1993-08-23 Budget Workshop and Regular Meeting

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• • ORDINANCE NO. 93- 1923 PAGE 2 The City Manager may apply this nepotism prohibition in other organizational relationships when failure to do so would be detrimental to the City. In addition, the City Manager may, during emergencies or unforeseen circumstances, temporarily waive and suspend the provisions of this Section. No person related, within the second degree by affinity, or within the third degree by consanguinity, to the Mayor or any Councilperson or to the City Manager shall be employed or appointed to any office, position, or clerkship of the City. This prohibition shall not apply, however, to any person who shall have been employed for two (2) years or more by the City at the time of the election or appointment of the officer to whom. he is related. (City Charter Article VIII, Section 8.02(c)." Section 2. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this ordinance or amendment of the City of La Porte Personnel Policy Manual hereby adopted, shall for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance, or said Personnel Policy Manual, and it is hereby declared to be the intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid. Section 3. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that a sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of this meeting of the City Council was posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of the City for the time required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the Open Meetings Law, Article 6252-17, Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated; and that this meeting has been open to