HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 254 1999 0602ORDINANCE NO. 254
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 5.52.140
OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO HARDSHIP TO
TENANTS OF MOBILE HOME PARKS.
NOW, THEREFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 5.52.140 of the Moorpark
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.52.140 Hardship to tenant.
A. Hardship Assistance Program. The City
of Moorpark may establish, by resolution, a
program for providing hardship financial
assistance to tenants of mobilehome parks located
within the City. Said resolution shall establish
the procedures for receipt and review of
applications for said program.
B. Statement from Tenant. If such a
program is established, any tenant affected by a
proposed space rent increase or payments
resulting from an approved amortization scheduled
(collectively "the adjustment ") may file a
statement of unreasonably severe economic
hardship with the City not less than forty -five
(45) days prior to the effective date of the
proposed adjustment. The statement shall be made
on a form that is available from the City and
shall be processed in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the resolution.
C. Unreasonably Severe Economic Hardship.
Any tenant whose household income and monthly
housing expense meet the criteria established by
the Housing Assistance Payments Program under
Section 8, existing housing provisions of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
(P.L. 93 -383) and the regulations pertaining
thereto, or any successor program, shall be
deemed to be suffering under unreasonably severe
economic hardship. The burden of proof in
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establishing any other form of unreasonably
severe economic hardship shall be on the tenant."
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is for any reason
held to be invalid by a 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 and adopted this
Ordinance and each and all provisions thereof, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more of said provisions may be
declared invalid.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall become effective
thirty (30) days after passage and adoption.
SECTION
passage and
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shall cause
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4. The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the
book of original ordinances of said City, and
the same to be published in the manner
law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd'day of June, 1999.
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffens edt, City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF VENTURA )
CITY OF MOORPARK )
ss.
I, Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk of the City of
Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing Ordinance No. 254 was adopted by
the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a meeting held
on the 2nd day of June, 1999, and that the same was adopted
by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers
Wozniak
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Hunter
ABSTAIN: None
Evans, Harper, Rodgers, and
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 9th
day of June, 1999.
G. 1
Deborah S. Traffensted , City Clerk
(seal)