HomeMy WebLinkAbout13 ORD 1329 - COUNCIL BADGES 02-20-07
AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: FEBRUARY 20,2007
TO: WilliAM HUSTON, CITY MANAGER
FROM: OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
SUBJECT: ORDINANCE SECOND READING - ORDINANCE NO. 1329 -
COUNCIL BADGES
SUMMARY:
The City Council instructed the City Attorney's Office to prepare an ordinance that would
address provisions regarding possession of a badge and any relevant State laws.
Attached for your consideration is an Ordinance for introduction at tonight's Council
meetingll
RECOMMENDATION:
Have second reading by title only and adoption of Ordinance No. 1329 (roll call vote).
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
BACKGROUND:
On February 5, 2007, the City Council had first reading by title only and introduction of
the following Ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. 1329 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING PART 4 TO CHAPTER 2 OF THE TUSTIN CITY CODE
RELATING TO CITY COUNCIL BADGES
Maria R. Huizar, ..
Chief Deputy City Clerk
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ORDINANCE NO. 1329
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA,
ADDING PART 4 TO CHAPTER 2 OF THE TUSTIN CITY
CODE RELATING TO CITY COUNCIL BADGES
The City Council of the City of Tustin, California, ordains:
SECTION 1. Section 1112 of the Tustin City Code is amended by adding the following
definition in appropriate alphabetical order:
"City Manager" shall mean the City Manager of the City of Tustin or the designee of the
City Manager.
SECTION 2. Part 4 is added to Chapter 2 of the Tustin City Code to read:
PART 4
CITY COUNCIL BADGES
1260 ISSUANCE OF BADGES
1261 PRESENTATION OF BADGE UPON TERMINATION OF SERVICE
1262 UNLAWFUL USE OF CITY COUNCIL BADGE
1260 ISSUANCE OF BADGES
A. The City Manager is authorized to issue to each member of the City
Council a city badge designating the member as a member of the City
Council, Mayor pro tem, or Mayor. No member of the City Council shall
have more than one badge at any time during such member's term of
office .
B. Each badge issued shall have a unique serial or identification number and
the City Manager shall maintain records containing the serial or
identification number of each badge, the date of issuance, and the name
and resident address of the member of the Council to whom the badge is
issued.
C. Each member of the City Council to whom a badge is issued shall
reimburse the City for the cost of the badge in the event the badge is
destroyed through the members negligence or the badge is lost.
D. The City Manager shall formulate and implement rules and regulations
consistent with, and in furtherance of, the provisions of this Part.
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1261 PRESENTATION OF BADGE UPON TERMINATION OF SERVICE
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Tustin City Code, the City may
present to the member of the Council the member's badge or badges
(including if applicable a Mayor pro tem badge and/or Mayor badge) upon
termination of the members service as a member of the Council. Prior to
such presentation, the City Manager shall cause the badge or badges to
be affixed permanently to a plaque, within a frame, within lucite, or
otherwise presented in a manner that will effectively preclude improper
use of the badge.
B. No person shall remove a badge presented from the plaque, frame, lucite,
or other presentation material, or wear such badge, or otherwise display
the badge unless the badge is displayed in or on the presentation
material.
1262 UNLAWFUL USE OF CITY COUNCIL BADGE
It shall be unlawful for any member of the City Council to use the badge for any
purpose except as reasonably necessary for identification when acting in an
official capacity as a member of the City Councilor as the Mayor pro tem or the
Mayor. In addition, it shall be unlawful for any person to wear, exhibit, or use the
badge with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a city official or of fraudulently
inducing the belief that the person is a city official at the time the badge is worn,
displayed, or used.
SECTION 3. The provisions of this Ordinance shall become effective at 12:01 am on
the thirty-first day after passage or the date.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this _ day of 2007.
LOU BONE,
MAYOR
ATTEST:
PAMELA STOKER
CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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DOUGLAS HOLLAND
CITY ATTORNEY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF TUSTIN )
PAMELA STOKER, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of
Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the whole number of the members of the City
Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the _ day of
, 2007, by the following vote:
COUNCILPERSONS AYES:
COUNCILPERSONS NOES:
COUNCILPERSONS ABSTAINED:
COUNCILPERSONS ABSENT:
PAMELA STOKER,
CITY CLERK