HomeMy WebLinkAbout461ORDINANCE NO. 461
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF IRWINDALE AMENDING CHAPTER 3.44 PERTAINING
TO THE DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS SUPPLIES AND
EQUIPMENT.
The City Council of the City of Irwindale does ordain
as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 3.44 of the Irwindale Municipal
Code hereby is amended by the addition of a new Section 3.44.120
to read, in words and figures, as follows:
"3.44.120 Disposition of surplus supplies and equipment.
"All departments shall submit to the purchasing
officer at such times and in such forms as the
purchasing officer shall prescribe, reports showing all
supplies and equipment which are no longer used or
which have become obsolete or worn out. The purchasing
officer shall have authority to exchange for or trade
in on new supplies and equipment all supplies and
equipment which have become unsuitable for city use.
"A. Such items so declared to be surplus shall be
offered for sale on a competitive bid basis. Bids may
be solicited by written request, telephone, fax
machine, by public auction, by use of an auction
service, by advertisement in any newspaper or magazine,
or by any combination of such methods.
"B. When, after a reasonable effort has been made
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to obtain competitive bids, no offers are received for
any item of city -owned personal property so declared to
be surplus, the purchasing officer is authorized to
dispose of such item for the highest scrap value that
can be obtained therefor and if a reasonable effort to
do so produces no opportunity to sell the same for
scrap, the purchasing officer may cause its destruction
of any other disposition thereof.
"C. The city may sell obsolete or surplus
property to any other tax -supported governmental agency
at an established "fair market value" without other
bids.
"D. The city may donate surplus personal property
to any agency or entity which is exempt from federal
income tax with the approval of the city council."
Section 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published as required by law.
Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance. The
City Council of the City of Irwindale hereby declares that it
would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection,
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sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions might subsequently be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
ADOPTED this 25th day of
January , 1993.
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
t^N of Irwindale held on the 14th day of January , 1993, and
was finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Irwindale on the 25th day of January , 1993,
by the following vote:
AYES: Miranda, J., Miranda, P., Breceda, Barbosa and Diaz
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: None
ATTEST:
Deputy
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