HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #423 ORDINANCE NO. 423
A14 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AIVIE1qDING
ORDINANCE NO. 280 OF SAID CITY ENTITLED:
"AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING CERTAIN FIRE PREVEN-
TION 1EASURES IN THE OIL FIELDS; REGULATING
THE USE OF CERTAIN STREETS AND HIGHWAYS WITHIN
THE CITY; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS
OF ORDINANCES IN 'CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES MR THE VIOLATION HEREOF"
AS A1,)1ENDED.
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach,
California, do ordain as follows:
Section 1: That Section 6 of Ordinance No. 280
of the City of Huntington Beach , as amended, be and the
same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 6: It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, or corporation, whether as principal , agent, servant ,
employee , or otherwise, to maintain any oil refinery, gaso-
line plant , gas compression plant, dehydrating plant , oil
pumping plant , or any plant that handles, pumps or treats
gas, oil or its by-products unless such plant be equipped
with at least two two ,and one-half (22) gallon "foam" type
extinguishers where the floor area is five hundred (500)
square feet or less, and one additional extinguisher for
each fifteen hundred (1500) square feet or fraction thereof
of each additional floor area. Each such "foam" type extin-
guisher shall be a-oQroved.by the Underwriters Laboratories,
Inc. , and shall be recharged at least once a year, or oftener,
if necessary, and must be tagged to show the date when last
Each 'such extinguisher shall be hung in a con-
venient and easily accessible place except when removed for
use or recharging; provided, however, that in lieu of the
above requirements any person, firm, or corporation may
establish a fire department consisting of fire fighting
equipment and apparatus.
Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to -come within
this provision shall make application to the City Council for
permission so to do , setting out in detail the fire fighting
equipment and apparatus, and the location thereof , together
with the location of the properties which are to be served by
said fire fighting equipment. Said application shall be
filed with the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of
Huntington Beach for his recommendation and approval and shall
be presented by him, bearing his approval or disapproval, to
the City Council at its next-regular, or regularly adjourned,
meeting for its action thereon.
Section 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage ..
and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
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i published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach News, a
weekly newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the
City of Huntington Beach, and thirty (30) days after the
adoption hereof the same shall take' effect and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the 'City" Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, at a regular.adJaurned
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meeting thereof held on the 27th day of February
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1939.
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ATTEST :
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City lerk.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA , )
County of Orange , ) SS:
City of Huntington Beach. )
I , C . R. FURR, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was presented and
read to the City Council at a relar
meeting, thereof held on the 6guth day of February, 1939,
and was again read to said City Council at a regular
adjourned meeting thereof held on the 27th day
of February , 1939, and was passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen: Morehouse,Chamness,falbert, Henrickson,McC len
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NOES: Councilmen : None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Prone
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council .of the
City of Huntington Beach,
Calif o rnia.
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