A. The City Manager or designee shall implement procedures necessary to implement and enforce the requirements of this chapter into all contracts into which the City has entered with business entities or contractors. These procedures shall ensure that no business engages in discrimination based on national origin, ethnicity, race or any other classification deemed suspect by the City or any agency or court.

B. The City shall suspend a contract with any business entity or contractor that the United States Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security has found to have been in violation of 8 U.S.C. Section 1324a.

C. The City may suspend a contract with any business entity or contractor that fails to correct a violation of 8 U.S.C. Section 1324a within 30 business days after notification of the violation by the United States Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security.

D. The City shall not suspend the contract of any business entity or contractor if, prior to the date of the violation, the business entity or contractor had verified the work authorization of the alleged unlawful workers using the E-Verify program and demonstrated the same to the City.

E. Every contract entered into by the City shall provide that the suspension for noncompliance with this chapter shall terminate one business day after a legal representative of the business entity or contractor submits, at a City office designated by the City Manager, a declaration signed under penalty of perjury of the laws of the state, in the form provided by the City, stating that the violation of federal law has ended. [Ord. 492 § 1, 2009.]