ORDINANCE 252ORDINANCE NO. 252
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO AIR RAID PRE-
CAUTIONS.
The City Council of the City of El Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. As used in this ordinance the follow-
ing words and phrases shall mean:
"Air raid warning signal" shall mean a signal,
by siren, whistle, horn or other audible device, of two
minutes duration consisting of either a fluctuating or
warbling signal of varying pitch or a succession of inter-
mittent blasts of about five seconds duration separated by
a silent period of about three seconds.
"All clear signal" shall mean a continuous signal,
by siren, horn or other audible device, of two minutes
duration at a steady pitch.
"Period of air raid alarm" shall mean the inter-
val of time between the giving of the air raid warning signal
and the giving of the next succeeding all clear signal.
"Blackout structure" shall mean any space so en-
closed that any illumination maintained or existing therein
is not visible from any point outside such enclosure.
SECTION 2. The Chief of Police is hereby author-
ized and directed to cause the sounding of an air raid warning
signal and of an all clear signal when, and only when, the
district in which the city is located is notified so to do
by the United States Aircraft Warning Service.
SECTION 3. Any person who effects or maintains
any illumination, or permits any illumination under his
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control to be effected or maintained, at any place within
the City of E1 Segundo during any period of air raid alarm
in the hours of darkness, except within a blackout structure,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 4. The maintenance or leaving of any
illumination, except within a blackout structure, without
provision for its extinguishment, within one minute after
the commencement of a period of air raid alarm by a com-
petent person over the age of eighteen years attendant at
the place where such illumination is controlled, is hereby
prohibited.
SECTION 5. In order to enable the Chief of Police
to conform to the request of the United States Aircraft
Warning Service for the obscuration, diminution or extin-
guishment of any illumination, whether in or out of doors,
which increases the vulnerability of the City of E1 Segundo,
or any portion thereof, to air attack, or for the regulation
of traffic during the period of air raid alarm, the Chief of
Police may adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regu-
lations for such purposes, and any rules or regulations so
adopted by him shall be and remain in effect for thirty (30)
days thereafter, but no longer unless approved within said
time by resolution of the City Council; provided, however,
that any rule or regulation so adopted by the Chief of
Police may at any time be rescinded by resolution of the
City Council. Violation of any such rule or regulation so
adopted and promulgated is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor.
SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful to disobey any
lawful direction or order of a peace officer, highway
patrolman, or fireman given during a period of air raid
alarm, which order is reasonably necessary for the mainte-
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nance of public order or safety or to effect the extin-
guishment or obscuratlon of light.
SECTION 7. Any illumination contrary to the
provisions of this ordinance, or to any rule or regulation
adopted and promulgated in accordance with Section 5 hereof,
constitutes a public nuisance, and the same may be summar-
ily abated by any peace officer, highway patrolman, or
fireman. Any structure may be entered by any peace officer,
highway patrolman, or fireman, using reasonable force if
necessary, for the purpose of abating such a nuisance by
extinguishing such illumination.
SECTION 8. At the commencement of a period of
air raid alarm, the operator of any motor vehicle shall
forthwith bring such vehicle as far as possible to the
side of the street, road or highway off the main traveled
portion thereof, and the operator of such motor vehicle, and
the operator of any street car, shall bring such motor
vehicle or street car to a stop clear of any crossing, inter -
section, fire house, fire plug, hospital or other emergency
depot or area, and during the hours of darkness shall ex-
tinguish all lights therein or thereon and said motor vehicle
or street car shall remain so situated during the period of
air.raid alarm, unless directed or ordered to move by a
Peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman.
SECTION 9. The provisions of this ordinance
shall not apply to blackout emergency vehicles, which shall
include the following:
1. All Army and Navy vehicles;
2. All vehicles with United States Government
credentials indicating the necessity of emergency movement;
3. All authorized emergency vehicles as defined in
sections 44 and 44.1 of the Vehicle Code of California;
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SECTION 12. The provisions of every ordinance
of this city and every administrative order made pursuant
thereto, requiring any illumination to be maintained in
conflict with this ordinance or with any rule or regulation
made pursuant to Section 5 of this ordinance, shall be
deemed suspended during the period between any air raid
warning signal and the next succeeding all clear signal.
SECTION 13. Any person who shall violate any
provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine
of not exceeding three hundred dollars (4300.00) or by im-
prisonment in the City Jail or in the County Jail not ex-
ceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 14. This ordinance is required for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and
safety, and the following is the statement of facts con-
stituting such urgency; The United States is at war and
this city is in great and continuing danger of air and
other attack by the enemy.
SECTION 15. If any provision of this ordinance
or the application thereof to any person or circumstances
is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of this ordinance which can be
given effect without the invalid provision or application,
and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are
declared to be severable.
SECTION 16. 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 official paper
of said City, to -wit: the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly
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newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated within said city, and which is hereby desig-
nated for that purpose.
SECTION 17. That this ordinance, being an
emergency ordinance, affecting the public peace, health
and safety, shall take effect and be in full force and
virtue immediately upon the passage and adoption thereof.
Passed, approved and adopted this 23rd day of
December , A. D., 1941.
Mayor of the City of El Segundo,
California.
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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. 252, 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_ adiourned regular meeting of the said Council
held on the 23rd day of December , A. D., 1941, and
that the same was so passed and adopted by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesser. Love. Selby, and Mayor Binder
NOES: Councilmen None y;
ABSENT: Councilmen Gerow .
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
SS.
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. 252
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No.
252 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO AIR RAID PRE-
CAUTIONS." ,
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 ad3ourned
regular meeting of the said Council held on the 23rd day
Of T)eeemb.r 19 16 and that the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesser. Love, Selby and Mayor Binder
;
NOES: Councilmen None
A,�SENU' : Councilmen Gerow
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to
the provisions of Sectibn 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, psp_
was duly and regularly published according to law and the
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:
Danember 24th, 1941
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this
24th day of December , 194 1 .
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City Clerk of the City
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ML
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
Frank L. Snow
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is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over
the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the.._._- ___._,
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and publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub-
lished and circulated WEEKLY in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said news-
paper has been so printed, published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one
year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper''
is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning
of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said
newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a gen-
eral character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not
and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the enter-
tainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for
any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said news-
paper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to
or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, ,
professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, call-
ings, races or denominations.
That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page... numbered
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hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true and
correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as
published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of
the same was preceded with words printed in black- face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing
and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution
or instrument intended to be published, as will ap- pear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the . ..........._Ordinance__ N0._ -_- 252 - - - -- /(Air Raid Precautions
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City Clerk of the Cjty of El Segundo,
of Los Angeles, State of Calii
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Deputy City Clerk of Said City.
4. All vehicles being operated by members of
the California State Guard while actually on duty;
5. All vehicles of volunteer personnel engaged
in the operation of the Aircraft Warning Service of the
Fourth Interceptor Command while such personnel are actually
going to or from their posts of duty;
6. All vehicles certified by sheriffs, district
attorneys, the California State Highway Patrol, police chiefs,
and fire chiefs, when within the respective territorial
jurisdictions of the certifying office, as being essential
to the preservation of the public peace and safety or to
the dissemination of public information or to the national
defense; provided, however, that such vehicles shall con-
form to the uniform lighting regulations approved by the
Department of Motor Vehicles and the California State
Highway Patrol for blackout emergency vehicles. No oerti-
ficate shall be issued which conflicts with any regulation
or order of the United States Army applicable in the area
for which the certificate is issued.
SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person
without authority, during any air raid alarm, to use, wear,
exhibit or possess any uniform, insignia, credential, or
other indication of authority, or any imitation thereof,
adopted and issued by any official civilian defense or-
ganization.
SECTION 11. Any person who shall operate a
siren, whistle or other audible device in such a manner as
to simulate an air raid warning signal or an all clear
signal except upon order of the Chief of Police, or other
proper authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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