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Ordinance - 14570 I ORDINANCE NO. 1457 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA;•ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT`, INCLUDED THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING FOR THE .EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION•THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDIN•v SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That pursuant to the California Government Code S 50022.1, the West Covina Municipal Code consisting of Chapters 1 to 26, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "West Covina Municipal Code" and shall be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all other general and per- manent ordinances passed by the City Council on or before Ordinance No. 1426, adopted February 12, 1979, to the extent provided in Section 2 hereof. Section 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in full force and effect from and after the 13th day of December , 1979, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of West Covina enacted on final passage on or before Ordinance No. .1426, adopted February 12, 1979 are hereby repealed, except as hereinafter provided. Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not affect any of the following: (1) Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right estab- lished or accruing before the effective date of such Code; (2) Any ordinance -promising or guaranteeing,the payment of money for the City, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City or any evidence of the City's indebtedness; 01 • (3) Any contract or obligation assumed by the City; (4) Any right or franchise granted by the City; (5) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way.in the City; (6) Any ordinance relating to specific public improvements or assessments therefor; (7) Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for streets; (8) Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing for the levy of taxes or for an annual budget; (9) The electrical regulations of the City; (10) The Subdivision Ordinances of the City; (11) Any ordinance establishing the compensation of municipal officers or employees, not inconsistent herewith; (12) Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the City; (13) The administrative ordinances not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of such Code; (14) Any ordinance relating to the boundaries of the City; (15) The traffic ordinances or resolutions of the City, not inconsistent with such Code; (16) Any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any Judgment rendered on or before the effective date of such Code; (17) Any ordinance.enacted after Ordinance No. 1426, adopted February 12, 1979; .The repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not • �� be construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by this ordinance. Section 4. Pursuant to the government Code Section 50022.1, by the adoption of the City.Code, the City hereby ratifies the adoption and enactment, as amended and modified by said City j Code, of the following secondary codes:, • • (1) The Uniform Building Code, 1976 Edition and the appendices and indices printed therein, and the Uniform Building Code Standards, 1976 Edition approved by the International Conference of Building Officials; ...(2) The Uniform Mechanical Code, 1976 Edition, in- 'cluding all appendices and indices, approved -by the International Conference of Building Officials; (3) The Uniform Housing Code, 1976 Edition, including all appendices and indices, adopted by the Inter- national Conference of Building Officials; (4) The National Electrical Code, 1975 Edition, and the appendices and indices printed therein, adopted by the National Fire Protection Association; (5) The Uniform Plumbing Code, 1976 Edition,. and the appendices and indices printed therein, adopted by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials; (6) The Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, 1976 Edition, including all appendices and indices approved by the International Conference of Building Officials; (7) The Uniform Fire Code, 1976 Edition, including appendices B, C;", E and G (except for article 12), as approved by the International Conference of Building Officials and the Western Fire Chiefs Association; (8) The Uniform -Sign Code, 1976 Edition,_ including all appendices and indices, approved by the Inter- national Conference of Building Officials; (9) The Standard Specifications.For Public Works Con- struction, 1976 Edition, promulgated by the Joint Committee of the Southern California Chapters of the American Public Works Association and the Associated General Contractors of America; • C Section 5. Whenever in the City Code or in any other ordinance of: the City, any. act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or a.misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of the City.Code or any other ordinance of the City shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment fora term not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every day any violation of the City Code or any other ordinance of the City shall continue constitutes a separate,. offense. h Section 6. Any and all additions or amendments to suc Code, when passed in such form as.to indicate the intention of the City Council to make.the same a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the West Covina Municipal Code shall be'understood.and. intended to include such additions and amendments. Section 7. A copy.of such Code shall be kept on file in the offices of the City ­Clerk preserved in looseleaf .form, or: in such other form as the City Clerk may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the City Clerk or someone authorized by him, to insert in their proper places all amend- ments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from the..Code all provisions which may be from. time to time re- pealed- by_:the City Council. This.copy of such.Code shall'be available for all persons desiring to examine the same and shal be considered: the official West Covina Municipal Code and any copy of such Code certified by the City Clerk shall be the official West Covina Municipal Code, at the date of such certification. Section B. In case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 5 of this Ordinance and Section 1-37 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended. In case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in the City to change or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City of West Covina to be misrepresented thereby. Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be punished as provided in Section 5 of this Ordinance and Section 1-37 of such Code. Section 10. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in con- flict herewith, with the exception of any ordinance enacted after • Ordinance No. 1426 adopted February 12, 1979, are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed, as of the effective date of this ordinance, but shall remain in full force and effect until such date. Section 11. This ordinance shall become effective on the day of December 13, , 19'79. INTRODUCED this 22nd day of October , 19 79 . PASSED AND ADOPTED as an ordinance of the City.of West Covina at a regular meeting thereof held on the 13th day of November , 1979, by the following vote: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Miller, Tice, Shearer, Browne, Chappell NOES, • COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None Ma r of the City of West C vina ATTEST: erk.of the City of West Covina C E R T IF I C A ,r ION State of California. ) County of Los Angeles ) ss. • City of west Covina. ) I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of West Covina, State of California, do hereby certify that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance No. /YJ was published, pursuant to law,. in the west Covina. Tribune, a. newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of west Covina.. Ja.ne Berry, Depu y y Clerk Cit of west ,Covina, al ifornia • Da.tedC&L4?'Zzz-zS-0