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RESOLUTION N0. 67-44
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA,
CALIFORNIA, IN SUPPORT OF ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 806 RELATING TO
AN AMENDMENT OF THE PENAL CODE DECLARING THE INTENTION OF
THE LEGISLATURE NOT TO PREEMPT THE FIELD OF INDECENT EXPOSURE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
THAT WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa and the County of Orange are
currently burdened with an influx of topless dancers who perform in local
beer bars; and
WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa, California, finds and declares that
such entertainment is not socially common or socially acceptable in this
community; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to protect and improve the image of our
community by prohibiting such activity; and
WHEREAS, under the current state of the law and case decisions, the State
Legislature has acted in the field of the regulation of morals and sexual
activity; and
WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa desires to have the power restored to
it to regulate, permit or prohibit the activity as heretofore set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Costa Mesa does hereby
support and urge the passage of Assembly Bill No. 806 which reads as follows:
"The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 318.6 is added to the Penal Code,
to read:
318.6. It is not the intent of the Legislature to
preempt the field of indecent exposure, and any county or
city may adopt ordinances in such field supplementing state
law."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk be and is hereby instructed
to send copies of this resolution to each city in Orange County and the Board
of Supervisors for the County of Orange and to each member of the Criminal
Procedures Committee of the State Assembly.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each City and the County of Orange be urged
to adopt similar resolutions supporting said assembly bill and that each said
city and county be urged to forward their resolutions to each member of the
Criminal Procedures Committee in the State Assembly, Sacramento.
DATED this 17th day of April, 1967-
Z.
Mayor of the C -a Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
Ci y CE'rK of the City of Costa Mesa
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 67-44 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 17th day of April, 1967.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 18th day of April, 1967.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa