El Centro Municipal Code Art. 6 Interpretation

The language contained in this Charter is intended to be permissive rather than exclusive or limiting and shall be liberally and broadly construed in favor of the exercise by the City of its power to govern with respect to any matter which is a municipal affair.

It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Charter are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Charter shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Charter.

(Ord. No. 18-06, § 2, 9-4-18)

AUTHENTICATION AND CERTIFICATION

Authenticated and certified to be a true copy by Mayor Benjamin James Solomon, III and City Clerk L. Diane Caldwell.

Date of Municipal Election: November 3, 2009.

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Pursuant to Government Code Section 34460.1, L. Diane Caldwell, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, do hereby certify that the foregoing Charter of the City of El Centro was approved by the voters of the City at an election duly called and held on November 3, 2009 in the City of El Centro pursuant to Section 15301, et seq. of the California Elections Code.

ATTEST:

By ___________ L. Diane Caldwell, City Clerk

Date December 1, 2009