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ORDINANCE 84- 5
(Election Campaign Reform, Urgency)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) :
SECTION I. "Division 530 - Election Campaign Ordinance" , Article
530-2 . 6 is added to the County Ordinance Code to read:
ARTICLE 530-2 . 6 CANDIDATE' S FAIR CAMPAIGN PLEDGE
530-2 . 602 Pledge. The County Clerk when he issues the
Declaration of Candidacy, shall also issue to each candidate for
county office, a form for a voluntary campaign pledge which shall
read as follows :
Fair Campaign Pledge
1 . I shall conduct my campaign for County Office openly
and fairly.
2 . I shall discuss the issues and participate in fair
debate with respect to my views and qualifications.
3. I shall not engage in, or permit, defamatory attacks on
the character of my opponents; nor shall I engage in
unwarranted invasions of personal privacy unrelated
to campaign issues.
4 . I shall not at any time use or permit the use of any
campaign material or advertisement which misrepresents ,
distorts , or otherwise falsifies the facts regarding any
candidate or the candidate' s position on issues.
5. I shall clearly identify myself, or my campaign commit-
tee (s) , as the sender of all of my .campaign mailings..
6. I shall personally approve in writing all of my campaign
material, advertisements, or mailings, prior to their use.
7. I shall publicly repudiate support derived from any
individual or group whose activities would violate this
Fair Campaign pledge.
8 . I shall file all campaign statements as required by the
California Political Reform Act and the Contra Costa
County Election Campaign Ordinance, on time and with full
disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures.
9. I shall not duplicate or use any lists of contributors
filed by any other candidates for the purpose of compiling
my own mailing lists without the permission of the other
candidate.
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10 . I, the undersigned candidate for election to a County
Office in the County of Contra Costa, hereby voluntarily
endorse, subscribe to, and solemnly pledge myself to
conduct my campaign in accordance with the above
principles and practices.
Date Signature
Please print name, office sought, and date of election
(Ord. 84- 5 . )
530-2. 604 Voluntary Pledge. Each candidate may choose to
sign or not sign the campaign pledge.
530-2. 606. Filing. Any candidate may file the pledge with
his Declaration for Candidacy.
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530-2. 608 . Clerk' s Duties. At the close of the nomination
period for County Office, the County Clerk shall issue a general
press release stating the name of each candidate for County Office
who has, and who has not, subscribed to the Pledge of Fair Campaign
Practices.
(Ord. 84- 5 . )
SECTION II . URGENCY.
This ordinance is for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety within the meaning of Government Code
§25123 and Elections Code Section 3751. Passage as an urgency
measure will allow the provisions to apply to the next election.
SECTION III. SEVERABILITY. This Board declares that, if the
urgency nature of this ordinance is invalidated, it intends
SECTION I to remain valid and effective and that it would have
passed SECTION I even without the urgency provisions . Therefore,
the Board directs that this ordinance be treated and published,
effective and operative, as both an urgency and a non-urgency
ordinance as provided in SECTION IV.
SECTION IV. EFFECTIVE and OPERATIVE DATES. As an urgency ordinance,
this ordinance becomes effective and operative immediately on intro-
duction and passage. As a non-urgency ordinance, it becomes
effective 30 days after passage (on second reading) , and within 15
days of passage shall be published once with the names of super
visors voting for and against it in the CONTRA COSTA TIMES
a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED on February 7, 1984 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors - Powers, Fanden, Schroder, P'cpeak, Torlakson.
NOES: Supervisors - ,alone.
ABSENT: Supervisors - None.
ATTEST: J.R.Olsson, County Clerk
& ex officio Clerk of the Board ��'✓1 I� `
Chairman of the Board
B Deputy
Diana M. Herman [SEAL] 295
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