HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 266 1942-08-20
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH
CALIFORNIA, CREATING A LOChL DEF~NSE COUNCIL;
APPOINTING CZRTAIN OFFIC3RS' PROVIDING FOR
APPOINTMENT OF ~31ffi~RS OF DEFENSE COUNCIL~
RESIGNATION AND VACANCIES. PR~SCRIBING IT~
DUTIlJS .iliD RESPor\'SIBILITIES.i CRI;:.i..TgG COL:;kITT:;;;:::;S;
PROVIDIKG FOR CLOS~D UEETINuS EXCSPT BY VOTG
OF D~FEI:SE COUNCIL; R~P;::~i.LI::G C:::~T.i..IN SECTIONS
OF EXISTING ORDII:AI:CES; PROVIDI::G ::-'CR THZ COH-
STITUTIONALITY; DECLARIilG AN Er.:S:RGEECY; AI\'D
PROVDI~:G FOR Pl.'BLI Cl.TION.
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10 The City Council of the City of Seal Beach
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Section 1: There is hereby created the Seal
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Section 2: The Defense Council shall be
15 composed of the Mayor, who shall be ex officio chair-
16 man of the Council, a seoretery of the Council, and
17 suoh other local officials and citizens as may be
18 appointed thereto by the Mayor with the approval of
19 the City Council. The Mayor shall designate one of
20 the members of the Local Defense Council as vice-
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chairman, who shall preside at all meetings of said
Council in the absence of the ~ayor. The secretary,
subject to the ~ayor's direction, shall be responsibl
for coordinating its activities, keeping it s records
conducting its correspondence, and performing such
other duties as the said Council may from time to
time require of him.
Section 3: The members of said Defense Couno 1
shall serve for a term of one
year and until their
appointed and qUalifiedj
successor, or successors, are
A four-fifths vote of all the members of the City
Council shall be required to remove any member of
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said Defense Council fro~ office prior to the expira-
tion of his term of office, provided that nothing
herein contained shall prevent any member of the
Defense Council from resigning from said Defense
Council. Vacancies on the Defense Council shall be
filled by appointment by the Mayor wi th the approval
of the City Council.
Secti on 4: It shall be the duty and responsi
bility of the Defense Council to encourage and pro-
mote proper coordination be~ween the activities of
governmental and private agencies, cooperating in the
defense effort; to consider and recommend means for
public defense and seourity for the betterment and
preservation of pUblic health, for the protection of
consumer interest, for the providing ot housing, for
the preservation of oivil liberties, for the suppres-
sion of sabotage and subversive activities through
law enforcement officials, for the planning of a
major disaster program, oapable of functioning in a
defense emergency; and to perform such other advisory
funotions as may from time to time be requested of it
by off icials of the city or by State and Fe deral
Agencies engaged in the defense effort.
Said Council shall receive, acknowledge and
appraise proffers of facilities, services and ideas
originating within the community and make appropriate
disposition of same, clear information concerning
defense programs and Objectives among cooperating
agencies; recommended adjustments or arrangements
necessary for prompt assimilation of government
programs for defense to the appropriate officers, de-
partments or agencies; receive requests for assistanc
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from the State Council of Defense and from Federal
defense authorities and transmi t these requests to
the proper city authorities or agencies; accumulate
or assist in the accumulation of information regardin
local governmental financial, economio, industrial
and human faoilities and resources and transmit any
such facts, as well as other necessary information,
to the State Council of Defense and to Federal defens
authorities.
Seotion 5: The City Council by resolution
shall create such permanent and temporary committees
of the Defense Council as the City Council deems
necessary, shall define their duties within the pur-
pose of this ordinance and may abolish any such com-
mittee. The chairman of the permanent committees of
the Defense Council shall be design~,ted by the Defens
Council Chairman from among the members of the Defens
Council appointed as provided in Section 2 of this
Ordinance. Members of per~anent committees other
than the chairman and all members of temporary commit
tees shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Defens
Council and need not be members of the Defense Counci .
Seotion 6: The Defense Council shall hold
meetings whenever necessary to carry out the intent
and purposes of this Ordinance, suoh meetings shall
not be open to the general public, provided however,
that such meetin~ shall be open to committee members
vote.
and the press, and by a majority^of the members of
the Defense Council other persons may be requested to
attend such meetings.
Section 7: All
ordinances, in conflict
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ordinances, or parts of
with this Ordinance are
hereb
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repealed.
Section 8: if any section, subsection, sen-
tence, olause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any
reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such
decision shall not effeot the validity or constitu-
tionality,of the remaining portions of this Ordinance
The City Council hereby declares that it would have
passed this Ordinance and each section, SUbsection,
sentence, clause and phrase thereof irrespective of
the fact that one or more of the seotions, subsection,
sentences, clauses and phrases thereof be declared
unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 9: This ordinance is hereby deolared
to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediat
preservation of the public peace, health and safety
and shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage and publication, as required by law. The
following is a specific statement showing the urgenoy
of this Ordinance.
An emergency exists in the United Statesand
in this State in providing adequate national and
local defense. It is necessary that all information
be gathered relating to national defense and to pro-
vide for the proper cooperation and coordina~ion of
public and private agencies, so that adequate local
defense may be provided for at as early a date as
possible.
Section 10: The City Clerk shall certify to
the adoption of this Ordinance and cause it to be
published once in the "Seal Beach Post & Wave," a
newspaper of general circulation printed and publishe
in this city, and thenceforth and thereafter the same
shall be in full force and effect.
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1 PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 20th day
2 of August, 1942.
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Attest:
41Aij/J~.,i ;.l,
ITtTy CLEmf "~y %t'e ~ty or
Seal Beach.
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15 I hereby certifY that the foregoing Ordinance
16 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Seal
17 Beach at a regular meeting of the Council held the
18 20th day of August, 1942, and that the same was adop-
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20 AYES: Councilmen
21 NOES: Councilmen ~
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Seal Beach.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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PHONE 85.-188
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