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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-04-97 Add Ch 2.52 Need for Industrial Development AuthorityORDINANCE NO. 4- 97 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DECLARING THE NEED IN THE CITY OF ORANGE, CALIFORNIA FOR AN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND ADDING CHAPTER 2.52 TO THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING SUCH AN AUTHORITY WHEREAS, industry in the City of Orange, California (the "City") needs and requiTi~s new methods to finance the capital outlays required to acquire, construct or rehabilitate facilities which will increase employment opportunities or otherwise contribute to economic development in the City; and WHEREAS, the California Industrial Development Financing Act, being Title ] 0 of the Government Code of the State of California, commencing with Section 9]500 (the Act"), provides an alternate method of financing to promote and enhance economic development and to increase opportunities for useful employment by establishing an industrial development authority of the City (the "Authority"); and WHEREAS, the Act provides that the Authority is to facilitate, for and on behalf of private enterprise, the acquisition of property for purposes as set forth in the Act through the issuance of revenue bonds, all under and in accordance with provisions of the Act; and WHEREAS, Section 91503 of the Act provides that the activities or uses for which property acquired pursuant to provisions of th€~ Act shall be suitable are industrial uses included, without limitation, assembling, fabricating, manufacturing or processing activities, with respect to any products of agriculture, forestry, mining or manufacture; and WHEREAS, Section 9]520(a) of the Act provides that the sole purpose of the Authority is to undertake projects through the issuance of bonds and accomplishments of the purposes provided in the Act and to carry out and ,complete such projects and perform and exercise derivative obligations and powers; and WHEREAS, the Authority is not to transact any business or exercise any powers under the Act unless, by ordinance, the City declares that there is a need for the Authority and that the Authority will function and that such ordinance shall be subject to referendum in the manner prescribed by law for ordinances of the City; and WHEREAS, the City desires to establish the Authority for the purposes set forth in the Act. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION L Chapter 2.52 is hereby added to the Orange Municipal Code to read as follows: Chapter 2.52 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Sections: 2.52.010 Findings 2.52.020 Need for Authority 2.52.030 Establishment of Authority 2.52.010 Findings. The City Council hereby finds and declares that there exists in the City a need to assist industry in the financing of capital outlays required to acquire, construct or rehabilitate facilities in order to increase employment opportunities and to contribute to economic development in the City. 2.52.020 Need for an Authority. The City Council further finds and declares that theH: is a need for an industrial development authority of the City in order to assist in providing industry in the City with an alternative method of financing in acquiring, constructing or rehabilitation facilities in accordance with provisions of the California Industrial Development Financing Act, commencing with Section 91500 of the Gov,emment Code (the "Act"). 2.52.030 Establishment of Authority. The industrial development authority of the City established by the Act is hereby declared organized under the name of "Industrial Devdopment Authority of the City of Orange" and shall function under and in accordance with provisions of the Act and further in accordance with applicable resolutions which the City Council may adopt. SECTION 2. The provisions of this Ordinance, being necessary for the welfare of the City and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. Ordinance No. 4- SECTION 3. The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest thereto and shall within 15 days of its adoption cause it or a summary thereof to be published once in The Orange Independent, a newspaper published and circulated in said City, and thereupon and thereafter this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force according to law.ADOPTED this ~day of.February 997.2 it. It~~<'YZ'Mayor of the City of Orange AmST: STATE OF CALIFORNIA)COUNTY OF ORANGE )CITY OF ORANGE )L CASSANDRA 1. CATHCART, City Clerk of the City of Orange, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the ~ 8tialay of January , ]997, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the _xkI:yxlx& 11.th day of Februarv ]997, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:AYES: NOES: ABS]~ NT:ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: MURPHY, SLATER, COONTZ, SPURGEON,ALVAREZ COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE City Clerk of the Ci Ordinance No. 4-97