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ORDINANCE NO. o
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION, ALTER-
ALT ION, REPAIR, DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF BUILD-
INGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES IN THE CITY OR WEST
COVINA, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUING OF PERMITS
THEREFOR.
The Board of Trustees of the City of West
Covina do ordain as follows:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to erect, construct, alter, -repair,
-raise, build upon, move, demolish, maintain or use, or to
cause, permit or Buffer to be erected, constructed,altered,
repaired, -raised, built upon, moved, demolished, maintained
or used, within the City of Vest Covina, any building or
structure or any portion thereof contrary to the provisions
of this ordinance.
. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person,
. firm or corporation to commence, or to proceed with the
erection, construction, building,-reconst-ruction, enlarging,
alteration, changing, adding to, -repair, raising, building
upon, moving, demolishing or removal of any building or
structure, or any portion thereof, in the City of Vest
Covina, unless a permit so to do shall have, first been ob-
tained for each separate building or structure as herein-
after provided; provided, however, that the issuance of
any such permit shall not grant any -right or privilege to
do any construction or work not provided for in the said
permit as shown by the application or plans and specifi-
cations filed therefor; provided further that an additional
and separate permit shall be obtained for any construction
or work other than that for which any permit was issued;
:provided further, that the provisions of this section shall
not be deemed or construed to require any permit for the
_restoration of plastering or painting, or for the erection,
alteration or -repair of any fence or -retaining wall not
connected with any building or structure.
Any person desiring such permit shall file with
the Superintendent of Buildings, on a blank to be furnished
by him, an application therefor, which application for such
permit shall be made by the owner'or by his agent. Such
application shall describe the land upon which the purported
work is to be done, describing the same by lot or block or
other description by which the same may be easily and
-readily located or identified; the general dimensions of
the building to be erected, constructed, altered, repaired,
• raised, built upon, moved or demolished; the number and
height of the stories thereof; the names of the owners,
architect, if any, contractor, if any, and the estimate
of the entire cost of the proposed work; the purpose for
which such building, alteration or -repair is designed.
When such application is made, plans and specifi-
cations in duplicate of the building for which the permit
is reuuested shall be filed with the Superintendent of Build-
ings; one of the copies of such plans and specifications
shall be retained by the Superintendent of Buildings, and
the other copy, when approved by him, shall be returned to
the applicant for the permit. The Superintendent of Build-
ings need not retain such plans and specifications in his
custody for more than three (3) months after the completion
or occupancy of the building to which they relate. The ap-
proval of any plan or specification by the Superintendent of
Buildings shall not be held to permit or to be an approval
of the violation of any provision of this ordinance or of
any law of the State of California. All distances and di-
mensions on the plans shall be accurately figured, and the
drawings shall be explicit and complete. All plans shall be
accompanied by a set of specifications describing all
materials to be used in the proposed building. All plans
and drawings shall be drawn to a scale of not less than
s one --eighth of an inch to the foot on paper or cloth in ink
or by some other process that will not fade or obliterate.
It shall be unlawful for any person to erase',..,
alter,or modify any line, figure or coloring contained in
any such drawing or specification so approved by the Superin -
• tendent of Buildings, dr filed with him for reference.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deviate in
any manner from the plans and specifications so filed snd
approved, or in any manner affecting the structural features
or the stability of the building from the terms of applica-
tion, plans or specifications, unless notice in writing of
such intention to alter or deviate shall be given to the
Superintendent of Buildings, and his permission shall have
been first obtained.
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Section 3. Nothing in this ordinance contained
shall be deemed to apply to or to affect, or to authorize the
moving of any building upon any public street, alley or other
public place.
Section 4. The Superintendent of Buildings shall,
before the granting of any permit upon an application filed
in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, require
the payment by the applicant of the sum of One Dollar ($1.•00)
when the cost of the proposed work does not exceed the sum
of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and for each additional
one hundred dollars or fraction thereof of the cost of such
work, the sum of :�P o •
Section 5. The Superintendent of Buildings shall
keep in proper books an accurate account of all fees re
ceived by him under this ordinance, giving the name of the
owners upon whose account'the same were paid, the date and
amount of payment, together with the description of the pre-
mises as described in the permit, which book shall be open -
for public inspection. The said Superintendent of Build-
• -ings shall pay into the city treasury all fees --received by.
• hire at least once each week
Section 6. If the work authorized by any permit
.s. rib t..-,commenced within ninety days from date thereof, or
if the work authorized by said permit shall be suspended or
abandoned for a period of ninety days, then such permit shall
thereupon and thenceforth be null and void; and before such.
work can be -recommenced a new permit shall be taken out, and
the same fees as he-reinbefo-re fixed for the original permit
shall be paid therefor,
Section 7. Any person, firm or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
ishable by a fine of not less than'` '' 0.00, nor more than
$300.00, or by imprisonment in the 444y-jail for a period of
not less than five days, nor more than three months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
Every such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed
guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during
which any portion of any building is erected, constructed,
altered, repaired, raised, built upon, demolished or moved
in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance,
and shall be punishable therefor as herein provided.
Section 8. The erection, construction, building, reconstruc-
tion, enlarging, alteration, changing, adding to, repair,
-raising, building upon, moving, demolishing or -removal of
buildings in the City of West Covina, without permits and
without the supervision of the Superintendent of Buildings
is and will be a menace to the safety and health of the
citizens of the said city, and for that reason this ordinance
is urgently necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety, and the City Clerk is
directed to post this ordinance in the manner required by
law and by the ordinances of the City of West Covina, and
thereupon and thereafter the same shall be in full force
and e f f e c OyTAttest: resident - f theBoard of Trustees
-City Cler . of the City of hest Covina.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, �
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS:
CITY OF WEST COVINA, )
I, C. D. Wolfinger, City Clerk of the City of Nest
Covina, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of West Covina
at the regular meeting of the said board on the '(�i day of
1926, and signed by the president of the said—loard,
and that the said ordinance was adopted by the following
votes:
Ayes:�0�'�'
Noes:
Absent:
C. D. Wolfinger,
City Clerk.
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State of California
County of Loo Angeles
Co D. Wolfin ger, being first duly swom says: That he is
the CitMateo
Cerlk of the City of West Covina is" a citizen of the
United and over tho age of twenty-one ears, that on the
1,5ft yet t 19269 he postad three copies of Ordinance
N028 0 f tle CIffyot West Covina entitled
" An ordinance regulating the construction, alteration
repair, demolition and removal of buildings and other structures
• in the City of West Covina, and providing for the issuing of
Demits therefor"
public places in the said City, to -wit: one at the
in three gu W
door of t'e'West Covina Club House the same being the place
where the re ar meetings of the board of Trustees of 'the said
City are hal or. one on SuEset Avenue in front of the Went Covina
School House and one,at the northwest corner of Puente
Avenue and Lark Ellen Boulevard.
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SUBSCRIBED MM SWORN TO before me this /947day of August192
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Notary Public in and for the Countv of Lod Angeles,.3tate of Californii
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