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ORDINANCE No. 281
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA, PROHIBITING THE DESTRUCTION OR USE OF ANY FLOOD
CONTROL LEVEES, EMBANKMENTS, CHANNELS, DAPS, RESERVOIRS
OR ANY OTHER PROPERTY OL7NED OR USED FOR FLOOD CONTROL
PURPOSES BY ANY PUBLIC AGENCY WITHOUT A PERMIT THEREFOR
AND PROHIBITING THE DUMPING OF ANY RUB'3ISH OR PLACING OF
ANY OBSTRUCTION IN THE STR�.AEI BED OF ANY RIVER, STREAM,
WASH, ARROYO OR FLOOD CONTROL CHANNEL IN THE CITY OF AZUSA.
The City Council of the City of Azusa do ordain
as follows:
Section 1: It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, corporation, municipality or district to interfere
with., destroy or use in any manner whatsoever any levee,
embankment, channel, dam, reservoir, rain or stream gages,
telephone line, piling, fence or other stream protection
work constructed by or on behalf of any public agency
without a written permit therefor from the City Council
of the City of Azusa, which permit shall be revocable
w�,enever in the opinion of said City Council the public
interest and welfare require the revocation thereof. No
permit to use any flood control protection work or rights
of way owned or constructed by the Los Angeles County
Flood Control District shall be effective unless written
permit to so do has also been obtained from the Board of
Supervisors of said District.
Section 2: It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, corporation, municipalityor district to place or
cause to be placed ;.n the channel or bed of any river, stream,
wash or arroyo or upon any property over which the Los
Angeles County Flood Control District has an easement for
flood control purposes duly recorded in the office of the
county recorder of Los Angeles County, any wires, fence,
building or other structure, or any refuse, rubbish, tin
cans, or other matter that may impede, retard or change
the direction of the flow of water in such river, stream,
wash or arroyo, or that will catch or collect debris carried
by such water, or that is placed where the natural flow
of the storm and flood waters would carry the same down-
stream to the damage and detriment of either private or
public property adjacent to said river, stream, wash,
arroyo or channel.
Section 3: Any person, firm, corroration,
municipality or district or any officer or agent of any
firm, corporation, municipality or District violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor,' and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment in the
city jail for a term not exceeding sixty 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 pub-
lished in one regular issue of the Azusa Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, established, printed and
published in the City of Azusa.
I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
duly passed by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a
regia.lar adjourned meeting held May 13, 1929, by the following
vote of the Council:
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AYE S: Councilmen: Johnson, I4iace, Muehe, Meier.
NAPES: None.
ABSENT: Councilman Demmitt.
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CITY CT i�FK of the
APPROVED THIS DAY OF_�,
MAYOR of the CITY OF AZUSA.
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