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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF IRWINDALE AMENDING TITLE 3 OF THE IRWINDALE
MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALINGo IN ITS ENTIRETY
SECTION 3.04.080 AND ADOPTING A NEW SECTION
3.04.080 PERTAINING TO FORMS OF DEMANDS, METHODS
OF DRAWING DEMANDS AND SIGNATURES THEREON.
A. Recitals.
(i) The efficiency of the conduct of the business of
the City will be enhanced by authorizing the inscription of City
warrants to be accomplished by utilization of a facsimile 0
signature in lieu of manual signatures. The Irwindale Municipal
Code does not provide for the utilization of facsimile signatures
for all officials who may be required to sign a warrant.
(ii) The City Council desires to provide for the
signature upon warrants of the City to be accomplished via
facsimile signatures rather than by manual signature except in
certain circumstances.
(iii) All legally required preconditions to the
adoption of this Ordinance have occurred.
B. Ordinance.
The City Council of the City of Irwindale does ordain
as follows:
Section 1. In all respects as set forth in Recitals,
Part A, of this Ordinance.
Section 2. Section 3.40.080 of Chapter 3.40 of Title 3
of the Irwindale Municipal Code, as previously adopted, is hereby
1' repealed in its entirety.
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Section 3. A new Section 3.40.080 of Chapter 3.40 of
Title 3 of the Irwindale Municipal Code is hereby adopted, to
read, in words and figures as follows:
113.04.080 Warrants -Contents and Signature
Requirements.
"A. The City Council shall, by resolution,
prescribe printed forms for demands and the method of
drawing warrants, orders or checks in payment of demands
allowed or ordered paid as provided for in this chapter.
"B. All warrants, orders or checks upon the city
treasury for the payment of any money shall be signed by
at least two (2) of the following officers of the City:
(1) Mayor or the Vice Mayor in the absence of the Mayor; (2)
Finance Director or, in his or her absence, by that
person designated as the Deputy Finance Director by
minute motion of the City Council; (3) City Manager or,
in his or her absence, by that person designated by
minute motion of the City Council as the Acting City
Manager.
"C. In every warrant, order or check so drawn
shall be specified the name of the person to whom the
same is payable, the date and amount thereof, and the
services or indebtedness for which it is to be made
payable to the person named therein or to his or her
order.
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I'D. Any person required or authorized pursuant to
this section to sign or countersign any warrant, order
or check upon the city treasury may execute such
warrant, order or check by means of a facsimile
signature in lieu of his or her manual signature, upon
the filing and certification of such person's manual
signature in accordance with the Uniform Facsimile
Signature of Public Officials Act (California Government
Code, Sections 5500 et seq.) as the same now exists or
as may be amended from time to time. Whenever any
warrant, order or check is for an amount payable in
excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), at
(O'�` least one (1) of the signatures required or permitted
hereinabove shall be affixed manually and not through
the use of a facsimile signature."
Section 4. Penalty for violation of ordinance.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership,
or corporation to violate any provision, or to fail to comply
with any of the requirements of this Ordinance. Any person,
firm, partnership, or corporation violating any provision of this
Ordinance, or failing to comply with any of its requirements,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6)
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person,
e*N firm, partnership, or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a
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separate offense for each and every day or any portion thereof
during which any violation of this Ordinance is committed,
continued, or permitted by such person, firm, partnership, or
corporation, and shall be deemed punishable therefore as provided
in this Ordinance.
Section 5. Civil remedies available.
The violation of any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the
City through civil process by means of a restraining order,
preliminary or permanent injunction or in any other manner
provided by law for the abatement of nuisance.
Section 6. Severability.
The City Council declares that, should any provision,
section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this Ordinance be
rendered or declared invalid by any final court action in a court
of competent jurisdiction, or by reason of any preemptive
legislation, the remaining provisions, sections, paragraphs,
sentences, and words of this Ordinance shall remain in full force
and effect.
Section 7. The City shall publish this Ordinance in
the manner required by law.
10th December
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this day of 4kwember, 1992.
Mayor
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I, Camille Diaz Deputy, City Clerk of the City of
Irwindale, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was
introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Irwindale held on the 12th day of November, 1992, and was
finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
December
City of Irwindale held on the 10th day of -mar-,- 1992, by
the following vote:
AYES: Miranda, J., Miranda, P., Breceda, Barbosa, and Diaz
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: None
ATTEST:
Deputy City Clerk of t
City of Irwinda Ue
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