The City Council of the City of Santa Monica finds and declares:
(a)
Tropical
rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of fifty thousand acres
per day across the world, and the use of imported tropical timber
by the United States leads to a substantial loss of tropical rainforests.
Scientific evidence has shown that destruction of tropical rainforests
is partially responsible for the Greenhouse Effect, or global warming.
(b)
The
logging of tropical rainforests frequently results in the displacement
of indigenous rainforest peoples and often results in the death of
the people and of their knowledge and culture.
(c)
Tropical
rainforests are home to half of the world's species. The loss of tropical
rainforests results in the extinction of millions of species.
(d)
A
public informational campaign directed at educating the public about
the dangers of rainforest destruction coupled with a ban on the purchase
use of tropical timber by the City of Santa Monica can reduce the
demand for tropical timber, thus slowing the destruction of tropical
rainforests, and protecting the health and welfare of the citizens
of Santa Monica.
(Prior code § 2550; added
by Ord. No. 1555CCS, adopted 10/23/90)
The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings
when used in this Chapter:
Tropical rainforests are those forested areas bordering the
equatorial region where rainfall is not less than eighty inches yearly.
Included within this designation are the forested areas found in Central
America, the Amazon River basin, central and western Africa, southeast
Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea.
Tropical hardwoods are woods classified as hardwoods that
are grown in tropical rainforests. Hardwoods are scientifically classified
as angiosperm and include, but are not limited to, the following:
|
Scientific Name
|
Common Name
|
|---|---|
|
Vouacapoua americana
|
Acapu
|
|
Pericopsis elata
|
Afrormosia
|
|
Shorea almon
|
Almon
|
|
Peltogyne spp.
|
Amaranth
|
|
Guibourtia ehie
|
Amazaque
|
|
Aningeria spp.
|
Aningeria
|
|
Dipterocarpus grandiflorus
|
Apitong
|
|
Ochrama lagopus
|
Balsa
|
|
Virola spp.
|
Banak
|
|
Anisoptera thurifera
|
Bella Rosa
|
|
Guibourtia arnoldiana
|
Benge
|
|
Detarium Senegalese
|
Boire
|
|
Guibourtia demeusii
|
Bubinga
|
|
Prioria copaifera
|
Cativo
|
|
Antiaris africana
|
Chenchen
|
|
Dalbergia retusa
|
Concobolo
|
|
Cordia spp.
|
Cordia
|
|
Diospyros spp.
|
Ebony
|
|
Aucoumea klaineanal
|
Gabon
|
|
Chlorophora excelsa
|
Iroki
|
|
Acacia koa
|
Koa
|
|
Pterygota macrocarpa
|
Eoto
|
|
Shorea negrosensis
|
Red Lauan
|
|
Pentacme contorta
|
White Lauan
|
|
Shorea polysperma
|
Tanguile
|
|
Terminalia superba
|
Limba
|
|
Aniba duckei
|
Louro
|
|
Khaya ivorensis
|
Africa Mahogany
|
|
Swietenia macrophylla
|
Amer. Mahogany
|
|
Tieghemella heckelii
|
Makore
|
|
Distemonanthus benthamianus
|
Movingui
|
|
Pterocarpus soyauxii
|
African Paduak
|
|
Pterocarpus angolensis
|
Angola Paduak
|
|
Aspidosperma spp.
|
Peroba
|
|
Peltogyne spp.
|
Purpleheart
|
|
Gonystylus spp.
|
Ramin
|
|
Dalbergia spp.
|
Rosewood
|
|
Natandrophragma cylindricum
|
Sapele
|
|
Shorea philippinensis
|
Sonora
|
|
Tectona grandis
|
Teak
|
|
Lovoa trichilioides
|
Tigerwood
|
|
Milletia laurentii
|
Wenge
|
|
Microberlinia brazzavillensis
|
Zebrawood
|
(Prior code § 2551; added
by Ord. No. 1555CCS, adopted 10/23/90)
(a)
The
City of Santa Monica shall not purchase or use any tropical hardwood
product, nor shall any City-sponsored event utilize such products.
(b)
All
contracts between the City and any supplier of wood products entered
into after the effective date of this Chapter shall include provisions
that the supplier will supply no tropical wood, that the supplier
will state on each invoice for wood products that the package is not
tropical wood, and that failure to comply with such a provision constitutes
a material breach of the contract.
(c)
The
City Manager is authorized to promulgate regulations and to take any
and all other actions reasonable and necessary to enforce this Section.
(Prior code § 2552; added
by Ord. No. 1555CCS, adopted 10/23/90)
Violations of this Chapter shall be punished as follows:
(a)
Any
person who violates this Chapter shall be guilty of an infraction
subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than
one hundred fifty dollars.
(b)
Any
person who violates this Chapter after having received written notice
from the City to comply with this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 2554; added
by Ord. No. 1555CCS, adopted 10/23/90)
