Lynwood Municipal Code Art. 1 General Regulations

As used in this chapter:

Amusement park shall mean any collection of the following:

• a. Ferris wheels.

• b. Merry-go-rounds.

• c. Miniature trains.

• d. Ponies.

• e. Small autos.

• f. Small boats or any other animal or mechanical rides and similar concessions and apparatus intended for amusement purposes.

Carnival, circus, rodeo or itinerant show shall mean a collection of any shows, acrobatic feats, vaudeville performances, exhibitions, contests, events, feats of strength, merchandise booths, games of skill or chance, amusement rides or other rides or devices of similar nature.

Contractor shall be synonymous with the term builder and shall mean any person who undertakes or offers to undertake or purports to have the capacity to undertake or submits a bid to or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith.

Electrical contractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special electrical skill.

Established business shall mean any occupation, trade, profession, calling or any other commercial enterprise in the City regularly kept open with someone in charge for the transaction of the particular business engaged in during the customary hours to transact such business.

General building contractor shall mean a person who has an agreement, written or verbal, expressed or implied, with the owner, his agent, lessee or licensee for the construction, alteration, wrecking, moving or demolishing of any of the structures or improvements described in the definition of “contractor” as set forth in this subsection as a whole; or one who is to superintend the work, and wherein there is required the use of two (2) or more unrelated trades or crafts.

Peddler shall mean any person, other than a sidewalk vendor operating with a valid permit issued in accordance with section 13-7 (sidewalk vending), who goes from house to house, place to place, or in or along the streets within the city selling or making immediate delivery, or offering for sale and immediate delivery any goods, wares or merchandise or anything of value, in possession of the peddler, or offering to perform personal services to persons other than manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers or retailers in such commodities.

Plumbing contractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special plumbing skill.

Solicitor shall mean every person not having a fixed place of business within the City who engages in the business of going from house to house, place to place, or along the streets in the City and who by appointment, invitation, visitation or other means sells or offers to sell or takes orders for goods, wares, merchandise or other things of value for future delivery, or for services to be performed in the future.

Special contractor or subcontractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts as specifically classified by the State Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, with the exception of general building, electrical, and plumbing contractors.

(Code 1972 §17-1; Ord. #1622-A, §3)

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TRANSFER OF CITY TAX FUNCTIONS TO THE COUNTY.

The Council hereby elects to avail itself of the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State entitled, “An Act to Provide for the Levy and Collection of Taxes by and for the Use of Municipal Corporations and Cities Incorporated under the Laws of the State of California, except Municipal Corporations of the First Class, and to Provide for the Consolidation and Abolition of Certain Municipal Offices, and to Provide that Their Duties may be Performed by Certain Officers of the County, and Fixing the Compensation to be Allowed for Such County Officers for the Services so Rendered to Such Municipal Corporations,” approved March 27, 1895, and amendments thereto; and hereafter all assessments shall be made, and taxes collected, by the County Assessor and County Tax Collector of the County for the City until the City shall, by ordinance, elect not to avail itself of the provisions of this act for any longer time. (Code 1972 §30-1)

State law reference: Authority to transfer taxing functions to the County, Gov. Code, §51500 et seq.

7-1 DEFINITIONS.

As used in this chapter:

Holidays shall mean January 1; the third Monday in January; February 12; the third Monday in February; the last Monday in May; July 4; the first Monday in September; September 9; the second Monday in October; November 11; December 25 and Thanksgiving Day. If any holiday falls upon a Sunday, the Monday following shall be that holiday.

Official time standard shall mean, whenever certain hours are named herein, standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in this City.

Parkway shall mean that portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk.

Passenger loading zone shall mean the space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.

Police officer shall mean every officer of the Police Department of the City, or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.

State law definitions. Whenever any words or phrases used in this chapter are not defined in this section, but are defined in the Vehicle Code, such definitions are incorporated herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein as though fully set forth.

Stop or stand, when prohibited, shall mean any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic-control device. (Code 1972 §19-1; New)

State law reference: Words and phrases defined, Vehicle Code, §100 et seq.

8-1 GENERAL PROVISIONS: