Santa Ana Municipal Code Art. XV Legal Provisions

Amendments to this charter shall be proposed and submitted to the electors of the City in the manner provided by the Constitution of the State of California.

The violation of any provision of this charter shall be deemed a misdemeanor and be punishable upon conviction in the same manner as provided in the Penal Code of the State of California as the same now reads or as hereafter amended.

(Ord. No. NS-2074, § 9, 8-6-90, approved at election 11-6-90)

Unless the provisions or the context otherwise requires, as used in this charter:

(a) Whenever the term "City" occurs in this charter, it means the City of Santa Ana, and whenever the term office, department, agency, board, commission, officer, or employee, as the case may be, is used, it means an office, department, agency, board, commission, officer, or employee of the City of Santa Ana;

(b) "Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive;

(c) "County" is the County of Orange;

(d) "State" is the State of California.

If any section or part of section of this charter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this charter, or the context in which such section or part of section so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of section to which such holding will directly apply, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances.