HomeMy WebLinkAbout1936 (#1027-1036) ORDINANCE NO. 10~?
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA A~ENDING ORDINANCE
NO. 100~ ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
REGULATING THE USE AND PROHIBITING THE OBSTRUCTION OF
PUBLIC HIG~VAYS A~ SIDEWALKS. #
THE COUNCIL 0F THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION l: That a new section is hereby added to Ordinance No. 100~ entitled
"An Ordinance of the City of Santa Ana Regulating the use and Prohibiting the Obstruct-
ion of Public Highways ~nd Sidewalks", which said new section shall be numbered Section
~-A.s_ud shall be inserted in said ordinance at the end of Section S thereof, which said
new section shall read as follows, to-wit:
"Section S-A: It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation, either aspr~Ucipal, agent, em~loyer or employee, manager, superintendent
or otherwise, for the purpose of advertising any store or sale of merchandise, to
invite, advertise for, or cause to collect or gather by any means whatsoever, any
person or persons to be present at, or to conduct, manage or superintendent-any pro-
ceedings, drawls, raffle, gift enterprise, free lottery or entertainment for the
interest, benefit or advantage of or to satisfy the curiosity of, among others, any
person or persons who stand or sit or loiter in or upon any public hiEhway, alley,
sidewalk or cross-walk at or near the place where such proceedings,~drawing, raffle,
gift, enterprise, free lottery or entertainment is being conducted so as to in any
manner hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles
passing along the same or so as in any m~uner to annoy or molest or interfere with
persons passing along the same."
SECTI~ S: This ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety and an urgency has arisen for its immediate adoption.
That the facts constituting such urgencz~are as follows: Numerous merchants and
business establishments in the City of Santa Ana have commenced and are now conducting
drawings for persons present and such drawings have caused and are now causing seriou~
interference with the public safety and peace in that such drawings have caused and are
now causing large gatherings of people upon the public streets and sidewalks in this
city to such an extent that the use of said streets and sidewalks for vehicular and
pedestrian traffic is seriously interfered with and on some occasions such crowds and
assemblages of people have prevented any use of the street and sidewalk adjacent to
such drawing for pedestrian and vehicular traffic in a normal manner and such gatherings
are a menace to the public health and safety upon the streets in this city. Therefore
this ordinance shall ts~ke effect and be in force from and after its adoption by the
affirmative vote of a four-fifths vote of the entire council of the City of Santa Ana.
SECTION ~: ~e City Clerk shall certify to the pass~ge of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the GRANGE
COUNTY REPORTER, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of
Santa Aha, and hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular
meeting held on the ~rd ds~v of February, 1~8.
ATTEST:
E.L.Vegely
City Clerk
Fred C. Rowland
Nay or.
STATE OF CALIFOP/~IA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE 1 SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City
of Santa Aha, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana,
and that the foregoing ordinance declaring that an urgency exists therefor, was
regularly introduced and read to the City Council at its regular meeting held
on th~ Srd day of February, 19~6, and was at said meeting regularly passed and
adopted by said City Council by the affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of
the members of said City Council, as follows, to-wit:
AYES, TRUSTEES: Plummer W. Bruns,
Ernest H. Layton,
NOES, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
Joseph P. Smith, W.H.Penn,
Fred C. Rowland.
(SEAL).
E.. L. Vegely
City Clerk and Ex-officio
Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Santa Aha.
ORDINANCE NO. 1028
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA PROVIDING FOR
THE I~{PRISON~ENT OF CITY PRISONERS IN THE COUNTY
JAIL OF GRANGE COUNTY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF S.~NTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION l: Notwithstanding the ~rovisions of any ordinance of the City of
Santa Ana, any person sentenced by the Recorder or City'Judge of the City of Santa Ana
in the City court of said City,-~'~o imprisonment for the violation of any ordinance of
the said City or for any other criminal offense, shall be imprisoned in the County
Jail of the County of Orange, said Orange County being the county in which the said
City of Santa Aha is situated.
SECTION 2: Any person arrested and imprisoned pending trial, in said City
Court shall be imprisoned in the said County Jail of the County of Orange.
SECTION 3: The expense of any such imprisonment under any ordinance of the
City of Santa Aha, shall be a charge in favor of the County of Orange, against the
City of Santa Ana, upon such terms as may be 4greed upon between said county and said
City.
SECTION 4: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of
this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues
of the 0R~GE COUNTY P~EPORTE~, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in
the City of Santa Ana, and hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Aha, at its regular
meeting held on the 2nd day of March, 1938.
ATTEST:
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk.
F~ed C. Rowland
Mayor.
STATE OF CALIFOPa~IA )
COUNTY 0F ORANGE/ SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Ana, and ex-officio clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, that the
foregoing ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the City Council at its
regular adjourned meeting held on the 2~th day of February, 1938, and was again read
to said Council at its Fegular meetiD~ held on the End day of ~rch, 1938, and was at
said meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit
AYES, TRUSTEES: Plum~r W.
Ernest H.
NOES, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
Layton,
Joseph P. Smith, W.H.Penn,
Fred C. Rowland.
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk and Ex-officio
Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Santa Ana.
(S~L).
ORDINANCE NO. 1029
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO AND REGUL~&TING THE
BUSINESS OF DEALING IN MOTOR VEHICLES AND PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VI0~&TION HEREOF.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION l: DEFINITION. For the purpose of this ordinance an automobil~
dealer is defined to be any person, firm or, corporation engaged in, conducting,
managing, or carrying on the business of buying, selling, or offering for sale~
consigning to be sold, or otherwise dealing in motor vehicles (except bicycles),
as the term "motor vehicle" is defined in the Vehicle Code of the State of
California.
SECTION %: It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the busines
of an automobile dealer, as the same is defined in this ordinance without first
having received a permit in v~iting so to do from the City Council of the City of
Santa Aha. Any such permit shall be effective for a period of one year from its
date.
Any person, firm or ;corporation desiring to obtain such a permit, shall
make application therefor in writing to the City Council of the City of Santa Ana.
Such apo!ication shall be filed with the City Clerk and the aoolicant shall at the
time of-filing such application, pay the sum of Two Hundred (~00.00) Dollars to
defray the expense of investigation and action upon such apolication, and such
fee s~.!l be in addition to any license fee v~ich is now or may hereafter be
required to be paid.
~%at the City Clerk of the City of Santa Aha shall, upon receipt of an
application and the fee hereinabove provided, cause a notice to be published in
three consecutive issues of the newspaper then having the official contract f~r
the publication of legal notices for the City of Santa Aha, giving notice that
such an application has been made, and which said notice shall be sub~tially
in words and figures, as follows, and shall contain the information indicated as
follows, to-wit:
"Notice of application for permit as
automobile dealer.
"Notice is hereby given that has made application
to the City Council of the City of Santa Ana for a permit to do business as an
automobile dealer in this City. Any and all persons having any knowledge or
information as'to why such a permit should not be granted to the applicant are
hereby notifiSd to present such reasons in v~iting to the City Clerk on or before
the day of , 19 Further oarticu]ars concerning said
appl!-6~ay be .obtained from the a~olication_ on- file ~n the office of the City
Clerk.
"Dated this day of , 19__
City Clerk of the City of
Santa Ana, California
The date specified in said notice shall be not less than thirty (~0)
nor more than sixty i(60) days after the date of the first publication of said
notice.
It is provided, however, that any person, firm or .corporation having a
license in this City at the present time as an autom~,bile dealer, may be issued a
permit under this section immediately upon filing the application herein specifie~
and paying the fee provided for a nenewal of any permit, and thereafter such
permittee must cause said permit to be renewed in accordance with the provisions
of this ordinance, provided however, t~t in the event that any such person
holding a license at the present time shall fail for a period of thirty (~0) days
after the effective date of thi~ ordinance to file with the City Clerk an app-
lication as required by this ordinance, and to pay the fee for such renewal, then
the right to such permit shall be deemed to be forfeited and thereafter an
application must be made and fee paid to the City Clerk as in the case of an
original application.
Such application shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the applicant
which shall set forth the following information, to-wit: the name, age and
residence address of the applicant, if a natural person, or if a corporation, its
name, date and olace of Incorooratlon, address of its princioal o!ace of business,
and the names o~ all its officers, together with their-respe~tiv$ addresses; or
if a partnershio, association or unlncoroorated comoany, the names of the oartners
comprising the association or company, together with their respective addresses,
the address at which suck business is to be conducted, and a statement as to
whether or not an application for a similar permit has been refused or cancelled
by this or any other municipality in the State of California, and if so, a full
statement of the reasons therefor.
Such ~opllcation shall further show that said applicant is to conduct
his business at a fixed place where motor vehicles are and will be displayed for
sale. All applications for a permit must be filed by the applicant, and if
the applicant is a corporation or ps~tnership, the s~me mu~ be signed by a duly
authorized officer on behalf of the corporation or any member of the partnership.
SECTION 3: boon the receipt of any application for an original permit, as
provided in the preceding section, the City Clerk shall investigate the applicant and
report in writing his f~ndings to the City Council. Such reoort shall set forth all
facts ascertained in connection with the application, but shall not contain any
recommendation pertaining to said application. Upon the filing of the report of the
City Clerk, the Council of said City may, after the expiration Of the date set forth
in the notice above provided for, grant or deny the application, or may in its
discretion, require a further investigation by said City Clerk or by other means.
boon demand of the City Clerk or said Council, each applicant must furnish his finger-
prints and photograph to the Chief of Police. The City Council shall have the power
to deny any application if it be deemed by them that the applicant is not a suitable
or proper person to carry on the business for which a license is required, or if the
place at which the ss~e is proposed to be located, practiced, carried on, or conducted,
is not a suitable or proper place therefor. If any application is denied, the amount
of money deposited with the City Clerk by the applicant shall be returned to the
applicant.
SECTION 4: The City Clerk shall require an application fee of T~o Hundred
(~00.00) Dollars for each q~igin$1 aoolication, filed under the orovisions of this
ordinance. A fee of Five($0.O0) Dollars shall be charged for ahy aoplication for a
yearly renewal of any permit issued under the p~ovisions of this ordihance, and a fee
of five (~0.00) Dollars shall be charged for any application for a change of location
of the olace of business for which a permit has been granted under the provisions
of this~ordi~ance. Such permit issued by the ~aid City C~uncil shall not be
transferable, provided, however, Dhat a fee of Five (~$.00~ Dollars only shall be
charged for change of ov~ership in ca~es where the new owner i' ~ ~ '
~ is already operating under permit issued unde~ the orovisions of this
ordinance[ Any automobile dealer having at least one place of b~siness, may secure a
permit for any additional locations by filing an spplication in the form heretofore
mentioned, upon payment of the sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars for each application for
additional locations sought under the provisions of this ordinance. Only one person,
firm or corporation'may conduct an automobile dea!er~s business at any particular
established place of business, unless any other person or persons desiring to conduct
a business at the same location has also received a permit from the City of Santa Ama.
No person, firm or corporation, to whom a permit has been issued under the
provisions of this ordinance, who fails for more than thirty (30) days after the
expiration of the time specified in said permit to apply for a renewal thereof, shall
be entitled to such renewal, but the permit theretofore issued shall be deemed to be
forfeited, and the application must be made to the City Clerk as in the case of an
original application. Whoever shall fail for more than fifteen (!5) days after the
expiration of any permit issued under the provisions of this ordinance to amply for a
renewal thereof, shall be required to pay a penalty of ten per cent (10%) of the amount
of the permit fee. Such penalty mha!l be collected by the City Clerk at the time of
renewal of said permit.
SECTION 0: Anybne who now holds or may hereafte~ hold a permit as an auto-
mobile dealer, and who discontinues bus~ness for a ~eriod exceeding ninety (~0) days,
will automatically relinquish all right or interest in said permit, and the same shall
ipso facto be revoked without any further action on the part of the City Council.
SECTION 8~ Every automobile dealer shall keep a record of the purchase, .
consignments, sales or exchanges of each and every motor vehiclS, purchased, sold, con-
signed to be sold or exchanged by him or them, which record shall Contain the name and
address of the person, firm or corporation from whom purchased or received, the make,
State license number, motor number, serial number and style of any motor vehicle so
purchased or received.
SECTION 7: That every dealer in motor vehicles must display a sign in letters
of not less than six (8) inches in height, said sign to be olaced in a conspicuous
place on the premises, and the same must be legible for fifty (~0) feet, and said sign
must give the name of the person, firm or corporation authorized by the State law and
the City ordinance to conduct the business of an automobile dealer. The aforesaid
sign must have painted on it in figures and letters, not less than two (~) inches in
height, the permit number of the license issued by the City Clerk to engage in the
automobile business.
SECTION 8: Every person, firm or corporation operating under the provisions
of this ordinance shall be held strictly responsible for the conduct of his or their
employees in so far as the sales or pUrchases of automobiles or motor vehicles are
concerned; it shall be his or their duty to see that no automobiles or motor vehicles
are sold or purchased by his or their~agent or agents or any other person or persons in
or upon his or their premises or locationOr locations other than his or their ov~
automobiles or motor vehicles unless such person or persons has a permit as provided
for in this ordinance.
Any ~iolation or violations of this section shall be deemed sufficient grounds
to suspend or revoke the permit of any person, firm or corporation so operating or
allowing or permitting any one to sell cars off their premises, unless the person so
selling was either the agent or employee of the person holding a permit or unless such
oerson so selling has a permit of his or their own~ and it shall be mandatory for any
~ermittee under this ordinance to determine whether or not a person or persons he
allows or permits to sell cars other than cars belonging to the permittee from any
automobile lot or premises operated by the permittee has an ur_revoked permit from the
City Council to engage in the automobile business.
SECTION ~: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage
in, conduct, manage or carry on the business of automobile dealer within the City of
Santa An a, who, or which, does not first reOeive therefor a permit as herein provided,
from the City Council, and who, or which, does not have a fixed and determined place
of business for the conduct of such business of automobile dealer, at which place of
business he, or it, displays the vehic~ s offered for sale.
It shall be unlawful for any automobile dealer ~o sell an automobile
from any place other than a fixed and established olace of business, for which a
permit has been granted .to conduct the business of~ selling automobiles.
SECTION lO~ In the event t~at any person, firm or corporation holding
a permit as an automobile dealer, as herein defined, shall violate, or cause, or
permit to be violated, any of the orovisions of this ordinance, or any provisions
of any other ordinance, or of any Law relating to or regulating such automobile
business, or shall conduct or carry on such business in an unlawful manner, or
shall cause or permit such business so to be conducted or carried on, it shall be
the duty of the City Council~to~, and the said City Council may, in addition to ~
the other penalties provided by this ordinance, suspend or revoke the permit
issued for conducting or carrying on such business. In the event any person,
firm or corporation is issued a ~permit under the provisions of this ordinance and
the same shall be revoked by said City Council, no permit shall be granted to sucl
person, firm or corporation to conduct or carr~ on such business· within six (83
months after such re~ocation. No permit shall be revoked until a hearing shall
have been had by the City Council relating to S~c~ revocation, notice of which
hearing shall be given in writing to the permittee~and served at least five (6)
days prior to the date of the hearing thereon, such service to be upon the
holder of such permit, or his manager or agent, ~hich notice shall state the
ground of complaint against the holder of such permit, or against the business
carried on by ~im, or it, and also shall state the time when, and the place where
such hearing will be had. Said notice shall be servedupon the holder of such
permit by delivering same to such person, his m~nager or agent, or to ~ny person
in charge of, or employed in the place of business of such holder, or, if such
person has no olace of business, then at his place of residence, or by leaving
such notice at-the place of business, or residence of such person, with some
person of suitable age and discretion. In the event the holder of such permit
cannot be found, and the service of such notice cannot be made upon him, in the
manner herein provided, then a copy of such notice shall be mailed, postage fully
prepaid, addressed to such holder, or such permittee, at his place of business,
or residence, at least five (6) days prior to the date of such hearing.
SECTION ll.: It shall be unlawful for any automobile dealer or any othez
person, fir~ or corporation to advertise or represent in any manner whatsoever,
either in v~iting or by oral statement, that ~ny automobile offered for sale,
trade or exchange is a ne~ automobile or motor vehicle, if said automobile or
motor vehicle has been operated, driven, towed~or caused to travel upon its ov~
wheels for a distance of 100 miles or more, and it shall be unlawful to offer for
sale, display, exhibit, demonstrate or place or cause to be placed on displzy or
floored in any place where automobiles are sold, any automobile of the then curre~
year manufacture or model, ~ich has been operated, driven, to~ed or caused to
travel upon its ov~ wheels for a distance in excess of 100 miles, unless there is
at all times conspicuously displayed in the lo,er r~ghthand corner of th~ wind-
shield of said vehicle in letters of not less than two inches in height a sign
bearing the words "used car".
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to execute,
make or prepare any contract or agreement for the s~le of any automobile of the
then current year manufacture or model, covering an automobile which has been
operated as hereinabove provided for a distance of more t~n 100 miles, unless
said contract contains immediately above the place for the signature of the
buyer of such automobile the words "this contract covers and relates to a used
motor vehicle" in letters at least as large as the largest letter~ appearing
elsewhere upon said contract.
SECTION 1E: It shall be unlawful for any automobile dealer to advertis~
in any newspaper, or through any other medium, that he has for ~ale any automobil~
which automobile is not actually for sale at the premises at the time the
advertisement is inserted in the ~ewspaper or medium, and it shall be unlawful
for any person not to discontinue the advertisement of any automobile within thre~
($) day~ after the selling of the s~e. The records and books of all automobile
dealers shall be open to the authorized representatives of the City of Santa Aha
to determine whether or not any auto~obile dealer has unlawfully advertised for
sale cars which are not actually for sale at his premises at the time the
advertisement of such vehicle is inserted in the newspaper or medium. Within
seventy-two (?~) hours after any automobile that has been advertised for sale
has been sold, it s~l~ be mandatory for the automobile dealer to withdraw any
advertisement relative to such automobile from any newspaper or any other medium
in which he might have been advertising the sale of such automobile prior to
actual sale.
SECTION 15~: It shall be unlawful for any automobile dealer to sell any
automobile or motor vehicle from any place other than a fixe~ and established
place of business, for ~hich a license has been granted to him, or them, by the
City Clerk, to conduct the business of selling automobiles or motor vehicles,
except~ that nothing in this section shall prevent an automobile dealer, or his
authorized agent or representative from offering for sale at wholesale, used
automobiles to other automobile dealers at their respective places of business.
Every automobile dealer, per~on, firm or corporation, who, or ~hich,
engages in, conducts, manages, or carries on the business of automobile dealer
within the City of Santa Ana, who or which, does not first receive therefor a
permit, as herein provided, and who, or which does not have a fixed and determine~
place of business for the conduct of such business e~ automobile dealer, at which
~lace of business he, or it, displays the vehicles offered for sale, or who
violates any other provision of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and uoon conviction thereof shall be ounish~ble by a fine of not
less than Fifty ($~0.O0) Dollars, nor more than ~ee Hundred ($~00.00) Dollars
or by imprisonment for a period of not less than ten (10) days nor more than ~0
days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
3!
Every person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense
'for each day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this
ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and
shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance.
S~CTI.0N 14: The permit fees provided for herein sba~ll be in a6dition to any
and all business license fees chs~ged or collected by the City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 15: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or ohrase of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitulonal by th~ decision of
any court of competent Jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of the ordinance. The Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby
declares ttu~t it would have passed this ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentenc
clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact the. t any one or more other sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 16: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues
of the ORANGE COUNTYRE?0RTER, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in
the City of Santa Ana, and hereby designated for that purpose. The City Council
hereby declares that an emergency exists for the immediate passage and adoption of this
ordinance in that there has now commenced and is threatening an influx of irresponsible
automobile dealers into this city, who set up temporary places of doing business and
after defrauding the public, immediately leave the City of Santa Aha, and the persons
who have been defrauded have no means of recovery for the fraud perpetrated upon them,
and therefore the City Council declares that this ordinance shall take effect and be
in force from and after the first publication thereof. It is provided, however,
that in the event the provisio~ declaring an emergency should be declared invalid for
any reason whatsoever, then and in that event this ordinance shall nevertheless take
effect $0 days after the first publication thereof as hereinabove provided and there-
after shall be in full force and effect.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular
meeting held on the 25rd da~ of ~arch,
.Fred C. Rowland
Nayor.
ATTEST:
E. L. Ve~uely, City Clerk
b ' ~
y. Erma Keeler, Deouty.
STATE OF ~LIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. V~GELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Aha, and Ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, that the
foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 18th day of March, 19~8, and v~as again read to said Council
at its regular adjourned meeting held on the 2$rd day of March, l~ZS, and was at said
meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, TRUSTEES: Plummer W. Bruns, Joseph'P. Smith, W.H.Penn,
Ernest H. Layton, Fred C Rowland.
NOES, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
E. L. Vegely ,
City Clerk' and Ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council.
by: Erma Keeler, Deputy.
(SEAL).
ORDINANCE NO. 1030.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA REGULATING
· THE USE OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS WITHIN SAID CITY.
.THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ~: All terms used in this ordinance shall be deemed and con-
strued to have the meaning ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of the State of
California as enacted by the Legislature of the State of California as Chapter 27
of the Statutes of 1935, as amended.
SECTION 2: The Council of the City of Santa Ana may by resolution,
exercise any of the rights, powers, privileges or authority granted to them under
the provisions of Division 9 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, by
resolution duly passed and adopted by said Council.
.SECTION 5: All police officers of the City of Santa Ana are hereby
given like power and authority with members of the California Highway Patrol as
provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California, for the regulation of
traffic and travel on highways within the City of Santa Ar~%, and such police
officers shall by voice, hand or other signal, direct all traffic within said Cit
SECTION 4: The Superintendent of Streets of the City of Santa Aha shall
have power and duty to place and maintain signs in conformity with the provisions
of this ordinance and the Vehicle Code, as directed by resolution of the Council
of this City.
SECTION 5: CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICTS AND THROUGH STREETS
All streets included within such portions of the City of Santa Aha may
hereafter be specified as such by resolution of this Council~ shall be respective]
in Central Traffic District "A" or Central Traffic District "B", and all such
streets as a~e hereafter by resolution designated as "through streets· shall be
through streets in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle Code.
SECTION 8: FOLLOWING AUTHORIZED E~W~iGENCY VEHICLES PROHIBITED
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle~ so as to follov
any authorized emergency vehicle closer than 500 feet or to park any vehicle with-
in 000 feet of any fire apparatus which has been stopped in answering a fire alarm
It ~d~all be unlawful for any person operating a motor vehicle to operate
or drive the same over or across any fire hose or fire apparatus lying or upon
any public highway without first obtaining permission so to do from the Chief of
the Fire Department or other officer in ch-~ge thereof.
SECTION 7: It shall be unlawful for any person or persons as operator
of a vehicle to conduct or Join in or be a member of any procession or assemblage
on any public highway in the City of Santa Ana without a permit having been issued
by the Chief of Police of said City for such procession or assemblage.
Any funeral procession shall have the right of way over all other
traffic, except authorized emergency vehicles.
SECTION 8: MOTORCYCLES AND BICYCLES
It shall be unlawfu% for any person traveling upon a bicycle, motorcycle
or toy vehicle to cling to or attach himself or his vehicle to any other moving
vehicle or street car on any highway in the City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 9:
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle
for a period of time longer than one hour between the hours of 7 o'clock A.~,~. and 8
o'clock P.E. of any day, except Sundays and Holidays within Central Traffic District "A"
(b) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle
and leave ~he same so parked for a period of time longer than two hours between the
hours of ? o'clock A.E. and 8 o'clock P.E. of any day, except Sundays and Holidays,
within Central Traffic District "B".
(c) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle
and leave the same so p~rked for a period of time longer than thirty minutee between
the hours of 2 o'clock A.E. s_nd 0 o'clock A.E. of any day, upon any public highway in
the City of Santa Ana.
(d) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park ~aid
~vehicle other than parallel with the curb upon any high~ay in the City of Santa Ana,
except where said street or the curb thereof has been marked to indicate that diagonal
parking is permitted, by the placing of lines or markers upon the surface of the road-
way or curb, or to park said vehicle at any point where said street and the curb thereof
has been marked to indicate that diagonal parking is permitted, except entirely within
any one space indicated for the parking of a vehicle.
(e) It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle immediately adjacent to
or opposite any curb which has been painted red and which has been marked to indicate or
bears a sign indicating that no parking is permitted.
(f) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle
immediately adjacent to or opposite any curbing in the City of Santa Aha, which has been
painted green, and be~rs a sign or legent indicating a maximum length of time for park-
ing, (either ten or tv~enty minutes), and leave said vehicle so parked in excess of the
time so indicated, between the hours of ? o'clock A.i~!. and 6 o'clock P.~. of any day,
except Sundays and Holidays.
(g) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop said
vehicle immediately adjacent to or opposite any curbing in the City of Santa Ana which
has been painted white, for any purpose other than for loading or unloading of passenger
or for a longer period of time than one minute.
(h) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop said vehicle
immediately adjacent to or opposite any curbing in the City of Santa Ana which has been
painted yellow, for any purpose other than for the loading or unloading of passengers
or freight, or for a longer period of time than ~ minutes.
(i) It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle on any street in the City
of Santa Ana upon which vehicle there is a sign indicating that said car is for sale,
or to park any such vehicle for the purpose of displaying it for sale.
SECTION 10: The City Council shall, by resolution, designate ~hat curbs or
curbing of public highways within the City of Santa Ana shall be painted the colors
provided for in Section 9 hereof, and when said 'Council shall so designate, then such
locations shall be so painted.
SECTION ll: The City Council shall designate by resolution, all such cross-
walks in the City of Santa Ana as are not included within Subdivision "a" of Section 85
of the Vehicle ~ode,
manner, direct the marking or indication of any cross-walks in the
Santa Ana.
SECTI.ON 12: In any alley connecting t~o
terminating in Central Traffic District "A" or "B",
and such City Council or the Chief of Police may in like
City of
or more streets in or
it shall be unlawful to
operate any vehicle in a southerly or in an easterly direction or to park any
vehicle in any such alley, except while actively engaged in loading or unloading
passengers, freight or merchandise.
It shall be unlav~ful for the operator of any vehicle to drive said
vehicle out of any alley or private driveway within said Central Traffic District~
"A" or "B" unless such vehicle has been brought to a complete stop immediately
before crossing the sidewalk, and giving an audible warning with his horn, or to
turn said vehicle to the left upon any street when entering or leaving such
alley.
SECTION 15: The Chief of Police is hereby authorized, ~hen in his
opinion public convenience and necessity requires the same, to erect and maintain
temporary signs regulating traffic, travel and parking of vehicles upon the
streets and highways in the City of Santa Aha, so as to prohibit travel, parking
or turning of vehicles'upon said public highways as in his opinion the occasion
may require.
SECTION l~: Any and all resolutions passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City 6f ~nta .&ua pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance and
pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, shall
be deemed to be a part of this ordinance, and any violation of any of the pro-
visions of any such resolution shall be deemed to be a violation of this
ordinance, to the same effect as though said resolution ~ere a part hereof.
SECTION l~.: Notwithstanding any other section of this ordinance the
provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any authorized emergency vehicle
or s~y other vehicle actually engaged in the performance of emergency duties
being perfDrmed by public authorities.
SEC?ION 18: Any person violating or failing to comply ~ith any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or any rule or regulation of the City Council or
Chief of Police adopted pursuant hereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable for a fire offense by a fine of not
to exceed Fifty (~80.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the
County of Orange, for a period not exceeding five (~) days; for a second violatioz
within a period of one (1) year, by a fine not to e~eed one hundred ($100.00)
Dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of Orange for a
~eriod not to exceed ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a
third and additional offense connuitted within one (1) year, by a fine not to
exceed Three Hundred ($Z00.O0) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail of
the County of Orange for a period not to exceed three (~) months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION l~ T~t all ordinances which conflict with this ordinance be
and. the same are hereby repea~ledprovided, however, that all through streets, central
traffic districts, and other parking limitations established under Ordinance No. 817
shall continue in full force and effect until such time as this Council shall be ~
Resolution change or alter such provisions, the said provisions and regulations not
established being hereby approved subject to the right of said City Council to change
the same by Resolution.
SECTION 18: The City Clerk shall certify to the passaE~ of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the ORANGE
COUNTY REPC~TER, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of
Santa Ana, and hereby designated for that purpose, and thirty (50) days thereafter shall
take effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Aha at its regular
meeting held on the 8th day~of April, 19Z8.
ATTEST:
E. L. VeEely
City Clerk
Fred C. Rowlan~
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
CITY OF ~ANTAANA ISS
COUNTY OF ORANGE
I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Ana, and Ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Aha, that the
foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its
regular adjourned meeting held on the 2~th day of February, 19S8, and was again read to
said Council at its regular meeting held ~n the 8th day of April, 1958, and was at said
meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
A~.TE~, TRUSTEES: Plunm~r W. Bruns,
Ernest H. Layton,
NOEB, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
Joseph P. Smith,
Fred C. Rowland.
W.H.Penn,
CS A ).
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk and Ex-offiCio
Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Santa Ana.
,O n CE No. loss
AN ORDINANCE 0~ THE CITY OF SANTA ALL&, CALIFORNIA,
FIXING THE A~0UNT OF MONEY ASCERTAINED TO CARRY ON
THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
AND TO P.~Y THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS FALLING DUE FOR
'THE CUSRENT YEAR 1936-37, AND FIXING THE RATE OF
TAXATION F~R THE CURRENT YEAR 1956-$7, ~ESIGNATING
THE NIB&BE}{ OF CENTS ON EACH $100.00 FOR THE VARIOUS
FUNDS OF SAID CITY, ON THE WHOLE OF THE TAXABLE
PROP~{TY OF SAID CITY AS SET BY THE COUNTY ASSESSOR
OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND
EQUALIZED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF SAID COLrNTY,
AND HEREBY LEVIED ON THE WHOLE OF THE TAXABLE PROPERTY
OF_ SAID ~ITY.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
THAT, WHEREAS, the City of Santa Aha, California, did on the 28th day of
December, 1914{ by 0~dinance, elect and determine to avail itself of the provisions
of the Act of the 27th day of ~ch, 1895, and subsequent amendments thereto relative
to the assessment and collection of taxes for the municipal corporation of the City
of Santa Ana, California, and did in accordance therewith on or about said date file
with the Auditor of Orange County, California, a verified copy of said Ordinance per-
taining thereto as provided by law; and
WHEREAS, the County Auditor of the County of Orange, State of California,
on the 17th day of August, 1936, filed his statement in writing with the City Council
of the City of Santa Aha, California, showing the total value of all property within
the corporate limits for the year 1936-37, and equalized and collected by the Board
of Supervisors of Orange County, Csllfornia, and fixed the sum as shown by the assess-
ment rolls for said year at $24,017,940.00, exclusive of operative property, and
showing the total value of all property belonging to public utilities and used as
operative property of such public utilities within the corporate limits of said City
for the year 1936-37 as determined and equalized by the Board of Equalization of the
State of California, amounting to the sum of $24,017,940.00, which said amounts make a
total assessed valuation for tax purposes within the City of Santa Ana of the sum of
$24,017,9~0.00, and
WHEREA~, the City Council elects to levy a total tax for the sum of $1.50 on
each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City as provided by law, the amount of
money ascertained and fixed to carry on the various departments of the City of Santa
Aha, and to pay the bonded indebtedness falling due for the current year 1936-37, is
the fixed sum of $360,289.10; and
WHEREAS, said sum is to be apportioned amo~ the various departments of the
said City of Santa Aha, and placed in the general and special funds to pay current
municipal expenses on the assessed value of all the real and personal property within
such municipality, over and above the several sums to be raised as provided by law.
SECTIpN 1. That the total valuation of the taxable property of the City of
Santa Ana of $24,017,940.00 shall be used as a basis for the levy of the taxes of the
City of Santa Aha, at the same time and in the same manner in which County levies are
made and collected.
SE~TION 2' That the rate of taxation for municipal purposes and to pay the
bonded indebtedness and interest of the City of Santa Ana, California, for the cumrent
year 1936-37 is hereby fixed at $1.50 on the taxable property of said City, and that
said amount of S24,017,940.00 in the aggregate and the rate sum of $1.50 on each
$t00.00 of ~he taxable 'proper~y of said City ia hereby levied upon all the taxable
property as
/ ascertained by the County Assessor and equalized by the Board of Supervisors of
Orange County, California, and as ascertained and equalized by the Board of
Equalization of the State of California, as aforesaid, and which said rate so
fixed shall be apportioned among special funds to pay the current expenses,
bonded indebtedness and interest and other indebtedness of said City, falling due
for the current fiscal year 1936-37, and other several sums to be raised as
fixed and provided by law, as follows, to-wit:
For the .General Fund, $0.51 on each $100.00 of the taxable property
of said City;
For the Street Fund, $0.20 on each $100.00 of the taxable property
of said City;
For the Sewer Fund, $0.01 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of
said City;
For the Fire Fund, $0.26 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of
said City;
For Parks, $0.03 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City.
For the Library Fund,$O.lOSLon each $100.00 of the taxable property
of said City;
For the North Flower Street Bridge Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $0.002 on
each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For the Sewer Bonded Indebtedness No. I Fund, $0.008 on each $100.00 of
the taxable property of said City;
For the Sewer Bonded Indebtedness No. 2 Fund, $0.007 on each $100.00 of
the taxable property of said City;
For the Fire Department Bonded Indebtedness No. 1 Fund, $0.002 on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For the Fire Department Bonded Indebtedness No. 2 Fund, $O,Oll on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For the City Hall Bsnds ~o. 2 Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $0.0032 on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For Street Apparatus Bonds, Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $0.004 on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For Street Improvement Bonds, North Main Street Bonded Indebtedness
Fund, $0.01 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For Street Improvement Bonds, East First Street, Bonded Indebtedness
Fund, $0.003 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of' said City;
For Street Improvement Bonds, Bristol StPeet, Bonded Indebtedness
Fund, $0.0025 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For School Street Improvement Bonds, Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $O.Oll
on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For Street Improvement Bonds, Culverts, 3rd and 4th Streets, Bonded
Indebtedness Fund, $0.0015 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For Santa Ana Main Sewer Line Bonds, $0.035 on each $100.00 of the
taxable property of said City;
For Joint 0utfall Sewer Bonds, $0.04 on each $100.00 of the taxable property
of said City;
For Electric Fire Alarm System Bond Fund, $0.007 on each $100.00 of the
taxable property of said City;
For East Fire Engine House Bond Fund, $0.0054 on each $100.00 cf the taxable
property of said City;
For Joint Outfall Sewer Maintenance Fund, $0.02§ on each $100.00 cf the
taxable property of said City;
For West Fire Engine House Bond Fund, $0.0054 on each $100.00 of the taxable
property of said City;
For Fire Apparatus Bond Fund, So.00? on each $100.00 of the taxable property
of said City;
For West Fifth Street Improvement Bond Fund, $0.008 on each $100.00 of the
taxable property of said City;
For Joint 0utfall Sewer Bond Extension, $0.08 on each $100.00 of the taxable
property of said City;
For the purpose of payi~ for the lands purchased or to be purchased at tax
sales for delinquent assessments and taxes under Street Improvement Bond Act of 1915,
S0.10 on each $100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For the City Hall Bonds No. 3 Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $0.025 on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
For the North Main Street Bridge Bonded Indebtedness Fund, $0.008 on each
$100.00 of the taxable property of said City;
SECTION 5. The City Clerk is hereby instructed to submit a certified copy
of this Ordinance to the County Auditor of Orange County, California, on or before the
1st day of September, 1958.
HECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the Orange County
Reporter, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of Santa Ana,
and hereby designated for that purpose. This Ordinance shall take effect from and
after its adoption.
PASSED ANDADOPTEDby the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular
adjourned meeting held on t~e 24th day of August, 1956.
ATTEST:
E. b. Vegely
City Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Santa Ana.
(SEAL).
Fred C. Rowland
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIAt
COUNTY OF ORANGE SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. Vegely, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Ana, and Ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of tha City of Santa Ana, that
the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its
regular meeting, held on the l?th day of August 1936, and was again read to said
Council at its regular adjourned meeting, held on the 24th day of August, 1956,
and was at said meet-ing regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the
following vote, to-wit:
AVES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
TRUSTEES:
TRUSTEES:
TRUSTEES:
Plummet Wo Bruns,
F~ed C. Rowland.
None
W.H.Penn.
Joseph P, Smith,
Ernest H.Layton,
(SEAL).
E. L. ~el[
City'~lerkand Ex officio Clerk of'
the City Council of the City of
Santa Ana.
ORDINANCE NO. 1053
AN ORDINANCE ~u~-NDING SECTION 7 OF ORDINANCE NO.
9~2 ENTITLED "AN O~tDINANCE REGULATING AND LICENSING
THE BUSINESS OF CARRYING PASSENGERS FOR HIRE IN
MOTOR VEHICLES IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA.
THE COUNCIL 0P THE CITY 0P SANTA ANADO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That section 7 of Ordinance No. 982 entitled "An Ordinance
Regulating and Licensing the Business of Carrying Passengers for Hire in Motor Vehicles
in the City of Santa Aha "be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows,
to-wit:
"Section 7: The City Council shall designate in any permit granted by it
the exact location of the taxicab stand; such permit shall specify the exact number of
feet and location of any parking or standing space reserved for such taxicab stand,
which reserved space may be at any time changed, diminished or increased by the City
Council. Every taxicab stand as designated by the Council shall be indicated by red
paint or other red material upon the entire curb surface therein, with the words
tTaxicabs 0nly~ in white letters thereon.
"Upon any chaD~e in the taxicab standby the City Council the markings on
the curb shall be cha~edto conform thereto.,
Section 2: The City Clerk shall certiTy to the passage and adoption of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues
Of the ORANGE COUNTY P~EPORTER, ad ally newspaper printed, published and circulated in
the City of ~unta Aha, and hereby designated for that pumpose, and thirty days there-
after shall take effect and be in force.
PA~SED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular
meeting held on'the-21st da~ of September, 1938.
Fred C. Rowland
Mayor
ATTEST
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ISS
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Ana, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, that the
foregoing 0~dinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 8th day of September, 1938, and was again read to said
Council at its regular meeting held on the 21st day of September, 1938, and was at said
meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AW'ES, TRUSTEES:
NOES, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
Plummet W. Stuns, Joseph P. Smith,
Ernest H. Layton, F~ed C. R~wland.
W.H.Penn,
E. L. Ve~l~
City Clerk and Ex officio
Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Santa Ana.
(SEAL).
41
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A BOARD OF FORESTRY AND
TH~ OFFICE OF CITY FORESTER OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA: REGULATING THE PLANTING, REMOVAL,
MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF TREES, PLANTS AND SHRUBS
ON PUBLIC STRUTS AND PARKS.
THE CODNCIL OF 'l'~ CITY OF SANTA AMA DO ORDAIN AS
Section 1: ~hat there is hereby created a Board of Forestry composed
of seven members, five of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of
Santa Aha with the approval of the City Council of said City, and two ex-officio
members who shall be the Street Superintendent of the City of Santa Aha, and one
member of the City .Council, to be designated by the Mayor. Vacancies in such
Board shall be filled by appointment in like manner for the unexpired term.
The members of s~ich Board shall respectively hold office for the period
of ,three years, except that the respective terms of the members of such Board
first appointed under the provisions hereof shall so classify themselves by lot
that one of their number shall go out of office at the end of the current fiscal
year, two at the end of one year thereafter, and the other two at the end of two
years thereafter. All appointed members shall serve without compensation. The
Board of Forestry shall meet at least once a month, at such times and places as
they may fix by resolution. Special meetings may be called at any time by
three members of the Board bywritten notice served upon each member at least
three hours before the time specified for the proposed meeting. A majority of
the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Such Board
~hall select one of their appointed members as president who shall serve for one
year and until his successor is appointed, and in his absence shall select a
president pro-rem. Such Board shall cause a proper record of their proceedings
to be kept.
Any appointee member of the Board of Forestry, notwithstanding his
regular term of office, may be removed by the appointing officer at his pleasure
with the concurrence of the City Council. The terms of the ex-officio members
shall correspond with their respective tenure in office.
SECTION 2: There is hereby created the office of City Forester, to be
known as Superintendent of Parks. He shall be appointed by and receive such
compensation as shall be from time to time allowed by the City Council. Such
Superintendent of Parks shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing power.
Such Superintendent of Parks shall perform such duties as may be required of him
by the Board of Forestry.
SECTION 3: For the purpose of this ordinance the word "Street" is
hereby defined to be any public streetw public way, public alley, public thorough-
fare, public lane or parkway upon or along any public street or public way.
SECTION 4: The Board of Forestry shall exercise Jux-tsdiction and control
over the planting, maintenance and care of trees, plants and shrubs in all the
streets of the City, under the direction and authorization of the City Council,
subject, however, to street improvements authorized by the City. The Board of
Forestry shall have such additional powers, authority, Jurisdiction and duties as
are prescribed in this ordinance.
SECTION §: It shall be the duty of the Board of Forestry to set out or plant
any and all shade trees and shrubbery on public streets or parkways, and to take general
care and supervision of all trees, plants and shrubbery planted and growing in the street
of the City; and to encourage the planting, care and preservation of shade or ornamental
trees and shrubbery in said streets as hereinafter set forth~
SECTION 6: The Boar~ of Forestry shall have charge or.and direct and supervise
the planting, removal, tri~ning, pruning, cutting and maintenance of trees, plants and
shrubs in streets in the City of Sant~ Aha, and shall have charge of all work incidental
to the above duties, and shall issue all permits for the replacement, re,oval, planting,
cutting, pruning and/or trimming of trees, shrubs, and plants in streets in the City of
Santa Ana. The Board of Forestry is hereby authorized to determine the variety of
trees, shrubs and plants that may be planted in, upon or along any street, or any portion
thereof, and the distance apart at which such trees, shrubs and plants shall be planted.
The permit issued for the planting of ~uch trees, shrubs and plants shall state the
variety of trees, shrubs and plants that shall be planted, the distance apart at which
the same shall be planted, and the location of each tree, shrub and plant, and the size
of such tree, shrub and plant.
SECTION 7: It shall be the duty of the employees of the Board of Forestry to
inspect all trees, shrubs and plants in all streets of said city which are open for
travel, and upon discovering that any such trees, shrubs or plants' are infected or
infested with scale, plant or animal life, or growth, or any insect detrimental to the
growth, health or life of such trees, shrubs, or plants, to remove, eradicate, or destroy
such condition. If any trees, shrubs or plants in any street in said city are so infect
or infested, and to such a degree that such condition cannot be removed, eradicated or
destroyed by the usual means and efforts employed, said employees may remove and destroy
any such trees, shrubs, or plants, if in the Judgment of the Board of Forestry, it shall
seem best.
SECTION 8. It shall be the d~ty of the Board of Forestry to inspect any and
all trees, shrubs, and plants, which are in any wtreet in said city, or which, standing
on any private estate, overhang or project into any such street, to determine whether
any of the same or any part thereof appears to be dead, liable to fall, dangerous, or
an obstruction to public travel on any such street.
SECTION 9. In case any tree, shrub or plant in any street in said ~ity, or
any tree, shrub or plant standing on any private estate, overhanging or projecting into
any such street appears to be dead, liable to fall, dangerous or an obstruction to public
travel on any such street, the Board of Forestry shall cause the same or such part or
parts thereof as are dead, liable to fall, dangerous, oran obstruction to such public
travel, to be cut down, and if in any such street, to be removed therefrom; provided
that except in case of manifest public danger and immediate necessity, no such tree or
shrub shall be wholly cut down or removed unless ten days' notice in writing of its
intention to cause the same to be done shall be gtve~ by the Board of Forest~ry to an
owner, occupant or agent of the estate nearest such tree or shrub, which abuts on that
part of such street-in which such tree or shrub is situated or to an owner, occupant, or
agent of such private estate, if such tree or shrub stands thereon; and if any owner,
occupant, or agent of such estate shall, within seven (7) days after the giving of such
notice, file with the Board of Forestry his objection inwrit~ing'to such removal, such
t~ee or shrub shall not be cut down or removed, unless said Boar8 of Forestry shall
give such o~aler, ur hther proper person who has given such notice, a reasonable
opportunity to be heard in support of such objection, and shall thereafter approve,
in w tiring, the removal of the same, if such objection is not sustained.
SECTIO~ 10: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation,
their agents, officers, or employees, to plant, remove, destroy,'cut, prune or
deface, or in any manner to injure or cause or permit to be plan~ed, removed~
destroyed, cut, pruned or defaced, or in any manner injured, any tree or shrub in
any street in the City of s~nta Aha, without first obtaining a pez~it so to do froz
the Board of Forestry. Such permit shall specifically describe the work to be do=
thereunder, and such permit shall be void after thirty (SO) days after its date.
Any and all trees or other planting which may be hereafter be planted on
the public streets, including parkways therein, of the City of Santa Aha, contrary
to or without such permit, shall be construed to be and are hereby declared to be
a public nuisances, and the Forestry Board may summarily remove and destroy such
tree s ·
SECTION 11: No person shall move any building or other object along any
street in said City of Santa Aha, in such manner as to injure any tree or shrub
in such street, without first having obtained a permit therefor from the City
Forester, and said Board of Forestry may, if deemed advisable, require any person
moving a building or any other object' along a street in said City to fur~lish a bon~
in an amount sufficient to cover the damage or destruction of trees or shrubs on
any street~
SECTION 12: The Board of iNk, retry shall prepare all reports required by
law under any general laws of the State of California in connection with the
planting or maintaining of trees on streets in the City of Santa ina, and said
Board shall exercise the powers and duties that are now or that may hereafter be
imposed by general laws of the State relating to tree planting, subject, however,
to the approval of ~le Council, and shall m-~e recommendations to the City Council
from time to time as to what particular work should be ordered by the City Council
under the various tree planting acts of the State of California.
SECTION IS: In t~le event that the City of Santa Aha shall itself under-
take to do the actual work of planting and ~aintaining of trees, shrubs, plants and
lawn in any street under any general law of the State of California, or in conform-
ity With any procedure ordinance of the City of Santa Aha, the same shall be done
by the Board of Forestry, except that assessments shall be levied Dy the .City
Council of the City of Santa Aha, and collections shall be made by the proper
person designated by law to make such collections.
SECTION 14: It shall be unlawful for any person, to post or affix to
any tree or shrub, tree stake or guard, in any street in said City, any bill, poste
placard, picture, announcement, notice, advertisement or si~n, or cut, paint, print
or mark any of the same upon any such tree or shrub, tree stake or guard, or affix
or attach in any ~nner any other thing whatsoever, including any ~uy wire or rope
to any such tree or shrub, tree stake or guard, or cause any of the same to be done
except for the purpose of protecting it, or other purpose authorized by this
ordinance. Tree stakes or guards may be placed around trees, shrubs or plants by
the Board of Forestry or by property owners, provided the same are merely placed near a
tree, shrub, or plant, for the purpose of protecting or training such trees, shrubs or
plants.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, pour or spill any oil, salt or
salt water or other deleterious matter upon any tree or tree space in any street, or
keep or maintain upon any sidewalk within ten (lC) feet of any such tree or tree space
on any street, any receptacle from which oil or salt water leaks or drips, or to pour
oil or salt water on to any parking or concrete gutter, so as to injure any tree on any
street.
It shall be unlawful for any person to pile building material, or other materis
about anymtree, plant or shrub in a street in any manner that will in any way injure
such tree, plant or shrub.
SECTION 1§: Any person, firm or corporation violating a~y of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by
Lmprtsonment in the County Jail for a period of no~ more than six (6) months, or by both
- such fine and imprisonment; and it shall be the duty of the Board of Forestry to cause
all such violations to be vigorously prosecuted.
If~ any section, subsection, sentence, clause or p~ase of this ordinance is
for any reason held to be unconstitutional, void or invalid, the validity of the r~m-in-
ing portions of this ordinance shall not be affected thereby, it being the intent of the
Council of the City of Santa Ana, in adopting this ordinance, that no portion thereof,
or provisions or regulations contained therein shall become inoperative or fail by
reason of any unconstitutionality or invalidity of any other portion, provision or
regulation.
SECTION 16: The Board of Forestry shall forthwith commence the preparation
of a plan which shall designate by means of a complete map of the City streets, a
uniform method of street tree planting, zoning certain streets for a certain specimen
of tree or trees and shrub or shrubs, showing the distance apart of said trees or
shrubs, and the place in which each tree or shrub is to be planted, and the Board of
Forestry shall submit this plan to the City Council of the City of Santa Aha for
modification and/or adoption by that body. If, and when the uniform plan of the Forestr
Board in its original or modified form is adopted by the City Council, it shall become
the tree planting plan for the streets of the City of Santa Aha, and shall be strictly
adhered to in all future street plantlf~g, improvement projects, and in the removal and
replacement of shrubs, trees and plants on streets of the City of Santa Ana; provided
the City Council may at any time amend, alter, cancel, or repeal said plan, or may adopt
an entire new plan as said Council m~y deem best. The uniform plan of tree planting
may, but need not, be adopted in its entirety by the City Council at one time, but the
City Council may adopt the uniform street tree planting plan for different portions of
the City within a reasonable length of time after the completed plan for any particular
portion of the City of Santa Aha has been submitted to the City Council. The Board of
Forestry shall have copies of this plan m_~.de, and the same shall be kept on file in the
office of the Board of Forestry and may be obtained by the public. Provided further,
however, that the owners of property fronting on any street, alley or public place may
petition the City Council*of the City of Santa Ana that such trees or shrubs shall be
a certain kind cf variety, but such petition shall be merely advisory to the
action of said City Council.
SECTION 17: The Board of Forestry and the Superintendent of Parks shall
exercise Jurisdiction and control over all public parks and playgrounds and other
public places of recreation under the control and Jurisdiction of the City of
Santa Aha and over the planting, maintenance and care of trees, plants, flowers
and shrubbery in all such public parks or places in the City of Santa Ana, and
it shall be their duty to prescribe all rules and regulations for the use,
occupancy and enjoyment by the public of all such public parks and playgrounds in
the City of Santa Aha, and they shall have like control over such public parks an~
playgrounds as is heretofore given them in this ordinance over public streets,
public ways, public alleys, thoroughfares, lanes or parkways in the ~ity of
Santa Aha.
SECTION 18. That Ordinance No. 954, entitled "AN ORDINANCE CREATING A
BOARD OF FORESTRY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA UNDER THE Jq~RISDICTION OF THE PLANNING
COMMISSION, REGUL~ING THE PLANTING, R~0VAL, MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF TREES,
PLANTS AND SHRUBS ON P~BLIC STREETS AND ~ HKWAYS, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 857
APPROVED OCTOBER 29, 1928", be and the same is hereby repealed, provided, however
that such repeal shall not be presumed to re-enact Ordinance No. $57, repealed
thereby, and provided further that t~he provisions of this ordinance insofar as th
same are substantially the same as said ordinance above repealed, must be con-
strued as continuations thereof, and not as a new enactment, and no action or
proceeding commenced before this ordinance takes effect, and no right accrued is
affected by its provisions, but the proceedings hereafter must conform to the
requirements of this Ordinance as far as applicable.
SECTION 19. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of
the ORANGE COUNTY REPORTER, a daily newspaper, printed, published and circulated
in the City of Santa Aha, and hereby designated for that purpose, and ~0 days
thereafter shall take effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOP'i'ED by the Council of the City of Santa Aha at its
regular meeting held on the 7th day of December, 19~5.
ATTEST:
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
Fred C. Rowland
ayor
(SEAL) .
I, E. L. VEGE~M, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City
of Santa Ana and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana,
that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council
%t its regular meeting, held on the 16th day of November, 1936, and' was again read
to said Council at its regular meeting, held on the 7th day of December, 1936, and
was at said meeting regularly passed an~ adopted by said Council by the following
vote, to-wit:
AYES, TRUSTEES: Plummet W.Bruns, Joseph P.Smith, W.H.Penn,
Ernest H.Layton, Fred C. Rowland.
NOES, TRUSTEES: None
ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None
(SEAL) E.L. Vegely
· City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 10~8
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SANITATION AND CONDUCT OF
CAMP CARS AND/OR TRAILERS IN~THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
CALIFORNIA.
THE COUNC~I?~ OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN. AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION l: For the purpose of this ordinance certain words and phrases are
defined as follows, and certain provisions shall be constEAed as herein set forth, Unles
it shall be apparent from their context that they have a different meaning.
Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural, the singular.
Words used in the present tense include the future.
CAMP CAR AND/OR TRAILER
"Camp Car and/or Trailer" is any unit used for living or sleeping purposes and
which is equipped with wheels or similar devices used for the purpose of transporting
said unit from place to place, whether by motive power or other means.
CA~P ROUND
"Camp Ground" is defined to be any place, area or tract of land upon which is
located any camp car and/or trailer. This definition shall not include a location
where a camp car and/or trailer is not occupied.
HEALTH DEPARTNENT
"Health Departmen~," is the Health Department or the Health Officer of the City
of Santa Ana.
SECT~ION 2: It shall be the duty of the Health Department to enforce all of
the provisions of this ordinance and for the purpose of securing enforcement thereof,
the Health Officer, or any of his duly mAthorized representatives, shall have the right,
and are hereby empowered to enter upon the premises of any camp ground now operating or
which may hereafter be operated within the City of Santa Aha to inspect the same, and al~
acco~mmodations connected therewith.
SECTION 3: PERMIT REQUIRED
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate or maintai~
or to offer for public use, within the confines of the City of Santa Aha, as hereinafter
set forth, any camp ground without first applying for and receiving from the Health
Department a permit so to do, in the manner hereinafter provided, or without complying
with regulations hereinafter set forth, or any rules and regulations which may be
formulated by the Health Department from time to time, and the laws of the State of
California, and City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 4: APPLICATION FOR PERMIT~ INSPE. CTION FEE
Each application for such permit shall be in ~rittng, upon a form provided by
the Health Department for that purpose. It shall state the name and address of the
applicant and a description of the property, whereon or wherein, it is proposed to con-
duct a camp ground. It shall also contain such other information asthe Health Depart-
ment may require, and it shall be filed by the applicant. It shall be filed with the
Health Department not less than ten (10) days, nor more than thirty (30) days before said
camp ground is made ready for use, and it shall be accompanied by an inspection fee of
Five ($5.00) Dollars, for which the Health Department
SECTION 6: ~pNEY TO CITY TREASURER
All moneys received by the Health Department
visions of this
Fund°
shall issue a receipt.
as inspection fees, under pro-
ordinance, shall be paid into the City Treasu~ and placed in the General
SECTION .9: INVESTIGATION REQUIRED BEFORE ISSUiNG PERMIT
Upon the filing of such application accompanied by the inspection fee,
it shall be the duty of the Health Department or any of its duly authorized
representatives to investigate the premises and d~termlue whether said proposed
camp ground or the site selected therefor conforms with the requirements of this
ordinance, the rules and regulations of the Health Department, and the laws of the
State of California, and no permit shall be issued ~less such Camp Ground or the
site selected therefor complies with such requirements, and meets with the approva
of the Health Department, and said Department may, at its discretion, approve or
reject any proposed camp ground site.
SE. CTION ?: ~EVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF PERMIT
Any permit granted hereunder shall be subject to revocation or suspensic
by the Health Department in the following manner, to-wit: A notice shall be
served on the person holding said permit, specifying wherein he has failed to
comply with this ordinance, and requiring him to appear before the Health Depart-
ment, at a day and hour therein specified, not less than five (§) days after the
personal service of said notice on such permit holder, requiring him to show
cause at said time and place why said permit should not be revoked or suspended.
At the time and place mentioned in said notice, the person holding said permit
shall have the right to appear in person, or by counsel, and to introduce such
evidence as he may desire, and the Health Department shall confront said permit
holder with any charges that said Health Department may have against him, and afte
said hearing, the Health Department may, at its discretion, revoke or suspend the
permit.
SECTION 8: PERMIT MAY BE TRANSFERRED
Such permit shall be transferable upon the written application of the
holder of the permit to the Health Department, and with its consent endorsed
thereon. A Permit may be granted at any time during the year, and unless prevlou
revoked shall expire one calendar year following the date of issue.
SECTION 9: PERMIT MUST BE POSTED IN CONSPICUOUS PLACE
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to e stablish,
maintain, condo, ct or carry on any camp ground unless there shall be at all times
posted in a conspicuous place at said camp ground the permit obtained from the
Health Department in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION lC: The provisions of this ordinance shall be applicable to
every camp ground within the iucorporated area of the City of Santa Aha, and it
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation maintaining, operating,
conducting or carrying on any such camp ground, or for any person living or sleep-
ing in any camp car and/or trailer located in a camp ground, or any other person,
to violate, or contribute in any way to the violation, of any of the provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION ll: RESP.0.NSIBILITY OF OWNER OR OPERATOR
Every person owning or operating a camp ground shall maintain such camp
ground, and any toilets, baths, or other permanent equipment in connection there-
with, in a clean and sanitary condition, and shall maintain sa~ equipment in a
state of good repair. ~
ly
SECTION 12: POWER OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO FORMULATE AND ENFORCE RULES AND REGULATIONS
The Health Department is hereby empowered to fo~Alate frc~ time to time, and
to enforce any rules and regulations that said department may deem advisable, governing~
the operation of camp grounds or camp cars and/or trailers bearing on any matters of
sanitation or housing.
SECTION lB: No camp ground hereafter established shall be located within the
City of Santa Aha without a permit first had and obtained from the Planning Cow~Ission
of said City, and the Health Department is hereby directed and required to obtain such
permit before issuing any permit for any such camp ground. The Pl~ulng Commission may
grant or refuse such permit to the Health Department, all as provided in the Zoning
Ordinance of the City of Santa Aua, governing the same.
SECTION !4: GROUND AREA FOR CAMP CARS AND/OR TRAILERS
Every camp ground hereafter established shall be laid out with, and all exist-
ing camp grounds shall provide, available unoccupied space of not less than fifteen
feet by thirty (30) feet for each camp car and/or trailer, and such available unoccupied
space shall not be construed to mean the space directly under any portion of any camp
car and/or trailer. Camp cars and/or trailers shall be arranged in rows abutting or
facing on a driveway or clear unoccupied space of not less than fifteen (18) feet in
width, which space shall have unob'~tructed access to a public street or alley.
SECTION 18: DRAINAGE. OF PREMI.SES
Every camp ground hereafter established sh~ll be located on a well-drained area
and the premises of every such camp ground or any existing camp ground shall be properly
graded so as to prevent~ the accumulation of storm or casual waters.
SECTION 18: WATER SUPPLT
An adequate supply of pure water for drinking and domestic purposes shall be
supplie~to meet the requirements of said camp ground. Said water supply shall be
obtained frem faucets only, conveniently located in said camp ground, and no dipping
vessels or common cups shall be permitted.
.SEC.TION 1V: REMOVAL OF ~ OR SIMILAR ~Zm~VICES
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning or operating a
camp car and/or trailer located in a camp ground to remove or cause to have ramoved, the
wheels or any similar transporting devices from said camp car and/or trailer, or to
otherwise permanently fix it to the ground in a m~ner that would prevent the ready
removal of said camp car and/or trailer without first obtaining a permit so to do, from
the Building Department of the City of Santa Ana. Any alteration to any camp car and/,
trailer aa above set forth, shall be construed as removing it from the requirements of
this ordinance, and converting it into a dwelling, and it shall thereupon be subject
to the requirements of the Building Code of the City of Santa Aha, and the State Housing
Act of California.
SECTION 18: DOGS NOT ALLOWED AT LARGE
Dogs at no time shall be permitted to run at large in any camp ground.
SECTION 19: TOILETS
There shall be provided in every existing cmnp ground, and every cared ground
which may hereafter be established, one toilet and water-closet for each sex, one of suc~
toilets and water-closets ~bAll be distinctly marked "For Men" and one of such toilets
and water-closets shall be distinctly marked "For Women", and there shall be provided an
r
additional toilet and w~ter closet for each sex, for every fifteen (15) or
part thereof in excess of fifteen (15) males or fifteen (15) females, living or
staying overnight in said camp ground; provided, however, that the Health Depart-
ment may exempt any camp ground existing at the time of the passage of this
ordinance from fully complying with the provisions of this section, when, in its
discretion, such deviation will not be detrimental to the health of persons
said ~ ground, or to the proper sanitation of the premises.
SECTION 20: GARBAGE RECEPTACLES
There shall be provided in every camp ground heretofore or hereafter
established, such number of tight receptacles with close fitting metal covers for
garbage, refuse, ashes, and rubbish, as may be deemed necessary by the Health
Department, and such garbage receptacles shall at all times be maintained in a cle~
and sanitary condition.
SECTION 21: ~SLOP SINKS
There shall be provided in every camp g round ~x~re~ofore or hereafter
established one or more slop sinks properly connected with a sewer or cesspool,
such sinks to be conveniently located at no gre~ter distance than one hundred (100~
feet from any camp car and/or t~tler.
SECTION 22: REFUSE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
It ~ha2l be unlawful to permit any waste water or material from sinks,
baths, showers or other plumbing fixtures in, or any waste from, any camp cars
and/or trailers, to be deposited upon the surface of the ground, and all such
fixtures, when in use, must be connected to the city sewer system, or the drainage
therefrom' must be disposed of in a ~=nner satisfactory to the Health Department.
SECTION 23: LIGHTING
Every camp ground heretofore or hereafter established shall be provided
with means of light~g the s~ at night, and all public water closets and bath
units shall be provided with sufficient lighting facilities which shall be kept
lighted during the time from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before
sunrise.
SECTION 24: Any ~ter fauuets, toilets, garbage receptacles, or other
equipment required~ by the provisions of this ordinance in camp grounds or which
may hereafter be required by any rules and regulations of the Health Department
pertaining to camp grounds, shall not be construed to mean water faucets, toilets,
garbage receptacles or other equipment now or hereafter located in or adjacent to
camp grounds, and which may already or hereafter be ~equired under provisions or
other laws or ordinances.
SECTION 2§:~ It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to occupy
any camp oar or trailer Li~ 'the CiSy of Santa Aha outside of a camp ground authorize
and established as herein provided. The word "occupieS" and "occupy" as herein
used, shall mean and be construed to mean, sleeping in, cooking in, or eating in
any such camp car or trailer.
SECTION 26: EACH VIOLATION SEPARATE
Every person, firm or czrporation violating or contributing in any w ay
to the violation of any provision of ~his ordinance shall be dee~ed guilty of
separate offense for e ach day ~uring which such violation continues, amd shall be
~unishable therefor as herein p~ovided. Ail ordinances or parts of ordinances in con-
flict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 27: It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning,
leasing, renting or operating a camp ground in the City of Santa Aha to comply with all
the provisions of this ordinance and/or any rules and regulations formulated by the
Health Department governing camp grotu~ds, and any such person, firm or corporation
violat~mg any of the provisions of this c~dinance or said x-ales and regulations or
contributing in anyway to the violation thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Three Hundred
($300.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not e~ceeding ninety (90) days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION..28.- If a~y section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence
clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
SECTION .29: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the ORANGE COUNTY
REPORTEH, a~:daily newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the City of Santa
Aha, and hereby designated for that purpose, and thirty (30) days thereafter shall take
effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Aha at its regular
meeting held on the 21st day of December, 1936.
ATTEST:
E. L. Vegely
'City Clerk
Fred C. Rowland
Mayor
SEAL).
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTYOF ORANGE )SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, E. L. VEGELy, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City of
Santa Aha and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Aha, that the
foregoing ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said Council at its regular
meeting, held on the Vth day of December, 19~6, and was again read to said council at
its regular meeting, held on the 21st day of December, 1938, and was at said meeting
regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
ALOES, TRUSTEES:
NOES, TRUSTEES:
ABSENT, TRUST, S:
Joseph P. Smith, W.H.Penn, Fred C. Rowland.
None
Pl~?mmer W. Bruns, Ernest H. Layton.
( SEAL).
E. L. Vegely
City Clerk
ORDINANCE-NO. 1036
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY 0F SANTA ANA REGLrLATING
THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, ENLARGEMENT,
ALTERATION, REMOVAL, DEMOLITION AND OCCUPANCY OF
BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES IN SAID CITT, AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND COLLECTION
OF ~'~ES THEREFOR, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO.
lOlO OF SAID CITY.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That a certain printed docttment, three copies of which are
on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Santa Aha, being marked and
designated as "Uniform Building Code, 1935 Edition", which was published in
October, 1935, by Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, be and~the same is
hereby adopted as the Building Code of the City of Santa Aha, for the regulation
and erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, removal, demolition,
conversion, occupancy, equipment, use, height, area and maintenance of all build-
ings and st~ctures in the City of Santa Aha, providing for the issuance of permit
and collection of fees therefor, providing penalties for violation of such Code,
and each and all of the regulations, l~rovi~ions, penalties, conditions and terms
of such Uniform Building Code, 1935 Edition, published in October, 193§, by
Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, on file in the office of the City
Clerk, are hereby referred to, adopted ~ud made a part hereof to the same effect
as if fully set forth in this ordinance.
SECTION 2: That said Uniform Building Co~e, 1935 Edition, published
October 1935, by Pacific Coast Building Conference, as adopted by this ordinance,
is hereby amended in the following particulars, to-wit:
(a) That Section 302 of said Code is hereby a~anded by striking out
therefrom the following words:
"For a total valuation of $50.00 or less, no fee." and there is
hereby inserted therein in lieu thereof the following:
"For a total valuation from $20.~ to $50.00 the fee
shall be $1.00".
That there is hereby added to Section 302 the following:
"In addition to the foregoing fees, the applicant shall
pay the following fees for plastering:
"For the first 3000 sq.yards, one-half cent per sq.yard.
"For all plastering over 3000 sq. yards one-quarter cent
per sq. yard.
"There shall be, however, a minimum fee for Plastering of $1.00".
(b) That Section 2204 shall be amended by adding thereto the following:
"That there shall be at least one opening through the exterior
foundation walls not. less than 16 inches by 24 inches with
movable door or screened vent. If a screened vent is con-
structed, such opening may.be computed as a part of the
required foundation space.
(c) That Section 2205 of said Code is hereby amended in the follow~g
particulars; that there is hereby added at the end of Paragraph numbered (c) of
said Section 2205, the following:
"That all wood frame buildings to be plastered or stuccoed .on
the exterior,, shall be sheathed w~th solid wood sheathing not
less than 3/4 inches in thickness."
(d) That Section 2207 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following..
"That floor Joists shall be spaced not more than 16 inches from
center to center. No 2 inch by 6 inch Joists shall have a
maximum span exceeding $ feet. That the clearance between the
bottom of the floor Joist and the ground surface shall be not
less than 24 inches."
' (e) That Section 5701 of said Code is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following:
"The foundations for all chimneys shall extend at least 12 inches
below the natural grade line and shall be not less than 12 inches
in thickness."
(f) That there is hereby added to said Code a new section to be numbered
2212, which shall read as follows:
"Section 2212: As au additional and alternative plan for Type V
Buildings within the following requirements the following con-
structton shall be permissible:
"Single wall and flat stud constr~etion for one-story buildings,
401 sq. ft. or more, and not exceeding 1200 sq. ft.
"Ail studs shall be 2" x 4" or equivalent thereto in cross-sectional
area, and shall not be more than 13" between edges, and not more
than 8t long between plates, and grooved not less than 1/2" to
receive boards; all single wall or pax~tion boards shall be not
less than 3/4" thick.
"Where siding or other facing is applied over board walls there
shall be applied one layer of watex--~roof paper not less than 14 lb.
felt or equal between such siding or facing on all interior walls
as required in Sec. 2205, Paragraph ~A".
"Ail plates shall be 2" x 4" or equivalent thereto, and shall be
lapped or tied with metal ties at least 1/4" by 1~ by 12" long with
two nails on each side of Joint at all splices; all Joints or inter-
sections shall be mitered., and butt Joints are prohibited unless
tied with metal straps at least 6" on each side of Joint.
"Ail outside wall boarding shall be carried down at least five inches
on the Joist and nailed with five 5D common galvanized nails to each
board, and floor Joists shall have a continuous 2 inch timber, at
least the same width as Joist, spiked to the ends of each Joist with
two 20D Common spikes to receive said boards and required nailing.
"Foundations shall be required as in Section 220A~
"Floor construction shall be required as in Section ~A and Amendments
thereto.
"Roof and ceiling shall be required as in Section 2205 and Amendments
thereto.
"Roof covering shall be required as in Section 2209.
"No wal~ or partition shall have a total length of more than twenty feet
without a lateral support by a partition or buttress at least six feet
wi~eat right angles to wall, or partition or other approved bracing
acceptable to the Building Inspector.
"No board and flat stud construction shall be erected on lots, tracts,
or plots of land where such lots, tracts, or plots of laud are restricte¢
to type or value of building, unless such building meets all require-
ments of such lots, tracts, or plots, or a one-hundred per cent of the
signatures of property owners in such lots, tracts, or plots of laud,
giving their consent to build Sueh type of construction."
SECTION 5: That Ordinance No. 1010, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANT~
ANA REGULATING THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, ENLARGEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, MOVING,
REMOVAL, DEMOLITION, CONVERSION, OCCUPANCY, EQUIP~T, USE, HEIGHT, AREA, AND MAINTENANC~
OF ALLBUILDINGS AND/OR STRUCTURES IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA; PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE 0~
PERMITS AND COLLECTION OF FEES THEREFOR: PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VI0~ATION THEHEOF;
REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. $1~ OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, AND ALL 0THEM ORDINANCES AND PARTS
OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICTHEREWITH"', and all ordinances amendatory thereto, are hereby
repealed.
SECTION A: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the ORANGE COUNTY
REPORTER, a daily newspaper, ~rlnted, published and circulated in the City of Santa Aha,
and hereby designated for that purpose, and thirty (50) days thereafter shall take
effect a~d be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPT~D by the Cotmcil of the City of Santa Aha at its
regular meeting held on the 21st day of December, 19~8.
ATTEST:
E. L. VeEely
City Clerk
Fred C. Rowland
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF SANTA ANA
I, E. L. VEGELY, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the City
of Santa Aha and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana,
that the foregoing ordinance was regularly introduced and read to the said
Council at its regular meeting, held on the Vth day of December, 1936, and was
again read to sald Council at its regular meeting, held on the 21st day of
December, 1936, and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopted by satd
Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, TRUSTEES:
NOES, TRUSTEE S:
ABSENT, TRUSTEES:
Joseph P. Smith, W.H.Penn, Fred C. Rowland.
None
Pl~,mmer W. Bruns, Ernest H. Layton.
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