Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 9.46 Flood Control Facilities

No person, municipality, or district shall interfere with, destroy, or use in any manner whatsoever any levee, embankment, channel, dam, reservoir, rain, or stream gauges, 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 Council, which permit shall be revocable whenever in the opinion of the 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 so to do has also been obtained from the Board of Supervisors of the district.

(Prior code § 4612)

No person, municipality, or district shall place or cause to be placed in 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, 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 floodwaters would carry the same downstream to the damage and detriment of either private or public property adjacent to said river, stream, wash, arroyo, or channel.

(Prior code § 4612.1)