Ordinance No. 819
.1 ORDINANCE NO. 819
2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF VERNON REGULATING THE LOCATION, USE,
OCCUPANCY, AND MAINTENANCE OF' COMMERCIAL COACHES LOCATED WITHIN
3 THE CITY OF VERNON, FOR A TEMPORARY PERIOD OF ONE YEAR.
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ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1.01: Purpose. The purpose of this Ordinance is to
6 provide minimum standards for the temporary use and occupancy of
7 commercial coaches within the City so as to promote the public
8 health, safety and general welfare.
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SECTION 1.02; Scope. The provisions of this Ordinance
10 shall apply to all commercial coaches located within the City of
11 Vernon, except when being moved from one location to another, or
12 when located on a public way. This Ordinance shall not apply to a
13 commercial coach used as an office or shed at the site of a
14 construction project while said project is under construction.
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SECTION l.03; Rules and Regulations. The City Council may
16 promulgate rules and regulations to make specific the purpose of
17 this Ordinance.
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SECTION 1.04: Maintenance. Commercial coaches shall be
19 maintained in a safe and sanitary condition. All devices or
20 safeguards which are required by this Ordinance or by rules and
21 regulations adopted pursuant to Section l.03 shall be maintained
22 in proper working order.
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SECTION 1.05: Alternate Materials, Systems or Devices.
24 The use of alternate materials, systems or devices, and inter-
25 pretations, variances or exceptions to this Ordinance and
26 regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall be in accordance with
27 Sections l06 and 204 of the Uniform Building Code as adopted by
28 Ordinance of the City of Vernon.
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ARTICLE 2. DEFINITIONS
SECTION 2.01; Commercial Coach. Commercial coach is a
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32 human occupancy for industrial, professional or commercial purposes
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.1 and shall include a trailer coach. Whenever the word t'coach" is
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ARTICLE 3. PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS
SECTION 3.01: Permits Required. No person, firm or
corporation shall use or occupy a commercial coach in the City
or cause the same to be done without first having obtained a
separate permit for the use of each coach from the Superintendent
of Building. In addition thereto, separate electrical and
plumbing permits shall be required for each commercial coach when
the coach will be connected to electrical power, and/or to a
plumbing system.
SECTION 3.02: Application. To obtain a permit to use or
13 occupy a commercial coach the applicant shall first file an
14 application therefor in writing on a form furnished for that
15 purpose, and pay the requisite inspection fee. The application
16 shall be accompanied by a plot plan showing the proposed location
17 of the coach and of the existing buildings on the property.
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SECTION 3.03: Issuance. The application and plot plan
19 shall be checked by the Superintendent of Building, and he shall
20 also cause the property and the coach to be inspected for compli-
21 ance with this Ordinance and any other laws and regulations
22 applicable. The Superintendent of Building shall refer the
23 application and plot plan to the Chief of the Fire Department and
24 Director of Environmental Health for their review and check
25 for compliance with the laws and regulations under their juris-
26 diction. The application and plot plan may be reviewed by other
27 departments of the City.
28 When the Superintendent of Building is satisfied that the
29 proposed use and occupancy of the commercial coach will conform
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31 and regulations, and that the requisite fees have been paid, he
32 shall issue a temporary use permit therefor which shall be in
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.1 force and effect for one year from the date of issue.
2 SECTION 3.04: Expiration. Every temporary use permit
3 issued under the provisions of this Ordinance shall expire one
4 year from the date of issue and the use and occupancy of the
5 coach shall be discontinued.
6 SECTION 3.05: Fees. The City Council shall establish by
7 resolution the fees to be charged for inspections and permit
8 processing in order to pay the costs of work related to adminis-
9 tration and enforcement of this Ordinance.
10 ARTICLE 4. REGULATIONS
11 SECTION 4.01: Location on Property. Every commercial
12 coach shall be located on the property so as not to materially
13 increase the fire hazard to existing buildings, and shall be
14 separated from existing hazardous uses and facilities as required
15 by the regulations of the Vernon Fire Department.
16 SECTION 4.02: Exits. Exits shall be provided as specified
17 in Chapter 33 of the Uniform Building Code as adopted by Ordinance
18 of the City of Vernon.
19 SECTION 4.03: Sanitation.
20 (a) The space directly beneath the coach shall be
21 kept clean and free from refuse, rubbish and other similar debris,
22 and shall not be used for storage purposes. If the space beneath
23 the coach is enclosed, the enclosure shall be openable for
24 inspection and shall provide for adequate cross ventilation of
25 the space.
26 (b) The disposal of sewage, human excrement or other
27 liquid wastes shall be by means of an approved drainage system.
28 SECTION 4.04: Every commercial coach shall be structurally
29 adequate for its intended use in accordance with generally accepted
30 and well established principles of structural engineering, and shall
31 provide protection for its occupants against the elements.
32 SECTION 4.05: Plumbing, mechanical and electrical require-
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.1 ments. Plumbing, mechanical and electrical installations shall be
2 reasonably consistent with generally accepted and well established
3 principles for their installation. Compliance with the Electrical
4 Ordinance of the City of Vernon, the Uniform Plumbing Code as
5 adopted by Ordinance of the City of Vernon, and the Uniform
6 Mechanical Code as adopted by Ordinance of the City of Vernon
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ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 5.0l: Validity. Should any section subsection,
10 clause or provision of this Ordinance for any reason be held to be
11 I invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
12 1 shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remain-
13 ing portions of this Ordinance; it is hereby expressly declared
14 that this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause
15 jand phrase hereof would have been prepared, proposed, approved,
16 land adopted irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections,
17 subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
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SECTION 5.02= Public Nuisance. Every violation of this
20 Ordinance is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
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SECTION 5.03= Violations. Any person, firm, or corporation
'Z2 violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed
23 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
24 fined in an amount not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00),
25 or be imprisoned in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles,
26 or the City Jail of the City of Vernon, as the committing magis-
27 trate may direct, for not more than ninety (90) days, or by both
28 such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Each
29 day such violation is committed or permitted to continue, shall
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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 the same, or cause the same to be posted,
in three of the most public places in the City of Vernon, to wit:
The northwest corner of 38th street and Santa Fe Avenue; the
northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific Boulevard; and
on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall of said City,
located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in the City of Vernon, County
of Los Angeles, california; that this Ordinance shall be in full
force and effect thirty (30) days from and after the final passage
of the same.
ADOPTED and APPROVED this 20th day of
October
, 1970.
ATTEST:
F~itY
Clerk
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1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
2 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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4 I, F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
5 hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No.
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819
, was duly and regularly introduced at a regular meeting
7 of the City Council of the City of Vernon, held on October 6,
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1970
, and thereafter finally adopted at a regular meeting
9 of said City Council held on
10 following vote:
11 AYES: Councilmen: Anderson, Furlong, Mailliard, Ybarra
October 20, 1970
, by the
12 NOES: Councilmen: None
13 ABSENT: Councilmen: Malburg
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
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I, F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do
8 hereby certify that I did, on the
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day of October
21st
Ordinance No. 819
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, one in each of the following
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
16 and published in the City of Vernon.
Signed this 21st
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October
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F. A. Ziemer, City Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this ~/~/7 day of ,>)'>;tl1 , 19 70 .
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