HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-08-07 Amedning Ch 2.1-Campain ReformORDINANCE NO. 8-
07 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING CHAPTER 2.10
OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO CAMPAIGN
REFORM.WHEREAS, the City is authorized to adopt local contribution limits and
other campaign regulations to the extent that do not conflict with state or federal law;
and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that due to recent court decisions
that provisions of the Campaign Reform Law need to be modified;
and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the intent and spirit of the
campaign contribution limits can be evaded by the funneling of campaign contributions
through various other committees and organizations;
and WHEREAS, the contribution limits currently in place were adopted in 1992
and are in need of
modification.NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ORANGE DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:Chapter 2.10 entitled "Campaign Reform" is deleted in its entirety and
replaced with ordinance attached hereto as Exhibit A, which is incorporated herein by
this
reference.SECTION
II:Should any section, subsection, clause, or provision of this Ordinance for
any reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of
this Ordinance; it being hereby expressly declared that this Ordinance, and each
section,subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof would have been prepared,
proposed,approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections,
subsections,sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. This
Ordinance shall be prospective in application from its effective
date.SECTION
III:A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a certified copy of the
full text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk at least five (5)
days prior to the City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be adopted. A
summary
of this Ordinance shall also be published once within fifteen (15) days after this
Ordinance's passage in a newspaper of general circulation, published, and circulated in
the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified
copy of the full text of such adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City
Council members voting for and against the Ordinance in accordance with Government
Code Section 36933. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after the
date of its final passage.
ADOPTED this loth day of April, 2007
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City Clerk,STATE
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MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council
held on the 27th day of March, 2007, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City
Council duly held on the 10th day of April, 2007, was duly passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru, Bilodeau COUNCILMEMBERS:
None COUNCILMEMBERS:
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