ORDINANCE 386ORDINANCE NO. 386
AN ORDINz� CE OF 1 TH=� CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLIS =�IINTG CERTAIN REGU-
LATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO SM- 10KING IN
THEAZIRS AND IN CERTAIN OTHER '=LACES
JITHIN S M CITY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF T= CITY OF II, SEGUNDO , CALIF OIUI IA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTIOT? 1. That the public peace, health and safety
is menaced by the smoking, lighting, igniting, or otherwise
setting fire to, any tobacco, cigarette, pipe or cigar, within
any auditorium, assembly room, audience room, balcony, foyer,
or lounging room of any theater or motion picture theater,
situated within said City of E1 Segundo, California, and that
each of the foregoing acts or conditions be and the same is
hereby declared to be a public nuisance; provided, however, that
smoking may be permitted in balconies of any such theater or mo-
tion picture theater when fire proofed to the satisfaction of
the Fire Chief and Building Inspector of said City, and written
permission to smoke upon such balconies has first been had and
obtained from the Fire Chief and Building Inspector of said
City. Before said Fire Chief and Building Inspector shall issue
such written permit they shall require and procure from such
owner or licensee such evidence as in their opinion will satis-
factorily demonstrate to them that the fire resisting qualities
of the fire proofing installed is adequate to prevent any fire
which might be caused by such smoking, lighting, igniting or
otherwise setting fire to any tobacco, cigarette, pipe or cigar.
SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person
to light, ignite or otherwise set fire to,any tobacco, cigarette,
pipe or cigar, or to smoke any lighted tobacco, cigarette, pipe
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or cigar, in or within any auditorium, assembly room, audience
room, balcony, foyer, or lounging room of any theater or motion
picture theater situated within the said City of E1 Segundo,
California, except within such balconies for which the Fire
Chief and Building Inspector shall have issued a written permit
so to do, as hereinabove in Section 1 of this ordinance pro-
vided, and it shall also be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation operating or managing any such theater or motion
picture theater to allow or permit a violation of any of the
provisions of this ordinance therein.
SECTION 3. That any person, firm, association or
corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of any
such violation such person, firm, association or corporation
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by
imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of E1 Segundo, Cali-
fornia, or in the County Tail of Los Angeles County, California,
as the committing magistrate may direct, for a period of not to
exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the Court.
Every such person, firm, association or corporation
shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every
day during which, or during any portion of which, any of the
provisions of this ordinance is violated and shall be punishable
therefor as herein provided.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance is an emergency ordi-
nance affecting the public peace, health, safety and welfare of
the City of El Segundo and the same shall, therefore, take effect
and be in full force and virtue immediately upon the final pass-
age and adoption thereof. The facts constituting its urgency
are as follows: Smoking in any portions of a theater, as referred
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to in Section 1 of this ordinance, constitutes a hazard and men-
ace to life and property from the standpoints of fire and panic
to the patrons and members of the public present in any such
theater, unless such portion of said theater has been sufficient-
ly and adequately fire proofed. The City of E1 Segundo has no
present regulation to prevent or adequately control the acts
covered by this ordinance. The prohibitions contained in this
ordinance will correct said condition and provide the necessary
means for controlling and regulating the practice of smoking in
the portions of theaters hereinabove referred to in said Section
1.
SECTION 5. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance by a vote of at least
four - fifths of all of the members of the City Council of said
City; shall make a minute of the passage 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 same is passed
and adopted; and shall cause the salve to be published once in the
El Segundo Tserald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation pub-
lished and circulated ,,�ithin said City, and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 13th day of
June, 1951.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Sar";L %
Mayor of the Cit o E1 Segundo,
Calif orni-eL:
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ST.�_TE CF CALIFOP,", n , )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES , )
SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva 1,1. Elsey, 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. 386, was 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 m:_eting of the said Council held on the 13th day of
June, 1951, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gordon. Peterson, Swanson, Thompson
and Mayor Selby
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
WITNES'S my hand and the official seal of said City
this 13th day of June, 1951.
(SEAL)
City Clerk of the Cit of
E1 Segundo, Californ' .
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES,) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva , '. Elsey, 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. 386, is a full, true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 386 of the said City of El Segundo, Cali-
fornia, entitled:
"M ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING CERTAINT REGU-
LATION'S WITF REl ENC : TO SMOKING IN
THEATERS AIM IY CERTAIN OTHER PLACES
ti °TITHIN SAID CITY."
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, ap-
proved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the
City lerk of said City, all at a regular meting of the said
Council held on the 13th day of June, 1951, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen _Gordon, Peterson, Thompson, Swanson
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of
California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 386 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 news-
paper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated
within the said City and that the same was so published therein
on the following date, to wit: June 21st. 1951
(SEAL)
City Clerk of the Ci of
E1 Segundo, Calif orn a.
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, } ss.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
.......... F1 o noe Farrell .................... 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 Ske
was, at, and during all of the time of the Publication of the instrument hereunto attached the......
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of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in
the City of El Segundo, do 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
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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 appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the ........ Ordina.nae,.. baing..0rdinaM8..Dio ..386 ........................
of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said
newspaper at least... 0320 .... week .... I by..... QZ18. ..... consecutive publication...., commencing on the
....40.day of .. June ................. . A. D. 19.51., and ending on the ... ;40 ......... day of
......Time ...................A. D. 19..5], and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu-
larly issued to- wit:....... Thw.44V. . rl. n a . -a 0 19 ,53, ...
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Subscribed and sworn Ato before me this............
day of ...... a . ! :' ! r ................ A. D. 19.,F-./.
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City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
Of Los Angeles, State oofy California.
By..... . .
Deputy City Clerk of said City.