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:. ORDINANCE NO. 159
AN ORDINANC$ OF THE CITY CF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORM, AMENDING OIRDINANCE NO. 90 CV
f SAID CITY, ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGIINDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING
THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND
RUBBISH AND THE ACCUMULATION OF MANURE
WITHIN SAID CITY; PRESCRIBING PENALTIBS
FOR THE VIOLATION TMREOF, AND REPEALING
ALL OMINANCES AND PARTS OF OHQINANOBS IN
CONFLICT THEREWITH ".. ADOPTED ON THE END DAY
OF JANUARY, 1923, BY AMAD3XG SECTIONS
1 AND 4 THgEZOF.
The City Ommil (Board of Trustees) of the City
of El Segundo, Califomis, do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 90
of the City of El Seganda, California, passed and adopted
on the 2nd day of January, 1928, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
_- "SECTION 1. For the purposes of this ordinance,
the word "garbage" is defined to be all animal and/or
_ vegetable refuse from kitchen, household, store, and/or
market waste,, that shall have been prepared Bar, or
intended to be used, asp food, or shall have resulted
from the existence, handling, oleaning, care, market-
ing or preparation of food.
For the purposes of this ordiname "oombustible
rubbish" is defined to be paper, pasteboard, oarpets,
rage, boxes, clothing, books and similar articles
that will readily incinerate through oontaot with
flames of ordinary temperature.
For the purposes of this ordinance "semi- oombustible
rubbish" is defined to be boots, shoes, cut shrabbery,
trees and shrubbery trimmings, dead flowers, out grass,
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feathers, yard sorapings (exoept as hereinafter
provided), and similar articles that vdll incinerate
though not readily through oontaot with flames of
ordinary temperatare.
For the purposes of this ordinanoe the term
"non - oombustible rabbish" is defined to be ashes,
bottles, broken arockery, glass, tin owns and other
metallio substanoes and like or, similar articles or
sabstanoes that will not inoinerate."
SECTION 2. that Seotion 4 of said Ordinance Bo.
90 of the said City of El Segundo, Cali tD =ia, be and the
same is hereby amended so as to read as follow:
"SECTIOff 4. It shall be the duty of every
owner, manager, and /or person in possession, charge
and /or control of azy boarding house, restaurant,
hotel, apartment hoaee, eating house, store, market,
or plaoe where food or food products are prepared,
treated, mauafaotured, handled, stored and/or sold,
and of every person, oocapying a dwelling or flat or
apartment .within 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 wdinanoo pre-
scribed, portable vessels, tanks or receptacles for
holding garbage. Eaoh shah vessel, tank or reoeptaole
shall be construoted of metal; shall be water tight;
shall be so oonstraated as to oontain not less than
three nor more than sixteen gallono, and shall be
provided with a handle or handles, and with a tight
fitting metal cover. Suoh cover shall not be removed
exoept when necessary to clean the sane, or to place
garbage therein, or to take garbage therefrom. A
saffioient member of such vessels to oontain all
garbage produced between oolleotion periods at or upon
the paemises served by suoh receptacles or vessels,
shall be so provided and kept at all times.
Until such time as the City Council 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,
Thursday and Saturday of each and every week commence
the collection of garbage within the said city
placed in accordance with the requirements of this
ordinance, and shall diligently prosecute the work
of such collection (Sundays and holidays excepted)
until the same shall be tally c cmpleted within the
said city. All such work of collection shall be o°
prosecuted between the hours of 7 :30 A. M. and 6:04
P. M. of each day required for such collection.
Baring the hours find for the collection of
garbage in the City of 81 Segundo, each each vessel,
tank or receptacle, containing amy garbage, shall be
placed on the curb in front of the premises; shall
be easily accessible to the garbage collector whoa
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 azW
premises affected by this ordinance, then and in that
event such vessel, tank or receptacle iball be placed
upon the rear of said promises so that the some may
be easily accessible to the garbage collector from
said alley when called for.
It shall be unlawful for any person to plaoe,
or to cause or permit to be placed, in any such vessel,
tank or receptacle, any substance other than garbage.
It small be unlawfal for any pore m other than
the o sae r, 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
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with the City of El Segundo for the collection,
removal and disposal of garbage, to interliTS in
any meaner with any each vessel, tank or receptacle,
or the contents thereof, or to remove azW such
vessel, tank or receptacle from the location where
the same was placed by the owner thereof, or to
remove the cmtents of say such vessel, tank or
receptacle.
Until Bach time as the City Council shall by
ordinance otherwise determine, the rubbish collector
of said city, or the perscn, firm or corporation
having a contract with said city for the collection
of rubbish therein, shall oommenoe the collection of
non- combustible rubbish within the said city, on the
first and third Fridays of each end every month
hereafter, and shall diligently prosecute the work
of such collection (Sundays and holidays excepted)
until the sass shall be fully completed within the
said city. All such work of collection shall be
prosecuted, between the hours of 7 :30 A. M. and
6:00 P. M. of each day required for such collection."
SECTION 3. That said Ordinance loo. 90 be and the
same is hereby amended accordingly.
SECTION 4. This ordinance is as ordinance affecting
the public peace, health and safety of said city, and is
urgently required in order that each public peace, health
and safety be protected. The facts constituting its urgency
are as follows: That there are in the City of E1 Segundo,
California, certain public markets, stores and other places
where accumulations of garbage, vegetables and food trimmings,
aamd offal, aocumulate, and it is necessary that such acoumu-
lations be regulated by requiring same to be covered and kept
in containers as herein provided, so that they will not
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afford a breeding place for flies and Termin, or oonsti-
tuts a menace to public health, peace and safety othervEss.
Therefore this ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force and virtue immediately upon the final passage and
adoption thereof.
SECTION b. That the City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; 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 maid City of El Segundo,
and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PasBed, appro wd and adopted thiB 17th day of
May, A. D. , 1929.
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STATE OF CALIFORAIA, )
COUNTY OF LO 6 ANGELES , ) SS .
CITY OF SL SEGUNDO 0 )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of $1 Segundo, California do hh0reby certify that the Whole
number of members of the bity Council (Board of Trustees)
of the said city is five; that the foregoing ordinanoe,
being Ordinance No. 1g9 , was duly passed and adopted by
the said City Counci provednd signed by the Mayor of
said city, and attested by the City Clerk of said city
all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on tie
17th day of May, A. D. , 1929, and that the as= was so
passed and adopted by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Binder.
Roes: Councilmen Drone. _
Absent: Councilmen
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELb , ) SS.
CITY OF EL - SEGUNDOt )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segando, Cali lbrnia, do hereby certify that the
- -- whole number of members of the City Council (Board of
Trustees) of the said Gity In five; that the foregoing
ordinance, being Ordinance No. 159 , is a Rill, true
and correct original of Ordanoe No. 159 of the
said City of egun o, California, ent.it"UT-
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDIN G ORDINANCE NO. 90 OF
SAID CITY, ENTITLED, 'AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING
THE C MLECTIOR AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND
RUBBISH AND THE ACCU15TLATION OF MANURE
WITHIN SAID CITY; MESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THERE OF, AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CON-
FLICT THEREWITH' ADOPTED ON THE END DAY OF
JANUARY, 1923, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND
4 THBHEOF. ".
Which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council,
(Board of Trustees), approved and signed by the Mayor of
said city, and attested by the City Clerk of said city,
all at a regular meeting- of the said Council held on the
17_.. h day of May, 1929, and that the same was so passed
and adopted by the following vo to :
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Binder
Hoes: Councilmen None =
Ab sent : Councilmen grimmer .
I do hereby further oertify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws
of the State of California, (Deering 1923 Edition) that
the foregoing or dinarn a No. 159 was duly and regularly
published according to the law and the order of the City
Council of said city in The E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general oiroulation printed, published and
circulated within the said city and that the same was so
published therein on the following date, to -wit:
94th, 1929_ .
WITNESS my head and the seal of said city this
day of May, A. D.9 1929.
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