HomeMy WebLinkAbout562 - Beach CurfewORDINANCE NO. 562
T}ie City of Newport,Beach, by
and through its City Council, dd @5"
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: -No person or per-
sons shall be allowed or permitted'
on the public beaches in the City
of Newport Beach Between the
hours of mid-night 'and six o'clock
A. M. of the following day.
SECTION 2:_This Ordinance is
urgently required for the immed-
iate preservation of public health,
peace and safety. The following
is a �perific statement showing
the urgency of this Ordinance:
That there are many public beach-
es in the City of Newport Beach
in residential areas; t h at large
crowds of pleasure seekers u s e
these beaches until late and un-
usual hours in the morning and
thus annoy and create a nuisance
as to the residences in the immed-
iate vicinity of said beaches. That
on many of said beaches there are
not sanitary facilities and it is im-
possible to properly police said
beaches at late and unusual hours
of the night, and said beaches
thereby become very unsanitary
and dangerous to the health and
safety of the many thousands who
use such beaches in the summer-
time. That this Ordinance is urg-
ently required in order that the
situation herein complained of
may be remedied at as early a
time as possible, as the public
health, peace and safety are in.
volved. This Ordinance is now irn-
mediately required.
SECTION 3: The City Clerk
shall certify to the separate vote
on the urgency of this Ordinance
and its passage and adoption by
a vote of five members of the
City Council of the City of New-
port Beach, and its approval by
the Mayor of the City of Newport
Beach, and cause the same to be
published once in the NEWPORT
BALBOA NEWS - TIMES, a news-
paper of general circulation print-
ed, published and circulated in the
City of Newport Beach, and upon
such publication this Ordinance
shall become immediately opera -
tivo and take full effect.
SECTION 4: Any violation of
this Ordinance shall constitute a
misdemeanor and shall be punish-
able by a f i n e not to exceed
$200.00, or by imprisonment in
the City or County Jail for a per-
iod of thirty days. or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
The above and foregoing Ordi-
nance No. 562 was passed at a
regular meeting of the City Coun-
cil of the City of Newport Beach
held on the 28th day of July,
1947, by the following vote,
AXES, Councilmen: Allen, Sil er,
Isbell, Robertson, Reed.
NOES, Councilmen: None.
ABSENT, Councilmen: None.
ATTEST: Frank L. Rinehart,
City Clerk.
The above and foregoing Or-
dinance is signed and approyed by
me this 14th day of July, 1947.
O. B. REED
Mayor.
-Phb. —July 31, 1947.
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