ORDINANCE 36ORDIi1ANCE NO. 36
AN ORDIN.UTCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO THE UM,1BERI!VG OF
BUILDINGS AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUNISH -
MENT OF THOSE WHO VIOLATE ITS PROVISIONS.
The Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo
do ordain as follows:
SECTION I. All entrances from the public streets
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, to buildings or
structures within said city, shall be numbered as herein-
after vrovided. The number of each and every such entrance
shall be placed upon, or immediately above, the door or
gate closing said entrance. Each figure of said number
shall be at least two inches in height and of correspond-
ing width. The appropriate number of any entrance to any
building or structure shall be placed thereon as herein
provided, within five days after the receipt by the owner,
occupant, lessee, tenant, or sub - tenant of such building,
of a notice from the City Clerk of said city, of
the number or numbers designated for such building or struc-
ture, and all numbers other than the numbers provided for
in this Ordinance for sail respective entrances, shall
be removed from every building by the owners, occupants,
lessees, tenants, or sub - tenants thereof, within five days
from the service of the said notice designating the appro-
priate numbers to be placed thereon.
It shall be the duty of the City O Prl to
designate the respective numbers for buildings or struc-
tures fronting on streets heretofore laid out, or hereafter
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to be laid out or extended, and which may at this time,
or at any future time, be included within the present
or future boundaries of said City of El Segundo.
SECTION II. The following shall be the re-
spective starting points or dividing lines on buildings
or structures fronting on streets heretofore laid out,
The street now Down as
or hereafter to be laid out or extended, namely:^ Ballona
Avenue Ashall be the starting point or dividing line for
the street now known as
all numbers from North to South-, and Main Street shall be
the dividing line of all numbers from East to 'Wiest.
Numbers shall begin at the above named starting points
or dividing lines, and continue to the terminii of the
respective streets.
SECTION III. The numbers on the Northerly and
Westerly sides of the streets shall be odd numbers, and
the numbers on the Southerly and Easterly sides of the
streets shall be even numbers.
SECTION IV. A block, within the meaning of
this Ordinance, shall be that portion of any street be-
tween two cross streets, or between a cross street and an
abutting street, or between two abutting streets. In
cases of abutting streets, the prolonged center line of
the abutting streets shall be the dividing line of the
blocks, provided however, that all blocks exceeding one
thousand feet in length shall be considered as two blocks,
the dividing line being placed midway between the two ends
of said blocks.
SECTION V. One hundred numbers,or as many there-
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of as may be necessary, shall be allotted to each block.
No. 100 shall be the first number used at the respec-
tive beginning points on the sides of the streets, which
are to contain the even numbers, and No. 101 for the
sides which are to contain the odd numbers. At the be-
ginning of the second block from the starting point, the
first numbers shall be 200 and 201 respectively, and so
continue throughout the system.
Twenty feet frontage shall be allowed for each
number to be calculated from end of the block at which the
number begins. On all streets, the numbering shall be
done as if the streets extended to the dividing line of
the city as defined in Section II of this Ordinance.
SECTION VI. The City Clerk can certify to the
passage of this Ordinance, and shall cause the same to
be published once in the "E1 Segundo Herald ", a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated within said city, and which is hereby designa-
ted for that purpose.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force thirty days after the final passage thereof.
Passed and approved this 29th day of May
1918.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk.
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President of the Board of rus-
tees of the City of E1 Segundo.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY Or EL SEGUNDO )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the
City of E1 Segundo, do hereby certify that the fore-
going Ordinance, being Ordinance No. 36 of
said city, was passed by the Board of Trustees there-
of, signed by the President of said Board, and attest-
ed by the City Clerk, all on the 29th day of
1,1ay , 1918, and that the same was passed
by the following vote:
AYES: Trustees Bryson,, Coward. Ward. and Rueger.
NOES: Trustees hone.
ABSENT: Trustees 1:artin.
City Clerk of the City of
El Segundo.
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