ORDINANCE 217A
ORDINANCE NO. 217 .
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO..
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING CERTAIN HEALTH
AND SANITARY REGULATIONS WITHIN SAID
CITY, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT
THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS, APPLICATIONS AND
ENFORCEMENT.
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS: That for the purposes
of this ordinance, the word "person" shall be construed to
include an individual, firm, co- partnership, association
or corporation, whether acting as principal or agent, clerk,
employee or servant, either for or on behalf of himself or
for any other person, firm, association, co- partnership or
corporation, or otherwise.
Words used in the singular include the plural and
in the plural the singular. Words used in the present tense
include the past and future tenses.
That for the purposes of this ordinance, the term
"Health Officer" shall be construed to include any of his
assistants, deputies, inspectors or any other official re-
presentatives or members of the Health Officer's staff.
SECTION 2. APPLICATION: The provisions of this
ordinance shall apply to all territory within the corporate
limits of the City of E1 Segundo, California, hereinafter
called the "City ".
SECTION 3. ENFORCEMENT: It shall be the duty of
the Health Officer to enforce all of the provisions of this
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to the satisfaction of said Health Officer of any violation,
by the holder of any such permit, of any law or ordinance,
and any person who operates or conducts said business in
the said City during the time when his permit shall have
been suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a violation
of the provisions hereof;
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Provided, further, that no such permit shall be
suspended or revoked until a hearing shall have been held
by said Health Officer in the matter of the suspension or
revocation of such permit at which hearing such permittee
may be present. Notice of such hearing shall be given by
said Health Officer in writing and served upon the holder
of such permit not less than five (5) days prior to the
date of such hearing, which notice shall state the ground
of complaint against such permittee and shall also state
the time when and the place where such hearing will be had.
Such notice shall be served on such permittee by delivering
the same to such permittee or his manager or agent, or to
any person in charge of or employed in such business, or by
leaving such notice at the place of business or residence
of such permittee with some person of suitable age and dis-
cretion. If such notice for any reason shall not be served
as hereinabove in this section provided, then a copy of
such notice shall be mailed, postage prepaid, addressed to
such permittee at such place of business or his last known
residence, not less than five (5) days prior to the date
of such hearing.
SECTION 7. RENEWAL OF PERMITS: Such permit
shall be valid from the date thereof, until revoked, unless
the same is sooner revoked or suspended as herein provided,
or unless the holder of such permit changes the location
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of his place of business, or sells, or otherwise disposes
of such business, or ceases for a period of thirty (30)
consecutive days to carry on such business, or materially
changes the character of such business. Upon the expiration
of any such permit and within seven (7) days thereafter, the
person conducting or operating such business or vehicle shall,
apply for and secure a renewal thereof in the same manner
and upon the payment of such fee, if any, as may be required
by this or any other ordinance of said City.
Each permit shall at all times be kept posted and
displayed in a conspicuous place in or about such place of
business, premises or vehicles.
SECTION 8. OTHER LICENSES: No license under any
license ordinance of the City shall be issued to any person
owning or operating any business which is required to have
a permit under Section 9 hereof, unless such permit shall
have first been granted by said Health Officer. It shall
be the duty of said Health Officer, immediately upon the
granting of such permit, to forward the same to the person
making application therefor and to file with the City Clerk
a duplicate copy thereof.
SECTION 9. PERMITS REQUIRED& Permits shall be
required of the following businesses or occupations:
(a) All establishments or persons selling or
offering for sale, serving or preparing, or manu-
facturing food in any form.
(b) Poultry markets and poultry slaughtering
establishments.
(c) Vendors of meat, fish and other food products.
(d) Dairies, wholesale and retail milk distri-
butors, milk plants, ice cream factories, cheese fac-
tories, and any other establishments handling milk or
dairy products.
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(e) Drug distributors, vendors or salesmen;
provided, however,that this section shall not apply
to established drug stores, or pharmacies, operating
from a permanent location, nor to salesmen dealing
directly with physicians, surgeons, dentists or
druggists.
(f) Persons cleaning and sterilizing or dealing
in second -hand bottles, glassware and crockery.
(g), Public swimming pools.
(h) Public dumps.
(i) Operators of wells, springs, reservoirs,
tanks, or piping from which any water is being pumped
or drawn or in which water is being stored, which is
being used or intended to be used for public domestic
consumption.
(j) Hospitals, sanitoriums, sanitariums, rest
homes, convalescent homes, maternity hospitals, lying -
in asylums.
(k) Dag nurseries, boarding houses, boarding
schools, or other places for the reception and care
of children.
(1) Beer coil cleaners.
(m) Cesspool cleaners.
(n) Hotels, rooming houses or lodging houses,
or anyone renting out for sleeping purposes any rooms,
lodging or sleeping places; provided, however, that
such permit shall not be required unless two or more
rooms are so rented in a given building or dwelling,
except where three or more persons are accommodated
in any one room.
(o) Operators of camp grounds, trailer camps,
auto camps, or tent camp courts or spaces.
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SECTION 10. That this ordinance shall take
effect and be in full force and virtue thirty days from and
after the date of the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 11. That any person, firm, association
or corporation violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceed-
Ing Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment for
not more than three months in either the City Jail of the
City of E1 Segundo, California, or the County Jail of the
County of Los Angeles, California, as the committing magis-
trate may direct, or by both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of the court, and each and every calendar
day during which any violation of this ordinance shall con-
tinue, shall be considered and deemed a new and separate
offense.
SECTION 12. That the City Clerk shall certify to
the passage and adoption of this ordinance, 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 which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 28th day of
September , A. D., 1938.
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City/ C er
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Mayor of ty of Segue o,
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUND 0 )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
Of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council of the said
City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinance No. 217 , was passed and adopted by the said
City Council, 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 28th day
Of Septerlber , A. D., 1938, and that the same was so
passed and adopted by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerorl, Love, Selby and ISayor Binder,
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Noes: Councilmen None ;
Absent: Councilmen Hesser
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CLERKIS CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SE.GU ND O )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California dohereby certif that the whole
number of members of tie City Council o the said City is
five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No.
217 , is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance
01� . 217 , of the said City of El Segundo, California,
enti£IecT:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA,`ESTABLISHING CERTAIN HEALTH
AND SANITARY REGULATIONS WITHIN SAID CITY,
AND PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT THEREOF."
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council,
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 28th day of September , 19380
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the oilowing
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen Hesser
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws of
the State of California, (Deering 1923 Edition) as amended
to date; that the foregoing Ordinance No. 217 was duly and
regularly published according to the law anTThe order of
the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a
weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published
and circulated within the said City and that the same was
so published therein on the following date, to -wit:
October.6th, 1938
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this
6th day of October , A. D., 1938.
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El Segundo., California.
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