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city Council Meeting 11-12-91
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER l605(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 4214
TO THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING
THE USE OF PUBLIC RESTROOMS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 4214 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION
4214.
Use
of
Public
Restrooms.
(a) No person 18 years of age or
older shall enter any public restroom
located in any park, beach facility,
pier, or pUblic parking facility that is
clearly designated for persons of the
other gender.
(b) This Section shall not apply
if urgent necessity requires the use of
toilet facilities, all toilet facilities
in any adjacent restroom intended for use
by such person are unavailable, and the
entry into the restroom is for the sole
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purpose of using the toilet facilities.
For purposes of this subsection,
tlunavailabletl means that the restroom was
closed or that all toilets were in use
and more than three people were waiting
in line to use such toilets as they
became available.
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further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary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.
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 off icial 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
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 12th day of November, 1991.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1605(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
council on the 29th day of October 1991; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city council on
the 12th day of November 1991 by the following Council vote:
Ayes:
Councilmembers:
Genser, Holbrook, Katz, Olsen,
Vazquez, Zane, Mayor Abdo
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: councilmembers:
None
Absent: Councilmembers:
None
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