CC - Item 2A - Ordinance No. 978 - Updated Rosemead Municipal Code ORDINANCE NO. 798
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ROSEMEAD ENACTING AN UPDATED ROSEMEAD
MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH REVISES,AMENDS,
RESTATES, CODIFIES AND COMPILES THE GENERAL
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY AND WHICH ADOPTS THE
LATEST VERSIONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE, BUSINESS LICENSE
ORDINANCE, TRAFFIC CODE, STREET PERMIT
ORDINANCE, PARKS ORDINANCE,AND SUBDIVISION
ORDINANCE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1 . The City Council finds and declares:
(a) The present general ordinances of the City of Rosemead
are incomplete and inadequate in the manner of arrangeement,
classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the
immediate needs of the City, its residents and business persons;
and
(b) California State law authorizes the City Council to
revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinance
or ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore published and
to incorporate said ordinances into one Municipal Code book; and
(c) Pursuant to Council direction, the City Clerk has
contracted with a firm to publish a revised Rosemead Municipal
Code.
Section 2 . The Rosemead Municipal Code recodification
project has been determined to be exempt from the California
Environmental Quality Act pursuant to State Guidelines § 15051
(b) (3) as a project that has no potential for causing a
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significant effect on the environment
Section 3 . The general ordinances of the City of Rosemead
as herein revised, amended, restated, codified and compiled in
book form, are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the
Rosemead Municipal Code, bearing a copyright date of 1996 .
Section 4 . The following County of Los Angeles ordinances,
previously adopted by reference by the City of Rosemead, are
hereby readopted and incorporated by reference into the Rosemead
Municipal Code in their latest versions as follows :
1. Title 7 - Business Licenses of the Los Angeles
County Code as amended to and February 10, 1998 .
2 . Title 11 - Health and Safety of the Los Angeles
County Code as amended to and in effect on July 1 ,
1999 .
3 . Title 15 - Vehicles and Traffic of the Los Angeles
County Code as amended to and in effect on July 1,
1999 .
4 . Title 16 - Highways of the Los Angeles County Code
as amended to and in effect on July 1, 1999 .
5 . Title 17 - Parks, Beaches and Other Public Areas of
the Los Angeles County Code as amended to and in effect
on July 1, 1999 .
6 . Title 21 - Subdivisions of the Los Angeles County
as amended to and in effect on July 1 , 1999 .
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Section 5 . All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects
in said Rosemead Municipal Code shall be deemed suspended and of
no effect during the time that the revised Rosemead Municipal
Code is effective . Such suspension of prior ordinances shall not
affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right
established prior to the effective date of the revised Rosemead
Municipal Code, nor shall such suspension 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 6 . Said Rosemead Municipal Code shall be deemed
published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the City
Council and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and ordered to
file and make available a copy of said Code in the Office of City
Clerk.
Section 7. Said Code shall be in full force 30 days from
the date of its adoption and filing thereof in the Office of the
City Clerk. The Rosemead Municipal Code shall be presumptive
evidence in all courts and places of the ordinances and all
provisions, sections, penalties, and regulations therein
contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is
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properly signed, attested, recorded and approved and that any
public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been
given.
Section 8 . The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance .
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 14th day of September,
1999 .
Joe Vasquez, Mayor
City of Rosemead
ATTEST:
Nancy Valderrama
City Clerk
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