ORDINANCE 313BSECTION 4. UNLAWFUL RIDING. No person shall
ride on any street or interurban car or vehicle upon any
portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of
passengers. This provision shall not apply to any employees
engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty, or to persons rid-
ing within truck bodies in space intended for merchandise.
SECTION 5. CLINGING TO NOVING VEHICLE. Any
person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller
skates or any toy vehicle, shall not attach the same or him-
self to any street car or moving vehicle upon any roadway.
SECTION 6. VEHICLES SHALL NOT BE DRIVEN OR
ANIMALS BE RIDDEN ON THE SIDEWALK. The driver or operator
of a vehicle shall not drive or operate the same, nor shall
the rider of any animal ride or drive such animal, within
any sidewalk area or any parkway except at a permanent or
temporary driveway. A temporary driveway for the purposes
of this section is defined to mean a crossing or driveway
suitably planked or otherwise protected to prevent injury
to the curb or sidewalk and for which a permit has first
been had and obtained from the Street Superintendent of
this city.
SECTION 7. NEW PAVENENT. No person shall ride
or drive any animal or any vehicle or bicycle over or across
any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any
street when a barrier or sign is in place warning persons
not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or
when a sign is in place stating that the street or any
portion thereof is closed.
SECTION 8. SIDEWALKS, COASTING, ETC. No person shall
coast or propel himself down, along, upon or over any sidewalk
In any wagon, cart, hand - wagon, coaster, bicycle or other
vehicle in any business district, except at a permanent or
temporary driveway.
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SECTION 9. BACKING OF VEHICLES. Unless in com-
pliance with the immediate direction or order of the Traffic
Authority or any Police Officer of the City of El Segundo to
the contrary, no person shall back or operate in reverse
gear any vehicle on any street within said City for a greater
distance than is necessary in order to place such vehicle
In position for the lawful operation thereof in a forward
direction upon such street.
SECTION 10. INJURING PAVEMENT, ETC. No person
shall drive, propel, draw, trail or move any vehicle, plow,
harrow, scarifier, equipment, device, or any other object,
instrument or article in or upon any public street, road,
avenue, alley, highway, or other public place within said
city, the surface of which has been improved or finished by
or with an oil pavement, macadam pavement, concrete pavement,
or other type of pavement or improvement, in such way or
manner as to scratch, tear, injure, mutilate, out, disfigure
or rear any such pavement or improved surface or improvement;
provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall
not apply to official acts performed in the exercise of offs.
oial duty, nor to employees of said city or of contractors
holding contracts with said city, in the lawful exercise of
their respective duties and assignments or in the lawful
execution of their respective contracts.
SECTION 11. DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN LIQUIDS AND SUB-
STANCES PROHIBITED. No person shall drain, place, let fall,
drip, leak, or deposit, or cause or permit to be drained,
placed, let fall, drip, leak, or deposit, and whether from a
vehicle or otherwise, in or upon any public street, road,
avenue, alley, way, or other public place within said city,
any filthy water, liquid or substance; or any water, liquid
or substance from any sink or hopper; or any water or other
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liquid or substance containing salt or other chemical
or chemicals, or content, which may or does stain, discolor,
mar, or soften or in any other manner injure any paving,
pavement or surface, or other public improvement existing
In or upon any such public street, road, avenue, alley,
highway or other public place. Nothing herein contained
shall prevent the temporary deposit of any such items or
materials in course of lawful transport or other lawful
handling when same are enclosed in a suitable body, box or
receptacle which effectively prevents the same from coming
in contact with the pavement, paving or surface of, or any
other improvement in, such public street, road, avenue,
alley, highway or other public place.
SECTION 12. DEPOSIT OF GARBAGE, WASTE MATERIALS,ETC.
No person shall place or deposit, or leave or abandon, or
cause to be placed or deposited, or left or abandoned in
any public street, road, avenue, alley, highway or other
public place, within said city, any garbage, rubbish, trash,
sweepings, garden refuse, tree trimmings, ashes, tin cans,
junk, or any other waste or refuse material or matter; or
the contents of any cuspidor, or any putrid or objectionable
substances of any kind. It is provided, however, that such
items or materials may be temporarily deposited in course of
lawful transport or other lawful handling thereof in accord-
ance with any other rules or regulations which may exist or
may hereafter be established with reference thereto.
SECTION 13. TRANSPORTATION OF GARBAGE AND RUBBISH
REGULATED. No person shall nove, remove, transport or convey,
or cause or permit to be moved, removed, transported or con-
veyed in, upon or along any public street, road, avenue, alley,
highway or other public place within said city any garbage or
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any combustible rubbish, semi -combustible rubbish, or non-
combustible rubbish, as said materials are defined in the
ordinances of said city relating to the collection and
transportation thereof, without first applying for and
obtaining a written permit from the Traffic Authority, or
his authorized representative, so to do.
It is provided, however, that the provisions of
this section shall not apply to any officer or employee
of said city while engaged in the performance of official
duty, or to any person, firm or corporation with whom or
with which the said City has at the time an existing
contract for the removal, disposal and /or conveyance of
any such material, or to any employee of such contractor,
while engaged in the lawful execution of such contract.
SECTION 14. No person shall ride, drive or propel,
or cause to be ridden, driven or propelled, into or upon
any roadway, path or way, in any public park or recreation
ground within said City any vehicle, device or other equip-
ment, including a bicycle, when there shall be posted at
the entrance to any such road, roadway, path or way a notice
or sign to the effect that the same is closed to vehicles,
placed by the order of the Park Superintendent of said City.
It is provided, however, that no thing' in this
section contained shall be construed as applying to the
use of vehicles and equipment employed in the upkeep of
parks or recreation grounds, or vehicles or equipment of
the water or street departments of said City when same are
actually being used in and about such parka or recreation
grounds in the performance of work or activities having
official sanction.
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SECTION 15. TORCHES, LIGHTS, LANTERNS, SIGNS
AND BARRIERS. No person other than an officer or em-
ployee of the City of E1 Segundo, California, and who is
at the time acting in the line of duty and in the course
of his employment as such officer or employee, shall
handle, interfere, or tamper with, displace, remove,
damage or extinquish any torch, light, lantern, whether
illuminated or not, or any sign, obstruction, or barrier,
when said torch, light, lantern, sign, obstruction, or
barrier is placed in, on, upon, near, or about any exca-
vation, embankment, improvement, out, fill, earth, material
or flooded area in any public street, road, alley, easement,
way, or place within said city.
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE USE OF STREETS.
SECTION 1. GAMES PROHIBITED IN STREETS. Unless by
special written permit from the Traffic Authority first had
and obtained, no person or persons shall play, carry on or
engage in any game in or upon any street.
SECTION 2. DANCING IN STREETS. No person shall
dance or conduct any danoe or engage in any dancing in any
street without a written permit from the Traffic Authority
so to do first had and obtained.
SECTION 3. EXHIBITIONS, ETC. IN STREETS. No
person shall conduct or engage in any exhibition in any
street or use any street or any portion thereof within
said City for any purpose other than street purposes with..
out written permission from the Traffic Authority so to do
first had and obtained.
SECTION 4. OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS. No person
shall erect, construct, place, maintain, leave or abandon
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any building, fence, porch, steps, post, pole, track, wire,
pipe, conduit or other structure in whole, or in part, in
or upon any street within said City; and no person shall
place, affix, paint, maintain, leave or abandon any sign,
placard, notice, advertisement, seat, bench, table, stand
material or other obstruction in any street, within said
City; without a special permit in writing so to do first
had and obtained from the Traffic Authority, or the Street
Superintendent, or the City Council of said City; provided,
however, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply:
(a) To United States Mail boxes;
(b) To poles and facilities of public utilities
lawfully using the public streets of said City;
(c) To portable and usual garbage and rubbish
receptacles when conforming to and placed
in accordance with the rules and regulations
of said City; and
(d) To notices, placards, posters or any of the
other articles or means above mentioned, or
referred to, erected or placed by any City
or other public officer, official or employee
acting within the scope of his or her office
or employment as such public officer, official
or employee.
SECTION 5. EXCAVATIONS IN STREETS. No person shall
dig in, excavate, tear up, deface, or inure any street without
an express written permit so to do first had and obtained from
either the Superintendent of Streets or the City Council of
said City, and it shall be unlawful for any person to violate
or permit or cause to be violated any of the terms or conditions
imposed in any such permit if and when issued,
SECTION 6. LIGHTS ON OBSTRUCTIONS. No person placing
or maintaining any obstruction or making any excavation in any
street shall fail or neglect to provide, during the period
between sunset of any day and sunrise of the succeeding day,
suitable and adequate lights to warn users of such street of
any such obstructions or excavations.
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SECTION 7. DEPOSIT OF RUBBISH IN STREETS. No
person shall throw, deposit or place in or upon any street
any glass, bottles, paper, rubbish, garbage (except in
proper containers as permitted by law), or any unsightly,
foul or noxious substance.
SECTION 8, EXPECTORATION IN STREETS AND PUBLIC
PLACES, ETC. No person shall expectorate on the floor or
any other portion of any public building, hall or stairway,
or upon the floor or any portion of any street oar, bus, or
other public conveyance, or upon any sidewalk within said
City.
SECTION 9, HAULING MATERIALS. No person shall
haul any dirt, rubbish, debris, garbage, oil or other
petroleum product, bricks, sand, gravel, crushed rock or
other materials in, upon or along any street unless the same
is contained in a body, box, receptacle or carrier which
effectively prevents any part of the load from leaking,
sifting, dropping or being deposited upon the street. The
provisions of this Section shall not apply to the slight
leakage which is necessarily incident to the careful and
proper operation of a motor vehicle.
SECTION 10. ADVERTISING AND SOUND EQUIPPED
VEHICLES__ PORTABLE SOUND EQUIPMENT, ETC.
No person shall, in any public street within
said City:
(A) Operate, drive, park or leave standing
any vehicle equipped with any sound producing, or
noise making, or sound amplifying, or loud speaking
device, appliance or means (other than sirens, horns,
or amplifying devices, required or authorized by law)
at any time while such device, appliance or means
is in use or operation; or
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(B) Transport on foot, or by any means not
prohibited under Paragraph (A) above, or place,
deposit, hold, or carry any sound producing, or noise
making, or sound amplifying, or loud speaking devise,
appliance or means, at any time while such device,
appliance or means is in use or operation; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be cos..
strued as preventing the playing on portable radios of
actual programs broadcast from radio stations duly and
regularly authorize and lloensod by the Federal Commu-
nioations Commission, to publicly broadcast such
program; or
(C) Operate, drive, park or leave standing any
vehicle, or other means of transportation, designed,
equipped, developed, furnished, used, or intended to be
used, for advertising purposes while such vehicle, or
other means of transportation, or its contents or attach.
ments, or equipment, articles or facilities transported
by it, is or are being used for advertising purposes;
without firsi obtaining a written permit from the Traffic
Authority of said City so to do, or in any manner contrary to
any condition or provision under or pursuant to which any such
permit may be issued. The Traffic Authority may, subject to the
right of appeal to the City Council by any person aggrieved,
grant or refuse to grant any such permit. Upon appeal of any
person aggrieved by any act, order or refusal of the Traffic
Authority, the Council shall promptly hear such appeal, and
the decision of the City Council on such appeal after such
hearing shall be final and conclusive.
SECTION 11, CLOSING STREETS TEMPORARILY. The Traffic
Authority shall have the right, authority and power at any time
to close any street or any portion thereof temporarily to
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vehicular, pedestrian or other traffic when in the opinion
of such Traffic Authority the public peace, health or safety
require such temporary closing; provided, however, that in
all such cases, suitable signs shall be conspicuously posted
giving notice of the fact that such street or portion thereof
is closed, or a police officer or person designated by the
Traffic Authority is present thereat for the purpose of giving
such notice. No person shall, in case any such street or
portion thereof is so closed, enter into or upon such closed
portion or drive any vehicle into or upon the same contrary
to any such notice or notices or the order or orders of any
such police officer or person so designated. Nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving the City Council
and /or Street Superintendent of said City from concurrent
power to likewise temporarily close any street or portion
thereof within said City, but the delegation of power to the
Traffic Authority herein made shall be construed as in
addition thereto.
SECTION 12. TRUCK ROUTES.
(a) Whenever this ordinance or any other Ordinance
of this City designates and describes any street or portion
thereof as a street, the use of which is permitted by any
commercial vehicle or of any vehicle exceeding the maximum
gross weight limit of three tons, the Traffic Authority is
hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by
appropriate signs as "Truck Traffic Route" for the movement
of commercial vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit
of three tons.
(b) When any such truck traffic route or routes
are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator
of any commercial vehicle or any vehicle exceeding a maximum
gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or
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routes and none other except when necessary to traverse
another street or streets to a destination for the purpose
of loading or unloading, but then only by such deviation from
the nearest truck traffic route as is reasonably necessary.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to passenger
busses under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission.
(e) The following described and designated streets
or portions of streets thereof are hereby designated and de-
scribed as "Truck Traffic Route" streets, the use of which is
permitted by any commercial vehicle or by any vehicle exceeding
the maximum gross weight limit of three tons, to -wit:
1. Rosecrans Avenue from Inglewood- Redondo Road
(Aviation Boulevard) to the westerly city limits
of this City;
20 Segundo Boulevard from Inglewood- Redondo Road
Aviation Boulevard) to Whiting Street;
3. Whiting Street from E1 Segundo Boulevard to Grand
Avenue;
4. Grand Avenue from Eucalyptus Drive to the westerly
boundary line of this City;
5. Imperial Highway from InglewoodrRedondo Road (Aviation
Boulevard) to the westerly boundary line of this City;
6. Main Street from Imperial Highway to E1 Segundo
Boulevard; and
7. Coast Boulevard from the southerly boundary line to
the northerly boundary line of this City.
SECTION 13. SIDEWALKS, PARKWAYS, MERCHANDISE, ETC. No
person shall leave or permit to remain in or upon any sidewalk
or in or upon any parkway in any street within said City, any
merchandise, fruit or fruits, melon or melons, vegetable or
vegetables, meat or meats,or any baggage or any article of
personal property.
SECTION 14. UNLAWFUL TO VIOLATE TERMS OR CONDITIONS
OF PERMITS. Whenever any permit or special permit shall have
been issued by either the Traffic Authority, the Street Superin-
tendent, or the City Council of said City, under or pursuant to
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the provisions of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful for
any person to violate, or cause or permit to be violated, or
to fail or refuse to observe or perform any of the require••
ments set forth in any of the terms or conditions imposed
in such permit or special permit or subject to which the same
Is authorized or granted.
SECTION 15. UNPACKING IN STREETS, SIDEWALKS, PARKWAYS.
Except in the discharge or performance of official duty, no
person shall place any boxes, barrels or other receptacles
for or containing goods, wares, merchandise or any other
articles or things in or upon any public street whether in
the roadway or on the sidewalk, or in the parkway thereof,
with the intent or for the purpose of unpacking or removing
such contents thereof upon such streets, sidewalks or parkways,
and, except in the discharge or performance of official duty,
no person shall unpack or remove the contents of or from any
such box, barrel or other receptacle for or containing goods,
wares, merchandise or any other articles or things while the
same is in or upon any street, sidewalk or parkway; provided,
however, that the provisions of this Section shall not prevent
peddlers duly licensed by said City from merchandising their
produce or wares in a proper and usual manner incident to the
business of peddling.
SECTION 16. PARADES AND PROCESSIONS. No person
shall hold, conduct, participate in or carry on any parade,
march, or procession on any street in the City of El Segundo,
California, or beat any drum, gong, triangle, tambourine, or
blow, use, or play any wind or stringed instrument upon any
street in the City, unless such person has first made written
application for and received from the City Council a permit
In writing authorizing such person so to do. All applications
for such_ permits shall set forth:
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(1) The route along which any such parade, march,
or procession proposes to travel.
(2) The date and time of the proposed starting
of same.
(3) The approximate length of such parade, march,
or procession.
(4 ) The names and addresses of the persons in
control of the same or responsible therefor.
(5 ) The purpose of such parade or procession.
ARTICLE IX
PEDESTRIANS
SECTION 1. THE TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH CROSSWALKS,
(a) The Traffic Authority shall establish, designate
and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by
appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the
roadway as follows:
Crosswalks may be established and maintained by the
Traffic Authority at all intersections where the
Traffic Authority determines that there is particular
hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway, subject
to the limitation contained in (b) of this section.
(b) Other than crosswalks at intersections no crosswalk
shall be established in any block which is less than two hundred
(200) feet in length. Elsewhere not more than one additional
crosswalk shall be established in any one block, and such
crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at mid— blook.
SECTION 2. CROSSING IN BUSINESS DISTRICT. Except at
intersection crosswalks, no pedestrian shall cross a roadway in
any business district other than at and in a marked crosswalk.
SECTION 3. CROSSING AT RIGHT ANGLES. No pedestrian
shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at
right angles to the curb, or by the shortest route to the
opposite curb except in a marked crosswalk.
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SECTION 4. STANDING IN ROADWAYS. No person shall
stand, sit or remain in any roadway other than in a safety
zone, if such action interferes with the lawful movement of
traffic. This provision shall not apply to any public
officer or employee, or to the employee of any public utility
or of any franchise or permit holder holding a franchise or
permit from said City or from any of its authorized officers
when such person is necessarily upon a street and engaged in
the performance of his necessary duty therein, or to licensed
surveyors or to members of their respective parties or crews
when actually and necessarily engaged in the performance of
their proper functions.
SECTION 5. HITCHHIKING. No person while in or upon
any street shall solicit a ride or rides from the driver of
any passing vehicle other than vehicles engaged in public
transportation.
SECTION 6. OBSTRUCTING SIDEWALK. No person shall
stop, stand or sit, in or upon any sidewalk area or crosswalk in
any manner so as to hinder, or obstruct, the free passage of
pedestrians thereon, nor shall annoy or molest such pedestrians.
ARTICLE X
TRAINS, STREET AND INTERURBAN CARS.
SECTION 1. STREET OR INTERURBAN CAR SPEED.
(a) The motorman or operator of any street car or
interurban oar shall not drive said street or interurban oar
at a speed exceeding the prima facie speed limits fixed by
the California Yehiole Code for vehicles.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply
when a street car or interurban car is being operated upon a
private right -of -way which is effectively protected from
vehicular traffic.
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SECTION 2. TRAINS NOT TO BLOCK STREETS. No person
shall operate any train or train of cars, or permit the same
to remain standing, so as to block the movement of traffic
upon any street for a period of time longer than five (5)
minutes.
SECTION 3. DRIVING ON STREET OR INTERURBAN CAR
TRACES. The driver of any vehicle proceeding upon any street
or interurban car track in front of a street or interurban
car upon a street shall remove such vehicle from the track
as soon as practical after signal from the operator of said
street or interurban car, unless prevented by other vehicles
or while awaiting a traffic signal.
SECTION 4. BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FROM STREET OR
INTERURBAN CAR OR VEHICLE. No person shall board or alight
from any street or interurban car or vehicle while such
street or interurban oar or vehicle is in motion.
SECTION 5. RAILWAY GATES. No person shall drive
any vehicle through or under any safety gate or railroad
barrier which is maintained at a railroad crossing for the
purpose of warning persons of the approach of a train or car,
while such gate or barrier is closed or while it is being
opened or closed.
ARTICLE XI
METHOD OF PARKING
SECTION 1. PARALLEL WITH CURB .. EXCEPTIONS. No
person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than
parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction
of traffic and with the right hand wheels of the vehicle
within eighteen (18) inches of the curb line or edge of the
roadway, except as follows:
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(a) Upon those streets which have been marked
or signed by the Traffic Authority for angle parking;
upon which streets vehicles shall be parked headed to
the curb at the angle and within the lines indicated
by such marks or signs.
(b) Upon those streets where parking on the left
side of the roadway otherwise is specifically provided by
ordinance.
SECTION 2. THE TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO INDICATE
ANGLE PARKING. The Traffic, Authority is hereby authorized
to determine those streets upon which angle parking shall be
permitted (other than state highways where such parking is
prohibited by the State Vehicle Code) and shall indicate all
such places by placing white lines upon the surface of the
roadway indicating the angle at which parking is permitted.
SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person
within said City to park, stand or leave standing at any time
any vehicle in such manner, that any part of such vehicle is
vertically over any line painted or placed by the Traffic
Authority on the surface of any street or roadway for the
purpose of indicating angle or parallel parking of vehicles.
ARTICLE XII
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING.
SECTION 1. APPLICATION OF ORDINANCE.
(a) The provisions of this Ordinance prohibiting
the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at
all times or at those times herein specified, except when it
is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police
officer, or official traffic control device.
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