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ORDINANCE 368L 23941 ORDINANCE NO. 368 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUND09 CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 313 (THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE) OF SAID CITY BY ADDING TWO NEW SUBDIVISIONS TO SEC- TION 4 OF ARTICLE VI TO BE DESIGNATED AS SUBDIVISIONS "21" AND "22"; BY AMENDING SUB- SECTION "(o)" OF SECTION 12 OF ARTICLE VIII; BY ADDING A NEW SUB- SECTION TO SECTION 1 OF ARTICLE XIIV TO BE DESIG- NATED AS SUB- SECTION "(y) "; AND BY AM LADING ARTICLE XVIII OF SAID ORDINANCE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That two new subdivisions, to be known and designated as "21" and "22 ", shall be and the same are hereby, added to Article VI of Ordinance No. 313, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES WITHIN SAID CITY; REGULATING TRAFFIC IN AND.UPON SUCH PUBLIC STREETS AND PLACES; AND RE- PEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. ", passed and adopted on the 25th day of June, 1947, and which said new subdivisions shall read as follows, to -wit: "21. Imperial Highway and California Street: southerly entrance. "22. Grand Avenue and Eucalyptus Drive: southerly en- trance." SECTION 2. That sub - section "(c)" of Section 12 of Article VIII of said Ordinance No. 313, as amended, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to -wit: "(a) The following described and designated streets or portions of streets thereof are hereby designated and described as "Truck Traffic Route" streets, the use of which is permitted by any commercial vehicle or by any vehicle exceeding the maxi- mum gross weight limit of three tons, to -wit: - 1 - `396 "l. Rosecrans Avenue from Inglewood- Redondo Road (Avia- tion Boulevard) to the westerly city limits of said City; "2. E1 Segundo Boulevard from Inglewood- Redondo Road to Main Street; "3. Grand Avenue from Eucalyptus Drive to the westerly boundary line of said City; "4. Imperial Highway from Inglewood- Redondo Road (Avia- tion Boulevard) to Main Street; "5. Main Street from Imperial Highway to E1 Segundo Boule- vard; and "6. Coast Boulevard from the southerly boundary line to the northerly boundary line of said City." SECTION 3. That a new sub - section, to be designated as sub- section "(y) ", shall be and the same is hereby added to Section 1 of Article x2V of said Ordinance No. 313, which said new sub - section shall read as follows: "(y) For any period of time whatsoever on the southerly side of Palm Avenue, between Virginia Street and Main Street, within said City." SECTION 4. That Article RVIII of said Ordinance No. 313, as amended, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to -wit: "ARTICLE XVIII "PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS OF CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREETS. "SECTION 1. (a) That the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five miles per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of Grand Avenue be- tween the Alley westerly of Concord Street and Loma Vista - 2 - -- 239' Street, within the said City, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said portion of said Grand Avenue, and that said Council does hereby determine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is twenty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour shall be effective when appropriate signs giv- ing notice thereof are erected upon said highway. "(b) That the City Council of the City of E1 Se- gundo, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five mile& per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of Grand Avenue between Main Street and Sepulveda Boulevard, within the said City, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said portion of said Grand Avenue, and that said Council does hereby de- termine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is thirty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of thirty -five miles per hour shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice there- of are erected upon said highway. "(c) That the City Council of the City of E1 Segun- do, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five miles per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of Main Street be- tween Palm Avenue and Grand Avenue, within the said City, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said portion of said Main Street, and that said Council does hereby determine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is twenty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour shall be ef- fective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon said highway. - 3 - 2398 "(d) That the City Council of the City, of El Se- gundo, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five miles per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of E1 Segundo Boulevard, between Virginia Street and Sierra Street, within said City, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said por- tion of E1 Segundo Boulevard, and that said Council does here- by determine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is thirty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of thirty -five miles per hour shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon said highway. "SECTION 2. That the Chief of Police of said City is here- by authorized and instructed to cause appropriate signs, giving notice of said respective prima facie speed limits of twenty - five miles per hour and thirty -five miles per hour hereinabove determined, declared and fixed, to be posted upon the respec- tive portions of said respective highways to which they respec- tively apply. "SECTION 3. That said respective prima facie speed limits of twenty -five miles per hour and thirty -five miles per hour, hereinabove determined and established in Section 1 of this Article XPIII, are so established as authorized under the pro- visions of the Vehicle Code of the State of California author- izing local authorities so to do, and the speed of any vehicle upon said respective portions of said respective highways in ex- cess of said respective prima facie limits of twenty -five miles per hour or thirty -five miles per hour is prima facie unlawful unless the defendant establishes, by competent evidence, that any said speed in excess of said respective limits did not consti- tute a violation of the basic rule declared in Section 510 of said Vehicle Code at the time, place, and under the conditions then existing. - 4 - 2399 "SECTION 4. Any person driving a vehicle upon said respec- tive portions of said respective highways in excess of said limits of twenty -five miles per hour or thirty -five miles per hour as hereinabove specified shall be subject to arrest, prose- cution, fine and imprisonment in the manner, according to the procedure, and to the extent as provided in the Vehicle Code re- lating to such violations." SECTION 5. That said Ordinance No. 313, as amended, is hereby amended as hereinabove in Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this ordi- nance set forth. SECTION 6. That this ordinance is an emergency ordinance affecting the public peace, health and safety of the City of El Se- gundo, 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: The speed of ve- hicular traffic on the respective portions of the respective public highways within said City, hereinabove described in Section 4 of this ordinance has become so fast as to constitute and be a menace to life and property. The amendments hereinabove set forth in Sec- tions 1, 2 and 3 of this ordinance also affect the public peace, health and safety in that they relate to traffic control. All said amendments set forth in said Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 hereof, are there- fore urgently required in order to preserve and protect the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 7. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pas- sage and adoption of this ordinance; shall make a minute of the pas- sage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City in the minutes of the meeting at which the sane is passed and adopted; and within 15 days after the adoption thereof shall cause the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo - 5 - Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and cir- culated within said City, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. Passed, approved and adopted this 5th day of April , 1950. ( SEAT, ) - 6 - yor of the ity of 1 egundo, California. 24ol STATE OF CALIFORNIA, } } COUNTY OF LOS ANGF,LFB, } SS. j CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. j I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk 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 Ordi- nanoe No. 368, was passed and adopted by the said City Coun- oil, 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 5th day of April , 1950, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker, Peterson, Swanson. Thompson and Mayor Selby: NOES: Councilmen None; 1i ABSENT: Councilmen None. WITNESS my hand and the offioial seal of said City this 5th day of April , 1950. 0 gundo, California. (SEAL) `402 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )' SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO j I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of El Segun- do, 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. 368 is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 368 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 31.3 (THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE) OF SAID CITY BY ADDING TWO NEW SUBDIVISIOND SEC- TION 4 OF ARTICLE VI TO BE DESIGNATED AS SUBDIVISIONfi "21" AND "22 "; BY AMENDING SUB- SECTION "(o)n OF SEC- TION 12-OF ARTICLE VIII; BY.ADDING A NEW SUB- SECTION TO SECTION 1 OF ARTICLE XIV TO BE DESIGNATED AS SUB- oRDINANCE SECTION ".(y) " "; AND BY AMM- ING ARTICLE X71II OF SAID 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 5th day Of _ -- April , 1950, and that the same was so Passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker Peterson Swanson Thompson and Mayor Selb NOES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen None. Of Sectionl36933eofb he certify that thesStat to the provisions that the foregoing Ordinance No. ® of California, published according to law and the order- Owthe dCityand Councilloflsaid City in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of - lation, printed, published and circulated wihn the saidrCityiand that the same was so published therein on the following date, to- wit: _ April 13, 1950. by clerk of h of Segundo, California. (SEAL) Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, C a rmej3.. VQ,t 4w ....... ............................... 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...... ziI t QX ................ ........... ............................... .......................... WNW of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, In said County and State; that said newsapaper has been so 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 here- in 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 general 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 entertainment 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 newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mention 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, callings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page....... numbered ....'4 ................................. ............................... 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 w111 appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru- ment; that the.. QP4. 1n4nP. O.. nR!... �Ae ............................. ............................... of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said newspaper at Ieast..QAQ ..... week. ..., by ... Q)7A ........ Genseev publication...., commencing on the -1 t.b . . day of . , .... , A. D. 19-5 Q ., and ending on the..l3th .......... day of PZ'i1 .....................A. D. 195.Q. , -i99"d to- wit: ... T.hw. 0.4ty.. .. pX' 1..13 .19.5A.......... ................... ............................... ........................ ............................... Subscribed sworn before me this.. /�,# day of ...................I A. D. 19.1$70 City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, Co ty of Los Angeles, State of California. By ........ .. .. ... Deputy City Clerk of said City.