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Ordinance - 309-• .• ORDINANCE NO.309 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DISCHARGE, USE AND SALE OF FIREWORKS IN SAID CITY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person,, except as hereinafter specified, to light, fire, discharge, explode or set off any fireworks or blank cartridges or small firearms or anything containing any proportion of any substance of an explosive nature, within the corporate limits of said City of West Covina. SECTION 2. Said City Council may permit any person, firm, corporation, association or organization to make a public display of fireworks, and for that purpose to use and discharge fireworks at such times and such places in the City of West Covina., as said City Council may fix and establish, provided that a.written appli- cation for a permit so to do is filed with the Chief of the Fire Department of said City at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the date of said display. It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to whom the application for permit is made, to .make an investigation and submit a report of his findings and his recommendations for or against the issuance of the permit together with his reasons therefor, to said City Council, The City Council shall have power in its discretion to grant or deny the permit. SECTION 3. The public generally may use and discharge such fireworks as are permitted by the laws of this State, on the 4th day of July of each and every year in the City of West Covina, provided that if said 4th day of July in any year falls on Sunday said fireworks may be used and discharged as in this section speci- fied, on the 5th day of July instead of said 4th day of July. SECTION It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or other person having the legal care and custody of any child in said City of West Covina, under the age of fourteen (14) years, to allow, permit, or suffer such child to light, fire, discharge, explode or set off any fireworks, or blank cartridges or small arms or anything • containing any proportion of any substance of an explosive nature. Provided, however, this provision shall not apply to said �j.th day of July of any year ( or the 5th day of July of any year as provided in Section 3 of this Ordinance). SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or cor- poration to sell or cause or permit to be sold fireworks of any kind within said City of West Covina, except that the City Council may permit such fireworks to be sold by any organization whose membership is composed of soldiers and/or sailors or of ex -soldiers and/or ex - sailors or its auxiliary or auxiliaries, which said organization or auxiliary maintains a meeting place in the City of West Covina, within said City of West Covina upon the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of July of each and every year, provided however, that if said 4th day of July • in any year falls upon Tuesday,then such fireworks may be permitted to be sold on the lst day of July in such year; and provided further, that a written application for permit to sell, cause or permit to be sold, said fireworks is filed with the Chief of the Fire Department of said City not less than thirty (30) days in advance of the date or dates upon which said fireworks are desired to be sold. It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to whom application for permit is made, to make an investigation and submit a report of his findings and his recommendations for -2- .y or against the issuance of the permit together with his reasons therefor, to said City Council. The City Council shall have power in its discretion to grant or deny the permit. SECTION 6. 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 Dollars ($500.00), 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 both such fine and imprisonment. • SECTION T. 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 ordinances -:in 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. ATTEST: w y er 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 day of +19549 by the -3- affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: .AYES: Councilmen JAMES W. KAY BERT C. VAN HORN J. CAL SPERLINE ?AY b. BROWN JOE HURST, MAYOP. NOES: 1V6 A/ G% ABSENT: p/t1IV j�- 1 y Clerk of Fh—e—City o . s_ Covina STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) ss. CITY OF WEST C O VINA ) ROBERT FLOTTEN, being by me first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is the City Clerk of th'e City of West Covina, California; a citizen of the United States and over the age of 21 years; that on the a6 r�day of 1954, he posted three copies of Ordinance No.309 of the City of West Covina, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COViINA, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DISCHARGE, USE AND SALE OF FIREWORKS IN SAID CITY", in three 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. City Clerk Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of JT/ 67 19540 41 o ry Public in andd rqr the Coun y of Los Angeles, State of California. My commission Expires August 12,1938 -4"