Ordinance No. 669ORDINANCE NO. 669
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ADDING SECTIONS 16 -8, 16 -9, 16 -10, AND 16 -10.1 TO THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS ESTABLISHING A TRAFFIC
COMMISSION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 16 -8 hereby is added to the Code of the City of
Cypress to read as follows:
Sec. 16 -8. Traffic Commission -- Established; Composition.
There is established hereby an advisory traffic commission consisting
of five members, to serve without compensation. The traffic commission
shall consist of the city traffic engineer, the chief of police, and
three persons appointed by the city council, who shall be residents of the
city not holding a position for which compensation is paid by the city.
The city traffic engineer and the chief of police each may send a repre-
sentative to act in his place on the commission, when deemed necessary.
The city manager or his representative shall be an ex- officio member of
the commission and shall act as chairman of the commission, but shall have
no vote.
SECTION 2. Section 16 -9 hereby is added to the Code of the City of
Cypress to read as follows:
Sec. 16 -9. Same -- Terms of Office.
The terms of office of members of the commission shall be as provided
for in Section 2 -2.22.
SECTION 3. Section 16 -10 hereby is added to the Code of the City of
Cypress to read as follows:
Sec. 16 -10. Same -- Duties.
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The traffic commission shall suggest the most practicable means for
coordinating the activities of all officers and agencies of this city having
authority with respect to the administration or enforcement of traffic
regulations; stimulate and assist in the preparation and publication of
traffic reports; receive complaints having to do with traffic matters;
and recommend to the city council and to the city traffic engineer and
.other city officials ways and means of improving traffic conditions and
the administration and enforcement of the traffic regulations.
SECTION 4. Section 16 -10.1 hereby is added to the Code of the City
of Cypress to read as follows:
Sec. 16 -10.1. Same -- Removal.
If a member of the advisory traffic commission shall be absent from
three (3) consecutive regular meetings of the commission without cause,
the office of such member shall be vacant and the term of such member ipso
facto terminated, and the city clerk shall immediately inform the city
council of such termination. An absence due to illness or unavoidable
absence from the city and written notice with explanation thereof to the
city clerk on or before the day of any regular meeting by the commission
shall be absence for cause.
SECTION 5. Severability.
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion of this ordinance, or the application hereof 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
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any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses,
phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SE(;TION 6. 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 27th day of October 1980, and finally adopted and ordered posted
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 10th day of November
1980.
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MAYOR OF THE C TY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE 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 10th day of November 1980; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Lacayo, Mullen and Evans
NOES: 2 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado and Rowan
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY CLERK (01-THE. CITY OF CYPRESS