Ordinance No. 879
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2 ORDINANCE NO. 879
3 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF VERNON
AMENDING SECTION 1.8-1 (a) OF THE
4 VERNON CITY CODE AUTHORIZING CERTAIN
CITY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES TO ARREST
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6 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON DOES ORDAIN as follows:
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SECTION 1:
Sec. 1.8-1 (a) of the Vernon City Code
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is hereby amended to read as follows:
.. Sec. 1. 8--1. Authority of certain City officers
and employees to arrest without warrant; issuance
of notice to appear; posting of bails; failure
to comply with notice to appear.
"(a) Certain public officers or city employees
may arrest a person without a warrant whenever
they have reasonable cause to believe that the
person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor
in their presence which is a violation of a statute
or ordinance which such officer or city employee
has the duty to enforce. Such public officers
or city employees who are authorized pursuant to
this section to make such arrest as. set forth in
this section, in addition to those employees who
have previously been so authorized by other ordinances
or state laws, are as follows:
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(I) The Health Officer.
(2 ) The Director of Environmental Health.
(3) The Chief Deputy Director of Environmental Health.
(4 ) The Senior Environmental Specialist.
(5 ) The Environmental Specialist.
(6 ) The Fire Chief.
(7 ) The Assistant Fire Chief.
(8 ) The Fire Marshal."
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SECTION 2: Except as hereby amended said Vernon City
27 Code Section 1.8-1 shall remain in effect.
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SECTION 3: There being no newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City
of Vernon, the City Clerk is hereby directed to certify to
the passage of this ordinance, and shall post the same~ or
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cause the same to be posted, in three of the most public
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Street and Santa Fe Avenue; the Northeast corner of Leonis
Boulevard and Pacific Boulevard; and on the Bulletin board
in the lobby of the City Hall of said city, located at
4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in the City of Vernon, Los Angeles
County, California.
ENACTED and ADOPTED this 19thday of
April
, 1977.
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ATTEST:
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F. A. Ziemer, City Clerk
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9 of said City Council held on
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
4 I, F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
5' hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No.
6 879, was duly and regularly introduced at a regular meeting
7 of the City Council of the City of Vernon, held on A?ril 5,
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, and thereafter finally adopted at a regular meeting
April ~ 1977
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Gonzales, Kaeser, Malburg, McCormick,
Ybarra
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AF'F'IDAVIT OF POSTING
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I, F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
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day of
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ORDINANCE NO. 879
one in each of the following
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12 Fe Avenue, at the northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific
13 Boulevard, and on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall
14 of the City of Vernon, located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in
15 said City, there being no newspaper of general circulation printed
16 and published in the City of Vernon.
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Signed this 20th
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Subscribed and sworn to before me
this ~ day of April
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Notary ~ in a~ for the County of
Los Angeles, State of California.
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CITY COUNCIL
ROBERT J. FURLONG, MAYOR
GENEVIEVE H. ANDERSON
CHARLES H. MAILLIARD
THOMAS A. YBARRA
LEONIS C. MALBURG
TELEPHONES
CITY CLERK - - -
POLICE DEPT. . - . -
FIRE DEPT. - . . . .
BUILDING DEPT. - - .
PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. .
HEALTH DEPT.. - - -
583-1666
587-8135
583-4821
583-1666
583.1666
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OFFICERS
F. A. ZIEMER. CITY CLERK .- DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
L. R. BURCH, CITY TREASURER
C, H. McGOVERN. CITY ATTORNEY
R, H. KING. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
ARTHUR E, NELSON. JR., CITY ENGINEER
DR. C. E. NEMETHI. HEALTH OFFICER
VINCENT R. BUSH, SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDING
ROBERT M. EATHERLY, FIRE CHIEF
R. H. BOCKHACKER. POLICE CHIEF
CITY HALL
4305 SANTA FE AVENUE. VERNON, CALIF. 90058
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
IN REPLY REFER TO:
March 8, 1977
City Council,
City of Vernon.
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Honorable Members:
In order to correct an inconsistency in the Vernon City Code, we
are requesting your consideration to the amendment of Section 1.8-l(a)
to remove an obsolete Health Department title and insert two new
titles. This amendment would correct the existing City Code section
and would permit our Environmental Specialist, John Anderson, to
issue citations to secure conformance to City ordinances and State
statutes which he is empowered to enforce.
Mr. Anderson will have completed six months of service as of
April 30th and we believe he has been thoroughly trained and instruct-
ed as regard to City policy and approved procedures for securing con-
formance. It is the policy of this department that a citation is
issued only as a last resort after our normal procedures of education,
consultation, and the use of written notices have failed to secure
compliance.
We are requesting that Section 1.8-1(a) of the Vernon City Code be
amended as follows: That Item "(4) The Deputy Director of Environ-
mental Hea1th.tJ be deleted and a new Item tJ(4) The Senior Environ-
mental Specialist.tJ be added, and a new Item "(5) The Environmental
Specia1ist.tJ be added and that the subsequent titles tJ(5) The Fire
r:ITY OF VERNON CALIFORNIA
IN REPLY REFER TO:
City Council
City of Vernon
Re: Amende of Sec.. 1..8-1(a)~ VCC
3/8/77
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Chief. (6) The Assistant Fire Chief. (7) The Fire Marshall." be re-
numbered as follows: "(6) The Fire Chief. (7) The Assistant Fire
Chief. (8) The Fire Marshall,,"
Taking action to amend the ordinance at this time would assure that
the amendments would be effective prior to May 1, 1977, at which
time we would hope that Mr. Anderson would be permitted to issue
citations.. His training is continuing and supervisory personnel are
working closely with him.. To date, we are very satisfied with his
performance and his ability to make decisions in the field and we
feel assured that he will be able to handle this additional responsi-
bility without any problems..
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
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'~espectfu1ly submitted,
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Louis S. Hauger, \,~
Director
Environmental Health
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