Ord 2024-138ORDINANCE NO. 138
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT ADOPTING A
REVISED OPERATIONS CODE
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District has
previously codified its ordinances into an Operations Code; and
WHEREAS, the staff has reviewed the Operations Code and determined to
recommend that the provisions on discrimination and abusive conduct be updated, and
the provisions providing for a contract District Engineer be eliminated, that the
provisions on conditional offers of employment be updated, and a new provision on
capital assets be added: and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors does also want to make other minor
housekeeping corrections at this time; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors ad hoc committee has finished reviewing the
Operations Code and a comprehensive revision to the Operations Code is therefore
warranted at this time.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District
does hereby ORDAIN as follows:
Section 1. That the attached "Operations Code" is adopted as the District's
Operations Code and supersedes previous versions.
Section 2. Should any part, clause or section of this Ordinance be declared by
any Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this
Ordinance shall nevertheless be and remain in full force and effect and the Board of
Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Orange County, California, hereby
declares that each and every section, clause, provision or part of this Ordinance would
have been adopted and made a part of this Ordinance without the adoption of any
portion thereof and that the invalidity of any part or provision hereof shall not in any way
affect the validity or enforcement of the remaining provisions of this Ordinance that may
stand on their own.
Section 3. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 6490 and 6491. 3, the
District Clerk shall cause this ordinance or a summary thereof to be published in a
newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the District according to law.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 25th day of March 2024.
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Secretary
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE Ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA
1, NOELANI MIDDENWAY, Clerk of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, hereby
certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 138 was duly and regularly passed
and adopted by said Board of Directors at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 25th day
of March 2024 by the following votes:
AYES: Ooten, Schafer, Scheafer, Perry, Eckles
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Costa
Mesa Sanitary District, this 25th day of March 2024.