HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #884 ORDINANCE No. 884
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH DECLARING AN EMERGENCY TO EXIST;
AMIENDING SECTION 5531 and REVEALING
SECTIONS 4048.1 and 2103.101 OF THE
HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE.
WHEREAS, the City Council has adopted on July 311961,
Ordinance No. 851, commonly known as the "Green River Ordi-
nance" making the entering upon private residences without
invitation of the property owner or occupant, a misdemeanor,
and providing penalties therefor; and
WHEREAS, certain sections of the Huntington Beach Or-
dinance Code are in conflict therewith, and should have
been repealed at the time of the enactment of such Ordinance ;
and
ITHEREAS, the repeal of such conflicting sections is
necessary in the enforcement of the present Ordinance No.
851; and
WHEREAS, the adoption of this ordinance as an urgency
measure is necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace , health, safety and public welfare ;
NOW,THEREFORE, in consideration of and by the above
preamble and statement, the City Council of the City of Hunt-
ington Beach declares and defines that an emergency exists
necessitatin,-: 'the following amendment and repeal for the
immediate protection and preservation of the public -health
and safety;
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Ord. No. 884
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do or-
dain as follows:
Section 1. That Section 5531 of Article 553 of the Hunt-
ington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby amended, and as amended,
shall read in words and figures as follows:
Section 5531. Soliciting on Private Property a Nuisance :
The practice of going in and upon private residences in the
City of Huntington Beach, California, by solicitors, peddlers,
hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchan-
dise , not having been requested or invited so to do by the
owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said private residenc-
es , for the purpose of soliciting services, orders for the
sale of goods, wares and merchandise , religious purposes, char-
itable purposes, and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or
peddling or hawking same , is hereby declared to be a nuisance
and punishable as such as a misdemeanor.
Section 2. That Sections 4048.1 and 2103.101 be , and
they are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance , being an emergency measure ,
for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety
and welfare of the citizens of the City of Huntington Beach,
which emergency is set forth and defined in the preamble hereto
shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage
and adoption hereof.
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Section 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption 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 the City
of Huntington Beach.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, this day of ,
196 .
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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Ord. No. 884
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) ss
City of )
Huntington Beach )
I, PAUL C. JONES, the duly elected, qualified and act-
ing 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
read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on
the 18th day of December , 1961, and was again read to
said City Council at the regular meeting thereof held on the
day of , 1962, and was passed and adopted
as an emergency measure by a four-fifths vote of said City
Council as follows :
AYES: Councilmen:
NOES : Councilmen:
ABSENT: Councilmen:
City Clerk and ex-o ficio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach, California
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