HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 2008 0116 CC REG ITEM 11AACTION:
ORDINANCE NO. 367
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 9.32.060.B
OF CHAPTER 9.32, SOCIAL HOST, OF TITLE 9, PUBLIC
PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE, OF THE MOORPARK
MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 338, at a regular meeting
on October 20, 2006, which added Chapter 9.32, Social Host, to the Moorpark
Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, Section 9.32.060.13 should be amended to remove the specific fine
amount for issuance of an administrative citation for any violation of Chapter 9.32, and
permit such fine to be adopted by City Council resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 9.32.060.B of Chapter 9.32 of Title 9 of the Moorpark
Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"B. Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 1.16 to the contrary, the
city may issue an administrative citation for any violation of this chapter,
with a fine amount as set by city council resolution, which fine amount
shall be in addition to any recovery of response costs that might be
imposed under Section 9.32.070."
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.
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 the 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
Ordinance No. 367
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Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of January, 2008.
Patrick Hunter, Mayor
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk