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Pursuant to the authority provided in Charter Section 251, publication of an ordinance may be done either by publishing it at least once in a daily newspaper circulated in the City of Los Angeles or by posting it for at least ten days in three public places within the City.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 172,959, Eff. 1-22-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
Except as otherwise in the Charter specifically provided, the Council shall have full power to pass ordinances upon any subject of municipal control, or to carry into effect any of the powers of the City.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter, Sec. 35
Sec. 2.16. Power to Provide for Public Improvements. (Charter Section 247)
The Council shall have the power to provide for any and all public improvements and their financing as provided by state law, City Charter or ordinances.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter, Sec. 37.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,022, Eff. 2-13-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
The Council may provide by ordinance the duties of all boards or officers whose duties are not defined by the Charter, and it may by ordinance provide for any board or officer created by the Charter or by ordinance, duties other than those herein prescribed and not inconsistent with the provisions of the Charter. It may fix the hours during which the public office of any City officer shall be kept open, if not otherwise provided in the Charter.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter, Sec. 32.
Sec. 2.19. Procedure for Establishing Official City Positions. (Charter Section 254.)
(a) Official City Positions. The provisions of this section shall govern the process for establishing the official positions of the City with respect to legislation, rules, regulations or policies proposed to or pending before a local, state or federal governmental body or agency. Once established as provided herein all such official positions shall be in writing and shall contain a summary of the proposed or pending legislation, rule, regulation or policy and the City’s position thereon. Said positions may refer to a specific bill or to a type of legislation or policy. Copies of each shall be filed with the City Clerk. Any such position shall remain in effect as specified in the action taken or until modified or repealed as provided herein. No person or department affiliated with the City of Los Angeles may represent that the City of Los Angeles supports, opposes, seeks, wishes to amend or has any position regarding any legislation, rules, regulations or policies unless such position has been adopted as an official position of the City of Los Angeles.
(b) Adoption of City Positions on Legislation, Rules, Regulations and Policies.
(i) On or before October 1 of each year, the Mayor and each elected officer of the City shall submit to the City Council changes they wish the City to propose to local, state and federal laws. Prior to such submission, the Mayor shall survey the various City departments and offices to ascertain the changes such offices and departments wish to consider to local, state and federal laws, and those changes considered essential to such departments operations shall be included in the Mayor’s submission to the City Council.
(ii) On behalf of the City Council, the Chief Legislative Analyst shall review each proposal and submit each proposal in the form of a resolution to the Council with recommendations for action thereon.
(iii) If any such resolution is adopted by the Council, the City Clerk shall present the resolution to the Mayor for consideration with the date of presentation affixed.
(iv) If the Mayor concurs with the resolution, the Mayor shall sign the resolution and return it to the Clerk, in which case the resolution becomes effective immediately. If the Mayor vetoes the resolution, the Mayor shall return it to the Clerk with a written statement of objections. If the Mayor does not veto the resolution within ten (10) working days after its presentation, or in a shorter time period as prescribed by a two-thirds vote of the Council in cases where expedited action is required, (which shorter time period shall not be less than two (2) working days) the resolution shall become effective.
(v) If vetoed by the Mayor, the Clerk shall present the resolution, with the objections of the Mayor, at the first Council meeting thereafter, consistent with applicable law, after the Clerk has received the Mayor’s objections. By two-thirds vote, the Council may approve the resolution over the veto of the Mayor in the ten (10) meeting days of the City Council during which the Council has convened in regular session after its presentation by the Clerk; provided however, that if the Council has determined that expedited action is required as provided in clause (iv) above, then Council must act to approve the resolution over the veto of the Mayor in the same number of Council meeting days as the Mayor had in working days to veto such resolution.
(vi) Nothing contained herein shall affect the ability at any time of the Council to request, or of the Mayor, elected and appointed City officers, and departments to submit proposals for changes to local, state and federal laws, rules, regulations and policies which are considered essential to their operations at any other time, and such proposals shall be acted upon in the same manner as provided in Clauses (ii) through (v) above.
(vii) Nothing contained herein shall affect the ability of the Council or the Mayor to initiate proposals at any other time for changes to local, state and federal laws, rules, regulations and policies. Such proposals shall be acted upon in the same manner as provided in Clauses (ii) through (v) above.
(c) Guidelines for Review of Pending Legislation, Regulations, Rules and Policies. The City Council in order to enable it to perform its work shall not later than December 1 of each even numbered year, adopt guidelines for use by the Chief Legislative Analyst in reviewing local, state and federal legislative proposals, including rules, regulations and policies and developing recommendations to the Council for official City positions with respect to such proposals. Any recommended positions on a legislative proposal developed by the Chief Legislative Analyst that is consistent with the Council’s guidelines shall be incorporated into a resolution and submitted to the Council for its consideration. Any such resolution that is adopted by the Council shall be forwarded to the Mayor for consideration as provided in Section (b) Clauses (iii) - (v) above.
(d) Urgency positions. In the event that the Mayor and the President of the City Council, or the Chief Legislative Analyst acting on behalf of the President of the City Council, agree that exigent circumstances require that a legislative position be adopted immediately to protect the City’s interests, such tentative legislative position shall be determined by them by mutual agreement and shall be deemed part of the City’s legislative program and shall be communicated by the Mayor to the appropriate governmental agencies and shall simultaneously be referred to the Council in the form of a resolution for consideration at its next regular meeting, consistent with applicable law, and processing in the same manner as provided in (b) Clauses (ii) - (v) above. In the event that the Council disagrees with the Mayor and Council President, or their designees, such policy position shall cease to be an official City legislative position, and such fact shall immediately be communicated to the governmental agencies involved.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 173,348, Eff. 7-16-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
Amended by: Sec. 2.34 Renumbered Sec. 2.19, Ord. No. 173,587, Eff. 12-7-00.
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