Ordinance - 1234ORDINANCE NO. 1234
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 3185 OF THE WEST
COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO OBSTRUCTIONS
IN STREETS.
• The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3185 of the West Covina Municipal
Code is amended to read:
"3185. OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS.
No person shall erect, construct, place, maintain,
leave or abandon any building, fence, porch, steps, post,
pole, track, wire, pipe, conduit or other structure in whole
or in part in or upon any street within the City, and no
person shall place, affix, paint, maintain, leave or abandon
any sign, placard, notice, advertisement, seat, bench, table,
stand, material or other obstruction in any street within
the City, without a permit so to do first had and obtained
from the Traffic Authority or the Street Superintendent or the
City Council, provided, however, that the provisions of this
Section shall not apply to:
Na The U. S. mail boxes.
b� Poles and facilities of public utilities lawfully
• using the public streets of said City.
(c) Portable and usual garbage and rubbish receptacles
when conforming to and placed in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the City with reference thereto.
(d) Notices, placards, posters or any of the other
articles or means above mentioned or referred to, erected or
placed by any City or public officer, official or employee
acting within the scope of his or her office or employment as
such public officer, official or employee.
The Chief of Police is authorized to remove any
obstruction existing in any street in violation of the pro-
visions of this Section and to store the same in the City
yard. The owner of any property removed from any street
may claim the same within sixty days after the date of its
removal and upon payment of the actual cost of removal, not
to exceed $25.00, the property shall be released to claimant."
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
,ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
Passed and approved this 26th
• ATTEST:
City Clerk
day of November 1973.
Mayo
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS AN ES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
I, LELA W. PRESTON, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1234 was regularly
• introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 12th day of November , 1973. That, there-
after, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 26th day of November , 1973, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Nichols, Shearer, Chappell, Lloyd.
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Young.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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