5590ORDINANCE NO. 5590
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM REPEALING
SECTION 1.05.070 OF CHAPTER 1.05 OF TITLE 1 OF
THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING A NEW
SECTION 1.05.075 TO CHAPTER 1.05 OF TITLE 1 OF
THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO POLITICAL
ACTIVITIES OF CITY EMPLOYEES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM HEREBY ORDAINS
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 1.05.070 of Chapter 1.05 of Title 1 of the
Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, deleted in its
entirety.
SECTION 2.
That new Section 1.05.075 be, and the same is hereby, added
to Chapter 1.05 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as
follows:
"1.05.075 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF EMPLOYEES
.010 No employee of the City of Anaheim shall
participate in any political activities, including, without
limitation, distribution of pamphlets, handbills or badges, (i)
during such employee's working hours, or (ii) while on any
property owned, operated or controlled by the City of Anaheim
provided, however, nothing contained herein shall prohibit any
City employee from participating in any political activities
during non -working hours and as a member of the public, to the
same extent as, and in the same public areas and forums where
other members of the public are permitted to engage in such
activities.
.020 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
regulate any of the political activities of public employees
regulated by California Government Code Section 3201 et seq."
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
ordinance of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to
be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed
all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination
herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid.
SECTION 4. SAVINGS CLAUSE
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of
any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect the
prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a
waiver of any license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable
to any violation thereof. The provisions of this ordinance, insofar
as they are substantially the same as ordinance provisions previously
adopted by the City relating to the same subject matter, shall be
construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new
enactments.
SECTION 5. PENALTY
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the
requirements of this ordinance. Any person, firm or corporation
violating any provision of this ordinance or failing to comply with
any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6)
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person,
firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for
each day during any portion of which any violation of any of the
provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by
such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as
provided for in this ordinance.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Anaheim this 25th day of February, 1997.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF AHEIM
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CITY CLERK OF VIE CITY OF ANAHEIM
0021794.02
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 5590 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, held on the 11th day of February, 1997, and that the same was duly passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 25th day of February, 1997, by
the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
McCracken, Tait, Zemel, Lopez, Daly
NOES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
None
ABSENT:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS:
None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No.
5590 on the 25th day of February, 1997.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City
of Anaheim this 25th day of February, 1997,
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is the original of Ordinance No. 5590 and was published once in the North County News on
the 6 day of March, 1997.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM