ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 1100

   AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK, CALIFORNIA, ENACTING AS AN ORDINANCE, A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SAID CODE

WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the City of Baldwin Park are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the City; and

WHEREAS, the Acts of the State Legislature of the State of California empower and authorize the City Legislative Body of this City to revise, amend, restate, codify and to compile any existing ordinance or ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate said ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

WHEREAS, the Legislative Body of the City of Baldwin Park has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the City of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Legislative Body of the City of Baldwin Park that:

Section 1.   The general ordinances of the City of Baldwin Park as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the City of Baldwin Park.”

Section 2.   Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:

   Title I      General Provisions

   Title III   Administration

   Title V      Public Works

   Title VII   Traffic Code

   Title IX   General Regulations

   Title XI   Business Regulations

   Title XIII   General Offenses

   Title XV   Land Usage

   Tables of Special Ordinances

   Parallel References

   Index

Section 3.   All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of said Code, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, naming or vacating or setting the boundaries of streets, alleys or other public places, nor to any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained therein.

Section 4.   Said Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the City Legislative Body and the Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the City Clerk.

Section 5.   Said Code shall be in full force 30 days from the date of its adoption, and filing thereof in the Office of the Clerk, and said Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested, recorded and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Legislative Body of the City of Baldwin Park this day of April 5 , 1995.

   Mayor Vargas

   MAYOR

ATTEST

Linda L. Gair

LINDA L. GAIR, CITY CLERK

STATE OF CALIFORNIA      )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES   ) ss

CITY OF BALDWIN PARK    )

   I, LINDA L. GAIR, City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park, do hereby certify the foregoing Ordinance No. 1100 was regularly introduced and placed upon first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on March 15, 1995. That, thereafter, said Ordinance was duly approved and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on April 5, 1995 by the following vote:
AYES: MARTINEZ, LOZANO, LOWES, MUSE, MAYOR VARGAS

NOES: NONE

ABSENT: NONE

ABSTAIN: NONE

Linda L. Gair

LINDA L. GAIR, CITY CLERK