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ORDINANCE NO. - -.322 i
AN ORDINANCE OF THE QI.VY-1aCQUNCIb,yEES OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH RELATING TO AND REGULATING TRAFFIC
UPON THE- PUBLIC STREETS OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
HEREWITH
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as
follows:
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1. Whenever in this ordinance the following terms are used,
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they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this
section:
Street. Every way set apart for public travel except alleyways,
bridle paths and foot paths.
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Roadway. That portion of a street between the regularly established
curb lines.
Sidewalk. That portion of a, street between the curb lines and the
adjacent property lines.
Intersection. The area embraced within the prolongation of the
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property lines of two or more streets which join at an angle. Whether '
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or not one such street crosses the other.
Crosswalk. That portion of the roadway included within the pro-
longation of curb and property lines. at street intersections.
Safety Zone. That marked portion of a roadway reserved for the
exclusive use of -pedestrians. i
Loading Zone. That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the ex-
clusive use of_ vehicles during the loading or unloading of, passengers
or materials.
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Vehicle. Every device or animal by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn ,upon a street, excepting devices j
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moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails. For the purpose
of this ordinance a. bicycle shall be deemed a vehicle.
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Street Car. Every device traveling exclusively upon rails when
upon or crossing a street other than devices propelled by steam.
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Operator. Any person who is in actual personal control of a vehicle
or street car.
Traffic. Pedestrians, vehicles and' street cars, either singly or
together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
Business District. The territory' contiguous to a street which is
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(50) per cent or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of three
hundred (300) feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for retail
or wholesale business; also any territory contiguous to a street
which is immediately adjacent to or a, continuation of a street within
a business district when such territory is so designated by the Ch:Lipf
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Right of dray. The privilege of the immediate use of the street.
Park. To stand a vehicle for a period of time greater than is
reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons
or materials.
Official. Warning and Direction Signs and Signals. All warning
and direction signs and signals not' inconsistent with this ordinance
heretofore or hereafter placed or erected under this ordinance by
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ARTICLE II
Section 2. Obedience to Police. Officers of the Police Depart-
ment are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by means of visible
or audible signal and it shall be unlawful for any person to refuse
or fail to eomply with any lawful order, signal or direction of a
traffic or police officer. It shall be unlawful for any minor to
direct or attempt to direct traffic,unless authorized so to do by the j
Chief of Police.
Section 3. Signs. The City Council shall by resolution determine
and designate the character of all official warning and direction
signs and signals. Subject to this selection the Chief of Police is
hereby authorized,' and as to those signs required hereunder it shall
be his duty, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and main-
tained all official warning and direction signs and signals. All
signs authorized and, required hereunder for a. particular purpose shall
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No provision of this ordinance for which signs are required shall
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be enforceable against the alleged violator if at the time and place
of the alleged violation the sign herein required is not in proper
position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily obser-
vant person.
Section 4. Obedience to Traffic Signs. It shall be unlawful for
any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any mechanical
or electrical traffic signal, traffic sign or mark upon the street
placed in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
No public utility or department in this city shall erect or place
any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the Chief of
Police. It shall be unlawful for an operator or pedestrian to dis-
obey s 1 a y p p s i an i s
obey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved, as above pro-
vided, erected or placed by a public utility or by any department of
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this city.
Section 5. Traffic Stop and Go Signal Legend. Whenever traffic
at any intersection is regulated by a stop and go mechanical or
electrical signal, the following colors may be used, and none other,
and those colors herein authorized shall indicate as follows;
Red, except in flashing signals, requires that traffic shall stop
and remain standing.
Green requires that traffic shall move and continue in motion,
except when stopped for the purpose of avoiding an accident or in the
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event of other emergency or when stopped at the command of a police
officer.
Amber shall indicate preparation for a change in the direction
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of traffic movement. When amber is shown no traffic shall enter the
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intersection until a green or "Go" signal is shown. i !
Bells. The ringing of a bell in connection with any mechanical or
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electric traffic signal shall indicate preparation for a change in the
direction of traffic movement. When sudh bell is sounded no traffic
shall enter the intersection until a green or "Go" signal is shown.
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Section 6. Crosswalks Established. The Chief of Police is hereby
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authorized and required to establish and maintain and to designate. upon
the surface of the roadway, by appropriate devices, marks or white or
yellow lines, crosswalks approximately equal in width to the adjacent
sidewalk at all intersections where in his opinion there is particular
danger to. pedestrians crossing the roadway.
When crosswalks . are established and maintained outside a business
Chief of-Police
__V district, the 3&xx lxl. shall by appropriate devices, marks or
white or yellow lines, mark and maintain along the surface of the
roadway an arrow not less than twelve (12) inches wide in the shaft
and not less than thirty (30) feet long, pointing in the direction of
such crosswalk, together with the word SLOW in block letters not less
than twenty-four (24) inches high and not less than four (4) inches
wide one hundred (100) feet distant from each crosswalk so established.
Section 7. Display of Unauthorized Signs Prohibited. It shall be
unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display any device,
other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected
under competent authority,, upon or in view of a street, which purports
to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles, an official' warning or
direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of
traffic or the actions of operators, and any such prohibited device
shall be a public nuisance and the Chief of Police may remove it, or
cause it to be removed, without notice.
It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully deface; injure,
move or interfere with any official warning or direction sign or signal.
Section 8. Police and Fire Vehicles Exempt from Certain Rules. The
provisions of this ordinance regulating the movement, parking and stand-
ing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of the police or
Sheriff ' s office or of the Fire Department or of a public utility while
the driver of any such vehicle is engaged in the necessary performance
t.of public emergency duties.
ARTICLE III
Pedestrians
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Section 9. Pedestrian' s Right of Way at Intersections.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle or street
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car to drive into any crosswalk's which is marked as provided in Section
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6 of this Ordinance, while there is in such crosswalk upon the half of
the roadway upon which such vehicle is traveling any pedestrian engaged
in crossing the roadway until such pedestrian shall have passed beyond .
the path of said vehicle.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to drive
into any unmarked crosswalk where there is in such crosswalk upon the
half of the roadway upon which such vehicle is traveling any pedestrian
engaged in crossing the roadway until such pedestrian shall have passed
beyond the path of such vehicle, when the pedestrian shall indicate his
intention to cross by a timely and continuous warning by holding up his
hand palm out toward the approaching traffic.
(c) The operator of a. vehicle shall stop before entering any cross-
walk when any other vehicle proceeding in the same direction is stopped
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at such crosswalk.
(d) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply at
intersections where traffic is being directed by an officer or traffic
..stop and go signal, at which intersections the mutual rights of pedes-
trians and operators of vehicles shall be exercised under the direction
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of the officer pj traffic signals.
Section 10. Pedestrian' s Limited Right to Use of Roadway. When
within a business district, no pedestrian shall cross a roadway other
than by a crosswalk.
Outside of a business district no pedestrian shall cross a roadway
other than by a route at right angles to the curb and when crossing.
at any place other than a crosswalk shall yield the right of way to all
vehicles upon the roadway._
It shall be unlawful for any person to stand in a roadway for the
purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the operator of any private
vehicle.
Section 11. Pedestrians to Obey Signals. At intersections where
traffic is directed by a traffic or police officer or by a traffic
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stop rand go signal, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross
the roadway other than with released traffic.
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Section 12. Pedestrians Standing on Sidewalks. In any business
district it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to stand on the side-
walks, except as near as is physically possible to the building line
or to the curb line.
ARTICLE IV
RULES FOR DRIVING
Section 13. Method of Approach for Left Turn. The operator of
a vehicle intending to turn to the left at an intersection or into an
alley or driveway shall approach the point of turning in the lind of
traffic next to the center of the roadway.
Section 14. Method of Turning to Left at Intersections. The
operator of a, vehicle in turning left at an intersection shall pass to
the right of the center of the intersection before turning, except that
where markers have been placed upon the intersection boundary lines to
be crossed by vehicle, the operator shall pass to the right of .such
markers. Chief of Police
Section 15. Location of Turning Markers. The Xxxrkakk is hereby
authorized, and as to those intersections mentioned in the following
subdivision (1) of this section it shall be his duty, to place or cause
to be placed turning markers in intersections as follows:
( 1) Within intersections where either intersecting roadway is less
than sixty ( 60) feet in- width and in intersections where streets meet
at other than right angles and in intersections where one street ter-
minates in another, a marker shall be placed at every intersection of
f the medial line of each street with the prolongation of the property
lines of the intersecting street, or as near the intersecting pointof
\ said lines as may be practical.
( 2) Intersections other than those mentioned in paragraph (1) may
be marked as provided in paragraph ( 1) or a single marker may be placed
within such intersection at the intersection of the medial lines of in-
tersecting streets.
Section 16. Left Turns Prohibited. The operator of a vehicle shall
not between the hours of seven ( 7) A. M. and six ( 6) P. M. of any day
except Sunday make a left turn at any intersection when so designated
City Council
by Resolution of the
Signs shall be erected and maintained designating the provisions of
this section.
, Section 17. Method of Approach for Right Turn. The operator of a
vehicle intending to turn to the right at an intersection or into an
alley or driveway shall approach the point of turning in the line of
traffic nearest the righthand edge of curb of the street.
Section 19. When Right Turns May be Made. The operator of a vehicle
may make aright turn at any intersection irrespective of a -traffic sig-
nal subject to the right of pedestrians at such intersection.
Section 19. When Turning Around at Intersections. The operator of
a vehicle may turn such vehicle at an intersection in a complete circle
or so as to proceed in the opposite direction.
Section 20. Driving From Alleys. The operator of a vehicle emerging
from an alley, driveway or garage, in the business district, shall stop
such vehicle immediately prior�to driving otto a sidewalk or onto the
sidewalk area extended across any alleyway.
Section 21. Vehicles Shall Not Be Driven on Sidewalk. The operator
of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area except at a permanent
or temporary driveway.
Section 22. Certain Vehicles Prohibited in Business District. It
shall be unlawful for the operator of any of the following vehicles to
drive the same in any business district between the hours of seven (7)
A. M. and six ( 6) P. M. of any day except Sunday.
1. Any vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more
than three (3) feet to the front or more than ten ( 10) feet to the rear
of said vehicle.
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Section 23. Boulevard Stops. Such streets and parts of streets as
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may be hereafter designated by Resolution of the B- a shall
constitute boulevards for the purpose of this or dinance.
Every operator of a vehicle or street car traveling any street inter-
secting any boulevard shall stop such vehicle or street car at the place
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where such street meets the nearest property line of the boulevard be-
fore entering such boulevard, provided the property line is clearly
marked or signposted as required in this ordinance.
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and required to place and
maintain upon such streets or parts of streets, designated by Resolution
of the City Council and connected with or intersecting a boulevard and
at or near the property line of the boulevard, appropriate signs upon
the street or devices or marks in the roadway, such signs, devices or
marks to bear the word "STOP" or the words "BOULEVARD STOP" in such
position and with letters of a size to be clearly legible from a
distance of fifty ( 50) feet along the street intersecting the boulevard.
Section 24. Following Fire Apparatus Prohibited. It shall be unlaw-
ful for the operator of any vehicle, other than one on official business,
to follow any fire apparatus travel:kg in response to a fire alarm, closer
than five hundred (500) feet.
Section 25. Crossing Fire Hose. No street ca,r or vehicle shall be
driven over any unprotected hose of the Fire Department when laid down
on any street, private driveway or street car track, without the consent
of the Fire Chief or the assistant in command.
Section 26. Bicycle Riding Restricted. It shall be unlawful to ride
a bicycle upon any sidewalk. The rider of a bicycle upon a roadway shall
ride as nearly as practicable within five (5) feet of the righthand curb
or edge of the roadway except when passing a standing or other vehicle or
making a. left hand turn at an intersection.
Section 27. Riding on Handle Bars Prohibited. It shall be unlawful
for the operator of any bicycle or motorcycle when upon a street to
carry any other person upon the bar, handle or tank of any such vehicle
or for any person to so ride upon any such vehicle .
Section 28. Unlawful to Drive Through Funeral Procession. It shall
be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to drive between the vehicles
comprising a funeral procession, provided that such vehicles are conspicu- '
ously so. designated.
Section 29. Clinging to Moving Vehicles. It shall be unlawful for
any person traveling upon any bicycle , motorcycle or any toy vehicle to �
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cling to or attach himself or his vehicle to any other moving vehicle
or street car upon any roadway.
Section 0. Use of Coa. ter Roller Skates 3 s s, R S a s and Simzla,r Devices
Restricted. It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or
riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device to
go upon any roadway.
ARTICLE V
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
Section 31. Stopping Prohibited in Specified Places. It shall be
unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop such vehicle in any of
the following places except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or
traffic sign or signal-.
(1) In an intersection.
( 2) In a c ro-gswalk:
(3) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within twenty
(20) feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a
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safety zone.
( ';-) Within fifteen (15) feet of an intersecting roadway except
busses at a designated bus stop.
Upon all streets within any business district the Chief of Police
shall designate the provisions of paragraph (3) and ( 4) of this section
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by placing and maintaining red paint or other red material upon the `
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entire curb surface within such areas omitting any crosswalk area or
by placing and maintaining appropriate signs directing that the stopping
of vehicles is prohibited.
Section 32. Standing for Loading Only in Certain Places. ( a) It
shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle for
a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or unloading
of passengers or material, provided that the loading or unloading of �
passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes, nor the loading
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or unloading of materials more than thirty (30) minutes, in any of the
following places:
1, At any curb where the grade of the Street exceeds twelve per
cent ( 12%) :
�- 2. In any alley:
3. In any "loading zone":
4. At any curb within twentyrfive ( 25) feet of the entrance to any
hospital:
5. At any curb within fifty (50) . feet of the entrance to any police
station:
6. At any curb within fifteen (15) feet of a fire plug:
7. In any marked bus stop.
b The Chief of Police shall determine the location of "loading
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zones" and shall mark by appropriate signs or as specifically required
herein those places where standing for loading only is permitted under
this section, subject to the following requirements and limitations:
Bua stops shall be designated by appropriate signs at those places
determined by the Chief of Police, except that a bus stop shall not
exceed fifty ( 50) feet in length and shall not be placed adjacent to
a safety zone at a street car stop:
Every loading zone, also that portion of every curb reserved for
loading only by paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Subdivision ( a) of this
section shall be designated by yellow paint or other yellow material
upon the entire curb surface therein with the words: "LOADING ONLY"
in black letters thereon: .
Within any business district not more than one-half of the total
curb length in any one block may be set apart as a loading zone.
Section 33. Parking Time Limit in Specified Places. The operator
of a vehicle shall not park such vehicle for longer than two hours
within any portion of any street -in said city between the hours of 9
A. It. and 6 P. M. of any day, except Sunday and Holidays, which portion
of such street has been designated by resolution of the City Council of
the City of Huntington Beach, as subject to a two hour parking limit . The
Chief of Police shall erect or cause to be erected and ma*ntain not more than
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One Hundred Fifty (150) feet apart in each block subject tour parking
limit ,signs; designating the provisions of this section.
Section 34. Early Morning Parking Limited. It shall be unlawful for I
the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle. on any street for a
period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of
2 A. M. and 4 A. M. of any day.
Section 35. Standing or Parkin; Close to Curb. The operator of a
vehicle shall not stop, stand or park such vehicle in a roadway other
than parallel with the curb and with the two right-hand wheels of the
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vehicle within one ( 1) foot of the regularly established curb line,
except that upon those streets which have been marked for angle parking,
as provided in this section, vehicles shall be parked at the angle to
the curb indicated by such marks.
The City Council by Resolution or the Chief of Police is hereby
authorized to determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted
and to indicate such places by the painting of white or yellow lines upon
the surface of the roadway to indicate the proper angle for parking, pro-
vided that such lines shall not be placed upon, nor shall angle parking •
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be permitted upon any street where such parking would diminish the width
of the roadway available . for travel to less than twenty ( 20) .feet, nor
upon any street which is a continuation of or part of a county trunk line`
highway or a state highway unless a clear width of forty (40) feet is
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left for the movement of vehicles when angle parking is permitted.
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to prohibit the parking of
vehicles, provided appropriate signs are placed and maintained to give
notice thereof, on one side of a street in any block where angle parking
is permitted on the opposite side of the street in such block.
Section 36. Parking Vehicles for Sale. It xkbxxx shall be unlawful
for the operator of any vehicle to park the same upon any street for the
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purpose of displaying it for sale, or to park any vehicle upon any street
in any business district from which said vehicle merchandise is being
sold.
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Secti on 37. - Riding on Vehicle Running Board shall. be unlawful for
any person 'to ride upon the fender or running board of any vehicle.
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Section 39. Railway Trains and, Street Cars Not To Block Street. It
shall be unlawful for the operator of any steam, interurban or street
railway train or car to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent
the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer
than five (5) minutes.
ARTICLE VII .
PENALTIES
Section 39. Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance, or any rule or regulation made by the City Council
or the Chief of police pursuant thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed
Three Hundred Dollars ( $300.00) , or by imprisonment in the County Jail
of Orange County, for not more than three months (3) , or by both such
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Section 40/ Effect of Ordinance. If any section, subsection, sen-
tence, 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 havepassed 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 41. Repeal. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are
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hereby repealed, except that this repeal shale not affect or prevent
the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed
in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effect
of this ordinance.
Section 42. Publication of Ordinance. The City Clerk shall certify
to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published by
one insertion in The Huntington Beach News, a weekly newspaper printed,
published and circulated in the City of Huntington Beach, and thirty
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days thereafter it shall take effect and be in force.
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Passed and adopted this 3rd day of December , 1928.
President of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk and "Ex-officio Clerk of the
-City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE, ss
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH)
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I . Chas. R. Furr, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do hereby certify that
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.the foregoing Ordinance was introduced and read at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the_ lgthday of November , 1928, and
was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting of said City 4
Council on the 3rd da,y of December , 1928, and that at said
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meeting the said Ordinance was adopted by the following votes:
Councilmen Butcher, Conrad, Mitchell,Harris,Bowen
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Councilmen None
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ounce men None
ABSENT: 'I $4&�M
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, State of California.
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