Los Angeles Municipal Code Art. 8 General Provisions

No clause or condition of any kind shall be inserted in any advertisement of any franchise, permit or privilege offered for sale under the terms of this chapter which shall directly or indirectly restrict free and open competition in bidding therefor.

SECTION HISTORY

Based on Ord. No. 58,200.

The Grantee of a franchise, permit or privilege shall, within five (5) days after the awarding of such franchise, permit or privilege, file with the City Clerk a bond running to the City in the penal sum fixed by the City Council in the advertisement for bids or established as a condition of the franchise approval. Within thirty (30) days after the filing and approval of such bond, the franchise, permit or privilege shall be granted by ordinance, subject to the referendary provision of the Charter, to the person, firm or corporation to whom it was awarded; and in case this bond shall not be filed the award of such franchise, permit or privilege shall be set aside and shall, in the discretion of the City Council, be re-advertised and again offered for sale in the same manner and under the same restrictions provided in this Chapter, and the amount deposited by the Grantee with the Grantee’s bid shall be forfeited to the City as liquidated damages.

SECTION HISTORY

Based on Ord. No. 58,200. Amended by: Ord. No. 176,006, Eff. 7-12-04.

Permits may be granted by the Council by ordinance, for the construction and maintenance of spur tracks or side tracks and the running of cars thereon for the purpose of connecting warehouses, manufactories or other business industries and enterprises with any line of railroad or railway within the City, upon such terms and subject to such regulations and conditions as may be prescribed from time to time by ordinance, such tracks to be used for the transportation of freight only, and not to be used for the purpose of excavating or filling in a street or portion of a street or the adjoining land, and for such limited time as may be necessary for such purpose and no longer. Such tracks must be laid and operated in such manner and under such restrictions as not to unreasonably interfere with the use of a street by the public.

(1) No such permit shall be revoked until after a hearing before the Board of Transportation Commissioners and its
recommendation approved by a majority vote of the City Council. The City Council need not advertise for sale any permit granted
under the conditions of this section.

(2) Provided, that each such application shall first be referred to the Board of Transportation Commissioners for its
recommendations, and proceedings taken as to such reference in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(3) Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed as preventing the granting of a franchise for any of the purposes mentioned
above where application is made therefor in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.

SECTION HISTORY

Based on Ord. No. 58,200.
Amended by: Ord. No. 151,832, Eff. 2-10-79, Oper. 2-25-79; Ord. No. 176,006, Eff. 7-12-04.