ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF THOUSAND OAKS AMENDING SECTION 1-13.03 OF
MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTION LIMITATIONS
The City Council of the City of Thousand Oaks does hereby ordain as follows:
Part 1
Section 1-13.03, subsections (a)(1)(2), (b)(2)(3), and (g) of the Thousand Oaks Municipal Code are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1-13.03. Contribution limitations.
(a) Limits on contributions by persons and committees. (1) No person or committee shall make to any candidate, including the controlled committee of such candidate, and no such candidate or such candidate’s controlled committee, shall solicit or accept any contribution that will cause the amount contributed by the contributor to the candidate or the candidate’s controlled committee to exceed Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100ths ($750.00) Dollars for any single election.
(2) Except for independent expenditure committees or other committees not controlled by the candidate, no person shall make to any committee, which supports or opposes any candidate or candidates for City Council, and no such committee shall accept from any such person a contribution or contributions totaling more than Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100ths ($750.00) Dollars for any single election.
(b) Restrictions on when contributions may be received. (2) No candidate or the controlled committee of such candidate, and no committee primarily formed to support or oppose any candidate or candidates for ATTACHMENT #1
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City Council, shall accept any contributions (including candidate’s personal funds) after the earlier of (i) ninety (90) days after the date of their candidate’s withdrawal as a candidate, defeat or date of the election; or (ii) the date on which outstanding bills or debts owed by the candidate or committee are paid in full. Contributions received during such ninety (90) day period shall be used only to pay outstanding bills or debts owed by the candidate or committee for that election, or to comply with the provisions of Government Code Section 84308.
(3) If, at the end of the period specified in Section 1-13.03(b)(2), there remains any unexpended balance in the campaign bank account of any such candidates or committees, such unexpended funds remaining in the account shall be either kept for the purpose of maintaining available funds to comply with the requirements under Government Code Section 84308, should an occurrence requiring such arise; or be disposed of by either returning the funds to contributors pro rata; turning such funds over to the General Fund of the City of Thousand Oaks; or donated to any bona fide charitable, educational, civic, religious, or similar tax exempt, nonprofit organization, where no substantial part of the proceeds will have a material financial effect on the former candidate or elected officer, any member of his or her immediate family, or his or her campaign treasurer. Under no circumstances shall such unexpended funds be redesignated or used for any future election other than the election for which the funds were contributed. (g) Local aggregate contribution limit. No person shall contribute more than the local aggregate contribution limit to all candidates for the City Council and their controlled committees. For the purpose of this subsection, the local aggregate contribution limit shall be calculated by multiplying Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100ths ($750.00) dollars by the number of members of the City Council to be elected at that election and adding Seven Hundred Fifty and no/100ths ($750.00) Dollars to the resulting amount.
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Part 2
(Uncodified)
Severability
If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this title; it being hereby expressly declared that this title, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof, would have been prepared, proposed,
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adopted, approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Part 3
(Uncodified)
Effective Date
This Ordinance shall take effect on the thirty-first (31st) day following its final passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this XXth day of XXXXX, 2023, by the following vote:
Ayes:
Noes:
Absent:
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Kevin McNamee, Mayor
City of Thousand Oaks, California
ATTEST/CERTIFY:
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Laura B. Maguire, City Clerk
Date Attested: ____________________
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Office of the City Attorney
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Tracy M. Noonan, City Attorney
APPROVED AS TO ADMINISTRATION:
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Andrew P. Powers, City Manager
Introduced: XXXX XX, 202X
Published: XXXX XX, 202X
Ordinance No.: XXXX-NS
The presence of electronic signature certifies that the foregoing is a true and correct copy as approved by the City of Thousand Oaks City Council on the date cited above.