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WHEREAS, the California Vehicle Act as amended by the
Legislature of the State of California at its last session will
on and after July 22, 1919, on which date the amendments to said
Act becomes effective , require the erection and maintenance by the
various counties and municipalities of the State cf California of
certain speed limit signs as a condition pre-requisite to the
enforcing of the regulations of the speed of vehicles contained in
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Section 22 of said Act, and
WHEREAS, the CITY of HUNTINGTON BEACH is desirous of
enforcing and complying with this law, and
WHEREAS, the Automobile Club of Southern California, an in-
corporated, non-profit association of motorists residing in Southern
California, has erected a sign posting system covering all of the
principal highways of Southern California and the principal highways
leading into Southern California throughout the western states , and
Is therefore particularly well equipped and qualified to perform the
work of erecting the signs which the California Vehicle Act requires,
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by Section 1, Subdivisions 5 and 6 of the said Act, the various {
counties and cities to erect; and the said Automobile Club of South-
ern California having offered to erect in the CITY of HUNTINGTON
BEACH, free of charge , all signs necessary for a full compliance with
the law upon the agreement of the said CITY of HUNTINGTON BEACH
to employ said Club to maintain said signs and to pay said Club the
actual cost of replacing or repairing such signs or the posts on which
they are erected whenever such replacing or repairing become
necessary.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Board does hereby
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authorize its Chairman to execute a contract on behalf of the
CITY of HUNTINGTON BEACH with the said Automobile Club of Southern
Calfornia, a corporation, for the performance of the necessary work
and the furnishing of all necessary materials for the erection of the
signs required in Subdivision 5 and 6 of Section 1 of the California
Vehicle Act as amended by Chapter 147 in the Statutes of 1919, and
said contract shall provide provide that all of such signs will be
erected free of charge to the city of HUNTINGTON BEACH by the
Automobile Club of Southern California, a corporation; that such
signs shall be the property of the said Club; that the CITY of
HUNTINGTON BEACH shall agree to employ said Club to maintain such
signs and shall pay said Club for the maintenance of such signs on
demand of said corporation the actual cost of the material used in
replacing or repairing such signs or the post on which they are
erected; said contract shall also provide that said Automobile Club
of Southern California shall place upon the face of such signs the
words and figures required by law, and upom the extreme lower por-
tion of the face of such signs , the words, "The Automobile Club of
Southern California" , or an abbreviation thereof, above which on all
1120 mile speed limit" signs shall be inscribed the name of the
CITY of HUNTINGTON BEACH
I, HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoing resolution
was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
CITY of HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, on the 21st day of July, 1919.
Chas. R. Nutt.
Clerk.
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