Ordinance No. 132 - Planning CommissionORDINANCE N0. ,.132
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD AMENDING
CHAPTER 5 OF ARTICLE II OF. THE ROSEMEAD
MUNICIPAL CODE RE,THE PLANING COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Sectioi_.li Sections 2500,through 2506 of,Chapter 5
of Article o, the Rosemead Municipal Code are amended to
read as follows!
CHAPTER, 5.1 PLANNING COMMISSION
2500. Planning Commission Creation of: A Planning Commission
w is may a nown an re erre to as the "Planning
Commission" of the City of Rosemead is hereby;eefablished
pursuant to the provisions of that certain act 0~ the
legislature of the State of California, which is ilesig-
hated and referred to as the "Planning Law" (Title 7
of the Government Code of the State of California), as
amended to date and as same may hereafter be amended.
2501 Members. The Planning Commission shall consist of five
memo which five members shall be appointed in accord-
ance with state law. An appointed member of the Planning
Commission may be removed at any time by the Mayor,
subject to the approval of the Council, or by a majority
vote of the City Council. Of the members of said
Commission first appointed hereunder, one shall be for
the term of four years, one for the term of three years,
one for the term of two years, and two for the term of
one year. The first members of the Commission as
established herein shall be five of the seven members
of the Planning Commission of the City as created by
Ordinance No. 3, adopted August 26, 1959. Their
successors shall be appointed for terms of four years.
If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration
of term, it shall be filled by appointment for the
unexpired portion of the term.
2502. Absence from Meetin ss. Notwithstanding any other
privision o t is I;ode, any Commissioner who absents
himself from any three consecutive regular meetings of
said Planning Commission, unless excused from such
attendance by consent of such Commission expressed by
action of record in its minutes or who is absent from
a total of five regular meetings of said Commission in
any six months' period without such consent of such
Commission so expressed of record, shall thereby auto-
matically forfeit his or her position or office as a
member of said Planning Commission, and the name of
such person shall be automatically removed from the
membership of said Commission immediately after the
adjournment of any such third consecutive meeting or
of any such fifth meeting in any such six months
period, as the case may be, at which such Commissioner
has not appeared.
The Chairman or the Secretary of the Commission shall
thereupon promptly notify the City Council, and any
such person so ceasing to be such Commissioner, of
such fact; whereupon the vacancy so created shall be
filled by appointment.
2503. Duties. That the said Planning Commission and the
.members thereof shall respectively have and exercise
each and all of the powers, duties; rights, privileges
and authorities of City Planning Commissions and of
members of such Commissions, all as set forth, pro-
vided for, and contemplated in this Code and in and
•under the provisions of said "Planning Law" as same
now exists and as same may hereafter be amended, and
shall perform the duties, acts and functions of such
City Planning Commissions, and members thereof,
respectively, all as indicated, set forth and referred
to in, and as contemplated by, said "Planning law" and
in the manner therein stated.
2504. Records. That the said Commission shall cause proper
records to be kept of all its official acts and pro-
ceedings, and shall make reports to the City Council of
said City, all as contemplated in and by said "Planning
Law."
• 2505. Rules and Rieutations. That except as otherwise °pro-
vided in the Code or by law, said Commission shall`
have power to and shall provide for its own organiza-
tion; shall adopt rules and regulations for the
transaction of business before it; and shall designate
the time and place for the regular monthly meeting or
meetings of said Commission.
2506. Regular Meetings. A regular meeting as provided by law.
or as established by rule of the Planning Commission or
any regularly advertised public hearing shall be deemed
a regular meeting.
Section 2. Each and every provision of Ordinance No. 3
of the City oRf osemead, adopted August 26, 1959, in conflict with
the provisions of this ordinance is hereby repealed.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this day of
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ROSE EAF D
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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