ORDINANCE NO. 1802
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 2.58 TO THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE ADOPTION OF THE OFFICIAL CITY SEAL AND OFFICIAL CITY LOGO AND ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS WITH REGARD TO THEIR USE WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente utilizes an official seal, which is used to emboss official City documents and instruments to validate their authenticity and to indicate institutional sanction for official, legal and ceremonial purposes; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente also utilizes a City logo that shares the same image as the City seal, but is a graphic emblem used to identify documents, property, and programs that reflect official City business, ownership, or endorsement, and to also identify persons duly elected or appointed to a City position or office; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to formally adopt the City seal and City logo by ordinance and to establish regulations and restrictions relating to their use.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente, California, hereby ordains as follows:
SECTION 1: Chapter 2.58 (City Seal and Logo) is hereby added to the City of San Clemente Municipal Code to read as follows:
2.58.010. City Seal and Logo - Establishment.
The City hereby adopts an official seal and logo, the design and color of which are as set forth below:
2.58.020. Use of City Seal and City Logo.
The City seal and the City logo are the property of the City of San Clemente. Both share the same image but are used for different purposes. The seal is used to emboss official City documents and instruments to validate their authenticity and to indicate institutional sanction for official, legal and ceremonial purposes. The logo is a graphic emblem used to identify documents, property, and programs that reflect official City business, ownership, or endorsement, and to identify persons duly elected or appointed to a City position or office.
The City Clerk or his/her designee shall be the custodian of the official seal for the City.
The City Manager or his/her designee shall be the custodian of the official logo of the City.
The City Clerk or his/her designee, acting as the custodian of the official seal of the City, is authorized to use the City seal on any ordinance, resolution, honoraria, certificate, notarial jurat or acknowledgment, or other instrument necessary to authenticate official City documents or to indicate institutional sanction for official, legal and ceremonial purposes.
The City Manager or his/her designee, acting as the custodian of the official logo of the City, is authorized to determine the appropriate usage of the logo and to ensure that the logo is used only on documents, property, and programs that reflect official City business, ownership, or endorsement, and to identify persons duly elected or appointed to a City position or office. In deciding the manner in which the City's official logo may be utilized, the City Manager shall endeavor to protect the City's brand, reputation and credibility by preventing use of the logo in such a manner as to suggest City endorsement of events, political issues, products and other uses that are not City approved.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to make or use the City seal, the City logo, or any portion, facsimile or reproduction thereof, or make or use any design, symbol, emblem, insignia or similar device that is an imitation of said City seal or City logo, or that may be mistaken therefor, that is designed, intended or likely to confuse, deceive or mislead the public, for private or commercial purposes, or for any purpose other than for the official business of the City without the express written consent of the City Clerk or City Manager or their designees under the authority granted by the City Council.
2.58.030. Violation—Penalty.
Violations of Section 2.58.020 of the Municipal Code shall be subject to the arrest and citation procedure set forth in Chapter 1.12 and criminal and administrative fines pursuant to Chapters 1.16 and 1.20.
SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance, or any part thereof, is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not offset the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases are declared invalid.
SECTION 3: This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of its passage. Before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its passage, this Ordinance shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of San Clemente.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this _____day of _________________, ________.
ATTEST:
_______________________________ ___________________________ City Clerk of the City of Rick Loeffler, Mayor of the City of San Clemente, California San Clemente, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1802 having been regularly introduced at the meeting of _______________________, was again introduced, the reading in full thereof unanimously waived, and duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the _____day of _____________, _______, and said ordinance was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of ______________________, ________. __________________________
CITY CLERK of the City of
San Clemente, California
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Elizabeth A. Mitchell, CITY ATTORNEY
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