HomeMy WebLinkAbout75-20 Adding Section 11-15 to Code; False Statements or Reports to City Officials Regarding City Officers or Employees1 ORDINANCE NO. 5'4
2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COSTA MESA ADDING SECTION 11-15 TO THE
3 COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE
MAKING OF FALSE STATEMENTS OR REPORTS TO CITY
4 OFFICIALS REGARDING CITY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES.
5 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY
6 ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
7 SECTION 1: The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
8 finds and declares that no reasonable or effective means exists
9 to discourage false and malicious charges against city officers
10 and employees. The Council further finds and declares that the
11 adoption of an ordinance as a reasonable and effective means of
12 discouraging_ these charges is the best method of accomplishing
13 the objectives stated herein. The Council further finds and
14 declares that the health, safety and welfare of the City dictate
15 the necessity of this legislative action.
16 Accordingly, Section 11-15 of the Costa Mesa Municipal
17 Code is hereby added to read as follows:
18 SECTION 2:
19 "Section 11-15 FILING FALSE STATEMENTS REGARDING
CITY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED
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21 Every person who, having been advised of the pro -
22 visions of this section, signs a written statement declaring
23 the contents thereof to be true, and causes the same to be filed
24 with any department of the City of Costa Mesa, for the purpose
25 of causing an investigation to be made into the activities or
26 conduct of any City officer or employee, knowing such statement
27 to be false or without a reasonable belief in the truth thereof
28 when such statement is in fact false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
29 It is the intent of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
30 that this ordinance not be construed as to apply to those situa-
31 tions regulated by Penal Code Sections 148.5 and 148.3."
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I SECTION 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
2 porase, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to
3 be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
4 competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the val-
5 idity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City
6 Council of the City of Costa Mesa hereby declares that it would
7 have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sen-
8 tence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact
9 that any one or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases, or
10 portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
11 SECTION 4: This ordinance shall take effect and be in
12 full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its passage,
13 and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its passage,
14 shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a news-
15 paper of general circulation printed and published in the City of
16 Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City
17 Council voting for and against the same.
1s PASSED AND ADOPTED this lAt day of _
19 1975.
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21May-or of the City of Costa//14esa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that
the above and foregoing Ordinance_ISO. S -r was introduced and
considered section by section at APT-Atmeeting of said City
Council held on the qday of )11 �_ti;�✓ , 197% and there-
after passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said
City Council held on the qday of , 1975, by
the following roll call vote: a,[�
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
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NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed
the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this flay of
1975.
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City
Clerk and ex -officio C k
of the City Council of the Vty
of Costa Mesa