4787ORDINANCE NO. 4787
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING NEW
SECTION 1.12.015 TO CHAPTER 1.12 OF TITLE 1 OF
THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC
MEETING PROCEDURES.
WHEREAS, certain revisions to the Ralph M. Brown Act
(Government Code Section 54950, et seq.) will become effective on
January 1, 1987, which revisions will require all legislative
bodies as defined in said Act to comply with certain new
procedures relating to the notice and conduct of public meetings;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim desires
to adopt the procedures hereinafter set forth to implement the
revisions to the Ralph M. Brown Act contained in Chapter 641 of
the 1986 Statutes of the State of California; and
WHEREAS, Section 510 of the Charter of the City of
Anaheim authorizes the City Council to adopt reasonable rules and
regulations by ordinance relating to citizen participation in City
Council meetings.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That new Section 1.12.015 be, and the same is hereby,
added to Chapter 1.12 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to
read as follows:
"1.12.015 CITY COUNCIL MEETING PROCEDURES.
.010 The City Clerk is hereby designated and
directed to post any public notices, agendas, and other
matters required to be publicly posted pursuant to any
applicable provision .of the law including but not
limited to agendas for regular meetings and other
matters required to be posted pursuant to Sections
54954.2(a), 54956, and 54956.5 of the Government Code of
the State of California.
.020 Every agenda for regular meetings of the
City Council shall provide an opportunity for members of
the public to directly address the City Council on items
of interest to the public that are within the subject
matter jurisdiction of the City Council.
.030 No resident or property owner within the
City of Anaheim shall be denied the right to be heard by
the City Council.
.040 Unless otherwise waived by the City
Council, the total amount of time allocated for public
testimony on a particular issue shall not exceed ten
(10) minutes and the amount of time for each individual
speaker shall not exceed three (3) minutes".
.050 The procedures and rules set forth in
subsections .020, .030, and .040 above shall not apply
to, nor be a limitation upon, any testimony given to the
City Council in any hearing required by law.
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
ordinance, 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 3. SAVINGS CLAUSE
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal
hereby 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.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 16th day of December, 1986.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF A14AHEIM
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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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. 4787 was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 9th day of December, 1986,
and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting,of said
City Council held on the 16th day of December, 1986, by the following vote of
the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Roth, Pickler, Hunter, Kaywood and Bay
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Ordinance No. 4787 on the 16th day of December, 1986.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal
of the City of Anaheim this 16th day of December, 1986.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4787 and was published once in the
Anaheim Bulletin on the 26th day of December, 1986.
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