ORDINANCE 338ORDINANCE NO. 339.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURE,
PURCHASE, SALE, DISPLAY, USE, DEALING IN,
IGNITING, DISCHARGING, CR SHOOTING OFF OF
FIREWORKS WITHIN SAID CITY, AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLI CT THEREWITH.
WHEREAS, the City of El Segundo, California, is
a municipal corporation within which large amounts of
petroleum, petroleum products and highly volatile, explosives
flammable and inflammable materials and substances are
manufactured, processed, stored and transported.
AND, WHEREAS, the manufacture, introduction, sale,
display, use or discharge of fireworks of any kind or nature
whatsoever within said City would endanger and adversely
affect the public peace, health, safety,eomfort, convenience
and general welfare of said City; Now, therefore, -
The City Council of the City of El Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That the manufacturing, purchasing,
selling, dealing in, displaying, using, igniting, discharging,
or shooting off of fireworks of any kind or nature whatsoever,
within the City of El Segundo, California, is hereby pro-
hibited, and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
association or corporation, whether acting as principal,
agent, representative or otherwise, to manufacture, purchase,
sell, deal in, display, use, ignite, discharge or shoot off,
any fireworks of any kind or nature whatsoever within said
City.
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SECTION 2. That the word or term "fireworks,"
as used in this ordinance, shall mean and include any and
all types of fireworks whether "dangerous fireworks" or
"safe and sane fireworks," as defined in Sections 12500 and
12501 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California,
as said sections now exist, or may hereafter be amended; and
any other type or kind of fireworks including, but not being
limited to, the following, to wit: firecrackers, Roman candles,
torpedoes, torpedo canes, blank cartridges (except toy pistol
caps which are hereby permitted) , skyrockets, sons -of -guns,
nigger chasers, pin - wheels, fire fountains, volcanoes, star
showers, sparklers, bombs, and other items or articles in-
tended or used for pyrotechnical effect or display.
SECTION 3. The provisions of this ordinance shall
not apply
(1) To the armed forces of the United States of
America or of the State of California; to the officers,
representatives and employees of the United States of America,
the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, or the
City of E1 Segundo, when engaged in the lawful performance
of their respective official duties and functions. or
(2) To the transportation of fireworks through the
City of E1 Segundo in regular course, and in original packages
or containers from any point outside of said City to any other
point outside of said City; or
(3) To the use of torpedoes, flares or fusses by
railroad or other transportation agencies for signal purposes
or illumination; or
(4) When a written permit shall have been first had
and obtained from the Chief of the City of El Segundo Fire
Department so to do -
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(a) To the use of blank cartridges for ceremonial
purposes, athletic or sport events; or
(b) To military ceremonials or demonstrations
not provided for above; or
(c) To the use of fireworks in the production of
commercial motion pictures or theatricals or operas,
when such use and display Is a necessary part of such
production.
SECTION 4. That the facts recited in the preamble
to this ordinance are true and that this ordinance is required
In order to preserve and protect the public peace, health,
safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare of said City
of El Segundo.
SECTION d That any person, firm, association or
corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be puni &able by a fine of not more than $300.00,
or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of El Segundo,
California, or in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles,
California, as the co- +mitting magistrate may determine, for
not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the Court. Each such person, firm,
association 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 viola-
tion of any provision of this ordinance is committed, or
continued, or permitted by such person, firm, association or
corporation, and shall be puns ahable therefor as provided by
this ordinance.
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SECTION 6. That Ordinance No. 325 of the City
of El Segundo, passed and adopted on the 17th day of March,
1948, and all ordinances and parts of ordinances insofar as
the same conflict with the provisions of this ordinance,
shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 7.. That this ordinance shall take effect
and be in full force and virtue thirty (30) days from and
after the date of the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 8. 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 official paper of said City,
�-° to wit: the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper published
and circulated within said City, and which is hereby designated
for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 8th day of
Sew , A. D., 1948.
Mayor of the City of Segundo,
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF TPOS ANGELES, ) SS .
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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. 338 ,
was passed and adop)ted 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 8th day of _ September 1 A. D.)
11?48, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen __ Baker, Peterson, Swanson. Thomoson and
Mayor Selby
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen _ None
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CLERKIS CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) 33.
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. _119, is a full,
true and correct oral, of Ordinance No. of the said
City of E1 Segundo, California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURE,
PURCHASE, SALE, DISPLAY, USE, DEALING IN,
IGNITING, DISCHARGING, OR SHOOTING OFF OF
FIREWORKS WITHIN SAID CITY, AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLI CT THEREWI TH."
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 Rth day of _ , er temhox , 1948, and
that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Peterson. h%=002, Th=SOZI and Ma=r_ lh3;
NOES: Councilmen —Henn .
ABSENT: Councilmen Ng e
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. iia was duly and re-
gularly published according to the law and the order of the
City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation,' published and circulated
within the said City and that the same was so published therein
on the following date, to wit: s.r+.mh.,. a��
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this 24_
day o f � Se= t rmDAr , A . T1 ' n •
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STATE OF CALWOR.NIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ML
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; thatthe
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ..... ..__..
PENUMB of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, paiet+ri� pt1D+.
lished and circulated WEEKLY in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said news-
paper has been so judi0ft 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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City Clerk of the City -o- gu Co
of Los Angeles, State of Califo
Deputy City Clerk of Said City.