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Home My WebLink AboutORD 01ORDINANCE NO. 1. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY ORDINANCE CODE. 4 I The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California. DOES HEREBY ORDAIN es follows: 6 $ 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 JO it tit SECTION 1. CONTINUANCE, ENFORCEMENT OF COUNTY UKUINANLt ANU SUI'tKStUUKt. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 34328.5 of the Government Code of the State of California. all ordinances of the County of Riverside, heretofore applicable to the unincorporated area now comprising the City of Palm Desert. California and encompassed within the territorial boundaries of said city, shall remain In full force and effect as ordinances of the City of Palm Desert for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date of this ordinance or until the City Council of the City of Palm Desert enacts ordinances superseding said County ordinances, whichever shall first in time occur. No ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City of Palm Desert enacted within one hundred twenty (120) days after the effective date hereof shall be deemed to supersede any County ordinance unless the City ordinance specifically refers thereto and states an intention to supersede it. SECTION 3. ENFORCEMENT. Enforcement of the continuing County ordinances within the City of Palm Desert, as provided for herein, shalt be by the City except Insofar as services of enforcement shall be furnished in accord with Section 34333 of the Government Code of the State of California, that is, all pre-existing services previously furnished to the area now incorporated shall be furnished for the remainder of the current fiscal year or until the City Council requests discontinuance of the services, whichever first occurs. Any reference in said County Ordinance to Board of Supervisors shall be to the City Council and: Planning Commission of Riverside County and shall be to the Planning Commission of the City of Palm Desert. SECTION 4. URGENCY AND PUBLICATION. Being incorporated this date, the City of Palm Desert is required by the aforementioned Section 34328.5 of the Government Code of the State of California to immediately, following Its organization and prior to the performing any other official act, adopt this ordinance. The City Council has not yet adopted any legislation with respect to the foregoing matters which affect the public peace, health and safety of the residents of this City. This ordinance is therefore required for the Immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the residents of the City of Palm Desert. By reason of the foregoing, this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption and shall be posted as prescribed by law. PASSED AND ADOPTED this2 th day of tlovenl,er 1973. by the following vote: 1 1 1 1 • • SECTION S. AUDIT METHOD OF APPROVAL. = Each claim or demand shall be presented to the City •Clerk.. • who shall cause the same to be stamped showing the date of filing, and he II shall examine and verify it es to its validity, accuracy, certification, and the availability of funds for payment thereof. He shall prepare for approval, 4 without signing, a warrant upon the City Treasurer representing such demand. which warrant shall specify In whose favor it is drawn, the purpose a for which It is drawn, and the amount thereof, together with the name of the fund and of the bank out of which It Is payable when executed and approved. 6 The City Clerk shell note such demands and warrants which he determines should be approved or allowed upon a register book of demands and warrants, ti setting forth the number of the demand and warrant. in whose favor the warrant is drawn, and the amount thereof, together with dates and the name of a the fund and of the bank out of which the warrant is payable, and shall certify thereon by his signature that the demands are correct as to computations and 9 are payable out of the funds stated in the amounts set opposite their respective names. 10 11 SECTION o. PROCEDURE ON DISALLOWANCE. The City Clerk shall prepare a separate written list of all claims or demands which he fails to approve and which he believes should 13 be rejected in whole or in part, together with his reasons therefor, and such list shall be submitted separately, together with the register book of 14 demands and warrants, to the Finance Committee of the City Council, who shall audit the same, and If found authorized, correct, and legal, shall is signify by their signatures upon the register book of demands and warrants, those payments which are approved or disapproved by the Finance Committee. 16 The Finance Committee shall then cause all demands approved or disapproved by the Finance Committee. together with the register book of demands and 17 warrants, including separate sheets of disapproved demands.:" any. together with the supporting documents, to be returned to the City Clerk, 1a who shall present the same to the City Council for audit and allowance or disallowance. 19 90 SECTION 7. AUTHORIZATION OF DEMANDS BY COUNCIL. 21 All payments presented in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be audited by the City Council, and, If found 22 authorized, correct, and legal, shall be allowed by the City Council and ordered paid. Any claim or demand may be allowed in whole or in part or 23 rejected in whole or in part by the City Council. If any claim or demand is rejected In whoe or part, the fact of such rejection shall be plainly endorsed 24 upon the claim or demand by the City Clerk. 23 SECTION a. FORMS OF DEMAND AND WARRANTS; METHOD OF URAWNIMJ WAKNAN 1 b; MANUAL bu ,NAI uKt rtcljuu cLi 36 27 The City Council shall by resolution prescribe a method of drawing warrants or checks In payment of demands allowed or order paid 2s as aforesaid; provided, however, that such method shall require the manual signature of at least one municipal officer who has executed an 29 official bond to the City, covering the faithful performance by such officer of the duties of his office, as provided by Section 3651q of the 90 Government Code. 11 SECTION 9. BOND PAYMENTS. is Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as preventing -2- s 1 1 t 4 i T • f to it 12 13 14 is 16 11 is 19 20 n b 2t 35 A 28 W 30 fi n .•ok • the payment by the City Treasurer of the bonded Indebtedness of the City and the interest coupons thereof. or payment on account of street improvement bonds and coupons in accordance with the laws authorising the iswence of bonds. SECTION 10. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance Is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or otherwise Invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that It would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, subdivision. sentence. clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. SECTION 11. URGENCY, EFFECTIVE DATE, AND PUBLICATION. This Ordinance Is hereby designed to be an Ordinance for the immediate preservation of public peace and safety, and the facts constituting its urgency are specified as follows: The City of Palm Desert was Incorporated on November 26, 1973; claims of demands have been or will soon be made on the City for materials, supplies. and services required by the City; It Is immediately essential to the public interest, welfare, and the affairs of the City of Palm Desert that an orderly procedure for the presentation and payment or other disposition of claims and demands be established. This Ordinance shall take immediate effect after the date of Its adoption, and the same shall be posted in three public places within the City Limits of the City of Palm Desert, as prescribed in Resolution No. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 26tday of November 1973, by the following vote: AYES: Mayor Clark, Councilwoman Benson, Councilmen Aston, Brush, McPherson NOES: None ABSENT: None ATTEST: a m eser , .t� lifornla -3- ,a