HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #1540 ORDINANCE NO . 1540
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE
BY AMENDING SECTION 0039 AND ADDING SECTION
0053 ENTITLED "SAVING EFFECT OF TERMINATION
OR SUSPENSION OF CITY LAWS"
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows :
SECTION 1 . The Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby
amended by amending Section 0039 entitled "Constitutionality"
to read as follows :
0039 . If any section, subsection, sentence, clause ,
phrase or portion of this code , or any future amendments or
additions hereto, is for any reason held to be invalid or un-
constitutional by the decision of any court of competent juris-
diction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this code, or any future amendments or
additions hereto . The City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach hereby declares that it would have adopted this code and
each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion
or any future amendments or additions thereto, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more sections , subsections, clauses ,
phrases, portions or any future amendments or additions thereto
be declared invalid or unconstitutional .
SECTION 2 . The Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby
amended by adding thereto Section 0053 entitled, "Savings Effect
of Termination or Suspension of City Laws , " to read as follows :
0053 . The termination or suspension (by repeal or what-
ever means effected) of any city law, whether such law was en-
acted prior to or shall be enacted after the effective date of
this section, does not :
(a) Constitute a bar to prosecution and punishment of
any person for a violation of such law committed prior to such
termination or suspension; or
(b) Constitute a bar to the commencement by city of any
civil action or proceeding to enforce, maintain , protect or
prosecute any civil right or remedy (whether at law or in
equity) of city arising from such law, prior to and existing
at the time of such termination or suspension; or
1 .
(c) Affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit
posted pursuant to such law and prior to such termination
or suspension; or
(d) Constitute a bar to collection or waiver of any
license fee or penalty required bylaw, and due and unpaid
prior to such termination or suspension .
SECTION 3 . This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
from its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and cause same to be published within fifteen
days of its adoption in the Huntington Beach News , a newspaper
of general circulation, printed and published in Huntington
Beach, California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regulaY c eetin g thereof held on the 8th
day of December 1969 .
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City erk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attor e
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss :
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I , PAUL C. JONES, The duly elected, qualified, and
acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-
officio Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing
ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 17th day of November
19 69 and was again read to said City Council at a regular
adjourned meeting thereof held on the 8th day of December
1969 , and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of
more than a majority of all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Shipley, Bartlett, McCracken, Kaufman, Matney, Green
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
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City Clerk and officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
PAUL C. .lON S, C!s Y C!—EP C :f the City of
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