ORDINANCE 597ORDINANCE NO. 597
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING "EL SEGUNDO CITY
CODE, 1958" BY AMENDING SECTIONS 27. 26
THROUGH 27. 38, RELATING TO MOVING BUILD-
INGS; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 448 AND
ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Sections 27. 26 through 27. 38 of "El Se-
gundo City Code, 1958," shall be, and the same are hereby, amended so
as to read as follows:
"Sec. 27.26. RELOCATION BUILDING PERMIT REQUIRED.
A person shall not move onto any premises any building or structure,
except a contractor's tool house, construction building or similar
structure which is moved as construction requires, until he first
posts a surety bond and secures a relocation building permit as
hereinafter provided, and it shall be unlawful for any person, after
accepting any permit issued under the provisions of this article, to
fail, refuse or neglect to comply with each and every one of the terms
and conditions under or pursuant or subject to which such permit may
have been issued.
"Sec. 27.27. WAIVER OF BOND OR PERMIT. The Building
Official may waive the requirement of a bond or deposit when the
owner of the property is a governmental agency.
"Sec. 27. 28. APPLICATION. Every application to the Build-
ing Official for a relocation building permit shall be in writing upon a
form furnished by the Building Official and shall set forth such infor-
mation as may reasonably be required in order to carry out the pur-
pose of this chapter.
"Sec. 27.29. INVESTIGATION REQUIRED. In order to de-
termine any of the matters presented by the application, the Build-
ing Official may require plans, photographs or other substantiating
data, and may cause to be made any investigation which he believes
necessary or helpful. He may refer the matter for further investi-
gation to the Board of Appeals. After the investigation is completed
if the applicant fails to post the required bond and secure the reloca-
tion building permit with sixty (60) days, the application is null and
void.
"Sec. 27. 30, PERMIT FEES. Relocation building permit fees
for repairs or alterations to relocated building shall be required in
accordance with Section 303, of the Uniform Building Code.
"Sec. 27.31. ISSUANCE OF PERMIT. If the condition of the
building or structure in the judgment of the Building Official admits
of practicable and effective repair, he may issue a relocation build-
ing permit to the owner of the property where the building r struc-
ture is to be located upon conditions as hereinafter provided, other-
wise the permit shall be denied.
"Sec. 27. 32. PROHIBITED BUILDINGS. Except as other-
wise provided in this chapter, the Building Official shall not issue
a relocation building permit for any building or structure which:
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(d) State therein the legal description or address of the property
upon which the building or structure is to be relocated.
"Sec. 27. 37. BOND CONDITIONS. The surety bond shall
provide that:
(a) All work required to be done pursuant to the conditions of the
relocation building permit shall be performed and completed
within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of issu-
ance of the permit.
(b) The time limit specified may be extended for good and suffi-
cient cause after written request of the Principal or Surety,
either before or after said time limit has expired. The Build-
ing Official shall notify the Principal and Surety in writing of
such time extension and may extend the time limit without
consent of the Surety.
(c) The term of each bond posted pursuant to this Section shall
begin upon the date of the posting thereof and shall end upon
the completion to the satisfaction of the Building Official of
the performance of all the terms and conditions of the reloca-
tion building permit.
(d) The Building Official, the Surety or duly authorized represen-
tative of either shall have access to the premises described in
the relocation building permit for the purpose of inspecting the
progress of the work.
(e) Upon default by the Principal, the Surety shall be required to
perform all conditions set forth in the relocation permit and
give the Surety right of entry to the premises to perform such
conditions.
(f) In the event of any default in the performance of any term or
condition of the relocation building permit, the Surety or any
person employed or engaged on its behalf, or the Building
Official, or any person employed or engaged on his behalf,
may go upon the premises to complete the required work or
to remove or demolish the building or structure, and clear,
clean and restore the site.
(g) The relocation building permit shall be null and void if the
building or structure is not relocated to the proposed site with-
in sixty (60) days after issuance of the permit.
"Sec. 27. 38. NOTICE OF DEFAULT. Whenever the Princi-
pal on the bond defaults in the performance of the conditions re-
quired by the relocation building permit, the Building Official shall
give notice in writing to the Principal and the Surety on the bond.
"Sec. 27. 38. 1 DETAILS OF NOTICE. The Building Offi-
cial in the notice of default shall state the conditions of the bond
which have not been complied with and the period of time deemed
by him to be reasonably necessary for the completion of such work.
"Sec. 27. 38. 2 SURETY REQUIREMENTS. After receipt of
a notice of default, the Surety, within the time therein specified,
shall cause the required work to be performed.
"Sec. 27. 38. 3 OPTION OF DEMOLITION. When any default
has occurred on the part of the Principal under the provisions of
this chapter, the Surety, at its option, in lieu of completing the
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work required, may remove or demolish the building or structure
and clear, clean and restore the site.
"Sec. 27. 38. 4 DEFAULT OF CASH BOND. If a cash bond
has been posted the Building Official shall give notice of default,
as provided above, to the Principal, and if compliance is not had
within the time specified, the Building Official shall proceed with-
out delay and without further notice or proceeding whatever, to
use the cash deposit or any portion of said deposit to cause the
required work to be done by contract or otherwise in his discre-
tion. The balance, if any, of such cash deposit, upon the com-
pletion of the work, shall be returned to the depositor or to his
successors or assigns after deducting the cost of the work plus
ten per cent (10 %) thereof.
"Sec. 27. 38. 5 RETURN OF CASH BOND. When a cash
bond has been posted, and all requirements of relocation build-
ing permit have been completed, the Building Official shall re-
turn the cash to the depositor or to his successors or assigns,
except any portion thereof that may have been used or deducted
as provided elsewhere in this chapter.
"Sec. 27. 38. 6 RIGHT OF ENTRY; PENALTIES. The
owner, his representative, successor or assign, or any other
person who interferes with or obstructs the ingress or egress
to or from any such premises, of any authorized representative
or agent of any Surety or of the City of El Segundo engaged in
the work of completing, demolishing or removing any building
or structure for which a relocation building permit has been
issued, after a default has occurred in the performance of the
terms or conditions thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
"Sec. 27. 38.7 INSPECTION DURING ACTUAL MOVING;
COMPENSATION OF INSPECTOR: COMPLIANCE WITH ORDER
OF INSPECTOR. In those cases where the street superintendent
as to work falling under his jurisdiction deems such inspection
necessary, he may require a city inspector to be present at or
during all, or part, of the actual moving, or moving operations,
or work of repair of public streets. The compensation of such
inspector must be paid by the house moving company. In cases
where such necessary inspections are made during the normal
working hours of the city inspector, no charge will be made, but
in cases where such inspections are deemed by the street superin-
tendent to be necessary at times other than the city inspector's
normal working hours, a charge will be made based on the inspec-
tor's overtime rate of pay, for each hour or portion thereof. Such
inspection charges, when applicable, shall be deducted from the
minimum $200 deposit required to be made by the house moving
company in Sec. 27. 38. 8 of this Code.
"The inspector shall be designated by the street superin-
tendent as to work falling under his jurisdiction, and when so
designated and acting, it shall be unlawful for the permittee, or
any representative of the house moving company, or any person
actually conducting or prosecuting, or engaged in the moving, or
moving operations, to fail, refuse or neglect to comply with the
reasonable orders or directions of such inspector, or to fail, re-
fuse or neglect to stop or suspend moving operations or any such
work if ordered by any such inspector or the street superintendent,
so to do.
"The permittee shall be required, prior to the start of any
work at the site where any building is to be relocated in the City
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of El Segundo, to obtain from the office of the City Engineer of
the City of El Segundo, a permit for crossing of curb and side-
walk, or a permit for construction of a driveway, and no equip-
ment of any nature shall be allowed to cross over curb or side-
walk unless such permit has been obtained and is in force, and
permittee shall be required to provide any protection for such
curb or sidewalk as may be specified by the terms of the permit.
If access to the site is already available by reason of an existing
driveway, no curb crossing or driveway permit shall be required,
but permittee shall be held responsible for any damage to such
existing driveway occurring as a result of the passage of equip-
ment over such driveway and will make, or have made, repairs
satisfactory to the street superintendent immediately upon writ-
ten notice from the street superintendent so to do, and %intil
such repairs are made permittee shall be responsible for adequ-
ate barricades and lights as may, in the opinion of the street
superintendent, be necessary for public safety.
"SEC. 27. 38.8 APPLICATION FOR MOVING BUILDING
INTO CITY. Each application for a permit to move a house,
building or structure from outside the city into the city must
show or be accompanied by:
(a) The address, showing street and number where same exists,
of the house, building or structure proposed to be moved.
(b) A cash deposit in an amount to be fixed and determined by
the street superintendent to guarantee or insure the full and
prompt repair of any damage to any public street, boulevard,
avenue, alley, or public place or property caused by or re-
sulting from the moving, moving operations or work and all
city inspection costs and charges incident to such moving,
moving operations or work, but in any event not less than
two hundred dollars ($200) shall be made by the house mov-
ing company, and such designated amount shall be deposited
with the City Treasurer. If the moving is completed without
such damage, the deposit, less any city inspection costs in-
curred, shall be returned to the depositor. In the event of
damage, however, the street superintendent shall cause
such damage to be repaired, and the cost of such repairs, in-
cluding city inspection costs, shall be deducted from the de-
posit and the balance, if any, shall be returned to the deposi-
tor. In the event of damage so extensive that the amount of
the deposit does not cover the costs of repair and inspections,
the house moving company will be billed for the difference.
(c) In the event a particular house moving company contemplates
the moving of more than three buildings into the city within
a period of six months, such company may deposit a surety
bond with the City Clerk in lieu of individual cash deposits,
and the amount of such surety bond shall be set by the city
street superintendent.
(d) An additional cash deposit in the amount of twenty -five dollars
($25) to cover costs of police escort shall be made by the
house moving company. The route over which it is proposed
to move such structure, shall be submitted to the traffic
authority of the city prior to issuance of the house moving per-
mit, and the police department shall be notified at least thirty
(30) minutes prior to the actual entrance of such building into
the city. Whenever the traffic authority of the city shall deem
a police escort necessary, a charge shall be made and paid out
of such cash deposit in the sum of two dollars ($2) per hour for
each hour or fraction thereof for each police vehicle and for
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each police officer used or employed in such service, provided,
that not less than a mimimum of one hour for each such police
vehicle and each such police officer shall be charged for each
single operation. The balance remaining in such deposit after
such deduction of charges shall be returned to the depositor.
(e) The house moving company shall be required to place "No Park-
ing" signs along the route proposed to be used in the moving
operation in sufficient numbers to insure that residents will be
aware of the impending move and the hours thereof. Such signs
must be placed not less than twelve (12) hours in advance of the
move so that residents will have sufficient time to move parked
vehicles.
(f) The house moving company will be required to notify any and
all public utility companies whose installations may be in any
way affected or damaged by the proposed move.
SECTION 2. That Ordinance No. 448, be, and the same is
hereby, repealed.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall become effective at
midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the final passage and adop-
tion thereof.
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pass-
age 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 El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, pub-
lished and circulated within said City of El Segundo and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 11th day of February,
1963.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor of the City of El Segundo, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, )
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
I a EUNICE U.o CREASON City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
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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. .. 597 .... ,
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. . 04 7 0 0 0 0 0 of the said City of El
Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING "EL SEGUNDO CITY
CODE, 1958" BY AMENDING SECTIONS 27.26
THROUGH 27. 38, RELATING TO MOVING BUILD-
INGS; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 448 AND
ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH ";
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, o . l!th... day of...... Y4�1 , Rgry.
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
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Mayor Baker;
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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. .590.. .
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.-,. 000a000,0000000 a 000 000 0000o...00
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as
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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 ............
nrincibal clerk
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YkT%XrCof 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, s 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 or
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 tset 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 ............. Orf lna nce No. 597
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of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news-
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City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
Of Los Angeles, State of California.
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