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City Council Meeting 10-23-90
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1555 (CCS)
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING CHAPTER SA TO THE SANTA
MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT THE CITY'S PURCHASE
AND USE OF ANY TROPICAL RAINFOREST WOOD PRODUCT
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Chapter SA is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION
2550.
Findings
and
Purpose. The city council of the City of
Santa Monica finds and declares:
(a) Tropical rainforests are being
destroyed at a rate of 50,000 acres per
day across the world, and the use of
imported tropical timber by the United
states leads to a substantial loss of
tropical
rainforests.
Scientific
evidence has shown that destruction of
tropical
rainforests
is
partially
responsible for the Greenhouse Effect, or
global warming.
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(b) The logging of tropical
rainforests frequently results in the
displacement of indigenous rainforest
peoples and often results in the death of
the people and of their knowledge and
culture.
(c) Tropical rainforests are home
to half of the world's species. The loss
of tropical rainforests results in the
extinction of millions of species.
(d) A public informational
campaign directed at educating the public
about the dangers of rainforest
destruction coupled with a ban on the
purchase use of tropical timber by the
city of Santa Monica can reduce the
demand for tropical timber, thus slowing
the destruction of tropical rainforests,
and protecting the health and welfare of
the citizens of Santa Monica.
SECTION 2551. Definitions. The
following words and phrases shall have
the following meanings when used in this
Chapter:
(a) Tropical Rainforest. Tropical
rainforests are those forested areas
bordering the equatorial region where
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rainfall is not less than 80 inches
yearly. Included within this designation
are the forested areas found in Central
and
Africa,
America, the Amazon River basin, central
southeast
Asia,
Western
Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea.
(b)
Tropical Hardwood.
classified
as
hardwoods
are
woods
Tropical
hardwoods that are grown in tropical
rainforests. Hardwoods are
scientifically classified as angiosperme
following:
and include, but are not limited to, the
Scientific Name
Vouacapoua americana
Pericopsis elata
Shorea almon
Peltogyne spp.
Guibourtia ehie
Aningeria spp.
Dipterocarpus
grandiflorus
Ochrama lagopus
Virola spp.
Anisoptera thurifera
Guibourtia arnoldiana
Detarium Senegalese
Guibourtia demeusii
Prioria copaifera
Antiaris africana
Dalbergia retusa
Cordia spp.
Diospyros spp.
Aucoumea klaineanal
Chlorophora excelsa
Acacia koa
Pterygota macrocarpa
Shere a negrosensis
Pentacme contorta
Shorea polysperma
Terminalia superba
Aniba duckei
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Common Name
Acapu
Afrormosia
Almon
Amaranth
Amazaque
Aningeria
Apitong
Balsa
Banak
Bella Rosa
Benge
Boire
Bubinga
cativo
Chenchen
Concobolo
Cordia
Ebony
Gabon
Ireki
Koa
Koto
Red Lauan
White Lauan
Tanguile
Limba
Louro
e
Khaya ivorensis
swietenia macrophylla
Tieghemella heckelii
Oistemonanthus
benthamianus
Pterocarpus soyauxii
pterocarpus angolensis
Aspidosperma spp.
Peltogyne spp.
Gonystylus spp.
Dalberqia spp.
Entandrophragma
cylindricum
Shore a philippinensis
Tectona grand is
Lovoa trichilioides
Milletia laurentii
Microberlinia
brazzavillensis
SECTION
2552.
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Africa
Mahogany
Amer. Mahogany
Makore
Movingui
African Paduak
Angola Paduak
Peroba
Purp1 eheart
Ramin
Rosewood
Sapele
Sonora
Teak
Tigerwood
Wenge
Zebrawood
Prohibition
on
Hardwoods.
Purchase or Use of Tropical Rainforest
(a) The city of Santa Monica shall
wood
product,
not purchase or use any tropical hard
shall
any
city-sponsored
event
products.
nor
utilize
such
(b) All contracts between the City
and any supplier of wood products entered
into after the effective date of this
Chapter shall include provisions that the
supplier will supply no tropical wood,
that the supplier will state on each
invoice for wood products that the
package is not tropical wood, and that
failure to comply with such a provision
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constitutes a material breach of the
contract.
(c) The city Manager is authorized
to promulgate regulations and to take any
and all other actions reasonable and
necessary to enforce this section.
SECTION 2554. Violations.
Violations of this Chapter shall be
punished as follows:
(a) Any person who violates this
Chapter shall be guilty of an infraction
subject to a fine of not less than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) and not more than One
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00).
(b) Any person who violates this
Chapter after having received written
notice from the City to comply with this
Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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
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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.
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
effective after 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 30th day of october, 1990.
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Mayor Pro Tempore
I hereby certifY that the foregoing ordinance No. 1555 was
duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the city council on
the 9th day of October 1990; that the said Ordinance was
thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city council on the
30th day of October 1990 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: councilmembers: Abdo, Genser, Jennings, Katz,
Reed, Mayor Pro Tempore Finkel
Noes: Councilmembers: none
Abstain: Councilmembers: none
Absent: Councilmembers: Mayor Zane
ATTEST.:
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