ORDINANCE 101�l
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ORDINANCE NO. 101
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFOMIA, REGULATING THE ERECTION AND
MAINTENANCE OF BLINKER LIGHTS UPON AND
ADJACENT TO PUBLIC HIGHWAYS AND PROVIDING
AND PROVIDING A P$NALTY FOR VIOLATION OF
ANY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF.
The Board of Trustees of the City of El
Segundo do ordain as follows:
SECTION ONE: The following words and phrases
used in this ordinance shall have the meanings herein
ascribed to them.
(a) "Person." Every natural person, firm,
oopartnership, association or corporation.
(b) "Street." Every public street, alley,
lane, court, place, drive, bridge, viaduct or trestle
intended for use or used by the general public.
(c) "Blinker light." A light whether colored
or uncolored rich emits an intermittent light.
SECTION TWO: No person shall erect or main-
twin or cause or permit to be ereoted or maintained
any blinker light upon or adjacent to any street within
the City of E1 Segundo, whether on public or private
property, which emits a light the same as or similar
to highway warning, danger or signal lights and which
blinker light is so located as to be visible from any
Cpublic street unless under and in accordance with the
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terms of a permit in writing first obtained from the
Board of Trustees of the City of $1 Segundo.
The provisions of this ordinance shall not
be deemed to apply to advertising signs upon private
property consisting of continuous or intermittent
lights in the form of illuminated words, letters or
figures or portraying any advertising scene, figure
or emblem and so constructed, arranged and located
as to be clearly distinguishable from a highway v rning,
danger or signal light*
Nor shall this ordinance be deemed to apply
to any government lighthouse nor to any warning, danger
or signal light heretofore or hereafter erected or
maintained as required by law or under orders of any
board or commission of the State of California.
SBCTIOR THREE: Any person desiring to erect
or maintain any blinker light or lights upon or
adjacent to any street so located as to be visible
from any street shall first make application in writing
so to do to the City Council, which application shall
state the proposed location of such light or lights,
and a brief description of the proposed light or
lights. The City Council shall consider every such
application, and if it finds that the blinker light
or lights proposed to be erected will serve as a warning
to persons using the street and will tend to increase
the safety of the traveling public shall issue a
permit in writing authorizing the erection and mainten-
- ance of such blinker light or lights. Such permit
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shall be valid until revoked and no charge shall be
made for any such permit.
SECTION FOUR: Any person violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of
I',— a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by
imprisonment in the city or county jail not exceeding
thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION FIVE: The City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published once in the $1
Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circula-
tion, printed, published and circulated within the
said city of El Segundo and hereby designated for
that purpose. This ordinance shall take effect thirty
(30) days from and after the final passage and
adoption thereof.
Passed, approved and adopted this 8th day
of April, A. D. 1924,
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I, VICTOR D. McCARTHY, City Clerk of the City
of R1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No, 101, was
passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City
of 31 Segundo, California, signed by the President of
the said Board and attested by the City Clerk, all at
a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 8th
day of April, A. D, 1924, and that the same was so
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: TRUSTEES Gerow. Love. b'milev and Binder.
NOES : TRUSTEES one.
ABSENT:TRUSTEES 2z Rueter.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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