5830ORDINANCE NO. 5830
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING
NEW SECTION 1.12.017 TO CHAPTER 1.12 OF
TITLE 1 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO PROCEDURAL MATTERS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM HEREBY ORDAINS
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That new Section 1.12.017 be, and the same is hereby,
added to Chapter 1.12 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code,
to read as follows:
"1.12.017 RULES OF DECORUM.
.010 Rules of Decorum for Persons Addressing the Council.
.0101 Each person who addresses the City Council
during any meeting of the City Council shall refrain from
personal, threatening, abusive, slanderous or profane remarks to
any member of the Council, staff or general public which remarks
disrupt, disturb or impede the orderly conduct of the Council
meeting. Any person who makes such disruptive remarks, or
engages in any conduct which disrupts, disturbs or impedes the
orderly conduct of any Council meeting, shall, at the discretion
of the presiding officer or a majority of the Council, be barred
from further addressing the Council during that meeting.
.0102 For purposes of this section, conduct which
disrupts, disturbs or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting
shall include, but shall not be limited to: (a) continuing to
speak after having been advised by the presiding officer that the
time limit for such comments as set by the City Council or the
presiding officer has expired, or (b) unduly repetitious comments
as determined by the presiding officer, or (c) comments regarding
any matter not within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City
Council, or (d) comments which are irrelevant or otherwise not
related to a specific agenda item for which public comments are
then being received.
.020 Enforcement of Decorum. The rules of decorum set forth
above shall be enforced in the following manner:
.0201 The presiding officer may request that a
person who is breaching the rules of decorum set forth in
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subsection .010 above be orderly and otherwise comply with the
applicable rule of decorum being breached. If, after receiving a
warning from the presiding officer, a person persists in
disrupting, disturbing or impeding the meeting, the presiding
officer may order him or her to refrain from further speaking at
such meeting. If such person fails or refuses to be and remain
silent, the presiding officer may order such person to leave the
meeting room. If such person does not remove himself or herself
in an orderly and expeditious manner, the presiding officer may
order any law enforcement officer on duty at the meeting to
remove that person from the meeting room.
.0202 Any person who resists removal from the
meeting room by any law enforcement officer shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor."
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY.
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence, phrase or word of
this ordinance as hereby adopted by declared for any reason to be
invalid, it is the stated intent of the City Council that it
would have adopted all other portions of this ordinance
independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as
may be declared invalid.
Section 3. PENALTY.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any
provision or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this
ordinance. Punishment for violation of this ordinance shall be
as prescribed by Section 1.01.370 of the Anaheim Municipal Code.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of October
2002.
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MAYOR OF TH C TY OF AhKHEIM
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, SHERYLL SCHROEDER, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 5830 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, held on the 1st day of October, 2002, and that the same was duly passed and adopted
at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 15th day of October, 2002, by the following
vote of the members thereof:
AYES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Feldhaus, Kring, Tait, McCracken, Daly
NOES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
None
ABSENT:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
None
ABSTAINED: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
TY CLERK OF E CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
) ss.
County of Orange )
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident
of the County aforesaid; I am over the age of
eighteen years, and not a party to or interested
in the above entitled matter. I am the principal
clerk of the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper that
has been adjudged to be a newspaper of general
circulation by the Superior Court of the County
of Orange, State of California, on December 28,
1951 Case No. A-21021 in and for the City of
Anaheim, County of Orange, State of
California; that the notice, of which the annexed
is a true printed copy, has been published in each
regular and entire issue of said newspaper and
not in any supplement thereof on
the following dates, to wit:
October 24, 2002
-I certify (or declare) under the penalty of
perjury under the laws of the State of California
that the foregoing is true and correct":
Executed at Santa Ana, Orange County,
California, on
Date: October 24, 2002
i Signature
Anaheim Bulletin
625 N. Grand Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
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