HomeMy WebLinkAbout0535�C -)INANCE NO. 535 (197 aeries)
AN ORDINANCE REVISING T1IE ENFORCEIVIENT PROVISIONS
OF THE I'diUNICIPAL CODE, AldENDING CERTAIN CODE
SECTIONS TOCONFORM THERETO, AND REPEALING CODE
SECTION 1255.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1200 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 1200. Violation, a misdemeanor.
(a) Any person who does any act prohibited by this Code or declared by this Cbde
to be unlawful, and any person who fails, refuses or neglects to comply with any of
the mandatory requirements of this Code, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each such
person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of
which any violation of any provision of this Code is committed, continued or permitted . .
by such person and shall be punishable accordingly. Except in cases where a different
punishment is prescribed by this Code for a violation of.a specific section hereof, every
misdemeanor herein is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not
exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by both.
(b) In addition to the penal provisions hereinabove provided, and completely
separate therefrom and curlulative thereto at the sole discretion of the City, the City
may institute appropriate civil actions or proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction
for the abatement, removal, and enjoinment of any condition or activity declared by this
Code to be a public nuisance, or found and declared by ,he Council to be a public nuisance
after a duly noticed hearing. "
SECTION 2. Section 4000.3 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 4000.3.. Badges.
The Poundmaster and his duly authorized and ap ?ointed deputies while engaged in the
execution of their duties, shall each wear in plain view a badge having, in the case of the
Poundmaster, the word " Poundmaster" and, in the. case of the Deputy Poundmaster, the
words "Deputy Poundmaster" engraved thereon. Any person who has not been appointed
as provided hereinabove, or whose appointment has been revoked and he has been notified
thereof, who shall represent himself to be or shall attempt to act as the Poundmaster or
as a Deputy Poundmaster shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. "
SECTION 3. Section 4005 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 4005. Duty of General Public.
'It shall be unlawful for any person to resist, hinder, molest, or obstruct the
Poundmaster or any of his deputies or employees in the exercise of their duties as
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SECTION 4. Section 4117.0 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 4117.0. Failure to Furnish Information.
Any person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog in the City
of San Luis Obispo who willfully refuses, fails or neglects to furnish to the License
Collector, Poundmaster, Health Officer, or any of their duly qualified and authorized
deputies or employees, th e information necessary to properly license such dog, or who
shall resist, hinder or prevent the Poundmaster, Health Officer or any of their duly
authorized deputies or employees in the exercise of their duties, or who fails, neglects,
or refuses to pay the license fee at the time and in the manner herein provided, or who
violates any of the provisions hereof declared to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor. "
SECTION 5. The San Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby amended to repeal the
following section in its entirety:
Section 1255.
SECTION 6. Separability. It is the intention of the City Council that each separate
provision of this ordinance shall be deemed independent of all other provisions herein,
and it is further the intention of the City Council that if any provision of this ordinance
be declared to be invalid, all other provisions thereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
SECTION 7. This Ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, shall be published
once in full, at least three days before its final passage, in the Telegram Tribune, a
newspaper published and circulated in said City, and the same shall go into effect at
the expiration of thirty days after its said final passage.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo
at a Regular Meeting held thereof on the 18th day of October 1971, on motion
Of Councilman Graham seconded by Councilman Gurnee , and on the following
roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Make, Graha ii, Gurnee and Mayor Schwartz
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilman Brawn
ATTEST:
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FIJALLY PASSED this Ist day of November 19 71
by the following roll call vote:
AYE'S: Councilmen Blake, Brown, Graham, Gurnee and
Mayor Schwartz
:DOES: None
ABSEINT: None
ATTEST: