O1733
CA:f:atty\muni\laws\lmc\artscomm
City council Meeting 3-8-94
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
1733
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 2.64.020 REDUCING TO THIRTEEN (13)
THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE
SANTA MONICA ARTS COMMISSION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.64.020 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION
2.64.020.
Creation
of
Arts
commission.
(a) Pursuant to section 1000 of the City
Charter, an Arts commission is hereby created.
The Commission shall consist of thirteen (13)
members. A majority of the members in office
at any time shall constitute a quorum. The
members shall be appointed by the city
Council. Except as otherwise provided in this
Chapter, the Commission and Commissioners
shall be sl.lbject to all the terms of Article X
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of the city Charter setting fortb procedures
for appointment of Commissioners, terms, and
meetings.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in
section 2.64.080, all Commissioners shall
reside or work in the city and shall be
actively involved in the arts. From and after
April 10, 1990, any person appointed as a
Commissioner must be a Director of the Santa
Monica Arts Foundation. The Commission shall
represent the diversity of the community and
shall include minorities and working artists
in the following disciplines:
(1) Performing arts such as drama,
music, and dance.
(2) Visual arts such as painting,
sculpture, photography, graphics, video art,
and applied art.
(3) Communications arts such as
film, television, and radio.
( 4) Li terary arts such as
literature, poetry, and journalism.
Commissioners may represent one or more
of the disciplines indicated above.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in
section 2.64.080, no Commissioner shall serve
more than two (2) full consecutive terms.
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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, is
hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effectuate
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 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 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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Adopted and approved this 22nd day of March, 1994.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1733 (CCS) was duly and regularly
adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the 22nd day of March, 1994; by the following
Council vote:
Ayes:
Councilmembers:
Abdo, Genser, Greenberg, Olsen, Rosenstein, Vazquez
Noes:
Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers:
Holbrook
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City Clerk