HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 2020-2484 Repealing Chapter 10.32 Impersonting a Member of the Opposite Sex REPEAL ORDINANCE 1137ORDINANCE NO. 2020 — 2484
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
REPEALING CHAPTER 10.32 OF TITLE 10 OF THE NATIONAL CITY MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING IMPERSONATING A MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITE SEX
WHEREAS, on September 19, 2020, City Staff received a referral regarding Chapter
10.32 of Title 10 the Municipal Code entitled, Impersonating Member of the Opposite Sex
which was adopted by Ordinance 1137 in 1966 and has since become unconstitutional and
invalid under state law; and
WHEREAS, the City of National City is a general law City and any City code that
becomes invalid under state law is thereafter void and unenforceable as a City code.
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of National City does hereby ordain
that Chapter 10.32 of Title 10 of the City of National City Municipal Code entitled
Impersonating Member of the Opposite Sex is repealed in its entirety.
If any portion of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any
reason held to be invalid, unenforceable or unconstitutional, by a court of competent
jurisdiction, that portion shall be deemed severable, and such invalidity, unenforceability or
unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining portions of the
Ordinance, or its application to any other person or circumstance. The City Council of the City
of National City hereby declares that it would have adopted each section, sentence, clause
or phrase of this Ordinance, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections,
sentences, clauses or phrases of the Ordinance be declared invalid, unenforceable or
unconstitutional.
This ordinance shall take effect Thirty (30) days after its passage, and before the expiration
of Fifteen (15) days after its passage a summary or the ordinance in its entirety shall be
published, with the names of the members voting for and against the same, once in a local
newspaper of general circulation in the City of National City, State of California.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 20th day of Octo• , 202
Alejand .:o elo-'olis, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Michael R. Dalla, Clerk
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Angil! •rrisones, Cit
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of National City, California, on
October 20, 2020, by the following vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmembers Cano, Morrison, Quintero, Rios, Sotelo-Solis.
Nays: None.
Absent: None.
Abstain: None.
AUTHENTICATED BY:
By:
ALEJANDRA SOTELO-SOLIS
Mayor of the City of National City, California
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City Clerk of the C y ofjlVational City, California
Deputy
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was not finally adopted until seven
calendar days had elapsed between the day of its introduction and the day of its final
passage, to wit, on October 6, 2020, and on October 20, 2020.
I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT said Ordinance was read in full prior to its final passage or
that the reading of said Ordinance in full was dispensed with by a vote of not less than
a majority of the members elected to the Council and that there was available for the
consideration of each member of the Council and the public prior to the day of its
passage a written or printed copy of said Ordinance.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
ORDINANCE NO. 2020-2484 of the City Council of the City of National City, passed
and adopted by the Council of said City on October 20, 2020.
City Clerk of the City of National City, California
By:
Deputy