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ORDINANCE NO. 652
AN ORDINANCE REGULAT-
iNG THE CONSTRUCTION AND
MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC
CAMPS, PROVIDING FOR THE
SANITATION OF THE SAME,
ESTABLISHING PROCEDURE
FOR THE LOCATION OF PUB-
LIC CAMPS, REGULATING
THE LOCATION OF CAMP
CALLS AND TRAILERS, PRO-
VIDING AGAINST 'TRESPASS-
ING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the City
Council of the City of National
City, California, as follows:
Section 1. For the purpose of
this ordinance, the following terms
we's `"*'shall be construed to have the
meaning herein given:
CAMP CAR AND/OR TRAIL-
ER: is any unit used for living or
sleeping purposes and which is
equipped with wheels or similar
devices used for the purpose of
transporting said unit from place
to place, whether by motive power
or other means.
PERSONS: Any person, firm or
corporation.
PUBLIC CAMP: An approved
area, lot or parcel of land regu-
larly used or intended regularly to
be used for temporary camping in
tents or other portable shelters;
provided, however, that an occa-
sional and temporary use of an
area, lot or parcel of lard for
camping by a single camping party
shall not be construed as a public
camp within the meaning of the
ordinance.
TRESPASSER: A n y person,
firm or corporation who uses,
crosses or stands upon real prop-
erty of another without the per-
mission of the owner or person in
possession.
Section 2. PERMIT REQUIR-
ED. No person shall construct,
establish, maintain or op. rate an
auto court or public camp, or
cauee or permit the same to be
constructed, established, maintain-
ed or operated in the City of Na-
tional City without a permit to do
so from the Council. Application
for such a permit shall be in writ-
ing and shall state the number of
cottages and camping spaces pro-
vided for. The application shall
be presented to the Planning• Com-
mission, accompanied by a fee of
ten dollars ($10.00). The Planning
Commission shall not recommend
the granting of, nor shall the
Council grant, any permit for the
construction or establishment of an
auto court or public camp in any
location until or unless a petition
shall have been filed in connection
therewith signed by sixty per cent
(60'i,) of the property owners
owning property within five hun-
dred (500) feet of the proposed
location of such auto court or
public camp, approving the erec-
tion, construction or establishment
of the sume in such location.
Upon the approval of such ap-
plication by the Planning Com-
mission it shall recommend to the
Council the granting of the per-
mit applied for. The Council may
thereupon grant such p e r m i t.
After the permit has been granted
by the Council complete plans and
specifications for the construction
of such auto court and/or public
camp shall be submitted to the
Health Department and the Build-
ing Department of the City. If
such plans and specifications meet
with the requirements of this ordi-
nance, t h e Iiealth Department
shall place a stamp of approval
thereon and the Building Depart-
ment shall then issue a building
permit for the construction of the
buildings shown thereon. The
building permit fees shall be the
same as required for other struc-
tures erected in the City of Na-
tional City. A separate building
permit shall he required for each
separate building or structure
erected in such auto court and/or
public camp. (.,
Section 3 shall he unlawful
for any person to camp on ally
property belonging to or under
the control of the City of National
City without having first secured
from the Chief of Police a written
permit to do so. Camping permits
may he issued by the Chief of Po-
lice upon such terms and condi-
tions and for such periods of time
as in his judgment shall be proper,
and shall be revocable by him at
any time. Provided, however, that
no permits to camp upon tidelands
under the jurisdiction of the City
Council shall he issued by the
Chief of Police without the ap-
proval of the City Council.
Section el. CAMP CARS AND
TRAILERS. It shall be unlawful
to permit waste paper or material
frc:m sinks, showers or other fix-
tures in camp cars or trialers to
be deposited on any street. alley,
auto court, public camp, or upon
any lot within the corporate limits
of the City of National City.
Sinks, showers or other similar
fixtures in camp cars or trailers,
when in use, must be connected to
the sewer system in a manner ac-
ceptable to the Department of
Public Health and in compliance
with the requirements of the
plumbing ordinance of the C.ty.
Chemical toilets or other similar
fixtures are prohibited.
Camp cars and/or trailers hav-
ing their running gear, wheels, or
other equipment designed for the
transportation of said vehicle
from one location to another re-
moved. or blocked up, or otherwise
made stationary and in use for
living quarters, will be classed as
dwellings, and as such subject to
all the provisions of the State
Housing Act pertaining to dwell-
ings.
Section 5. CARETAKER AND
SUPERVISION. All auto courts
and public camps shall be provided
at all times with a resident care-
taker, whose duty shall be to en-
force all sanitary rules and regu-
lations and see that no part of the
ordinance is violated. The man-
agement of every auto court and/
or public camp shall assume re-
sponsibility for maintaining in
good repair and operation all sani-
tary appliance on the premises.
Dogs shall at no time he turned
loose or be permitted to run at
large.
Supervision and equipment suf-
ficient to prevent littering of the
ground with rubbish, garbage, or
other refuse shall be provided and
maintained. Fly -tight metal de-
positories with tight -fitting covers
for such materials shall be pro-
vided and conspicuously located.
Each and every dwelling and/or
camping space shall be within a
distance of not over one hundred
(100) feet from such depository.
Said depositories shall not be per-
mitted to become foulsmelling, un-
sightly, or breeding places for
flies.
Section 6. REGISTRATION
AND INSPECTION. It shall be
the duty of the management or
caretaker to keep a record of all
guests and camping parties. The
record shall be in the form of a
hotel registry. Said registry shall
specify the dote of arrival and in
the event said guests or camping
parties are traveling by means of
an automobile said registry shall
further specify the name of the
owner of the automobile, the make
of the automobile, the state in
which said automobile is register-
ed, the number of the license
thereof, and the year of its issu-
ance. The register shall at all
times be open for inspection to all
police officers of the City of Na-
tional City.
Each and every dwelling and/or
public camp must be thoroughly
inspected by the City Department
of Public Health, and said De-
partment shall collect an annual
inspection fee of five dollars
($5.00) therefor from each owner
or proprietor.
Section 7. REFUSE AND
SEWAGE DISPOSAL. All gar-
bage and waste shall he disposed
of according to the rules and regu-
lations of the City garbaec col-
lection service, or where said col-
lecting service is not frequent or
is not sufficient, the garbage and
waste shall be otherwise entirely
removed from the premises as ap-
proved by the Department of Pub-
lic Iiealth. A sufficient number of
approved incinerators shall be
provided for burning all combust-
ible rubbish.
All auto courts and public camps
shall be provided with a complete
approved sewerage system. Water -
flushed water closets shall be pro-
vided and maintained in clean,
sanitary condition. In those parts
of the City where public camps
are permitted, said camping spaces
shall be provided with approved
community toilets. Separate
toilets shall be provided for min
and women, located in separate
compartments, the entrances to
which shall he not less than ten
(10) feet apart.. One water -closet
and one lavatory or sink shall he
provided for each ten (10) women,
or fraction thereof and the maxi-
mum number of individual persons
occupying said camping spaces in
any public camp; and one shower
shall he provided for each twenty
(20) persons, or major fraction
thereof. Twenty-five per cent
(25/ ) of the required water
closets for men may be substituted
by approved urinals or approved
equivalent. One shell or lip urinal
or twenty-four (24) inches of
urinal trough may be competed
as one water closet. The location
of all toilets shall be plainly indi-
cated by approved signs. All toi-
lets shall be screened fly -tight and
shall be well illuminated both day
and night. All toilets, shower
and/or washroom floors shall be
constructed of concrete, We, or
equal material properly drained
and connected to sewer system. All
toilet, shower and/or washroom
walls and partitions shall be im-
pervious to moisture.
(Continu.d)
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ORDINANCE NO. 652 cured permission :''rom the owner
(Continued)
A sufficient number of approved
cast iron enameled slop sinks shall
be provided, and each shall be
connected with the sewerage sys-
tem; these sinks to he used for
the disposal of domestic waste
waters only.
Section 8. PROTECTION
AGAINST FIRES. No fires shall
at any time be so located as to
endanger automobiles or other
property. No fires shall be left
unattended at any time, and all
fires shall be completely extin-
guished before leaving. No camp
fires will be permitted excepting
in approved allotted public camps
havirg approved camping spaces.
Section 9. ALLOTTED SPACE
AND DRIVEWAYS. The space
or unit in a public camp allotted
to each camping party shall con-
tain not less than three hundred
sixty (360) square feet of ground
area \' All dwellings shall he lo-
cated on a space of not less than
eighteen (18) feet by twenty (20)
feet. Nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to mitigate or
eliminate the court and yard re-
quirements for apartments or
dwellings as required by the State
Housing laws. All dwellings and
camping spaces shall he arranged
in rows facing on a continuous
driveway at least twenty-five (25)
feet wide. For the purpose of com-
put:ng the number of persons to be
accommodated in any auto court,
camp ground, or other such loca-
tion as provided in this ordinance,
each three hundred sixty (360)
square feet area shall be counted
as three (3) persons.
Section 10. It shall be unlawful,
and it is hereby declared to be un-
lawful, fur any person to camp in
a tent, camp car, trailer, and/or
any other portable shelter on any
property other than his own with-
out first having secured from the
Chief of Police of the City of Na-
tional City, California a permit;
sr.id permit to be in addition to
the permit referred to in Section
2. Said permit shall be issued
within the discretion of the Chief
of Police of t.hc City of National
City, California, and shall be sub-
stantially in the following form,
to -wit:
Permit No Date
POLICE DEPARTMENT
National City
California
Permission is hereby granted to
to camp at
National
S:reet Number
City, California, in a
, for thirty days from
date of issuance.
This perrnit void after
Date
Chief of Police
Said permit shall be void and
of no force or effect thirty (30)
days after issuance thereof, but
shall be subject to renewal within
the discretion of the Chief of Po-
lice the same as if a new permit
were to be secured.
Section 11. It shall be unlawful,
and it is hereby declared to be un-
lawful, for any person to use,
stand upon, or trespass on, walk
over, or cross the real property of
another without first having se -
or the person in possession of
said real property. _
Section 12. That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances of the
said City of National City in con-
flict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 13. If any section, sub-
section, clause or phrase be held
unconstitutional, the City Council
affirms that it would have passed
each and every section, subsection,
clause or phrase separately from
the other section, subsection, clause
or phrase.
Section 14. Penalty. Any person
violating any of the provisions of
this Ordinance shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon convic-
tion thereof, shall be punished by
a fine of not to exceed three hun-
dred ($300.00) dollars or by an
imprisonment in the City Jail for
not more than ninety (90) days,
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Section 15. The Clerk of the
City of National City shall certify
to the final passage of this Ordi-
nance, and cause the same to be
published once in the National
City News, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation published in
the City of National City, County
of San Diego, State of California.
Section 16. This Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force after
the 31st day after its final pas-
sage and approval.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by
the City Council of the City of
National City, California, this
18th day of May, 1937, by the
following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Cordingly,
Kiicrease, Thatcher, Warner, Bird.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: None.
D. W. Bird,
Mayor of the City
of National City,
California.
ATTEST: DALE SMITH
City Clerk.
I hereby approve the foregoing
Ordinance this 18th day of May,
1937.
D. W. Bird,
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. 652 of the
Ordinances of the City of National
City, California, as adopted by the
City Council of said City, and ap-
proved by the Mayor of said City,
on the l8th day of May, 1937.
DALE SMITH,
City Clerk of the
City of National
City, California.