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ORDINANCE 266L6� j ORDINANCE NO. 266, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE N0, 211 OF SAID CITY, ENTITLED: NAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DRILLING, MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS THEREIN; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.N, BY AMENDING SECTION 4 THEREOF. WHEREAS, in the month of November, 1937, the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, did adopt Ordinance No. 211 of said City, hereinafter referred to, and did in Section 4 thereof make certain provisions relating to the furnishing of bonds in connection with the drilling, operating of and abandonment of oil wells within said City; AND, WHEREAS, under existing war time and emergency conditions, and in view of present modified activities of wells for which permits are held within said City, it appears advisable to this Council to modify the bond requirements relating to such wells and permits, as hereinafter set forth; NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1, That Section 4 of Ordinance No. 211 of said City, entitled: 1. "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DRILLING, MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS THEREIN; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.", passed, approved and adopted on the 24th day of November, 1937, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SECTION 4. Every permittee shall either, before or at the time of securing his or its permit, and a permittee now operating under a permit hereto- fore granted, shall deliver to the City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, a bond approved by the City Attorney of said City as to form, and by the Mayor of said City as to surety, for the principal sun of $2,000.00, payable to said City of El Segundo, California, indemnifying said City against any loss which may be suffered by said City or any public property therein located, or by any public street, avenue, alley, way or place within said City, by reason of the drilling or re- drilling or existence, or operation, abandonment or conduct of the well referred to in his or its permit, or the violation of the terms and conditions of his or its permit, or any of them, or the failure of said permittee to re- move the derrick and /or its appurtenances, or any act whether of commission or omission on the part of said permittee, or any agent or contractor employed In connection with the well referred to in the re- spective permit, or any agent or contractor acting under direction of said permittee. Any permittee now engaged or who or which shall hereafter engage 2. "A good and sufficient bond as hereinabove provided, shall at all times be kept in full force and effect by the permittee covering each and every well for which suehpermittee Mass been granted a permit, until he or it has been released from such obligation by completion of the terms of the permit or permits issued to him or it, and a consent to such release has been granted by the City Council of said City. Unless such permittee keeps such bond or bonds in full force and effect, as hereinabove provided, then and in that event the City Council may declare any such permit or permits forfeited, and all rights of the permittee therein named thereunder shall cease and terminate." SECTION 2. That said Ordinance No. 211, as amended, to date, is hereby amended as hereinabove in Section 1 of this ordinance set forth. SECTION 3. That the City Council appreciates that when the amendment hereinabove set forth in Section 1 goes into effect it will be necessary for the respective permittees holding permits for wells to obtain adjustments of their re- spective bonds covering their respective wells, in accordance with the provisions of said amendment, and that such re- placement bonds would be at variance as to amounts with the provisions of the permits theretofore granted for such re- speotive wells. The Council therefore hereby orders that upon the effective date of said amendment all outstanding oil and/or gas well permits shall be automatically modified without further action on the part of either the City Council or the respective permittees, or their respective sureties, and that thereafter bonds furnished in accordance with the 4+- provisions of said Section 4 of said Ordinance No. 211, as hereinabove set forth, shall be deemed sufficient under the provisions of any such outstanding permits. SECTION 4. That this ordinance, being an administrative ordinance of said City, and it being ad- visable for administrative purposes, that same should take effect on a date reasonably related to either the calendar year or the fiscal year of said City, shall therefore take effect at midnight on the 31st day of December, 1942, and thereafter remain in effect until the further order of said Council. SECTION 5. 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, printed, published and circulated in the said City of El Segundo, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. Passed, approved and adopted this 23rd day of December, A. D., 1942. A EST: ity Clerk ( SEAL) Hayor o! a ty of EL Sojin-4, California. • -- i 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. 266 , 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 23rd day of December, A. D., 1942, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Couaoilman Gerow, Hesser, Peterson, Selby and Mayor Love NOES: Councilmen Ana. ; ABSENT: Councilmen None ity ark o! e y o! El Segundo, California. (SEAL) C=am CLERIC I S CERTIFICATE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 88 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. 266 , is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 2&L of the said City of El Segundo, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL S EGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 211 OF SAID CITY, ENTITLED: 'AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DRILLING, MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS THEREIN; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.", BY AMENDING SECTION 4 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 23rd day of December, A. D., 1942, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Gerow. Hesser. Peterson, Selby and — _saavor Love ; NOES: Councilmen ABSENT: Councilmen NonA 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 Wi.tion), as amended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 266 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: December 31st, 1942 . WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this 5h3t day of December, A. D., 1942. (SEAL) i ty Clerk of t City of El Segundo, California. ?_ I-- Affidavit of Publicat STATE OF cAmFoiaNm COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 88. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, __.­__...._.__. . ... . .... ZZMIX ... �L-! ----- SmnPK ------- .___ being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he 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....._.._... Editor --- - --- - ------ - ------- --- --- * * ­ .... .. W"4 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, resolutlJon or Instrument hereunto attached on page_... numbered ........... . .............. . .... . ................ . ........ ....A . .............. .... _­__......__.. . .. . ...... . .......... . ........ . . .. . 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 ..Qrd.i.na_n.q_.e .... 2.66 ..... (Arn.endirvc. Ordinance 211 ... .. ...... ... .. .. --- --- --- . ....... ...... J_..__...._.. .................. .. . . ... of which the annexed Is a printed copy as herein above stated, was published and printed in said newspaper at least .... PXLPq ... MOM ......... by ----- - -------- -_ - --- - ---- 4000100MM publication.-., 010100indW on the -r?? s t- .day of .... A. D. 194.2 ... . . .......... . .... . .... . .... . . ...........•...•.•...•....•....•.....••.....•........... ------ falipsiols" to-wit: ------_-------------- - -------- - - ---------- - -------- - - Thursday, December 31, 1942 ------------------------------- - -------- ------ -- -- . .. . ..... ---. ..... Subscribed a d sworn to before me this dayOf --------- ---------- ---- - -------- - ---------- - -- - -- A. D. 194 -.... . . o tti 7 ---- - - ------ - I .......... . .... ----- - - ------- ---- - - ------ - - - - ------- -- t I& y Clerk. the C y o egund County of f W of Los An les, State of fornia. 13Y--------------- - ----- Deputy City Clerk of Said City.