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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-0990ORDINANCE NS-990 ADOPTING AND ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, WHICH CODE SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE, AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME, PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED, PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING SUCH CODE OF ORDINANCES AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE AND OPERATIVE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That this Ordinance, consisting of Chapters 1 to 27, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE" and shall be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all general and permanent ordinances passed by the City Council prior to September 16, 1968, except such as by reference are expressly saved from repeal or continued in force and effect for any purpose. SECTION 2: That all provisions of such Code shall be in full force and effect from the date this Ordinance becomes operative as hereinafter set forth, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the city of Santa Ana, enacted on final passage on or before September 16, 1968, and not contained in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the operative date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided. No resolution of the City is hereby r~pealed unless specifically mentioned. SECTION 3: That the repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not affect the following types of ordinances: (1) Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the operative date of this Ordinance; (2) Any ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the City, or authorizing the issue of any bonds of the City or any evidence of the City's indebtedness, or any contract or obligation assumed by the city; (3) The administrative ordinances or resolutions of the City Council not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of such Code; (4) Any right of franchise granted by any ordinance or resolution of the City Council to any person, firm or corporation; (5) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating or repairing any street or public way in the City; (6) The annual appropriation ordinance; (7) Any ordinance levying or imposing taxes; (8) Any zoning ordinance or any amendment to such zoning ordinance on file in the office of the Clerk of the Council; (9) Any ordinance establishing and prescribing the street grades of any street in the City; (10) Any ordinance providing for local improvements and assessing taxes therefor; (11) Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the City. -1- Such repeal shall not be construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by this ordinance. Each of the above mentioned ordinances shall in no way be repealed by this Code except as the same may be in conflict with the provisions of this Code. SECTION 4: Any and all additions or amendments to such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the "SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE" shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments. SECTION 5: A copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the Clerk of the Council, preserved in looseleaf form, or in such other form as the Clerk of the Council may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the Clerk of the Council or someone authorized by her, to insert in their proper places all amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the city Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which may be from time to time repealed by the City Council. Said copy of such code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same and shall be considered the official Code of the city of Santa Ana, and any copy of such Code certified by the Clerk of the Council shall be the official SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE at the date of such certification. SECTION 6: In case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 1-8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein. SECTION 7: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in the City to change or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of such Code, or to insert or delete pages, or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City of Santa Ana to be misrepresented thereby. Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be punished as provided in Section 1-8 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 8: Ail ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed as of the operative date of this Ordinance but shall remain in full force and effect until such date. SECTION 9: That this Ordinance shall take effect thirty days from and after the date of its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the city Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the 1st day of DeCember, 1969. ATTEST: CLERK OF THE COUNCIL MAYOR -2- STATE OF ~ALIFORNIA ) COUIqTY OF ORANGE ) ss CITY OF SANTA ANA ) I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the fore- going Ordinance was introduced to said Council at its regular meeting held on the 3rd day of November, 1969, and was again considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 1st day of December, 1969, and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Herrin, Brooks, Evans, Patterson, Villa, Griset NO ES, COUNCILMEN: Markel ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None CLERK OF THE COUNCIL -3-