ORDINANCE 475BttCOMPRESSED GAS ASSOCIATION, INC.
11 West 42nd Street, New York 36, N. Y.
Pamphlet G -1. Acetylene. (Sec.=' 19.04e - all pamphlets)
Pamphlet G -2. Anhydrous Ammonia.
Pamphlet G -3. Sulphur Dioxide.
Pamphlet G -4. Oxygen.
Pamphlet P -1. Safe Handling of Compressed Gases.
Pamphlet P -2. Characteristics and Safe Handling of
Medical Gases.
NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS
465 California Street, San Francisco 4, California
Pamphlet No. 10. Standards for First Aid Fire Ap-
pliances, 1955• (Sec."' 15.607, 15.7069 15.960b)
Pamphlet_ No. 14. Standpipe and Hose Systems, Octo-
ber, 1952• (Sec.= 13.05)
Pamphlet No. 30. Standards for the Storage, Handling
and Use of Flammable Liquids, 1954• (Sec."' 15.207a)
Pamphlet No. 40. Standards for the Storage and Handl-
ing of Cellulose Nitrate r5otion Picture Film, 1953- (Sec.��
5.05)
Pamphlet No. 54. Standards for the Installation of Gas
Piping and Gas Appliances in Buildings, September, 1954
(Sec. 18.01b)
Pamphlet No. 58. Standards for the Storage and Handl-
ing of Liquefied Petroleum Gases, 1954. (Sec.' 20.05)
Pamphlet No. 59• Standards for the Storage and Handl-
ing of Liquefied Petroleum Gases at Utility Gas Plants,
March, 1954• (Sec."' 20.05)
Pamphlet No. 70. Standards for Electric Miring and
Apparatus (National Electrical Code, 1953)• (Sec."' 8.10,
9.03e, 14.05, 14.23d,e, 14.35b, d, 15.407, 15.605, 15.816)
Pamphlet No. 91. Standards for the Installation of
Blower and Exhaus4 Systems for Dust, Stock armi Vapor Re-
moval or Conveying, November, 1949• (Sec."' 15.4042 15.604b,
15.702a)
Pamphlet No. 385. Standard for Tank Vehicles for Flam-
mable Liquids, 1955• (Sec. 15.953)
NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION
60 Batterymarch Street, Boston 10, Mass.
NFPA No. 49• Table of Common Hazardous Chemicals, 1950•
(Seca 19.04e)
NFPA No. 102. Standard for Places of Outdoor Assembly,
Grandstands and Tents (ASA -Z20.3 - 1950). (Sec."' 29.04)
=,= The section in the lFir.e Prevention Code which makes
reference to the publication."
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SECTION 5. ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES OF BUREAU OF FIRE
PREVENTION.
(1) A Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of
the City of E1 Segundo is hereby established which shall be oper-
ated under the over -all supervision of the Chief of the Fire De-
partment.
(2) The Fire Marshal of the City of El Segundo shall be
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
(3) The Chief of the Fire Department may detail such other
members of the fire department as inspectors as in his opinion
may from time to time be necessary.
(4) It shall be the duty of the officers and members of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention to enforce all laws and ordinances govern-
ing or relating to the following:
(a) The prevention of fires.
(b) The storage and use of explosive inflammables.
(c) The installation and maintenance of automatic and
other private fire alarm systems and fire extin-
guishing equipment.
(d) The maintenance and regulation of fire escapes.
(e) The maintenance of protection and the elimination
of hazards in buildings and structures including
those under construction.
(f) The means and adequacy of exits in case of fire
from factories, schools, hotels, lodging houses,
asylums, hospitals, halls, churches, theatres,
amphitheatres, and all other places in which num-
bers of persons work, live or congregate from
time to time for any purpose.
(g) The investigation of the cause, origin and cir-
cumstances of fire.
(h) They shall have such other powers and perform
such other duties as are set forth in other sec-
tions of this and other ordinances and as may be
conferred and imposed from time to time by law.
SECTION 6. MODIFICATIONS. The Chief of the Fire De-
partment shall have the power to modify any of the provisions of
the Fire Prevention Code upon application in writing by the owner
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i or lessee or his duly authorized agent, when there are practical
difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the
code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, pub-
lic safety secured, and substantial justice done. The particulars
of such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of
the Chief of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon
the records of the Department and a signed copy shall be furnished
the applicant.
SECTION 7. APPEALS. Whenever the Chief of the Fire De-
partment shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a
license or permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the pro-
visions of the code do not apply, or that the true intent and
meaning of the code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted,
the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Chief of the Fire
Department to the City Council of the City of El Segundo within
the thirty (30) day period following the date of the decision from
which the appeal is taken.
SECTION 8. NEW MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR OCCUPANCIES
WHICH MAY REQUIRE PERMITS. The City Administrative Officer, Chief
of the Fire Department, Fire Marshal of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention, and Chief Building Inspector shall act as a committee to
determine and specify after giving affected persons an opportunity
to be heard, any new materials, processes or occupancies which
shall require permits in addition to those now enumerated in said
code.
SECTION 9. NUISANCES. Any violation of the provisions
hereof, or any use of property contrary to the provisions of this
ordinance shall be and the same is hereby declared to be an un-
lawful and a public nuisance, and the city may immediately com-
mence action or actions for the abatement, removal and enjoinment
thereof in a manner provided by law. If in the opinion of the
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City Attorney, the said nuisance constitutes an immediate threat
to the health, safety, morals or general welfare of the people,
he may order the summary abatement of said nuisance and institute
the proceedings for the recovery of costs incident therewith.
Each day that a violation of this ordinance is continued or per-
mitted to exist without compliance shall constitute a separate and
distinct nuisance.
SECTION 10. DEFINITIONS. Whenever the word "municipali-
ty" or the word "city" is used in said Fire Prevention Code or in
this ordinance, it shall mean and be held to mean the City of E1
Segundo, California.
SECTION 11. PENALTIES. That any person, firm, associ-
ationcr corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordi-
nance or of the Fire Prevention Code adopted thereby 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 El Segundo, California, or in the County Jail
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 12. REPEALS. That Ordinances Nos. 338 and 352
of said City and all ordinances amendatory of said Ordinances Nos.
338 and 352 shall be and the same are hereby repealed, as are also
all other ordinances and parts of ordinances insofar as such other
ordinance or ordinances conflict with the provisions hereof.
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SECTION 13. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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 14. 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 and circulated within
said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby designated for that
purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 14th day of
Febrjary P 1956•
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
l
Mayor/of-the City of El Segundo,
pro tem 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 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. 475, was passed and adopted by the said City Council,
approved and signed by the Mayor pro tem of said City, and attested by the
City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held
on the 14th day of February, 1956, and that the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Frederick, Gordon and Mayor pro
tern Swanson;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: Mayor Selby.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 14th day
of February, 1956•
(SEAL)
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City Clerk of the City tf
El Segundo, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS AN('1ELES, ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva 1,i. Elsev, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that she whole number of members of
the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing or-
dinance, being Ordinance No. 475, is a full, true and correct
original of Ordinance No. 475 of the said City of El Segundo,
California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING, SUBJECT TO THE
PARTICULAR ADDITIONS, DELETIONS AND
APJIENDNENTS SET FORTH IN SAID ORDINANCE,
THE EDITION OF NIFETEEN FIFTY -THREE OF
THE 'FIRE PREVENTION CODE' PROMULGATED,
ESTABLISHED AND RECODUVIENDED BY THE NA-
TIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDER"dRITERS, IN-
CLUDIT,IG APPENDIXES 'A', 'B' AND 'C'
THERETO; PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVER1,1-
ING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROP-
ERTY FROP FIRE OR EXPLOSION; AND ESTABLISHING
A BUREAU OF FIRE PREVENT= 1 AND F- MVIDING
OFFIC ,RS THEREFOR, AND DEFII�II 1G T14EIR POWERS
AND DUTIES. ".
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, ap-
proved and signed by the PZayor pro tem of said City, and attested
by the City Clerk of the said City, all at a regular meeting of
the said Council held on the 14th day of February, 19562 and that
the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Frederick, Gordon and
Iiayor pro tern Swanson;
NOES: Councilmen none;
ABSENT: Mayor Selby.
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. 475 was duly and
regularly published according tolaw and the order of the City
Council of said City in the El 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: February 23, 1956.
X,, -rh - Fj,
City Clerk of the Cim of
El Se7undo, Calif ors.' a.
(SEAL)
Affidavit of Publication
8'1ATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
Julie J Ob 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
nublication 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 ci1wacter, having a bona fide
subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein
refgrred 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
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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....... Ordinance No.475 .................
of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news-
paper at least... .0.1?:,..week... by. Ong........ . • • • •consecutive publication...., commencing on the
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this. tf... .
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City clerk of the City of FJ.Segundo, County
Of Los Angeles, S1Je of California.
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Deputy City Clerk of said City.