Ordinance No. 536
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ORDINANCE NO. 536
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF VERNON PROHIBITING TRESPASS UPON
AND LOITERING ABOUT CERTAIN CLASSES OF PROPERTY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: Declaration of Purpose. Public peace and
safety is hereby declared to require that the uninterrupted
operation of certain industries essential to national defense,
such as the aircraft manufacturing industry, and of companies
or agencies supplying water, gas, electric and other essential
services, be protected by preventing the intrusion upon the
properties thereof of idle, curious or malicious persons and
of persons whose presence thereon is not necessary, and by
prohibiting the loitering about such places by persons capable
of inflicting harm or of impeding the operation conducted thereon.
Section 2: Posting - Manner of. Prescribed. Any
person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, department or
instrumentality having possession or control, of any of the
facilities, plants or utility properties enumerated in section
3 hereof, may post, at each entrance to any structure devoted
to any use so enumerated, at each entrance to any fenced or
enclosed area devoted to any such use, and at intervals of not
more than three hundred feet around any area devoted to such use,
substantial signs not less than one square foot in area,
displaying prominently in addition to such other information
as may be deemed desirable the words, "TRESPASSING - LOITERING -
FORBIDDEN BY LAW" in legible letters not less than two inches
in height; provided, however, that any public waiting room,
dining room, office or other portion of such structure or
premises to which general public access is required in the
normal use and operation thereof, or where materials are
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delivered to or received by the public, shall not be so posted.
The "posted boundary" of any area shall be a line
running from sign to sign, and such line need not conform to the
legal boundary or legal description of any lot, parcel or
acreage of land.
Section 3: Posting - Where Permitted.The places which
may be so posted are the following:
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Every airport, and every plant, field and
structure used for the manufacture, assembling
or testing of aircraft;
(b)
Every plant, field or structure used for the
manufacturing of parts, machinery or equipment
used in the manufacturing, assembling or testing
of aircraft;
Every tank-farm, refinery, compressor-plant
or absorption plant, marine terminal, pipe line
pumping station and reservoir, used for the bulk
handling or bulk storage of petroleUM or
petroleum products;
Every reservoir, dam, pumping station, aqueduct,
main canal or pipe line, of a public water
system;
Every reservoir, dam, generating plant, receiving
station, distributing station and transmission
line of a company or agency furnishing electrical
energy;
Every gas generating plant, compressor plant,
gas holder, gas tank, and gas main used for the
production storage and distribution of gas;
Every plant or vital part thereof or other
principal property essential to rendering
telephone or telegraph service;
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Every radio broadcasting central plant or
station;
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Every railroad bridge;
Every plant, field and structure used for the
manufacturing, assembling or testing of any
guns, shells, or other equipment used by the
United States Army or Navy;
Every plant, field and structure used for the
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manufacturing, assembling or testing of any
equipment vital to the national defense of the
United States of America;
Every plant for the bulk storage of dynamite,
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gun powder, or other, explosives;
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Every plant for the bulk storage of guns,
shells, or other equipment of the United States
Army or Navy.
Section 4: Trespassing a Misdemeanor.
When any such
premises is posted as provided in this section, it shall be
unlawful for any person to go upon or to remain upon any place
within the posted boundary of any such premises, or to enter or
to remain in any such posted structure, without having upon his
person the express written consent of the person, firm, corpora-
tion, department or agency lawfully in possession or control
thereof.
Section 5: Loitering - a Misdemeanor. It shall be
unlawful for any person to loiter in the immediate vicinity of
any premises posted as provided in this section while having in
his possession any explosive, tool, or device, of whatever
character capable of doing harm or damage to any structure,
machinery, equipment or other property of a similar or dissimilar
character, installed or located upon such posted premises
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or area.
Section 6: Exemptions. This ordinance does not apply
to any entry in the course of duty of any peace officer, or any
officer of the State or Federal government, or any Firemen
regularly employed by the City of Vernon, nor to any person
traversing an established and existing public sidewalk, street
or highway.
Section 7: Damaging Signs. Every person who tears
down, defaces or destroys, or causes to be to~ down, defaced or
destroyed, any sign placed or posted under the provisions of this
ordinance without the consent of the person, firm, corporation,
governmental agency, department or instrumentality having
possession or control of the ~emises on which such sign has
been erected, is guilty of a miSdemeanor.
Section 8: Penalty Clause. Every person, as principal,
agent or otherwise, violating any of the proviSions of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not to
exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment in
the City jail in the City of Vernon, California, or in the
County jail of Los Angeles County, for a period of three (3)
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 9: If any provision of this ordinance, or
the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held
invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the application
of such provision to ather persons or circumstances shall not
be affected thereby.
Section 10: That, there being no newspaper printed,
published and circulated in the City of Vernon, the City Clerk
is hereby directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance
and shall post same, or cause to be posted, in three of the
most public places in said City, to-wit: the north~st corner~
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1 of 38th Street and Santa Fe Avenue; the northwest corner of
2 37th Street and Santa Fe Avenue; and on the bulletin board
3 in the lobby of the City Hall of the City of Vernon, located
4 at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, in said City; that this Ordinance
5 shall become effective on and after the date of such posting
6 as this is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of
7 public peace and safety, as it is necessary in the opinion of
8 the City Council to prevent persons from maliciously damaging
9 property; that it is necessary for the immediate national
10 defense, and it is urgently necessary that same go into effect
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12 Adopted and approved this 26th day of Aug
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I, T. J. FURLONG, City Clerk of the City of Vernon,
21 do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and
22 regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of
23 the City of Vernon held on the 20th day of August, 1940, and
24 thereafter finally adopted at an adjourned regular meeting held
25 on the 26th day of August, 1940, by the following vote:
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do hereby cer tify that I did on the
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I, T. J.. FURLONG, City Clerk of the City of Vernon,
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following places to-wit: At the northwest corner of 38th Street
and Santa Fe Avenue, at the northwest corner of 37th Str'eet and
-Santa Fe Avenue, and at the entrance to the City Hall, located
at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, there being no newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in the City of Vernon.
Signed this ~ day of 19~O
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