HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 1395 1995-05-22
ORDINANCE NUMBER
/39S-
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 1B OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH RELATING TO
CAMPAIGN FINANCING
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. Chapter 1B of the Code of the City of Seal Beach
is hereby amended as follows:
section 1. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-1, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
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"Section 1B-1. Purtlose. The purpose of this Chapter is
to foster broader participation in the local political
process by:
(a) Requiring additional late campaign finance
disclosure from candidates and committees involved
in election campaigns for the City Council, the City
Clerk, and from committees which support or oppose
City ballot measures, thereby making the public
aware of candidates' and committees' use of campaign
funds immediately preceding the election; and
(b) Limiting the time in which candidates and committees
in city Council and City Clerk races may accept and
solicit contributions, thereby reducing the
influence of late campaign contributions; and
(c) Placing limits on the amounts any person or
committee may contribute or otherwise cause to be
available to campaigns in support of or against
candidates for the City Councilor City Clerk; and
(d) Establishing a voluntary expenditure ceiling in City
Council and City Clerk campaigns, in order to slow
the rapid rise in the cost of such campaigns."
section 2. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-2(a), is hereby
amended to read as follows:
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"(a) "Candidate" shall mean any individual who is listed
on the ballot or who has qualified to have write-in
votes on his or her behalf counted by election
officials, for nomination or election to the City
Council of the City of Seal Beach or the office of
City Clerk, or who receives a contribution or makes
an expenditure or gives his or her express or
implied consent for any other person to receive a
contribution or make an expenditure for the purpose
of bringing about his or her nomination or election
to the city Council of the City of Seal Beach, or
the office of City Clerk, whether or not the
specific ~lective office for which he or she will
seek nomination or election is known at the time the
contribution is received or the expenditure is made
and whether or not he or she has announced his or
her candidacy or filed a declaration of candidacy at
such time. "Candidate" also includes any member of
the City Councilor the City Clerk who is the
subject of a recall election. An individual who
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becomes a candidate shall retain his or her status
as a candidate until such time as that status is
terminated pursuant to Section 84214 of the
California Government Code. "Candidate" does not
include any person within the meaning of Section
301(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971."
Section 3. Chapter 1B, section 1B-2(c), is hereby
amended to read as follows:
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"(c) "Committee" shall mean any person or combination of
persons who directly or indirectly does any of the
following in connection with a campaign for the city
Council of the City of Seal Beach or for City
Clerk:"
Section 4. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-2(c) (2), is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"(2) Makes independent expenditures totalling two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.00) or more in a calendar year
to support or oppose any candidate, slate of
candidates, or committee formed to support or oppose
a candidate or candidates for the city Council of
the city of Seal Beach or for City Clerk."
Section 5. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-3(a), is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"(a) No person or committee other than an individual
candidate shall make, and no person, committee or
candidate shall solicit or accept, any contribution I
or loan which will cause the aggregate amount
contributed and/or loaned by such person or
committee with respect to a single district election
for a member of the City Council, or the citywide
election for City Clerk, in support of or opposition
to a candidate for such office, including
contributions or loans to all committees supporting
or opposing such candidate, to exceed two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.00)."
section 6. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-4, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"section 1B-4. Additional CamDaian Disclosure
Reauirements. In addition to any other campaign
disclosure report required by law, candidates for the
City Council, or for city Clerk, committees supporting or
opposing such candidates, committees supporting or
opposing any City measure, and committees supporting or
opposing any combination of candidates and/or city
measures, shall file with the city Clerk a supplemental
pre-election statement not later than 12:00 noon the
Thursday immediately preceding the election, which shall
cover the period beginning sixteen (16) days before the
election and closing at 5:00 p.m. the Tuesday one week
before the election."
Section 7. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-5, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
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"section 1B-5. Prohibition of Late Contributions. No
contribution shall be received or solicited by any
candidate nor any committee supporting or opposing any
candidate or combination of candidates for the city
Council, or for City Clerk, after 5:00 p.m. of the
Tuesday one week before the election until the day
following the election."
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section 8. Chapter 1B, Section 1B-6, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 1B-6. Voluntarv CamDaian EXDenditure Limit -
Citv Council. There is hereby established a voluntary
campaign expenditure ceiling for candidates for Member of
the city Council of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) in a
primary nominating election and an amount equal to eighty
percent (80%) of the six thousand dollar ($6,000.00)
primary cap for a runoff or general municipal election.
The voluntary campaign expenditure ceiling shall be
adjusted by Resolution of the City Council each City
election cycle by an amount not to exceed the percentage
change of the United States Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for the greater
Los Angeles/Orange County metropolitan area. The
voluntary campaign expenditure limit shall apply to the
combined campaign expenditures by a candidate and any
controlled committee of that candidate."
Section 9. Chapter 1B is hereby amended to add Section
1B-7 to read as follows:
"Section IB-7. Voluntarv CamDaian EXDenditure Limit -
Citv Clerk. There is hereby established a voluntary
campaign expenditure ceiling for candidates for city
Clerk to be double the amount applicable to candidates
for Member of the City Council-"
Section 10. Chapter IB, Section IB-7 is hereby
renumbered as Section IB-8, and amended to read as
follows:
.Section IB-8. Statement of Intention to ComDlv. The
city Clerk shall provide to c~ndidates, at the time each
candidate for the city Council, or for city Clerk, files
his or her declaration of candidacy, a form statement of
intention to abide by the voluntary campaign expenditure
ceiling imposed by this chapter. A candidate who intends
to abide by the voluntary campaign expenditure ceiling
shall personally sign and return the statement of intent
to the City Clerk not later than 24 hours following the
deadline for filing a declaration of candidacy. All
statements of intent shall be maintained as public
records, and the city Clerk shall make available to any
person upon request a list of candidates who have filed
such statements."
Section 11. Chapter IB, Section IB-8 is hereby
renumbered as Section IB-9, and Section 1B-9 is hereby
renumbered as Section 1B-I0.
Section II. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or any
part thereof is for any reason held to be invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this ordinance or any part hereof. The City
Council of the City of Seal Beach hereby declares that it
would have adopted each section, subsection, subdivision,
paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of
the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections,
subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be
declared invalid.
PASSED
of Seal
and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
a meeting thereof held on the ~~day of
, 1995.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SEAL BEACH )
I, Joanne M. Yeo, City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach,
California, do hereby certify that the for)5g~g ordinance is
the original copy of Ordinance Number ~ on file in the
o~~e of the City rk, introduced at a meeting held on the
- day of , 1995, and passed,
app ved and adopted Hy e C1ty counci~:,~he city of Seal
Bea t a meeting ther f held on the~ day of
, 1 , by the follow1ng vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmembers
and do hereby further certify that Ordinance Number ~~~~
has been published pursuant to the Seal Beach City CHarter and
R~lution mber 2836.
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PROOF OF PUBLICATION
(2015.5 C.C.P.)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
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County of Orange
I am a citizen of the United States
and' a tesident of the County afore-
said; I am over the age of eighteen
years, and not a party to or Inter-
ested in the above-entitled matter.
I am the principal Clerk of the printer
of the SEAL BEACH SUN. a newspaper
of general circulation, printed and
published weekly in the City of ~
Beach. County of Orange and which
newspaper has been adjudged a
newspaper of general circulation by
the Superior Court of the County of
Orange, State of California, under the
date of 2124n5. Case Number A82583:
that the notice of which the annexed
is a printed copy (set in type not
smaller than nonpareil), has been
published in each regular and entire
issue of said newspaper and not in
any supplement thereof on the
following dates, to-wit:
5";\ '%
all in the year 19J1Q...
I certify (or declare) under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing Is true and
correct.
Dated at Seal Beach, California,
this \ ~ day of I"\a
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Signature
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PUBLICATION PROCESSED BY:
THE SUN NEWSPAPERS
216 Main Street
P.O. Box 755
Seal Beach, CA 90740
(310)430-7555
Ordinance Number
139~
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SUMMARY -
1. ORDINANCE NUMBER 1385
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. Ordinance Number 1385 o'the
eny of S'.I Beach, amends
ChooIer 18 olIN Code olIN City
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Introduced I' the regular eliV'
Council IIlHtinQ 01 May 8th. 11l11S
end fill' reading was opproved by
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recllve ..cond reading and be
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regular City Counel me.llng of
"ay 22ncf. ., 885. Cop,.. of
. Ordinance Number 1395 are
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DATED1llII8IhcloyolMey,11l115
, Joe_ M. YIO, CIty CIeri<
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Ordinance Number /.3fs
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
(2015.5 C.C.P.)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
.
County of Orange
I am a citizen of the United States
and a resident of the County afore-
said; I am over the age of eighteen
years, and not a party to or inter-
ested In the above-entitled matter.
I am the principal clerk of the printer
of the SEAL BEACH SUN, a newspaper
of general circulation. printed and
published weeklv in the City of ~
Beach, County of Orange and which
newspaper has been adjudged a
newspaper of general circulation by
the Superior Court of the County of
Orange. State of California, under the
date of 2/24rT5. Case Number A82583;
that the notice of which the annexed
is a printed copy (set in type not
smaller than nonpareil), has been
published in each regular and entire
issue of said newspaper and not in
any supplement thereof on the
following dates, to-wit:
<...,/\
all in the year 19~.
I certify (or declare) under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Dated at Seal Beach, California,
this \ day of 6""""'-"" ,19~.
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Signature
PUBLICATION PROCESSED BY:
THE SUN NEWSPAPERS
216 Main Street
P.O. Box 755
Seal Beach, CA 90740
(310)430-7555
This space for for the County Clerk's
Filing Stamp
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SUllMARY -
, 0RIllNAIlCE NUMBER 1385
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City of 1.1 Beach. emends
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. ot Seal Beac:h to rel'.et varioul
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. . ""'Ulnance Number 1395 leeewed
. , Mcond' readl[1g and was .dopled
by 1he C!fy Council at I regular
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