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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0777 ORDINANCE NO, 777 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DESIGNATING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF SAID CITY AS AREAS OF FIRE HAZARD, PROVIDING FOR RESTRICTED ENTRY THEREON AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1.. The following described areas wi thin the corporate limits of the City of Arcadia are hereby designated as areas of public dEll. ger, risk and hazard from fire and subject to great and unusual damage through fire and resulting erosion, towit: All that portionof the City of Arcadia lying within the following described exterior boundary line beginning at the intersection of the East City boundary line with the North line of Tract No. .6341 as shown on Map recorded in Book 104, Page 21 of Maps, Records of Los Angeles County; THENCE West to the Northwest corner of said Tract; THENCE South along the West line of said Tract to a point 150 feet North of the Easterly prolongation of the North line of Sycamore Avenue; THENCE West along a line parallel with and distant 150 feet North of said prolongation and the North line of Sycamore Avenue to the CEJIlter line of Santa Anita Wash; THENCE Northerly on said center line to the south line... of Block 95 Santa Anita Tract as shown on Map recorded in Book 34, Pages 41 and 42, Miscellaneous ~ Records of said County; THENCE West to the Southwest corner of Lot 7, of said Block and Tract; THENCE North along the West line of Lot 7 and 6 of said Block and Tract to the Southeast corner of Tract No. 13367 as shown on map recorded in Book 313, Pages 6, 7 and 8 of Maps, Records of said County; THENCE northerly along the Easterly line of said Tract 13367 and Tract No. 10725 as shown on Map recorded in Book 323, Pages 42 Ed 43 of Maps, records of said County, to the North line of Grand View Avenue; -1- G/Cd 777 \,,0",,60 . THENCE West along said North line to the West City boundary; THENCE North, East and South along the City boundary to the point of BEGINNING, SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than those persons hereinafter expressly excepted, to go or be upon any lands within the above-described areas, except upon public highways, between the 1st day of July and the 1st day of December of each year, unless such person holds a permit from the Chief of the Fire Department so to do. It is not intended hereby to prohibit the owners of properties within the above-described areas, and residents therein, and their guests and in- vitees, from going or being upon such properties. The City Council, by resolution, may remove the above limitation on the use of said areas, or any portion thereof, during any year, in the event said City Council determines, by reason of early rains or other circumstances, that a fire risk or hazard no longer exists in such areas. SECTION 3. The Chief of the Fire Department is hereby authorized to receive applications for permits hereunder and to make an investigation, and after such investigation to determine whether or not such a permit may be issued without endangering the public safety or creating a fire hazard. In the event that after the issuance of any such permit con- ditions change so far that the further use or exercise thereof is a. source of public danger or fire hazard, the permit therefor may be re- voked forthwith by said Chief of the Fire Department. SECTION 4. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Three hundred ($300.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail of said .:City of Arcadia, or in the County Jail of s aid County of Los Angeles, State of California, at the discretion of the committing magistrate, for a period not exceeding three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. -2- ad ;7?7 SECTION 5. This Ordinance is urgently required for the preser- vat ion of the public peace, health and safety, and the facts consti- tuting such urgency are as follows: the presence of transient and unauthorized persons in and upon the aforementioned areas, which are located in a mountainous region covered with brush and inf.lammable ma- terial, within the City of Arcadia, during the specified periods have created, and caused, and continue to create and cause, an unusually high fire hazard which constitutes a menace to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitants of said City. SECTION 6,. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage thereof, Ordinance, and/shall cause the same to be published once in the Arcadia Bulletin, a newspaper published and circulated in said City of Arcadia, and thereupon and thereafter the same shall take effect and be in force. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordin!l1 ce was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the 2nd day of August, 1949, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, towit: AYES Councilmen, Boucher, Klomp and Russell NOES ABSENT : None Councilmen Libby and N~ CITY CLERH of the' City 0 f rcadia SIGNED and APPROVED this 2nd day of Augu~, 194~9. 'i / /) (/ ~~/ ) /-", / A ~ ~L-<r-<:..-L-.c.....-- ~ill' of the City of Arcad~a. ATTEST: -3- (/Ae"L 777