CC RESOLUTION 3520RESOLUTION NO. 3520
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, IN SUPPORT OF THE
• POSTING OF SIGNS WHEREVER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
ARE SOLD OR DISPENSED TO THE PUBLIC, WARNING
OF THE DANGERS OF CONSUMING ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY.
WHEREAS, recent research indicates alcohol consumption
during pregnancy may cause irreversible adverse effects on the
development of a fetus, resulting in birth defects, including
mental retardation, facial abnormalities, and other defects
involving heart and bone structure; and
WHEREAS, the public should be informed that consumption of
alcohol during pregnancy may be harmful to a fetus and result in
birth defects; and
WHEREAS, these adverse effects are known individually as
Fetal Alcohol Effects and collectively as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, on
behalf of its citizens, expresses its strongest recommendation to
every owner operator, manager, or person having control of
premises offering for sale or dispensing for consideration to the
public, alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, to clearly
and conspicuously post or cause to be posted on the premises a
sign containing a warning in letters not less than one inch (1 ")
tall reading substantially as follows:
PREGNANCY AND ALCOHOL DO NOT MIX. DRINKING
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, INCLUDING BEER AND WINE,
DURING PREGNANCY CAN CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
• adoption of this resolution; shall enter the same in the book of
original resolutions of said city; and shall make a minute of the
passage and adoption thereof in the record of the proceedings of
the City Council of said city, in the minutes of the meeting at
which the same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED t is 1st da of March, 1988.
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Ronald L. Hart City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of members of
the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 3520 was duly passed and adopted
by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of
said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of the said Council held on the 1st day of
March, 1988 and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Anderson, Jacobson, Schuldt,
and West
NOES: Councilmembers None
ABSENT: Mayor Siadek
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this 11th day
of March, 1988
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City Clerk of the
City of E1 Segundo, California
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