ORDINANCE 270ORDINANCE N0. 270
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
OF PLACES, HOMES, INSTITU`T'IONS, OR CENTERS,
FURNISHING CHILD CARE SERVICE WITHIN SAID
CITY, AND PRESCRIBING CERTAIN REGULATIONS
IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH CHILD CARE SERVICE.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful, except as
hereinafter provided, for any person, firm, association or
corporation to establish, conduct, maintain or carry on in
the City of El Segundo, California, any place, home, insti-
tution or center furnishing child care service, to or for
two or more children, or in which two or more children are
housed, fed, supervised, maintained or cared for, unless
and until such person, firm, association or corporation shall
have first applied for and have received a written license
from said City so to do.
SECTION 2. That any person, firm, association or
corporation, desiring to obtain a license as required under
the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance, shall make
written application therefor and file same with the City
Clerk of said City, who will present the same to the City
Council of said City at the next regular meeting of said
Council following the filing of such application. In such
application the applicant stall state:
(1) The address at which such child care is
to be furnished.
(2) A brief description of the building or
buildings in which such "child care is to be furnished,
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showing the number of rooms contained in any such
building or buildings; indicating the sanitary
facilities available; the maximum number of children
proposed to be cared for, and the nature of the
service to be rendered, covering such items as part
time or full time service, day service, night service,
or both, number of supervising personnel to be
ordinarily maintained, and any other features which
will clearly indicate the type and nature of the
service proposed to be rendered.
SECTION 3. Unless such application is accompanied
by a report from the Fire Department of said City as to fire
hazards, the Health Department thereof as to sanitary con-
ditions, and from the Building Department thereof as to
structural safety, the City Council shall refer said appli-
cation to said respective departments for their respective
reports covering such matters.
SECTION 4. When the reports above referred to have
been filed by the respective departments of said City, the
Council shall proceed to consider the application and may
set the same for public hearing if the Council deems such
action necessary. Notice of the time and place of such
hearing shall be given the applicant at least three days
prior to the time of such hearing, in the event such a
hearing is so ordered.
SECTION 5. The City Council may, after such
investigation as it deems necessary, or after such hearing
if a hearing be ordered, grant or refuse to grant the
license applied for in its discretion, and if such license
is granted by said Council, said Council may prescribe the
terms and conditions upon and under which the same is granted
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and is to be used. In all such licenses, however, the
following conditions must always be inserted:
(1) That before the license is valid or
effective the licensee must obtain and exhibit to
the City Clerk, who is hereby charged with the
issuance of such license after authorization, a
permit from the State Welfare Commission, or from
its duly authorized agent or representative,
authorizing the permittee to institute, conduct
or carry on the activity for which application
hereunder was made.
(2) That the licensee must permit unmolested
inspection of the premises involved, and of the
service or services being rendered by the licensee,
to be made by the Health Officer, the Chief of the
Fire Department, the Building Inspector and Chief
of Police of said City, or their respective authorized
representatives at any and all reasonable hours and
times.
(3) That the permittee must promptly pay when
due and payable, the amount of any city license fee
applicable to the establishing or conducting of the
service rendered or to be rendered.
(4) That all laws of the State of California
and regulations and ordinances of the City of E1
Segundo relating to child care service and to
establishments rendering child care service, must
be observed and followed by the licensee.
(5) That the licensee will promptly notify
the City Council in writing whenever the service
licensed is discontinued.
(6) That the license is revocable by the City
Council at any time, as contemplated under the
provisions of this ordinance.
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SECTION 6. That the Health Officer or official
performing the functions of Health Officer of said City,
is hereby charged with the duty of making periodical
inspections of all establishments within said City where
such child care service is afforded, such inspections
to be made at least once each month.
SECTION 7. That no permit fee is required for
any permit herein provided for, but the licensee shall pay
to said'City the amount of any city business license tax
which may be applicable to the rendering of such service
within said City.
SECTION 8. That nothing in this ordinance
contained shall be construed as requiring a permit for the
care or rendering of child service by any parent or parents,
or other head of a family, to or for their own children, or
to or for children who bear lawful family relationship to
such parent or parents, or family head.
SECTION 9. That the City Clerk shall maintain in
his office in the City Hall of said City, open to public
inspection, a register in which shall be shown the name of
each licensee receiving a license under this ordinance, the
address of the place where such child care or service is
furnished by such licensee, and the maximum number of
children to be cared for under the provisions of such
license.
SECTION 10. Any licenses authorized by the Council
under the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to
revocation by the Council at any time, if the Council finds
and determines that in its opinion the public interest, or
the interest of the children affected, requires such re-
vocation, and it stall be unlawful after any such revocation
for the licensee thereafter to conduct, maintain or furnish
the service referred to in any such license so revoked,
until a new license therefor shall have been first had and
obtained as in the first instance. Unless sooner revoked,
any license issued hereunder shall automatically become null
and void when the licensee discontinues the furnishing of
the child care or service therein referred to.
SECTION 11. This ordinance is an ordinance
affecting the public peace, health, safety, comfort, con-
venience and general welfare of said City, and the same shall
therefore take effect and be in full force and virtue
immediately upon the final passage and adoption thereof.
The facts constituting its urgency are as follows:
The care, comfort, convenience and welfare of
children is of prior and paramount importance. Under
existing war -time conditions the establishing of child care
homes, centers, places and institutions is becoming ever
more prevalent; the City of E1 Segundo has no present ade-
quate regulations respecting said subjects, and it is
therefore essential that the regulations provided by this
ordinance become effective as soon as possible.
SECTION 12. That any person, firm 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 of not to exceed three hundred
dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail of said
City of E1 Segundo, 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 13. That the City Clerk shall certify to
the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause
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the same to be published once in the official paper of said
City, to —wit: the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper
printed, published and circulated within said City, and which
is hereby designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 19th day of
May , A. D., 1943.
Mayor of t Ci Wof El Segundo,
California.
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. 270 , 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 19th day of 1.4ay , A. D., 1943, and that
the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Peterson, Selby and
blayor Love ;
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen
None
ity Clerk of the City of
El Segundo, California.
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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
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.
270 , is a full, true and correct original of
Ordinance No. 270 of the said City of El Segundo, Cali-
fornia, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
OF PLACES, HOMES, INSTITUTIONS, OR CENTERS,
FURNISHING CHILD CARE SERVICE WITHIN SAID
CITY, AND PRESCRIBING CERTAIN REGULATIONS
IN CONFECTION WITH SUCH CHILD CARE SERVICE. ",
which was duly passed and adopted b;
approved and signed by the Mayor of
by the City Clerk of said City, all
the said Council held on the 19th
and that the same was so passed and
vote:
y the said City Council,
said City, and attested
at a regular meeting of
day of May , 1943,
adopted by the following
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Peterson, Selby
and Mayor Love ;
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen None •
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. 270 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 cir-
culated within the said City, and that the same was so
published therein on the following date, to -wit:
May 20th 1943
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this 21st
day of May , A. D., 1943.
City Clerk o the Ci ty
El Segundo, alifornia.
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 86.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
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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.
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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-
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BY
Clerk of the City
of Los An¢eld
Deputy City Clerk of Said City.
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