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Effective 10/20/94
ORDINANCE NO. MC-911
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO ADDING SECTION
2.58.105 TO THE SAN BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
WILLFUL INTERRUPTIONS OF MEETINGS OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON
COUNCIL
THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2.58.105 is hereby added to the San
Bernardio Municipal Code to read as follows:
"$ 2.58.105. Understanding that the purpose of the
meetings of the Mayor and Common Council is to conduct the
people's business for the benefit of all the people, in the
event that any meeting of the Mayor and Common Council is
willfully interrupted by a person or by a group of persons so as
to render the orderly conduct of the meeting impossible, the
Mayor may proceed pursuant to Government Code S 54957.9 or any
applicable penal statute or ordinance. For the purposes of
these rules "willfully interrupt" includes, but is not limited
to, continuing to do any of the following after being warned by
the Mayor that continuing to do so will be a violation of law:
a. Addressing the Mayor and Common Council without first
being recognized.
b. Persisting in addressing a subject or subjects, other
than that before the Mayor and Common Council.
c. Repetitiously addressing the same subject.
d. Failing to relinquish the podium when directed to do
so.
e. From the audience, interrupting or attempting to
interrupt, a speaker, the Mayor, a Councilmember, or a staff
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August 5, 1994
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MC.-911
member or shouting or attempting to shout over a speaker, the
Mayor, a Councilmember or a staff member.
f. As a speaker, interrupting or attempting to interrupt
the Mayor, a Councilmember, or a staff member, or shouting over
or attempting to shout over the Mayor, a Councilmember, or a
staff member.
Nothing in this section or any rules of the Council shall
be construed to prohibit public criticism of the policies,
procedures, programs, or services of the City or of the acts or
omissions of the Mayor and Common Council.
It shall be unlawful to violate the provisions of this
Section.
If any subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Section 2.58.105 is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this Section. The Mayor and Common
Council hereby declare that it would have passed this section,
and each subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that anyone or more subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases had been declared invalid or
unconstitutional."
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MC:-9ll
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO ADDING SECTION
2.58.105 TO THE SAN BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO WILLFUL
INTERRUPTIONS OF MEETINGS OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
Bernardino at a regular
meeting thereof, held on the 19th
day of
September
, 1994, by the following vote, to wit:
Council Members: AYES NAYS ABSTAIN ABSENT
NEGRETE X
CURLIN X
HERNANDEZ X
OBERHELMAN X
DEVLIN X
POPE-LUDLAM X
MILLER X
CY,'--t--~L (2ttt-,I-!e__
Cit? Clerk
The foregoing Ordinance is hereby approved this 21st day
of S"ptp-",b.,r ,1994.
Approved as to form
and legal content:
JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
By:/Jn~~ /
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Tom Minor, Mayor
City of San Bernardino
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August 5. 1994