Ordinance No. 695ORDINANCE NO. 695
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ADDING SECTION 20 -3.1 TO THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
PROTECTING CANINES UTILIZED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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SECTION 1. Section 20 -3.1 hereby is added to the City Code of the City
of Cypress to read as follows:
Sec. 20 -3.1. Protection of Canines Utilized by the Police Department.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously tease,
taunt, torment, strike, kick, mutilate, disable, or otherwise injure, or
kill, or to unreasonably interfere or meddle with any canine while such
animal is being utilized by the City of Cypress Police Department, or
any officer or employee thereof, in the performance of any function
or duty of said Department, or of such officer or employee.
SECTION 2. Severability. 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 sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid
or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby 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 throughout the City.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cypress
held on the 27th day of September 1982, and finally adopted and ordered posted
at a regular meeting held on the 12th day of October 1982.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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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 12th day of October 1982; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Partin, Rowan, and Mullen
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Lacayo
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS