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Ord 1799 - Amending Chapter 1 of the Town Code by amending section 1-9 relating to written promise to appearORDINANCE NO: 1799 ✓ ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS AMENDING CHAPTER 1 OF THE TOWN CODE BY AMENDING SECTION 1 -9 RELATING TO WRITTEN PROMISE TO APPEAR THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN: SECTION I Section 1 -9 of Chapter 1 of the Town Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1 -9 Same Written Promise to Appear The arresting officer shall deliver one copy of a notice to appear given pursuant to Section 1 -8 to the arrested person, and the arrested person, in order to secure release, shall give his /her written promise so to appear in court by signing the duplicate notice, which shall be retained by the arresting officer. Thereupon the arresting officer shall release the person arrested from custody. The arresting officer shall, as soon as practicable, file the duplicate notice with the magistrate specified therein. If the arrested person refuses to give his /her written promise to appear, the arresting officer shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before a magistrate as prescribed by the Penal Code and Vehicle Code of the State of California. SECTION II This ordinance takes effect 30 days after it is adopted. Within 15 days after this ordinance is adopted the Town Clerk shall cause it to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the Town. This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos on October 2, 1989 and adopted by the following vote as an ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos at a meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos on October 16, 1989. AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS Eric Carlson, Thomas Robert L. Hamilton, Mayor Joanne Benjamin None None Brent N. Ventura J. Ferrito, SIGNED: C�11a MAY`056F THE TOWN OF LO GATOS ATTEST: CLERK OF THE TOWN OF O�S GATOS