Ordinance - 1556ORDINANCE NO 1556
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA
• AMENDING SECTION 22-188 RELATING
TO THE REGULATION OF PARKING IN FIRE
LANES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY
The City Council of the City of West Covina does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The West Covina Municipal Code, Chapter
22 entitled "Traffic Regulations" is hereby amended by changing
Section "22=188, Subsection B.I. to read as follows:
1. A metal sign with minimum dimensions of
twelve inches by eighteen inches shall
be mounted on a metal post .in conformance
with the City Engineer's Standard Drawings.
SECTION 2. The West Covina Municipal Code, Chapter
22 entitled "Traffic Regulations" is hereby amended by changing
Section :�224188_,, Subsection B.3. to read as follows:
B.
3. Where there is no curbing adjacent to the lane
the twenty-five foot access shall be marked
• by a painted chrome -yellow line, two inches
wide on each of the lanes as shown on the
City Engineer's Standard Drawings.
SECTION 3. The West Covina Municipal Code, Chapter
22 entitled "Traffic Regulations" is hereby amended by changing
Section 22-188, Subsection B.4. to read as follows:
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4. The surface of every lane shall bear the words
"No Parking - Fire Lane" in chrome -yellow paint
printed in letters at least twelve inches high
with a two-inch stroke. The wording shall be
spaced to cover the entire width of the lanes
and each wording group shall not be located
further than seventy-five lineal feet apart as
shown on the City Engineer's Standard Drawings.
Deviations from these posting requirements may
be permitted by the traffic authority only upon
showing that:
SECTION 4. The West Covina Municipal Code, Chapter
22 entitled "Traffic Regulations" is hereby amended by changing
Section 22-188, Subsection B.4.b. to read as follows:
B.
4.
b. An alternative method of posting will pro-
vide substantially similar notice to the
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public. Approval procedures and posting
requirements for apartments, condominiums
and hospitals, delineating fire lanes by
signs only, shall be in accordance with the
City Engineer's Standard Drawings.
The posting requirements set forth in sub-
section B.1.2. and 3. of this section shall
apply to fire lanes, established prior to
the adoption of this section as well as
those established subsequent thereto.
SECTION 5. 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 13th day of SaDfPm'hPr
1982.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
State of. California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of West Covina )
I, HELENE M. MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West
Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No.
1556 was regularly inttoduced and placed upon its first
reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 21,,1
day of . Aug„Gt , 1982. That, thereafter, said Ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City—,
Council on the ,fit day of SP, tPmhPr 1982, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Bacon, Tennant, Shearer, Chappell, Tice
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Cit3A Att me
CERTIFICAT IO N
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.\SS 3
..was published, pursuant to law, in the West Covina.
Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation published
.and circulated in the City of West Covina.
JL
1 Janet Deputy City Clerk
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City Covina, California
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