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City Council Meeting 2/12/02
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER -2!l.13 (CCS)
(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 CANDIDATE INFORMATION SHEETS
THE CITY COUNCil OFTHE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOllOWS.
SECTION . Section 11.04.176 is hereby added to the Santa Monica Municipal
Code to read as follows:
Section 11.04.176. Candidate Information Sheet.
(a) In order to ensure that any person considering signing a
nomination petition has information about the nomination process sufficient
to exercise his or her rights in an informed manner, the City Clerk and City
Attorney shall prepare a Candidate Information Sheet to accompany each
petition for candidacy for a City office.
(b) Each Candidate Information Sheet shall include at least the
following: (1) the nomination process; (2) the requirements for candidacy;
and (3) information about how to withdraw a signature
(c) Each person gathering signatures shall provide a copy of the
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Candidate Information Sheetto every signerofthe petition. In addition, each
person gathering signatures shall make copies of the Candidate 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inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to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
of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions ofthis 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 subseauentlv 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:
MARSHAJON"
City Attorney v
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Adopted and approved this 12th day of February, 2002.
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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. 2033 (CCS) had it's introduction on January 22, 2002 and
was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting on February 12, 2002 by the
following vote:
Ayes:
Council members: Holbrook, O'Connor, Bloom, Genser, Katz, Mayor Pro
Tem McKeown, Mayor Feinstein
Noes:
Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: None