HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 2582 - Shasta County District Attorney ORDINANCE NO. 2582
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDDING AMENDING
TITLE 2 (ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL), CHAPTER
2.12 (CITY ATTORNEY) BY AMENDING SECTION 2.12.020
(DUTIES) PROVIDING CLARIFICATION THAT THE SHASTA
COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS AUTHORITY TO
PROSECUTE VIOLATIONS OF THE REDDING MUNICIPAL
CODE
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF REDDING AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This Ordinance shall have retroactive effect and application.
Section 2. Title 2 (Administration and Personnel), Chapter 2.12 (City
Attorney), Section 2.12.020 is amended to read as follows:
Section 2.12.020—Duties.
A. It is the duty of the city attorney to advise the officers and authorities of the city in
all legal matters pertaining to the business of the city; to prosecute violations of
the Redding Municipal Code or other ordinances or noncompliance therewith; to
represent the city in suits in which it may be a party, or may be in anyway
interested; and to perform such other or additional duties as may be hereinafter
provided by law. The city attorney shall have the power to employ, discipline, or
remove any attorneys and other personnel assigned as subordinate to the city
attorney.
B. Notwithstanding subdivision (A) of this section, the Shasta County District
Attorney shall have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute all violations of the
Redding Municipal Code and to file civil suit as may be necessary to enforce
compliance with the Redding Municipal Code.
Section 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or
circumstance, is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or
unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining sections,
subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this Ordinance, or
its application to any person or circumstance. The City Council of the City of Redding
hereby declares that it would have adopted each section, subsection subdivision
paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
other sections, subsections subdivisions paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases hereof
be declared invalid or unenforceable.
Section 4. The City of Redding finds that this Ordinance is not a "project"
according to the definition set forth in the California Environmental Quality Act
("CEQA"), and, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity
will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15061(b)(3) (there is no possibility the activity in question may
have a significant effect on the environment), the adoption of this ordinance is
therefore not subject to the provisions requiring environmental review.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and read
by the City Council of the City of Redding at a regular meeting on the 16th day of
January, 2018, and was duly read and adopted at a regular meeting on the 6th day of
February, 2018, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: McElvain,Sullivan,Weaver,Winter, & Schreder
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
KR TEN SC DER, Mayor
ATTEST: FORM APPROVED:
PAMELA MIZE, Cit "Clerk BARRY E. DeWAL , City Attorney