Ordinance - 240ORDINANCE NO.240
AN ORDINANCE OF' THE CITY OF' WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO.103 OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA REGULATING TRAFFIC
IN AND UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS WITHIN SAID CITY, BY ADDING
THERETO THREE NEW SECTIONS, TO BE MOWN AS .AND NUMBERED ARTICLE
IX, SECTIONS 5 AND 69 AND ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, AND REPEALING
ARTICLE XIII, SECTIONS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE OF SAID ORDINANCE NO.103.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN .AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION,1. That Ordinance No.103 of the City of West Covina,
entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,CALIFORNIA,I1AKING
CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES
WITHIN SAID CITY, REGULATING TRAFFIC IN AND UPON SUCH PUBLIC STREETS
AND PLACES, AND REPEALING ALL 030INANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT THEREWITH", adopted July 13, 1944, be and the same is
hereby amended by adding to Article IX thereof a new section to be
known as and numbered Section 5 and to read as follows:
"'SECTION 5. USE OF STREETS FOR STORAGE OF VEHICLES PROHIBITED.
(a) No person who owns or has possession, custody or
control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any
street or alley for more than a consecutive period of
120 hours.
(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing ,
0 upon a street in excess of a consecutive period of
120 hours, any member of the police department authorized
by the Chief of Police may remove said vehicle from the
street in the manner and subject to the requirements of
Section 585 and 585.1 of the Vehicle Code of the State
of California. "
SECTION 2. That said Ordinance N0.103 of the City of West
Covina,be and the same is hereby amended by adding to Article IX
thereof a new section to be known as and numbered Section 6 and
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to read as follows:
"SECTION 6. PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PR0HIBI`1'ED.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for
the principal purpose of:
1. Displaying such vehicle for sale.
2. Washing, servicing, repairing, or otherwise
working on such vehicle except repairs
necessitated by an emergency.
3. Selling therefrom or therein any article,service
or thing provided that any peddler or canvasser
licensed under the provisions of any ordinance
of the City of West Covina may take orders or
deliver any commodity from a vehicle on that
part of any street immediately adjacent to the
premises of any purchaser. "
SECTION 3. That said Ordinance No.103 be and the same is
hereby amended by adding to Article X thereof a new section to be
known as and numbered Section 2 and to read as follows:
"SECTION 2. BICYCLE RIDING RESTRICTED.
(a) It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle upon any
sidewalk in front of any church or school while persons
are entering or leaving or a place of public assembly
while such assembly is in progress or in a designated
business district upon the sidewalk in front of a place
of business.
(b) In all other areas, the rider of a bicycle shall
give the right of way to pedestrians.
(c) The rider of a bicycle on the roadway shall ride
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as nearly as practicable within five (51) feet
of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway."
SECTION 4.' That Article XIII, Sections 1 to 6 inclusive,
of said Ordinance No.103 be and the same is hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. The 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 posted
with the names of the members voting for and against the same
in three places within the City, and thirty (30) days from and
after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force in the manner required by the laws and ordinances
in the City of West Covi_�
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of West
Covina on the 23rd day of March, 1953, by the affirmative vote of
0 at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen FRANK DELAY BERT C. VAN EORN J. CAL SP^RLINE
NOES.
N o N E JOE HURST, MAYOR
ABSENT: C. L. MOSSDERG
City Clerk of the City of West Covina
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
ROBERT FLOTTEN, being by me first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
he is the City Clerk for the City ccf West Covina, California, and a citizen
of the United States, over the age of 21 years; that on the 25th dW of
March, 1953, he posted three copies of ORDINANCE NO. 240 of the City of West
Covina, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,(CALIFORNIA, AMEND-
ING ORDINANCE NO. 103 OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA REGULATING TRAFFIC IN AND
UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS WITHIN SAID CITY, BY ADDING THERETO THREE NEW SEC-
TIONS, TO BE KNOWN AS AND NUMBERED ARTICLE IX, SECTIONS 5 AND 61 AND ARTICLE
X, SECTION 2, AND REPEALING ARTICLE XIII, SECTIONS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE OF SAID
ORDINANCE NO. 103" in three public places in said City, to wit: One at the
Police Office, 1444 West Garvey Boulevard, one in front of the West Covina
School House, and one at the northwest corner of Puente Street and Lark Ellen
Boulevard.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
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this day of h, 1953.
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Not Public in and fo the ounty
of Los Angeles, State of California.
My Commission Expires August 12, 1956
City Clerk �•/