San Fernando Municipal Code Art. I In General

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1537, § 12, adopted Oct. 21, 2002, repealed § 74-1 which pertained to violations and derived from Code 1957, § 23.123.

It shall be unlawful to ride or drive or to cause to be ridden or driven any animal or to ride, drive or propel or to cause to be ridden, driven or propelled any vehicle or to walk or go upon or across any portion of any public street or sidewalk where street work is in progress and where there is a barrier or barricade to prevent traveling upon such portion of such public street or sidewalk or at or near which there is a sign stating that the street is closed or where red lights are maintained to indicate that such street is closed.

(Code 1957, § 23.4)

It shall be unlawful to ride or drive or to cause to be ridden or driven any animal or to ride, drive or propel or to cause to be ridden, driven or propelled any vehicle or to walk or go upon, over or across any newly made pavement or newly made sidewalk or newly made concrete or cement work in any public street, alley or place where there is a barrier or barricade to prevent traveling upon such portion of such public street or pavement or upon such sidewalk or upon such concrete or cement work or at or near which there is a sign stating that such street is closed or where red lights are maintained to indicate that such street is closed.

(Code 1957, § 23.5)

It shall be unlawful to injure, destroy or remove any such barriers, barricades or red lights as are mentioned in sections 74-2 and 74-3, except under orders of the persons having such street work in charge.

(Code 1957, § 23.6)

It shall be unlawful to deposit or to cause or permit to be deposited or to throw or place in or upon any public street or other public place in the city any filthy water; any sweepings from any store or house; any dead animal or part thereof; any offal, manure, or rubbish; or any decaying or putrid matter or substance of any kind.

(Code 1957, § 23.7)

It shall be unlawful to pour, spill or permit to drop or to cause or permit to be deposited, placed or discharged upon any asphalt or bituminous pavement laid upon any public street, alley or place in the city any gasoline, distillate, petroleum, oil, naphtha, or any petroleum products of any kind or any other injurious substances likely to injure or cause the disintegration of any such asphalt or bituminous pavement.

(Code 1957, § 23.8)

It shall be unlawful for any person while removing or hauling dirt, crushed rock, sand, gravel or other similar substances or any garbage or rubbish of any kind not to replace immediately in such vehicle any such material that may have fallen therefrom in or upon any public street, avenue, alley or public place in the city.

(Code 1957, § 23.9)

(a) Generally. It shall be unlawful to place, throw or deposit or to cause or direct to be placed, thrown or deposited any loose paper or rubbish of any kind upon or adjacent to any public street, alley or public place in the city in such manner that it is afterwards blown into or upon any such public street, alley or public place of the city or into or upon any premises or vacant lot therein other than that of the premises upon which it was so placed or in such manner that it becomes scattered about any such public street, alley or public place.

(b) Printed matter. It shall be unlawful for any conductor or motorman or other person to throw, leave or deposit any newspapers or packages of newspapers or printed matter of any kind upon any right-of-way or premises of any railway company or other place, without delivering it into the immediate custody of some person, so that it afterwards becomes loose or scattered or blown about any public street, alley or public place in the city or becomes loose or scattered or blown about any premises or vacant lots other than that of the premises upon which it was placed.

(Code 1957, §§ 23.10, 23.11)

It shall be unlawful for any person to install or to cause or permit to be installed any service pipe or main pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel or other structure, except manholes, culverts and catchbasins, in any public street, alley or other public place at a distance of less than two feet below the established grade of the gutter of such public street or alley or less than two feet below the surface of such other public place.

(Code 1957, § 23.12)

(a) Required. It is made the duty of every person using, controlling or having an interest in pipes, poles, conduits, ducts or tunnels under the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public place, for supplying or conveying gas, electricity, water, steam, ammonia or oil in, to or from the city or to or from its inhabitants, or for any other purpose, within 30 days after January 1 of each and every year, to file in the office of the city engineer a corrected map or set of maps. Each map shall be drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to one inch and shall show in detail the exact location, size, description and date of installation, if known, of all mains, laterals, services and service pipes and of all valves, pressure regulators, drips, manholes, handholes, transformers, chambers or other appliances installed beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public places in the city belonging to, used by or under control of such person, in which such person has any interest, including all installations made during the previous year to and including the last day of such year. Each map shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon, subscribed and sworn to by such person or by a member of such firm or by the president or secretary if a corporation to the effect that the map correctly exhibits the details required by this section.

(b) Abandoned installations. Each map or set of maps filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall show in detail the location of all such pipes, conduits, ducts, tunnels or other structures abandoned subsequent to the filing of the last preceding map or set of maps.

(Code 1957, §§ 23.13, 23.14)

Whenever any pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel or other structure located under the surface of any public street, alley or other public place or the use thereof is abandoned, the person owning, using, controlling or having an interest therein shall, within 30 days after such abandonment, file in the office of the city engineer a statement in writing giving in detail the location of the pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel or other structure so abandoned.

(Code 1957, § 23.15)