City ordinances governing employment and work practices of businesses and other entities within the City limits and of contractors, lessees and others that do business with the City are scattered in various Chapters of the Administrative Code and various Articles of the Police Code.

This ordinance establishes a new subdivision of the Municipal Code, the Labor and Employment Code, to consolidate and better organize such ordinances within the Municipal Code.

The Labor and Employment Code will serve as the new location for existing ordinances pertaining to labor and employment and for future ordinances most appropriately placed there because of their relationship to labor and employment.

As the City’s Municipal Code including the expansive Administrative and Police Codes grows lengthier and more complex over time, its organizational structure needs to be periodically updated, including by subdividing portions of the Municipal Code by subject matter.

This ordinance is enacted solely for the purpose of reorganizing the Municipal Code. It does not effect any change in the substance or meaning of any City ordinance or provision thereof.

The Board of Supervisors intends that this ordinance not be considered a 'reenactment' of the various provisions being transferred to avoid any court inferring a substantive legislative intent from reenacted provisions such as inferring legislative approval of past judicial or administrative interpretations of those provisions. The sole intent is to better organize the Municipal Code.