ORDINANCE 259`f1
ORDINANCE NO. 259.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, MAKING CERTAIN REGULATIONS
RELATING TO PUBLIC PARKS AND THE USE
THEREOF WITHIN SAID CITY.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That the following rules and regu-
lations relating to public parks and the use of public
parks within the City of El Segundo, California, are hereby
established, to -wit:
RULE NO. 1:
No company, society, organization, gathering
' or group of more than twenty -five persons shall hold
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or conduct any picnio, celebration, service, exercise,
gathering, assembly or meeting in any public park
within the City of E1 Segundo without first obtaining
a written permit so to do from the City Council of
said City, and no person shall attend, take part in,
or be a participant in any such picnic, celebration,
service, exercise, gathering, assembly or meeting in
any such public park, unless such permission shall
have been first obtained.
RULE N0, 2:
No company, society, organization, gathering
or group of less than twenty -five persons, desiring
the use of picnic tables, stoves, cooking facilities
or grounds, located in that certain public park,
commonly designated and known as "Grand Avenue Park"
within said City, shall make any such use, without
first making application therefor to the Police
Department of said City, at 205 West Franklin Avenue
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Council held after the filing of the same, but
applicants are cautioned that such applications
should be made at least twenty -four hours before
the regular meeting of the City Council, at which
the same is to be presented.
RULE N0. 6:
Any person, company, society, organization,
gathering or group desiring any permit required
under the provisions of Rule No. 2 above set forth,
shall make application therefor in writing to said
Police Department at least twenty -four hours prior
to the time the use requested in the application is
to be made. Each such application shall state, in
addition to any other information which may be
requested:
(a) The purpose for which such permit is
requested:
(b) The day and the hours between which the
use for which permit is sought, will be
made; and
(e) A truthful estimate of the number of
persons anticipated to be present,. and
the name of the person, company, society,
organization, gathering or group to whom
such permit is to be issued, if granted.
The Police Department shall promptly consider
each such application and may issue or refuse to issue
any such permit, as the circumstances and other re-
servations, or pending reservations for similar use
or uses, may indicate or justify.
SECTION 2. It is provided, however, that the
provisions of this ordinance and the rules and regulations
therein set forth, shall not apply to the officers and ems
ployees of said City lawfully in any such public park who
at the time are actually engaged in the discharge of their
official duties, or to members of the armed forces of the
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United States of America.
SECTION 3. That, except as hereinabove provided,
any person, company, society, organization, gathering or
group violating any of the provisions of this ordinance,
or any of the provisions of the rules or regulations here-
inabove set forth in Section 1 of this ordinance, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not to exceed three hundred dollars
($300.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail of said City
of El Segundo, California, or in the County Jail of Los
Angeles County, California, as the committing magistrate
may direct, for a period of not to exceed three months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of
the Court.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance is an emergency
ordinance, affecting the public peace, health, safety,
comfort, convenience and general Welfare of said City, and
the same shall therefore take effect immediately upon the
final passage and adoption thereof.
The facts constituting its urgency are as follows:
The United States of America is now engaged in a war with
the so- called "Axis Powers", and it is essential and
necessary in order to preserve and protect the public peace,
health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare of
said City, that the rules and regulations hereinabove es-
tablished should take effect immediately, in view of the
location of the public parks within said City, and their
proximity to essential municipal properties and facilities.
SECTION 5. 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
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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 26th day of
August , A. D., 1942.
Mayo o e City of Segundo,
California.
(SEAL)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
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. 259 ,
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 26th day of August , A. D.,
1942, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Peterson and
Mayor Love. ;
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen Selby.
ty Clerk of t46 i
(SEAL) f
El Segundo, Cal fornia.
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CLERKIS CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
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 Js
five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No.
259 , is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance
No. 259 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING
CERTAIN REGULATIONS RELATING
TO PUBLIC PARKS AND THE USE
THEREOF WITHIN SAID CITY. ".
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 26th day of
August , 1942, and that the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Peterson and
Mayor Love ;
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen 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
amended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 259
was duly and regularly published according to law and the
order of the City Council of said City in the E1 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:
August 27th, 1942.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this
28th day of August 1942.
y Cler4California.
City of
Segundo
(SEAL)
Affidavit of Publicatio
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ML
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
Frank L. Snow
being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
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is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, ov*
the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that be'
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the._...
Editor
IiNUM and publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pnli►,';: =:
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
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
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City Clerk of the ty and ,County
of Los Angeles, State of C ifornia.
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therein, for a reservation for the use of such
facilities and grounds, and the receiving of such
a reservation from said Police Department.
RULE N0, 3:
No person shall remain, stay in, loiter or be
in any public park within said City of El Segundo
during the period commencing one hour after sundown
on any day, and ending one hour before sunrise of
the following day.
RULE N0. 4:
That the cooking or preparation of food, the
holding of picnio parties, box luncheon parties, or
similar assemblies or gatherings in that certain
public park generally designated and commonly known
and referred to as "Library Park" within said City,
are, and each of such acts is, hereby prohibited.
RULE N0. 5:
Any person, company, society, organization,
gathering or group desiring any permit required
under the provisions of Rule No. 1 above set forth
shall make application therefor in writing to be
filed with the City Clerk of said City, which said
application shall state, in addition to any other
Information which may be required:
(a) The purpose for which such permit is
requested;
(b) The day and the hours between which the
use for which permit is sought, will be
made; and
(c) A truthful estimate of the number of persons
anticipated to be present and the name of
the person, company, society, organization,
gathering or group to whom such permit is
to be issued, if granted.
The City Clerk shall present any such application
to the City Council at the next regular meeting of said
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