HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #577 ORDINANCE NO. 5?7
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 19 OF SAID
CITY, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING
THE OBSTRUCTION OF STREETS, ALLEYS, SIDE-
WALKS 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 REGULATING THE
CUTTING, EXCAVATING IN, UPON AND ALONG
IMPROVED STREETS IN SAID CITY," AS AMENDED.
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That Section 3 of said Ordinance No.
19 of the City of Huntington Beach, entitled "An Ordinance
Prohibiting the Obstruction of Streets , Alleys, Sidewalks and
Public Places Within the City of Huntington Beach For Any
Purpose Without a Permit; A1so .Requiring the Lighting of Said
Obstructions by Night; and Regulating the Cutting, Excavating
in, Upon and Along Improved Streets in Said City," as amended,
be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation desiring-
to engage in any trade 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 any such building, stand,
counter, lunch wagon, wagon stand, band stand, structure,
building material, gravel, dirt, excavation or other obstruc-
tion upon or in the streets , alleys, sidewalks or public places
within the said City, must first obtain a permit from the
r Superintendent of Streets of said City to place any obstruction
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as hereinabove mentioned upon or in said streets, alleys,
sidewalks or public places, and the said Superintendent of
Streets of said City may issue such permit upon the payment
of the sum of Five Dollars ($5.00) to the City of Huntington
Beach therefor; provided, however, that in the event the
person, firm or corporation making such application is the
owner or holder of a franchise or reservation of interest in
said street, alley, sidewalk or public place to keep or main-
tain any pipeline, telephone line or pole system in or upon
any of said public streets, alleys , sidewalks or public places
or said excavation is for the purpose of connecting with sewer,
water or gas pipelines .by such person, firm or corporation,
then and in that event, said application and permit may be
granted without charge.
"Each person, firm or corporation having authority
from the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, as
provided in Section .l of Ordinance No. 19, to cut, remove,
excavate in, upon or along any paved or improved street,
alley, sidewalk, curb or other public place in said City
and/or to cut, remove or excavate in, upon or along any un-
improved dirt or oiled street, lane or alley or other unim-
proved public place in said City shall, .upon and at the time
of making application to the Superintendent of Streets .of said
City for permit to so cut in, upon, across or along, or re-
move, excavate or obstruct any such paved' or improved street,
curb, sidewalk, alley, or other improved public place and/or
unimproved dirt or oiled street., lane, alley or other unim-
proved public place, pay in lawful money .of the United States
to the City of Huntington Beach a sum for each and every
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square foot and fraction thereof of all such paving, street,
curb, sidewalk, alley or other improved public place and/or
for each square foot of any unimproved dirt or oiled street,
lane , alley or other unimproved public place proposed to be
cut or removed as contained in the statement thereof set forth
in said application, for the purpose of repairing the damage
to said paving, curb, sidewalk or other public places, except
as herein provided;. said sum of money shall be calculated
according to the following schedule:
A. For paved or improved streets, sidewalks, curbs ,
alleys or other improved public places in said city, said sum
shall be as follows:
1. Twenty-five (25) square feet or less, SEVENTY-
FIVE CENTS (750) per square foot.
2. More than Twenty-five (25) square feet, up to
and including Five Hundred (500) square feet, SIXTY CENTS
(600) per square foot..
3. In excess of Five Hundred (5001 square feet,
FORTY CENTS (400) per square foot.
B. For unimproved dirt or oiled streets, lanes,
alleys or other unimproved public places in said city, said
sum shall be as follows:
1. DIRT street, lane , alley or other unimproved
public place,, THREE CENTS (30) per square foot.
2._ OILED street, lane, alley or other unimproved
public place, ,THIRTEEN CENTS - (13¢) per square foot.,
"The above schedule shall apply to all persons,
firms or corporations alike who make application to obstruct,
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cut, remove or excavate in, upon, across or along any im-
proved or paved street, alley, sidewalk, curb or other public
place within said City and/or any unimproved dirt or oiled
street, lane, alley or other public place within said City!
All money so paid shall be deposited by the City Council of"
the City of Huntington Beach in such fund as said City Council
may direct.
Section 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach News, a
weekly newspaper printed, published and circulated in said
City of Huntington Beach.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of "January..-_,
1952.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
County of Orange
City of Huntington Beach
I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified
and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-
officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing
ordinance was first read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 17th day of December, 1951, and
was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 7tr day of Japuar7-9;a, 1952, and was
passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a
majority of all the members of said City Council, as follows:
AYES: Councilmen:
Talbert, Greer, LeBard, Seabridge, Langenbeck.
NOES: Councilmen:
None.
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None*
Cftk Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
o the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach' California.
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