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ORDINANCE NO. 747
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING IT
UNLAWFUL TO WASTE WATER
SUPPLIED FROM SOURCE DED-
ICATED TO PUBLIC USE: ES-
TABLISHING PENALTIES FOR
ITS VIOLATION AND DECLAR-
ING ITS URGENCY FOR THE
IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION
OF THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEAL-
TH AND SAFETY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF NATIONAL CITY DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. From and after the
date of the adoption of this ordin-
ance it shall be and it is hereby de-
clared to he unlawful for any per-
son, legal or natural, to waste or to
cause or permit to be wasted any
water furnished, supplied or deliver-
ed by any agency distributing for
public benefit any water dedicated to
or provided for public use within the
City of National City.
Section 2. It shall be prima facie
evidence of the violation of this or-
dinance for any person, legal or nat-
ural, to permit any water suppied
from such public source to the prem-
ises owned, occupied or controlled
by such person, to escape, flow or
seep therefrom.
Section 3. The person, legal or
natural, ostensibly in possession,
control or ownership of any prem-
ises upon which water is wasted or
permitted to be wasted in violation
of this ordinance shall be prima facie
responsible for such violation.
Section 4. The violation of this
ordinance shall be a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of not to exceed
One hundred ($100.00) dollars or by
imprisonment in the County Jail for
not to exceed thirty (30) days or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 5. This ordinance is here-
by declared an urgency matter nec-
essary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public peace, health and
safety to take effect immediately
following its final passage.
The facts constituting the urgency
are declared to be as follows:
San Diego County is now in the
third year of deficient rainfall with
the result that no local storage of
water has been accumulated for pub-
lic supplies. The heavy draft of wa-
ter during the war years and the
increasing growth of population and
resultant increase in water consump-
tion has completely exhausted the
unreplenished stored reserves of the
California Water and Telephone
Company, Sweetwater Division, sup-
plying' the public water within the
City of National City, unless all wa-
ter constituting a source of the pub-
lic supply is conserved to the ut-
most, a curtailment in use will re-
sult endangering the supply for do-
mestic, sanitation and fire protec-
tion purposes, with consequent threat
to the public peace, health and safety.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall be
published once in the National City
News, a newspaper of general circu-
lation, printed and published in the
City of National City, California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the
City Council of the City of National
City, California, this 24th day of
February, 1948, by the following
vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Adams, Cord-
ingly, Thatcher, Fritz.
NAYS: Councilmen None.
ABSENT: Newberry.
GILBERT E. FRITZ
Mayor of the City Hof
National City, California.
ATTEST: Frank W. Rogers,
City Clerk.
I hereby approve the foregoing
Ordinance this 24th day of February,
1948.
GILBERT E. FRITZ,
Mayor of the City of
National City, California.
I hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a full and true copy of
Ordinance No. 747 of the Ordinances
of the City of National City, Califor-
nia, as adopted by the City Council
of said City, and approved by the
Mayor of said City, on the 24th day
of February, 1945.
FRANK W. ROGERS,
City Clerk of the City of
National City, California.
(SEAL)
News: it; 2-27; JNo. 1657.