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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-1570REL:jd 2/20/81 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1570 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTION 1-18 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO AUTHORIZE SPECIFIED FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RECREATION AND PARKS DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL TO ISSUE CITATIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF SPECIFIED SECTIONS OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE ORDAIN AS Municipal THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Section 1-18 of the Santa Ana Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 1-18. Violations; authority to issue citations. The following designated public officers and employees have the duty to enforce provisions of this Code as hereinafter specified, and are auth- orized to arrest persons without a warrant whenever they have reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a violation of said provisions in their presence. In any case in which a person is arrested pursuant to this section and the person arrested does not demand to be taken before a magistrate, the officer or employee making the arrest shall prepare a writ- ten notice to appear and release the person on his promise to appear as prescribed by Chapter 5C, Title III, of Part 2 of the Penal Code of the State of California (commencing with Section 853.6). The public officers and employees so empowered are: (1) The director of public works, the assistant director of public works, the construction engineer and all sanitation inspectors of the City of Santa Ana, all of whom are empowered as specified hereinabove to enforce the pro- visions of Sections 16-1, through 16-4, 16-33, 16-34, and 16-48 of Chapter 16 of this Code. (2) The director of planning, assistant director of planning, senior planner, and the land use investigators of the City of Santa Ana, all of whom are empowered as specified hereinabove to enforce the provisions of Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code except those provisions relating to building construction. (3) The director of building safety, the senior building inspectors, and the building in- spectors of the City of Santa Ana, all of whom are empowered as specified hereinabove to enforce the provisions of Chapter 8 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. ORDINANCE NS-1570 PAGE TWO (4) The fire chief, the fire department division chiefs, the fire department battalion chiefs and those fire department personnel assigned to the fire safety division, all of whom are empowered as specified hereinbefore to en- force the provisions of the Uniform Fire Code as adopted and amended by Section 14-1 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. (5) The security guards employed within the De- partment of Recreation and Parks, all of whom are empowered as specified hereinabove to en- force the provisions of Sections 31-2 and 31-3 of Chapter 31of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irre- spective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 3: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash de- posit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or de- posited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obliga- tions thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. ADOPTED this 16th day of March , 1981, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Bricken, Griset, Luxembourger, Serrato NOES: COUNCILMEN: Markel, Ward, Yamam0t0 ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: N0ne ATTEST: OR JAMES E. WARD' APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATTORNEY ~-'