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city council Meeting 9-29-92 Santa Monica, California
SEP :. 9 1992
STAFF REPORT
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Renumbering and Amending All Sections
of the Santa Monica Municipal Code and Adopting
the Santa Monica Municipal Code by Reference
At its meeting on September 22, 1992, the City Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance renumbering and
amending all sections of the Santa Monica Municipal Code and
adopting the Municipal Code by reference. The ordinance is now
presented to the city Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Joseph Lawrence, Acting City Attorney
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City Counc~l Meet1ng 9-29-92 Santa Monica, Ca11fornia
ORDINANCE NUHBER l648(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 Councll of the
City of Santa Mon1ca finds and declares that:
( a) The C1ty Counc11 deS1res to renumber all prov1sions of
the Santa Monica Munic1pal Code, without substant1ve 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 renumber1ng 1S to make the Santa
Monica Mun1c1pal Code easier to use, update and amend. This
change will permit the Santa Mon1ca Mun1cipal Code to be
reproduced in an electron1c format, thereby making the document
more accessible to the public.
SECTION 2. The Santa Mon1ca Munic1pal Code in its ent1rety
1S amended, recod1fied and renumbered as is provided for in the
attached copy of the Santa 11on1ca Municipal Code, WhlCh is
incorporated by reference into this Ord1nance.
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SECTION 3. (a) This Ordinance shall not affect or impair
any act or right or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had,
commenced, or pending in any cause. No offense, liab~l1.ty,
penalty, or forfeiture, either civllly or crlminally incurred
prior to the time when this Ordinance takes effect shall be
- ~ affected ln any manner by th1s Ordinance.
(b) Th1S Ordlnance shall not in any manner
affect any signs, forms, or other documents of the city of Santa
Monlca which refer to, or otherW1se incorporate, ordinances which
are or have been specifically designated by number, and which are
included within the scope of this ordinance. Any such references
1n any slgns, forms or other documents shall be construed to
apply to the corresponding provisions contained wlthin th1S
Ordinance and the attached copy of the Santa Mon1ca Mun1c1pal
Code. .
SECTION 4. The city Clerk shall make available for public
inspection and use at least three copies of the Santa Monica
Mun1c1pal Code as amended and adopted by reference by thls
Ordinance. Such copies shall remain on f11e and open for public
inspection while the Code is in force.
SECTION 5. Any prov1s1on of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto lnconslstent with the provisions of
thlS 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 sect1on, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this ordinance 1S for any reason held to be 1nvalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurlsdiction, such decis10n shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby
- . declares that it would have passed this Ord1nance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconst1tutional 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 ln the official newspaper
wlthin 15 days after its adoption. Th1s Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from 1ts adopt1on.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Adopted and approved th~s 29th day of September, 1992.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 164B(CCS)
was duly and regularly ~ntroduced at a meetJ.ng of the City
Council on the 22nd day of S epte.mber 1992; that the said
Ordinance was thereafte.r 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, Katz, Olsen,
Vazquez, Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: Holbrook
ATTEST:
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