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ORDINANCE NO.' 234.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 19 ENTITLED,
"AN ORDINANCE -PROHIBITIivG THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE
ST + ETS, ALLEYS, `SIDEPIALKS ARJD PUBLIC PLACES WITH-'
IN THE CITY OF HUNTIIiGT ON BEACH FOR ANY PURPOSE
WITHOUT A PER1.1IT; ALSO REQUIRING THE LIGHTING OF
SAID OBSTRUCTIONS BY NIGHT ", AS AMENDED BY ORDIN-
ANCE NO. 31.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do
ordain as follows
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 19 entitled, "An ordinance
prohibiting the . obstruction of the streets, 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" as ma,.neded by Ordinance No. 31, entitled, "An ordinance
amending Section 3 of Ordinance No. 19 of the City of Huntington
Beach, California, entitled "An ordinance prohibiting the obstruct-
ion of the streets, alleys, sidewalks and public pleces within the
City cf Hunt ingt on Beach for any purpose without a permit; also re-
quiring the lighting of said obstructions by night ", is hereby
amended by the addition thereto of a new section at the end of
Section 2 of said Ordinance, which new section .shall be knuwn as
Section 2* and said Section 2-j shall reed as followsp Section 2j-/
It is .hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, firm, corporat-
ion, association or syndicate .to obstruct any street, alley, sid-ewalk
or public place within the City of Huntington Beach, to cause, a.11o*
or permit, either willfully or negligently, to be pladed or to flow
or run or be thereon or therein, any oi( asphaltum, tar, hydro-co-
bon :substances or.- any mud, residue or by-product from the drilling of
any oil well or any other substances which interferes with the free
and safe use of said street, alley, sidewalk or public place what-
soever. For the purpose of this section, any of the substances here-
inabove mentioned which shall flow, /!iun or be deposited from any
private premises or oil well or sump hole or the property surrounding
the same into, upon, over or across any public street, alley, side-
walk or public place, shall be presumed to so flow, run or be deposit-
ed in, upon, over or across such public street, sidewalk, highvay or
a alley by the willful negligence and carelessness of the persons, ,
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firm, corporation or syndicate having control of the management,
operation, drilling or handling of such well, sump hole or adjacent
premises and .also by the negligence and carelessness of the Super-
int endent or r.,ian in actual superintendence of the handling of such
well, sump hole or� premises.
Section 2, The City Clerk shall certify to the. passage
of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published by one insert-
ion in the Huntington Beach Dews, a.weekly newspaper, published and
circulated in said City of Huntington Beach' and Thirty (30) days
thereafter it shall take effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, by the Board of Trustees of the City
of Huntington Beach, Orange County ,Cali /fornia, this ! 64
day of January, 1922.
Pr nt of the Board •o trustees
of the City of Hunting on Beach,
ATTEST
City Clerk and Ex-off o Clerk of
the Board, - tees of the City
of H ington Beach, California,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
County of Orange ,
City of Huntington Beach )
I, CHAS. R. NUTT, City Clerk and Ex-offic io Clerk of
the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby
certify that the foregoing ordinance No. 234 was introduced and
read to the Board of Trus ees of the said City at its regular
meeting held on the � • day of January, 1922, and was again
read o aid Board of Trustees - at its regular meeting held on the
day of Januatry, 1922, end was at said meeting passed
and adopted by the followingkote;
AYES, TRUSTEE,SA , 4"001,,
NOES
ABSI,TE T, n
ity Clerk and Ex-offici Jerk of
the Board of tC r -(-,�of the City
of Hunt ' on Beach, California.
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