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City Council Meeting 9-29-92
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1648(CCS)
(City council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA RENUMBERING AND AMENDING
ALL SECTIONS OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE AND
ADOPTING THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REFERENCE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Findings and purpose. The City Council of the
City of Santa Monica finds and declares that:
(a) The City Council desires to renumber all provisions of
the Santa Monica Municipal Code, without substantive amendment to
any Code provision, as permitted by Santa Monica City Charter
section 618 and Government Code Section 50022.10.
(b) The purpose of the renumbering lS to make the Santa
Monica Municipal Code easier to use, update and amend.
This
change will permit the Santa Monica Municipal Code to be
reproduced in an electronic format, thereby making the document
more accessible to the public.
SECTION 2. The Santa Monica Municipal Code in its entirety
is amended, recodified and renumbered as is provided for in the
attached copy of the Santa Monica Municipal Code, which is
incorporated by reference into this Ordinance.
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SECTION 3. (a) This Ordinance shall not affect or impair
any act or right or any proceeding, suitor prosecution had,
commenced, or pending in any cause. No offense, liability,
penalty, or forfeiture, either civilly or criminally incurred
prior to the time when this Ordinance takes effect shall be
affected in any manner by this Ordinance.
(b) This Ordinance shall not in any manner
affect any signs, forms, or other documents of the city of Santa
Monica which refer to, or otherwise incorporate, ordinances which
are or have been specifically designated by number, and which are
included within the scope of this ordinance. Any such references
in any signs, forms or other documents shall be construed to
apply to the corresponding provisions contained within this
Ordinance and the attached copy of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall make available for public
inspection and use at least three copies of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code as amended and adopted by reference by this
Ordinance. Such copies shall remain on file and open for public
inspection while the Code is in force.
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 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 7. 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:
ENCE
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 29th day of September, 1992.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1648 (CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 22nd day of September 1992; that the said
Ordinance was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City
Council on the 29th day of september 1992 by the following
Council vote:
Ayes:
councilmembers:
Abdo, Genser,
Vazquez, Zane
Katz,
Olsen,
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: councilmembers:
None
Absent: Councilmembers:
Holbrook
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