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ORDINANCE NO. 971 (CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA MONICA ENACTING SECTION 3607A OF THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL C0DE PERTAINING TO TRES-
PASSING IN THE AREA OF A PIER AND DECLARING THE
PRESENCE OF AN EMERGENCY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3607A is hereby added to the
Santa Monica Municipal Code to read as follows:
Sec tion 3607A
Trespassing (Posted Pier Areas).
No person shall trespass in, upon, on, under or across any pier
or portion of a pier located in the City of Santa Monica, provided
that such pier shall have been posted at each of the corners of
the pier and at intervals of no less than one hundred (100) feet
with clearly legible signs with letters at least two (2) inches
in height bearing the words "POSTED PIER-NO TRESPASS", and such
other words as may be desired indicating that trespassers are
subject to prosecution under this section.
These provisions shall have no application to a
trespass committed by any peace officer or other authorized em-
ployee, agent, or independent contractor of the City of Santa
Monica when in the performance of lawful duty or other legitimate
business.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code, or appendices thereto inconsistent herewith, to
the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby
repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect the pro-
vision of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence,
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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 un-
constitutiona 1.
SECTION 4. This Council finds and determines that
a potential danger exists as a result of an abandoned pier in the
City of Santa Monica and that the pier endangers the public health
and safety of the citizens of the City of Santa Monica.
SECTION 5. This ordinance is declared to be an
emergency measure adopted pursuant to the provisions of Section
615 of the Santa Monica Municipal Charter and is necessary for
preserving the public peace, health, or safety, and the urgency
for its adoption is set forth in the findings above.
SECTION 6. 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 fifteen (15) days after its adoption. This ordinance shall
become effective upon its adoption.
ADOPTED this 3rd
day of Sep~ember ,1974.
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STATE OF CALIKRNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
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I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance
was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a meeting of the
September
City Council of the City of Santa Monica on the 3rd
day of
, 1974, pursuant to Section 615 of the Charter of the
City of Santa Monica, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
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Councilmen: Judson, Lawson, McCloskey,
Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover
C ounc ilmen: None
Councilmen: None
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