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ORDINANCE NO. 529
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA ADOPTING THE "LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUILDING
LAWS, 1956 EDITION" AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows :
SECTION 1. Subject to the changes and amendments herein-
after set forth in this ordinance, that certain code entitled "Los
i. Angeles County Building Laws, 1956 Edition", consisting of a published
compilation of rules, regulations and standards adopted by the County
of Los Angeles, an agency of the State of California, set forth therein
in three parts, to-wit, Building Code, Electrical Code and Plumbing
Code, three full printed copies of which, printed as a code in book
form, were by the City Council ordered filed and which have been
actually filed in the office of the City Clerk, and which as so on
file are hereby referred to and by this reference expressly incorpo-
' rated herein and made a part hereof as fully and for all intents and
purposes as though set forth herein at length, shall be and the same
is hereby adopted and established as the rules, regulations, standards,
provisions and conditions to be observed and followed in the construction,
L erection, enlargement, razing, alteration, repairing, removal, mainte-
r` nance, moving, use and height of buildings and structures, in the
installation, arrangement, alteration, repair, use and operation of
electric wiring, connections, fixtures and other electrical appliances,
and in the regulation of sanitary plumbing and drainage systems, house
sewers and private sewage disposal systems within the City of Azusa,
and the various parts of said code shall constitute the Building Code,
Electrical Code and Plumbing Code, respectively, of and for the City of
Azusa.
SECTION 2. Wherever in said Los Angeles County Building
Laws, reference is made to the unincorporated territory of the County
of Los Angeles, or similar phrases referring to said unincorporated
territory, these phrases shall be construed to refer to the incorpo-
Frated territory of the City of Azusa.
Whenever in said Los Angeles County Building Laws, reference
is made to the Division of Building and Safety or the Bureau of Public
Safety, the same shall be deemed and construed to refer to the Building
Department of the City of Azusa.
Whenever reference is made in said Los Angeles County
Building Laws to the County Engineer or to the Chief Electrical
Inspector or to the Chief Plumbing Inspector, the same shall be deemed
to refer to the person employed by or under contract with the City of
Azusa to act as the Building Inspector of the City or as the head of
the Building Department of the City.
SECTION 3. No person, firm or corporation shall violate
or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance or of
the Los Angeles County Building Laws adopted by reference herein.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance or of the code adopted hereby shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the City Jail
of the City of Azusa or in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles
for not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment .
r Each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a
separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during
which any such violation is committed, continued or permitted.
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SECTION 4. Ordinance No. 464 passed and approved the
4th day of May, 1953, Ordinance No. 466 passed and approved the 15th
day of June, 1953, and Ordinance No. 469 passed and approved the 20th
day of July, 1953, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance,
all fire zones or fire districts heretofore created by an ordinance
of said City of Azusa shall be continued as such fire zones or fire
districts and as described in any ordinance of said City of Azusa
creating and establishing the same.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 21st day of January �
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Mayor°'rEie City of Azusa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, JAMES MILLER, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 529 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 17th day of December , 1956. That,
thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 21st day of January , 499% by
the following vote, to-wit : 1957
AYES : Councilmen: Fawcett, Ortuno, Johnson, Romero, Memrnesheinor
NOES : Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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'" City Clerk of the City of Azusa
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I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof
in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation,
printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, on the 24th
day of January , 3and that the same was published in accordance
with law. 1957
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