ORDINANCE 223ORDINANCE NO. 223
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE SANITATION AND
CONDUCT OF CAMP CARS, TRAILER CAMP CARS, OR
TRAILERS IN THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, Cali-
fornia, does ordain as follows;
SECTION 19 That for the purpose of this ordinance,
certain words and phrases are defined as follows, and certain
provisions shall be construed as herein set forth, unless it
shall be apparent from their contest that they have a differ-
ant meaning.
Words used in the singular include the plural, and
the plural the singular, Words used in the present tens*
include the future.
"CAMP CAR ", "TRAILER CADS' CAR ", OR "TRAILER is any
unit used for living or sleeping purposes and which is equipped
with wheels or similar devices used for the purpose of trans-
porting said unit from place to place, whether by motive power
or other means.
"CAMP GROUND" is defined to be any place, area or
tract of land upon which is located any camp car, trailer
camp car, or trailer.
"BUILDING DEPARnMNT" is the Building Department
or the Building Inspector of the City of El Segundo, Cali-
fornia.
"HEALTH DEPARMENT" is the Health Department or
the Health Officer of the City of E1 Segundo, California.
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SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Health
Department and of the Building Department to enforce all of
the provisions of this ordinance, and for the purpose of
securing enforcement thereof, the Health Officer or the Building
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The Council reserves the right to grant or refuse
to grant any such special temporary permit, in its discretion.
For any such special permit the Council may require the payment
of such inspection fee, if any, as the Council, under the parti-
cular circumstances shown in the application, may in its discre-
tion deem proper to cover the coats of any such inspection.
Any special permit granted hereunder shall be
kept in the camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer for which
same is issued, and must be exhibited to the Building Inspector,
the Chief of Police, or the Health Officer of said City, or any
of their respective authorized representatives, upon demand.
SECTION 4, APPLICATION FOR REGULAR PERMIT, INSPEC-
TION FEE.
Each application for such permit shall be in writing,
upon a form provided by the Building Department for that purpose.
It shall state the name and address of the applicant and a de-
scription of the property, whereon or wherein, it is proposed
to conduct a camp ground. It shall also contain such other
information as the Building Department may require and it shall
be filed by the applicant. It shall be filed with the Building
Department not less than ten days, nor more than thirty days
before said camp ground is made ready for use, and it shall
be accompanied by an inspection fee of $10.00, for which the
Building Department shall issue a receipt.
SECTION 5, MONEY TO CITY TREASURER.
All moneys received by the Building Department as
inspection fees, under provisions of this ordinance, shall be
paid into the City Treasury and placed in the General Fund.
SECTION 60' INVESTIGATION REQUIRED BEFORE ISSUING
REGULAR PERMIT.
Upon the filing of such application for a regular
permit hereunder, accompanied by the inspection fee, it shall
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be the duty of the Health Department or any of its duly
authorized representatives to investigate the premises and
determine whether said proposed camp ground or the site se-*
leoted therefor conforms with the requirements of this ordinance,
the rules and regulations of the Health Department and the laws
of the State of California, and no permit shall be issued unless
such camp ground or the site selected therefor complies with
such requirements and meets the approval of the Health Depart-
ment, and said Department may at its discretion approve or reject
any proposed camp ground site.
The Building Department shall not issue its permit
to operate, maintain or offer for public use, the camp ground
for which the application was made until it has first received
a notice in writing from the Health Department that the Health
Department has approved the proposed camp ground site.
SECTION 7, REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF PEMIT.
Any permit granted hereunder shall be subject to
revocation or suspension by the Health Department in the follow-
ing manner, to -wit: A notice shall be served on the person hold-
ing said permit specifying wherein he has failed to comply *1th
this ordinance, and requiring him to appear before the Health
Department at such place or location as may be designated in
the notice, at a day and hour therein specified, not less than
five days after the personal service of said notice on such
permit holder, requiring him to show cause at said time and
place why said permit should not be revoked or suspended. At
the time and place mentioned in said notice, the person holding
said permit shall have the right to appear in person, or by coun-
sel, and to introduce such evidence as he may desire, and the
Health Department shall confront said permit holder with any
charges that said Health Department may have against him, and
after said hearing, the Health Department may, at its discretion,
revoke or suspend the permit.
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SECTION 8, PERMIT MUST BE POSTED IN CONSPICUOUS PLACE.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora-
tion to establish, maintain, conduct or carry on any camp ground
unless there shall be at all times posted in a conspicuous place
at said camp ground the permit obtained from the Building De-
partment in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 9:4` The provisions of this ordinance shall
be applicable to every camp ground within the incorporated area
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, and it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation maintaining, operating, con-
ducting or carrying on any such camp ground, or for any person
living or sleeping in any camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer
located in a camp ground, or any other person, to violate, or
contribute in any way to the violation of, any of the provisions
of this ordinance.
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SECTION 10. RE.UONSIBILITY OF OWNER OR OPERATOR.
Every person owning or operating a camp ground shall
maintain such camp ground and any toilets, baths, or other per-
manent equipment in connection therewith, in a clean and sani-
tary condition and shall maintain said equipment in a state of
good repair.
SECTION 11. POWER OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO FORMULATE
AND ENFORCE RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The Health Department is hereby empowered to formulate
from time to time and to enforce any rules and regulations that
said department may deems advisable governing the operation of
camp grounds or camp cars, trailer camp cars, or trailers bearing
on any matters of sanitation or housing.
SECTION 12. GROUND AREA FOR CAMP CARS, TRAILER
CAMP CARS, OR TRAILERS.
Every camp ground hereafter established shall be
laid out with, and all existing camp grounds shall provide
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connected with a sewer or cesspool, such sinks to be conven-
iently located at no greater distance than one hundred feet
from any camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer.
SECTION 20. REFUSE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
It shall be unlawful to permit any waste water or
material from sinks, baths, showers or other plumbing fixtures
in camp cars, trailer camp cars, or trailers to be deposited upon
the surface of the ground and all such fixtures, when in use,
must be connected to the city sewer system, or the drainage
therefrom must be disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the
Health Department.
SECTION 21. LIGHTING.
Every camp ground heretofore or hereafter established
shall be provided with means of lighting the same at hight and
all public water closets and bath units shall be provided with
sufficient lighting facilities which shall be kept lighted during
the time from one -half hour after sunset until one -half hour
before sunrise.
SECTION 22. Any water faucets, toilets, garbage
receptacles, or other equipment required by the provisions of
this ordinance in camp grounds or which may hereafter be required
by any rules and regulations of the Health Department pertaining
to camp grounds shall not be construed to mean water faucets, toil-
ets, garbage receptacles or other equipment now or hereafter
located in or adjacent to camp grounds and which may already or
hereafter be required under provisions of other laws or ordi-
nances.
SECTION 23. CAUP REGISTER.
Every person owning or operating a camp ground shall
maintain a register in which said owner shall have every guest
or person who brings a camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer
into the camp grounds sign said register when said guest or per-
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son comes onto the camp ground. The register shall also show
the date of the arrival of said guest or person and the number of
the occupants in said camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer.
Every such guest or person must also give the make, type and
State license number of.his automobile and of his camp car,
trailer camp car, or trailer. When any guest or person who
has been registered in said camp ground, as aforesaid, gives
up or surrenders his accomodations or services in said camp
ground, the register above referred to shall show the date
when the said guest or person left or checked out of said
camp grounds.
SECTION 24, EACH VIOLATION SEPARATE OFFENSE.
Every person, firm or corporation violating or contri-
buting in any way to the violation of any provision of this ordi-
nance shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day
during which such violation continues and shall be punishable
therefor as herein provided.
SECTION 25. It shall be the duty of every person,
firm or corporation owning, leasing, renting or operating a camp
ground in the City of E1 Segundo, and of every guest or person
accepting accomodations therein, to comply with all of the pro-
visions of this ordinance and any rules and regulations formulat-
ed by the Health Department governing camp grounds.
SECTION 26. Any person, firm or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment
in the City Jail of the City of El Segundo, California, or in
the County Zail of the County of Los Angeles, California, as
the committing magistrate may direct for a period of not more
than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of the Court.
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SECTION 27. If any section, sub - section, sentence,
clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and
each section, sub- section, sentence, clause and phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-
sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitu-
tional.
SECTION 28. That this ordinance shall take
effect and be in full force and virtue thirty (30) days
from and after the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 29. That the City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published by one insertion in the
E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation
printed, published and circulated within the said City and
hereby designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 20tH day of
July , A.D. , 1939.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
( SEAT, )
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, VICTOR D. McCARTHY, City Clerk of the City of
El 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. 223 , was duly passed and adopted by the said City
Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said city, and
adjourned
attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at in/
meeting of the said Council held on the 20th day of
July , A. D., 1939, and that the same was so
passed and adopted by the following votes
Ayes t Councilmen t Gerow, Hesser and Mayor Binder.
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NO e s t Councilmen t None
Absent: Councilmen t Bove and Selby 0
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City Clerk of the City of
(SEAL) E1 Segundo, California.
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CLERKI3 CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of
El 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.
223 , is a full, true and correct original of Ordi•
nance o. 223 of the said City of Beg un o, entitleds
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO..
CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE SANITATION
AND CONDUCT OF CAMP CARS, TRAILER CAMP
CARS, OR TRAILERS IN THE CITY OF EL SEG-
UNDO, CALIFORNIA. ",
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council,
bytheeCitydClerk ofb�aideCity�rall attested
the said Council held on the 20th day of July ,
1939, and that the same was BT -passed and ad7opted by the
following votes
AYES: Councilmen Gerow. Hesser and Mayor Binder.
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NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT s Councilmen Love and Selby
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 am-
ended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 223 was
duly and regularly published according to law ana- a -order
of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald,
a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub-
lished and circulated within the said City, and that the
same was so published therein on the following date, to -wits
July 27th, 1939 0
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this
28th I day of July , 1939.
y lark of e City of
(SEAL) El Segundd, California
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Inspector, or any of their duly authorized representatives,
shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon
the premises of any camp ground now operating or which may
hereafter be operated within the City of El Segundo, to in-
spect the same and all accomodations connected therewith.
SECTION 3.
' �4 ikRVIT REQUIRED. REGULAR PERMIT.
Ii shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora-
tion to pperate, maintain or offer for public use within the
confines of the City of E1 Segundo, California, as hereinafter
set forth, any camp ground without first applying for and re-
ceiving from the Building Department a permit so to do, in the
manner hereinafter provided, or without complying with regulations
hereinafter set forth, or any rules and regulations which may
be formulated by the Health Department from time to time and
the laws o� the State of California.
SPECIAL TEMPORARY PERMITS BY COUNCIL.
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this
ordinance, and without in any manner abrogating or nullifying
the same, the City Council reserves the right to grant special
temporary permits in cases where a single camp car, trailer camp
car, or trailer is involved, upon such terms and conditions and
subject to such limitations as the City Council may, from time
to time, prescribe or impose. All such temporary permits,
however, shall be revocable at any time by the City Council
without notice, without cause and without liability. An appli-
cant for any such temporary permit shall address a communication
to the City Council and file the same with the City Clerk, setting
forth the particular facts relating to the particular camp car,
trailer camp car, or trailer referred to, stating the location
where same is to be kept, the period for which such permit is
requested, the nature of the proposed use thereof, and any other
facts or data which may be pertinent to the application.
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aitailable un- occupied space of not less than 500 square feet for
each camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer. Camp cars, trailer
camp cars, or trailers shall be arranged in rows abutting or
facing on a driveway or clear unoccupied space of not less than
20 feet in width, which space shall have unobstructed access to
a public street or alley. No camp car, trailer camp car, or
trailer shall be placed closer than four feet to the exterior
boundaries of the property used as a camp ground.
SECTION 13. DRAINAGE OF PREMISES.
Every camp ground hereafter established shall be
located on a well drained area and the premises of every such
camp ground or any existing camp ground shall be properly
graded so as to prevent the accumulation of storm or casual
waters.
SECTION 14. WATER SUPPLY.
An adequate supply of pure water for drinking and
domestic purposes shall be supplied to meet the requirements of
said camp ground. Said water supply shall be obtained from
faucets only, conveniently located in said camp ground, and no
dipping vessels or common cups shall be permitted.
SECTION 15. REMOVAL OF WHEELS OR SIMILAR DEVICES.
It shall be unlawful for any person:,.. firm or corpora-
tion owning or operating a camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer
located in a camp ground to remove or cause to have removed the
wheels or any similar transporting devices from said camp car,
trailer camp car, or trailer, or to otherwise permanently fix
it to the ground in a manner that would prevent the ready remo-
val of said camp car, trailer camp car, or trailer without first
obtaining a permit so to do, from the Building Department of the
City of E1 Segundo. Any alteration to any camp car, trailer
camp car, or trailer as above set forth, shall be construed as
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removing it from the requirements of this ordinance and con-
verting it into a dwelling, and it shall thereupon be sub-
ject to the requirements of the Building Code of the City
of E1 Segundo, and the State Housing Act of California.
SECTION 16. DOGS NOT ALLOWED AT LARGE.
Dogs at no time shall be permitted to run at large
in any camp ground.
SECTION 17. TOILETS.
There shall be provided in every existing camp
ground and every camp ground which may hereafter be estab-
lished one water- closet connected to sewer or cess -pool for
each sex, one of such water- closets shall be distinctly marked
"For Men" and one of such water- closets shall be distinctly
marked "For Women" and there shall be provided an additional
water- closet for each sea for every six or fractional part there-
of in excess of eight males or eight females living in said
camp ground; provided, however, that the. Health Department may
exempt any camp ground existing at the time of the passage of
this ordinance from fully complying with the provisions of this
section when, in its discretion, such deviation will not be
detrimental to the health of persons occupying said camp gruund'
or to the proper sanitation of the premises.
SECTION 18. GARBAUE RECEPTACLES.
There shall be provided in every camp ground here-
tofore or hereafter established, such number of water proof
receptacles with close fitting metal covers for garbage, refuse,
ashes, and rubbish as may be deemed necessary by the Health
Department, and such garbage receptacles shall at all times
be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
SECTION 19. SLOP SINKS.
There shall be provided in every camp ground hereto-
fore or hereafter established one or more slop sinks properly
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