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ORDINANCE NO. 1133
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE
BY ADDING TO CHAPTER 1 OF ARTICLE III
THEREOF A NEW PART 4 ENTITLED
"HAZARDOUS FIRE AREAS".
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 1 of Article III of the Arcadia
Municipal Code be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto
a new Part 4 entitled "Hazardous Fire Areas", containing Sections
3140 to 3142.1, inclusive, the same to read as follows;
ARTICLE III. PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAFrER 1. FIRE PREVENTION
PART 4. HAZARDOUS FIRE AREAS
3140. DESIGNATION. The Fire Chief is hereby authorized
to declare any portion of the City which is sparsely settled and
which is substantially covered with brush, grass or other inflam-
mable material as a hazardous fire area. Such declaration shall
be made in writing over the signature of the Fire Chief and shall
specify the dates during which such declaration shall be effective.
A copy of such declaration, together with a map delineating the
area thus designated~shall be filed with the City Clerk.
3141. ENTRY RESTRICTED. Except as hereinafter pro-.
vided, no person shall enter upon, be at or remain in any hazardous
fire area so designated by the Fire Chief during the effective
period of any such declaration, when signs giving notice that the
area is a hazardous fire area are posted at such locations within
or immediately adjacent to such area as will in the opinion of the
Fire Chief give reasonable notice to the public that the area has
been designated as a hazardous fire area.
3141.1. SAME. PROPERTY EXEMPT. The following places
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within any hazardous fire area are exempt' from the provisions of
the preceding section, to wit: public roads~ properties improved
with family dwellings and occupied by the owners or tenants
thereof; improved camp sites designated by the Fire Chief.
3141.2. SAME. PERSONS EXEMPT. City, county, state and
federal public officers and their respective authorized agents,
while acting within the course of their official duty, are exempt
from the provisions of Section 3141. The owners or tenants of pri-
vate property located within any designated hazardous fire area, as
well as the guests or invitees of such owners or tenants, are
exempt from the provisions of Section 3141 but only with respect to
the property of such owners or occupants included within a hazardous
fire area.
3142. FIRES AND SMOKING PROHIBITED. No person shall
light, ignite or otherwise set fire to any combustible material or
smoke any cigarette, cigar, pipe or tobacco in any form within any
hazardous fire area designated as provided in Section 3140.
3142.1. SAME. EXCEPTION. The provisions of the preced-
ing section shall not apply to any occupied dwelling nor to any
smoking area, camp site, or public park designated by the Fire
Chief.
SECTION 2. 'This ordinance is hereby declared by the City
Council to be necessary as an emergency measure for preserving the
public peace, health and safety, and shall take effect immediately
upon its adoption. A statement of the facts constituting its
urgency is as follows: Within the City of Arcadia and particularly
adjacent to the United States National Forestry area and the foot-
hill mountains are large areas of brush covered land accessible to
the public. That the scant amount of rainfall during the past year
has caused a condition of extreme fire hazard to exist in such
areas. That it is essential that the public be immediately ex-
cluded from all such areas to reduce the danger of fire. in such
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areas which fires would gravely endanger large portions of the City
of Arcadia as well as the United States Forestry areas.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
held on the
18th
day of. July
, 1961, by the affirmative
vote of at least three councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Butterworth, Phillips, Reibold and
Balser
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilman Camphouse
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City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 18th day of
July ,1961.
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yor of the City of Arcadia
ATTEST:
Clerk
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November 28, 1961
TO: CHRISTINE VAN MAANEN, CITY CLERK
FROM: lAURENCE J. WAY, FIRE CHIEF
SUBJECT: OPENING OF HAZARDOUS FIRE AREA
As set forth in our DECLARATION, issued in July 1961,
the HAZARDOUS FIRE AREA, as described in that declaration, is
now declared to be open to entry, due to weather conditions.
A public declaration has been made that such area is no longer a
hazardous fire area.
d~;h{f.Y"t
Arcadia Fire Department
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