ORDINANCE 397ORDINANCE NO. 397
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 313
(THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE) OF SAID CITY, BY
AMENDING SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 1
OF ,ARTICLE XIV; BY ADDING TWO NEW SUBDI-
VISIONS TO BE DESIGNATED AS "(z)n AND
RESPECTIVELY, TO SAID SECTION 1
OF SAID ARTICLE XIV; AND BY ADDING THREE
NEW SUBDIVISIONS TO BE DESIGNATED AS
"(f)� AND n(g)"t RESPECTIVELY, TO SECTION
1 OF ARTICLE XVIII, OF SAID ORDINANCE NO.
313, AS AMENDED,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That subdivision "(k)" of Section 1 of Ar-
ticle XIV 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.TRAF-
FIC III AND UPON SUCH.PUBLIC STREETS AND
PLACES; AND REPEALING ALL_ORDINANCES AND
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. ",
passed and adopted on the 25th day of June, 1917, shall be and the
same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"(k) For any period of time whatsoever on Lapham
Street between the southerly line of Imperial Highway
and a line parallel with and distant 662 feet southerly
therefrom, except that two hour parking shall be per-
mitted along the westerly side of said street from a
line parallel with and distant 362 feet south of said
southerly line of Imperial Highway to a line parallel
with and distant 662 feet southerly from said southerly
line of Imperial Highway between the hours of 6 :00 a.m.
and 6 :00 p.m."
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SECTION 2. That two new subdivisions, to be known and
designated as subdivisions "(z)" and "(z.l) ", respectively, shall
be and the same are hereby added to said Section 1 of said Article
XIV of said Ordinance No. 313, which said subdivisions shall read
respectively as follows:
"(z) For any period of time whatsoever on the west
side of Aviation Boulevard between Imperial Highway and
E1 Segundo Boulevard within said City.
"(z.l) Two hours on Franklin Avenue between Lomita
Street and Richmond Street within said City."
SECTION 3. That three new subdivisions, to be known and
designated as subdivisions "(e) ", "(f)" and "(g) ", respectively,
shall be and the same are hereby added to Section 1 of Article XVIII
of said Ordinance No. 313, which said subdivisions shall read re-
spectively as follows:
"(e) 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
Imperial Highway between Sepulveda Boulevard and Aviation
Boulevard, within the said City, is more than is reason-
able and safe upon said portion of Imperial Highway, and
that said Council does hereby 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.
"(f) 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
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per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of
Douglas Street between Imperial Highway and the southerly
end thereof, within the said City, is more than is reason-
able and safe upon said portion of said Douglas Street, and
that said Council does hereby 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.
"(g) 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 Lapham
Street between the southerly line of Imperial Highway and
the westerly prolongation of the southerly line of 118th
Street, within the said City, is more than is reasonable
and safe upon said portion of said Lapham 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
effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are
erected upon said highway."
SECTION 4. That said Ordinance No. 313 is hereby amended
as hereinabove in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this ordinance set forth.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance is an emergency ordinance
affecting the public peace, health and safety of the City of E1
Segundo, and the same shall therefore take effect and be in full
force and virtue immediately upon the final passage and adoption
thereof.
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The facts constituting its urgency are: Traffic condi-
tions, both as concerning speed and as concerning congestion of
vehicles, at the various locations on the public streets and
thoroughfares of the City of E1 Segundo, hereinabove in this or-
dinance referred to, have reached such state and condition as to
adversely affect the public peace, health, safety, comfort and
welfare of said City. The regulations provided by this ordinance
for such locations will provide the necessary safeguards and pro-
tection in that connection and the same are, therefore, urgently
needed so as to preserve and protect such public peace, health,
safety, comfort and welfare.
SECTION 6. 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 same to be published once in the E1 Segundo
Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and
circulated within said City, and which is hereby designated for
that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 12th day of December,
1951.
ATTEST:
T-n-
City Clark
(SEAL)
Mayor of the City o . Segundo,
California.'
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES,) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva M. Elsey, City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that the whole n umber of members of
the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing or-
dinance, being Ordinance No. 397, 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
meeting of the said Council held on the 12th day of December, 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.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this
12th day of December, 1951.
(SEAL)
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City Clerk of the C ty of
El Segundo, Calif ia.
2639
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ,ANGELES, SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva M. Elsey, 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. 397, is a full, true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 397 of the said City of E1 Segundo, Cali-
fornia, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 313
(THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE).OF SAID CITY, BY
AMENDING SUBDIVISION "(k)* OF.SECTION 1
OF ARTICLE XIV;.BY ADDING-TWO NEW.SUBDI-
VISIONS TO BE DESIGNATED AS "(z)" AND_.
"(z.l) ",.RESPECTIVELY, TO SAID SECTION 1
OF SAID ARTICLE.XIV; AND BY ADDING THREE
NEW SUBDIVISIONS TO BE DESIGNATED AS n(e)",
"(f)" AND n(g) ", RESPECTIVELY,.TO SECTION..
1 OF.ARTICLE XVIII, OF SAID_ORDINANCE NO.
3131, , AS AMENDED.",
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 12th day of December, 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.
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provi-
sions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of
California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 397 was duly and
regularly published according to law and the 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 City and that the same was so published therein on the
following date, to wit: December 20, 1951. •
(SEAL)
91 M,
City Clerk of the CiVV of
E1 Segundo, Califor a.
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
E>� 6 3� '`� •' ' Da V 1•S • • • • • • • • • • • • . • .................. 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........
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Editor 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 newspaper 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
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 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 mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed )r
otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin-
ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations.
That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page...... numbered
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........ Qri inz -.U1 Q ..1y0 a...Z 9.7
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of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and Printed in said news-
paper at least .... 0.11e ... week. ..., by ........ 011e .......consecutive publication...., commencin g on the
....20t}l.day of .... Da0.emb er.......... A. D. 1951 and ending on the .... do.t.h ........ day of
....De.eRmher ..............A. D. 19...5.1, and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu-
larly issued, to-wit:
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ,'-', , ,
day of ... . .. . . .... ... , A. D. 19S_. /. .
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City clerk of the City of El Se o, County
of Los Angeles, State of 'forma.
By Deputy City Clerk of said City.