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ORDINANCE NO. 1128
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD AMENDING SECTIONS 24-59 and24-60
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD PERTAINING
TO THE PERSONNEL SYSTEM
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 24-59 and 24-60 of the Code of the City of Lynwood
hereby are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 24-59. Disciplinary Actions - Right of appointing authority of
removal, demotion, etc., subject only to appeal.
Persons in whom is vested appointing authority shall have the right of
removal, demotion, reduction in compensation and suspension of employees,
subject only to the employee's right of appeal as provided by Sections
24-62 to 24-66. Predisciplinary safeguards to be accorded employees shall
be prescribed in the Personnel Rules and Regulations.
Sec. 24-60. Disciplinary Actions - Appointing authority required to file
reasons for action with employee and personnel office.
The appointing authority, who suspends without pay, demotes, reduces in
compensation or removes from office or employment any employee, must
provide the affected employee and the Personnel Officer with a written
statement specifying the disciplinary action and the reasons therefore.
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sen-
tence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof
to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional
by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its applica-
tion to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions,
or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or uncon-
stitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to
the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in
the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on
the 16th day of June 1981, and finally ordered published at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 7th day of JULY 1981.
AYES: COUNCILMEN: GREEN, i10RRIS, ROWE, THOMpSON, BYORK.
NOES: COUNCILi1ENr NONE.
ABSENT: COUNCILIdFN: NONE. n ~~~
J D. BYORK, MAYOR
ATTEST: ity of Lynwood
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6APFEY, CITY CLERK ~~>~~
City of Lynwood
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I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City,
do hereby certify that the above is a "true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 1128 adopted by the City Council of
the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on the
date and by t;he vote therein stated.
Dated this 9th da,y cf ___JULY , 19 81 ,
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Deputy City Clerk, City of` Lynwood
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