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ORDINANCE N0. 709
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD ESTABLISH-
ING REGULATIONS FOR MAKING EXCAVI~TIONS AND
PERF~RMANCE 0i+ OTHER WORK IN PITBLIC STREETS
IN SAID CITY.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood d.oes ordain as
follows:
Seetion 1. Work in Street
Permits. A person shall not
commence any work or place any obstruction in or upon any public
street, including parkways and sidewalks, unless a special permit for
such work or the placing of such obstruction has been obtained from
the City Engineer.
Section 2, Filing Application. Any person d.esiring to do
such work or place such obstruction shall file an application therefor
with the City Engineer.
Section 3. Contents o£ Application. Such applieation shall
state:
(a) The name and address of the applicant.
(b) Evidence that the applicant has a lawful right to
perform the said work or place the obstruction in
or upon said. public street.
(c) That the applicant ind.emnifies and holds City of
Lynwood, and eaeh officer and employee thereof,
harmless from any liability or responsibility for
any accid.ent, loss or damage to persons or property
happening or occurring as the proximate result of
any work undertaken under or pursuant to said
application.
Section 4. Fees. (a) A non-returnable filing fee of $1.00
shall be charged, payable to the City Engineer, upon the filing of
each application, to cover clerical costs and investigations. The
Piling fee is over and above the costs of other street permits,
(b) In addition to tha above, fees established.by resolution
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of the City Council shall be charged.for street repairs, establishment
of lines and. grades for street improvements and inspection costs for
new conetruction or repairs of curbs, sidewalks, gutters, pavement,
driveways and sanitary sewers.
Such fees shall not apply to city contracts, 1911 Act
improvements or work undertaken by the various city departments.
Section 5. Data with Application. When required by the City
Engineer, a sketch or plan must be submitted with the application, and.
shall be approved by him prior to issuance of the permit.
Section 6. General Requirements. In all residential and
commercial areas, the owner, in taking out a permit for a new building,
must repair broken, damaged and worn out sidewalks and curbs abutting
his property and where no curbs abut his said property, construct the
same, all at his own expense. The Building Inspector is inetructed. to
withhold final inspection of the building until such work is completed
to the satisfaction of the City Engineer,
In all commercial areas the owner is required to construct
concrete sid.ewalks in the parking strip or setback areas between the
curb and building line prior to final building inspection. If this
work is in but in a poor or hazardous condition, in the opinion of
the City Engineer, or not constructed to proper grade, such work will
be removed and replaced by and. at the expense of the owner prior to
such final inspection of the building.
Where an existing driveway is no longer required the owner
shall remove such driveway and restore the original improvements.
Section 7, Specifications, Construction oP curbs, sid.ewalks,
gutters, pavement, driveways and sanitary ser~rers, or repair to same,
shall be in accordance with the Stand.ard Specifications of the State
of California, Division of Highways, January, i96o, together with all
amendments and revisions thereto, on £ile in the office of the City
Engineer o£ said city, whieh is by reference mad.e a part o£ this
ordinance.
Driveways shall be constructed. in accord.ance with standard
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plans £or driveways on file in the office of the City Engineer.
Resid.ential drivewaya shall have a minimum thicknese of
four (4) inches.
Commercial driveways shall have a minimum thickness of six
(6) inches.
Curbs shall be constructed in aceordance with grades estab-
lished by the City Engineer. Sidewalks shall be construeted at a rise
of one-fourth (1/4) inch per foot from top of curb to property line.
Section 8. Barricades and Lights. Suitable barricadea,
satiafactory to the City Engineer, to protect the work from pedestrians
or uehicles, shall be kept in place throughout the entire construction
period or until such time as the work has been accepted by the City
Engineer.
No person placing or maintaining ax~y obstruction or making
any excavation in any street shall fail or neglect to provide, during
the period. between sunset of any day and. sunrise of the succeed.ing d.ay,
suitable and. adequate lights to warn ueers of such street~ of any such
obstructione or excavations,
Section 9. Removal of Trees. Permit, A person shall not
plant a tree in or upon any parkway or remove any tree there£rom unless
a permit to plant said tree or to remove said existing tree has been
obtained from the Park Superintendent.
Section 10. Contents of Application. Such application shall
state:
(a) The name and address of the applicant.
(b) Evidence that the applicant:
(1) is the owner of the premises involved, or
(2) has the permission of the owner to make such
application.
Section 11. Appeal. (a) Within thirty (30) days after the
re~ection o£ an application for a special permit, the applicant may
file a written appeal with the City Clerk, stating in detail the reasons
why the special permit should be granted, notwithstanding the action of
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the City Engineer or the Park Superintendent, as the case may be.
(b) Within twenty-£our (24) hours of the receipt of the
written appeal, provided for by Section 11 (a) hereof, the City Clerk
shall advise the City Engineer or the Park Superintendent, as the case
may be, of said appeal, and within the same period shall fix a date
and time for the hearing of the appeal by the City Council and noti£y
the applieant, and the City Engineer or the Park Superintendent, as
the case may be, thereof by registered or certified mail, which date
must not be more than ten (10) d.ays from the date the appeal is filed.
with the City Clerk,
(c) Upon receipt of notice that an appeal has been filed.,
the City Engineer, or the Park Superintendent, as the case may be,
must furnish the City Council forthwith a written report of the reasons
for the rejection of the application and. the refusal to issue the
special permit.
(d) The City Council must deny the appeal and afPirm the
decision of the City Engineer or the Park Superintendent, as the case
may be, i£ it finds the applicant has failed to comply with any of the
provisions of this ord.inance, or of the laws of the United States or
the State of California.
(e) The decision of the City Council shall be £inal.
Section 12. Validity. I£ any provisions o£ this ordinance
or the application thereof to any person or eircumstance is held.
invalid, the remainder of the ordinance, and the application of such
provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be aP£ected
thereby.
Section 13. Penalties, Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the city ~ail
or in the county ~ail for not exceeding six months, or by a£ine of not
to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and.
imprisonment.
Section 14. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
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of this ordinance and. shall cause the same to be published once in the
Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation printed and circu-
lated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said
City held on the 20th day of September, 1960, and finally adopted and
ordered published. at a regular meeting of said Council held on the
4th day of October, 1960, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Duncan, English, Finch, Pender,
Noes: Councilmen
Absent: Councilmen
Rowe.
None.
None.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES: ss.
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the
City of Lynwood, and ex-of£icio clerk o£ the Council
of said City, do hereby certify that the above is
a true and. correct copy of ordinance No. 709
adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood.
and that same was passed on the date and by the vote
therein stated.
Dated this 5th day of October , i96o .
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