Ordinance No. 811
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ORDINANCE NO. 8ll
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF' THE CITY OF VERNON, PROHIBIT-
ING THE BLOCKING OF' SID1:<:WALKS OR THE BLOCKING OF ENTRANCES, EXITS,
OR APPROACHES UPON ANY PUBLIC PLACE WITHIN THE CITY OF VERNON.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF' VERNON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: No person shall stand or sit in or upon
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7 or obstruct the free passage of pedestrians thereon, or to annoy
8 or molest such pedestrians, within the City of Vernon.
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SECTION 2: No person shall block, impede or obstruct
10 any public place or any entrance, exit or approach to any place
11 of business in or upon any public place in a manner calculated
12 or with the intent to prevent, delay, hinder or interfere with
13 the free passage thexealong or therewith of any person who is
14 entering, occupying, or leaving any place of business, or who is
15 performing any services or labor, or who is seeking or obtaining
16 employment, or who is purchasing, selling, using, delivering,
17 transporting or receiving any goods, wares, merchandise, services,
18 entertainment, accommodations or articles, or who is attempting
19 or seeking to do any of the foregoing, or to prevent, delay,
20 hinder or interfere with the free passage therealong or there-
21 through of any vehicle or conveyance operated by or in the custody
22 of any such other person or in which any such other person is
23 riding or attempting to ride, within the City of Vernon.
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SECTION 3: Should any section, subsection, clause, or
25 provision of this Ordinance for any reason be held to be invalid
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27 not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining
28 portions of this Ordinance; it being expressly declared that this
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30 phrase hereof would have been prepared, proposed, approved, and
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SECTION 4- Each violation of this Ordinance is hereby
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SECTION 5: All Ordinances or portions thereof in con-
5 flict herewith are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 6: Any person, firm, or corporation violating
7 any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
8 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an
9 amount not exceeding Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, or be
10 imprisoned in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, or
11 the City Jail of the City of Vernon, as the committing magistrate
12 may direct, for not more than six (6) months, or by both such
13 fine and imprisonment. Each day during any portion of which any
14 violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance is committed,
15 continued, or permitted makes such violation a separate offense.
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SECTION 7: There being no newspaper of general circu-
17 lation printed, published and circulated in the City of Vernon,
18 the City Clerk is hereby directed~to certify to the passage of
19 this Ordinance and shall post the same, or cause the same to be
20 posted, in three of the most public places in said City, to wit:
21 The northwest corner of 38th street and Santa Fe Avenue, the
22 northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific Boulevard, and
23 on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall of said City,
24 located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in the City of Vernon,
25 Los Angeles County, California.
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ADOPTED this
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F\. A. Ziemer ( ]. ty Clerk
By Lillian S. Lewicki - Deputy
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11 AYES: Councilmen: Anderson, Furlong, Mailliard, Ybarra
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I, F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No.
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May 5, 1970
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, and thereafter finally adopted at a regular meeting
May 19, 1970
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12 NOES: Councilmen: None
13 ABSENT: Councilmen: Malburg
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F. A. Ziemer, City Clerk
By Lillian S. Lewicki - Deputy
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AFFIDAVIT OF' POSTING
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Lillian S. Lewicki - Deputy
I, ~.-~.-~I~, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
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11 places, to wit: At the northwest corner of 38th Street and Santa
12 Fe Avenue, at the northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific
13 Boulevard, and on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall
14 of the City of Vernon, located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in
15 said City, there being no newspaper of general circulation printed
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Signed this 20th
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F. A. Ziemer, ity er
By Lillian S. Lewicki - Deputy
Subscribed and sworn to before me
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Los Angeles, State of California.
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4305 Santa Fe Ave., Vern~n. Calif. 90053