ORDINANCE 90729
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ORDINANCE NO. 90
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE
COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND
RUBBISH AND THE ACCUMULATION OF MANURE
WITHIN SAID CITY; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
The Board of Trustees of the City of $1 Beg -undo
do ordain as follows:
SECTION ONE: For the purposes of this ordi-
nance the word "garbage" is defined to be all animal and
vegetable refuse from kitchens and household waste that
shall have been prepared for, or intended to be used as
food, or shall have resulted from the preparation of
food.
For the purposes of this ordinance "combustible
rubbish" is defined to be paper, pasteboard, carpets,
rags, boxes, clothing, books and similar articles that
will readily incinerate through contact with flames of
ordinary temperature.,
For the purposes of this ordinance 'semi -
combustible rubbish" is defined to be boots, shoes, out
shrubbery, tree and shrubbery trimmings, dead flowers,
out grase, feathers, yard scrapings (except as herein-
after provided) , and similar articles that will incinerate
though not readily through contact with flames of ordinary
temperature.
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For the purposes of this ordinance the term
°non- combustible rabbish" is defined to be ashes,
bottles , broken crockery, glass, tin cans and other
metallic substances, and like or similar articles or
substances that will not incinerate.
SECTION TWO: It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to remove or convey, or to
cause or permit to be removed or conveyed, any garbage,
upon or along any public street, alley or other public
place within the City of El Segundo, California, without
• first applying for and receiving a permit therefor in
--' writing from the Health Officer of said city in the
manner hereinafter designated; provided, however, that
the provisions of this section shall not apply to any
person, firm or corporation with whom the City of El
Segundo has entered into, or may hereafter enter into,
a contract for the removal, disposal and conveyance of
such garbage, or to any employee of such contractor
during such time as such contract shall be in force.
SECTION THREE: Any person, firm or corpora-
tion desiring to obtain a permit to remove or convey
garbage, upon or along any public street, alley or other
public place shall file an application therefor in
writing with the Health Officer 01 said city, which
application shall be signed by the applicant, and shall
contain his address. In such application the appli-
cant shall agree to conform in all respects to and obey
all ordinances of the City of El Segundo now in force,
or that may hereafter be adopted, and all regulations
MW of the Health Officer and Board of Trustees of the
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said city relative to the removal, disposal and
conveyance of garbage.
SECTION FOUR: It shall be the duty of every
owner, manager or person in possession, charge or
control of any boarding house, restaurant, hotel,
apartment or eating house, and of every person occupy -
ing a dwelling, or flat, within the said City of El
Segundo, to provide, or cause to be provided, and at
all times to keep, or to cause to be kept, as in this
ordinance prescribed, portable vessels, tanks or
receptacles for holding garbage. Each such vessel,
tank or receptacle shall be constructed of metal,
shall be water tight, shall be so constructed as to
contain not less than three nor more than sixteen
gallons, and shall be provided with a handle or
handles and with a tight fitting metal cover. Such
cover shall not be removed except when necessary to
clean the same, or to place garbage therein, or to
take garbage therefrom.
Until such time as the Board of Trustees shall
by ordinance otherwise determine, the city garbage
collector of the City of El Segundo, or the person,
firm or.corporation having a contract with said city
for garbage removal therein, shall on Tuesday, Thurs-
day and Saturday of each and every week commence the
collection of garbage within the said city placed
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in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance,
and shall diligently prosecute the work of such collec-
tion (Sundays and holidays excepted) until the same
shall be fully completed within the said city. All
such work of collection shall be prosecuted between
the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. of each day
required for such collection.
During the hours fixed for the collections
of garbage in the City of E1 Segundo, each such
vessel, tank or receptacle containing any garbage
shall be placed on the curb in front of the premises,
shall be easily accessible to the garbage collector
when called for, and shall be immediately removed as
soon as emptied; provided, however, that where there
are public alleys open to travel in the rear of any
premises affected by this ordinance, then and in that
event such vessel, tank or receptacle shall be placed
upon the rear of said premises so that the same may be
easily accessible to the garbage collector from said
alley when called for.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
or to cause or permit to be placed in any such vessel,
tank or receptacle, any substance other than garbage.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than
the owner, or person acting for the owner, or an
officer or employee of said city, or any employee of
the person, firm or corporation, holding contract
with the City of El Segundo for the collection, removal
and disposal of garbage, to interfere in any manner
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contents thereof, or to remove any such vessel, tank
or receptacle from the location where the same was
placed by the owner thereof, or to remove the con-
tents of any such vessel, tank or receptacle.
Until such time as the Board of Trustees shall
by ordinance otherwise determine the rubbish collector
of said city, or the person, firm or corporation
having a contract with said city for the collection of
rubbish therein, shall commence the collection of
non - combustible rubbish within the said city on the
first and third Fridays of each and every month here-
after, and shall diligently prosecute the work of such
collection (Sundays and holidays excepted) until the
same shall be fully completed within the said city.
All such work of collection shall be prosecuted be-
tween the hours of 7:3C a.m. and 6.00 p.m. of each
day required for such collection.
SECTION FIVE: During the hours fixed for
the collection of non - combustible rubbish in the City
of El Segundo, such non- oombustible rubbish shall be
placed in adequate wood or metal containers in the same
manner as hereinabove provided for the placing of
garbage containers. Said non - combustible rubbish
_ containers shall have a capacity of not less than five
gallons nor more than thirty gallons.
Until such time as the Board of Trustees shall
by ordinance otherwise determine the rubbish collector
of said city, or the person, firm or corporation having
a contract with said city for the collection of rubbish
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therein, shall with reasonable promptness remove any
and all combustible and semi - combustible rubbish
placed as hereinafter provided when requested so to
do, either directly or through the office of the
City Clerk, by the outer or person in charge of any
premises within the said city.
Any owner or person in charge of any premises
within the said city of E1 Segundo desiring to have
any such combustible or semi- combustible rubbish
removed, shall so place the same upon the said pre-
mises that the same shall be readily accessible to
such rubbish collector, and arranged in such manner as
to facilitate the loading of the same on to the col-
lection wagon or track when called for; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed as in any manner requiring such rubbish
collector to make special trips to any premises for
the collection of any such combustible or semi -
combustible rubbish in quantities smaller than may
be reasonably retained in a vessel or receptacle
having a capacity of rime cubic feet.
SECTION SIX: It shall-be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to deposit, or to cause
or permit to be deposited, any garbage, combustible
rubbish or non - combustible rubbish, or any refuse of
any kind whatsoever, upon or in any public street,
alley, or other public place, or upon any premises
in the said city, except as in this ordinance pro-
vided.
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Jon- combustible rubbish may be deposited upon
any low ground after the person, firm or corporation
proposing so to deposit the same, shall have obtained
a permit therefor in writing from the owner of the
premises upon which it is proposed to deposit such
non - oombustible rubbish, and also a permit in writing
from the Board of Trustees of said city, and provided
further that combustible rubbish, and semi - oombustible
rubbish, may be deposited and burned upon private
property after the person, firm or corporation pro-
posing so to deposit and burn the same shall have
obtained a permit therefor in writing from the owner
of the premises upon which it is pm posed to deposit
and burn such combustible and semi - combustible rubbish,
and also a permit in writing from the Board of Trustees
of said city. Such permits for burning combustible
and semi - combustible rubbish shall not be required,
however, in any case where such rubbish is deposited
and burned upon premises owned or occupied by the
person so depositing and burning such rubbish, and
provided further that it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation depositing any eolnbustible
rubbish, or semi - combustible rubbish, as herein
permitted, to fail, refuse or neglect to burn such
rubbish immediately after so depositing the same.
Any permit granted pursuant to the provisions of this
section may be revoked by the Board of Trustees at any
time without notice, and upon such revocation all
rights thereunder shall immediately cease.
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SECTION SEVEN: 111 manure and cleanings from
stables where any horses or other animals are kept,
or poultry
and all cleanings from chicken yards, shall be by
the owner deposited in an enclosed bin constructed
of boards or netting so as to exclude flies, and to
be kept covered, and no person, firm or corporation
shall accumulate or allow to accumulate any such
manure or cleanings in an amount to exceed one cubic
yard in volume, nor shall such accumulations be
allowed for more than haven Ue v,
SECTION EIGHT: Any person, firm or corpora-
tion violating any of the provisions of this ordi-
nance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a
fine of not less than :5.00 nor more than 0250.00 ,
or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of
E1 Segundo for a period of not more than ninety days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Each such person, firm or corporation shall
be deemed guilty of a separate offence for every day
during any portion of v&ich any violation of any
provision of this ordinance is committed, continued or
permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and
shall be punishable therefor as provided by this
ordinance.
SECTION NINE: The City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance, and
shall cause the same to be published once in the "El
Segundo Herald," a weekly newspaper of general circu-
lation, printed, published and circulated within said
City of El Segundo, and Which is hereby designated
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for that purpose.
That all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after the final passage thereof.
Passed and approved this Pnd day of January,
A.D.1923.
President o the Boa of rus ees
of the City of El Segundo, Calif omia
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 33.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, VICTOR D. MoCARTHY, City Clerk of the City
of El Segundo, do hereby certify that the Whole
number of members of the Board of Trustees of the j
City of El Segundo, California, is f, that the
foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 90 was
passed and adopted by the said Board of Trustees,
approved and signed by the president of said Board,
and attested by the City Clerk of said oity, all at
a regular meeting of the said Board, held on the
_mod day of January, 1923, and that the same was so
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: TRUSTEES Binder, Davis, ueSer, Sm #ley and Bryson'
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NOES: TRUSTEES =Tone
ABSENT: TRUSTEES None
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