ORDINANCE 104674
ORDINANCE NO. 1046
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 9.04 OF
THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING
SECTION 9.04.040 THERETO RELATING TO
THE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF DOG FECES
FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 9.04 of the "E1 Segundo Municipal
Code" is amended by adding thereto Section 9.04.040 which
section shall read as follows:
9.04.040 REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF DOG FECES
FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OR NUISANCE
COMMITTED. (a) It shall be unlawful for the owner
or person having custody of any dog or other animal
to permit, either willfully or through failure to
exercise due care or control, any such dog or
animal to commit any nuisance, and to allow such
nuisance to thereafter remain, upon any public
or private property not owned or possessed by the
owner or person in control of said animal, provided
that the person who owns, harbors, keeps or has
charge or control of a dog (other than a sightless
person who has charge or control of a guide dog)
shall immediately and securely enclose all feces
deposited by such dog in a bag, wrapper or other
container and dispose of the same, all in a sanitary
manner. Any person (other than a sightless person
with guide dog) who has charge or control of a dog
in a location other than on the property of such
person or the property of the owner of the dog,
shall have in his or her possession a suitable
wrapper, bag or container, other than articles of
personal clothing, for the purpose of complying
with the requirements of this section. Failure
of such person to carry such wrapper, bag or
container when in charge or control of a dog
in a location other than on the property of such
person or the property of the owner of the dog or
animal shall constitute a violation of this section.
(b) For the purpose of this section a "nuisance"
committed by a dog or animal shall mean defecation
by said animal.
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 cir-
culation, published and circulated within said City of E1
Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 15th day of
February , 1983.
ATTEST;
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City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
VALERIE . A. BURROWES , , , 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. 1046
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 1046 , of the said City of
El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 9.04 OF
THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING
SECTION 9.04. 040 THERETO RELATING TO
THE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF DOG FECES
FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY.
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 ...15th. , day of.. E0r:t1ary, , , . , .
19. 83....... , and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers ..Arm stpppg.,. Johnson, .Siadek,..........
Synadinos and Mayor Hue
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NOES: Councilmembers .. None . ...............................
ABSENT: .................. NonE........... I....................
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. 1046 .. 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:: .......................
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City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California
(SEAL)
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Deputy