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City Council Meeting 9-22-92
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Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Recommendation to Adopt Ordinance Renumbering
and Amending All Sections of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code
INTRODUCTION
This report recommends that the City council introduce for
reading and ultimately adopt the attached ordinance to renumber
and amend in its entirety the Santa Monica Municipal Code. The
proposed ordinance affects no substantive changes in the Code,
but will make the Santa Monica Municipal Code easier to use and
to update.
BACKGROUND
For several years the City Clerk in conjunction with the
Information Systems Department and the city Attorney have been
exploring ways to change the format of the current Santa Monica
Municipal code. The Code, at present, is often difficult to use
and because of its sequential numbering pattern, presents a
confusing array of section numbering patterns.
The renumbered Santa Monica Municipal Code offers several
advantages.
First and foremost, is ease of use.
The amended
version will be cross indexed and significantly, can be placed
into an electronic format. Computer searches of the Code will be
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possible under this electronic format which will greatly assist
city staff and the public in finding relevant Code sections.
In addition to making the Code easier to use, the renumbering
offers the advantage of making future Code changes less
difficult. At present as laws are updated or added to Code, it
is common to find that section numbers for the new ordinances are
unavailable.
As a result, a bewildering array of numeric
sections combined with alphabetical letters often are necessary
to differentiate the new provisions. The new numbering system,
with its use of decimals, will permit a uniform numbering system
to be used.
since the proposed ordinance only renumbers and recodifies the
current Santa Monica Municipal Code it has no effect on any
substantive rights.
BUDGET/FISCAL IMPACT
The adoption of the proposed ordinance will have no immediate
budget impact. In the future, City signs and forms will need to
be rewritten to incorporate the new numbering system.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City council approve and introduce for
first reading the attached ordinance to renumber the Santa Monica
Municipal Code.
Prepared by:
Joseph Lawrence, Acting City Attorney
Clarice Dykhouse, City Clerk
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city Council Meeting 9-22-92
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(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. Findinqs and purpose. The City council of the
city of Santa Monica finds and declares that:
(a) The City council desires to renumber all provisions of
the Santa Monica Municipal Code, without substantive 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 renumbering is to make the Santa
Monica Municipal Code easier to use, update and amend.
This
change will permit the Santa Monica Municipal Code to be
reproduced in an electronic format, thereby making the document
more accessible to the public.
SECTION 2. The Santa Monica Municipal Code in its entirety
is amended, recodified and renumbered as is provided for in the
attached copy of the Santa Monica Municipal Code, which is
incorporated by reference into this Ordinance.
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SECTION 3. (a) This Ordinance shall not affect or impair
any act or right or any proceeding, suitor prosecution had,
commenced, or pending in any cause. No offense, liability,
penalty, or forfeiture, either civilly or criminally incurred
prior to the time when this Ordinance takes effect shall be
affected in any manner by this Ordinance.
(b) This Ordinance shall not in any manner
affect any signs, forms, or other documents of the city of Santa
Monica which refer to, or otherwise incorporate, ordinances which
are or have been specifically designated by number, and which are
included within the scope of this Ordinance. Any such references
in any signs, forms or other documents shall be construed to
apply to the corresponding provisions contained within this
Ordinance and the attached copy of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall make available for public
inspection and use at least three copies of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code as amended and adopted by reference by this
Ordinance. Such copies shall remain on file and open for public
inspection while the Code 1S in force.
SECTION 5. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto lnconsistent with the provisions of
this 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 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 any 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 7. The Mayor shall slgn 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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I JOSEPH LAWRENCE
~ing city Attorney
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