CC RESOLUTION 4309RESOLUTION NO. 4309
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO TO PARTICIPATE
IN THE SAFE HAVEN PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of El Segundo as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds as follows:
A. The State Legislature has enacted Health and Safety Code § 1255.7
which allows any person having lawful custody of a minor child 72 hours
old or younger to surrender physical custody of the child to an employee
at a location designated by the board of supervisors; and
B. The City of El Segundo Fire Department is desirous of having its fire
stations so designated; and
C. Such designation is for the benefit of children and the community
because it will provide a safe haven to newborns who are 72 hours old or
younger.
SECTION 2: The fire stations of the El Segundo Fire Department may be designated
by Los Angeles County as locations which may accept newborns that are 72 hours old
or younger from a person who has lawful custody of the child.
SECTION 3: The City Manager or the City Manager's designee is authorized to
request that the Board of Supervisors for Los Angeles County designate the fire
stations of the City of El Segundo as locations which may accept newborns that are 72
hours old or younger from a person who has lawful custody of the child.
SECTION 4: The City Manager or the City Manager's designee is authorized to
execute any documents which are necessary to effectuate this designation and which
are consistent with this Resolution, all of which are subject to approval by the City
Attorney.
SECTION 5: The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution; record
this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions; and make a minute of the
adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the minutes of this
meeting.
SECTION 6. This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and will
remain effective until superseded by subsequent resolution or ordinance.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of June , 2003.
Mike Gordon, Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council of the City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No. _4309 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved
and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of said Council held on the 3rd day of June, 2003, and the same was so
passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, Gaines, McDowell, Wernick
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST:
Cindy Mortesen,
City Clerk
APPROVED
Mark D. Hen
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Karl H. Berg
Assistant ' y Attorney