Irwindale Municipal Code Ch. 2.40 Public Meeting Decorum

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* For statutory provisions on keeping order at public meetings, see Gov. Code § 38638.

Where used in this chapter, the descriptive phrase "council chambers" includes any place or locale where a duly authorized regular, adjourned, special meeting, or study session or other public hearing of the city council, planning commission, or parks and recreation committee is being held within the city.

(Ord. 95 § 1, 1960).

Any person in the audience who uses loud, boisterous or profane language at any duly authorized meeting in the council chambers, or any language tending to bring the members of that meeting, or any city employee who participates therein, into contempt; or any person in the audience who persistently interrupts or disrupts the proceedings of such a meeting, or refuses to maintain silence and take a seat when so ordered by the presiding officer of the meeting, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor under this chapter.

(Ord. 95 § 2, 1960).

The chief of police (or in his absence, his designated assistant) shall be the ex officio sergeant-at-arms of the council, commission or committee in session. He shall carry out all orders and instructions given to him by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum in the council chambers, and it shall be his duty to eject any person from the council chambers, or to place that person under arrest, or both, when so ordered by the presiding officer.

(Ord. 95 § 4, 1960).

Any person deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under this chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 95 § 3, 1960).