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
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