Inglewood Municipal Code Art. 1 In General

Pursuant to the authority set forth in subdivision "Second" of Section 4 of Article III of the Charter of the City, the City Council does hereby approve and adopt as the corporate seal of the City, the following seal, with lettering, form, arrangement and designs all as set forth and shown thereon and therein, to wit: and the embossed or stamped impression of which appears as follows:

The City Clerk shall have the official custody of the official seal of the City.

The Administrative Officer shall designate the particular motor vehicles, or other vehicles or items of property belonging to the City on or in connection with which replicas of the official seal of the City shall be used; and when so designated the officers or employees having immediate charge or control of such vehicles or equipment so designated, shall obtain such replicas from the City Clerk and affix the same thereto and maintain the same thereon, until the further order of the Administrative Officer.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to display or place, either temporarily or permanently, the official seal of the City on any privately owned motor vehicle, or other privately owned vehicle, unless by express written permit first had and obtained from the City Council so to do. In the event any such permit is so granted by said Council, no person shall place or display such seal in any manner, or at any time contrary to or in violation of the provisions of such permit.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to make or use the seal of the City, or any cut, facsimile, or reproduction of said seal, or make or use any seal or any design which is an imitation of said seal, or of the design thereof, or which may be mistaken for said seal, or the design thereof, for any purpose other than for City purposes, or for the purposes of any board, officer, or department thereof.

The official bonds of the officers and employees of the City are hereby fixed in the following amounts:

(a) City Treasurer and each deputy: $200,000.

(b) Finance Director: $200,000.

(c) All of the other officers, employees and agents of the City shall be covered by a master official bond or other form of master bond as authorized and permitted under the provisions of Section 1481 of the Government Code in the amount of $50,000 for each individual covered.

(Ord. 2221 6-10-75; Ord. 03-19 10-14-03; Ord. 07-08 4-25-07)

As contemplated under the provisions of Article XI of the Charter of the City, each officer, employee or agent of the City whose office, position, employment or agency is hereinabove designated or referred to in the "Schedule of Official Bonds" hereinabove adopted, shall furnish to the City an official bond (in those cases where a separate and individual bond is required) in the penal sum or amount set opposite his or her respective office, position, employment or agency in said schedule.

As contemplated in Section 1501 of the Government Code and in Section XI of the Charter of the City, the condition of each such official bond shall be that the principal will well, truly and faithfully perform all such additional duties then required of him or her by law, and also all such additional duties as may be imposed on him or her by any existing law of the State or law enacted subsequently to the execution of such bond, and also that the principal will perform all official duties imposed upon or required of him or her by law or by ordinance of the City, or by the Charter of the City and that at the expiration of his or her term of office, he or she will surrender to his or her successor all money, securities, property, books, papers and documents that may come into his or her possession or be under his or her control as such principal.

Every such bond given the City shall be subject to approval by the Mayor as to sufficiency, and by the City Attorney as to form. All such bonds shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk, excepting the bond of the City Clerk, which shall be filed in the office of the City Treasurer.

The terms of all official bonds shall be such as may be authorized or permitted by law.

As provided in Section 32 of Article XXXVI of the Charter of the City, the premium or charge for all official bonds of all officers and employees of the City, required to give bonds either by said Charter or by general law, or by ordinance of the City, shall be paid by the City.

Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall give (or be included in, as the case may be) a bond corresponding in substance and form with the bond required hereunder of the officer, employee or agent replaced by him or her.

It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to take note of any changes in the incumbencies of any of the offices, positions, employments or agencies for which bonds are required and to see that the new incumbent of any such office, position, employment or agency furnishes the bond required.

The City Clerk is hereby authorized and instructed to obtain and keep on file in his office a book, entitled, "Record of Official Bonds" in which shall be recorded full, true and correct written or photostatic copies of all official bonds.

It shall be unlawful to remove from the vaults of the City, or places of deposit of the same, for the purpose of inspection or otherwise, any public document or record of the City, without the permission so to do first had and obtained from the officer or person charged with the custody of the said document or record.

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See § 6250—6260 Gov. Code re right to inspect.

In addition to any charges that may otherwise be provided by law, all City offices shall charge and collect for copies of documents those fees established by resolution of the City Council.

(Ord. 2147 8-14-73; Ord. 2300 5-23-78)

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See City Charter Art. XXXVI, § 19.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2-15 of this Code, neither the State nor any County, municipality, district or other political subdivision or any department thereof, nor any governmental agency nor any public officer, board or body acting in its official capacity shall be required to pay the fees hereinabove prescribed.

The provisions of Sections 2-15 and 2-16 of this Code are adopted for the sole purpose of establishing charges for records that are not, by law, confidential and nothing in those sections shall be construed to make any record, otherwise confidential, open to public examination or inspection nor shall any provision in said sections be construed to require the furnishing of any copy of any record otherwise confidential.

(Ord. 1654 5-15-62)