ORDINANCE 279ORDINANCE NO. 279•
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING RULES AND
REGULATIONS RELATING TO AND GOVERNING
PUBLIC PARKS, PARKWAYS, PLAYGROUNDS,
RECREATION AREAS AND PLACES WITHIN SAID
CITY, AND THE USE THEREOF, AND PROHIBITING
CERTAIN ACTS THEREIN.
The City Council of the City of El Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS:
For the purposes of this ordinance the following
words, phrases and terms shall have the respective meanings
hereinafter respectively ascribed to them, to -wit:
First: The word "person" shall mean and include
person, firm, association or corporation, and whether
acting individually, or as principal, agent, owner,
lessee, representative, servant, employee, or otherwise.
Sfecond_: The words "public park" shall mean and
Include public parks, public playgrounds, public re-
creation centers or areas and other public areas
created, established, designated, maintained, provided
or set aside by the City of El Segundo, for the purposes
of public rest, play, recreation, enjoyment, or assembly,
and shall include all buildings and structures located
thereon or therein.
Third: The word "City" shall mean and indicate the
City of El Segundo, California; and the words " Counoil"
or "City Counoil", the City Council of said city.
Fourth: The words "park superintendent" shall mean
and indicate the officer or person designated by the City
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Council as Park Superintendent or Superintendent of
Parks, or his authorised representative.
Fifth; The words "parkway" or "parkway area" shall
mean and include that area of any public street, avenue,
road, alley, way or place which lies between the street
(property) line and the nearest curb line thereof.
S Wherever used heroin the singular includes
the plural; the plural includes the singular; the
masculine includes the feminize and the feminine includes
the masculine.
SEMON 2. That it shall be the duty of every person
to comply with and observe each and all of the following rules
and regulations relating to parkways and parkway areas within
the City of R1. Segundo, California, which are hereby promul-
gated, designated, fixed and established, to.-wit:
Par jaw Palo 1.
It shall be the duty of the owner and of the person
in charge, ous tody, control or possession of the parcel
of real property adjoining any parkway, to keep such
parkway at all times in a clean and neat condition and
free from objectionable matter and from encroachments
or obstacles which may or might afford or constitute a
hazard to persons or property.
Parkway Rule 2.
The owner or person in charge, custody, control or
possession of any parcel of real property adjoining any
parkway shall have the right to plant, cultivate and
maintain in any such parkway, lawns, flowers, vines and
shrubs of a character proper and suitable for planting
In such areas, and shall be under the duty and obligation
to properly attend, cultivate, water and care for all
such plantings.
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Parkway Rule 3.
Trees of any kind shall not be planted by any
person in any parkway without a special permit in
writing first had and obtained so to do from the City
Council of said city, in order that the Council may
thereby insure an orderly planting of the proper types
of trees in the various public streets, avenues, roads,
alleys, ways or places within said city.
garkway Rule 40
No person shall permit any tree, lawn, vine, shrub
or other planting, planted by him or over which he has
possession or control, to encroach in or upon any public
street, avenue, road, alley; way or place, or parkway,
in such manner as to endanger or discommode pedestrians
or traffic, or interfere with the free and unhindered
use for pedestrian and vehicular traffio purposes.
Parkway Rule $.
It shall be the duty of the Park Superintendent
to keep informed respecting the condition of the parkway
areas within the city, and to notify the owners or
persons having custody and control of any tree, lawn,
plant, vine or shrub which encroaches upon the parkway
area in a manner contrary to that prescribed by Parkway
Rule 4, hersinabove, to remove and abate such encroach-
ment, and it shall be unlawful for any such owner or
person to fail, refuse or neglect to promptly remedy
any such condition referred to in any such notice.
Parkway Rule 6.
No person shall remove, out, break, mutilate, tear,
deface or injure any tree in or upon any parkway area
within said city.
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Parkwal Rule ?.
No person shall remove, pick, injure, mutilate,
break, crush or destroy any plant, lawn, shrub, vine,
bush, flower or other decorative or ornamental growth
in or upon any parkway area within said city; provided,
however, that the provisions of this rule shall not
apply to the owner or person in charge, oustody, control
or possession of the paroel of real property immediately
adjoining such parkway area from planting, maintaining,
cultivating, removing, replacing and generally maintain-
ing such parkway area in the usual and customary manner.
Parkway Rule G.
No person shall place or deposit any rubbish, debris,
or waste matter, or waste materials, or abandoned matter
or abandoned materials of any kind, in or upon any
parkway area; provided, however, that garbage receptacles
and rubbish receptacles may be so planed for immediate
collection in accordance with the established regulations
of said city relating to such matters. Miscellaneous
grass, tree, vine and shrub outtings may also be so
placed for prompt collection and removal, but same mast
be placed in such manner as to not afford any hazard or
danger to persons or property. It is provided, however,
that where an open and accessible public alley exists in
the rear or on the side of any premises, such cuttings
from or arising on such premises shall be placed in, or
immediately adjacent to, such public alley, instead of
In the public street in front of or along such premises,
but all such placements shall be made in such manner as
not to afford any hazard or danger to persons or property.
It shall be unlawful for any person within said city
to break or violate any of the foregoing parkway rules, or to
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perform any act prohibited thereby, or to fail or refuse
to perform any duty or obligation imposed thereby.
SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of every
person to comply with and observe each and all of the follow-
ing rules and regulations relating to public parks within
the City of El Segundo, California, which are hereby pro-
mulgated, designated, fixed and established, to -wit:
Park Rule No. 1.
No person within any public park shall hitch,
fasten, lead, drive or let loose any animal or fowl
of any kind, provided that this shall not apply to
dogs when led by a cord or chaia.not more than six
feet long.
Park Rule No. 2.
No person within any public park shall ride or
drive any horse or other animal, or propel any vehicle,
cycle or automobile, except in designated areas.
Park Rule No . ,.
No person within any public park shall carry or
discharge any firearms, firecrackers, rockets, torpe-
does or any other fireworks, or airgun or slingshot.
Park Rule No. 4.
No person within any public park shall out, break,
injure, deface or disturb any tree, shrub, plant, rook,
building, cage, pen, monument, sidewalk, paved area,
fence, bench or other structure, apparatus or property;
or pluck, pull up, out, take or remove any shrub, bush,
plant or flower; or mark or write upon, paint or de-
face in any manner, any building, monument, fence,
bench, sidewalk, paved area or other structure.
Park Rule Nos 5;
No person within any public park shall out or
remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rook, sand, gravel
` or fertilizer.
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No person within any public park shall swim, fish
In, bathe, wade in, or pollute the water of any fountain,
pond, lake or stream; provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as prohibiting the
use for the purpose intended, of any casting pool,
wading pool or bathing pool, speolally provided for such
particular use or uses.
Park Rule No. 7.
No person within any public park shall make or
kindle a fire except in picnic stoves or fire places
provided for that purpose.
Park Rule No. S.
No person within any public park shall camp or
lodge therein, except by permission in writing from the
City Council.
Eark Rule No. 9.
No person
within any public park
shall cook,
pre.
pare, serve or
eat any lunch, barbecue
or picnic
except
at the place or places provided therefor.
Eark Rule No. 10.
No person within any public park shall wash dishes
or empty salt water or other waste liquids elsewhere
than in the sinks provided for such purposes.
Lark Rule No, 11.-
No person within any public park shall leave any
garbage, oars, bottles, papers or other refuse elsewhere
than in the receptacles provided therefor.
Park RultNo. 12.
No person within any public park shall play or
engage in any base ball, soft ball, foot ball, soaker
ball, volley ball or other gene or games excepting at
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such place or places as shall be especially designated
or set apart for that purpose.
Park Rule No. 13.
No person within any public park shall play or bet
at or "against any game which is played, conducted,
dealt or carried on with cards, dice, or other device,
for money, chips, shelle, credit or any other ropre-
sentative of value, or Ali maintain or exhibit any
gambling table or other instrument of gambling or gaming.
Park Rule No. 14.
No person within any public park shall indulge in
riotous, boisterous, threatening, or indeeent conduct,
or abusive, threatening, profane, or indecent language,
or operate any radio or musical instrument in such a
manner as to disturb in any manner any plonio, meeting,
services, concert, exercise or exhibition.
_Park Rule No. 15.
No person within any public park shall disturb in
any manner any picaie, meeting, services, concert,
exercise or exhibition.
Park Rule No. 16.
No person within any public park shall distribute
any handbills or circulars, or post, place or *root any
bills, notice, paper, or advertising device or matter
of any kind.
Park Rule No. 17*
No person shall remain, stay or loiter in any
public park between the period commencing at 10 o'clock
P. M. on any day and ending one hour before sun rise of
the following day, except by special written permission
of either the City Council or the Park Superintendent.
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Park Rule No. 180
No person within any public park shall bold any
meeting, service, concert, exercise or exhibition
without first obtaining written permission from the
City Council so to do.
Park Rule No.19.
No person, company, society, organisation, gather-
Lag or group of more than twenty -five persons, shall
hold or conduct any picnic, celebration, parade, service,
exercise, gathering, assembly or meeting in any public
park within the City of 11 Segando, without first obtals-
or Chief of Police
Lng a written permit se to do from the City Counell_/of
said city, and no person shall attend, take part in, or
be a participant in any such pionlo, celebration, service,
exercise, gathering, assembly or meeting in any such
public park, unless such permission shall have been
first obtained.
Park Rule No. _ .
No male person over eight (8) years of age shall
enter or use any toilet or rest room for women in any
public park.
Park Rule No. 21.
No person within any public park shall remove from
any park equipment any sign indicating that such equip-
sent is reserved.
Park Rule No. 22.
No person within any public park shall use or
attempt to use or interfere with the use of any table,
space, or faoility in said park which at the time is
reserved by written reservation then in offset, issued
to or for any other person or persons; provided, however,
that all such reservations shall specify the period
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covered by same and shall be subject to cancellation
by either the Council or Chief of Police, or his
authorized representative. Unless the aotual use of the
table, space or facility referred to in any reservation
is oommenced within thirty minutes after the period
covered by such reservation begins, such reservation
shall thereupon be void and all rights under such re-
servation may be cancelled by the Chief of Polio@ or his
authorized representative.
Park Rule No. 23.
Reservations for tables, space or facilities in
public parks may be obtained on written application to
the Chief of Police or his authorized representative,
stating or snowing:
(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
(o) A truthful estimate of the number of persons
aati.oipated 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.
Permits or reservations applied for may be granted
or withheld by the Chief of Police or his authorized
representative in his discretion, and may contain such
terms or conditions as the said Chief or his authorized
representative may impose with reference thereto, and
no permit or reservation shall be valid unless the same
is applied for and granted as contemplated in this rule.
All reservations shall be subject to cancellation as
provided in this ordinance.
PARK RULE NO. 2
That the 000king or preparation of food, the holding
of picnic parties, boa luncheon parties, or similar
assemblies or gatherings in that certain public park
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generally designated and commonly known and referred
to as "Library Park" within said city, are, and each
of such acts is, hereby prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person within said city
to break or violate any of the foregoing park rules, or to
perform any act prohibited thereby, or to fail or refuse to
perform any duty or obligation imposed thereby.
SECTION 4. That any person, firs or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punishable by a fine of not to exceed $3009'00, or by is.
prisonment in the City Jail of the City of EL Segundo,
California, or in the County Jail of Los Angeles County,
California, as the committing magistrate may determine, for
not more than three (3) months, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.
Each such person, firm or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a separate offense for every day during any portion of
which any violation of any provision of this ordinance is
committed or continued or permitted by such person, and shall
be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance.
SECTION 6. The provisions of this ordinance and
the rules and regulations therein set forth shall not apply
to the officers and employees of said city lawfully engaged
In the discharge of their official duties, or to members of
the armed forces of the United States of America when on duty.
SECTION 6. That this ordinance shall take offset
and be in full force aad virtue thirty (30) days from and
after the date of the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION T. That Ordinance No. 289, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF' THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, MAKING CERTAIN REGULATIONS
RELATING TO PUBLIC PARSE AND THE USE
THEREOF WITHIN SAID CI TY.M,
passed and adopted on the 26th day of August, 1942, is hereby
repealed, as are also all other ordinances and parts of •rdl-
nanoes in so far as the same conflict with the provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION 8. 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 EL Begundo
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 19th day of July -
A. D., 1944.
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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. 227,
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 19... th day of July , A. D.
1944, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen e ser, Peterson, Selby, Skelley and "
Mayor Love ;
NOW: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
(SEAL)
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CUMI S CMTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
1, Victor D. Ma Car thy, 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
live; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 279 ,
Is a full, true and correct Cori inal of Ordinaw e
No. 279 of the said City of El Segundo," California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING RULES AND RPM
GULATION8 RELATING TO AND GOVERNING PUBLIC
PARKS, PM"AYB, PLAYGROUNDS, RECREATION
AREAS AND PLACES WITHIN SAID CITY, AND THE
USE THEREOF, AND PROHIBITING CHELTAIN ACTS
THRREIN. ",
wb1oh 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 JU1V , 1944, and
that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesser, Peterson, Selby, Skelley
and Mayor Love ;
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 8233 of the General Laws of
the State of California, (Deering 1923 Edition) as amended
to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 279 was duly and
regularly published according to law and tFe 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 pity, and that the same was so
published therein on the following date, to -wit: Tuly
20. 1944__.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this 21st
day of Till Y — `, 1944.
(SEAL)
ty ork of of
EL Segundo, 1fornia.
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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 H!
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printer 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 new*
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 maid newspaper
is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning
of Section 4480 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by maid section, maid
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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