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(a) No employee of this City who has in their possession any public money or any money paid to or deposited with any board, department or office of this City, shall pay out, deliver or relinquish any such money in exchange for any check or bill of exchange or any draft upon any bank or depositary or person or firm or corporation for the payment of money, nor shall such employee in anywise dispose of or pay out such money except as provided by law.
(b) This section shall not apply to any act, conduct or omission mentioned in Sections 424, 425, 484 or 504 of the Penal Code of California or to any act mentioned in Section 17 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to approve by implication any act not specifically prohibited therein.
Every person who, being subpoenaed to attend as a witness before the Mayor, Controller, Treasurer, City Council or any committee thereof, or any board provided for in the City Charter, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant to such subpoena, and every person who, being present before the Mayor, Controller, Treasurer, City Council or any committee thereof, or any board provided for in the City Charter, willfully refuses to be sworn or to answer any material and proper question, or to produce upon reasonable notice, any material and proper books, papers, or documents in their possession or under their control, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
No person serving or acting as inspector, judge, clerk or ballot clerk in any precinct at any election held in this City, shall fail, refuse, or neglect to deliver to the City Clerk at the same time the election returns of such precincts are delivered at the office of the City Clerk, all maps, rubber stamps, ink pads, copies of election laws and all other election supplies furnished in, to or for such precinct for such election.
(Amended by Ord. No. 181,702, Eff. 6/13/11.)
(a) The City Engineer shall have the authority and duty to establish street address numbers expressed in Arabic numerals or figures and notwithstanding street address numbers located on street curbs, to prescribe their location on buildings, structures and parking lots, and to order the installation, change, substitution and removal of all such numbers to fulfill the provisions of this Article.
(b) Every person requesting issuance of a new street number or change of an existing street number that is not associated with a building permit application shall pay the City a fee in the amount of $77 to pay for the work involved in processing the request. The Board of Public Works may adjust this fee and adopt a new fee amount in the same manner as provided in Section 12.37 I.1. of this Code for establishing a fee to process an appeal from an improvement requirement determination by the City Engineer. (Amended by Ord. No. 184,054, Eff. 3/6/16.)
(Amended by Ord. No. 144,527, Eff. 4/19/73.)
(a) Every person exercising or having ownership, possession, custody, control, or charge of any building, structure or parking lot shall have and maintain the established street address number thereon upon or near each entrance from a street of the City, and from any other public access way, in the manner and location designated by the City Engineer. “Access way,” shall include, but not be limited to, any alley, waterway, stairway, driveway or walkway. (Amended by Ord. No. 161,786, Eff. 1/9/87.)
(b) Installation, change, substitution or removal of any existing or subsequently-designated street address number shall be completed within five (5) days after receipt by the owner, occupant, lessee, tenant, subtenant, fiduciary, or custodian of such building, structure or parking lot, or any person or agent in charge thereof, of a written notice containing appropriate instructions therefor, from the City Engineer.
(c) The minimum dimensions of any street address number designated by the City Engineer on or after June 1, 1973, shall be as follows:
i. The height in inches of any number or figure therein shall be the sum of one-tenth (1/10) of the distance in feet of the number from the boundary of the property (upon which the building, structure or parking lot is situated) abutting the street, plus two (2), providing that every number shall not be less than four inches in height.
ii. The overall width of any figure in or comprising the number shall be one-half (1/2) of its height.
iii. The width of any portion of a figure in or comprising the number shall be one-tenth (1/10) of its height.
(d) Design (including shape and style) as well as location of the street address numbers shall be such that they are legible and easily readable. The City Engineer may prescribe a street address number larger in size than the dimensions stated at Subparagraph (c) hereinabove when the City Engineer determines that due to lighting conditions, building locations, shadows, background, or other reasons, street address numbers of minimum dimensions will not be easily readable from the street or approach to the entrance. A street address number of unusual design or placement may not be employed without prior written approval of the City Engineer.
(e) The City Engineer shall adopt such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the street address numbers provisions of this article.
The following shall be the respective starting points or dividing lines for numbers on buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out or hereafter to be laid out or extended, viz.: from east to west, First Street; from north to south, Main Street from the south boundary of the City to a point on the west bank of the Los Angeles River, and the Los Angeles river; thence to the north boundary of the City, numbers shall begin at the above named starting point or dividing lines and continue to the terminal of the respective streets; provided that on all streets lying east of the Los Angeles River and extending north or northerly from First Street, the numbers shall continue to the northerly terminus of the street, or to Macy Street or Mission Road; and provided that on all streets extending south or southerly from Downey Avenue, the numbers shall begin at Downey Avenue as the dividing line and continue south to the terminus of the street or to Macy Street or Mission Road; and provided, further, that on all streets extending north or northerly from Downey Avenue, the numbers shall begin at Downey Avenue and continue to the northerly terminus of the street.
(Amended by Ord. No. 144,527, Eff. 4/19/73.)
The street address numbers on the northerly and westerly sides of the streets shall be odd numbers, the street address numbers on the southerly and easterly sides of the streets shall be even numbers.
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