HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 2006 1004 CC REG ITEM 09AITEM 9. A.
ITY OF tutC ORPARK, CALIFORNIA
City Council Meeting
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MOORPARK CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA REPORT
TO: Honorable City Council
FROM: Deborah Traffenstedt, Administrative Services Director /City Clerk 9 5T
DATE: September 18, 2006 (CC Meeting of 10/04/06)
SUBJECT: Consider Ordinance Amending Municipal Code Chapter 1.08, City
Seal, Section 1.08.20, Design, and Adding Section 1.08.21,
Unauthorized Use
BACKGROUND
Staff is recommending Municipal Code Chapter 1.08 be amended for two reasons:
1. The size of the city seal "not less than two inches in diameter" as referenced in
Section 1.08.20, of Chapter 1.08 is larger that the approximately one and one -
quarter inch diameter seal that has been used by the City on all official
documents since incorporation.
2. Chapter 1.08 does not currently include information prohibiting unauthorized use
of the City seal.
DISCUSSION
Section 1.08.20 should be changed, as referenced in Section 1 of the Attachment, in
order to allow official City documents containing the City seal to conform to the code.
A new Section 1.08.21 should be added, as referenced in Section 2 of the Attachment,
to prohibit unauthorized use of the City seal.
The City Attorney has reviewed and concurs with the proposed Chapter 1.08
amendments.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Introduce Ordinance No. for first reading, waive full reading, and schedule second
reading and adoption for October 18, 2006.
Attachment: Draft Ordinance
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
1.08.20 (DESIGN) AND ADDING SECTION 1.08.21
(UNAUTHORIZED USE) TO CHAPTER 1.08 (CITY
SEAL) OF TITLE 1 (GENERAL PROVISIONS) OF THE
MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that an amendment to
Section 1.08.20 and an additional Section 1.08.21 are needed for Chapter 1.08,
Title 1, of the Moorpark Municipal Code;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.08.20 of Chapter 1.08, Title 1, of the Moorpark
Municipal Code is hereby revised in its entirety to read as follows:
1.08.020 Design.
The seal adopted in Section 1.08.10 of this chapter shall be
generally circular in form without a diameter size limitation. At the
base of the seal shall appear the words " MOORPARK,
CALIFORNIA" "INCORPORATED JULY 1, 1983 ". Within shall
appear the blossom of the Moorpark apricot.
SECTION 2. Section 1.08.21 of Chapter 1.08, Title 1, of the Moorpark
Municipal Code shall be added to read as follows:
1.08.21 Unauthorized use.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make or use the seal of
the City of Moorpark, or any cut, facsimile, or reproduction thereof,
or make or use any seal or any design which is an imitation of said
seal, or the design thereof, or which may be mistaken therefor of
the design thereof, without authorization from the City, which may
be given provided the purpose is for official business of the City of
Moorpark, its Council, officers or departments.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part of
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,
Ordinance No.
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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 4. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after
its passage and adoption.
SECTION 5. 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 weekly 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 this day of , 2006.
Patrick Hunter, Mayor
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk