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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #19 ORDINANCE NO. 19 AN ORIDINANCE PROHIBITING THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE STREET, ALLEYS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES WITHIN THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT A PERMIT; ALSO REQUIRING THE LIGHTING OF SAID OBSTRUCTIONS BY NIGHT. This Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation without a franchise or other authority from the Board of Trustees, to erect any telegraph, telephone, electric light or transmission poles on any walk, street, alley or public place in the City of Huntington beach, or to stretch any wires along or across said streets; to construct any ditches, flames or other conduits in such streets; or to lay any gas, oil or water pipes along or across any streets in said city. Section 2. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any persons, firm or corporation to obstruct any street, alley, sidewalk or public place within the City of Huntington Beach, by placing thereon or therein any building, stand, courtier, lunch wagon, wagon stand, band stand structure, building material, gravel, dirt, excavation or obstruction of any kind what so ever, without a permit having first been issued therefore, as here in after provided. Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in any trades or business, or to move or construct a building, make repairs, or to perform any other work by which it may become necessary to place an such building stand counter, lunch wagon, wagon stand, hand stand, structure, building material, gravel, dirt, excavation, or other obstruction upon or in the streets, alleys, sidewalk, or public places within the said City, must first obtain a permit from the Chairman of the Street Committee of the Board of Trustees of said City, to place any such obstruction as herein before mentioned upon, or in said streets, alleys, sidewalks or public places, and said Chairman of said Street Committee shall issue each permit free of charge. Section 4. Any such person, firm or corporation obtaining such permit for the purpose of moving, constructing a building digging or excavating or making repairs, shall proceed until the moving, constructing, excavating or digging, or other work for which the building material, dirt, or other obstruction or excavation is required with all due diligence, and when complete, restore said street, alley, sidewalk or public place to its former condition. Section 5. Any person, firm or corporation placing or causing to be placed any such building, stand, counter, lunch wagon, wagon stand, hand stand, structure, building material, gravel, dirt excavation, or other obstruction on any of said streets, alleys, sidewalks or public places, shall during the night time put up and maintain such lights as shall effectually prevent the happening of any accident in consequence of such obstruction. ORD. 019 1 Section 6. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and the obstruction so maintained shall me deemed to be a public nuisance and be treated as such. Section 7. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to permit the carrying on of any business, trade or occupation what so ever in the City of Huntington Beach without the license which will be required for such business, trade or occupation of Ordinance No. 10 of the said City. Section 8. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed. Section 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance, and cause the same to be published once in the `Huntington Beach News," a news paper printed and published in the City of Huntington Beach, and there upon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in full force. Ed Manning President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach. M. D. Rosenberger M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, held on the 14th day of June 1909, by the following vote. Ayes. Stewart, Howard, Helme, Manning Noes. - None, Absent, Warner M. D. Rosenberger M. D. Rosenberger. City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, California. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk and Ex officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the city of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach Numbered 19 and entitled, ORD. 019 2 "An Ordinance prohibiting the obstruction of the Street, Alleys, sidewalks and Public Places within the city of Huntington Beach, for any purpose without a permit; Also requiring the lighting of said obstructions by night." and that the same has been published in the "Huntington Beach News" a newspaper published and printed in the City of Huntington Beach according to law. Date Published June 18th 1909 M.D. Rosenberger City Clerk. ORD. 019 3 phis Ordinance was reproduced from a handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrtty. This typewritten format allows for keyword searching. the handwritten originaCs can be vie wed in the City Clerks office on request.