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STAFF REPORT
TO:
Mayor and city council
City Attorney
Ordinance Adding section 4320 to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to Require Posting of Construction
Signs
FROM:
SUBJECT:
At its meeting on December 8, 1987, the City Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance amending the community
Noise Control Ordinance to require contractors working in the
City to post signs indicating permitted hours and days of work.
The accompanying ordinance is now presented to the city Council
for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, city Attorney
Joseph Lawrence, Assistant City Attorney
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city Council Meeting 1-12-88
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(City Council series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION
4320 TO CHAPTER 3A OF ARTICLE IV
OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO THE POSTING OF CONSTRUCTION SIGNS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4320 is added to Chapter 3A of Article
IV of the Santa Monica Municipal Code as follows:
SECTION 4320. Postinq of Construction signs.
(a) There shall be displayed at every site
covered by this Chapter where work activities
requiring a City permit and costing in excess of
$10,000 are being conducted, a sign in English and
Spanish
reading
substantially
as
follows:
"Attention All Employees and Subcontractors. Santa
Monica construction/demolition work times are:
Monday through Friday, 7: 00 a.m. until 8: 00 p.m.;
Saturday, 9:00 a..m. until 8:00 p.m.; Sundays and
holidays, no work permitted.
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In addition, the
sign shall indicate the City telephone numbers where
violations of this Section can be reported, the
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location of the job site, and the permit number
issued authorizing the work.
(b) Signs required by this Section shall be
continually placed prominently at all entrances to
the work site so that they are clearly visible to
the public and to all employees, contractors,
subcontractors, and all other persons performing
work at the site, so long as activity covered by
this section is occurring.
(c) Each sign required to be displayed
pursuant to this Section shall be obtained from the
city License Division. The City License Division
shall charge for each sign a fee equal to the city's
cost of printing the sign.
(d) Each Department or agency of the City
that is required to inspect the work site is
directed only to inspect sites which comply with
this section.
(e) This section shall apply to construction
pursuant to any building permit issued after the
effective date of this ordinance.
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 affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
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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 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 March 1, 1988.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ROBERT M. MYERS
city Attorney
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