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ORDINANCE NO. 778
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING ALL OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS OF LOTS
AND PREMISES WITHIN SAID CITY FROM OBSTRUCTING THE STREETS,
PARKWAYS, AND SIDEWALKS, OR OBSTRUCTING THE FREE PASSAGE OF
PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES UPON AND ALONG SUCH STREETS, PARK-
WAYS AND SIDDVALKS IN SAID CITY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every person owning,
leasing, occupying, or having charge or control 0 f any lot or premises
wi thin the City. of Arcadia to keep or maintain any tree, bush, shrub
or v&getation growing upon any such lot or premises abutting any street,
parkway or sidewalk so t hat the limbs, twigs, leaves or parts of
such tree, bush, shrub or vegetation shall not interfere with or ob-
struct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles along or upon said
streets, parkways or sidewalks.
Trees or bushes greater than fifteen feet in height growing in or
upon any premises, parkway or sidewalk shall be deemed to interfere
with and obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles upon
said streets, parkways or sidewalks within the meaning of this Section
unless the lower limbs, twigs, or leaves of such trees or bushes are kept
removed at all times so as to have a clearance of eight feet above th~.
surface of such streets, parkways or sidewalks.
SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of every person, owning,
leasing, occupying, or having charge or control of any lot or premises,
within the City of Arcadia, to keep or maintain any bush, shrub or vege-
tation, but not incblding trees, growing upon any such lot or premises
which is or are situated at the intersection of streets so that the limbs,
twigs, leaves or parts of such bush, shrub or vegetation except trees
within a distance of twenty-five (25) feet of such intersection shall
not exceed a height of three (3) feet.
SECTION ~. No person, having charge or control of any lot or pre-
mises within the City of Arcadia, either as owner, lessee, tenant,
builder, contr~ctor, house-mover or otherwise, shall construct, de-
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posit, keep or maintain any structure, building, or any obstacle
of any nature whatsoever, in or upon any street, parkway or sidewalk
abutting on or adjacent to such lot or premises or which will inter-
fere with the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles along such
street, parkwa:\r or sidewalk.
SECTION 4. No person having charge or control of any lot, building
or premises shall clean or sweep any dirt, rubbish, or refuse, from
any sidewalk into the street, between the hours of 6:00 A. M., and
6:00 P. M.; provided, that nothing contained in this Section shall
prevent such person from cleaning or sweeping any dirt, rubbish, or re-
fuse from any sidewalk and disposing of the same on or in said lot,
building or premises, where such disposition does not create a nuisance
and is not prohibited by any other law or orldinance.
SECTION 5. No person having ch~~ge or control of any lot, build-
ing or premises shall wash, scrub or otherwise clean the exterior por-
tionof any building, structure or premises, except windows, between tae
hours of 6:00 A. M., and 6:00 P. M., whenever such lot, building or pr>e-
mises fronts on or the property upon which the same is constructed or
erected is adjacent to any of the following described streets:
Huntington Drive between Michillinda Avenue and Fifth Avenue,
Baldwin Avenue between Huntington Drive and Naomi Avenue,
First Avenue between California Street and Newman Avenue,
Foothill Boulevard between Tindalo Road and Fifth Avenue,
Duarte Road between Sunset Boulevard and Second Avenue,
Santa Anita Avenue between Colorado Boulevard and California Street,
Las Tunas Drive between El Monte Avenue and Live Oak Avenue.
SECTION 6. 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 0 f said City of
Arcadia, or in the County Jail 0 f the County of Los Angeles, at the
discretion of the committing magistrate, for a period not exceeding
three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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SECTION 5. f.he City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the
passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once in the
Arcadia Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation pUblished and
circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty (30) days from and after
the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City 0 f Arcadia, held on
the 16th day of August, 1949,by the affirmative vote of at least three
Councilmen, towit:
AYES
Councilmen, Boucher, Klomp, Libby, Nugent and Russell
NOES
None
ABSENT: None
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Arcadia
SIGNED and APPROVED this
16th day- of /~~ust, 19f9;
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MAYO of he C y of ca ia
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City Clerk ~~
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