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Resolution No. 5831 .. 1 RESOLUTION NO. 5831 2 3 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON, CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE FILING OF REBUTTAL ARGUMENTS FOR CITY MEASURES SUBMITTED AT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 4 5 WHEREAS, sections 4015.5 and 5014.5 of the Elections 6 Code of the State of California authorizes the City Council, by 7 majority vote, to adopt provisions to provide for the filing of 8 rebuttal arguments for city measures submitted at municipal 9 elections. 10 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF 11 THE CITY OF VERNON AS FOLLOWS: 12 SECTION 1: The City Council of the City of Vernon 13 hereby finds and determines that the recitals contained 14 hereinabove are true and correct. 15 SECTION 2: Pursuant to sections 4015.5 and 5014.5 of 16 the Elections Code of the State of California, when the clerk 17 has selected the arguments for and against the measure which 18 will be printed and distributed to the voters, the clerk shall 19 send copies of the argument in favor of the measure to the 20 authors of the argument against, and copies of the argument 21 against to the authors of the argument in favor. The authors 22 may prepare and submit rebuttal arguments not exceeding 250 23 words. The rebuttal arguments shall be filed with the City 24 Clerk not more than 10 days after the final date for filing 25 direct arguments. Rebuttal arguments shall be printed in the 26 same manner as the direct arguments. Each rebuttal argument 27 shall immediately follow the direct argument which it seeks to 28 rebut. 9 10 11 12 13 1 .t.," ..< 2 SECTION 3: All previous resolutions providing for the filing of rebuttal arguments for city measures are repealed. 3 4 SECTION 4 : The provisions of section 2 shall apply only to the election to be held on December 11, 1990, and shall 5 6 then be repealed. 7 SECTION 5: The City Clerk of the city of Vernon shall 8 certify to the passage of this resolution and thereupon and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect. 14 15 16 A7 BRUCE V. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 APPROVED .AND ADOPTED this 25th day of September, 1990. -~' -2- , -_of 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss 2 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 3 I, BRUCE V. MALKENHORST, City Clerk of the City of 4 Vernon, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution, being 5 Resolution No. 5831, was duly adopted by the City Council of the 6 City of Vernon at an adjourned regular meeting of the City 7 Council duly held on Tuesday, Se?tember 25. 1990. and thereafter 8 duly signed by the Mayor of the City of Vernon. 9 10 4 12 (SEAL) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -3-