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City Council Meeting 4-8-03 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2071
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 2.04.520 RELATING TO PHYSICAL
EXAMINATIONS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1 Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.04.520 is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Section 2.04.520 Physical examination.
Any appointment to the City Service shall be subject to a medical and
physical examination conducted by the City's medical examiner. In addition,
police officers, fire fighters, and bus drivers shall be given a physical
examination before completion of their respective probationary periods. Any
employee may be required to take and pass a medical and physical
examination whenever in the judgment of the appointing authority, the best
interests of the City require such examination. Any employee engaged in
driving motorized equipment shall be required to take and pass a physical
and medical examination, periodically, as required by state law. Employees,
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who, in the opinion of the medical examiner, are physically incapable of
meeting normal requirements of their positions may be assigned to a
classification of work for which they are suitable, or may be separated for
physical disability.
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inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to
effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
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
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newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become effective 30
days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Approved and adopted this 8th day of April, 2003.
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Richard Bloom, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss
City of Santa Monica )
Ayes: Council members: Genser, Katz, Mayor Pro Tem McKeown, Feinstein,
Mayor Bloom
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Holbrook, O'Connor
ATTEST
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Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk
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