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SR-6-D (58) ~ ~-D . cA:RMM:jld747b/hpcal/pc 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 ~-D ~r:p ? 9 1992 ---- ------ , CA:RMM:Jld747/hpcal/pc 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. - 1 - 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. - 2 - -- - ---- , 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: - 3 - --- . , . Adopted and approved th~s 29th day of September, 1992. -- 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: LJ/M~ - --- City Clerk /