Ordinance No. 608230
ORDINANCE NO. 608
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS PLACING A LIMITA-
TION ON THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS IN ANY SINGLE MUNICIPAL
ELECTION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: Intent and Purpose
It is the intent of. the City Council of the City of Cypress
in enacting this ordinance to place reasonable limits upon campaign
contributions in municipal elections to assure that the amount of
money contributed by any person does not materially influence the
outcome of any election. The City Council finds, in this regard,
that municipal elections constitute municipal affairs, and that
the reasonable regulation thereof as herein set forth is within
the jurisdiction of the charter city of the City of Cypress.
SECTION 2: Campaign Contributions - Limitations
(a) No person shall make to or solicit or accept from any
other person, any contribution, gift, subscription, loan, advance,
deposit, pledge, promise of money, or any other thing of value in
excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100) in aid or support of the
election or defeat of any single candidate in any single election
for any municipal office during the calendar year prior to or
subsequent to the year in which the election is held.
(b) No person shall make to or solicit or accept from any
other person, any contribution, gift, subscription, loan, advance,
deposit, pledge, promise of money, or any other thing of value in
excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100) in aid or support of the
passage or defeat of any municipal ballot measure or proposition
in any single election during the calendar year prior to or
subsequent to the year in which the election is held.
(c) "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm,
partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business, trust, company,
corporation, association, committee, or any other organization or
group of persons acting in concert. Provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall prohibit a campaign committee acting merely
as a conduit for making, soliciting or accepting contributions from
or to other persons.
(d) Nothing in this ordinance shall be interpreted to
prohibit a candidate from contributing to his /her own election in
amounts greater than the amounts stated herein.
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SECTION 3: Relation to Political Reform Act of 1974
This ordinance is intended to be a supplement to and not in
conflict with the Political Reform Act of 1974. Unless otherwise
defined in this ordinance, words and phrases shall have the same
meaning herein as when they are used in Title 9 of the California
Government Code, in which the Political Reform Act of 1974 is
codified.
SECTION 4: Violation
Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine
not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500) or imprisonment in the
County Jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment.
SECTION 5: Finding of Urgency
This ordinance is adopted as an urgency ordinance pursuant to
Government Code S36934 and shall take effect immediately upon
adoption in order to preserve the public health, safety, and
welfare of the citizens and community of the City of Cypress; in
that campaigning for the office of council member for the March,
1978 election must be carried on in a manner which is most apt to
guarantee the election of future council members who will not be
materially influenced by any single campaign donor.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress
at a regular meeting held on the 28th day of November 1977.
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Cypress
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF CYPRESS
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Mayor of ,th
City of Cypress
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, HEREBY DO
CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Cypress at a regular meeting held on the
28th day of November 1977, by the following roll call
vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCILMEN: Lacayo, MacLain, Sonju and Hudson
NOES: 1 COUNCILMEN: Evans
ABSENT: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
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City Clerk of lie City of Cypress