Ordinance - 2150ORDINANCE NO. 2150
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 2-47 AND 2-48 PERTAINING TO PROCEDURES IN
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2-47 of the West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2-47. Addressing the Council:
Pursuant to the Government Code, any person wishing to address the City
Council on any matter on the agenda or on any other matter within their jurisdiction,
excluding any matter set for a public hearing, may do so upon first securing the
recognition of the presiding officer during the time designated as "Oral Communications"
on the agenda. The City Council may not act on any item unless it is listed on the
agenda.
SECTION 2. Section 2-48 of the West Covina Municipal code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2-48 Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be
sworn:
(a) Each person addressing the council shall step up to the rostrum, shall give his
or her name and city of residence in an audible tone of voice for the record
and unless further time is granted by the council, shall limit his or her address
to five (5) minutes.
(b) The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications.
(c) All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and . not to any
member thereof. No person, other than the council and the person having the
floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through
a member of the council, without the permission of the presiding officer. No
question shall be asked of a Councilmember except through the presiding
officer.
(d) The presiding officer may require any person to be sworn as a witness before
addressing the council on any subject. Any such person who, having taken an
oath that he or she will testify truthfully, willfully and contrary to such oath
states as true any material matter which he knows to be false may be held to
answer criminally and subject to the penalty prescribed for perjury by the
provisions of the Penal Code of the state.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published as required by law.
ATTEST:
PASSED AND APPROVED on this 201s day of June 2006.
Mayor StJerfert
Ordinance No.2150
June 20, 2006
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I, LAURIE CARRICO, CITY CLERK of the City of West Covina, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 6ch day of June 2006. That thereafter said Ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 20`h day of June
2006, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
Hernandez, Sanderson, Touhey, Herf
None
ABSENT: Lane
ABSTAIN: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney AmAd M. Alvarez-Glasman
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