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city council Meeting 8-7-90
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1536(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 11209 RELATING TO LIMITATIONS
ON ELECTION CONTRIBUTIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 11209 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION
11209.
Limitations
on
Contributions.
(a)
No
person
other
than
a
candidate when contributing to his or her
own campaign shall make, and no campaign
treasurer shall solicit or accept, any
contribution to
the
campaign
of
a
candidate for election which will cause
the total amount contributed by such
person to such candidate to exceed Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Nothing in
this section or in this Code shall limit
the right of any person to make or accept
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contributions
campaigns.
(b) Except as provided in section
11210, no contribution shall be permitted
except when the legal name of the person
or organization who offers the
contribution is disclosed if required by
state law, along with the contributor's
address, occupation, and employer.
Contributions under assumed names or
contributions offered by individuals who
are acting as conduits or agents for
other individuals or interests are
prohibited.
to
ballot
measure
(c) The campaign contribution
limits established by this section shall
apply to contributions received and made
by broad based political committees and
general purpose recipient committees (as
def ined by state law) that supports or
opposes any candidate in a City election.
(d) The contribution limit
established by this Section shall apply
to all contributions received after July
24, 1990. Any candidate or treasurer of
a candidate who received a campaign
contribution in am amount greater than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) between
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July 24, 1990, and the effective date of
this section, shall refund to the
contributor the amount of the
contribution in excess of Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) no later than fifteen
(15) days after the effective date of
this Section.
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further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary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 inval id or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
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
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within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS U
city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 7th day of August, 1990.
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Mayo
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1536(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
council on the 25th day of July 1990; that the said Ordinance was
thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City council on the
7th day of August 1990 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: councilmembers: Abdo , Finkel, Genser, Reed, Mayor
Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: councilmembers: Jennings, Katz
ATTEST:
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