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SECTION 2. A suspension of the filing, processing and issuance of permits for the erection or construction of new off-premise signs, except for purely ideological signs, is imposed for a period of 180 days from the effective date of this ordinance. SECTION 3. During the 180 day suspension period, the City staff is directed to work with the sign industry and the citizens and businesses of the City to develop and present to the City Council proposed revisions to the City's current ordinances on off-premise signs, in time for consideration and adoption by the City Council within the 180 day period. SECTION 4. A. All applications for permits for off-premise signs that are filed with the City's Planning and Development Services Department before the effective date of this ordinance shall be processed by the City staff in accordance with the regulations and ordinances in effect prior to this ordinance taking effect. An application will not be deemed to be filed unless and until it has been determined by the Planning and Development Department staff to contain or be accompanied by all required application information, and all applicable fees have been paid. B. An off-premise sign erected during the suspension period as a purely ideological sign must comply with all regulations for off-premise signs, and cannot thereafter be changed to advertise any commercial business, product, service or event unless it is otherwise allowed at that location under applicable City ordinances. SECTION 5. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this ordinance will continue in force if they can be given effect without the invalid portion. SECTION 6. All ordinances and resolution or parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with this ordinance are repealed to the extent and for the period of time needed to give this ordinance effect. SECTION 7. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance commits a misdemeanor and is subject to the penalty provided in Section 1.015 of the San Marcos City Code upon conviction. SECTION 8. The importance of this Ordinance creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity, and the provisions of the Charter requiring that ordinances be presented at three separate meetings, and that ordinances do not take effect until ten days after the date of its final passage are suspended, and this Ordinance will take effect upon publication of notice of its adoption in a newspaper of general circulation within the City. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED 28,2002. Approved: K. Womack City Clerk Mark B. Taylor City Attorney PUBLISHED IN THE SAN MARCOS DAILY RECORD ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2002.