ORDINANCE 104�l
ORDINANCE N0. 104
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 31 OF
SAID CITY, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUIJDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING
THE CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, REPAIRING,
DEMOLISHING AND MAINTAINING OF BUILDINGS
AND OTHER STRUCTURES WITHIN SAID CITY,
PROVIDING FOR THE COITDEM TATION OF BUILDINGS
AND OTHER STRUCTURES DANGEROUS TO PROPERTY,
LIFE OR LIMB, AND FIXING AND DETERMINING
FIRE LIbtITS IN AND FOR SAID CITY". ADOPTED
ON THE 20TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1918, BY
AMENDING SECTIONS 12 AND 24 THEREOF.
The Board of Trustees of the City of El Segundo,
do ordain as follow$;
SECTION 1. That Section 12 of Ordinance
No. 31 of the City of El Segundo, California, entitled
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. CALIFORNIA,
REGULATING THE COV3TRUCTION, ALTERATION, REPAIRING,
DEMOLISHING, AIM MAINTAINING OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER
STRUCTURES WITHIN SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR THE CONDEM-
NATION OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES DANGEROUS TO
PROPERTY, LIFE OR L=B, AND FIXING AND DETERMINING
FIRE LIMITS IN AND FOR SAID CITY ", adopted on the 20th
day of February, 1918, be, and the same is hereby
amended by amending the definition of Class C buildings,
contained in said section, so that the said paragraph
of said Section 12, relating to Class C buildings,
shall read as follows:
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"CLASS "C" BUILDINGS. The term
class 'C' buildings shall apply to those
structures having exterior walls of
brick, stone or concrete supporting
the adjacent floor loads, and with
the interior floor loads supported by
steel girders and steel or cast iron
columns. Combustible materials may be
used in all parts except walls."
That in all other particulars said Section 12
shall be and remain as the same now exists, without
alterations except as hereinbefore stated.
SECTION 2. That Section 24 of said Ordin -
anoe 31 be and the same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"SECTION 24. LOADS. Floors and
supports shall be designed to safely
carry not less than the following
loads per square foot of floor area
in addition to the dead loads.
Dwellings, office floors, apart-
ment houses, tenement houses, ho-
tell, lodging houses, hospitals and
sanitariums, sixty (60) pounds.
School rooms and theatres with
fixed desks and seats, stables and
carriage houses, seventy -five (75)
pounds.
Halls of public assemblages, with-
out seats, halls of schools, theatres
and hospitals, ordinary stores and
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floors of light manufactories, one
hundred and twenty -five (125)
pounds.
Stores with heavy loads, libraries,
warehouse$, ordinary manufactories,
two hundred and fifty (250) pounds.
All sidewalks two hundred (200)
pounds.
The strengh of any floor intended
to carry running machinery, or unusual
or special loads shall be increased above
the minimum given in this section in pro-
portion to such additional load and as
may be required by the Board of Trustees.
The roofs of all buildings shall
be self- supporting and designed to safe-
ly carry the full dead loads and an
additional live load per superficial foot
measured upon a horizontal plane of
thirty (30) pounds when the pitch is
less than twenty (20) degrees, and
twenty (20) pounds when the pitch is
more than twenty (20) degrees.
All beams or joists in a building
shall be proportioned to carry the
full dead and live load. In build-
ings used for offices, dwellings,
apartment houses, hotels, lodging,
houses, hospitals, schools, halls and
theatres, all girders shall be pro-
portioned to carry the full dead
load and at least eighty percent of
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the live load, and the columns shall
be proportioned to carry the full
dead load and sixty per cent of the
required live load.
In buildings used for warehouses,
stores, manufactories, libraries, all
beams, girders and columns shall be
designed to carry the full dead and
live load. °
SECTION 3. That said Ordinance No. 31 is
hereby amended in accordance with the provisions of
Sections 1 and 2 hereof.
SECTION 4. 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 circula-
tion, printed, published and circulated within the
said city, and which is hereby designated for that
purpose.
SECTION 5. This ordinance is an ordinance
for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
health and safety of the said City of .61 Segundo,
and therefore the same shall take effect immediately
upon the final passage and adoption thereof.
The facts constituting the urgency of this
ordinance are as follows: Certain buildings in
the City of E1 Segundo, California, under construction,
and certain other buildings contemplated to be con-
structed in the near future, should, in the opinion
of the Board of Trustees of said City, in order to
C preserve the public safety of said City, be equipped
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with self- supporting roofs and with proper supports
__.. for adjacent floor loads, and that existing provisions
relating to such matters are not adequate in the opinion
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of said Board to preserve the necessary margin of
safety, and that the provisions of said Ordinance Ho.
31, when amended, as hereinabove provided, will pro-
vide such necessary safety factors.
Passeds approved and adopted this sth
day of April, A. D. 1924.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of El Segundo, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
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CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
It Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance N0. 104 ,
was passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of
the City of El 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 follow-
- ing vote:
AYES: TRUSTEES Geron Lowe, Smiley and Binder.
NOES: TRUSTEES gone.
ABSENT : TRUSTEES Rueter.
( SEAL )
City Clerk
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