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ORDINANCE NO. 1438
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA AMENDING SECTION
4510 OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE
AND ADDING SECTION 4510.1 THERETO,
RELATING TO REGULATIONS OF THE
COUNTY PARK.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4510 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
4510. ARCADIA COUNTY PARK REGULATIONS. Articles I, II
and III of Ordinance No. 10,309 adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Los Angeles, effective August 13, 1971, are hereby
adopted by this reference and are made a part of the Arcadia
Municipal Code with the same force and effect as though set out in
full herein, and any violation of said regulations shall be a
misdemeanor.
The provisions of said Articles I, II and III shall.
be the police regulations applicable to the Arcadia County Park in
addition to any other regulations adopted by the City Council of
the City of Arcadia; said park is bound by Huntington Drive, Santa
Ani ta Avenue and. Campus Drive. Three copies of said Articles I,
II and III of said Ordinance No. 10,309 are on file and open to
public inspection in the office of the City Clerk in the Arcadia
City Hall.
SECTION 2. Section 4510.1 is hereby added to the Arcadia
Municipal Code to read as follows:
4510.1. ARCADIA COUNTY PARK REGULATIONS. NOISE.
(a) Sound Amplifiers. The following regulations shall
apply to the use of a public address system in the Arcadia County
Park, except within a fully enclosed building.
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1. No person, except a peace officer in the
course of his employment, shall operate or use a sound
amplification system which produces a sound. pressure
level at any point beyond a 200-foot radius from the
speaker(s), in excess of 10 decibels, reference
0.0002 microbar, above the sound levels prevailing at
any point beyond said radius, excluding sound from
the speaker(s), as measured on the A-scale of a sound
level meter.
2. No speaker shall be placed more than
ten feet from any other speaker, and no speaker shall
be placed so that sound is directed at residences
adjacent to the park.
3. No sound amplification system shall use
an audio-amplifier with a power output capable of
exceeding 100 watts.
4. The provisions hereof shall not be construed to
permit any violation of the Penal Code or other laws
or ordinances.
5. No person shall place, operate, or use
such a public address system unless the provisions of
subdivision (b) hereof have been complied with;
6. Any sound amplification system, or any
part thereof, placed, operated, or used in violation
of the regulations of this Section, is a public
nuisance and shall be confiscated and disposed of in
accordance with law.
(b) Sound Amplifiers. Registration. Every person, except
a public employee acting within the course of his employment, or an
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employee or agen~ acting within the course of his employment or
agency, of an organization using the park on a regular, recurring
schedule under a permit from the County of Los Angeles, Department
of Parks and Recreation, before using or placing a public address
system in the Arcadia County Park, at any place other than within
a permanent.building, shall file a registration statement with the
Chief of Police of the City of Arcadia at least 48 hours before
the time when the sound amplifying equipment is intended to be
used, which statement shall contain the following information:
1. Name and address of the owner, operator,
and user of the public address system.
2. The maximum sound producing power of the
sound amplifying equipment to be used.
3. A statement that the applicant will comply
with the above regulations.
4. A statement of the place where and the time
during which the sound system will be used.
The Chief of Police shall return to the applicant, an
approved copy of the registration statement, if the proposed use
complies with the above regulations, which shall be displayed
upon request to a peace officer during any time of operation of
the system.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this ordinance is hereby
declared to be urgently required for the immediate preservation
of public peace, health, and safety and shall take effect
immediately.
In the recent past, public address systems have been
operated in the Arcadia County Park at such excessively loud
levels as to interfere with the peaceable enjoyment of adjacent
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residential property, distract motorists on adjacent streets, and
interfere with the normal use of the park by persons other than
those gathered for the purpose of listening to the public address
system. The provisions of Section 2 will have the power to reason-
ably regulate operation of public address systems, and thus,
prevent needless injury and damage to the public, and, at the
same time, permit audible communication with large audiences.
Therefore, because of the facts stated above, and in
order to fully effectuate the purpose of Section 2, it is
necessary that it.become effective immediately upon adoption.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced and that Section 2 was adopted as an urgency measure,
to be effective immediately, at an adjourned regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on the 1st day
of September, 1971, by the affirmative vote of Councilmen Arth,
Butterworth, Considine and Helms; Councilman Hage was absent.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, except
for Section 2 as noted above, was adopted at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on the 7th day
of September, 1971, by the affirmative. vote of Councilmen Arth,
Butterworth, Considine, Hage and Helms.
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