ORDINANCE NO. 11-24
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ORANGE ADDING
CHAPTER 2.13 TO THE ORANGE
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO A
CANDIDATE FILING FEE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:
The subject Ordinance is not subject to the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because it is not a "project" as defined in Guidelines Section 15378.
SECTION II:
New Chapter 2.13 (Candidate Filing Fee) is hereby added to Title 2 (Administration and Personnel) of the Orange Municipal Code to read as follows:
Chapter 2.13
CANDIDATE FILING FEE
2.13.010 Established Amount
2.13.020 Paid to City Clerk.
2.13.010 – Established Amount
Pursuant to California Elections Code § 10228, the City establishes a filing fee of Twenty-Five Dollars and No Cents ($25.00) to process a candidate’s nomination papers or supplemental nomination papers. This nonrefundable filing fee is to be paid with each filing of nomination papers or supplemental nominations papers.
2.13.020 – Paid to City Clerk
The filing fee shall be paid to the City Clerk by each candidate for an elective office each time the candidate’s nomination papers or supplemental nomination papers are filed.
SECTION III:
If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, 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, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one (or more) section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase had been declared invalid or unconstitutional.
2 SECTION IV:
The City Clerk is hereby directed to certify the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published as required by law. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final passage.
ADOPTED this ______ day of May, 2024.
Daniel R. Slater, Mayor, City of Orange
ATTEST:
Pamela Coleman, City Clerk, City of Orange
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mike Vigliotta, City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF ORANGE )
I, PAMELA COLEMAN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the ______ day of May, 2024, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the _____ day of _______, 2024, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS:
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Pamela Coleman, City Clerk, City of Orange