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THE CITY COUNCIL OF
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
by amending Section
"9269.10.
ORDINANCE NO. 1620
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA AMENDING
SECTION 9269.10 OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE
BY ADDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LOCATION OF
LOADING DOORS ~
THE CITY OF ARCADIA HEREBY ORDAINS
The Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended
9269.10 to read as follows:
LOADING REQUIREMENTS. On the same land there-
with, every building, structure or part thereof, erected or
occupied for a permitted use involving the receipt or distribution
by vehicles of materials or merchandise incidental to carrying on
such activity, shall be provided with a minimum off-street or off-
alley loading area of one (1) loading space for each nine hundred
twenty-nine square meters (929 sq. m.) =(10,000 sq. ft.) of
gross floor area. When a fractional figure is found as a remainder
in computations made to determine the amount of required loading
space, such fraction shall be considered to be the next largest
whole number. Each such loading space shall not be less than three
hundred five centimeters (305 cm.) = (IO') wide by seven hundred
sixty centimeters (760 cm.) - (24'11") long with adequate provision
for egress and ingress. Loading doors on commercial or industrial
buildings shall be located a minimum of three hundred five centi-
meters (305 cm.) = (10') from an a11ey."
SECTION 2. No person shall violate any provision, or
fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance.
Any person violating any of the provisions or failing to comply
with any of the mandatory requirements of this ordinance shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor
under any provision of this ordinance shall be punishable by a
fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in
the City Jailor County Jail for a period not exceeding six months,
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or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be
guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any
portion of which any violation of any provision of the ordinance
is committed, continued, or permitted by such person and shall be
punishable accordingly.
SECTION 3. In addition to the penalties provided in the
preceding Section, any condition caused or permitted to exist in
violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed a public nuisance and may be, by the City, summarily abated
as such, and each day such condition continues shall be regarded
as a new and separate offense.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of
the City of Arcadia hereby declares that it would have adopted
this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor
the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the
prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as
affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the
collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provisions
applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of
any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted,
filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and
obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force
and effect.
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SECTION 6. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to
the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the
same to. be published in the official newspaper of the City of
Arcadia within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of
Arcadia at its regular meeting held on the 7th'
February , 1978.
the City of
day of
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 7th
day of February, 1978.
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City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
California, held on the 7th day of February , 1978, by the af-
firmative vote of at least three Council members, to wit:
AYES:
Council Members Gilb, Lauber, Margett, Parry
and Saelid
None
NOES:
ABSENT: None
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City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
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