ORDINANCE 1149ORDINANCE 1149
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 9.54 TO TITLE 9 OF THE EL SEGUNDO
MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE
WHEREAS, The City of El Segundo is vitally interested in maintaining the quality of its
physical environment; and
WHEREAS, certain code amendments are necessary to address areas of environmental concern
not covered by the zoning ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City of El Segundo seeks a comprehensive approach to the problem of code
enforcement; and
WHEREAS, a City Council adopted policy for an administrative procedure will provide the
required "due process" to accomplish code enforcement; and
WHEREAS, this amendment changes no property from one zone to another, imposes no
regulation not heretofore imposed on property and does not remove or modify any regulations
therefore imposed;
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Title 9 of the El Segundo Municipal Code is hereby amended to add a new
Chapter 9.54 to read as follows:
Chapter 9.54 Property Maintenance Standards
9.54.010. Standards of Property Maintenance
All land and structures shall be properly maintained in such a manner as to not
(1) depreciate aesthetic and property values of surrounding properties, (2) create a visual eyesore,or
(3) constitute a public nuisance.
9.54.020. Public Nuisance Defined
It is a public nuisance for any person owning, leasing, occupying, or having charge
of any premises in this city to maintain such premises in such a manner that any of the following
conditions are found to exist thereon:
(a) Land, the topography, geology or configuration of which, whether
in natural state or as a result of grading operations, excavation or fill, causes erosion, subsidence
or surface water drainage problems of such magnitude as to be injurious to the public health,
safety and welfare, or to adjacent properties;
(b) Buildings which are abandoned, partially destroyed or permitted to
remain unreasonably in a state of partial construction;
(c) The failure to close, by such means as are acceptable to the city
manager, all doorways, windows and other openings into vacant structures;
(d) Unpainted buildings causing dry rot, warping and lack of weather
protection;
(e) Broken windows constituting hazardous conditions and inviting
trespassers and malicious mischief; or constituting a harbor for vagrants, criminal or immoral
persons, or as to enable persons to resort thereto for the purpose of committing unlawful or
immoral acts;
(f) Overgrown vegetation:
(1) Likely to harbor rats, vermin and other nuisances, or
(2) Having a tendency to depreciate the aesthetic and property
values of surrounding property:
(g) Dead, decayed, diseased or hazardous trees, weeds, and other
vegetation:
(1) Dangerous to public safety and public welfare, or;
(2) Having a tendency to depreciate the aesthetic and property
values of surrounding property;
(h) The accumulation and storage, for unreasonable periods of time, of
abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative automobiles, trailers, campers, boats, and other
mobile equipment, in yard areas;
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(i) Attractive nuisances dangerous to children in the form of:
(1) Abandoned and broken equipment;
(2) Unprotected and /or hazardous pools, ponds and excavations; or,
(3) Neglected machinery;
0) Broken or discarded furniture and household equipment on the
premises for unreasonable periods, and having a tendency to depreciate the aesthetic and property
values of surrounding property;
(k) Packing boxes, lumber, trash, dirt and other debris either inside or
outside buildings and visible from public streets or from the sight of neighboring properties for
unreasonable periods, and having a tendency to depreciate the aesthetic and property values of
surrounding property;
(1) The accumulation of dirt, litter or debris in vestibules, doorways or
the adjoining sidewalks of commercial or industrial buildings;
(m) The maintenance of signs and /or sign structures relating to uses
no longer conducted or products no longer sold on vacant commercial, industrial or institutional
buildings more than forty -five days after such building becomes vacant;
(n) The maintenance of any structure in a state of substantial
deterioration, such as peeling paint on a facade, broken windows, roofs in disrepair, damaged
porches or broken steps, or other such deterioration or disrepair not otherwise constituting a
violation and which is viewable from the sight of neighboring properties, where such condition
would have a tendency to depreciate the aesthetic and property values of surrounding property;
(o) The substantial lack of maintenance and landscaped areas, including
the lack of cultivation, irrigation, fertilizing, trimming of trees, and lawns, shrubs, vines and any
other ground cover and the lack of maintenance of non - landscaped areas, where the areas are to
be maintained are viewable by the public from a public right -of -way or viewable from the sight of
neighboring properties, and where such conditions would have a tendency to depreciate the
aesthetic and property values of surrounding properties;
(p) Maintenance of premises in such condition as to be detrimental to
the public health, safety of general welfare, or in such manner as to constitute a public nuisance
as defined by Civil Code Section 3480;
(q) Property maintained (in relation to others) so as to establish a
prevalence of depreciated values, impaired investments and social and economic maladjustments to
such an extent that the capacity to pay taxes is reduced and tax receipts from such particular area
are inadequate for the cost of public services rendered therein.
9.54.030 Enforcement
Whenever the City Manager, or his duly authorized representative, determines
that any premises within the City is maintained contrary to one or more of the provisions of this
Section, then he or she shall institute the abatement proceedings in accordance with adopted
enforcement procedures.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day
from and after the final passage and adoption hereof.
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 El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation,
published and circulated within said City of El Segundo and which is hereby designated for that
purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
6th February
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Ronald L. Hart, 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. 1149 is a full,
true correct original of Ordinance No. 1149 of the said City of El Segundo,
California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 9.54 TO TITLE 9 OF THE EL
SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE.
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor or said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of the said Council held on the 6th day of February, 1990 and the
same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Anderson, Clutter,
Dannen, West and Mayor Jacobson
NOES: None
ABSTENTIONS: None
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. 1149 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the
City Council of said City of 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 day, to wit:
Ronald L. Hart
City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California
(SEAL)