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ORDINANCE NO. 273.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS ON SIDEWALKS, AND PROVIDING
PENALTY THEREFOR.
The City Council of the City cf Azusa do ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. Obstructions. It shall be unlawful
for any person firm or corporation to place or maintain,
authorize or permit to be placed or maintained upon any
sidewalk in the City of Azusa, except as hereinafter provid-
ed, boxes, goods, wares, merchandise, building material,
signs, billboards or any other article or thing tending to
obstruct the free use of such sidewalk, without special per-
mit first having been obtained therefor from the Street
Superintendent of said City. Provided, that this section
shall not apply to such obstruction as is the result of
the loading or unloading of merchandise or other articles
in the usual and ordinary course of business unless such
obstruction is permitted to remain upon such sidewalk for
a period of more than one hour.
SECTION 2. Definition. The term "sidewalk", as
in this ordinance used shall mean and include the portion of
a street between the curb -lines and the adjacent property
lines.
SECTION 3. Penalty. Any person, firm or cor-
poration violating any of the provisions of this ordinance,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction there-
of, shall be punished for a first offense by a fine not
exceeding Fifty Dollars (;;;50.00), or by imprisonment in the
city jail for not more than five (5) days; for a second.
and each additional offense within a period of one year from
the date of the first offense by a fine not exceeding One
Hundred Dollars 0100.00) or by imprisonment in the city jail
for not more than One Hundred Days or by both such fine and
imprisonment;
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to
the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published by one insertion in the The Azusa Journal, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in
the City of Azusa.
I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance
was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Azusa held on the day of January,
19288 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:,"
NOES:
ABSENT:
city Clerk of the City of Azusa.
Approved this /6/ day of January, 1928.
Idayor.