HomeMy WebLinkAbout30 - Stop Signs (Repealed by Ord. 44)ORDINANC2' NO. 30
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA PROVIDING FOR THE DESIGNATION OF THROUGH
HIGz.rjjtZS AND STOP INTERSECTION$ AND PROVIDING PHSLUTIES FOR FAILURS TO OBITar
STOP SIGNS, AND ESTABLISHING A FOUR-WAY STOP AT THE INTERSECTION OF 18th STREET
AND T+JSTIN AVENUE,
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does ordain as follows:
Section 1.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates and
describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection
at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, the
City Traffic Manager, if any, and if not, the City Manager, shall erect and
maintain stop signs as follows:
A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting
such through street or portion thereof so designated and at those kntrances of
other intersections where a stop is require&. Every such sign shall conform
with and shall be placed as provided in section 471 of the Vehicle Code of
the State of California,
Section 2,
The City Manager of the City of Costa Mesa is hereby authorized to
place and maintain four-way stop signs at the intersection of 18th Street
and Tustin Avenue.
Section 3.
Every operator of a vehicle, before entering any through highway
or stop intersection named or designated in this ordinance or in any resolution
of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesagdopted pursuant hereto, when
the entrance to such highway or intersection has been duly marked and posted
with a stop sign as herein provided, shall bring such vehicle to a full stop
at the point of entrance to such highway or intersection.
Section 4,
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
punishable by a fine not to exceed $50,00 or by imprisonment in the City or
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County Jail for a period not to exceed ten (10) days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment
Section 5,
This ordinance shall take effac-t thirty (30) days after the date of
its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage
hereof shall be posted in at least three public places in the City*
Passed and adopted this /&/r
/ . day of 11avember, 1953-
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City Clerk of the City os Costa Mesa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGP : as
CITY OF COSTA MESA :
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the 1.h day
of November , 1953, the foregoing Ordinance, containing , 5 sections. was considered
section by section, and that the said Ordinance was then passed and adopted as a whole by
the following vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCILMEN: MARTIN, .i:,IILLERO NELSON, SMITH and
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NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: NON
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL14E N: NONE
I further certify that said Ordinance was thereupon signed by the Mayor of the
City of Costa Mesa.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City oF Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGE : ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA :
I. A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that on
the 19th day of November s 1953, I posted the foregoing true and correct copy of
the foregoing Ordinance in the following public places in the City:
Justice Court
567 west Eighteenth Street
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa Branch Library
526 Center Street
Costa Nesa, California
Costa Nesa Fire Hall
111 Rochester Street
Costa Mesa, California
WITNESS my hand and seal this 19th day of NOVEMBMI 19-53
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City Clerk of the City ---6± Costa Mesa