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ORDI NANCE NO. /V
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
REGULATING THE USE OF FIRE CRACKERS,
TORPEDOES, FIREWORKS AND DISPLAY EXPLOSIVES
OF ALL KINDS WITHIN SAID CITY.
The Board of Trustess of the City of El Segundo do
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons to discharge any fire cracker, torpedo, fire-
works or explosive of any kind for the purpose of celebration,
noise or display within the City of El Segundo, except during
the period between the hours of seven o'clock p.m, on the
3rd day of July, and the hour of twelve o'clock, midnight, on
the succeeding day in each year.
SECTION 2. Any person violating any of the provi-
slons of this Ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in
the jail of Los Angeles County, for a period not exceeding
thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the dis-
cretion of the Court.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance is an Ordinance for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety,
and the facts constituting its urgency are declared to be as
follows: There is a great deal of highly inflammable material
in the City of E1 Segundo, and a great deal of highly inflammable
fuel matter, and it is important that all unnecessary explo-
sions and fire displays be eliminated from said City on account
of the danger of a disastrous fire, for which reason this
Ordinance shall go into full force and effect immediately upon
its final passage.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this Ordinance, and shall cause the same to be pub-
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lished once in the "El Segundo Via", a weekly newspaper
printed, published and circulated within said City of El
Segundo, and hereby designated for that purpose.
Passed and approved this day of
1917.
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President of the Board of TrnEoees
of the City of E1 Segundo.
ATTEST:
City Clerk.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
County of Los Angeles, ) SS.
City of E1 Segundo. )
I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of
El Segundo do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance,
being Ordinance No. 14-0, , was passed by the Board of
Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo, signed by the President
of said Board and attested by the City Clerk all at a regul-
ar meeting of said Board held on the ?;7 day of ,
1917, and that the same was passed by the Poll ng vote:
BYES: Trustees
NOES: Trustees,
ABSENT: Trusteei
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City Clerk of a City of
E1 Segundo.
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