on the
14th day of June 1988 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Jennings, H. Katz, Reed, Zane,
Mayor Conn
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: Finkel, A. Katz
Absent: Councilmembers: None
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ATTEST:
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