Ordinance - 137ORDINANCE NO. 137
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 133 ENTITLED
"iiN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA PRO-
HIBITING AND REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION,.
MAINTAINING, AND USE OF DWELLINGS, TRAILERS,
AND STORAGE AREAS" BY ADDING THERETO SECTIONS
TO BE KN0WN AS SECTION SIX AND SECTION SEVEN.
The City Council in the City of West Covina do ordain as
follows:
-Section .l. Ordinance No. 133, entitled "An Ordinance prohibiting and
regulating the construction, maintaining, and -use of dwelling, trailers,
and storage areas"' and prescribing the minimum square feet of floor
area of a building to be used as a dwelling and defining the means by
wh'J.ch a building may be attached to the land, is hereby amended by add-
ing thereto sections to be known as Sections 6 and 7, and to read as
follows:
Section 6. In any case or cases where a person or persons., association,
or corporation desires immediate occupancy of a building, structure, or
improvement which is ineomplete,and/or outhouse incidental to and in
close proximity to the principal building or structure, the Building
Inspector may issue a permit providing for the temporary occupancy of
such building, structure, or improvement, for apperidd not to exceed
Sixty (60) days at any one time, if the Building Inspector finds that
(a) The applicant for the permit of temporary
occupancy has -secured a building permit
from the City of West Covina for a dwell-
ing to be erected upon the premises whereon
the temporary structure is located;
(b) That construction of the principal building
upon the premises has been commenced and has
progressed to a stage where the foundation
is complete;
(c) That the premises whereon the temporary struct-
ure is located is a lot in an approved sub-
division tract, or is not a lot described by
metes and bounds and conveyed after the 16th
day of May, 1947;
(dj When the applicant shall have complied with
Section 7 hereof;
Section 7. In any case or cases where a person, or persons, association,
or corporation desires immediate occupancy of a building, structure, or
improvement, which is incomplete, or parts of which are incomplete, in
any structural parts or portions and/or which does not comply with the
provisions of this ordinance and all other ordinances of the City of
West Covina, and/or any law of the State of California, or, defective or
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incomplete in any manner affecting the continued safe use, operation,
and/or maintanence of the building structure, or improvement, Such
person may at the option of the building inspector make a deposit'in
the form of a certified check guaranteeing the completion of the
building, structure, or improvement, in accordance with such plans
and/or provisions in respect to the structural parts or portions, con-
tinued safe use, operations, and/or maintanence.
Such deposit shall be in an amount, but in no case less than Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00) which in the judgment of the building inspect-
or whould be sufficient to def rgy the cost of the work, and/or material
necessary to complete the building, structure, or improvement, in re-
spect to the said dtructural parts or of the portions, The condition
of the deposit of which amounie' shall be that, if the person, association,
or corporation making such deposit shall fail, upon written notice, to
do such work within a reasonable time, the city may, at its discretion,
cause such work, to be done in accordance with the plan and/or, ;provisions,
and may apply":•such part or all of such tposit toward the payment and sat-
isfaction;. of, any expense which the said city may have incurred by reason
of having caused such work to be done. A further condition of such
deposit shall be that the depositor agrees to permit access by the said
city and its agents to the premisses upon which the work is to be done
in any case where it's necessary.for the city to do the work. The whole
deposit, or part thereof, if any part remains, as the case may be, shall
be returned upon completion of the work, whether such work is done by
the city or -=by the depositor.-
MAYOR of the
City of West Covina
I he:.'00"'ce,rtify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted by the
eitfCouncil of the City of test Covina, at its meetin held on the
zK day of , 1947.
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ABSENT: IVOAJ
CA1321k S. HALL,
Pa ge 2.
Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )ss
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CAREY S. HALL, being first duly sworn, says.: That he is
t e City Clerk of the City of West Covina, and that on the
day of May, 19472 he posted three: copies of Ordinance
3fi of the City of West Covina, entitled *An Ordinance Amending
Ordinance 133 Entitled'An Ordance of the GJt y of No-st Covina
Prohibiting and Regulating the Construction, Maintaining,
and Uae., of Dwellings, Trailers, and Strorage Areas$ by adding
thereto Sections to be known as Sections S:ixxand Section Seven"
to -quit; one in front of the We.-st Covina School Hour; e;; one at.
the City Hall, 361 West ffarvay Boulevard, and one at the
northwest corner of Puente -Street and Larkellen Boulevard.
City ,Gl er
Subscribed and sworn to before:
this _day of May, 1947
Notary Public ' in and for the
Couno of Los Angeles:., State
of California.
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