HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-06-03 Amend Ch 10.06- City Traffic CommissionORDINANCE NO. 6-
03 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDI~G CHAPTER to.06
OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING THE CITY TRAFFIC
COMMISSION.WHEREAS, Chapter 10.06 of the Orange Municipal Code establishes a City
Traffic Commission and sets out its duties;
and WHEREAS, the State Vehicle Code requires certain traffic regulations to be
approved by the local authority;
and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to authorize the City
Traffic Commission to act as the local authority as that term is used in the State Vehicle
Code.NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Orange hereby ordains
as
follows:SECTION
I:Section 10.06.080 is hereby amended to read as
follows:10.06.80 Duties. The City Traffic Commission is hereby
authorized:A. To review and act as specified in the context of this Chapter in matters of
traffic and transportation planning. Review, as stat~d, includes review and consideration of
public input, traffic surveys, and recommendations and opinions from the Traffic Engineer's
office,Orange Police Department and the Orange Unified School
District.B. To review all requests for speed limit increases or decreases and traffic
control signals. A public hearing conceming all specific traffic control change must be held at
all tilm:
s.C. To initiate special studies on any unsafe or malfunctioning traffic
conditions.D. To assist the Staff, Planning Commission, and City Council in short and
long range transportation planning within the City, including the review of streets and
highways master plaIDling and designation of truck
routes.E. To review and answer all complaints conceming traffic safety
conditions.F. To perform such other functions as the City Council may request from time
to
time.G. To act as the local authority as that telm is used in the State Vehicle Code for
the approval of certain traffic
Action taken by the City Traffic Commission shall be considered final unless appealed
to the City Council in accordance with the procedures established in Section 10.06.085.
AdditionaUy, the following actions shall be advisory to thf: City Council and as such for these
items, the Commission shall make a report together with recommendations for action to the
City Council:
A. Action involving a matter for which State law requires a decision by the City
Council.
B. Action involving traffic improvements which have not been previously
budgeted.
C. Action involving traffic-related modifications to a larger geographic area,
as opposed to a single location-
specific item.
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 Ordinallce; 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 2my one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases
be declared invalid
or unconstitutional.
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 ,lfter 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.AHOPTED this
11 th day of
March,
2003.J1JiL~Mark A. Murphy, Mayor, . y
of
ATTEST:
C4~C6~~ ~/~A-r Cassandra J. Cathc , City Clerk, City of
Orange STATE OF
CALIFORNIA )COUNTY OF
ORANGE )CITY OF
ORANGE )I, CASSANDRA J. CATHCART, City Clerk of the City of Orange, Califomia, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of theCityCouncilheldonthe25thdayofFebruary, 2003, and thereafter at the regular meeting ofsaidCityCouncildulyheldontheII
th day of March, 2003, was duly passed aIld adopted bythefollowingvote, to
wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:COUNCIL
MEMBERS:COUNCIL
MEMBERS:COUNCIL
MEMBERS:COUNCIL
MEMBERS:AMBRIZ, ALVAREZ, MURPHY, COONTZ,
CAVECCHE
NONE
NONE
NONE L1tA1A~ ~A'.A~
r Cassandra J. Cath , City Clerk, City of
Orange
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