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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$; SECTION 1. That Section 12 of Ordinance No. 31 of the City of El Segundo, California, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE COV3TRUCTION, ALTERATION, REPAIRING, DEMOLISHING, AIM MAINTAINING OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES WITHIN SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR THE CONDEM- NATION OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES DANGEROUS TO PROPERTY, LIFE OR L=B, AND FIXING AND DETERMINING FIRE LIMITS IN AND FOR SAID CITY ", adopted on the 20th day of February, 1918, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending the definition of Class C buildings, contained in said section, so that the said paragraph of said Section 12, relating to Class C buildings, shall read as follows: 1. t_ X301 11 802 "CLASS "C" BUILDINGS. The term class 'C' buildings shall apply to those structures having exterior walls of brick, stone or concrete supporting the adjacent floor loads, and with the interior floor loads supported by steel girders and steel or cast iron columns. Combustible materials may be used in all parts except walls." That in all other particulars said Section 12 shall be and remain as the same now exists, without alterations except as hereinbefore stated. SECTION 2. That Section 24 of said Ordin - anoe 31 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 24. LOADS. Floors and supports shall be designed to safely carry not less than the following loads per square foot of floor area in addition to the dead loads. Dwellings, office floors, apart- ment houses, tenement houses, ho- tell, lodging houses, hospitals and sanitariums, sixty (60) pounds. School rooms and theatres with fixed desks and seats, stables and carriage houses, seventy -five (75) pounds. Halls of public assemblages, with- out seats, halls of schools, theatres and hospitals, ordinary stores and 2. i floors of light manufactories, one hundred and twenty -five (125) pounds. Stores with heavy loads, libraries, warehouse$, 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 3. 803 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 4. 1 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 i 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. 5. 805 0 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS. ) 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 6.