Ordinance - 247ORDINANCE NO.247
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING THE DISCHARGE OF SURFACE, DRAINAGE -OR
STORM WATERS INTO.PUBLIC SEWERS,.AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR
THE VIOLATION.THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS;
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person,including
any public official or employee, not otherwise specifically authorized
• by law, to remove or cause to be removed a manhole cover from a public
sewer carrying domestic sewage or industrial waste for the purpose
of entering said sewer, or to discharge, deposit or cause to be
discharged or deposited, surface, drainage or storm waters into a
public sewer, unless specific permission is first obtained from the
owners and operators of said public sewer authorized to grant such
permission. It shall also be unlawful for any person, including
any public official or employee, or any person otherwise authorized
by law to enter public sewers carrying sanitary sewage and/or
industrial waste, to construct or authorize construction of a
connection to a public sewer or to remove a manhole cover, for the
purpose of permitting or causing to be discharged into said public
sewer, flood, surface,or storm waters.
• SECTION 2. That 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 punishable
by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, or by
imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, State
of California, for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by
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both fine and imprisonment; and each such person, firm or cor-
poration shall be deemed guilty of a -separate offense for each
day during any portion of which the violation of or failure,
neglect or refusal to comply with, any of the provisions of this
Ordinance is committed, continued or permitted.
SECTION 3, The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Ordinance, an(f 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 Covina.
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 llth day of May,1953, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to wit. -
AYES: Councilmen
NOES: �4oriE
ABSENT: No N E
ATTEST
City Clerk,
JOE HURST, MAYOR J. CAL SPERLINE
FRANK DELAY BERT C. VAN HORN C. L. MOSSBERG
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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 of West Covina, California, and a citizen
of the United States, over the age of 21 years; that on the 13th day of May,
1953, he posted three copies -,of ORDINANCE NO. 247 of the City of West Covina,
entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CAL-
IFORNIA) PROHIBITING THE DISCHARGE OF SURFACE DRAINAGE OR STORM WATERS INTO
PUBLIC SEWERS, AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF," in three
public places in said City, to wit: One at the Police Station, 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.
City Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this day of , 1953.
Nota Public in and r tp e County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
My Commnission Expires August 12,1956