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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0782 ORDINANCE NO. 782. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 014 OF SAID CITY, ESTABLISHING CERTAIN REGULATIONS WITHIN SAID CITY WITH REFERENCE TO THE DISSEMINATION OF WRITTEN OR ~RINTED MATTER RELATING TO HORSE RACING AND O'l'HER CONTESTS, AND DECLARING THE URGENCY HEREWITH, TO T AIm EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That a new Section, to be known and desig- nated as "Section 4A" shall be and the same is hereby added to I ~~ 1?J" <S~~\.. ~",'i,~' Ordinance No. 614 of the City of Arcadi~, entitled: "An Ordi- nance of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, California, establishing certain~egulations within said City with refer- ence to ~he dissemination of wri~ten or printed matter relating to horse races and other contests", adopted on ~he 3rd day of December, 1946, and which said new Section 4A shall read as follows, ~o wit: "SECTION 4A. That notwithstanding any of the other pro- visions of this ordinance, and effective as of, on and after the ~th day of December, 1949, and in view of the experience Which the Police Department and the City Council have had with reference to the subjects referred to in this ordinance, since its adoption, the following further rules and regulations are hereby established with reference to said subjects, and it shall be unlawful for any person ~o violate, or fail to comply with, the same, or with any of them, to wit: No dissemination or distribution of information sheets or materials, contemplated by or referred to in this ordinance (other than those excepted in Section 2 of this ordinance), shall be made within the City of Arcadia by throwing any such information sheets or materials at a vehicle or any occupant thereof 011 a pUblic street or highway within said City. 1. 01.d 71::.'6 ....~......":::-}. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized ~o instantly revoke the license of any approved information licensee who violates any of the provisions of this section, in the same manner and subject to the same procedures as are provided in the case of other revocations under the provisions of Section 6 of this ordinance. " SECTION 2. That said Ordinance No. 614 is hereby amend- ed as hereinabove in Section 1 of this ordinance set forth. SECTION ~. It is hereby declared that this ordinance is an urgency ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall take effect upon its passage. The facts constituting such urgency are as follows: A horse-racing meet will be held and conducted in the City of Arcadia commencing on December 28, 1949, and continuing for a period of several months, and during said horse-racing meet there w ill be a daily influx into said City of from 20,000 to 70,000 persons, in addition to the normal population of the City, Which persons come to and leave the City generally by t\) I automobile or bus, thus causing a seriously aggravated traffic \\t~t~\: Q. % 3 Q\\\)' \I. and policing problem which is considerably affected and augment- ed by the dissemination or distribution of the aforementioned information sheets or materials in and about the public streets of the City of Arcadia. The immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, requires that the aforesaid dissemination or distribution of information sheets or materials be controlled by the regulations provided in this ordinance in order that the public health and safety will not be menaced by the use of the public streets in said city for such purposes. It is therefore necessary that this ordinance shall take effect upon ios passage. 2. ~ ad 7f:~ SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adop- tion of this ordinance and pr.~or 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. I rlllREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the 20th day of December, 1949, by the af- firmative vote of at least four Councilmen, to wit: \\~?v\.t\l $ 3 S- o\\\l. \10. AYES: Councilmen Boucher, Klomp, Libby and Nugent NOES: None ABSENT: Councilman Russell ~ City Clerk of the City of cadia. SIGNED AND APPROVED THIS 20th day of December, 1949. Mayor of the City ATTEST: ~ L ~A'/ City Clork. O/1.d. 7f::Z-,