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ORDINANCE 421ORDINANCE NO. 421• AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, PERTAINING TO HEDGES, SHRUB- BERY, NATURAL GROWTHS, SIGNS OR OTHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY AT STREET IN- TERSECTIONS WITHIN SAID CITY. The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, Cali- fornia, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. OBSTRUCTIONS PROHIBITED (A) On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful to install, set out, or main- tain, or to allow the installation, setting out or maintenance of, any sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other ob- struction to the view, higher than three feet six inches above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, within that triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines 25 feet from the point of their intersection, or in the case of- rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining points on said tangents 25 feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the cor- ner. (B) To illustrate the operation of the foregoing pro- visions the shaded spaces on the diagram entitled "Diagram Showing Typical Corners", which is attached to this ordinance and designated as "Exhibit Av, will show the triangular areas involved at typical corners. Said Diagram ( "Exhibit A ") here- unto attached is hereby referred to and by this reference is hereby expressly incorporated herein and made a part hereof. - 1 - SECTION 2. EXCEPTIONS. The foregoing provision shall not apply to permanent buildings; public utility poles; trees trimmed (to the trunk) to a line at least eight feet above the level of the intersection; saplings, or plant species of open growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge, which are so planted and trimmed as to leave at all seasons a clear and unobstructed cross -view; supporting members of ap- purtenances to permanent buildings existing on the date this ordinance becomes effective; official warning signs or sig- nals; or to places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross - visibility at the intersection. SECTION 3. ENFORCEMENT. The enforcement of this or- dinance shall be under the direction of the Building Inspector of the City of El Segundo. Said Building Inspector shall designate representatives of the Building Department who may, on behalf of said Department, investigate violations of this ordinance, give such notices as may be required to carry out the provisions of this ordinance, and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of this ordinance as may be imposed upon them by said Building Inspector. SECTION 4. REMEDIES. In addition to any remedies provided in Section 4 of this ordinance, or by law of this State, any obstruction maintained in violation of this ordi- nance shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within twenty days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance signed by the Building Inspector, or by his authorized representative, such Building Inspector or such authorized representative may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruction. In such event, the cost to the City of the abatement of the nuisance shall be a lien upon the premises, provided a claim therefor be filed within the time and in the manner as prescribed in Section 11$7 - 2 - of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California. The cost of such abatement shall, in addition, be a personal obligation against the owner of the premises upon which the nuisance was maintained, recoverable by the City in an action before any court of competent jurisdiction. SECTION 5. SCOPE. No obstruction to cross -visi- bility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of this ordinance because of its being in existence at the time of the adoption hereof, unless expressly exempted by the terms of this ordinance. SECTION 6. That any person, firm, association, co- partnership or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of E1 Segundo, California, or the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, California, as the committing magistrate may direct, for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SECTION 7. That this ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day 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; shall cause the same to be entered in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published - 3 - and circulated within said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 11th day of March, 1953• ATTEST: City Clerk (SEAL) - 4 - Mayor of the City of El Segundo, Cali ia. w ���3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. SS. ) I. Neva M. Elsey, City Clerk of the City of E1 Se- gundo, 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. 421 , 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 11th day of March, 1953, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker, Gordon, Peterson and Mayor Selby; NOES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen Swanson. WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 11th day of March, 1953• City Clerk of the y of E1 Segundo, Califo nia. (SEAL) STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. ) I. Neva M. Elsey, City Clerk of the City of E1 Se- gundo, 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. 421 , is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 421 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, PERTAINING TO HEDGES, SHRUB- BERY, NATURAL GROWTHS, SIGNS OR OTHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY AT STREET IN- TERSECTIONS WITHIN SAID CITY. ", 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 11th day of March, 1953, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker, Gordon, Peterson and Mayor Selby; NOES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen Swanson. 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. 421 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 cir- culated within the said City and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to wit: March 19th, 1953 • City Clerk of the Cit of E1 Segundo, California. (SEAL) EMVT A "" N M J 1 AG fZAM SNOWING TYPICAL COP -NU5 To illustrate the operations of the provisions of Ordinance No. 421. An Ordinance of the City of E1 Segundo, California, pertaining to Hedges, shrub- bery, Natural growth, Signs or other Obstructions to Visibility at Street Intersections with said City. 2.797 Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, } ss. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, JO hn Ui'�h�l . . . . . . .......... . being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is, and at all of the times hereinafter apentloned 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 hP was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the...... Editor .................................................................... ............................... 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 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 provide$ by said section, said newspaper 1s 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 ds not and waa 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, , races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page....... numbered ........................................................................... ............................... hereof in all respects, dneluding 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 then 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...... 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City Cjcxk of the City of El Segundo, County f Los Angeles, State of California By.. ............................. Deputy City Clerk of said City.