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City Council M~eting 8-14-01
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1ll!L (ees)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCil OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 11.04.176 TO THE SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO REFERENDA AND RECAllS
THE CITY COUNCil OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOllOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.04.176 is hereby added to the Santa Monica Municipal
Code to read as follows:
Section 11.04.176. Referendum and Recall Information Sheets.
(a) In order to ensure that any person considering signing a
referendum or recall petition has information about the proposal and the
process sufficient to exercise his or her rights in an informed manner, the
City Clerk and City Attorney shall prepare referendum and recall information
sheets to accompany each petition.
(b) Each referendum information sheet shall contain: (1) notification
of the right to request a copy of the full text of the subject ordinance from the
City Clerk; (2) notification of the procedure for signature withdrawal; and (3)
notification that it is a crime for signature gatherers to misrepresent the
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contents of the subject ordinance or to refuse to allow the signer to read the
petition or subject ordinance.
(c) Each recall information sheet shall contain: (1) notification of the
procedure for signature withdrawal; (2) notification that the signature
gatherer may be compensated for gathering signatures or may be a
volunteer and that the potential signer has the right to ask whether the
gatherer is a volunteer or is being paid; and (3) notification that it is a crime
for signature gatherers to misrepresent the contents of the proposed recall
petition or to refuse to allow the signer to read the petition.
(d) Each person gathering signatures shall provide a copy of the
appropriate information sheet to every signer of the petition. In addition,
each person gathering signatures shall make copies of the information sheet
readily available to prospective signers either by offering copies orally or by
displaying them prominently in the same location where the signatures are
being gathered so that signers may readily see and take them.
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inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to
effect 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
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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 30
days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Adopted and approved this 14th day of August, 2001.
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Michael Feinstein,
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2018 (CCS) had it's introduction on July 24,2001, and was
adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on August 14, 2001 by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Holbrook, O'Connor, Genser, Mayor Pro Tem Bloom,
Mayor Feinstein
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: McKeown, Katz
A TIEST:
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