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ORDINANCE NO. 1044 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA PROHIBITINO CEETAIN <br />ATTt~PTS TO INFLUENCEPOLICE OFFICERS IN THE PERFORMANCE <br /> OF THEIR DUTIES. <br /> <br />THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF sANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br /> <br /> SECTION l: It shall be unlawful for any person to request, attempt to <br />influence, or solicit any police officer or the Chief of Police of the City of Santa Ana <br />to withdraw, drop, dismiss, cancel or discontinue any prosecution for violation of any <br />Statute of the State of California, or any ordinance of the said City of Santa Ana, <br />against any person who has signed a promise in writing to appear in court upon a written <br />notice to so appear, issued by a Police Officer of said City. This section shall not <br />be deemed to apply to any person who has made such promise to appear, who may be <br />discussing such prosecution with the officer or officers issuing such notice, nor to any <br />member of the State Bar of California, representing such person so promising, as an <br />attorney at law. <br /> <br /> SECTION 2: Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be <br />Euilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding <br />Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding five (5) days, oI <br />by both such fine and imprisonment. <br /> <br /> SECTION 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance <br /> <br />and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the Orange <br />County Reporter, a daily newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the City of <br />Santa Ana, and hereby designated for that purpose, and thirty (30) days thereafter shall <br />t.ake effect and be in force. <br /> <br /> PASSED A~$ ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Aha at its regular <br />meeting held on the 19th day of April, 1937. <br /> <br />Fred C. Rowland <br /> ~.Iayor <br /> <br />ATTEST: <br /> <br />E. L. Vegely <br /> City Clerk. (SEAL). <br /> <br />STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) <br />COUNTY OF ORANGE )SS <br />CITY OF S~ITA ANA ) <br /> <br /> I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of <br />Santa Ana and ex-officio Cle~[ of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, that the <br />foregoing ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its regular <br />meeting, held on the 15th day of March, 1937, and was again read to said Council at its <br />regular meeting held on the 19th day of April, 1937, and was at said meeting regularly <br />passed and adopted by the said Council by the following vote, to-wit: <br /> <br />AYES, TRUSTEES: Plurmmer W. Bruns, <br />NOES, TRUSTEES: None <br />ABSENT, TRUSTEES: Ernest ti. Layton <br /> <br />Joseph P. <br /> <br />Smith, VI.ti. Penn, Fred C. Rowlan <br /> <br />E. L. Vegely <br />City Clerk <br /> <br />(SEAL). <br /> <br />69 <br /> <br /> <br />