HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #21 ORDINANCE NO. 21.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 17 OF ORDINANCE NO. 17 OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE
CONSTRUCTION OF CESSPOOLS.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California, do ordain as
follows.
Section 1. Section 17 of Ordinance No. 17 is hereby amended so as to read as
follows.
"Section 17. Cesspools must be dug to a depth satisfactory to the Health
Officer, and lined with redwood planks of two inches in thickness, and not over one-
fourth inch apart, or with brick, and to such depth as to prevent any caving in, and the top
must be securely covered at least eighteen (18)inches below the surface of the ground
with redwood planks at least four(4)inches in thickness, and at the outside portion
between the lining and bank must be filled with gravel or dirt; providing that in all causes
where the horizontal cross section of the cesspool has an area of twelve (12) square feet
or less, the lining of the walls of the said cesspool may be constructed of one inch
lumbar.
No cesspool shall be dug within five (5)feet of any property line.
No cesspool shall be closed until a permit is received from the Health Officer to
do so."
Section 2.— 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 newspaper
printed and published in the City of Huntington Beach, and there upon and there after 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 61h day of July 1909. by the following vote:
Ayes. Howard. Helme, Manning
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Noes. None. Absent, Warren& Stewart.
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 trisce and correct
copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach, Numbered 21 and entitled
"An Ordinance amending section 17 of Ordinance No. 17 of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, Regulating the construction of Cesspools."
and that the same has been published in the "Huntington Beach News" a new
paper published and printed in the City of Huntington Beach according to law.
Date Published.
July 9L, 09. M.D. Rosenberger
M.D. Rosenberger
City Clerk.
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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.