ORDINANCE 1003ORDINANCE NO. 1003
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 10.30 TO TITLE
10 OF THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE WHICH
CHAPTER RELATES TO VEHICLES TRANSPORTING
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 10.30 consisting of Section 10.30.010
is added to Title 10 of the E1 Segundo Municipal Code to read
as follows:
CHAPTER 10.30
VEHICLES TRANSPORTING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
10.30.010 (a) A vehicle transporting a hazardous
material or substance as identified in Title 99 of
the Code of Federal Regulations must be attended at
all times by its driver or a qualified representative
of the motor carrier that operates it, and shall not
be parked on any highway, shoulder, street, alley,
public way or public place, or within five feet of
the traveled portion thereof, within a residential
district except for brief periods when mechanical or
equipment failure or disablement or malfunction of
the vehicle, or the necessities of operations require
the vehicle to be parked and make it impractical to
park the vehicle in any other place.
(b) Repair, maintenance, refuse, utility, termite
and pesticide vehicles, fuel delivery vehicles, and
vehicles delivering life support and health commodities,
while servicing residential areas or schools, are
exempt from the provisions of subsection (a). Additionally,
such exempt vehicles need not be attended while the
drivers are performing duties that are evident and
necessary as the operator of the vehicle or the provider
of the service.
(c) For purposes of this section:
(1) A motor vehicle is attended when the
person in charge of the vehicle is on the vehicle,
awake, and not in a sleeper berth, or is within 100
feet of the vehicle and has it within his unobstructed
field of view.
(2) A qualified representative of a motor
carrier is a person who:
A. Has been designated by the carrier to
attend the vehicle.
B. Is aware of the nature of the hazardous
material or substance contained in the vehicle he attends.
C. Has been instructed on the procedures
he must follow in emergencies concerning hazardous
materials or substances.
D. Is authorized to move the vehicle and
has the means and ability to do so.
(d) The rules of this section do not relieve
a driver from any obligation imposed by federal, state,
or local laws relating to the transportation of hazardous
materials or explosives, motor carrier safety regulations
or the placement of warning signs or devices when a
motor vehicle is stopped on a public street or highway.
SECTION 2. 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. 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 7th day of
Avurr. , 1981.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I - MERIE, A, AgRROWF* ................ 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. .IQ03 . .
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. ..1003 , , , . , , of the said City of
El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA
ADDING CHAPTER 10.30 TO TITLE 10 OF THE EL SEGUNDO
MUNICIPAL CODE WHICH CHAPTER RELATES TO VEHICLES
TRANSPORTING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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 ...7.th... day of ... AptLL ......... ,
19. $1 ........ and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen ..... ArmatrPng, .Hue,. Jvbnaoa,. Siadek...........
. .... and .Mayor. Van Vranken ...................
NOES: Councilmen ..... None ... ...............................
ABSENT: Cvvncilpev.... ... Nvne ... ...............................
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. .1.00,3, , , , 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 said City and that the
same was so published therein on the following date, to wit: ........... I ........ .
C. G�....... ... / LN........
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City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California
(SEAL)
By......... ...............................
Deputy