HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0121ORDINANCE NO. M
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SALE AND USE
OF FIREWORKS AND OTHER EXPLOSIVES IN THE
CITY OF LYNWOOD.
WHEREAS, the unregulated sale and use
other explosives in the Aity of Lynwood is
dangerous to both person and property in t'
NOW; THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees
C C o f the City of Lynwood, does
to-wit:
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ordain as follows.
Seo-" 1. There is hereby established in and for the
City of Lynwood the following rules and regulations relative
to the sale and use of fireworks and other explosives in said
City as follows:
1. SALE OF FIREWORKS.
( sale of fireworks shall be restricted to
duly established places of business, doing business on
a regular City License, or Patriotic Bodies and not
subleased to outside parties for the purpose of selling
fireworks.
(b) All such regular established places of
business selling fireworks shall be housed in a Class
"C" building or better. All gasoline service stations,
public garages, paint stores are hereby prohibited for
sale O-F fireworks. All hay and grain stores Or
other places of business listed as "hazardous business
by the .National Board of Underwriters, are hereby 'pro-
hibited for the sale of fireworks, unless they carry
insurance to cover the property or adjacent property.
2. DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS.
Fjrework_s be displayed in such regularly
established places of business in a manner in which
they will not become ignited through carelessness or
w illful maliciousness.
3. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
All such places of business selling fireworks
shall take such ordinary precautions to pre fire
as keeping counters and aisles clear of all paper and
combustible material. They shall store all fireworks
or other explosive or combustible stock or material
in segregated rooms or structures, and keep in good
order at least one (1) 22 ga. soda and acid type fire
extinguisher in a place adjacent to and easily
accessible to the fireworks display.
4. SIDEWALK AND OTHER STANDS PROHIBITED : EXCEPT
SJ:d ewe lk'and other stan&F used for the display
or sale of fireworks are hereby prohibited; except
stands operated and maintained by recognized patriotic
bodies of the City of Lynwood designated by the City
Council.
5. LOCATION OF STANDS.
All s7ich s an s shall be located in a place
least likely to catch fire to surrounding property
in case of fire, and no stand shall be nearer than
one hundred (100) feet to any oil or gas station.
Locations to be approved by the Board of Fire Com-
missioners and the Fire Chief.
6. IRE.,CAUTICNARY MEASURSS.
(aF A_ll isp1a_ys - and stocks of fireworks shall
be displayed or stored in such manner as to be difficult
of access to the general public.
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(b) Each stand shall be equipped with at
"'Least One (1) 2-1 gal soda and acid type firs sx
tinguisher i go od condition and easily accessible
to the fireworks display for each fifteen feet of
cou nter space or fraction thereof.
(c) It shall be prohibited to light or
cause to be lighted or permit to be lighted any
firecracker or other combustible article within
any such stand. or within ten (10) feet thereof.
7. LICEASE FEES.
Ali sue h permits granted by the City Council
to recognized patriotic bodies in the Oity of Lyn-
wood shall pay to the City License Collector as a
license fee the sum of $6.00 for such privilege.
B. TIME LIMIT FOR THE SALE OF FIREWORKS.
All pideps o f b us i ness or ii ensed patriotic
bodies in the City of Lynwood for the display or
sale at retail, of fireworks, are limited to at least
five days previous toand one day after the fourth of
July, of each year, and no fireworks or other similar
explosives shall be allowed sold, exploded or used in
said City on or during any days of the year other than
those indicated in this Section, subdivision 8 thereof.
from the days mentioned sun, day is excluded f above; and
no sale of fireworks or other explosives shall be had in
any building vi*fiere any person resides.
Section 2. Any violation of this Ordinance shall be a mis-
d.emeanor punishable by a fine of not exceeding three hundred
dollars ( U - 00.00) or by-imprisonment in the County jail of Los
Angeles county or in the City Jail of the City of Lynwood for a
term of not exceeding ninety (90) days. A judgment imposing a
fine may prov f its
collection by imprisonment in either
of said jails in the proportion of one day for each dollar of
the fine until the fine be wholly satisfied.
Section 3. This shall take effect immediately upon its
final passage.
Section 4. The reason why this Ordinance is made to take
effect as in Section 3 khreof is because of the great danger to
property in the City of Lynwood from the use of fireworks and
such other explosives in Lynwood at this, the dry season of the
year, just prior to the 4th of July, and this condition requires
rules and U regulations as provided in the said Ordinance an the
subject, to go into effect without delay so as to reduce such
danger at once.
Therefore an emergency is hereby declared and this Ordinance
is taken out of the operation of the Referendum.
Section 5. The Clark of the City of Lynwood it direct*& to
cause this Ordinance, after its fi passage and appro4a.1 to
be published for one time in the Lynwood Tribune, which newspaper
is hereby designated for that purpose.
H. M. Murray
yor of the City Of -Uyhwood.
ATTEST:
W. 7 iV._ Chapman - -
City Clerk, -- rity of _Iqnwood.
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W. Chapman Cit Clark Of the
.icio Clerk of tie BOard of dou�byCy tes" Of LYAWOOd and
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00'a"c) of t he City of Lynwood (now known as the City
and fo regoing Ordinance, being , ere certify that the above
Lynwood Ordinance 10. 121 of the
, w as introduced a-ad read three time and Passed at a of
aity
regular meeting Of said B
June. 1 929, by the oar or Council held on the lith d of
followin Vote Of the members thereof:
AYES: Councilmen Tweedy, Skelton d
NOES: None. , Anderson, Lewis and Murray.
A33EITT: None.
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