HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 362 2007 1017ORDINANCE NO. 362
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 1.16.040.A, NOTICE OF
VIOLATION, OF CHAPTER 1.16, ADMINISTRATIVE
CITATIONS, OF TITLE 1 OF THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL
CODE
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 340 at a regular meeting on
September 20, 2006, which added Chapter 1.16, Administrative Citations, to the
Moorpark Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, Section 1.16.040.A should be amended to delete an incorrect
reference to Section 1.16.060.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.16.040.A of Chapter 1.16 of Title 1 of the Moorpark
Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"1.16.040 Notice of violation.
A. Whenever a code compliance officer determines that a violation of
this code exists, the code compliance officer may issue a notice of
violation to a responsible person prior to issuing an administrative
citation. The notice of violation serves as a written warning of
responsibility and requires immediate action by the responsible
person to cease and abate the violation. If the violation is not
ceased or abated by the end of the correction period stated in the
notice, the code compliance officer may issue an administrative
citation."
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion of
this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance
and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses,
phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its
passage and adoption.
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SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make
a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City
Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen (15) days after
the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark
Star a newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the Government
Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
I, Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do
hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing Ordinance No. 362 was
adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a regular meeting held on the
17th day of October, 2007, and that the same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Mikos, Parvin, Van Dam, and Mayor Hunter
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Millhouse
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 30th day of October, 2007.
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Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City erk
(seal)