ORDINANCE 53837fl 7
ORDINANCE NO. 5i8
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE FIRE PREVENTION
CODE OF SAID CITY AS ADOPTED BY REFERENCE
BY "THE CODE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, 195811 TO PERMIT THE USE OF
APPROVED SAFETY NOZZLES FOR THE DISPENS-
ING OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Fire Prevention Code of the City,
adopted by reference as set forth in Chapter 11, Article I of
"The Code of the City of E1 Segundo, California, 1958" is amended
as hereinafter set forth and for that purpose that portion of
"Section 11.4" of said City Code beginning with.the: words " Section
15.50311 and ending with the word "forbidden" and next preceding
the words "Section 15.601" be, and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"SECTION 15.503. Amend subdivision 'bt of 'Section
15.503. Dispensing Devices' of Article 15 thereof so as to
read as follows:
'tb. No self service of any Class I, Class II, or
Class III inflammable liquid or substance, as hereinafter de-
fined, shall be allowed or permitted in or at any place of
business in the city where the sale of such liquids or sub-
stances is made to the public.
"Delivery of such liquids or substances shall be made
only by the owners, lessees or regular employees of such places
of business.
"When unattended by an owner, lessee or regular em-
ployee of such place of business, all pumps and other facilities
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of such place of business for the delivery of such liquids or
substances shall be locked, or other effective means provided
to prevent access to such supplies of such inflammable liquids
or substances.
"The dispensing of Class I flammable liquids into the
fuel tank of a vehicle or into a container shall at all times
be under the control of a competent person. The use of any
device which permits the dispensing of Class I flammable li-
quids when the hand of the operator of the discharging nozzle
is removed from the nozzle control lever is hereby forbidden
except when using an automatic nozzle as provided in section
15.503 b (1).
11(1) AUTOMATIC HOSE NOZZLE VALVES WITH LATCH -OPEN
DEVICES: In lieu of being held open by hand, an automatic
nozzle approved by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc. and the
Chief of the Fire Department of the city may be used for
dispensing Class I flammable liquid into the fuel tank of a
vehicle. Such a nozzle shall have the latch -open device as
an integral part of the assembly and shall shut off the liquid
reliably and positively when the gasoline tank is filled, when
it falls from the filling neck of an automobile tank, when it
is subject to rough usage such as dropping or lack of proper
lubrication, or when an automobile is driven away while the
nozzle is still in the tank. A competent attendant shall be
in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle being filled by such
an approved nozzle."
SECTION 2. 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 3. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to
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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 24th day of
February , 1959•
ATT ST:
City Clerk
( SEAL)
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yor of the City o E1 Segundo,
pro em California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, _____Eunice U. Creason ,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 ____ - -___ or_ dinan-c e------- -- -- --- -- ----- ---- ----- -- -- -- -,
being _-- _ -__Ox din- ance-_- IQa___538---------------------- 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
----- 2.4_th ------ day of eb ruar_ y ____ __ ___ __ __ ____ _____ __ __ _____ 19 ... 59_, and that the same was
so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen_______. - -----------
ivlayor pro tem Baker=
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NOES: Councilmen - - -- Iane;i------------------------------------------------------------------------
ABSENT:_ Mk-Yor__ onf leld----------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - --
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this ---------- 2-SjLh. --------- day of
..... Februar -y- ----------------------------- 19-- 59- -.
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City Clerk of the City of
Ell Segundo, California
(SEAL)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, __ Eunice__ U, _ Cr ea.-son_________ _________________ 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.._53$--------
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No.-_..5_18- ___- ....__of the said City of El
Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE FIRE PREVENTION
CODE OF SAID CITY AS ADOPTED BY REFERENCE
BY "THE CODE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, 195811 TO PERMIT THE USE OF
APPROVED SAFETY NOZZLES FOR THE DISPENSING
OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS.,
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on the-_-_24th ----- day of --- February ............ 19.59 -,
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen _Frederick_, --- Gordan,__Meschuk --- and_ _____________________
M--A'Qr -- RT_4 - -- tens. -B aker;----------------------------------------- - - - - --
NOES: Councilmen _ Hone-;-------------------------------------------------- - - - - -- ----------------- - - - - --
ABSENT: _May.Q.r__D_e f3.eld.----------------------------- - - - - --
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the
Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No.__53$____
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 newspaper of general circulation,
printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so pub-
lished therein on the following date, to wit: _ March __5,__ 195Q _ ____ __ ____ ______ ______________-
City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California.
By--------------------------------------------------------------
(SEAL) Deputy.
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
__._Ma.rlOri Newcomb ............... being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
She 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 ale
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ............
...pr.incipal....c jerk......
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1Rfttt r 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 4450 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, pr ofessions, 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 or
otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, tailings, 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 suWect 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; thou 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, ar, will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the ..Ordinan c. ..
e No.. . 538
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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 ...............1...... week ......... by .................................. consecutive publication ......... commencing on the
......... 5th .. day of .............. ..........Marc h..............., A. D.1 -95.9...., and ending on the ................... 5.1.h... day of
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March - -....._.- A. D. 195 f� ......, and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu-
larlyissued, to -wit: ...- ...................................................... _. ........................................................ -....................................................
March j,1959
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ... 9 .................
day of ... ........................ .....I A. D. 19..`a....
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City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
Of Los Angeles, State of California.
By........................................................ ...............................
Deputy City Clerk at said City.