Ordinance - 768I
ORDINANCE NO. 768
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE ANNEXATION
TO, INCORPORATING IN AND MAKING A PART OF SAID CITY
OF WEST COVINA, CERTAIN UNINHABITED TERRITORY OUTSIDE
THE SAID CITY AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO, KNOWN AS "EASTERLY
ANNEXATION DISTRICT NO. 17811.
.WHEREAS, under and pursuant to and in accordance with the
provisions of the "Annexation of Uninhabited Territory Act of 193911, as
.amended, the City Council of the City of West Covina, in due course, on
its own motion, initiated proceedings for the annexation to the said City
of the uninhabited territory hereinafter described; and
WHEREAS, the same was submitted to and reported upon favorably
by the Boundary Commission of Los Angeles County with respect to the
definiteness and certainty of the proposed boundaries of said territory,
pursuant to Section 35002 of the Government Code of the State of Cali-
fornia; and
WHEREAS, the City Council did on September 24, 1962, at a
regular meeting thereof duly adopt a resolution initiating said proceed-
ings and 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, and designated the same as
"Easterly Annexation District No. 1781;and
WHEREAS, said resolution was duly published in accordance
with law, which said resolution contained a notice of the day, hour and
place when and where the City Council would hear protests made by any
person owning real property within the territory proposed to be annexed,
and said publications were complete twenty days prior to the date of such
• hearing; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk did, not less than twenty days before
the public hearing on the proposed annexation, cause a written notice, in
accordance with the provisions of the Government 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 a date not less than forty days nor more than sixty
days from the date of the adoption of such resolution, to -wit: for
8:00 o'clock P.M. on November 13, 1962, before said City Council at the
City Hall, West Covina; and
WHEREAS, at the time set aforesaid, to -wit: November 131
1962, at 8:00 o'clock P.M. of said day, said matter duly came before said
City Council at a regular meeting thereof for hearing, said hearing was
duly held, and a majority protest not having been presented against said
proposed annexation in accordance with Section 35313 of.the Government
Code, and the Council having so found and declared by resolution adopted
November 13, 1962; and
WHEREAS, the property and territory hereinafter specifically
described is contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of West Covina
and is uninhabited within the meaning of Section 35303 of the said
Government Code;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina
does ordain as follows:
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SECTION 1. That the annexation to the City of West Covina
of the territory hereinafter described, the boundary description of which
was submitted to and duly approved 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 "Easterly
Annexation District No. 178", be and the same is hereby ordained to be
annexed to, incorporated in, and made a part of the City of West Covina,
to -wit:
All that territory in the County of Los Angeles, State of
California, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at an angle point in the Southeasterly boundary
line of the City of West Covina as it existed on July 18,
1962, said point being a point on the Southwesterly line
of Grand Avenue (formerly Oregon Avenue) 80 feet wide,
as shown on map of Tract No. 10794 as per map recorded
in Book 185, Page 45 of Maps on file in the office
of the Los Angeles County Recorder, said point also
being the Northeasterly corner of Lot 1, of said
Tract No. 10794; thence Southeasterly along the
Southwesterly line of said Grand Avenue, to the most
Easterly corner of the land conveyed to John M. Clemons
et ux as described in deed recorded in Book 36717, Page
307 of Official Records, records of Los Angeles County;
thence Southwesterly, Southerly and Southeasterly along
the Southeasterly line of the land described in said
deed to the most Southerly corner thereof, said Southerly
corner being a point in the Northeasterly line of Cortez
Street, 60 feet wide, as shown on said map of Tract No.
10794; thence Northwesterly along said Northeasterly line
to a point in the Easterly boundary line of the City of
West Covina as the same existed on July 18, 1962; thence
• Northerly and Easterly along said boundary -of the City
of West Covina to the point of beginning.
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Said territory shall be designated as "Easterly Annexation District No.
178".
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the
passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once in the West
Covina Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation published and circu-
lated in the City of West Covina, and thirty days from and after the final
passage thereof shall file a certified copy thereof with tbo 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 received by the City of West Covina, the City Clerk shall
file 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 the County of Los Angeles, the County Assessor
of said County; the County Engineer of said County; the Board of Equali-
zation of the State of California, ard the Census Bureau of the United
States Government.
Passed and approved this 19th day of November , 1962.
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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 above Ordinance No. 768 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 13th day of November Q
edi t, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted an passe anl�a meeting of the
City Council on the 19th day of November , 1962, by the following
vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Jett, Towner, Heath, Snyder, Mayor Barnes
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
City C er
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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:
20th December 62
That on the ---------------- day of---------------------------- -------------------------- 7 19------- pursuant
to the provisions of the "Annexation of Uninhabited Territory Act of 1939," more
particularly Section 35317 of the Government Code, there was filed in my office:
A copy of Ordinance No --------------- -768-------------------------------------------------as regularly
passed and adopted by the legislative body of the City hereinafter named on
the --- 19th--------- day of ---------- ----------------November ----------------------- � 19_62-- certified by
Robert--FlQtten --------------------------------------------------- City Clerk.
I further certify that said Ordinance sets forth approval of the annexation to
the CITY OF ------ tIESZ_C-0- tA___________________________________________of contiguous uninhabited
territory, contains a description of its boundaries and designates the annexed area as:
"EASTERLY ANNEXATION DISTRICT NO. 178."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my
hand and affix the Great Seal of the
State of California this__20th .
day of---- December ---................ 19--62_.
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Secretary of State
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