Article 1 — In General

• A. Required—Posting. It is unlawful for any person to establish, maintain, conduct or carry on any private institution, day nursery, boardinghouse, home or other place for the reception or care of one or more children, or any home for aged people or indigents, in the City without first having obtained from the City Council a permit to do so. Such permit shall at all times be kept in a conspicuous place in such home or institution; provided, that if such permit shall have been revoked by the City Council, it is unlawful for such place, home or institution to continue to operate until a new permit is obtained from the City Council.

• B. Contents—Issuance—Revocation. Every permit under subsection A above shall specify the name and residence of the person so undertaking the care of such children or aged people or indigents, the place where the same are kept and the number of children, aged people or indigents allowed to be received, boarded or kept therein. Such permit shall be revocable by the City Council in any case where the provisions of this section or the rules of the City Council in relation thereto are violated, or in any case where in the opinion of the City Council such institution, day nursery, boardinghouse, home or other place is being managed, conducted or maintained without regard for the health, comfort or morality of the inmates thereof or without due regard to proper sanitation or hygiene. Such permits shall not be issued unless it appears to the City Council that such institution, day nursery, boardinghouse, home or other place established or maintained or conducted for the reception and care of children or aged people or indigents conforms in arrangements, sanitation and equipment to provisions imposed by the City Council and the rules and regulations of the City Council pertaining thereto; provided, that this section shall not apply to the care or keeping by any person of children who are relatives, apprentices or wards of such person.

(Prior code §§ 11-1, 11-2)

• A. It is unlawful for any person owning, operating or managing any slaughterhouse, or any business, place or premises where any animal or animals is or are slaughtered, to slaughter any horse or any mule without first having made a permanent record in writing of each horse or mule so slaughtered. Such record shall be kept in a permanently bound book, which book shall be open to inspection of any peace officer during business hours or at any time such slaughterhouse, business, place or premises is open.

• B. Such record shall contain a description of each such horse or mule, including its sex, approximate size or weight, its color, any peculiar color marking thereon and a description of any brand or other distinguishing mark placed thereon, the name, address, general description and signature, as furnished by him or her, of the person selling or furnishing such horse or mule to, or leaving the same at or with, such slaughterhouse, business, place or premises, together with the date thereof. After such horse or mule shall have been slaughtered, the date of the slaughtering thereof shall be written into such record.

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City of Paramount, CA

PARAMOUNT CODE

§ 5.04.020

§ 5.04.020

• C. Such record of any such horse or mule slaughtered shall be preserved and kept for a period of not less than two years after the date of slaughtering thereof.

• (Prior code § 11-3)

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City of Paramount, CA § 5.04.030

BUSINESS LICENSES REGULATIONS

§ 5.04.040