Ordinance No. 6311
ORDINANCE NO. 631
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CYPRESS REPEALING ARTICLES IV, VII, VIII
AND IX OF CHAPTER 2 AND SECTIONS 16 -8 THROUGH
16 -10.1, INCLUSIVE, AND AMENDING SECTION 2 -49
OF THE CYPRESS CITY CODE RELATING TO VARIOUS
COMMISSIONS AND DESIGNATING ITSELF AS THE
PLANNING AGENCY FOR SAID CITY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Articles IV, VII, VIII and IX of Chapter 2
and Section 16 -8 through 16 -10.1, inclusive, of the Cypress
City Code hereby are repealed in their entirety.
SECTION 2. Section 2 -49 of the Cypress City Code hereby
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2 -49. Duties. The recreation and parks
commission shall advise the city council on
all matters subject to the jurisdiction of the
council pertaining to the acquisition, develop-
ment and maintenance of public parks and recre-
ational facilities as well as facilities and
programs relating to artistic and cultural
activities within the community. The commission
shall also review and advise the council regarding
the financing of and budgeting for such functions,
including but not limited to, the financing and
budgeting of any subsidiary district of the city.
The commission shall also advise the recreation
and parks director from time to time.
SECTION 3. The City Council hereby designates itself
as the planning agency for the City of Cypress pursuant to
the provisions of Government Code Section 65100.
SECTION 4. Wherever a provision of the Cypress City Code
or of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cypress refers to the
Planning Commission, the Industrial and Commerical Development
Commission, the Youth Commission and /or the Traffic Commission,
said reference shall be deemed and construed to be to the City
Council. Wherever a provision of the Cypress City Code or of
the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cypress refers to the Arts
and Cultural Commission, said reference shall be deemed and
construed to be to the Recreation and Parks Commission.
SECTION 5. It is the intention of the City Council that
the Recreation and Parks Commission and the Arts and Cultural
Commission be combined into one commission to be known as the
Recreation and Parks Commission. For the purposes of determining
the seven voting members of said Recreation and Parks Commission,
the individuals who served on the Arts and Cultural Commission
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immediately prior to the effective date of this ordinance hereby
are authorized and requested to select three of their members
to serve on said Recreation and Parks Commission and to notify the
City Council of the names of the members so selected. The
individuals who held office on the Recreation and Parks Com-
mission immediately prior to the effective date of this ordinance
hereby are authorized and requested to select four of their
members to serve on said Recreation and Parks Commission and
to notify the City Council of the names of said members.
The seven individuals so selected (or, in the absence of
such a selection, seven individuals to be designated by the
City Council) will constitute the initial membership of the
Recreation and Parks Commission. The terms of office of the
members so selected shall be deemed to have commenced as of
the date upon which they were first appointed to either the
Arts and Cultural Commission or the Recreation and Parks Com-
mission, except as otherwise provided by Section 1 of Ordinance
No. 547.
SECTION 6. Unless and until otherwise so provided by
resolution of this City Council the members of the Recreation
and Parks Commission shall serve without compensation.
SECTION 7. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance, or the application
thereof to any person or place, 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 portions of this ordinance or
its application to other persons or places. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and
each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases,
or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 8. The City Clerk hereby is authorized and directed
to certify as to the passage of this ordinance and to give notice
thereof by causing copies of this ordinance to be posted in three
public places within the City.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said
City held on the llth day of September 1978, and finally adopted
and ordered posted at a regular meeting of said Council held
on the 25th day of September 1978.
ATTEST:
CITY C i ."
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MAYOR OF
E CITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted
at a regular meeting of the said City Council held on the
25th day of September 1978; by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS: MacLain, Rowan and Hudson
NOES: 2 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Evans and Lacayo
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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CITY -CLERK
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THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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