Ordinance - 633ORDINANCE NO. 633
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING PROVISIONS OR ORDINANCE NO.
103 RELATING TO THE ERECTION OF TRAFFIC CONTROL
DEVICES AND DECLARING THE.SAME TO BE URGENTLY _
NEEDED FOR THE PUBLIC PEACE* HEALTH AND SAFETY.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Article III of Ordinance No. 103,
passed and approved the 12th day of July, 1944,.is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Section 1. THE TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO ERECT TRAFFIC CON-
TROL DEVICES. The Traffic.Authority shall have the exclusive
power and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed or
maintained official traffic control signs and devices when and
as required under this ordinance to make effective the provisions
of said ordinance, and may place and maintain such additional
signs and traffic control devices as are necessary for the public
safety or to regulate traffic under this ordinance or under State
law or to guide or warn traffic."
SECTION 2. This ordinance is hereby declared to be necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety
and shall take effect immediately upon its passage. The facts consti-
tuting its urgency are as follows: A public danger and threat to human
life exists at certain street crossings of the Walnut Creek. Wash. It is
necessary that proper signs be placed at these locations for the protection
of the public safety. This ordinance is necessary in order to permit
the erection and enforcement of such traffic signs.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 10th day of August , 1959.
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M or
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 633 was regularly
introduced and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the
loth day of August , 1959, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Pittenger, MOttinger, Barnes, Mayor Brown.
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Bone
City Clerk