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CI BERNARDINO 300 NORTH"D"STREET,SAN BERNARDINO,CALIFORNIA 92418
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JAMES F. PENMAN
CITY ATTORNEY February 1 , 1988
(714)384-5355
Opinion No. 88-7
10 .38
JAMES F . PENMAN
City Attorney
Re: Urgency Provisions of Mobile Home Rent
Control Ordinance
ISSUE
The question has been raised whether or not the urgency
provisions attached to the mobile home rent control ordinance
are sufficient .
ANALYSIS
Section 7 attached to the proposed mobile home rent control
ordinance outlines a number of findings reportedly to support
the urgency adoption of the mobile home rent control ordinance.
Such urgency provisions allow the adoption and immediate effect
of the ordinance without the usual five-day period in between
readings and the delay in the effective date (see San
Bernardino Charter Section 31) . The question stated is whether
or not these findings are sufficient to support the urgency
enactment . There is no provision in the Charter to outline
what findings are required , only the statement that it must be
an urgency ordinance . General law, however , provides in
Government Code Section 36937 'Chat an ordinance takes effect
immediately if it is
"for the immediate preservation of the public
peace , health or safety, containing a declaration
of the facts constituting urgency, and is passed by
four-fifths vote of the City Council . "
PRUE N FIX&ESS
James F . Penman
February 1 , 1988
Page Two
The courts have concluded that urgency clauses designed to
render the ordinance effective immediately must state relevant
and persuasive facts necessitating legislative action (see Parr
v. Municipal Court (1971) 3 Cal . 3d 861 , cert . den . ; 92 Supreme
Court 46 , 404 U.S . 869 , 30 L.Ed .2d 113) . Although such
determinations of the legislative body are persuasive and
entitled to great deference they are not conclusive (Los
Angeles County y. City Council of the City of Lawndale (1962)
202 Cal .App.2d 20) . However , in the current situation it
appears that the urgency determinations have factual support
cited therein and certainly relate to the public health and
safety in regards to the availability and affordability of
homes for a great segment of the community. Such being the
case it would appear that a court would uphold the
determination that this was a legitimate urgency enactment .
CONCLUSION
It is my conclusion that the urgency determinations attached to
the proposed mobile home rent control ordinance would be
supported by a court .
Respectfully submitted ,
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DENNIS A. BARLOW
Sr . Asst . City Attorney
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