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ORDINANCE 10. 96 .
AS ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING ORDINANCE N0, 12 OF SAID CITY, ENTITLED "AS
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, LICENSING AND REGULATING
CERTAIN KINDS OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED AN: CARRIED ON IN SAID
CITY AND FIRING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF", PASSED
AND ADOPTED ON THE 14TH DAY OF MARCH, 19179 BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION THERETO TO BE KNOWN AS 39 -1/2.
The Board of Trustees of the City of El Segundo do
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance Ito. 12 of the City of El
Segundo, California, passed and adopted on the 14th day of
March, 1917, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SSGUNDO
LICENSING AND REGULATING CERTAIN KINDS OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED
AND CARRIED ON IN SAID CITY AND FIXING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS
THEREOF ", be and the same is hereby amended by the addition of
a new section thereto, to be designated and known as Section
39*9 which said Section 39* shall read as follows:
"SECTION39*. For every person, firm or corporation
engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the
business of an itinerant food vendor, or a transient
• food vendor, whether from a booth or stand of any kind,
or otherwise, and whether by public outcry of his wares,
or otherwise, the sum of $25.00 per day, payable daily
in advance. For the purposes of this ordinance any
"itinerant food Tpador" is defined to be any person,
firm or corporation who or which engages in the sale
to the public of such articles as are commonly known
or referred to as "hot dogs ", "red hots*,`Coney Island
red hots", "Soft Drinks", and other foodstuffs anddarinks
prepared for, or intended for, immediate consumption on
or near the - premises where so vended or_soli. Provided,
however, that no such itinerant food vendor, or transient
food vendor shall engage in any such business without
first having obtained a permit so to do from the Board
of Trustees of said city. Such permit shall be issued
only upon application to the said Board in writing and
by a hearing before said Board upon such application,
after which hearing the Board may, or may not, in its
discretion issue such permit. If grantedsor permitted
to issuessuch permit shall be in writing, shall speoi-
fically state the term for which the stAt is issued, the
name of the person, firm or corporation licensed and
the location at Which such business is to be carried
on, conducted, or transacted. This section shall not be
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8onli0able to any person, firm or corporation
who shall have been conducting any such b*sinese
within said city for a period of thirty days or
more immediately preceding the taking effect hereof,
nor to any person,firm or corporation conducting,
or proposing to conduct any business which may be
found by the said Board of Trustees to be without
the purview of this ordinance at the hearing on the
application for license hereunder as hereinabove
provided."
SECTION 2. This ordinance is an ordinance for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety
of said city and the facts constituting its urgency are as
follows: The Board of Trustees has knowledge that a great
many itinerant food vendors and transient food vendors are
about to invade the said city upon the occasion of certain
holidays and celebrations to be held in said city beginning
the latter part of August, 1923, to sell their wares, food-
stuffs and drinks to the public therein generally; and said
Board believes that unless the said vendors are regulated as
hereinabove provided, the public of said city will not be
properly safeguarded against contaminated and unhealthful
foodstuffs and beverages; therefore, this ordinance shall take
effect and be in full force and virtue immediately upon the
final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 3. The City Clark shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this Ordinance by a vote of four - fifths of the
members of this Board, 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 the said
City and hereby designated for the purpose.
Passed,approved and adopted this 21stday of August,
1923.
e the Boj(rd of rue-
tees of the City of El Segundo,
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STATE OF CALIFOREIA }
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 33
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CITY OF EL SEGUEDO }
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the fore-
going Ordinance., being Ordindnace Do, -,_96 , was passed
and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of E1
Segundo, California, approved and signed by the President
of the said Board, and attested by the City Clerk of said
City, all at a regular meeting of the said Board held on
the 21t_ dsy of August, A. D. 1923, and that the said
Ordinance was so passed and adopted by a-vote of dour- fifths
of all of the members of the said Board, to -wit: By the foll-
owing vote: -
AYES, TRUSTEES: Binder, Gerow, Rueger and Bryson.
NOES, TRUSTEES: None.
ABSENT, TRUSTE88: Smiley.
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