CC SR 20240416 F - Municipal Code Recodification
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: 04/16/2024
AGENDA REPORT AGENDA HEADING: Consent Calendar
AGENDA TITLE:
Consideration and possible action to adopt an ordinance recodifying the Rancho Palos
Verdes Municipal Code (RPVMC).
RECOMMENDED COUNCIL ACTION:
(1) Adopt Ordinance No. 677, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES ENACTING A NEW CODE FOR THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES, CALIFORNIA; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN
ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF
AMENDING SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN SUCH CODE AND THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
FISCAL IMPACT: Adopting the attached ordinance enacting a new updated RPVMC is
estimated to cost $19,750 which is budgeted in FY2023-24.
Amount Budgeted: $24,900
Additional Appropriation: N/A
Account Number(s): 101-400-1311-6102
(General Fund–City Clerk-Publication) VR
ORIGINATED BY: Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk
REVIEWED BY: John Fox, Assistant City Attorney
APPROVED BY: Ara Mihranian, AICP, City Manager
ATTACHED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS:
A. Draft Ordinance No. 677 (page A-1)
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION:
On March 19, 2024, Ordinance No. 677 was introduced by the City Council. This
Ordinance recodifies the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code. This evening, Ordinance
No. 677 is presented for its second reading and adoption. This Ordinance will go into
effect on May 3, 2024.
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ALTERNATIVES:
In addition to Staff recommendation, the following alternative actions is available for the
City Council’s consideration:
1. Direct Staff to revise Ordinance No. 677 for re-introduction and/or second reading
at a future meeting.
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ORDINANCE NO. 677
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES ENACTING A NEW CODE FOR THE CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA; PROVIDING
FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT
INCLUDED THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF
AMENDING SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN SUCH
CODE AND THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, in September 1978, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2, which
enacted the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code ; and
WHEREAS, in February 1982, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 146, which
recodified the original Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code;
WHEREAS, in order to ensure the current Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code
is in compliance with all current State law and all legislation, the City periodically conducts
an evaluation of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, to allow the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code to better assist
residents, developers and the business community in their review and interpretation of
the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code’s regulations,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Code entitled "Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code," published
by MuniCode, consisting of Titles 1 through 17, each inclusive, is adopted.
Section 2. All ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before
December 5, 2023, and not included in the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code or
recognized and continued in force by reference therein, are repealed.
Section 3. The repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not be construed to
revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance
that is repealed by this ordinance.
Section 4. Additions or amendments to the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code
when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the city to make the same a part
of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code shall be deemed to be incorporated in the
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Ordinance No.677
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Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code, so that reference to the Rancho Palos Verdes
Municipal Code includes the additions and amendments.
Section 5. Ordinances adopted after December 5, 2023, that amend or refer to
ordinances that have been codified in the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code shall be
construed as if they amend or refer to like provisions of the Code.
Section 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall go into effect at 12:01 AM on
the 31st day after its passage.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council
of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on this 16th day of April 2024.
John Cruikshank, Mayor
ATTEST:
Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )ss
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 677 was introduced by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
thereof held on March 19, 2024, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of
said City at a regular meeting thereof held on April 16, 2024, and that the same was
passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
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City Clerk
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