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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 0635:~ ~ 3 J` ORDINANCE N0. 635 ~~ AN ORDINANCE REGULATING BURNING AND BURNING OF TRASH AND REPEALING ORDINANCE N0. 471 AND SECTION 34-A OF ORDINANCE N0. 305 OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD. The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain as follows: Section l: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, after the effective date of this ordinance, to burn any combustible waste material except between the hours of 4:00 o-'clock p.m, and 8:00 o~clock p.m. of any calendar day except that: On any calendar day for which the Air Pollution Control Officer of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District has forecast that there will be favorable burning weather and has so notified the Fire Chief of the Lynwood Fire Department, a person may also burn combustible rubbish at any time during such calendar day in a Class I Incinerator, and. between 6:00 o~clock a.m. and 10:00 ~1V~-C o-clock a.m.,of such day in a Class II Incinerator. As used in this section the term "favorable burning weather" means the weather on a calendar day other than a calendar day during which the Air Pollution Control Officer of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District has forecast that: (a) The inversion bas e, at 7:00 o~clock a.m. Pacific Standard Time will be lower than 1500 feet, and. (b) Such inversion will not break or the maximum mixing height will not raise 3500 feet, and (c) The average surface wind speeds between 6:00 o'clock a.m, and noon, Pacific Standard. Time, will not exceed five miles per hour. Notwithstanding any of, the provisions of this section, combustible waste material may be burned in a multiple chamber incinerator at any time. A Class I Incinerator may operate at any time if it is used in connection with an industry which has -1- presented sufficient proof of need and which the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Lynwood. has approved for continual use of Class I Incinerators to be essential to the operation of such industry. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section, no person shall burn any combustible waste material in an open outdoor fire, except upon first having received a permit from the Chief permitting said open or outdoor fire, on conditions specified by the Chief. Section 2: "Incinerator Class I" shall mean a.ny incinerator which is: ' (a) Within or a part of a building, or is constructed. under permit and in accordance with the requirements of the Uniform Building Code, or (b) Any separate incinerator that; 1. Has a firebox volume of 27 cubic feet or more, or 2. Exceeds six feet in height exclusive of the chimney, or 3• Has a concrete or unit masonry chimney more than six feet high or a reinforced concrete chimney more than 12 feet high. "Multiple Chamber Incinerator" shall mean any article, machine, equipment, contrivance, structure, or part of a structure, used to dispose of combustible refuse by burning, consisting of three or more refractory lined combustion furnaces in series, physically separated by refractory walls, interconnected by gas passage ports or ducts and employing adequate design parameters necessary for maximum combustion of the material to be burned. The refractories shall have a Pyrometric Cone Equivalent of at least 17, tested according to the method. described in the American Society for Testing Materials, Method C-24. All other incinerators are hereby defined. as Class II Incinerators. -2- Section 3: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to: (a) Use, construct„ or maintain any type incinerator in violation of this ordinance or any rules, regulations, or specifications from time to time adopted. by the Fire Chief of the City of Lynwood. (b) Locate any approved Class II type incinerator within 10 feet of any residence; locate any approved Class II type incinerator within 20 feet of any window or opening within a residence unless said incinerator shall have a sufficient 20 gauge galvanized iron or steel stack carried above the roof line of adjacent residence, properly braced • and guyed to insure its permanent placement and equipped with approved. type spark arrestor at top; locate any approved Class II incinerator within 4 feet of any fence, accessory building or other structure or hedge; and pro- vided.further that no incinerator shall be placed closer than one (1) foot of any commercial building of Type 1, 2, or 3 construction (brick or masonry) or closer than four (4) feet from any commercial building of Type 5 construction or closer than twenty-five (25)-feet from any automobile filling station building or filling station dispensing apparatus or other inflammable storage. Section 4: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm; or corporation to burn any combustible rubbish in Fire Zone No. 1 of the City of Lynwood except in an approved Class I type incinerator. Section 5: Ordinance No. 471 and Section 34-A of Ordinance No. 305 of the City of Lynwood are hereby repealed. Section 6: .This ordinance is intended to govern and. regulate open burning and burning in incinerators and shall not be construed to apply to other incidental type burning such as in gas appliances in homes, barbecue pits, interior fireplaces, in residences, and. industrial uses such as furnaces, et cetera. -3- 4 Section 7: The Fire Chief of the City of Lynwood is hereby empowered to grant necessary permits for authorized burning pursuant to this ordinance and is likewise empowered to grant exceptions from the terms and provisions of this ordinance in cases where the operation of this ordinance as to existing conditions or future conditions would cause undue hardship or be unreasonable; the FireChief may impose conditions in the granting of any such exception. Section 8: Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Lynwood or the County Jail of Los Angeles County, State of California, for a period of time not to exceed.~six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person,firm, or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day during any portion of which violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed; continued, or permitted by such person, firm, or corporation, and. shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance. Section 9: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper published, printed., and. cir- culated in the City of Lynwood, California, and which said. newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose. First read at a regular meeting of said Council held on the .~ Ayes: Councilmen Noes: Councilmen Bruner, McMeekin, Pearson, Pender, Willard. None. 1st day of November, 1955 and finally adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting .of said Council held on the 15th day of November, 1955, by the following vote: STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESa ss~ CTTY OF LYNWOOD ~ I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk. of the Council of sa5.d City, do hereby certify that the above is a, true and carreet copy of Ordinanoe No. 635 adopted by the City Counci'1 of the City of Lynwood and_ that same was passed on the date and. by the vote therein stated, Dated this 17th daly of November I~~~ I _~ e ~~~_ _ CITY CLERK OF THE ITY~O LYNWOOD