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3 0RDINANCE NOl "I_„_
4 AN ORDINANCE OF THF CITY OF RFAUMONT RELATING TO AIR
RAID PRECAUTIONS.
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT DOES ORDAIN
6 AS RALLOPS:
7 Section 1. As used in this ordinance the following
words and phrases shall mean:
8 "Air raid warning signal" shall mean a signal, by
siren, whistle, horn or other audible device, of two minutes
9 duration consisting of either a fluctuating or warbling
signal of varying pitch or a succession of intermittent blasts
10 of about five seconds duration separated by a silent period
of about three seconds.
11 "All clear signal" shall mean a continuous signal, by
siren, horn, or other audible device, of two minutes duration
12 at a steady pitch.
"Period of air raid alarms" shall mean the interval of time
13 .--between the giving of the air raid warning signal ana the giving
of the next succeeding all clear signal.
14 "Blackout structure" shall mean any space so enclosed
that any illfimination maintained or existing therein is not
15 visible from any point outside such enclosure.
16 Section 2. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized
and directed to cause the sounding of an air raid warning signal
17 and of an all clear signal when, and only when, the district in
w#ich the City is located is notified so to do by the Sheriff
18 of Riverside County, California, or U.S.Aircraft Warning Service.
19 Section 3. Any person who effects or maintains any
illumination, or permits any illumination under his oontrol
20 to be effected or maintained, at any place within the City
of Beaumont during any period of air raid alarm, except within
21 a blackout structure, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
22 Section 4. The maintenance or leaving of any illumination,
e xcept within a blaokout structure, without provision for
23 its extinguishment, within one minute after the commenoment of
a period of air raid alarm by a competent person over the age
24 of eighteen years attendant at the place where such illtmina-'
tion is controlled, is hereby prohibited.
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Section 5. In order to enable the Chief of Police to
26 conform to the request of the Sheriff of said County for the
obscuration, diminution or extinguishment of any illumination,
27 whether in or out of doors, which increases the vulnerability
of the City of Beaumont, or any portion thereof, to air
28 attack, or for the regulation of traffic during the period of
air raid alarm, the City Council may adopt and promulgate reaaona-
29 ble rules and regulations for such purposes, and any rules or
regulations so adopted by said City Council shall be and remain
30 in effect until rescinded ana cancelled by said City Council.
Violation of any such rule or regulation ion so adopted anti promul-
31 gated is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor.,
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Section 6. It shall be unlawfll to disobey any lawful
direction or order of a peace officer, highway patrolman, air
raid warden or fireman given curing a period of air raid alarm,
w4ich oraer is reasonably necessary for the maintenance of
public oraer or safety or to effect the extinguiehment or
obscuration of light.
Section 7. Any illtmination contrary to the provisions
of this ordinance, or to any rule or regulation adopted and
promulgaged in accordance with Section 5 hereof, constitutes
a public nuisance, and the same may be summarily abated by
any peace officer, highway patrolman, fireman, or air raid
warden. Any structure may be entered by any peace officer,
highway patrolman, fireman, or air raid warden, using reasonable
force if necessary for the purpose of abating such a nuisance
by extinguishing such illumination.
Section 8. At the commencement of a period of air
raid alarm, the operator of any motor vehicle shall forthwith
bring such vehicle as far as possible to the aide of the
street, road or highway off the main traveled portion thereof,
and the operator of such motor vehicle shall bring wahh motor
vehicle to a atop clear of any croeuing, intersection, fire
house, fire plug, hospital or other emergency depot or area,
and shall extinguish all lights therein or thereon, and said
motor vehicle shall remain so situated during the period of air
raid alarm, unless directed or ordered to move by a peace
officer, highway patrolman, or fireman.
Section 9. The provisions of this ordinance shall not
apply to blackout emergency vehicles, which shall include the
following:
(i) Ail Army and Navy vehicles;
(2) All vehiclewith United States Government
credentials indicating the neceeaity of emergency movement;
(3) All authorized emergency vehicles as defined in
Sections 44 and 44.1 of the Vehicle Code of California;
(4) Al]. vehicles of the California State Guard, being
operated by the California State Guard in the transportation
of troopspersonnel, euipment or material,
(5) All vehicles certified by sheriffs, district
attorneys, the California State Highway Patrol, Police Chiefs,
or Fire Chiefs, when within the respective territorial juris-
dictions of the certifying office, as being essential to the
preservation of the public peace and safety or to the dissem-
ination of public information or to the national defense;
IDROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such vehicles shall conform to the
uniform lighting regulations approved by the Department of
Motor Vehicles and the California State Hietway Patrol for
blackout emergency vehicles. No certificate ehall be issued
which conflicts with any regulation or order of the United.
StateArmy in the area for which the certificate is iasued.
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Section 10. It shall be unlawful for any person
without authority, during any air raid alarm, to use, wegr,
exhibit or possess any uniform, insignia, credential, or
other indication of authority, or any imitation thereof, adopted
and issued by any official civilian defense organization.
Section 11. Any person who shall operate a siren, whistae
or other audible device in such a manner as to simulate an
air raid warning signal or an all clear signal, except upon
order of the Chief of Police, or other proper authority, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 12. The provisions of every ordinance of this
City and every adminietrative order made pursuant thereto,
requiring any illirnination to be maintained in conflict with
this ordinance or with any rule or regulation made pursuant
to Section 5 of this ordinance, shall be deemed suspended during
the period between any air raid warning signal and the next
succeeding all clear signal; PROVIDED, HOWEVER that all
public utilities under the jurisdiction of the Railroad
Commission of the State of California may and shall maintain
such lights on trains and warning lights at street excavations
as may be approved by said Commission.
Section 13. Any person who shall violate any provision
of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding
three hundred dollars ($300.000O) or by imprisonment in the
City Jail or in the County Jail not exceeding three months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 14. Thin ordinance is required for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and the
following is the statement of facts oonatituing such urgency:
The United States is at war and this city is in great and
continuing danger of air and other attack by the enemy.
Section 15. If any provision of this ordinance or the
application thereof to any person or circumstances is held
invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or
applications of this ordinance which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or applicatio;, and to this end the
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 16. The City Clerk shall certify to the adop-
tion of this ordinance and cause it to be published once in
the Beaumont Gazette, a ne'Wspaper of general circulation
printea and published in this city and thenceforth and there-
after the same shall be in full force and effect.
Adopted the /y( day of January, 1942.
Attest:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE: ss
CITY OF BEAUMONT
I, Bernice Conine, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
No , was first read at a regular meeting of the City
Counc 1 duly held on the 7th day of January, 1942, and was
duly adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council duly
held on the 14 day of January, 1942, by a four-fifths vote,
to wit:
AYES: Councilmen DePeei,McLaughlin,Blaskowskt2 MaDariskCovert.
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
WITNESS my hand and seal the 15 , day of January, 19 42 .
(SEAL)
Gity Clerk aforesaid