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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA REGULATING THE TAKING OF
STREET 111PROVEMN ENTS FINDER PRIVATE CONTRACT 9 OPT INDIVIDUALLY.
The City Council of the City of best Covina do ordain as
follows:
Section 1: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpor-
ation, as principal or agent, to make any improvement in any o��tedLL4ii
streets of the City of West Covina, by or under private contracv, �
unless permit from the Superintendent of Streets therefor is first
secured and unless the deposit herein provided for is made. The term
"improvement" as herein used, shall be deemed and is hereby declared to
include the grading or regrading, the macadamizing or remacadamizing,
the graveling or regraveling, the oiling or reoiling, and the paving
or repaying of any street, or the construction or reconstruction in
any street of sidewalks, crosswalks, driveways, curbs, gutters and
the construction over gutters of entrances to driveways.
Section 2: Any permit granted by the Superintendent of���e�uos
for the making of any such improvement, by or under private con rac
shall be deemed to have been granted subject to the terms of this
ordinance, and the permit therefor shall not be transferable. 3ef ore
ahy such permission shall become effective for any purpose, there
shall be deposited with the Superintendent of Streets such sum of
money as may be estimated by the Superintendent of Streets, to be
necessary to cover the cost of inspection and supervision by his depart-
ment for said improvement, and also such sum of money as may be estimat-
ed by the.City Engineer, of said City, to be necessary to cover the
expenses that may be incurred by the City Engineer's Department in
connection with said improvement. Said improvement shall be made under
the direction and to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets,
or the Superintendent of Buildings, and all work shall, during its
progress and on its completion, conform to the lines and levels wiai.ch
may from time to time be given by the City Engineer. Upon its accept-
ance by the Superintendent of Streets or Superintendent of Buildings,
he shall deduct from the deposit made, as herein required, the cost
to the City of inspection and supervision and such expenses as shall
have been incurred by the City Engineer's department in connection
with said improvement, and the remainder of such deposit, if there be
any, shall be returned to the person making the same upon demands
approved, audited and allowed, as in the case of other demands against
the City. In the event that the estimated amount of the cost of in-
spection and supervision of said improvement and said City Engineer's
expenses, shall prove to be insufficient, the Superintendent of Streets
may cause the work of making such improvements to be stopped until such
additional sum is deposited as will cover said cost, in which case it
shall be unlawful to continue said work until such additional sum is
deposited.
The Superintendent of Streets shall be given at least
twenty-four (24) hours notice inwriting of the time of commencement of
the work -of making any improvement, permission to make which is -)ranted
hereunder, in order that he may procure and assign an inspector to
inspect the same; and in case the services of the City Engineer are
required for laying out any portion of said work, twenty-four hours
notice shall be given said City Engineer of the time when such services
shall be required; and such r,7ork shall not be commenced until after
such notice has been given and the necessary engineering work com-
pleted.
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Section 3: It shall be the dui
to cause such improvements made by c
inspected and supervised during the
to cause to be kept a just.and true
and supervision of such improvement;
provisions of this ordinance.
y of the Superintendent of.Streets
r under private con?N0dW?d5te duly
prolrress of the work thereupon and
account of the cost of inspection
and otherwise to carry out the
Section 4: Any person, firm or corporation, as principal or agent,
who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
puncished by a fine of not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or
be imprisonment for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
Section 5: The city clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance and cause the same to be posted in three
public "places in, the City of West Covina as required by City Ordinance
and thirty (30)`-tays thereafter the same shall take effect and be in
force..
APPROVED and adopted this -1.3 _day of September, 1944.
Mayor
STATE OF CAL IF ORNIA
County of Los Angeles SS.
City of Nest Covina
I, CAREY S. HALL city clerk of the city of Wiest Covina, hereby
certify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted by the city council
of the City of West Covina at the regular meettmg of said board on the
day of September, 1944, and signed by the,.Mayor of said city and
.that said ordinance was adopted by the folloy,:ing votes:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Los Angeles ss.
I, CAREY S. HALL, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
That I am the city clerk of the City of West Covina and am a
citizen of the U.S. and over the age of 21 years; that on the./, day
of September, 1944, I posted three (3) copies of Ordinance 105 of the
City of West Covina, entitled, "All ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF G�'ST COVIINA
• REGULATING THEt,11AKING CF STREET IMPROVE E NTS UNDER PRIVATE CONT1iACT,11
in three (3) public places in said city, to -wit: one at 1843 [`lest
State Highway, West Covina, the same being the place where the regular
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meetings of the City Council of said city are held, one at Sunset
Ave., in front of the Nest Covina School Rouse, and one at the North-
west corner of Puente Street and Lark Ellen Boulevard.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me
this { � day of September, 1944.
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Notafy Public in and for said County
and State.
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Clark
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