Ordinance - 302ORDINANCE NO.302
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST C OVINA,
CALIFORNIA, APPEOVING THE ANNEXATION TO, INCOP.TORATING IN AND
MAKING A PAS' T OF SAID CITY OF WEST COVINA CERTAIN UNINHABITED
TEREITORY OUTSIDE THE SAID CITY AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO,KNOWN
AS "ANNEXATION DISTRICT NO.113t1.
WHEREAS, under and pursuant to and in accordance with
the provisions of the "Uninhabited Territory Act of 193911, as
amended, the City Council of the City of West Covina, in due course
• received a written petition signed by not less than one-fourth of
the owners of the area of land described therein and representing
not less than one_fourth of the assessed value of said territory
according to the last preceding equalized assessment roll of the
County of Los Angeles, California; and
WHEREAS, prior to the filing with the City Council of
said City the proposal for the annexation of said territory to the
City of West Covina was submitted to and reported favorably upon
to the proponents thereof by the Boundary Commission of Los Angeles
County with respect to the definitenessand certainty of the proposed
boundaries, pursuant to Section 35002 of the Government Code of
the State of California; and
WHEREAS, the City Council did at a regular meeting thereof
�. duly adopt a resolution giving notice of the proposed annexation
which resolution specifically described the boundaries of the
territory so proposed to be annexed to the City of West Covina,
designating the same as "Annexation District No.11311; and
WHEREAS, said resolution and notice were duly published
twice, in accordance with law, which said resolution and notice
aforesaid gave notice of the day, hour and place when and where any
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person owning real property within said territory so proposed
to be annexed, and having any objection to the proposed annexation,
might appear before the City Council and show cause why such
territory should not be so annexed, and said publications were
complete twenty (20) days prior to the date of such hearing; and
• WHEREAS, the City Clerk did, not less than twenty (20)
days, before the public hearing on the proposed annexation, cause
a written notice, in accordance with the provisions of the Govern-
ment Code, of said proposed annexation to be mailed to each person
to whom land within the territory proposed to be annexed is
assessed on the last preceding equalized County Assessment Roll
available on the date the proceedings were initiated, at the
address shown on said assessment roll; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of West Covina set
such hearing for not less than fifteen (15) days nor more than
fifty (50) days from the date of the adoption of such resolution,
to wit: for 8:00 o'clock P.I., on February 24, 1954, before said
City Council at the City Hall, West Covina; and
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WHEIR-EAS, at the
time set aforesaid, to wit:
on February
24,1954, at 8:00 o'clock,
of said day, said matter and
order to
show cause duly came before said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof, for hearing, and no one appearing in opposition thereto
and no written protest having been filed against the proposed
annexation, and good cause appearing therefor; and
WHEREAS, the property and territory hereinafter specifi-
cally described are contiguous to properties within the corporate
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limits of the City of West Covina and is uninhabited within
the meaning of Section 35303 of said Government Code; and
WBLT;EAS, there has been filed with the City Clerk the
written consent of the petitioners as owners of all of the
property so proposed to be annexed to the City of West Covina,
wherein consent was given that said property after its annexation
• may be taxed equally with the property within the City of West
Covina to pay the bonded indebtedness of the City of West Covina
both outstanding at the date of such annexation or theretofore
authorized and to be represented by bonds of the City of West
Covina thereafter to be issued;
NOYI,THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West
Covina does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1,That the annexation to the City of West Covina
of the territory hereinafter described, which boundary description
was submitted to and duly approved before filing by the Boundary
Commission of Los Angeles County as to definiteness and certainty,
and which territory was _designated in the resolution and notice
of said City Council as ".Annexation District Nom113", be, and the
• same is approved, and the territory hereinafter described be, and
the same is hereby ordained to be annexed to, incorporated in, and
made a part of the City of West Covina, California, and that such
property after its annexation to the City of West Covina shall
be taxed equally with the property within the City of West Covina
to pay the bonded indebtedness of the City of West Covina out-
standing on the date of such annexation for 1951 Improvement Bonds
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heretofore authorized and issued by the City of West Covina
or bonded indebtedness theretofore authorized and to be repre-
sented by bonds of the City of West Covina thereafter to be
issued.
SECTION 2. The territory hereinbefore referred to, and
which is hereby annexed to and made a ;:part and incorporated in
said City of West Covina, is more particularly described as follows:
to wit:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of
"Annexation District No.107" to the City of West
Covina; thence easterly along the southerly line
of Badillo Street 80 feet wide as described in
Final Order of Condemnation in Case No.576603 of
the Superior Court of the State of California in
and for the County of Los Angeles to a line which
passes through a point in the center line of said
Badillo Street distant westerly along said center
line and its prolongation 638.75 feet from the
center line of Lark Ellen Avenue (formerly Azusa
Street), as shown on map of Phillips Tract recorded
in Book 9, pages 3 and 4 of Miscellaneous Records
in the office of the recorder of said County, and
which also passes through a point in the center
line of Puente Avenue -as shown on said map distant
westerly thereon 637.6 feet from said center line
of Lark Ellen Avenue; thence southerly along said
last described line to the northerly boundary of
the City of West Covina as same existed on Septem-
ber 17, 1953; thence westerly along the boundary
of said city and following the same in all its
various courses to the point of beginning.
Said territory shall be designated as "Annexation District No.11311.
SECTION 3, 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, in the manner required by the laws and
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ordinances of the City of West Covina, and thirty (30) days
from and after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force, and shall file a certified copy
thereof with the Secretary of State, of the State of California,
and after such certified copy has been so filed, and a certificate
• of the Secretary of State certifying to its filing has been re-
ceived by the City of West Covina, the City Clerk shall file a
certified copy of said Ordinance, to which shall be annexed a
copy of the map of said territory, with the following: The
County Surveyor of Los Angeles County; the County Recorder of
Los Angeles County; the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County;
the County Assessor of said County; the County Engineer of said
County; the Board of Equalization of the State of California,
and the Census Bureau of the United States Government,
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.ATTEST:
City Clerk
• I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a -regular meeting of the City Council of the City of West Covina,
held on the 22nd day of March, 1954, by the affirmative vote of
at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen FRANK DELAY tPR.T C. VAN HORN C. L. MOSSBERG .
�? J. CAL SPERLINL
NOES: A/ U /v C JOE HURST, MAYOR
ABSENT: A10 41 9_7zj'o�
city Clerk of the City of West Covina
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STATE OF' CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
C I TY OF WES T C OVINA )
ROBERT FLOTTEN, being by me first duly sworn,
deposes and says: That he is the City Clerk of the City of
iWest Covina, California; a citizen of the United States and
over the age of 21 years; that on the 3dr'l- day of March,1954,
he posted three copies of Ordinance No,30& of the City of
West Covina, entitled "AN Oi.'DINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE ANNEXATION
TO, INCORPOP.ATING IN AND MAKING A PANT OF SAID CITY OF WEST
COVINA CERTAIN UNINHABITED TEP.RITORY OUTSIDE THE SAID CITY AND
CONTIGUOUS THERETO, KNOWN AS "ANNEXATION DISTRICT N0.113",
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 Boulev
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• Cl y Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3/ sfday of ?March, 1954.
G
�ftorPyPulblic in 9nd r said County
of Los Angeles, State of California
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FRANK M.JORDAN
SECRETARY OF STATE
SACRAMENTO
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of California, hereby
certify:
That on the--28th---- — --- day of------ ---- April ---------------------------- 1954-- pursuant
to the provisions of the "Annexation of Uninhabited Territory Act of 1939," more
particularly Section 3 S 317 of the Government Code, there was filed in my office:
A coyy of Ordinance No.__302_------------------------------------- of the CITY OF
WEST COVINA------------- certified by the City Clerk of said City.
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I further certify that the_22nd----------- day of_-----____ March
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is stated in the certificate of said City Clerk as the date on which said ordinance was
regularly passed and adopted by the ------- City Council ------------------- of said City, and
That said ordinance sets forth approval of the annexation to the CITY OF
WEST COVINA __________________of certain uninhabited territory, a description of
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the boundaries and the designation thereof as:
"Annexation District No. 113."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto
set my hand and affix the Great
Seal of the State of California
this 28th day
Of April 919 54.
Selretary of State
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