Ordinance No. 548ORDINANCE NO. 548
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
AMENDING SECTIONS 16 -8, 16 -10 AND 16 -10.1 OF '_dE CODE
OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS CHANGING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE
ADVISORY TRAFFIC COMMITTEE TO TRAFFIC COMMISSION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 16 -8 of the Code of the City of Cypress is
hereby amended 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 representative 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 -10 of the Code of the Cypress is hereby
amended as follows:
Sec. 16 -10. Same -- Duties.
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 3. Section 16 -10.1 of the Code of the City of Cypress
is hereby amended 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 4. Severability.
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
or portion of this ordinance, or the application hereof
or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or uncons
by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction,
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
or its application to other persons or places. The City
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and
subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or por
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions,
cation thereof to any person or place, be declared inval
stitutional.
clause, phrase,
to any person
titutiona1
such decision
of this ordinance
Council hereby
each section,
tion thereof,
subsections,
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress at a
regular meeting held on the 24th day of March, 1975.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
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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 24th day of March, 1975; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCILMEN: Harvey, Kanel, Lacayo, Sonju and Frankiewich
NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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