PATROL

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ORDINANCE NO C M S

AN ORDINANCEREVISING CONSOLIDATING AND CODIFYING PURSUANT

TO SECTION 48 OF THE CHARTER THE
OF CITY OF OAKLAND THE REGULATORY ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND INTO A MUNICIPIL CODE REGULATING AND PERTAINING
TO
FIRE PREVENTION EXPLOSIVES FIREWORKS FIRBARMS TRAFFIC REGULATION
DANGEROUS STRUCTURES ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND OTHER MATTERS OF PUBLIC
SAFETY PUBLIC NUISANCES CHARITIES AND RELIEF LABOR AND LABORING
CLASSES
DISORDERLY CONDUCT GAMES OF CHANCE GATHERINGS AND MEETINGS HABIT FORMING
DRUGS INTOXICATING LIQUORS FRAUD AND DECEIT ANIMATE AND BIRDS MINORS
AND OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC WELFARE MORALS AND POLICY COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES MILK AND DAIRIES MEATS FOODS GENERALLY SANITATION CAMPS AND
OTBER MATTERS PERTAINING TO SANITATION AND HEALTH THE LICENSING OF ALL
BUSINESSES NOT PROHIBITED BY LAVP THE CARRYING ON OF THE BUSINESS OF ADVERTI

SING AMUSEMENTS BAIL BANDS BATH HOUSES BARBER SHOPS COSMETOLOGY HOSPITALS
DRUG STORES PHYSICIANS LAUNDRIES LINEN SUPFLY AND WASTE RAG
SUPPLY ESTAB
LISHBRENTS PAWN BROKERS SECOND
HAND DEALERS AUCTIONEERS
FIDDLERS SOLICITORS
ITINERANT VENDORS PRIVATE SERVICE SERVICE STATIONS AND GARAGES
TRADES AND MANUFACTURIES VEHICLES FOR HIRE AND OTHER
BUSINESSES PROFESSIONS
AND TRADES SIDEWALKS CURBS STREETS
PARKS BOULEVARDS GARBAGE DISPOSAL
AND OTHER PUBLIC WORKS ZONES AND ZONING BUILDING NUMBERS SET
BACK LINES
AND OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO CITY PLANNING THE BUSINESS OF PLUMBING AND
SEWER
SIDE GAS PIPING AND
CONTRACTORS SEWAGEPLUMBING MATERIALS
INSTALLATION
AND FIRTURES HOUSE SEWERS GAS
FITTINGS METERS APPLIANCES FURNACES AND
OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO PLUMBING AND GAS APPLIANCES PRACTICES PERTAINING
TO ELECTRICAL WORK AND THE INSTALLATION ALTERATION
REPAIR OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT THE
STANDARDS PROVISIONS AND REQUIRE
MENTS FOR BUILDINGS AND BUILDING
DESIGN MATERIALS ALTERATION AND CONSTRUC
TION PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS HEREOF AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH

S it is necessary that the regulatory ordinances of the

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WE
City fOakland should be revised consolidated codified and arranged in
appropriate chapters articles and sections that omissions should be supplied
and defects corrected and that the iehole should be rendered plain ooneise
and intelligible therefore pursuant to Section 48 of the Charter of the
City of Oakland

BE IT ORDAINED by the Couneil of the Gity of Oakland as follows

CHAPTER 1
GENERAI PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 1 PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 2 DEFINITIONS
ARTICLE 3 PENALTIES

ARTICLE 1
PROYISIONS
PRELIMINARY

SEC 01 TITLE
1 This Code shall be known as the OAKLAND
AAINICIPAL CODE

FORM O 2
 SEC 02
1 CODIFICATIOA PURSUANT TO CHARTEfi CONTENTS This
Code consists of criminal or regulatory ordinances of the City of Oakland
codified pursuant to Section 48 of the Charter of the City of Oakland

SEC 03 DIVISIONS OF CODE

1 SECTION NUMBERS This Code is
divided into ten chapters Each chapter is divided into articles which
are composed of sections In each section number the digits on the left
of the hyphen designate the chapter number the digits on the right of
the hyphen and on the left of the decimal point designate the article
number the digits on the right of the decimal point designate the section
within the article and chapter

SEC 04 tiVFlE
1 T CODE TAKES EFFECT Thi s Code takes affec t

at 12 o
clock noon of the day followir its adoption

SEC I03 CONSTRUCTION OF CODE

1 The px ovisiona of this Code
and all proceedings under it are to b e liberally construed with a view
to effect its objects and to promote justice

SEC 06
1 PROVISIONS SIDGTLAR TO EXISTING LAVGS HOW CONSTRUED
The provisions of this Code so fax as they are substantially the same as
ordinances heretofore adopted by the City of Oekls
nd must be construed as
continuations thereof and not as new enactments

SEC 1L
4 7 EFFECT OF CODE UPON PAST ACTIONS AND UPON OBLIGATIONS
Y ACCRUED
PREVIOUS7 Neither the adoption of this Code nor the repeal hereby
of any ordinance of the City of Oakland shall in any manner affect the pxose
eution for viol ation of ordinances rich violations were committed prior
to the effective date hereof or be construed as a waiver of any license or

penalty at said
effective date due and u
ipaid under such ordinance or be
istrued
co affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating
as
to the collection of any such license or penalty t5r the penal provisions

applicable to any violation thereof

SEC 08
1 REFERENCES i
U SPECIFIC ORT
INANCES The provisions
of this Code shall not in any manner affect deposits or other matters of
record which refer to or are otherwise connected with ordinances which
are therein specially designated by number or otherwise and which are

3nclude within this Code but such references shall be construed to apply
to the corresponding provisions contained within this Code

09 SAVING CL
1
SEC USE If arty section sub
section sentence
clause or phrase of this Code is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional such decision shall not affeat the validity of the re
maining portions of this Code and the Council of the City of Oakland hereby
declares that it would have adopted this Code anti each section sub
section
sentence clause and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that ar
y one
or more of other sections sub
sections sentences clauses or phrases be
declared unconstitutional

SEC 10
1 INANCES REPEALED
OFH All ordinances or parts
of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this Code are hereby
repealed

ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS

SEC 01 WORDS AND PHRASES Words and phrases used in this

2
1
Code and not specifically defined shall be construed according to the
context and approved usage of the language

2
 s

SBC 2 1
0 IS IISED IN TEIIS CODE DEFINID
2 CERTAIN TER For

the purpose of this Code pertain words and phrases are defined and vertain

provisions shall be construed as in this article eet out unless it shall

be apparent from their context that a different meaning is intended or

unless a different meaning is specifically defined and more particularly

direpted to the use of such words or phrases

03
2
1
SEC Council means the Council of the City of Oakland

SEC 1
O
E City Manager means the City Manager of the City
of Oakland further provided that the use of the title of any officer or to

any office shall refer to such officer or office of the City of Oakland

S1RC 05
2
1 Words of the present tense shall include the future

SEC 06
2
1 Words in the plural number include
the singular and
vice versa

SEC 07
2
1 Any gender ineludea the other geryders

SEC 08
2
1 Person shall mean and include natural persons of
either sex firms aasocirztions co
partnerships and corporations

SEC 09
2
1 Aasooiation includes individuals and groups of in
dividuals

SEC 10
2
1 Street includes all streets arenues lanes alleys
courts places or other public ways in the City of Oakland which have been

or may hereafter be designated and open to public use

SEC 1
11
2 NOTICE i
HO GIVEN Any written notice required by
the provisions of this Code unless it is herein otherwise specifically pro
vided may be given either by personal service or by mail In case of service
by mail the notice must be deposited in the ITni ted States Post Office in a

sealed envelope with postage prepaid and addressed to the person on whom
it ie to be perved at his last Down address as the same appears in the
records pertaining to the matter to which such notice is directed Such
service shall be deemed completed at the time of the deposit in the post
office

ARTICLE 3

SEC 01
3
1 VTOLATION3 A MIBDE
ANOR Any person violating
y of the
at provisions or failing to comply with any of the reg
tatory
requirement a of this Code shall be guil ty of a misdemeano r Any person
eanvieted of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this Co
eshall be

punishable by a fine of not more than 00

X500 or by imprisonment in the

Gity Prison for a period of not than six months

by both such fine
more or

and imprisonment ph such person shall be guilty of a separate offense

Ea
for each at
d every day during any portion of which any violation of any

provision of this Gode is committed continued or permitted by suph person

and shall be punishable acpordingly In addition to the penalties herein
above provided any condition paused or permitted to exist in violation
pf any of the provisions of this Code athall be deemed a publio nuisance
and mqp be by the City of Oakland summarily abated as suph

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 02 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF AD1I
SEC 1
3 INISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Rohe violation of any administrative provision of this Code by any municipal
officer or employee of the City of Oakland may be deemed a failuxe to perform
the duties under or observe the rules and regulations of the department
office or board within the meaning of Section 81 of the Charter of the City
of Oakland and such person may be punished as in said section provided

CHAPTER 2
ETY
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ARTICLE 1 FIRE PREVENTION

ARTICLE 2 EXPLOSIVES FIREViORKS FIB
ARTICI 3 TRAFFIC REGULATIOR
ARTICLE 4 DANGEROUS STRUCTURES

ARTICLE 5 ACCIDENT PREVENTION

ARTICLE 1
LPRNTION
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F

3EC 1
2 For the purpose of thin article certain
01 DEFINITIONS
words and phrases defined and certain
are provisions shall b e construed as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have
a different meaning

SEC 02 INFLA
1
2 IABLE LIQUIDS CLASS I include all liquids
with flash point below 110 degrees Fahrenheit as determined in a Saybolt

Electric Open Cup Tester

SEC 2
03 INFLAElUTABLE LIQUIDS
I CLASS II include all liquids
which emit a flammable vapor and with fl ash point at or above 110 degrees
Fahrenheit as determined in a Saybolt Electric Open Cula Teeter

SEC 204 ANUFACTURED LIQUIDS include all manufactured

1

liquids and fluid commodities such as paint varnish dryer cleaning

solution and polishing liquid which contain inflammable liquid and shall
be classed as I or II according to the flash point of the mixture

SEC 2
0
1 5 GASOLINE is any product of petroleum or any hydro
carbon liquid withflash point belorv 100 degrees Fahrenheit as determined
in a Saybolt Electric Open Cup Tester

SEC 06 D
1
2 TOR VEHICLE ESTABLIS
NT includes any private

public or commercial garage or any automobile service station parking

station or other business or place where service of any kind is rendered
for hire to motor vehicles or where motor vehicles are rented or hired
there for
by the publio or kept
where arty purpose whatsoever more than
are

four motor vehicles in which inflammable liquids Class I are placed or

maintained

SEC 07 PRIVATE GARAGE is

1
2 a building or
portion thereof or
other premi
ea in which no more than four motor vehicles are kept or stored
and in which no motor vehicle is kept stored or in arur manner serviced for
the public

SEC 208
1 APPROVED means approved by the Fire rshal
ta of the
l
City of Oakland

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 SEC 2
09
1 M3TION PICTURE FILE includes any film composed
of the nitro
cellulose or pyroxylinplastic material or of other inflammable
nposition
ca

SEC 10 ERCRARGE means an establishment

1
2 place in a or

building used for

handling packing shipping storing inspecting rewind
ing or repairing film in connection with the distribution of motion picture
film

SEC 11 LABORATORY
1
2 S means an establishment
place in a build or

ing used for the

performation printing iment
develo washing fixing drying
assembling polishing finishing or other operations onneoted with the
production of motion picture film either negative or positive

SEC 12
1
2 MOTION NTn shall include any build
PICTt3RE ESTABLISF
ing or portion thereof or other premises where motion picture film is manufact
ured printed developed Cept stored or used

SEC 2
13
1 INFLAM LIQUIDS
BLF PBRMITS REQUIRED A permit
shall be obtained from a1 For the storage or handling
the Fire Marahal
of a total quantity of inflammable liquids Class I in excess of one gallon
in any dwelling apartment house or tenement and in excess of five gallons
in any other building or outside of any building bj For the storage or handl
ing of a total quantity of inflammable liquids Class II in excess of five
gallons in any
dwelling apartment house or tenement and in excess of tffin
gallons in any other building and in excess of twenty
five gallons outside
of any buildings provided however that a pex7ait shall not be required for
the use of paints oils varniahga and similar inflammable mixtures unless a

storage of q uantities in excess of those hereinabove set forth is tv be main

tained for at least thirty days

SEC 2
14 INFLAM
1 BLE LIQUIDS
It PERIuIIT5 APPLICATIONS AND
INSPECTIONS applications for permits required by Section 2
All 13 of this
1
Article shall be made in writing to the Fire Marshal who shall forthwith make
an inspection of the premises proposed to be used for such sale or storage

of inflammable liquids and the means of distribution and if the conditions

inga and arrangements are in his opinion suoh that the provisions
aurrvur
of this Code are complied with and can be observed then he shall issue a

permit

SEC 2
15 PERMITS
1 EXPIRATION Axe permit issued as in this
article provided but under which na business has been parried on or maintained
or any building erected or storage tanks installed or alterations commenced
pursuant to the application made or the permit obtained within six 6
months from the time of its issuance shall ezpire by limitation and pease
to be valid for any purpose provided however that the Fire Marshal may renew

suoh permit for an additional six 6 months upon written application having
been made prior to its expiration

SEC 16 PIlIC1fITS
1
2 REVOCATION APPEALS Any permit
issued in this Article provided may be by the Chief of the Fire Department
as

revoked upon proof satisfactory to him that any provision of this Article has
been violated

Within ten 10 days after written votive of such

revocation or

written notice to correct remRdy or any hasardoua

condition upon refusal or

to issue permit applied for as herein provided an appeal stating specifi

a

ea11y the questions which the appellant desires to have passed upon may be
taken to the City Council The findings of the Council on such appeal shall
be final and conclusive in the ma
tr

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 SEC 17 STORIIGE AND H
1
2 TDI ING 0F ABLE LIQUIDS
INFL It

shall be unlawful for any person to keep handle or cause or

store or

permit to be kept stored or handled any inflammable liquid Class I or

to the provisions of this Article
II in any manner contrary

SEC 18
1
2 STORAGE OF GASOLINE One approved five 5 gal

lon can of gasoline soline lospt

or in approved portable filling tanks
be stored inside of any motor vehicle
commonly called buggies may
house defined in Section 04
12
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establishment except apartment garages as

of this Code No one approved portable filling tank or

buggy shall contain
more than fifty 50j gallons of gasoline all said approv ed portable
filling tanks or buggies shall be mounted on all metal wheels with
rubber tires eacsh to be equipped with an approved pump fitted at the end
off nozsle the gasoline to be pumped into the reser
with a ground shut
voir of the automobile d
S

SEC 192 ABLE LIQUIDS CLASS I

il STORAGE OF INFLAi
7M All

storage of inflammable liquids Class I other than as specifically

provided in Section 218 of this Article or otherwise provided by
1

law shall be in compliance with the following All inflammable liquids

Class I shall b e stored in tanks outside the walls of all b uildinga in
tanks constructed of not less than Ao 12 gauge galvanized steel weld
ted steel to steel points soldered and coated with tar or
ed or rev
resisting material or in iron tanks of not less than three
other rust
16 of an inch in thickness riveted and caulked or welded
sixteenths 3
resisting material
coated with tar or other rust

No one tank shall be of mere than five hundred fifty 550

gallons capacity except as hereinafter provided

Not more than four 4 tanks of inflarntnable liquid Class I

aggregating twenty
two hundred 2200 gallons shall b stored for any
one motor vehicle establishment or other business establishment or plane

Not more than one 280 gallons

storage tank of two hundred eighty
shall be allowed storage
as anyfor private
one garage anal such
capacity
tank shall be of at least sixteen 16 gauge galvanized steel save and
is used engaged in a
except that when any privs
te garage by any person
commercial enterprise where the use of gasoline is necessary in such enter

prise storage tanks not exceeding five hundred and fifty 660j gallons
capacity shall be allowed when of twelve 12 gauge galvanized steel

SEC 2 20 STORAGE OF INFLAI

1 E LIQUIDS CLASS I EXCESSIVE
BJU1dTS
AI Storage of inflammable liquid Class I in excess of the amount
specified in Section 1
1
2 9 of this Article may be permitted on approval
of the Fire Marshal and a permit obtained Cherefor from the City Council

Such storage installations shall conform to the provisions of this Article

so far as they are applicable and to current practice as approved by the

Nati oral Board of Fire rwritere
Und The applic ation to the City Council

for said permit and every application far any permit pertaining to the
Class I or II shall be accompanied by a
storage of inflammable liquid
written statement of the applicant duly acknowledged before some person
forth the number and
lawfully authorized to administer oaths setting
all storage tanks of every kind and description then situate
capacity of
for appertains
upon the p remises to which the permit applied

SEC 2
21
1 CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE TANSS Bu tank for the

storage of inflammable liquid Class Ishall be installed in any location

the Fire Marshal All such storage tanks
except upon approval thereof by
moat be placed outside the building and unless otherwise specified by
here the
iarahal shall be under the sidewalk
the Fire l sidewalk is not

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 axeavated for basement use the top of all
etorage tanks must be at least
four 4 feet below the sidewalk and the apace between the top of the tank
and the sidewalk shall be filled with earth Where the sidewalk is exoavated
and used as part of a basement tanks may be placed under the sidewalk arxA

may rant on or under the basement floor a brick or ooncrete wall not less
than twelve 12 inches thick shall surround said storage tanks extending
from the bottom to four 4 feat above the top of such tank the space
between the top of the tank and the tap of the walla shall be filled with
earth covered with at least three 3 inches of ooncrete Where two or
more tanks are installed they shall be separated by a brick or concrete
wall not lase than B
relve 12 inches in thickness No tank shall be
connected to another exoept with written permission of the Fire ldarahal
one storage tank only may with the approval of the Fire iarahal be in
stalled for a private property if such tank be at least
private garage on
twenty 0 feet
from anybuilding or structure or part thereof and be
covered with at least two2 feet of eatt Upon the installation of
y storage tank it shall not ba covered with earth or otherwise or put
ax
to use until the Fire E
rahal has approved such installation Every tank
shall be thoroughly
teated for leaks and coated with tar or other rust
gterial before being installed
resisting m
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C 22 STORAGE OF CLASS II 11
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INFI
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storage of inflammable liquids Class II in quantities in eaoess of five
hundred 50O gallons unless otherwise in this code or
by law provided
shall be in tanks construct
d in compliance with Sections 2
19 2
1 24
1
2i of this Article or in approved containers in a one
and 2
1 story brick
stone or concrete building with a concrete or hollow the roof with no
interior woodwork whatever with all exterior openings protected with wired

glass not less than quarter

one 4
1 inch thick in metal frames and sashes
or with wooden tin clad doors or shutters oonatrueted in acoordanoe with
the specifications of The National Board of Fire Underwriters All door
openings to helve masonry sills rising not lase than one foot above th

floors Such buildings to be occupied exclusively for storage of oils and

liquids

SEC 2
23 STORAGE OF FUEL OIL
1 Storage tanks for any plant
device or apparatus for burning crude or fuel oil of inflammable liquid
Clara II or for generating a gas therefrom for fuel purposes moat be
installed and maintained ae herein provided Such storage tanks must be
eons tructed of not lighter than No 14 gauge riveted or welded steel to
steel joints or of iron of not less than three
sixteenths 3 16 of an
inch in thickness with joints welded or riveted arri
caulked and must be
coated with rust
resisting material and when buried shall be coated with
tar All piping mtast be done in accordance with safe engineering
practice
and s object to the approv al of the Fire fl
arshal No tank shall be covered with
earth or otherwise or be put into service until an inspection has been made
by the Fire arahal hen such tanks are placed under a sidewalk the pro
tl
visions of Section 2
21 of
1 thisArticle pertaining to auah locations
shall apply The tope of all storage tanks must be below the lowest point
at which oil is buxned

SEC 224 FUEL OIL STORAGE TANKS ABOVE GROUND

1 Storsge
tanks referred to in Section 2
23 of this Article may be installed above
1
ground if not over two hundred and fifty 254 gallons capacity

Any above ground storage of inflammable liquids of wither Clara I

or II in the amounts specifically provided in this Article stored
excess of

upon the approval of the Fire Ma

rahal and upon permission of the City Council
granted upon application as in Section 2
24 of this Article
1
provided shall
be located as elsewhere required by this Code or by law and shall be in tanks
off type approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters and surrounded

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 by maeonxy Balls at least twelve 12 inches in thickness or approved
reinforced eonarete dike The enclosure shall have a capacity at least

twehty per Dent 20

j greater than the capacity of the tank
urrounded
s

Fire protective equipment of a type approved by the Fire Marshall shall

be provided and maintained

SEC 25 GRAVITY OIL BT3RNING SYSTEMS

1
2 Phen located outside
of the Fire Limits and iri
district purely residential gravity oil
a

burning systems may be installed in the following manners steel or

iron tank of m t exceeding two hundred and fifty 250 gallons capacity

may be placed not nearer than five 5 feet to any building or structure
or part thereof The pipe through said tank to the said burner shall
not exceed one
fourth 4
1 of an inch in diameter and must be fitted
with off valves
shut independent of the burner at the tank and on both
aides of the building wall through which it penetrates Such tank may
be installed either above or below ground with or without a concrete casing
ever that when possible to obtain a gravity flow the tank
provided hoc
shall be buried at least two 2 feet underground The bottom of any
such tank shall in no case be at a height to exceed five 5 feet above
the plane of the burning point

1hen located outside of the Fire Limits ar

d in a district
not purely reeidsstiel gravity oil burning systems may be used if
installed as above provided except that the said tank Shall be placed
not nearer than ten 10 feet to any building or structure or thereof
part

Provided however that any installation in this section provided

for a object to the approval of the Fire Marshal
shawl b e and shall conform
to current practices as approved by The National Board of Fire Underwriters

SEC 1
2
2 6 STORAGE TANK MANHOLES Any tank used for the
storage o f any inflarianable
liquids Clasa I II as in thfa
Article pro
or

be
vided for may provided with a manhole for purposes of cleaning such
tank Such manhole however must be closed above by a hinged and looked
or bolted cover and below at the top of the tank by boiler plate cover
flanged and screwed The space thus formed must be filled while not used
with sacks of sand to prevent the accumulation of gas The space between
the retaining walla and the tank must be filled solidly with earth or sand
so that no vapor can accumulate

SEC 227 INFLADRI

1 t1BLE LIQUIDS CLASS I FOR FUEL PROHIBITED
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or to cause to be used for
burning heating or illuminating purposes any inflammable I liquid Clews
s Provided however that the provisions of this aeetion shall not be
construed to apply to gasoline torches and fire pots used by artisans and
mechanics only in the prosecution of their regular business or occupations
nor to the use of gasoline for fuel purposes in motor vehicles

z 3 SEC 2
1 BLE LIQ
INFLAit DS CLASS I IN TRANSIT No
2 liquids Class I shall be allowed while in transit to remain
amnable
1 in any building in greater quantities than five 5 gallons at night be
I tween the hours of sunset and sunrise but shall be so placed outside of
any building as to be readily accessible to the Fire Department in case of
fire at a spot to be determined upon by the Fire Marshal and every ship
or vessel having as a part of its cargo any inflammmable liquids Class I in
greater quantities than five hundred 500 gallons shall at night between
the hours of sunset and sunrise be more than two hundred 200 feet removed
from any dock warehouse or other inflammable property except when discharging
cargo

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SEC 1 FILLING STORAGE TANKS It shall be unlawful for

any person to fill or to oauae
permit to be filled in whole or in
or

part any storage tank with inflammable liquid Class I except from
a tank wagon tan1F truck or tank trailer and through pipe or hose
connected to the tank wagon tank truck or tank trailer leading through
continuous metal fittings or connection properly grounded to and into
the filling pipe of such storage tank provided however that nothing
in this section contained shall be construed as applying to the filling of
portable gasoline buggies or to storage tanks the capacity of which is not
greater than fifty Oj gallons in the event that any such gasoline buggy
or storage tank is
properly grounded

All such tank wagons tank trucks and tank trailers shall be
of substantial construction and be equipped with adequate bumpers drag
ch ns and Fire extin uishers of a type approved by the Fire l
arshal

SEC 30
1
2 QABLE LIQUID Pi
INFLAM S 11
G storage tanks in
which inflammable liquids Class I are stored shall be connee
edwith an

automatic closing valve pump which may be inside the building not below
the first floor 1 pampa shall be placed above the top of the tanks
A1
No gravity siphon or pressure system shall be used for taking inflammable
liquid Class I from a storage tank and provided further that no type
of clear vision or visible gasoline pump or dispenser shall be located

iy building
inside a

SEC 2
31
1 IABLE LIQUID
INFLAB CLASS I PIPING SYSTEM All
inflammable liquid Class I pipes moat lead out of the top of the tank
and shall b e galvanized and put together wi th litharge and glycerine
or approved substitute Gasoline storage installation for az
ly motor
vehicle establishment excepting private garages shall include a vent

pipe not less than one inch in diameter extending up outside the building
not less than ten 10j feet above the ground capped with a return bend
covered with a fine mesh brass netting properly connected with the storage
tank Such installation shall also include a filling pipe extending up
to the sidewalk at curb line Dapped vrith an air
tight screw cap No
filling pipe shall b e connected with more than one such storage tank
Gasoline storage tank installation for private garages may be of the regu
venting type of vent pipe such tank being so installed that
lation self
such vent pipes extend four 4j inches above the top of the ground
pro
vided however that if private garage tanks are installed under the
sidewalks the vent pipe first hereinabove provided for shall be required

SEC 32
21 RLE LIQUID DRUpfS
INFL It shall be unlawful
for y
an person to permit any inflammable liquid I tank or drum Class
whether the same is filled in whole or in part empty to be in upon
or

or about arty motor vehicle establishment provided however that nothing

in this section contained shall be deemed or construed as applying to any
tank or drum which is being repaired

SFG 33
1
2 INFLAM44ABLE LIQUIDS I13 OPT CANS It shall be
unlawful for any person to keep carry or convey or to cause or permit

to be kept carried or conveyed any inflammable liquid Class I in or

about any motor vehicle establishment in an open can or in any can

of
any description unless such can shall be of a non
explosive type approved
by the Fire 11Earshal the tank or reservoir of a motor vehicle may be
filled from a portable filling tank or buggy constructed and approved
as provided in this Article Said filling tanks or buggies however
shall be kept at all times near an entrance of the motor vehicle establish
ment

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 SEC 34 INFLAM
1 dABLE LIQUID CONTAINERS All inflammable
liquids Class Tin any
quantity permitted by the provisions of this
article and unless otherwise specifically provided in this Article shall
at all times be kept in approved metallic cans or tanks

STC 35 LIGHTS
1
2 FLAMSS ETC IN MOTOR VEHICLE ESTABLISHMENTS
It shall be unlawful for y
ar
p erson to put into or take out of or cause
or permit to be put into or taken out of any motor vehicle
y gasoline
ar
in any motor vehicle establishment in which there is an
open light gas
jet arc light or flame of any or to use or cause or
deeaription permit
to be used any artificial light of ate kind other than
electricity in
any such motor vehicle establishment or to uee or oause or permit to be
used any stove torch gas jet arc light flame other furnace
forge or

flame or fire except in the repair shop of a public garage where such
repair shop is separated from the rest of the building by a proper fire
wall

SEC 236 MOTORS AND LOCKERS IN MOTOR VEHICLE ESTABLISHMENTS

1
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any electrio motor not
actually
a part of a motor vehicle
except an induotion or alternating ourrent
motor without brushes
cm to be looated or to remain within
or e
mutator
four 4 feet of the floor of
any motor vehicle establishment or to
permit any inflammable iquid Class I or II or inflammable material of
any kind whatsoever to be stored or kept in any looker in or about
any
such motor vehicle establishment
Every such locker shall be subject to
the inspection of the Fire Marshal

SEC 2
37 MOTORS TO BE STOPPED
1 Motors of all motor vehicles
must be stopped
before the gasoline tank of such motor vehicle is
filled
at any motor vehicle establishment and a notice containing the words
estop Your Motor in plain letters not less than four 4 inches high shall
be displayed in a co
nspicuoua place in and about every such motor vehicle
establishment and at all gasoline pumps

SEC 238 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS

1 There shall be maintained at
all times in every building used for a motor vehicle
establishment other
than a private garage two 2 approved fire
eztinguiahera properly
filled where the floor apace is less than one thou
aand 1000 square
feet and one additional auoh fire extinguisher for every additional
one thousand 1000 square Peet of floor space used for such purpose

SEC 39 S1
1
2 NI CONTAINERS Sand shall be kept in iron buckets
in all motor vehicle other
establishments than private and there
garages
shall be maintained at all times in every public garage having a floor
space of less than five hundred 500 square feet at least two 2 half
barrels of clean dry sand and in
every public garage or automobile parking
station at least one additional auoh half barrel of sand for every additional
one thousand 1000 square feet of floor space Eaoh half
barrel shall
contain an iron scoop and shall be placed at different locations on
each
floor of such garage and of the repair shop if any in
connection there
with as designated by the Fire Marshal Such sand in addition for use
in case of fire shall also be used for absorbing waste oils
upon the floor
and when saturated shall be removed from the
building The use of sawdust
for absorbing oils in any motor vehicle establishment is
strictly prohibited
SEC 40
1
2 AUTOMOBILE COVERINGS It shall be unlawful to
place or keep or permit to be placed or kept arty covering of cloth paper
or other combustible material over any motor vehicle in any motor
vehicle
establishment provided however that nothing in this section contained shall
be deemed or construed as applying to motor vehiales in which no
inflammable
liquid Class I is placed or maintained

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 SEC 2
41
1 gING
S No smoking shall be allowed inside of

atW building used as a motor vehicle establishment excepting however

those portions used for office or salesroom purposes 1 notice in large
letters No Smoking shall be displayed in a conspicuous place and manner
in every such motor vehicle establishment other than private garages

SEC 42 t
1
2 1STE AND RUBBISH 111 motor vehicle establishment
premises shall be kept clean and free Prom oily waste or rags 111 such
r waste and rubbish shall be
s kept in metal cans or receptacles covered
with fitting
tight self
a closing cover

SEC 1
2
4 3 GASOLINE FOR CLEWING PURPO SES It shall be unlawful
for any person to use or to oause or permit to be used in any motor vehicle
establishment any inflammable liquid Class I under pressure or aiphonic
action for the purpose of spraying or cleaning arty motor vehicle or any
part or parts of any motor vehicle

SSC 244 Mx1TION PICTURE FILB2 PERMIT

1 POCITION
RE 1PPE1L
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture print
develop kelp
or store or use motion picture film whether in the form of negatives raw

stock finished product or discarded scrap or to use films in arty building

or place within the corporate limits of the City of Oakland without first

obtaining and haying a p ermit in writing so to do and without complying

with all the provisions of this Code appertaining thereto lpplication for
such permit shall be made in writing to the Fire Marshal and shall set forth
the name residence and place of business of the
applicant and the location
at which it is desired or intended to have such permit apply The Fire
Marshal shall forthwith make an inspection of the premises and such inve
ti
gations as may be necessary to determine whether or not the same is so
situated arranged constructed and equipped as to comply with the provisions
of this Code and if so oomplied with he shall issue such permit Such
permit shall not he transferable and shall be kept posted in a conspicuous
place on the premises to which it applies

Such
permit may be revoked or suspended by the Chief of the Fire
Department r
f violations of any of the provisions of this Code appertaining
thereto and ax
y person excepting to such revocation or suspension may
appeal such notion as in Section 2
16 of this lrticle provided
1

SEC 2
45 NON
1 BLE FILMS
INFLAt YYhen films of a inflammable
non
variety are stored kept used or worked upon the
requirements of Chia
Code pertaining to motion picture film may be waived in whole or in part
by the written consent of the Fire i
arahal 111 of the provisions of this Code
ver be held applicable when both the inflammable and flammable
shall howF
films are stored kept used or worked upon

SEC 2
46 TION PICTURE FIIauS
1
STORAGE ETC The storage
or use of motion
picture films in the projecting room shall be limited to
one 1 picture or Feature and film not being actually shown shall be

kept in closed approved containers in the projecting room or booth

All firma not in use or not being worked upon shall be

kept in
approved ahippin cases or individual closedmetal containers with
tight
covers and shall be stored in fireproof vaults Films shall not be stored
or kept on the floor unless in shipping containers approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and films ered to exchange after working hours
dell
shall be immediately placed in the vault

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SEC 1
2LIGHT AND HEAT
47 All lights in film vaults shall
be at the ceiling and of the fixed marine type with vapor proof globes
of the Electrical Department
and conduit wiring subject to the approval
vault and shall be arranged with
1 switches shall be outside of the
X1
a small pilot light to indicate on outside of vault whether vault lights

are on or off No artificial heat shall be permitted in the vault

be heated only by
The examination or inspection room shall
hot water or steam and metal shields shall be provided to prevent films
from into contact with radiators or heated pipes
coming

room and shipping room shall he

The examination room ante

lighted proof globes properly

with incandeaoent electric lamps in vapor

guarded

TION PICTURE FILM EXA

tIINATION ROOM Examining
SEC 12
4 8 If
examination room or in
repairing of films shall be done only in an
and
speotion room

The examination room shall be used neither for storage nor

than films and all furniture
handling of combustible materials other
and fittings shall as far as practicable be of noncombustible material

The number of reels in the examination or inspection room shall not

exceed one 1 picture for each operator and all films except one 1
in this room shall be
film for eaoh operator while uruler examination
inclosed in approved metal containers

SEC 2
49
1 TION PIGTURE FILM WASTE All scrap or waste

from motion picture film shall be kept under water in self

closing
standard mets
l waste cans or their equivalent and removed from the
buildi at least once each day to a safe location such waste to be

kept separate from paper waste or other rubbish Clippings chips and

waste film shall not b e burned within two hundred 200 feet of any
building

SEC 2
50
1 I
T ION PICTURE FILM CEb1
I
N Each examiner
be with not to exceed two
handling motion picture film may provided
of eolloidion and amyl acetate or similarly
2 ounces of any compound
all aueh cement in excess of the foregoing amount
inflammable cement and
shall be kept in the vault or as otherwise directed by the Fire Marshal
in no case shall mare than one 1 gallon be kept on the premises

SEG 2
51
1 MOTORS AND 4YIRING IN MOTIflN PICTURE LSTAIiI
TTS
ISH
of rewind for other shall be of the
Motors for the operation or purposes
and shall have no exposed live metal
fully inclosed non
sparking type
Ail electric wiring shall be installed i3 metal conduit in con
parts
requirements of the Electrical Ilepartment of the City
formity with the
of Oakland

SEC 52 TION PICTURE FILM

1
2 FACKING AND SHIPPING ROOM

The of motion picture films for shipping or the unpacking of

packing
room having outside ventilation and
same shall be done in a shipping

separated from the rest of the building by tight partitions floor and ceiling
of non
combustible material with closing standard fire doors partitions
self
and doors to contain no glass other than wire glass in metal sash

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 The shipping room shall be used neither for the storage nor hand
ling of combustible material other than films and all fLirniture used
therein shall as far as able
praetid be of combustible
non material
e number of eacposed reels of films in the shipping room at any one time
shall not exceed twenty 20 In all other respects the equipment of the
shipping room shall comply with the requirements set forth in this Article
for the xamination room

SEC 53 D
1
2 JTION PICTiktE FILM BOOTH 3TION PICTURE MACHINES
iNhen a motion
picture machine is used for the projection of films for ex
hibition or reviewing purposes the same shall be inclosed in a standard
booth constructed in accordance with the
requirements of the Building Code
of the City of Oakland and a ao
called portable booth shall not be
considered as fulfilling this requirement

All motion picture machines and equipment hereafter installed

in any operating room shall be of a type accepted as standard by the
Underwriterta Laboratory Inc and such installation whether permanent or
temporary shall be approved in writing by the Electrical Department of the
City of Oakland before such machine and equipment may be used for motion
picture purposes

SEC 54
1
2CLEANING MUTION PICTLfftE FILMS The cleaning or
washing of motion
picture films in or by means of either alcohol or
other inflammable or combustible volatile liquids shall be done only in a

cleaning laboratory having outside ventilation and separated from

room or
the rest of the building by tight partitions floor and ceiling of noncombustible
material with self
closing standard fire doors at the openings The receptacle
containing the cleaning liquid shall be kept tightly closed except at aper
tures through which film passes during the process of
cleaning and the
whole apparatus including receptacle drying reels etc shall be completely
covexed by a ventilating hood equipped with a dust
leading to outside air and
provided with a mechanically induced draft Sufficient to keep the room free
from objectionable vapors

Such cleaning room shall not be used for the storage or

handling
of combustible material other than films and there shall
than be no more

three 3 reels at ate one time in this room In all

the other respects
equipment of this room shall comply with the requirements of the examination
room as in this Article provided

SEC 55
1
2 JTION PICTURE FILM PERFORATING AND PRINTING MACHIN
S
Motion picture film
perforating machines shall be equipped with an effective
receptacle for catching chips and also a reeling device of inclosed type
The printing machine shall be equipped with reeling devices of closed
type
SEC 56 MJTION PICTURE FILM YORK TABLES
1
2 Motion picture
film joining assembling and inspecting tables shall be of combustible
non
material Tablee shall be set four 4 inches from the wall or radiator
If lights under tables are used for examining by transmitted light the
light box shall be properly ventilated and so constructed that it dose not
become a receptacle for film scraps and dust

SEC 57 l1
1
2 TI0N PICTURE FII INTERCHANGEABLE USE OF R
OMS
None provisions of this Article relative to motion picture film shall
of the
be construed as prohibiting the use interchangeably of either
examination
shipping projecting or repair rooms for any of the processes necessary to
the operation ti ta film exchange provided that no two different
prooeeaea
are carried on simultaneously in one room and that the provisions of this

Article applying to a soh process be complied with

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 SEC 58 MOTION
1
2 PICTURE FILM TRANSPORTATION It shall
he unlawful for any person to take or carry into
arty building within
the City of Oakland or to Derry or transport anywhere within the City
of Oakland any motion picture
film unless the same be contained in a
metal box can or other approved receptacle with a cover
securely tied
or otherwise fastened Each such receptacle shall be
conspicuously
labeled as containing inflamrna
ble film

SEC 2
59
1 MOTION PICTURE ESTABLISHI
TT FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
Every room in which motion
picture films are manufactured printed
developed kept stored
used exclusive of the vault shall be equipped
or

half 2 gallon chemical extinguishers pails

with approved two and one
of water and pails of dry sand the nwhber and type of which shall be
subject to the orders and approval of the Fire Marshal

SEC 60
1
2 mTION PICTURE ESTAIiLISfID1IENT
I HEATING DEVICES
No heating or cooking devices or
appliances using gas oil or electricity
shall be installed or maintained in any building used as a motion picture
exchange or laboratory No heating device of any kind shall be permitted
to be installed in such a building unless such device is
approved by the
Fire btarahal

SEC 61 AIBJTION PICTURE ESTABLISH

1
2 lENT KING
SA It shall
be unlawful to smoke or carry a lighted
cigarette cigar pipe or match
in any moving pictureLn exchange laboratory or operating room ar
fi d
conspicuous NO SMOgING signs shall be posted in prominent places
B6atehes shall not be carried by any employees and each exit shall be marked
EXIT in letters not leas than six 6 inches
high or by an illuminated
sign with letters of the same height

SEC 62 TION PICTURE OPERATING ROOM

1
2 The door to
the motion picture operating room shall not be locked while the room
is in use

Every picture shelf seat box tank or other thing placed

within a motion picture operating room shall be made of fire material
preof

Every window in a motion picture operating room opening into

the building shall be made of metal sash and wire rolled glass

A metal container
having at least two 2 inches of sand in the
bottom thereof shall be provided and maintained in every motion picture oper
ating room to receive the waste carbon Waste carbon shall not be deposited
in any water bucket reserved for fire
protection purposes

No alterations or repairs of any nature shall be made to ar

p
of the
part operating room or to anything contained therein without first
having obtained the consent of the Fire Marshal or the Electrical Department
to such alteration or change

The storage
or keeping of gasoline or other inflammable liquid
within a motion picture operating room
during a performance or at any
time while a machine is in operation is hereby prohibited
s
SEC 6 MINIATURE MOVING PICTURE
1
2
TT All miniature
EQUIP
moving picture equipment must be expressly approved by the Electrical De
partment o f the City of Oakland and such approval must cover the entire
machine
including all attachments cur rent controlling devices and other parts
employed including also the film Films must be of a slow burning type
having permanent distinctive marker Machines must be so constructed
a

that they cannot be used with films employed on the full

sized commercial

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moving picture machine This may be accomplished by using a film of special
width or with special perforations or by any other approved means The

ar
regu film which is not allowed on miniature machines is one and three

eighths 18 inches wide and has on each edge 5

3 4 perforations per inch

Machines must be marked with the name or trade mark of the maker and with

the voltage and current rating for which they are designed and be plainly
maxked For Use With Slow
burning Films Only

SEC 12
6 4 TION PICTURE ESTABLISHMENT f11ABTAGE9iENT Every
motion picture eatabliahment shall be in charge of a responsible executive
who is familiar with the provisio ns of this Article appertaining thereto
and with the importance of Fire Prevention and with any laws pertaining to
Fire Prevention and the proper handling of motion picture film

SEC 65 THEATERS
1
2 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS In all theaters
and opera houses within the City of Oakland there shall be a proper and
sufficient quantity of one and one
half 1 noh hose in not less than

fifty 50 lengths fitted with m zles attached thereto and with hose
foot
spanners at eaah outlet each hose to b e attached to hose attachments and
all a ub je ct to the approval o f the Fire Iarshal There shall also be kept
in readiness fir immediate use on the stage at least four 4 casks of
water and two 2 buckets to eaah cask and also one 1 bucket of water
in each dressing room The Desks and buckets shall be painted red There
shall b approved fire extingui skiers in the following places wit
to One
on each side of the auditorium in each tier one on each side of the stage

one fear the dressing rooms and one under the stage No smoking shall be
allowed en the stage in any part not in full view of the audience

SEC 66 THEATER LIGHTS

1
2 Every port ion of any theater or
opera house devoted to the uses or the accommodation of the public and all
outlets leading to the streets and including the open courts and corridors shall
be well and properly lighted with electricity during every performance and
shall remain lighted until the entire audience has left the premises All
of said lights in the halls corridors lobbies and any other part of said

building used by the audience except the auditorium must be controlled by a

off located in the lobby and controlled only in that particular
separate shut
place Gas mains supplying the building shall have independent connections
for work shops flie galleries and stage and provisions shall be made for
shutting off the gas from the outside of the building

All lights in passageways and corridors in said

whenever
building
deemed Necessary by the
Building Inspector or the City Electrician shall
be protected with proper wire net work All border lights shall be con
structed according to the best known method and subject to the approval
of the City Electrician and shall be suspended for ten 10 feet
by wire
rope

SEC 1
67 THEATERS USE OF CHINESE LgNTERNS AND FIRE
EXPLOSIVES It shall be unlawful to use Chinese lanterns or similar con
trivances in or about theaters ar in or about buildings in which moving
pictures are exhibited for public entertainment if said Chinese lanterns
or similar contrivances are used in combination with means of lighting or

illumination other than incandescent electric lights It shall be unla

rful
to use in or about theaters or in or about buildings in
which moving pictures
are exhibited public entertainment alit firecrackers bombs or similar
for

explosives any Greek

fire gun powder or chemicals either singly or in
combination in liquid powder or solid form or to ignite either or all
of them firearms excepted without special permission in writing from the

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Fire Marshal who shall in such written permission limit and prescribe the
conditions under which they shall be used and in cases of unlawful use

of any or all of the said several contrivances or in cases of impending

danger due to their use it shall be the duty of the Chief of the Oakland
Fire Department or his detailed deputies to immediately and without notice
stop the performance and refuse permission for the same to proceed until
all conditions are complied with or the
danger of their use has been
eliminated

SEC 68 ASSES
1
2 DEPOSIT OF It shall be unlawful for any
person persons to deposit any ashes smouldering coal or embers greasy
or

or oily substances or other matters lia

ale to create spontaneous ignition
or pause the same to be deposited placed or to permit or suffer the same
or

to be yr remain in any wooden vessel or

receptacle or any vessel or reaept
acle composed or made of combustible material but the same shall be
placed
and kept in some safe depository or receptacle of galvanized iron or other non
combustible material and not less than two 2 inches from
arty woodwork or
structure or deposited on the ground not less than ten 10j feet from any
wood building or structure or from any wooden
fence lumber ood hay straw
or combustible material whatever Portable receptacles shall have a clear
air space of not less than taro 2j inches below the bottom thereof No
etible material shall
comb be placed in receptacles for ashes

SEC 2
69
1 SHAVINGS STRAW AND LITTER
Anry person in the City
of Oakland making using having charge and oontrol of shavings hay
or

straw sacks bags litter or any other combustible waste material or

fragments shall at the close of eadh day cause the same to be securely
disposed cf or removed so as to b e safe from fire

SEC 2
70
1 WASTE RECEPTACLES All receptacles for waste rags
paper and other substances liable by spontaneous combustion or otherwise
to cause fire must be made from incombustible
material and if portable
must have clear air space of m t less than two 2j inches below the bottom

SEC 271 SIDE

1 PALK GRATING AND CATCH PAN There shall at all
times be maintained under every sidewalk grating a metal patch pan said
catch pan to extend not less than four
4 inches past and beyond all aides
of the grating or gratings and shall be kept clean and free from all
aooumulations of dirt and refuse

SEC 2 72 ACCUlV
1 JLATION OF INFLAbIDBABLE MATTERS It shall be
unlawful for arty person to allow or permit to remain upon
any roof or
in any yard or on any vacant lot or in any building any accumulation of
paper hay moss or ar p other inflammable or combustible rubbish or waste
material of any description
C lO
Qrt ST CJ
rGGt
SEC 2 oL
d
r
Ckcc
73 GRA5S AND BRII
1 SH Whenever
opinion of the in the
Fire Marshal any grass weeds brush or other plant growth upon any property
in the City of Oakland constitutes a fire menace he shall
notify the owner
agent occupant or person having oontrol of such property to remove within
eight 48j hours such grass weeds brush or other plant growth
rty

SEC 74
1
2 STORAGE OF HAY ETC It is hereby declared unlawful
for any person to have or keep for sale or to maintain for
storage or other
wise more than ten lOj tons of hay straw excelsior or arty combustible
material in any house or building or upon any lot piece or parcel of land
within the limits of the City of Oakland without first obtaining a permit
therefor from the Fire BRarshal of the City of Oakland

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 5 INFLAM
l
2
SEC BLRS OBSTRUCTING DOORWgYS It shall be

unlawful to keep store place or use any explosive or infla7ronable com

pound or combustible material of any kind near any doorway stairway

elevator or other shaft of any building in such place or manner as to
obstruct or render egress hasardoua in case of fibs

SEC 2
76
1 BONFIRES It shall be unlawful for any person to start

or osuss to be started any fire outside of any building for the purpose
of or stumps except by
burning any refuse matter or any brush loga
permission from and under the direction of the Rire Marshal

SEC 2
77
1 STORAGE OF BOXES The storage of empty packing
cases boxes barrels or other similar combustible containers is forbidden
without a permit from the Fire Marshal except in the open Provided how
ever that no permit shall be required for the storage within a manufaotux
ing or other establishment of sufficient packing cases boxes barrels
or

other similar oontainera to properly carry on its operations but such

storage shall be orderly and not so located as to endanger exit from the
building Storage in the open of packing cases boxes barrels or other
similar combustible containers shall not be more than twenty 20j feet in

height and shall be at least fifty 50j feet Prom the nearest building
except by written permission of the Fire Marshal All such storage
shall b e in a compact and orderly manner

SEC 2
78
1 LEIiRAGE OF OILS ON STREETS It shall be unlawful
for any person to drain or deposit upon any street sidewalk park or
public land or into any dump gutter catch basin manhole conduit
sewer lake or wateravay within the City of Oakland any tar asphaltum
gasoline lubricating oil greases waste oil from motor vehicle crank

product of petroleum
oases or any by

Every motor vehicle machine or apparatus using electricity

gasoline or any product of petroleum for its motive power shall have
attached thereto suitable devices for the purpose of preventing deposits
from leaks or drippings being made upon the p avementa or public streets
and every person engaged in transporting through the streets of the City
of Oakland coal oil petroleum distillate or gasoline when the same is
contained in tanks moat provide drip pang to be placed under the faucets
of said tanks to prevent the leakage of said product upon the streets

SLC 2
79
1 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS ALLY
GEN There shall at

all times be maintained in every building structure used for anyor

nenta or other purposes hereinafter enumerated

of the businesses eatablia
not less than one approved fireevery one thousand 1000
extinguisher for

square feet of floor apace fraction thereof Factory Power

or driven wood

driven machine shop

working mill Power Charcoal manufacturing plant
Laundry Dy and elothea cleaning establishments Apartment house
works

Hotel and there shall be at all times maintained not less than one 1j
approved fire extinguisher in every boiler room furnace room or heater
room at a place designated by the Fire Marshal

SEC 80
1
2 INTERFERENCE KITH FIRE PREVENTION APPARATUS No

goods or merchandise of any description shall be stored in any basement

in such manner as to interfere with the proper working of any water circu
lation apparatus used by the Fire Department and ho goods or merchandise
other obstructions shall be the cover of any
or any placed over
pipe casing
holes

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 SEC 81
1
2 INTERFERING WITH USE OF HYDRANTS It shall be
box or
unlawful for any person to obstruct any fire hydrant fire alarm
at or hander
cistern in such manner as to hide it from view any point
free access thereto an engine or hose carriage or oonstruat y
ax area
by
thing to interfere in any manner with a hydrant
or other wall or so as

below the level of the curb

FIRE LINES It shall be

the duty of the police at
SEC 2
82
1
the time of fire to place
rda e all streets lanes and
gus aoro
ropes or

alleys on which shall be situated any building on fire and at such other
points as they shall d em expedient and necessary and they shall prevent

any and all persona excepting owners and occupants of buildings endangered
the existing fire and their employes and excepting also officers of
by
the Fire Department and firemen who shall be known by their badgej officers
of the City of Oakland and of the County of Alameda the Fire Marshal and
such other persons as may have permission from an officer of the Fire
Department the Fire Marshal or a police officer from entering within the
lines so designated by ropes or guards

A persons other than those hereinbefore excepted

iy person or

entering within the lines designated by said ropes or guards and refusing
to outside of said lines when directed to do so by any police officer
go
or officer of the Fire Department or the Fire I
a rahal shall be deemed

guilty of a misdemeanor

for any person or persons to break through

It shall be unlawful
such rope or guard or barrier or to run over
or attempt through
to break
with any vehicle any fire hose used by the Fire Department at re

SEC 12
8 3 INJURING FIRE APPARATUS Any person or persona wil
fully injuring any engine house hose engine hose carriage or other
apparatus of the Fire Department of the City of Oakland shall be deemed

guilty of a misdemeanor

SEC 84 OPENING HYDRANTS

1
2 It shall be unlawful for any
of the City of Oakland in
person to open any of the fire hydrants except
case of fire or by permission of the Chief Engineer of the Ff re Department
orby the Water company when necessary to repair their mains or said

hydrants

SEC
85 FALSE ALARMS
1
2 No person shall wilfully make or cause

to be made by means of the Fire Alarm or

and
Police Telegraph or otherwise
of Qakland
any false alarm of fire in the City

SEC 86 INJURING FIRE ALARM

1
2 No person shall wilfully break
remove or injure arty of the wires or other parts of appurtenances of the
Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph in ithe City of Oakland without authority or

the Electrical of the of Oakland

permission from Department City

SEC 287 UNLOCKING FIRE ALA

1 iIi No persan shall make or
fit any key to or pick or force the lock of any signal box of the Fire
Alarm and Police Telegraph in the City of Oakland without authority from
the Electrical Department of the City of Oakland

No persan shall have or retain in his possession or under his con

trol any key belonging fitted to open the Iock of arxy signal box of
to or

the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph in the City of Oakland without lawful author
ity so to do

SEC 2
88
1 INSPECTIONS AND EN
TS
N
OACEPIL The Fire Marshal and
of the Chief of the Fire Department shall
any other person under the direction
at all reasonable hours have acces9 to any premises far purposes of making
t
ctsOa
3rzsp re g
3 ci with the provisions of t
o
3 ia Article and the
Chief of the Fire Department shall charged with
be the enforcement of said

provisions

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 ARTICLE 2 R

CORKS
EXPLOSIVES IFIF AND FIRE
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1
RI

SEC 1JfdNUFACTURE AND STORAGE

01 EXPLOSIVES
2 It shall be
to be manufactured or to
unlawful for any person to manufacture or cause

or cause to be brought into or to receive or keep or store or suffer

bring
to remain within the limits of the City of Oaklandany blasting powder
herculea or glycerine daulin dynamite or other
giant powder nitro
explosive liquid or material or compound having an explosive power
first obtaining a permit
greater than that of ordinaxy gun powder without
so to do from the City Manager upon the approval of the Fire Marshal

SEC 02
2 EXPLOSIVES STORAGE LOCATION It shall be unlawful

for any person to keep or store within five hundred dwelling

500 feet of any

house or place of business within the limits of the City Oakland any of

glycerine daulin dynamite

blasting powder hereules or giant powder nitro
or any other explosive liquid or material or compound having explosive power

greater than that of ordinary gun powder

terminals
Provided that this aeetion shall not apply to the freight
and yards in said City of steam railroad corporations subject to the juris
Railroad Commission of the State of California who receive
diction of the
or deliver freight within such terminals or yards when the explosives received

for shipment or held for delivery in such terminals or yards are in less than
carload lots

SEC 3 EXPLOSIVES
2 GLYCERINE
NITRO It shall be unlawful

for any person to convey or to be

conveyed
cause place to another
from one

or to manufb
cture or cause to be manufactured or to keep or store in or about
or on any premises o r street within the limits of the City of Oakland any
liquid nitro
glycerine

SEC 04
2 LOSIVES
1
EY GUN POWDER UANTITY
t It shall be

rful
unla for any person to
receive keep or storereceived
or cause to be

stored or to aid or assist any person in receiving keeping or

kept or

storing gun powder in a larger quantity than ten lOj pounds into or in any

building o r upon any premises within the City of Oakland except aPhile within
the custody of a steam railroad a artier subject to the jurisdiction of the
Railroad Commission of the State of California and in its freight terminals
or yards awaiting shipment by it or pending delivery to a consignee and
except as hereinafter in this Article provided

SEC 205 EXPLOSIVES DER CONTAINERS

GUNP01 Any person or
or a toting more than ten 10 pounds of gunpowder shall
persona keeping
keep the same air metallic vessel said vessel shall be marked
tight
in an

DANGEROUS in plain letters painted in white

with the words GUNPO
NDER
three 3j inches in hei
on a dark ground not less than ht acid vessel shall
at all times in view near the entrance of the premises where kept
be kept
to easily removed said vessel shall contain not more than
so as be fifty
0 pouxads of gunpdrnrder

SEC 2206 EXPLOSIVES IDEIt

GUNPOo UAI
Q
TTITY It shall be

unlawful for arty person to keep or store or cause to be kept or stored

or aid or assist any person in receiving keeping or
storing more than fifty
50 pounds of gunpowder in the City of Oakland except within the freight
terminals and yards in said City of steam railroad corporations subject
of the State of
to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission California
and receiving or delivering freight within such terminals or yards when the
or held for delivery in such terminals
explosives r eceived for shipment
or yards are in Less than carload lots

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 SEC 07
2 LOSIVES
E VEYANCL
COI It shall be unlawfu for
p person to convey cr cause to be
ar comreyed assist in conveying in
or

any vehicle ox otherwise within the City of Oakland any gunpowder or

other explvsiv e including any and all chemical compounds or mechanical mia
tures that are commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an ex

plosion unless the following requirements are complied witha

If a vehicle is employed in the conveyanc@ the floor of same shall

be thoroughly swept before the eaploaivea are loaded thereinto and the

chassis engine pan and bottom of

body of arm motor vehicle shall be clean
and free from surplus
oil e
grea
and The v chicle moat be in first
class repair
and equipped with good and sufficient brakes and fire eatinguishera All electric

wiring vn such motor v ehicle shall be completely insulated and firmly secured
y such eaploaivea being conveyed whether in a vehicle or otherwise shall be
Ax
securely packed and if conveyed in a vehicle such packages shall be so arranged
and stayed in the body of the vehicle that they cannot shift during transportation
Such containers shall be protected from exposure to the sun
s rays rain and other
elements and unless the vehicle is covered the containers shall be covered by
canvas or larpau7
in

No person shall place or carry in or upon a vehicle containing ex

plosives any exploders detonators blasting Daps yr other explosive material

or parry in or upon such vehicle arty matehea or
any mechanical device for pro
ducing aspark or flame yr carry in or upon that part of such vehicle in which
the a xplosives are contained uy
e metal tool or piece of metal

SEC 08
2 LOSIVES CONYEYINCE ROUTES Seery vehicle con

veying any eaploaivea shall so fax as possible avoid the use of any street
upon which is located any steam or street railroad track or upon which there
is heavy traffic 111 unnecessary stops must be avoided and vehicles contain
ing explosives shall never be taken into a garage or repair shop For repairs
or storage The routes traveled in the conveyance of any such eaploaivea shall
be at all times to the direction of the Chief of Police
subject

SEC 09
2 OSIYES
EXPI GUNPOWDER TO BE UiEDIATELY FOR
II 7ARDED 111
gunpowder landed or placed on ar
y sidewalk street or public way for forwarding
or shipment shall be forararded or shipped ir
nediately after it shall have been
so landed or placed

SEC 10
2 SIVES
E
I
E7 GtTNPOVVDSR MATiNFACTURE AND STORIGE 4F
ORKS
FIRE It shall be unlawful for any person to receive keep or store or to
have in any one place more than fifty 50j pounds of gunpowder yr to erect or

p building for the storage or keeping of gunpowder or for the manu

maintain ar
facture of or storage of fire works within the limits of the City of Oakland

eept
e at a place and in a building approved by the Fire Marshal

SEC 11 EXPLOSIVES
2 CILCIUM CgRBIDE It shall be unlawful
for any person to keep or store within the Cfty of Oakland any calcium carbide
without first obtaining a permit so to do from the Fire Marshal

All calcium carbide shall be kept in hermetically sealed metal

receptacles

All buildings tv be used for the storage of calcium carbide within

the limits of the City of Oakland ahall be constructed of corrugated iron brick
or atone not to exceed one story in height and the walla of said brick or
stone building anall not be leas than sixteen 16
inehea in thickness and must
in all respects be fire and water proof and devoted exclusively to the ae
orage
of calcium carbide and in all such buildings no artificial light or heat
ll
sha
be permitted

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2 PLOSIVES Bd CABBIDE
CALCI IN TRANSIT All
SEC
caloium carbide in transit through uat be inclosed
the City of Oakland a
in hermetically sealed metal receptacles and plainly marked CALCIUAd
OUS IF NOT KEPT ICY and no such receptacle shall contain
DANG
CARBIDE
more than one hundred and twenty 120 pourxla of said carbide

07 of this Article shall apply

The provisions of Section 2
to the conveyance of calcium oarbide so far as they are applicable

SEC 13
2 OSIVES
ffiCPIOBSTRUCTING DOORWlYS It shall be

unlawful to k
ep stor or place use enp e
orcploaive liquid or material
or compound near any doorway or stairway of air building in sash place
or manner as to obstruct or render egress hazardous in case of fire

ul
unlawf
w

SEC 214 FIRE LS AB RAID S It si

11O1z Ii
F
E ais ne

for any person to at any time fire or or

diacharge cause to be fired or

disoharged any gun anvil cannon rifle

piatol toy pistol or fire
y kind or
arm of ax fire or explode or cause to be fired or exploded
any blank cartridge bomb rocket firecracker roman Dandle squib
colored fire torpedo mine torch or at y combustible or explosive device
or preparation orfireworka or firecrackers of any
kind whatsoever
or by whatever name known within the limits of the City of Oakland provided

that the use of fireworks at such public displays of fireworks inside the
limits of the City of Oakland as may be given with the 3oint written consent
first had and obtained of the Chief of the Fire Department and the Chief
of Police of said City shall not be anl awfnl Provided further however
that if such public display of fireworks is to be held within az public
park or other property under the 3urisdiction of the Board of Park Direotora
the consent of said Board of Park Direotora must also be had and obtained
in writing and said board of Park Direotora shall have thA right to
require the posting of any bond or taking out of any insurance that it
may deem necessary

SBA 16
2 FIREARA
S EXCEPTIONS AS TO USE The provisions
of Section 14
2 thisofArticle relative to th use of ftrrtxxms shall
not apply to Peace Officers in the dieaharge of their official duties and
using reasonable care nor to persona using firesrma in necessary self
in careful for the of
defence and s manner nor purpose destroying
noxious animals upon land owned or occupied by them nor to bona fide gun
clubs nor to bona fide shooting galleries nor to persona using firearms
in a careful manner in bona fide shooting galleries

SSC 216 FIRE6FQRKS AND FIREARA

S POSSESSION AND SAL It
shall for any person to sell or offer for sale or hairs in his
be unlawful

possession or custody any of the articlee specified in Section 2

14 of
this Artiole or any other combustible or explosive device or preparation
of fireworks cr firecrack of any kind whatsoever
rs by whatever name or

an or any article for the making of pyrotechnical display withinthe

kno
lizniits of the City of Oakland

Provided that a manufacturer of firewgrka

may store or sell
fireworks for use outside the limits of the City of Oakland at a place
or in a building approved by the Fire Yadrahal of the City of Oakland
together with the 3oint written consent of the Chief of the Fire Department
and the Chief of Police of the said City of Oakland

Provided further that the custody or possession or transportation

of fireworks within the limits of the City of Oakland for use at a public

display of said fireworks inside the limits of said City given with the
joint written oonsent of the Chief of the Fire Department and the Chief of
Police of said ahall
City not be unlawful

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3SC 217 BLASTING It shall be unlawft

i for any person
without obtaining a permit from the Superintendent of Streets of the City
of Oakland ae hereinafter in Section 2 18 of this Article prodded to
do any blasting within the corporate limits of the City of Oakland or to

explode or cause to be exploded any gunpowder dynamite g3aut powder

gun cotton or other explosives For the purpAae of blasting out rook gravel
earth trees or other substance or material

SSC 2
18 BLASTING LICENSE
Any person desiring to use
explosives within the City of
Oakland for the purpose of blasting shall
ffiake written application to the Superintendent of Streets for a license
Said application shall set forth the name age and address of the applicant
and a statement of his previous experience with and qualifications to safely
handle and use explosives If said Superintendent is satisfied as to the
experience and qualifications of the applicant h may issue a license to
said applicant after his deposit with the City Clerk of a good and sufficient
bond in a sum tless than One Thousand bllara 01000 and in an amount
to be designated by said Superinte
tdent in said license and on a form t8
bs supplied by the City Clerk Said bond shall run in favor of the City
of Oakland and shall inure to the benefit of said City and all
peraona who
may suffer any damage in person or property from the blasting operations conduct
ed by the licensee and shall be conditioned to pay for all lose or damage
to person or property caused or resulting from said blasting perati4ne by
the licensee Said bond shall be approved by the City Att
rney before
filing with the City Clerk After a recovery is had upon said bond the said
liaeases shall immediately file a new bond in the same form and if he does
nDt do so said license shall immediately ipso facto be terminated and revoked

SEC 2
19 BLASTING PEI
ITS The license provided for in Section
22 of this Article shall remain in forge for
18 a period of one year IIpon
each separate that the licensee
oecaaion desires to do bleating he shall

notify said Superintendent of Streets in stating

writing the time and place
of such proposed bleating operations and the
necessity and purpose thereof and
if said Superintendent of Streets i s satisfied as to the propriety anti
neaeasity of such bleating done in the specified location he shall issue
a permit under such conditions ae he may deem necessary for the pretec
ion
oP persona and property in the vicinity If the licensee desires to continu
ously conduct blasting operations as one continuous project and in one
specific location said Superintendent may grant a continuous permit for a
period not longer than the life of said license

SRC 2
20 dSTING LICENSE AND MIT
BT Pffi NECESSARY The holder
of a license provided for in Section 1
2 8 of this Article shall pay to
the Superintendent of Streets upon obtaining said lioenae and before the
same becomes effective a fee of one dollar i1
00j and shall also pay
to the Superintendent of Streets for each permit granted pursuant to the
provisions of Section 2
19 of this Article before the same becomes
effective a fee of fifty cents y
50
SEC 21
2 BLASTING ADDITIONAL BONDS If in the judgment of
the Superintendent of Streets any surety b
nd deposited as required in
18 of this Article is insufficient in amount f
Section 2 r a particular
bleating operation apedified in a particular permit issued pursuant to the
provisions of Section 22
19 of this Article such Superintendent of Streets
may require a filing of the bonds with the City Clerk in an additional sum
conditioned as in the inatanae of the original bond but limited to blasting
operations in the locality specified in such permit

SEC 2 22 BLASTING OPERATIONS It shall be unlawful for any

person to explode or cause to be tplcded
e y
ar blast without first
covering
the same in such manner as to prevent fragments of rook gravel earth
eg flr mt
fr r sub9tance snd material froze beirg irorra 8a
nat or upon
lots or buildings o r upon any public highway

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 SEC 22
23 ROAU TBACRS
EYPLOSIVES ON RAII It shall b unlawful
Per ang person to place or
cause placed
to be axe railroad
on track within

nd any a
the City of Oaicl
e plosive of any character whatsoever Provided
hcwever that nothing herein contained shall b e construed as prohibiting
bg railroad companies of torpedos commonlg need in the conduct of
the us
their business

C 2
5I 24 FIREAS SOLD ANI DELIVERED AND RECEIVED BY

HOLDER OF PEEi
IT u for ang person in the business mf
It shall be unlawi
selling leasing or therwiee transferring and for erery person who sells
lessee or otherwise transfers either title to or possession of s pistol
revolver other firearm of a sire capable of being ccncealed upon
or the
in other transfer title to or possession
per eon to sell lease or ar wag
of such pistol revolver or other firearms or to deliver the earns pursuant
to such sale lease or transfer unless the person to whom the same is sold
leased transferred or delivered shall at the time exhibit a permit duly
kland authorising such person
issued by the Chief of Police of the City of Oe
to acquire such pistol revolver or firearm or for any person not having
p ermit
such to receive or accept delivery or transfer of poseeseion of
revolver or other firearm of a size capable of being concealed
such pistol
on the person

SEC 2w2
25 FIRPIS LNCE 4F PENT TO ACQUIRE
ISSU It shall

be lawful for the Chief of Police of the City of Oakland upon satisfactory
proof being made to him that the person spplging therefor is of good moral
ehar4eter and that good eauae saints for the ieauanee thereof to issue to
such person a numbered permit to purchase lease or otherwise acquire a

pistol revolver or other firearm of a size capable of being conoealed ea

the person such application for such permit shall be made in the applicant
s
own handwriting filed with the Chief of Police aYxi shall set forth his true
same and residence his business and business address the kid of firearm
to be acquired for whichpermission is sought by the applivant and the
reason for hie application The prmit issued in duplicate ehsl 1 show
the name residence and business of the person to whom issued and hie deaorip

g height weight age color of hair akin and ages and must
tion inclrudir
be countersigned by the permittee himself at the time of issuance and the
Chief of Police shall retain the duplicate Dopy Ro sale lease or other

transfer of any pistol revolver or other firearm shall be made by arty

person to ang other pereoh the

unleee description of the person tc whom
such transfer is made shall identify him with the description in the permit

which he presents r
n unless s v
u h permit be then and there surrendered to the
person from whom the t
fireet is received who shall endorse on it the make
number and esliber of such firearm and transmit such permit to the Chief of
Police attached to the duplicate register for that deg as required by Section
26 of this Article
2

SEC26 FrftEl
2 SMS RECORD OF TRANSFERS ery person in the
Bti
business selling leasing or otherwise transferring and every person who
of

sells leases or otherwise transfers a pistol revolver or ther firearm of

a size capable of being conoealed on the person shall keep a register in

which shall be entered in duplicate the time the date the place of and the
name of the person tuaicing the eels lease or other transfer of any pistol
revolver or other firearm and the make model manu
facturerts camber caliber

and any identification marks thereof and in addition the number of the

permit tinned bg the Chief of Police authorising the person to whom each sale
loess or other transfer is made to acquire such pistol revolver or other
firearm

8o such eels lease or transfer shall be made unless the person

o whom the same is to be made shall first sign hie true name and address
t
in staid register in duplicate and not until the person making the sale lease
or other transfer shall have signed his name in duplicate as witness to the name

nd address oP the person to whom such sale lease or other transfer is made

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 The duplivate sheets of auoh register shall on the day on
which a
i e sale lease or other transfer of such pistol revolver or
other firearm is made be placed in the IInited States Yai1 with postage
in an envelope properly addressed to the Chief of Polioe Oakland
prepai
California A violation of any provision of this section shall be a
misdemeanor

SEG 2
27 FIRF
RMS FALSIFICgTION OF RECORDS It shall be
L
awfu
tu for any person to sign a fictitious name or a fictitious address

or to falsify in any manner any information required by Sections 2

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26 of this hrtiale
and 2

SEG 2
28 Fri EXCEPTIONS TO APPLICATIONS othing
1
in Sections 24 2
2 25 2fi
2 27 of this Article shall apply
and 2
to duly appointed pesos officers of any poli oDal subdivision of the State
of California or apply to wholesale dealers in their regular business
interoou with retail dealers or wholesale yr retail dealers in their
rse
regular coarse of business when transporting unloaded pistols revolvers
or other firearms by mail express or other method of shipment to points

outside of the City of Oakland

SEC 29
2 SLUNG S
TS It shall be unlawitil for any person to
make use of or to wear or Derry about his person or to have in his possession
any slingshot rubber sling or other instrument or contrivance by means of

which shots or other missiles of any kind or

description are or made to be
hurled or projected
Q 333
d
h
Q 11
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b
r hC
plo
SEG 230 FIREARM IN POSSESSION OF CHILDREN It shall be
unlawful for any person in the Gity of Oakland to s
11 or give to a
cy ohild
wader tie a8e of twelve 12 years or to allow any such child to use handle
or discharge air gun or pistol or other similar instrument from or by means
of whioh any bullet shot or other mi
asile of say kind is or may be pro3ected
by means of Qartridges or powder or other explosive

SEC 2
31 E1lXIl S
SILENCF It shall be unlawful for any person
to have in hispossession any Nam ex
silen to be used or that may be used
on any firearm or any similar apparatus or device to be used or that may be
used on any firearm
i
C
ARTICLE 3
REGULATI08
C
SBC 01
8
2 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Artiole certain

N words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from the context that they here a

different meaning

Sli6i 2
01
3 s STRBET r set
is every wc apart for public travel
except alleyways bridlepatha end Poot paths

e2
S 01 b
3 VAY
AD
rRO is that portion of the street between
the physically established curb lines

3 t2 01 c
3 SIDE
aLS is that portion of a street be ttreen the phy
i
3 sically bliahed
ests curb lines and the adjacent property lines

01 d
3
2 INTERSECTION is that area of the roadway embraced
within the prolongation of the property lines of two 2 or mere streets which
vin at an angle whether or not one 1 suoh street Drosses the other

Ste 01
3
2 e FETY ZONE is that marked portion of the road
S9
the exoluaive
wa reserved for oP
uge
v pedestrians

1
i

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 Ste 2
01
3 f CROS3WAt is that portion of the roadway in
eluded within the prolgngation of csnrb a property lines at street inter

sections

Ste 2
01
3 LOADING ZORB is that portion o f the roadwag
gj
use of ehioles during the
adjacent to the curb reserved for tdse exclusive
loading or unloading of passengers or materials

Sec2
0
3 1 h REHICL is every device regaxdlesa of motive
or property is or may be traxisported
power or animal by which anyperson
or drawn uBon a street including devices used exclusively upon rails

Seo 01
3
2 ij STREET CAR is every 8evioe traveling exclusively

upon rails when upon or orgssing a street other than devices propelled by

steam

Seo 01
3
2 PEDESTRIAN is axay person afoot
y
Seo 2
Oi
3 kj OPERATOR is any person who is in actual physical
control of a
hiole
v

Sec 01
3
2 i TRAFFIC is pedestrians vehicles or street oars
either singly or together while using any street for purpose of travel

Sec 2
0
3 1 m RIGHT OF tAY fa the privilege of the immediate

use of the street

Sec 2
01
3 PARK is permitting a vehicle to stand for a
n
period of time greater than is reasonably heoesaary for the unloading of
persons or materials unless required by traffic conditions

Sec 201 o CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT is the portion of the

3
City of Oakland bounded by the east line of Franklin Street the south
the north line
line of Tenth Street the west line of Jefferson Street acid
of 19th Street

Seo 01
3
2 p
BUSINESS DISTRICT is a portion of any street
between adjacent cross streets fifty per Dent S of which is occupied by

buildings in use for retail or wholesale business and axq intersection

adjacent to such busi Hess street or any in teraection two 2 or more of the
corners of which are so occupied

Sec 01 qj
3
2 CURB is the lateral physical boundary of the

osdway of a street whether marked by curbing construction or not eo marked

Sec 01 r
3
2 LEAVE STANDING is to stop
a vehicle for arty
purpose unless required by traffic conditions whether or not the
engine
is running and whether or not there is in the vehicle a person cape
ble of
operating the same

2
0
3 1 s DR1YE911Y is that portion of a street between a
Seo
curb line and the adjacent property line designed to give vehicular access
to the adjacent property and eo eonatructed as to support the weight of
any motor vehicle Lrlu
e

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 AUTSORITY OF POLICE TRAFFIC SIGNS AbID S IGbT1LS

SEC 202 OBEDIENCE TO POLICE

3 Officers of the Police Department
are hereby authorized to direot all traffic by means of viafble or audible
signal It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with
traffic or police officer or
any lawful order signal or direction of a
ise or fail to comply
at any regularly established school orosaing to reY
with any order signal or direction of any person appointed by the Chief
oB that such person
of Police to control traffic at school crossings provid
arch school crossing shall at
giving any order signal or direction at
kicating such appointment
the time be wearing some insignia ir It shall
r be unlawful for any mibor to direot to direot traffic unless
or attempt
authorized to do so by order of the Chief of Police

SEC 2
03
3 PLACE OF TRJIFFIC CONTROL The Chief
of Police is
hereby granted the power to determine the streets and intersections on
which d the times at which a movement of traffic shall be directed

SEC 2
04
3 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC SIGATALS It shall b unlawful
for any person to disobey the inatruvtions of any mechanical or electrical
traffic signal traffic sign or mark upon the street placed in accordance
with the provisions of this Chapter

No person public utility or any depariasent in this City shall

erect or place any barrier or sign on any street eaa
uti of a type first approved

erintendent of Streets
by the 3vl It shall be unlawPu for any person to

disobey the instruetions cf any barrier or sign placed in any street by at

1r
public utility or by any department of this City provided the type of barrier
or sign ao erected has been first approved by the Superintendent of Streets

SEC 05
3
2 iLS CONTROLLED Y OFFICER
TEAFFIC SIGN If controlled

by an officer the following signals shall be observed

1 One blast of the whistle indicates that east and west traffic
shall and north and traffic shall
outh stop
proceed

2 Two blasts of the whistle indicates that north and ao uth traffic

shall proceed and east and west traffic shall stop

3j Three or mare blasts of the whia tle is a

signal of alarm and
indicates the approach of a fire en
ine or other danger At such signal
all traffic shall stop until permitted by the police officer to proceed

4j Bztending the arms indicates that traffic moving parallel to

the attended arms shall prooeed and traffio moving at right angles thereto
a hal l stop

3EC 2
051
3 TRAFFIC SIG ALS CONTROLLED BY N
ECAAPTICAL TJBVICE
If controlled by mechanical devices the g signals
tbllowir for the direotion
of traffic are hereby authorized and shall be observed

1 RED LIGHT when shown in traffic signal requires that all

traffic shall stop and remain standing

2 RSD AND YELLOW LIGHTS signify that pedestrian traffic shall

prooeed but ar
vehictul traffic shall remain standing

3 GREEN LIGHT signifies that both pedestrian and vehicular

traffic shall proceed

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 The ringing of a bell in connection with the above traffio
legend shall indicate preparation for a change in the direction of traffic
movement Wien each bell is sounded no vehicular traffic shall enter an
1is shown ar the GO signal is gin
intersection until the GREEN LIGa

5 If red light is flashing vehicular traffic must atop before

entering intersection If amber light is flashing vehicular traffio mcrt
intersection with caution
approach

SEC NT OF CROSS i
06 ESTABLISH
3
2 ALKS The Chisf of Folios
is authorized to establish and the Department of Streets to maintain
hereby
and dssignate upon the surface of the roadway by appropriate devices marks
or white line crosswalks approximgtelir equal in width to the adjacent side
walk at all interaeetione where in his opinion there is particular danger
to pedeatrianPr eroaring the roadway

11hen crosswalks are established and maintained outside the

Central Traffic District the Department of Streets shall by appropriate
devicem marks or white lines mark and maintain along the surface of the
roadway an arrow not lase than twelve 12 inches wide in the shaft and
not less than thirty 30 feat long pointing in the direction of ruch

crosswalks together with the word SLOW is block letters sot lase than
four 24
twenty inches high and not lass than four 4 inches wide one

hundred 100 feet distant from each crosswalk so established

SEC 2
07
3 AY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS PRORIBITED
DISFT It shall
be unlaPVfu1 for any person to place or maintain or to display ary device other
than an official warning r direction sign or signal erected under competent

authority upon or view of

in a street which purports to be or is an

imitation of or resembles an official rarning or direction sign or signal

or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the actions of

operators and any such prohibited device is hereby declared to be a public

nuieanae

It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully deface injure move

or interfere with any official warning or direction sign or signal

BEC 2t18
3 SAFETY ZCNF
S The Chief of Police is hereby granted
the power to designate and the Department of Streets shall suitably mark
and maintain safety ones upon the streets o f the City o f Oakland

PEDESTEIAIQS
Gam 8y t9
SEC 2
09
3 ITED RIGHT TO USE ROADI7AY
FEDffiTR71NS LIE irhen
within the Central Traffic District or any business district no pedestrian Phan
cross a ro dway other than b S a crosswalk
3 n acc uf C
iro 3 LCu
6qy u
P
Data de o en r affic iatrict or any business district

no pedestrian shall Dross s roadway other than by a route at right angles

to the curb and when crossing at any place other than a crosawalk
ahall
yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway

It shall be unlawful r any pars

nto stand in a
roadway for the
or while soliciting
purpose of a ride from the operator fany private
vehicle

SEC 210 FEDESTRIANS TO OBEY SIGNALS

3 At interaeotions
where traffio is directed by a traffio yr police officer or by a traffio
atop and gQ signal it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross the
D
Ct I
r
other than with released traffio J P
G
roadw Gy

27
 RULES l
R IfRIVING

SEC 211 MHTHOD OF APPROlICH FOR

3 LEHT TIIHg The operator
to the left at an intersection or into affi
of a vehicle intending to turn
the of turning in the Line of traffic
alley o r driveway shall approach point
t
ne to the center of the roadway

12 T
SEC 2
3 fD OF TUBNIHG TO LEFT AT INTERSECTIONS The
intersection shall pass to the
left at
operator of a vehicle in turning an

right o
the center of the intersection before eept that wh
turning e re

markers have been placed upon the intersection boundary lines to be crossed

the vehicle the operator shall pass to the right of such markers
by

SEC 2
13
3 CATION TURNING BARKERS The Chief of Police
is hereby authorized whenev in his
r opinion traffic is sufficiently hea
y
to
at any particular intersection to warrant the placement of markers plane
or pause to be placed turning markers in intersections as foliowss

ln the intersections where either intersecting roadway

Mfithi
is less than slaty 60 feet in width ar d in intersections where streets
meet at other than right angles and in interaectione where one 1 street

terminates in another a marker shall be placed at every intersection of

the medial line of each street with the prolongation of the curb lines of
the intersecting street or as near the intersecting point of said lines as
may be practical

2j Interaectiona other than those mentioned in paragraph 1 may

be marked as
provided in
paragraph 1 single marker zaay be placed within
or a

such intersection at the intersection of the medial lines of the intersecting

street 0 is 3 z Ja
G
3 l3

SEC 14
3
2 LEFT TURNS RD
l
RESTRIC It shall be anlawful for the

operator cf any vehicle except as hereinafter provided to turn such vehicle

to the left between the hours of 7 A and 7 1S Sundays and holidays
P
excepted at the following intersectiena Twelfth Street and Broadway
Thirteenth Street and Broadway Fourteenth Street and Broadway Fifteenth
Street and Broadway provided that at Fourteenth Street and Broadway vehicles
going north on Broadway may turn to the left at Fifteenth Street and Broadway
into Telegraph Avenue and provided further that a 1 eft hand turn may be
made at anY of the above streets atany time whenever the operator is dire
by a police officer to do so 6
t
SEC 2
14
3 LEFT 08 Ef
RI TURNS PROHIBITED It shall be awful
for the operator of any vehicle to turn such vehicle at the intersection of
Harrison Street and Sixth Street in violation of the following regulations

Vehielea going north on Harrison Street out of the Tabs shall

not turn to the left Vehicles going south on Harrison Street shall not
turn to the left Vehicles going seat or west on 6th Street shall not turn
to the 1 eft or cross Harrison Street Vehicles going north on Harrison Street
at the east side of the Tube shall not turn to the left into the Tube or
cross Harrison Street Vehicles going nor th on Harrison Street at the west

side of the Tube shall not turn to the right

SEC 2
15
3 METHOD OF APPROACH
B BIGHT TURDt The operator
j3
of a vehicle intending to turn to the
right at an intersection or into any
alley or driveway shall approach e point of turning in the line of traffic
nearest the right hand edge e t

C3 oC s
e 3 3 8
o

28
 s
SEC 16
5
2 RIGHT TE7RNS EAY BE MADE Aright turn aha
ll iot
vehicle against a trafi
c
bemade at an int
pa
ersect the
hy ny
aof
eperator
ess pe
signal eun rinisafori o der sa is by the officer then directing
ed
diea
is
traffic at such iflYi
3ntersBA y
1x
0
1 z lt Y j
17
3
2 g EDVI Y
SLO TO R
S
C
i O HIG 1 The operator
of a slow moving vehicle xicl
tfxtAe r
p
t atd ctf y truck shall drive
auah vehicle ll times se sear
at s a
p
l
b
ioa
ao ta the right hated curb

V SAC 1 G
3
w Ib
R
iR UND Q AS T O
A
7 PROCEED IN OPPOSITE DIRECT ION

The psratar not

of s vehicle hall
rSthih tke Centred Traffic District or
M ith wen
npph lege
Co Avenue frb the r
er
tl
Eo line f
e a
g ts t the Sa fhern
ban au oa
srsssti
iut or where
eba turn a vehicle in
Ifs f
Q avenu
airc a ao as to prooee
e h
l n the oppcaite
on
direo
f k 73 Q
6
3
2
aG 6 G
X9 Y
SEC 2
19
3 G
Pi
32t RL IG SIDP
S
CRO ftALK The operator
of a emerging
vehiol fros alxey
rtfeway or garage shall stop such
immediately prior
vehicle sidewalk area
e
rnte
ng
driv extended across

as alley
g ray

SEC 220 LEFT TURNS EXCEPT AT INTERSECTION

3 Within the
Central Traffic District it shall be unlawful for the operator of any
vehicle to turn sash vehicle to the left except at an interaeetion
whether for the purpose of enterix or leaving a driveway or otherarise

SEC 2 7S ON SII
21 DRIVIIfG YEHIC7
3 LH he operator of a
1

y sidewalk area except at a regularly

vehicle shall sot drive within at
established and constructed driveway

SEC 2
22
3 CROSSING FIRE HOSE No street oar or vehicle shall
be driven over at
y unprotected hose of the Fire Department when laid down
on a street private driveway or street car track to be used at any fire

or alarm of fire without the consent of the Rire Marshal or the assistant
in command

SEC 2
23
3 BICYCLE RIDING STRICTED It shall be unlawftz to
ride a bicycle pon r sidewalk
an The rider of a bicycle upon a roadway
shall ride as nearly as practicable within five 5 feet of the right hand
curb or edge of the roadway except when passings standing or other ehicle
or making a left hind turn at an intersection

SEC 224 BIDING ON HAR

3 LE BARS PROHIBITED It shall be
unlawful fbr the operator of any bicycle or motorcycle when upon a street
y other person upon the bar handle or tank of any such vehicle
to parry at
or for any parson to so ride upon any such vehicle

C 2
81 TL TO DRIYC THROUGH FUN
25 UBLS
3 Wl RgL PROCESSION It
shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to drive between the
vehicles comprising a fwneral procession provided that auah vehicles are

oonapiauously so designated or authorized parade and the disposition and

directing of all vehicles and traffic on y street

ax over which auah proees
sion or parade wishes to pass shall be entirely sub
eat to the orders of the

Police Depa tment

SEC 2
26
3 CLINGING TO 1
OVIN YPHICLSS It shall be xnl
awfal
for at
Y person traveling upon ans bicycle motorcycle roller skates or
or attach himself or his vehicle
enJ tay vehicle to cling to to any
other moving vehicle ox street oar upon any roadway

SEC 27
3
2 tJSl OF COdSTERS ROLLER SKATES AND SIMILLIR DEVICES
RESTRICTED It shall be un
ul for t
awf ax person upon lex
ro skates or riding
in or by means of any coaster toy vehicle or similar device to go upon any
roadway n the Cetttral Traffic District or any business district

29
 J

of vehicle street
SEC 28 P
3
2 TN rAY
F IGHZ STOPS
F Every operato a

street interurban
ear or interurban car sh stop such vehicle car r car
j
be
de
may be
A

fore entering or crossing any mair through hi

y or
ht boulevard as

fined or established as such by the City of Oakland or otherwise by law when

there shall upon e
be tin highway intersecting said main through high
place
or boulevard sto located and constructed in the manner provided by
Uray s ns
the California Vehicle Act provided that the provisions of this section shall
be operative
non at such intersection when the traffic thereat is directed
y
ax
and controlled other traffic signal device
by an officer flagman semaphore or

281
3
2 CTION STOPS
INTERSI of vehicle street
SEC Every operator a

car or interurban car driving or operating on any street hereinafter in Sect

ions 282 2
3
2 283 and 2
3 284
3 designated shall before entering any inter
in said
section Sections 22
3
2 283 and 2
3
2 284 designated stop such
3
vehicle street car or interurban car at the entrance of such street upon which
he is so driving or operating to such intersection

The provisions of this section shall appl when there shall be in

place upon the street on which such operator is driving or operating at such
intersection stop signs located and constructed in the manner provided by the

California Vehicle Act that the provisions of this section shall be

provided
non
operative tititxexl the traffic at any such intersection is directed and con

trolled by an officer flagman semaphore or other traffic signal or device

As amended by Ordinance No 466 C

S passed
M December 26 1934

SEC 282
3
2 DESIGPTATED INTERSECTION STOPS Operators driving or
operating on Coolidge Avenue sha7
1 stop at the entrance of said Coolidge Avenue
to the intersection formed by ool Street
Sc

Operators driving or operating Nest on Hopkins Street shall stop at

the entrance of said Hopkins Street to the intersection formed by Canon Avenue
Operators drivin or operating Northeast on Hopkins Street shall

stop at the entrance of said Hopkins Street to the intersection formed by Adell
Court

Operators driving o r
operating East on East 18th Street shall stop
at the entrance of said East 18th Street to the intersection formed by Park
Boulevard As amended by Ordinance i
1
C
S 4 passed December 26 1934

SEC b
2
3
2 83ct
4
d d
SIGNAPE I
L466
No
DNS ECTION
lc
C
S
Sz F
OPS
rcth
erators driving south
west on Park Boulevard shall stop at the entrance of said F ark Boulevard to the
intersection formed East 18th Street
by

Operators driving or operating on East 14th Street shall stop at the

entrance of said East 14th Street to the intersection formed
by 94th Avenue

Operators driving or operating on Pleasant Valley Avenue and Mather

Street shall stop at the entrance of said Pleasant Valley Avenue and said Mather
Street to the intersectior formed by Piedmont Avenue

Operators driving or operating on Thornhill Drive shall stop at the

entrance of said Thornhill Drive to the intersection formed by Mountain Boulevard
As amended by Ordinance 2do 582 passed February 6 1936

SEC 3
2 EDSt
8DS TNTIa
C4TCIN
C
R STOPS Operators driving or

operating on Foothill Boulevard shall stop at the entrance of said Foothill

Boulevard to the intersection formed b y 55th Avenue
 or operating on San Leand Street shall stop at
Operators driving
the entrance of said n Leandro Street to the inters cion o
f rmed
by Hi4h
Street

East 14th Street shall at the

Operators driving or operating or stop
entrance of said East 14th Street to the intersection formed b y 90th Avenue

38th Avenue shall stop at the

Operators driving or operating on en

38th Avenue to the intersection formed Brookdale Avenue and

trance of said by
Penniman Avenue

Operators driving or
operating on Brookdale Avenue shall stop at the
to the intersection formed 38th hvenue
entrance of said Brookdale Avenue by

Penniman Avenue shall at the

Operators driving or
operating on stop
entrance of said
Pennimanf Avenue to the intersection formed by 38th Avenue As
amended by Ordinance No 516 C
S passed July
M 11 1935

SEC 285
3
2 IATED INTERSECTIOi STOPS
DESIGT Operators driving or

Trestle Glen Road all

sY at thc entrance of said Trestle Glen
operating ors stop
Road to the intersection formed Grosvenor Place
by

Avenue shall at the

Operators driving or operating on Brooklyn stop
entrance of said Brooklyn Avenue to the intersection formed by Athol Avenue

Operators driving or operating on Athol Avenue stop at the

shall en

trance of said Athol Avenue to the intersection formed by Brooklyn Avenue

The provisions set orth ir Section 281 of this Code

3
2 shall apply
to this section As amended by Ordinance 85
No S passed Dec
M
C 22 193b

SEC 2851
3
2 DESIGNATED ON STOPS
INTERSECTI a driving
Operator or

Sunnyhills Road shall stop at the entrance thereof tc the intersec

operating on

Road
tion formed by Grosvenor Place Hubert Road d said
ar Sunnyhills

Place l
sha at the
Operators driving or
operating on Cxrosvenor stop
entrance thereof to the intersection formed by Sunnyhills Road Hubert Road and

said Grosvenor Place

shall
The provisions set forth in Section 281 ofthis Code
3
2 apply
to this section As added by Ordinance No X725 C Iay 4 1937
passed 1

SEC 2852
3
2 DESIGNATED INTERSECTIOTd STOPS Operators driving or

Oakmore Road shall stop at the entrance thereof to the intersection

operating ors

formed eimert Place

I
by

Operators dr
ving or operating on Arden Place shall st cp at thv entrance

thereof to the intersection formed eimert Boulevard

by I

shall at the
Operators driving or
open ating on Leime rt Place stop
entrance thereof to the intersection formed by Oal
nore Ro d

The 281 of this Code shall aUloly

provisions set forth in Section 2
3
to this section As ed by grd
3
xf nce
in 43
No yI wssed June 10
C
S 37
1

SEC TAED INTERSECTIOt STOPS

2853 DESIGI
3
2 Operators driv
nL or

at the entrance thereof to the inter

operating on Foothill Boulev
rd h all stop
section formed 2nd
by venue
f

The provisions set forth in Section 3

2
2 81 of this Code sh
11 apl
o this
t Section
As added Ordinance No f181 TrI
C
S passed Oct 13 1937
 S 2854
3
2 DESIGNATED INTERSECI
J STOPS
Operttorti dr
inJ or operating on Leimert Boulevard shall
stop at the entrance thereof to the intersection forrned by
Arden Place r

cad 3
t
c
z3 sss
d
X93 ygr sq
C 7 Code shall
The provisions

to
set

this
ford in erection 2J1 of
2 this

apply section As added

by Ordinance
808 C
No Sp
i s@ n P
hP 1 937

SEC 280
3
2 n
vATi
DESIGl CTICN STOPS
C
TEhS
Ii
Operators driving or operatinM ors Fruity
ale kvenue shall
at h
t e
stop entrance o said le
tva
ru Avenue to the inter
section fora
ed by East 7t Streot The provisions set
forth in Section 2281 02 this Sode shall apply to this
3
section As added by Ordinance iio 6
1 C S passed
s
1
April 14 1936

SEC 61 DESIGP
8
2 ATED Iid
CTlO
iTERSL STOPS
Operators drivir or
operatin ors Duncan Nay shall stop
at the entrance of said Duncan ay
P o the
t intersection
formed said
by ay and Florence ATreirue

Operators drivinr or operating nort

erly on

Florence Avenue shall stop t the entrance of said Florence

Avenue to e
tl intersection formed said
by Avenue nd
a
Duncan ay

tors drivinh
Oper or op
t
r in in a resterly
south
direction on ce ae
Florer en shall
A stop at the eritr
cc o
r
said Florence wez
ue to the intersection formed by said
Avenue and iourtair Boulevard

Operators driving or
ratin on lountain
r
o1 Boulevard
shall stop at e entrance
r
t of sai rd to
P4ountain Boul
v the
intersection formed by said Boulevard and Florence livenlze

Tile provisions set orth z Sec

i 281 of tl
3
2 is
Code shall apply o t
is Section As added
by rdinance
o
P 836 IJ
C
S Uassed iarcl 8 938

C 2
SI 2862
3 D INT
AT
DESIG CT10I STOPS
i
S
EE
rators driving
Op or
operating ir a y
soutlierl n
ireetio on
d
Leimert ISOUlc
r
z d shall stop at he entrar
oe of said Leirrert
Boulevard to the intersection for
ed by said Boulevard and
Hoover Avenue

Operators driving or
operating in a esterly direction
v
on Hoover Avenue shall to
s at the entrance of said oo er
T u
r
Av
to the interjection formed saki Atirenue Leimert
by and Boulevard

The
provisions set forth in Section 2
281 of this
3
Code shall
apply to this section ins added b Ordinance l
o
851 1vi passed April 5 1938
C
S
 SFC 287
3
2 DESIGNnTED INTERSECTI STOPS
Operators ng or operating on 1
dr Iarket Strc shall stop

trance of said Market Street t

at tine c
r o the intersection

d
ne
for by 14th Street The provisions set forth in Section
281 of this
3
2 shall
Code apply to this Section ins
added 611 C
Ordinance
by Pdo 5 passed pril 14 1936
P

SEC 28 DLSIGT
3
2
s ATED IriTFRS
CCTIOiv STOPS

Operators driving or re shall

operating or argaricio Dri
stop at the entrance said arido of
ar Drive to the inter
i
ion formed
sec by said drive ar
d roadway T
rrace
c

ators
Oper inr
dri or tin
opsr or our F
m
kosE
t oad
shall op at
sc the tr
r
o
c
irf said oad to
r
Rosemov the

intersection formed b saki road zd

a Longrid Roa
c

The s sot
ior
provi forth in Section 21 of
3
2
this Code sha11 apply o this
t ctior
s ins nded
am l
b
Grdirance IVO 66 5 pass
P
C br 15
ter
Sc 1936

SEC 289
3
2 TLD INT
DESIGTi CTi0iv STOPS
RS1

OpF driving or operating or Country Club Drive shall

ors
rat
strop at the entr
nc of said Co ry Club Drivc to the
nt
intersection forrrec9 by said drive and Broad
vay L crrace

Operators driving or operating ors Semir

ary r venue
shall stop at the entrance of said Seminary uc
vcr to the
l
intersection forrze
i by lid
s seminary venue and alrut Street

rators drij
Op ing west on t Valle
r
Pleas isre
r
iue
shall stop at the erLtrancc of said Pleasant Valley nuo
vc
to the intersection forr
cd
by il
e 1
iora venue any oper
tors
ing
dri south
iv l
oraga venue shall
on
stop at the entr
ncc
of id i
r
s ioraga nue
ve to the inter section f
i ormd by V
nt
s
P1e
i
llcy The
venu

provisions set forth in Soc 2u1 this

2 of
3 Code
shall apply
to this section s amc by
d
nd
Ordinance No
653 C rJassed uul 30 l36
5
1 SEC

t
y bet
etiiiclc
2 Oi
29f rE
3 Y
the hours
ucon of
STr DETS
T
r
orson
io

7
1
shall

P on
1
arive

any d
r
ar
8
cc
strut
a

or st or
rrots punts strc or st rccts
t
of na od in this section
xccpt irthe direction the rein respecti lyin ic and
4ted
sha11 la
Te
n par
vehicle
o on
od any suci strec or
ts arts of
streets unless it is f acing ti
in direction
ce then n
i
i r dicatcd
Tha
Chief of Polio is hereby
authorized and directed to suitably indicate
these regulations by mar s or signs Ste
2 3 s J
G 7
d C tuda 7
9 a
2
3isb
Ra
 SgC 328 YAIA HI HiPA S PS Every operator of a vehicl street
d
x xrban car shall stop anah vehicle street oar
car or inter
ar
tterurb car
i
n
rmaia through highway
before entering or erossing
8 or boulevard as may
A or otherwise by
be defined or established as anah by the City of Oakland
said main
law when there shall be in plane neon the highway intersecting
boulevard stop signs located and constructed in the
through highway or

H manner provided by the California VehicleAct provided that the provisions

section shall be operative
son cosh intersection the
at any hen
1
a of this

r traffic thereat i s an officer flagman eemaphor

directed and aontrolled by
dev
M iM M
or other
affic2 i
t na 9r
4
i
N K EC 2
29
3 S go person shall drive aRy veh
O1Q8 YlY STRESl
between the hours of A Y on air street or streets or parts
and 7 P
of street streets named in this section except in the direction therein
or
on any anah streets
reapevtively indicated an8 shall leave no vehicle parked
or gams of streets esa
unl it i e aing
fb in the direation therein indicated
Police is authorized and direetec to suitably indicate
The
o Chief of hereby
t
these re ations by r
ts
qr signs zpn
3
2
s
u
Q e 3 oa
aJ 7f
2 3 y 6 yy Curd ki y
3
rly
west
a rt direction only
y
15th Street between Washington and Clay Streets in a

H 16th Street between San Pablo Avenw

e and Telegraph avenue in a

direation only
m westerly w
T

SEC 230 AEy PAyE

3 TS 1 o person shall ride or drive any

vehicle over or across a p avement or sidewalk newly laid or repaired across

or around which there has bees planed a barrier or at or near which there

is a personsign warning persons against riding or driving over such

or a

gavemtnt sign
orstating that the street is closed
a The provisions of

ly engaged in the paving

this actioa shall not apply to the employees aatzaa3
or repair of such pavements

SEC 2
31
3 DRIYIRG VEHICLES FOR ADVERTISIRG It shall be un

lawful for any person to leave standing drive or operate exclusively or

r street
primarily for advertising pxrposea any vehicle on or upon at in

the Central Traffic Zaistriat as now or hereafter

eatabrish
SEC 2
32
3 FIAE Rl S
aPP YrJlY 1111 fire engines
RIGHT OF
boas wagons and other movable
apparatus of the Fire Department and Fire
patrol shall have the paaramount right of way through all the streets lanes
and aoarts of the City of Oakland when running to afire and
alleys places
all such apparatus shall take and Peep the right side of the street unless
the same be obstructed All other vehicles excepting street or railroad
cars upon the approach of any engine hose wagon or other apparatus of the
forthwith the right of aril remove to the aide
Fire Department shall give racy
o the street opposite to the aide of the street taken by such engine hose
wagon or other apparatus o fthe lire Department

All street Dare within one hundred 100j feet of such engine hose
wagon movable
or apparatus going to a fire shall imuaediately atop in order
to give the apparatus of the Fire 1epartment and the Fire Patrol the unob
structed mss of the street for the time beia
g

Any person or persons having the control of any vehicle wilfully

or carelessly permitting the same to obstruct the progress of the apparatus
of the Fire Department or Fire Patrol going to a fire shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor

N
c

r c
r

rr 2 3 j
1 t
 operator of
SAC 333
2 G ABTA
t
PAEiK
AO It shall bedanlawfttl
vehicle to stop ar leave standing such vehicle in any of the
a
for the 3 i

following places except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffie
or in
compliance with the direction oP a police officer traffic officer
or traffic
sign yr signal

1 In an intersection 2 In
crosswalk 3 Between a safety
a

zone ad3acent
and curb or within fifteen
15 feet of a point on the y
rb
immediately opposite the end of a a afety cone 4 In front of the main
entrance to apolice station hospital or in front of the entrance to

any hotel rooming house or apartment house of five 5 stories or more in

a height 5 In such BoParking areas as may be d8fined restablished by
the City of Oakland

ih The areas referred to in subdivisions

three four and five of this sec
M tion shall be designated by playing and
maintaining red paint or other red
materiel upon the entire curb surface of such area
l
t provided however that
if there is no such curb surface
appropriate signs shall be played on the
areas of the streets or highways to b e so designated with letters of a wise

to be clearly legible from a distance of fifty 50 feet

along said street or
highway The provisions of subdivision three
3 of this section however
shall be operative
whether ey are
3 31 d
Z dd 1 8 not
4
o
3 CtiU9 Lx e ignate
so A o
Q
e
A

r 34 i
3
2 OdDING ANES ng the times sp eyi Pied herein
Dpri
ob it shall be unlawfal for an
operator to stand ansy passenger vehicle for a
period of time longer than fa necessary for the loading or unloading of paseen
gera providing such loading or unloading shall not consume more than three
3 minutes or for an operator to stand any commercial vehicle for a period
of time longer than is necessary to
load unload and deliver materials
provided that the loading mnloading and delivery of such materials shall
not consume more than thirty 30 minutes in any of the followi laeest
70
1 In anQr loading so ne
defined
established by the City of
or

Oakland between the hours of 7 A and 6 P

M of any day Sundays and
holidays excepted

2 At any place along the curb before the entrance to a public

building between the hours of 7 A and 6 P of ar r day except Sundays
and holidays

3 At any playa along the ourb before the entrance to any theater
during thehours such theater is open for business

The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section shall be

indicated by placing and maintaining yellow paint or other yellow material
upon the entire curb surface within the areas designated and the provisions
of this section shall be operative as to each area designated
only when the
same shall be eo indicated said painting to be done by the
Departmept of
Streets p

The provisions of p ragrsph of this aeytioa shall tie indicated

by placing and maintaining appropriate signs of a type approved by the
Chief of Police at each end of the curb surface included in the area
designated
and the provisions of said paragraph ah all be operative as to each area so
designated only when the same is av indicated

SLC 235 PARALLEL ABKING

3 t shall be unlawful for the
operator of a vehicle to stop stand or park such vehicle in a street other
than parallel with the curb ai with the two 2 right head
wheels of the
vehicle within one 1 foot of the regularly establish
d oarb line except
upon those streets or por Lions thereof upon which angle parking
ma b
permitted by section of the City Council and where such angle is parking
aeasgnated as hereinafter in Section 2
36
3 provided

3I
 SEC 236 A1
3 GLE PARKING Streets or portions thereof span which
ao or otherwise marking
angle parking is permitted shall be designated by painting
of the lines at an angle with the curb of not leas
upon the surface roadway
five 25 degrees and nat to ezceed thirty
than twenty five 35 degrees
a half fir feet
the distance between amid lines to be not lase than aiz and
and not to exceed seven and a half 7 feet It shall be unlawful for the
in a street or
operator of a vehicle to stop stand or park such vehicle
portion thereof marked fur angle parking other than at the angle
to the curb
between said
p thereof indicated by said lines and other than in the apace
a line a Any provisions permitting angle parking shall be opereative only when
lines
V the same shall be indicated by such line a such painting or marking of
to be done by the Depaxtment of Streets excepting therefrom any portion of
such street or streets capon which no parking is permitted and
ur whioh are
loading zones

37 PARALLEL PAR
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Il IAUIMG OR UNLOADING he
3
SEC
perator of a ehiole shall not stand or park sash vehicle in a roadway
to exceed
while 1
a the same other than at an angle n
ding or anl
oading t
with the physically satablished curb line and
five X45 degrees
forty
whioh the traffic is moving
Easing the direetivn in

SEC TTt PARKING

38
3
2
YII
FORTY It shall be unlawful for the

operator of any vehicle to leers such vehicle standing for a period of time
minutes hours Y and 6 P of
of S A
greater than forty 40 between the

any day ezaept Sanday and holidays on any street or any part of any street
which may be defined or designated by the City of Oakland as forty 40
minute which areas shall be indicated by the ereotion and
parking
areas
2
mainte of approppriate signs on each o k to which such area applies
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PARKING ON DAJSS AFENUE
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Parking on the south aide 9
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ct of doss Avenue etrreen Medmant Avenue and 3readway shall tie lawful between S

o the hoar a o f9 0 Y and 4

dloak A 0 clock P qA d y 1
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s the time

be indicated by the maintenance of appropriate signs in this

period of
parking
area
there

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SEC 240 PARKING FOR DEMONSTRATION
3 It shall be unlawful for

fibs operator of any vehicle to park th same upon any street in the City
of Oakland for the purpose of demonstrating it or displaying it for sale
x
k

SEC 241 EARLY Er1RAING PARKING

3 No persons shall leave airy
vehicle standing oa any street between the hours of 2 A
Id and 5 A M anleas

such vehicle is in service during the tim

SEC 2
42
3 HOUR PARKING
T11Y0 It shall be mlawful for the
operator of any vehicle to leave shah vehicle standing for a period of time
greater than two 2 hears between the h urs of 9 A pt and 8 P Y of any

Sutaday and holidays on any street or any part of any street which
day ezoept
may be defined or designated by the City of Oakland as two
hour parking areas
whioh areas shall be indicated by the ereotion and maintenance of appropriate

na
ai on each block to which sash area
applies

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SEC 32
4 3 PARKING AREAS FOR CITY OFFICIALS CARS The Nest
side of Washington Street from 14th Street to 15th Street is hereby set
aside and reserved for parking official bars between the boars of 8 A
i and
8 P
lki daily Sundays and holidays excepted provided that no parking shall
J be permitted on the Testerly side of fashington Street immediately in front
o the entrance to the City Fall
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vehicles belonging to the City 2 vehicles used by officers or employees
of the City while on official city business provided such last mentioned
vehicles shall have in plain view in the driverta compartment a permit
signed by the Chief of Police and approved by the City manager

awful for any person to park stay ehicle other

It shall be uh3
than those
above designated in said reserved space during the periods
above mentioned

SBC PARKING AREAS F4R POLICE CARS

23
44 It shall be unlawful

r vehicle to leave such vehicle accepting vehicles

for the operator of an
owned and used for police work by the State of California any County City
acidCounty City Town or icipalit
ur standing on say
l of the following
streets and parts of streets in the City of Oalrlands

The north side of Fourth Street from the eastern line of Washington
Street to a seven 87
point eighty feet easterly reof
th

e seat side of ashington Street Prom the northern line of

Fbuxth Street to the eoathern line of Fifth Street

The south aide of Fifth Street from the eastern line of Washington
Street to a seven 87
point eighty feet easterly thereof

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45 UjSE OF GdRBA 1GONS RLSTBICTED It shall be
unlawful for any person to drive or l save standing any vehicle used for
the collection or transportation of garbage swill or other objectionable
er in the Central Traffic District between the hours of 1Ot00 A
raatt Bd and
6100 P of any day or to cause or permit such vehicle while loaded to
remain standing upon any pgblic street or other public place in the City
of Oakland for a period longer than ten 1C miautea accepting at the
place designated by the City Ceuacil as the dumping place for suoh garbage
or refatse matter

SEC 46
23 LBAGTH OF VEHICI
S Between the hours of 8 A
and 6 P
Di it shall be unlawful to drive in the Central Traffiv District
two or freight vehicles hitched together tandem or arty freight
more
vehioles drawn by more than four horses or any hay wagon or Oil wagon or

vehicle the total length of which together with its load shall
arsy Freight
exceed forty 40 fit or the total width of which shall a seed ten lO

feet or atiy vehicle filled with earth unless suoh earth shall have been
taken from or to sums excavation within one of said districts in which case
such vehicle must at the first opportunity leave said district and proceed
to its destination by some route other than through said district The
provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles transporting
materials to be used in the eonstruation or repair of streets or buildings
within said district or to vehioles transporting theatrical scenery
telephone or telegraph poles to be used within said district

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 SEC OFFICERS NAY 3VE VEHICLES
47
3
E All police officers
et or other public
to olear auy atr
are herebyauthorised when neoeasary

oe open to vehicular travel of any and all vehicles left atarxting

pls
thereon whether ooeupied or unocoupied and to that end such officers
are me convenient nearby place
authorised to move such vehicles to ae
This section is not to be construed to authorise any police officer to tamper
with any look or other lawfa
l device upon any vehicle or to break the glass
or other parts thereof

SEC 48
3
2 G YLHiCI
xEPAIRII ES OH HIGHi
AY It shall be unlawful
for say person to construct or cause to b eonatruated or repair or oause
to be repaired any vehicle or any part thereof upon any publio street
excepting temporary repairs in case of aeoident

SEC 2
49
3 GS Any person operating
SfiOPPING AT TRAIN CRQSSII
a v chicle on a public street soroas which are laid steam or interurban or
street oar traoke shall bring said vehicle to a full stop within not less
than ten 101 feet nor more than fifty SOS
feet from the nearest rail of

the track nearest to the frost of said vehiole whenever the approaoh of a
an or street ear including passenger
steam or eleotric locomotive interuri
or freight sate is indicated or signalled by sound of a bell attached to a
said traoks the motion
poet ereoted on the public street in the vicinity of
ag or by the lowering of gate
of a wig or gates or by the motion or noise
cf any other signal or automatic device or by the tion posture r
m
said vehiole stationary
gesticulation of a human flagman and shall keep
until such steam or eleotric locomotive interurban or street oar train
including passenger or freight Dare shall have entirely passed over across
and beyond the curb lines eztended of the street upon which such vehicle ie
operated provided however that such person need not keep said vehicle
stationary after he has ascertained by looking and listening that the
sound of the said bell the motion of the wigwag or the motion or noise of

any other signet or automatic uaed by defect disarrangement or

device is e

lank of order therein or by steam or eleotric locomotive commercial steam

interurban or acreet car train car or oars of any desoription inclu
ting
rcial passenger or freight oars which
street Data interurban Dare or oomm
are stationary or which have passed over the crossing

SEC HEADY LOADS 4N STREETS IN RESTRICTED DISTRICT

50
3
2 No

vehicle of any kind or operated or moved upon

nature whatsoever shell be
or over any of the streets 51 designated without
hereinafter in Section 2
3
a permit as provided in this seotion when the total weight of vehicle and

load eaceede four and one half 4 tons

Tyie of Streets may by written permit authorise

Superintendent
the operation of ehiele or vehicles upon any of the streets hereinafter
a

in Section 5
3
2 1 set forth when the ttal weight of auoh vehiole or
vehicles eaeeeda the maximum weight prescribed in this aection
if in the
judgment of the Superintendent of Streets streets upon suoh vehicle
whic2
be Dan safely withstand the additional weight Suoh permit
ie to operated
shall be granted upon auoh conditions and upon depositing such bond as

the Shperintendent of Streets may in his discretion require

2
5
3 1 RESTRICTED DISTRICTS
SEC The s treats referred to in

Section 2
50
3 are deaoribed ae follows Lakeshore Jlvenus from Twelfth
barcadero Harrison abnle
Street to I from Teentieth Street to Twenty
ars
fourth Street amt Bay Place Snake Roafl from fountain Boulevard to Skyline
Boulevard Skyline Boulevard frrom Tunnel Road to Redwood Goad Slgrline
Ettenaion from Skyline Boulevard to Joaquin Filler Road Shepherd Car
Yon
Road from Snake Road to Slgrline Boulevard I
untain Boulevard from Redwood
Road to Calaveras Avenue Mountain Boulevard Prom Redwood Road to the
interseotion of Snake Road and Moraga Road Joaquin 3ifller 8oad from 3ioun
t
a a Road from Piedmazzt City Limi
43 Boulevard to Skyline Boulevard ttora a

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to bbuntain Boulevard Lincoln Avenue from Hopkins H treet to Joaquin Miller
i
Rv fountain Boulevard from Seminary Avenue to Sequoia Road Golf Goatee
second Avenue and lroothill Boulevard to nioipal Golf
Boad from Eighty
Course Mountain Boulevard from Florence Street to Willard Avenue Late Drive
from Oak Street to Harrison Boulevard Tunnel Road from Berkeley City Limits
to Slgrline Boulevard Fish Ranch Boad from Stonewall Road to Contra Costa
County Limits Maitland Drive from the eastern City Limits of the City of
Oakland to the City Limits of the
tern
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SEC 2
52
3 RAILWAY TRAINS AND STREET ARS I
C OT TO BLOCK STREE
T
rful for the operator of any steam interurban or street
It shall be unle

railway train or car to operate the same in such manner as to prevent the
use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than

five 5 minutes

SSG 25 STREET BAILt

3 AY ALMS AT CROSSINGS It shall be

unlawful for any person operating or in charge of anryinterurban or street

oar to vases or permit the same propelled across any street ig
to be the
City of Oakland without having sounded an alarm gong or bell while within

a distance of from fifty 50y to five 25 feet of the street about

tvrenty
to be crossed

SEC 54
3
2 STREET CARS SPOPPING AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS It
shall be unlawful for any person having charge control of ana
care or

street railway oar operated within the City of Oakland to vause or permit
ah oar to Dross any railroad track over which trains or railroad engines
su
are operated without bringing the said street railway car to a full stop

immediately before crossing such railroad track

SEC 255 SPEED OF RAILROAD A STREID

3 P CARS It shall be un

lawful for any person owning operating or controlling arty electric atraet
railway oar railway engine or Dare propelled by steam to cause or permit
e to attain a greater maximum rate of speed than fifteen 15 miles
the ses

per hour in any of that portion of the C1ty of Oakland bounded on the north
by the northerly line of Twenty
second Street on the east by the easterly
Oak on the south by the southerly charter line of the
line of Street
City of Oakland and on the west by the westerly line of Market Street

SSG 2
56
3 RAILROAD TRAINS PASSING IN FIRE LIMSTS It shaa
l
be unlawful for trains drawn or propelled by steam engines to meet or

pass asoh other within the Fire Limits of the City of Oakland

SEC 257 RAILROAI CROSSINGS FLAN

3 All persons owning
or controlling or operating any i
ailroa or railroads upon Seventh First or

Webster Streets or upon Railroad Avenue or upon Stanford Avenue in the

Qstation flagmen and keep said

City of Oakland are hereby required
t
flaAnen so stationed at the following points during the hours of the day
ned to
or night hereinafter menti wit

At the intersection of Seventh and Market Streets at the

intersection of Seventh and Jefferson Strsete at the intersection of
Seventh and tashington Streets at the intersection of Seventh Street and
Broadway at the intersection of Seventh and Franklin Streets at the inter
section of Seventh and Febater Streets at the intersection of Park Avenue

ay during the hours that local trains for San

and Railroadd right
7
of
Francisco Alameda Oakland and Berkeley are in operation also at the
intersection of First and Itarket Streets at the intersection of First and
Grove Streets at the intersection of First and Cley Streets at the inter
section of First and Washington Streets between the hours of six 6 o clock
M and seven 7 o
A olook PM also at the intersection of San Pablo
Avenue and Stanford Avenue during the hours of the day or
night that rail
road trains are in operation upon said Stanford Avenue

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 SEC 258 RAILROAD CROSSINGS
3 GATES AND S HYfAPHORES No

person owning operating or controlling any railroad

train apon First
Seventh or Webster Streets or upon Railroad Avenue or Stanford Avenue in

the City of Oakland shall cause or permit the said railroad train
or any

part thereof to pass say of the points specified in Section 5

3
2 7 during
the respective hours therein pacified until the flagmaxi there stationed
shall signal him or them to do eo It ie further provided that should
trains along Seventh First or
any person operating or controlling railroad
Webster Streets or along Railroad Avenue or Stanford Avenue in the City

of Oakland erect maintain and operate good and substantial crossing gates
y of the eroasinga at which flagmen are in said Seotion 2
at an 57 required
f
and signal trains over and across by semaphores operated in oon3unction with
such crossing gates by men stationed in towers nearby during the hours is
said section specified it shall be considered as full compliance with the

terms of said Seotion

SEC AD CROSSINGS
59
3
2RAIL WAG SIGNALS
SIG person
owning controlling or operating any railroad yr railroads upon Seventh
wag signal at the
Street in the City of Oakland may install and maintain swig
intersection of said Seventh Street and Webster Street or the intersection
and
of said Seventh Street and Franklin Street in lieu of keeping flagmen stationed
at said respectite intersections ae provided in Seotion 57 provided
3
2
wag signals shall be maintained i
however that such wig a operation during
the hours specified in said section as the hours during which Plagmen
mast be
stationed at said intersections and provided further that no person owning
controlling or operating a railroad train upon Seventh Street shall c
auae
or permit the said railroad train or any part thereof to pass over either
of said intersections at Webster Street and Franklin Street until the signal
in
placed there in lieu of said flagmen shall have been placed operation

SEC 60
3
2 PHORBS AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS OF STREET RIILROADS
SSd
All persons owning or operating a railroad or railr
ads by steapn
ln the City
of Oakland shall erect maintain and operate a semaphore at each street where
the said railroad crosses the tracks of any street railr
ad and each of said
semaphores shall be constantly operated at all times when steam ears or
locomotives approach the same and no conductor engineer or ether person
having charge or control of any such steam railroad or any part thereof
shall cause or permit the same to Dross any track of any street railway in
the City of akland unless the semaphore is maintained and operated at auoh

crossing

SEC 261 WIG

3 SAG SIGNALS AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS All peraonlr

owning or controlling or operating any railroad or rai ads n First and

up
Webster Streets First and Franklin Streets and First rest and Broadway

in the City of Oakland 1

sha install and maintain a ally operated wig
ma
tower ax3d keep said manually operated signal
wad
wig in operation
wag signal
four hours of the day and night
at the aforesaid intersections during twenty
and no person owning operating or controlling any railroad train Capon any
of said streets shall cause or permit the said railroad train or any part
thereo P to pass at the said points of intersection until the said signal
shall have been placed in operation

SEC 62
3
2 RAILROAD TIINPEL3 AND RIGHTS OF WAY It shall be
for any person to trespass in any railroad tunnel situated
unlawful wholly
or within the City of Oakland or upon the railroad track or
partly right
of way within auoh tunnel

SEC 63
3
2 D O1 BRIDGES
SP8 It shall be unlawful for any

person to drive or operate or cause to be driven or operated

1 vehicle
a
or across the draw of what is known and denominated as the
aloes upon
Fark Street Bridge or the High Street Bridge in the City of Oakland at a

ter than five 5

rate of speed fa ti o
mile hocu J

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 TRAFFIC IA POSEY TUBS

A ay
3 64 POSEY TUBE IARCE IT REGIILATIONS
COIdPI It shall
SEC 23
b unlawful for any person to drive or operate or to be driven or
ifG cause
that portion of the Tube under the San
operated any vehicle in or through
limits of the City of Dakland
tonio Batuary which lies within the vorpors
te
lationa hereinefter in
eavept in strivt compliance with the rules and reg
65 2
vtions 2x3
S 66 2
3 67 2
3 68 and 2
3 69 of this Artfcle set
3
forth y e
J i z
f vf i t
t
SEC 26
3 P4SEY LIGffi CBE
S NQISE SPEND SEUKING All
vehicle head iahed on entering the Tube
ghta or spotlights shall be ezting
referred to in Section 2
64
3

The use of Data horns sirens

vat whistles or any other noise
making device in the said Tube is prohibited

No vehicle shall proceed faster than twenty 2DJ miles per hour

in said Tube unless direvted by an officer

Smoking in the Tube is prohibited

No shouting or boisterous conduct shall be permitted in the

y
Tube in or round Portal i
or
y
dingy
SEC 2
6
3 POSEY E VEHICLES No rider of a bivycle
shall ride n roadway ore on a lkcf the Tube referred to in
aidewe
Section 264 of this Article
3

Horse drawn iehielea are prohibited from using the Tube

Nv hand or push carts vara or wheel barrows or similar vehicles

shall be allowed in the Tribe Vehicles which by design or defect are no t
Dap able of a speed of five 5 miles per hour on an adverse grade of four
and five tenths per vent 4 shall not be driven or operated on roadway
of the Tube

No vehicle shall enter the Tube if any part of such vehicle or

if its load is more than thirteen 13 feet aiz 6 inches above the Drown
of the roadway ooahicle shall be
B driven in the Tube if the total outside
width of said vehicle or the load dninety
therein shall eaoe aiz 96
inches nor shall any part of the load
projevt ahead or behind mere than
two 2 feet unless such projecting part has displayed on the eztreme
end a red flag or cloth not less than aizteen 16 inches square

No vehicle designed for the varrying of passengers shall be opera

ted in the Tube having any luggage baggages trunks crates boxes or any
other load varried thereon extending beyond the line of the hubcap mere

than siz 6 inches

pnq vehicle machine or equipment not an ordinary motor vehicle

is prohibited from using the Tube unless a special permit is obtained from
the County Surveyor of Alameda County limiting and directing said use
of the Tube

SEC 2
67
3 POSEY TUBE TRAFFIC LANES SIGNALS The roadway
of the Tube referred 64 of this Artfele
to in Sevtion 2
3 shall constitute
two traffic lanes The Eastern half of said
one roadway shall be a lane
for half of
north bound traffic and the eatern one roadway for South
bound traffic A oenter line will indicate the different lanes

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 No driver shall ezcept at exits of Tube leave the traffic lane
turn into enter any part of any
in which he is facing and shall not or

other traffic lane unless direoted by an officer and shall not unless
direction
officer pass any other vehicle traveling in the same
direoted by an

the center of the

Traffic signals provided throughout the Tube in
ceiling and at the entrances shall be obeyed as follows Green signal light
shall indicate that a lanais clear and that traffic shall proceed red signal
shall indicate that a lane is closed and that traffic shall halt
light

Yellow yr signals shall indicate that engines of

STOP ENGINE
all motor vehicles stopped at once and remain stopped until green
shall be light
for traffic to ahead Eaginea shall not be started until ao
again appears move

indicated by ai final or directed by an officer

SEC 68
3
2 POSEY TUBE PROCEEDING DISTANCE STOPPING No

driver shall obstruct a traffic lane in the Tube referred to in Section 2

64
3
of this Article by slow driving parking or stopping ezcept as directed by a
traffic officer nor shall any repairs be made on arty motor vehicle or any
tires be taken off or changed within the Tube nor shall any gasoline be handled
therein in an open container

No driver shall proceed unless the lane is clear or as directed by

an officer and shall not approach nearer than fifty 50j feet to any other
vehicle in the same traffic lane whether moving or standing unless direoted

by an officer

No driver shall endanger traffic to his by stopping or slowing

rear

down suddenly without making the hand signals prescribed by the State motor
vehicle act or otherwise giving warning to the driver of the vehicle in the
rear of his intention to
slow down or atop

All drivers of vehicles or passengers thereof where such vehicles

are stopped in the Tube shall remain in such vehicle unless otherwise directed

by an officer

69 MOSEY TUBE
3
2
SEC PEDESTRIANS FIRE ExTINGUISHERS EQUIP
TT
shall enter o r Dross the roadway of the Tube referred to
N pedestrian upon
64 of this Article ezcept as direoted by an officer
in Section 2
3

No person shall remove any fire eztinguiaher from niahea provided

ezcept for fire purposes and in no case shall remove such eztinguishera from

the Tube or subject extinguishers to hard and unwarranted usage

No unauthorized person shall tamper or interefere with or disturb

er equipment of the
Tube
any telepho e signal lighting o o

3
z AIRCRAFT

SEC 270 AIRCRAFT

3 FLYING IN AND OVER CITY It shall be unlaw

ar airman as defined by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 adopted by the

ful for y
Congress of the United Staten of America or other person to navigate or fly
the City of Oakland or Land anrY aircraft upon
any aircraft over the area of
or fly the same from arty part of the City otherwise than in conformity with
the air traffic rules and other
provisions of the Air Commerce ations
RegW
as established by the United States Department of Commerce eronautica Branch
under the authority of the said Air Commerce Act

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 SEC 71
3 AIRCRAFT SLICENSE
PILOT It shall be unlawful
for az
y airman or other person to navigate any airoraft over land upon
or take off from any part of the city or serve as an airman in connection
with any airoraft therein unless e uch airman or other person possesses
a proper certificate or license issued under authority of the secretary of
Commerce of the United States upon ezaamination of euah person as to his
fitness ezperience and other qualifications or otherwise as provided in
the said Air Commerce Regulations

SRC 2
72 AIRCRAFT
3 REGISTERED AND LICENSED It shall be
unlawfull for any airman yr other person to navigate auy airoraft from to
over or upon any part of the city ezcept airoraft which has been registered
or licensed under authority of the secretary ci Conmerce of the United States
and rated as to air
worthiness in accordance with the
provisions of the said
Air Commends Begalations No registered but unlicensed airoraft shall be
flown ever or operated in arm part of the city ezoept on or within two miles
of the Oakland 1V
iicipal Airport

SBC 73 AIRCRAFT
3
2 T
S
R IDEI IINLICENSED PILOTS
NON Any
resident unlicensed
non airman other non
or resident Berson vrithout laavful
authority as herein
provided landing an3r aircraft in the city from srr place
beyond its boundaries ozf azay person flying arty unlicensed airoraft into the
r city shall depart therefrom within twenty
four 24a hours provided however
the Chief of Police may grant such person written permit to keep such airoraft

grounded in said city for a longer period provided such aircraft is not
navigated in the meanwhile Having once taken off from the ground the
return of any such aircraft to any part of the city except on or within two

21 miles of the municipal airport in case of registered planes shall be

deemed a violation of this Article

SEC 274 AIRCRAFT

3 CARRYING PASSENGERS It shall be unlawful
for any person to parry sway passengers in a17Jr airoraft for hire or reward
unless such person possess a license as a transport pilot or as a limited
commercial pilot in accord with the said air oomaerce regulations in Section
70 of this Article referred to
3
2

SEC 2
75
3 AIR COERCE REGULATIONS ADOPTED Fbr the purposes
of this Article the said Air Commerce Regulations of the United states
Department of Commerce effective June let 1928 and August 1st 1928 as
published in Information Bulletin No 7 of the Aeronautics Branch of said
Department s copy of which bulletin has been heretofore filed with the City
Clerk are hereby adopted by reference and made apart hereof as fully as
if the same and each and all of them and every part thereof were
completely
set forth herein

sEC 276 AIRCRAFT

3 Rt1MLNT SERFICE
E
GOV Officers and members
of the United States Array and Navy or the lVFarine Corps and offia
iala of
the United states while actively engaged in the operatic of aircraft in
the service of the goveraument shall not be subject to the provisions of this
Article relative to airoraft

SEC 277 AIRCRAFT

3 APPLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION Nothing in
this Article relative to Aircraft shall be construed to apply to or inter
fere with the conduct or management of the Oaklarxl inioipal or Airport
the Plying operation supervision of aircraft in connection Cherewith
or

So far as applicable the provisions of this Article relative to Aircraft

shall be deemed to be in addition to arty rules and regralations provided for
the use of snob airport by the Board of Part Ccrmmiseionere of the
City of
Oakland 1Fhere a flying field is proposed to be located in the Port Area
of the City application therefor must be made ezclusively to said
Board
and its approval secured

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ORDINANCE N0 27S C
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OAKLAND IIGIPAL CODE

Mt

PASSED DECEl
IBER 22 t
193
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F
E DECEMBER
23 1932

Nate For a11 amendments and additions to

Ord 278 S O
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t see binders cantain
ing complete record of each section with amendments
thereto and any additions to the OC showing
M
Ordinances amending etc
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SEG 28 AT113ITIONAL PENALTIES A
3 tD DISPOSITION OF FINS In
addition to other penalties provided fer the violationof air provisions
oP this Article the Couxt may for a definite period suspend cr revoke an

sor
oparator s
chauffeur license upon conviction of the licensee for
violation of an of the provisions of this Article

All fines and forfeitures under the provisions of this Article

shall be paid into the City Treasury of the City of Oakland

ARTICLE 4
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SEG 2
01
4 INGS CONSTITUTING A R
BIIII NAGL TO PUBLIG SAFETY
Any building or other Structure a situated within the fire Ii
aits of the
Gity of Oakland b of wood ras
d
e construction and c go constructed
as to more than ordinarily endanger the safety of
as therein in Dees
pers
of firs or so situated as to more than ordinarily endanger other buildings
or property in the vicinity in case of fire or so constructed or situated
as to render the Same peculiarly susceptible to fire from with
wor without
or

Andy building or other Structure in the City of Oakland which by

reason of rot weakened ointS walls floors underpinning roof ceilings
or insecure foundation or other vause has become so dilapidated or deterior
ated as to endanger the safety of persona therein or nearby

IS hereby declared to be a building constituting a menace to

public safety

SFG 2
42 BOAR flF COND
4 ATION IiE RINGS AOTiGE The
Board of Condemnation is hereby created and shall consist of the City
anager the Building Inspector ani the Chief of the Fire Depar
B nent
Said Board is hereby granted the power after hearing to con

clusively find and determine whether any building constitutes a menace to

public safety as defined in Section 2OI of this Article
4 Said Beard
may ag part of said hearing inspect gush building and the facts observed
by said Board at such inspection shall constitute evidence upon which it
may base its findings

Notice of hearing shall be n by

giv the Beard by posting in a

conspicuous place on the

at least ten lO days prier to the date
building
of hearing a notice directed to alt persons having or claiming any interest
in the building designating the building sought to be condemned the ground
therefor and the time and place of hearing A Dopy of said notice shall be
sent by registered mail at Ieast ten 1 days prior to such
hearing to each
owner at his last known address or if such address
cannot after due dili
gence be ascertained then to said owner at Oakland California

For the purposes of this Artiaie ownerTM is defined to mean the

holder holders of the record title and all recorded interests therein
or

on the day upon which the notice of hearing iS issued

SBC 2
03
4 FINDINGS OF BOARD OF CON
4NATION Whenever said
3
referr to in Section 2
Board d 02 of this Article shall have so determined
4
that s building constitutes a menace to public safety it shall
thereupon
aonalusively find and determine what repairs or alterations are necessary
or whether the total destruction of such building is necessary in order that
such building shall cot constitute a nienaae to public safety Said Board
shall also concluaivsly determine and find the length of time necessary to
complete such repairs altersticmrt or destruction such time to begin to
run upon service of findings and said Board may for good os e extend such
s
for
time not to exceed thirty 3Oj days

a
 The findings of the Board shall be in writing aril she
1be served
7
upon the owner personally and if after due diligence he cannot be found

shall in lieu thereof bs posted far ten IOy days in a conspicuous place
on the building

SEC 44
4
2
LIA1GCE I2
COit 3IBGS OF B4A14U 4F NA2
H FIIQ CONDF
IO1T
It shall be unlawful artyfor
owner of
any building which has been found by
the Board of Condemnation to constitute a menace tc public safety as in
this Article provided to fail after service of findings as provided in Sso
tivn 2
43 of this Article to destroy alter or repair such building in
4
accordance with the findings of the Beard axbd within the time allowed by the
Board provided shoh owner has the legal power to so destroy alter yr repair
suoh building awd it shall be unlawful fflr any owner after he has rec ived
the notice of hearing above provided to disable himself from d
stroying
ririg
aIt or repairing such building Fach day
st silure to so alter
8estrvy or suah building shall constitute a distinct ar
rspair iseparate
offense

SIC 2r4a05 BUILDIAGS CONSTITUTI

GP
i tJBLIC N
TISANCffi ry
building constituting a menace to public safety as the saws is defined in

Ssativn 42
x4 of this Article and every building found by the Board of Con
2
demnation as provided for in this Article to conetituts
a menace to
public
safety shall if not destroyed altered yr repaired within the time allowed
by and in accordance with the findings of the Board be deemed arxl every
such building is hereby declared to bs a public nuisance and
every such
nuisance may be abated summarily or by civil notion

SEC 4fi
4
2
STEAM B4ILlyRS A ENGI
S PffilMI T It sha11 be
unlawful for any parson to erect to be
or cause erected or to maintain or
use any steam engine and boiler or steam boiler in the City of Oakland
without having obtained a permit therefor from the City Manager
open the
approval of the Fire Marshal which permit may be granted for a period not
exceeding one year and such permit shall not bs
granted unless the applicant
therefor shall file and hale exlnszed to his
application therefor a asrtificate
of the soundness of construnticn of such steam angina and boiler or steam
boiler signed by the manvt
sotursr thereof or by a competent engineer why
must also bs a competent boiler inspector provided however that fn the
granting or refusal of suoh permit the City ll
anager shall exercise a reason
able and sound discretion taking into consideration the character of the
applicant and the intended location of such steam engine and boiler or
steam bailer

A
p pliaation for such permit shall be made
in writing shall bs
filed with the Fire Marshal and shall specify the name of the person seek

ing the permit and the proposed looation of such steam engine and boiler
or steam boiler Such permit shall not be transferable and shall apply
only to the location specified iu the application and shall l
e revocable
at the will of the City Manager upon the approval of the Firs Marshal
The right of appeal provided for in Section 5 C8 of this Cade shall
2
apply
to any action taken on any permit or application for permit as provided
herein

All steam engines and boilers and steam boilers shall be constru
eted
erected and maintained subject to the approval of the Fire pfarshal

SEC 247 STEAM BOILERS AND ENGINES

4 INSPECTION FSFS
TEMPORARY EltI1
CE
TEDTAI fo permit shall be issued as provided in
Section 206
4
of this Article sacspt upon payment to the Bureau of Permits and Licenses
o f
44 which fee is fixed to cover the oust of regulation xaminatiox
a fee of X5

and inspection of steam engines and boilers or steam

arxl shall not
boilsrs
be in lieu of any other liaerme fee required under the provisions of this
Code

41
 ions of Section 2
The provi 06 of this lrticle shall not
4
apply to the temporary erection mainteneace or use of a steam engine
and bailer or steam boiler for building or construction purposes

SEC 2C8 DAI

4 TGEROt1S Bt7II
IHGS
I TICE TO B
1 OYE Whenever
in the judgment of the Building Inspector or the Fire b
rahal of the City
of Oakland any building or structure in the City of OaicLrzsl or any part
of snob building ar strtivture or any appurtenances or futures thereto

y wall chimney amoke

or ax tack sieve oven furnace or thing connected
with such batlding or structure shall from any cause whatever be in a
condition to be dangerous to persons or property or shall be damaged by
fire yr decay or by both fire and decay to the extent of
forty per cent
of its actual valae at the time of construQtion of such building or structure
said value to be estimated above the line of sidewalk in front of such build
ing or structure the Building Inspector or Fire Mlsrahal shall im
tediately
give notice in writing to the owner or owners of such premises or to the
agent of such owner or owners or to the parson having control of much build
ing or structure if the 6wner cannot be found to remove the assts forthwith
and the person receiving such notice shall within five days after receiving
the same comply with the requirements thereof In the efient of a dispute
between the person receiving such notise and the Building Inspector or Fire
rshal
a as to the amount of damage
caused fire and decay or by fire or
decay said dispute
shall bs determined by arbitration of coa
getent mechanics
the owner such building or structure or other person in control of subh
o
building cr structure to select one arbitrator and the Banding Inspector or
Firs Marshal to select the other and in case the arbitrators sv chosen cannot
agree they shall select a third and the decision of the majority of such
arbitrators shall be final and eoncluaive d2I eapenaes of such arbitration
shall be paid by the owner or owners of such building or structure Failure
to comply with said notice shall be a misdemeanor

SEC 2
C9
4 3ECURED BUII
tJ1 DI1tGS Whenever ax
y unoccupied building
or buildings in the City of Oakland are r
t properly secured or enclosed
the Building Inspector or Firs Marshal shall immediately visit such premises
d notify the owner or owners agent or agents or the peraoxt having control
az
of the same of the condition oP such un
vvupiscl building or buildings and to
have such building or buildings within ten days after the receipt of each
notice properly secured and enclosed so as to prevent evilly disposed persons
ng aGCess thereto
from 6aini Failure tc comply with auc
t notice shall be a
misdenvsanor

SEC 210 HIt YObTOGE 1

4 IRES R85TSICTED IH CE
TAIH DISTRICTS It
is declared unlawful for any person engaged in the busfness of
hereby transmitting
electrical energy by means of overhead wires where such wires cross any street
alley or public place or where such wires are
placed on poles or superstructures
erected or maintained on such streets alleys
public places to permit such
or
wires to be used to transmit such electrical energy at a
greater voltage than
fifteen thowrand 15
000 volts in that portion of the City of Oakland bounded
and described as follows to
wit

Commencing at a point on the northerly Charter line of the City of

Oakland and the
southerly boundary Line of the Town of asryville where the setae
is intersected by the Easterly line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific
mpaWy thence running e
C sterly along said northerly Charter line to the City
of Oakland and the Southerly boundary line of the Town of
aeryville to the point
I
where said line intersects the westerly boundary of the City of Oakland and
the Easterly bundary line of the Town of Emeryville thence running Rorthesaterl
Westerly and Aortherly following the boundary Iine between the Cf ty o fQskland
and the Town of neryville to a point where said last named line intersects
the Southerly boundary Iine of the City of Berkeley thence running along the
northerly Charter line of the City of Oakland northeasterly southerly and
easterly to a point on said nortbexl boundary line of the City of Oakland where

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said last mentioned line is intersected by Indian Gulch Cr
ek thence running
southwesterly in a straight line to a point where said Indian Gulch Creek is
intersected by the Westerly line of Aatthewa avenue in the City of Oakland
to its
thence running along said Westerly line of said Yetthews Avenue
intersection with the Aortherly lin of Cambridge Street thence running Eaat
to its intersection with
eriy along the Aortherly line of Cambridge Street
the Westerly line of Thirteenth Avenue thence running Aortheasterly slang
the Westerly tine of Thirteenth Avenue to ate intersection with the Aortherly
said
boundary line o f the City of Oakland thence xunning Easterly along
Aortherly boundary line of the City of Oakland to the Easterly boundaryline
of said City of Oakland thence Southerly running along the Saaterly boundary
line of the City of Oakland to a point where acid Easterly boundary line
of the City fl fOakland intersects the Aortherly line of the right of wag of
fourth Avenue thence running
the Southern Paoifiv Cosapaxay near Twenty
Westerly along the Aortherly boundary line cf the right of way of the Southern
Facific Company and aeing the A
yr rth arrn of aekland arbor to a paint
where the Aortherly line of First Street intersects the Westerly line of
Javkao n Street thence ruxining Weateriy along the A rtherly line of First
Street to a point where the said Aortherly line of First Street iatersevta

seterly line of A
the A agnolia Street thence running Westerly in a straight
line to a point the
where Easterly line of the right of way of the Southern
Facific Company interaeeta the Aortherly line of Seventh Street thence

running Aortherly along the eastern boundary

line of theright of war of the
the Aortherly
Southern Facific Company to a point where the same intersects
Charter line of the City of Oakland sand the Southerly boundcry line of the
Town of neryville and point of begirming

The Superintendent of Fire Alares and Felice Telegraph is hereby

directed to report to the City pager all violations of the provisions of
this section

PICLL
lE
ATION
iCC

SSC O1
5
2 STREET CARS OPERATION WITHOU
T PROPER COASTRUCTION

It shall b e unlawful for any person to operate ar control the operation of

or to in any manner work upon or be engaged in connection with the operation

cf any street car propelled by any motive power upon any sorest railweyy in
the City of Oakland unless he shall prior to ao doing have spent at
least ten t1O days in learning the proper manner of so operating said oar
and learning the route traveled by said car under the inatruvtion and
in
for any person to act as such instructor
guidanve of competent instructors or
until he has been instructed for a period of ten 10 days in the proper
operation of such oar or unless he ged in the operation
has been actually engs
of a street car upon a street railway in the City of Oakland for a period
oP aia months prior to giving the instructions and fa familiar with
the route traveled by said var

42 ffidPIAYIAG STREET CAR OPERATORS igHO ARE NOT IASTRIICTED

SEC 25

It shall be unlawful q person awning at attest xailway or engaged in

for ax
the business of operating a atr
t railway in the City of Oakland or for any
officer manager or person in the employ of the aforesaid person owning or
in the business of operating a street railway to employ or hire
engaged
te work upon or in anywise control the peration of ar
any person to opere v
street car upon arm street railway in the City of Oakland until such person
has been instruoted as required by the provisions of Section 2
01 of this
5
Article

It shall be the duty of any person owning or engaged in the business

of operating a street railway in the City of Oakland to furnish the instruct
ions herein required

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 SEC 52 STRF
8
t 1CAR EEPL4YEES CARRYING 1S
POI It shall be

unlawful for any parson owning or engaged in the business of operating a street
railway in the City of Oakland to allow sag employes t4 Derry or ezhibit ar
y

club pistol revolver gun firearm black3aak or sling shot while upon a
street oar traversing the streets of the City of Oakland unless sash em

ployee shall bs a duly appointed and legally constituted officer authorised

by law to carry such weapon

SEC 5
2
4 4 STREFIT CARS T OPERATORS
Every person owning
or engaged in the business of
operating street care within the City of Oakland
by means of electricity shall provide and sta3ntain upon eaoh of such Dare
while containing passengers at least two 2 employees to 7rrits motorman
a
and a conductor during all the time said oar is in motion within said city
eaoh of said employees tc be an adult not leas than eighteen le years of
age ezcepting as hereix
after provided

The Council may grant by ordinance permission to operate one

man street Dare over such lines a upon eaoh aonditiona as it may prescribe
after application made th erefor filed with the Clerk of said Council setting
forth specifically the routes and lines upon and over which it is desired to

operate said one

man street cars rsen violating any of the provisions
Any p
of this section or perreitting ordering authorizing or directing a violation
thereof shall be deemed guilty of a miadsmeanQPs

SEC 205 STREET C

5 AR OPER
LTORS PINGEA STATION
I It shall be
unlawful for any rsotorman driver or other person operating or aantrolling star
street car within the City of Oakland to leave the position occupied by
eaoh person in operating ar controlling the machine railway or other motive

power of such car while said oar ie in motion

SEC 5 2
4 6 I RE CAR TR4I
S EY GUJlRI3S
7 Any person owning or
operating any street railroad using electricity as a motive power in the City

of Oakland and moving Dare thereon and the currant being aonduated for
such motive power by what are gexlerally termed trolley ires or overhead
conductors are hereby required to construct and maintain guard or safety wires
over each trolley wire or overhead conductor ao used he a aid guard or
T

faty
a wires shall be of galvanised iron and not less than one hundred and
five
aizty thousands 1404
I65 of an inch in diameter and shall be parallel
to the said trolley wire and not leas than aizteen I6 inches above the
said trolley wire and not lass than sight 8 inches nor more than twelve
12 inches on eaoh aide of a line drawn from acid trolley wire perpendicular
to the plane passing through the two said guard wires The said guar or
safety wirea shall be thoroughly insulated from all currant
bearing
ctora of the said railroad motor circuits seal shall be at such places
aondu
sa the Electrical Department of the Cfty of Oakland may direct and designate
Any person refusing or neglecting for the period of three 3j months to
conatruat and maintain such gnarl or safety wires as herein required after
tics in writing ao to do from the said Electrical
receiving nc Department
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor

5
2SEC
47 STREET CAR WHBEb GUARDS It shall be unlawful for
ny person to run or operate or cause to be run or operated upon or along

any street within the City of Oaklan

any street railway oar carrying
passengers unless such oar is equipped with wheel gu
arda which shall be att
to the trunk beneath the outer or forePard portion of wheels and the outer
or forward end of car Such wheel guards shall bs sons trusted in a thor

eu workmanlike manner of steal and wire mesh or of steel and hardwood

assembled in the form of a flat or spring scoop which shall eztend stress
the body the full width of the trunk measured from o ut
ear ide to outside
of the wheels and it shall be of ample trangth to auppart or auatair
ear

an adult human body and aha11 be eo attached to the trunk that the forwaa

edge of the guard shall ba not more than four 4 inahas above the top of
the rails while the guard is in normal position
 Said guard shall be inspected and kept in repair and maintained in a

normal operative condition by the person operating the aar to which said wheel

guards are attached

SEC 208 STREOP CAR FENI3ERS i

5 EQUIRED It shall be unlawful for any

person to run or operate or cause to be run or operated upon or along any street
within the City of Oakland any street railway oar unless such car is equipped
with a projecting fender which shall be planed upon and securely attaahed to
the front end of said car body or frame work and not attached to the wheels or
trucks thereof

Said apron or cradle shall be av constructed and attached to said

aar that it will form an elastic or resilient cradle or scoop which will cushion
ar break the impact of a person falling into or struck by it

oar that its forward

Said apron or cradle shall be so attaahed to the
edge may be elevated or depressed by means of chains rods or other devices and
when not in service may be folded back against the buffer or front of aar

Said apron or cradle shall be normally o arried with the forward edge
not more than five and one
half t
5
inches above the top of the rail when the
car is upon the level

Said fender shall conform substantially to the specifiaatione set

forth in Section 2
481
5

SEC 2
e81
5 STREET CAR FENDER SPECIFICATIONS A buffer or shield
of elastic or resilient material shall extend across the entire front of the
oar and be so planed and attached to the oar ae to prevent persons being streak
by the rigid projecting portions of the front end of the aar such as bumpers
bumper beams anti draw heads Outside and forward of said elastic buffer or

shield there shall be attached to said aar body or the platform thereof an ad

justable hinged or ivoted

p apron or cradle sixnot less than
sixty 66 inches
in width at its extreme six X36 inches
forward edge and not less than thirty
in depth measured from its forward edge toward its points of attachment to the
aar body

Said apron or cradle well as the elastic shield or buffer shall

as

be constructed of steel or iron

strips or springs or of wire mesh and all
materials shall be of ample strength for the purposes for which they are intended
and so far as
the proper function of the various parts gill permit all materials
shall be assembled so as to form a yielding or elastic struatuxe

Said apron yr cradle shall be a ubstantially rectangular in outline and

be constructed that either by
so
reason of the shape or form of the materials
of which it is constructed or by reason of the movement or change in position
of some
pardon of its structure it will form shallow scoop
a or
receptacle cap
able of receiving and retaining a streak
person by or falling upon such snoop
apron yr cradle

The forward edge of said apron or cradle shall be protected by rubber

or other elasticmaterial so arranged as to cushion or relieve the impact re
sulting from any person falling on or being streak by such portion of apron or
cradle

SEC 52
f l9 STREET CARS CHILDREN GETTING ON AND OFF RIDING OPT TOP
ETC It shall be unlawful far any person under the age of sixteen t16 years to
get on or attempt to get on or to get off or attempt to get off from arty street
railway aar or railroad train propelled either by steam or electricity while such
aar or train is in motion at arm pleas in the City of
Oakland or for any person
to ride on the top or roof of az
r street aar or railroad train or to ride on the
front or rear fenders of any such aar or train while the same is being
operated in
the City of Oakland

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 SEC 2
10
5 It shall be unlawful for any
EH IN BOATS
CHILDA
person under sixteen 16 years of age to hire a boat or other watercraft
to be used upon the waters of Lake tterritt or that portion of the estuary
of Sari Antonio or Oakland harbor which lies within the limits of the City

peraon be accompanied by his or her parent or

of Oakland unless auch

guardian or an adult person yr for any person to rent any boat or other
watercraft to any such person under aizteen 16 years of age to be so used
unless such person is accompanied by his parent or guardian or an adult person

SEC 11 FIiIg ESCAPE AlID HAI

25 AY yIGHTS
IA Every person whether
as owner proprietor manager superintendent ieaaee agent or otherwise
in charge of any building used ae a hotel public lodging house or apartment
house within the City of Oakland shall place or cause to be placed in a
conspicuous position in every hallway thereof signs which shall indicate
by letters no leas than three 3j inches in height the location of every
fire escape and near every such sign there shall be placed a red light
which moat be kept burning from sunset to sunrise and shall also place or
cause to be placed in every such hallway and pasaag
rnray a bright white
light capable of arniahing light
f enough to enable any person to see the
stairway and
or exit Prom said hallway or passageway which
light shall
burn from sunset to sunrise The provisions of this section shall not

apply to an apartment house built with not more than two 2 apartments
above the first floor thereof

It shall be the duty of the Chief of Folios to instruct all police

officers tv inspect all hotels public houses sai apartment houses
Qn their respective beats in the City long
of O land at least once a month during
the hours from sunset to sunrise for the purpose of seeing that the provisions
of this seotion are
strictly complied with

SFC 12 CELLAR DOORS

5
2 It shall be unlawful for anry person
to allow any cellar door Deer any sidewalk fn the City of Oakland or any door
leading from a sidewalk to a
basement to remain open at any time except dur
ing th rea cr delivery of goods wares or merchandise or to fail to
eption
provide adequate safeguards on said doors for the safety of the public
provided however that in such places as the public convenience is in no
way interferred with a permit may be granted by the Chief of Police to keep
any door leading from the sidewalk to the basement open at all times Such
doors and openings must be completely covered by a strong wire mesh and no

sign shall be attached to or displayed thereon

SEC 15 PLAYING
5
2 IAi THE STREETS It shall be unlawful for

any person to fly a kite or play arty game of ball on any street lane or

alley in the Cifiy of Oakland

SSC 214 STAIRWAY PROTECTIONS

5 Every person shall keep
around every area between the building and the sidewalk and on both aides
of every flights of stairs descending from the sidewalk to the basement vn

premises owned or occupied by him a fence or railing at least three 3

feet high

SEC 2
15
5 S O1 THEATER PROGRAM
A1
PI In all performances in
theaters or opera houses a diagram or plan of each gallery or flour
showing
distinctly the exits therein each occupying a apace not less than five

5 iquare inches shall be printed in black lines in a legible manner on

the program of the performance

2
1
5
SEC 6 THEATER EXIT LIGH nS Every exit in any theater or

opera house shall have over the same on the inside at a height of not more

than twelve 12 inches above the exit a metal box with the word EXI3
cut therein in legible letters not less than eight 8 inohea high In each
tt
e rs ah
tk t2 tte 8 red 3i cri
t an independent itfYO
oiro a alb r
c
v

lights in the building and said lights moat be lighted at all times during
exhibitions
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ll

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 CHAPTER 3

PUBLIC WELFARE 1RALS AND POLICY

14

ARTICLE 1 PUBLIC NUISANCES

ARTICLE 2 CHARITIES AND RELIEF
ARTICLE 3 LABOR AND LABORING CLASSES
ARTICLE 4 DISORDERLY CONDUCT
ARTICLE 5 Gl1MgS OF CHANCE
ARTICLE 6 GATHERINGS MEETINGS
AND
ARTICLE 7 FOgMING DEtUGS AND
HABIT INTOXICATING LIQUORS
ARTICLE 8 FRAUD AND DECEIT
ARTICLE 9 ANIMALS AND BIRDS
ARTICLE 10 MINORS
ARTICLE 11 IIISCELLANEOUS

1
ARTICLE

PUBLIC NUISANCES

01 UNNECESSARY NOISES
1
3
SEC Every person using any mechanical
instrument device for the intensification of any sound or wise into the
or

public streets or who attaches any cane belle pans iron or other metal or
noise producing attachment to any vehicle for the purpose of producing unneo

easary noise or who blows any bugle horn whistle or baste any drum or

rings any be 11 or makes arty other loud unusual or

unnecessary noise for the
pure of advertising announcing or otherwise calling attention to aRl goods
se
wares or merchandise or for the purpose of advertising announcing or oalling
attention to aby ahvw entertainment or event or who makes any unneceaaary noise
which disturbs the peace and the producing of such noise is alone the ob3ect to
be attained is guilty of a misdemeanor

SEC 3
02
1 I
PEaSISTELQ NOISES A NUISANCE The persistent maintenance
or emission of any noise or souk produced by human animal or mechanical means
between the hours of 9 P
M and 7 M A next ensu
which
ag by reason of its
raucous or nerve nature shall disturb the pesos or comfort or be in
reeking
3urious to the health of any person shall constitute a rna
iaance

Whenever the existence of any such nuisance shall come to the attention
of the Health Officer it shall be his duty to notify in writing the occupant of
the premises upon which au
eh nuisance exists specifying the measures
necessary
to abate such nuisance and unless the same is abated within forty
eight 48
hoursthereafter the occupant so notified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
the Health Officer shall summarily abate such nuisanc

SEC 3
03
1 NOISES EXCEPTIONS Nothir in Sections 301 and g
1 02
1
of this Article shall apply to the playing of music by a band or the blowing of
a bugle or the announcing of any show entertainment or event upon the public
streets for which band music bugle blowing of
or privilege announcing the Chief
of Police of the City of Oakland has granted
special permit epeeifying the time
a

and place when and where such music may be played or sash bugle blown or shall
apply to the blowing of any whistle or horn or the ringing of any bell or other noise
necessary as a vehicular traffic warning or signal or to arty regularly licensed
peddler oalling his wares in an ordinary tome of voice or ringing a bell or
blowing a horn of moderate size in front of the residence of any customer of such
peddler for the purpose of announcing the presence of such peddler or to any
public celebration or public function on a public holiday or other public occasion
generally celebrated

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 SLC 3t14
1 SE 1PD SOQT
Slf Etrery person who shall oause suffer
or allow dense smoke to be discharged from any building plaoe premises
stationary or Ioaamotive engine or motor vehicle within the City of Oakland
or shall cause suffer or allow soot ashes or cinders to be discharged
from any building place premises stationary or Iocdmotive engine or motor
vehiole to sucb an eztent that auoh soot ashes or oinders are blown upon
or fail upon adjacent property is guilty of a misdemeanor

BC 1w05
3 CHIMNEYS Every person who shall
ereot construct
or maintain or cause to be
conatruoted erected or
maintained ansr flue
chimney or sa
kestack within fifty Peet of any window of any adjacent building
unless the top of auoh flue ohimney or smokestack shall be higher than
the top of such window shall be gailty of a misdemeanor provided however
that the provisions of this section shall not apply in any Dees where the
owner of
such adjacent building shall reface to grant permission to brace
such flue chimney or smokestack by means of wires attached to such building

Ste 306 S
1 J STD SOOT ENFORCE
NT he officers and
R
inspectors of the Health 13epartment of the City of Oakland shall have authority
to enter during reasonable hours upon any premises upon which is located axCr

flue chimney smokestack or any other structure or appliance from which

any smoke soot ashes or cinders shall be discharged for the purpose of
mating an iaveatigation as to the cause of the diaoharge of such smoke soot
ashes or cinders and for the purpose of ascertaining the kind or character
of fuel used and the manner of using the same and any other fact or faota

showing complianoe with or iolation o fSections 3 04 or 3

1 05 of this
1
grtiole

SEC 3
1107NOXIOUS w
EDS Leery person who shall permit to
mature on
any land
owned possessed managed or controlled by him or who shall
knowingly sow or disseminate or oause or permit to be sown or disseminated
or shall sell or in
axe manner dispose of or cause or permit to be sold or
disposed of or shall transport or convey or oause or permit to be transported
or conveyed into the City of Oakland axq seed of the Scotch or Canada Thletle
the Russian Thistle
the Yexioan Cocklebur or any nozioua weed wheiiher auoh
sowing selling transporting or conveying be alone or in hay grass grain
or in any manner whatsoever is guilty of a misdemeanor

SLG 308 FENCES

1 Leery person who shall maliciously erect or
maintain in the City of Oakland for the purpose of annoying the Demers or
occupants of adjoining property any fence or other atru
eture in the nature
of a fenoe unneoessarily exceeding six 6j feet in height is guilty of a
misdemeanor and auoh fenoe or atruetgre shall be deemed a private nuisance

SEC 3
09
1 DUMPING IN STR ETC It shall be unlawful for
any person to dump any junk refuge garbage dirt or any other material
in any stream creek watercourse or stream bed or within the baxtka of
the same in the City of Oakland without written permission eo to do issued

by the Superintendent of Streets

AaTICLE E
CHARI
ILF
TI

ESC 3
01
2 ITIONS
HLFII For the purposea of this Article ortain
words and phrases f
d ined and
are certain provisions shall be cone trued as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that a different

meaning i s intended

SEC 02
2
3 CHARITABLE D
EFINF
T Charitable includes philanthropic
social service or
and purported charitable purported social service or
purported
throp3 a
ls
ph

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 SSC f
0
2
3 CONTRIBUTION DEFIIQED Contribution includes
donation alma food clothing money property and
or donation wader the
of loan of money or
and property and also means a pledge yr written
guise a

or
and oral promise to per

C 3 fl4
2 ISSION DEFINED
CO Commission means Commission of
Public Charities of the City of Qskland

SEC 3
0
2 5 SQLICIT DEFINED Solicit includes solicitation
and means sot only direct oral or written asking or request but slat the
to an address within the City of Oakland
distribution cireuletion mailing
posting or publication of letters posters hand bills cards folders
an announcement
peusphlets books or irculexs or the giving or making of
or telegraph ocncerning
to the public prase or over the radix or telsphcne
or involving
and an appeal assemblage athletic or sports event basest
benefit campaign contest dance drive entertainment exhibition expcei
or social gathering which the public
tion party performance picnic sale
or any portion thereof is requested to meet or patronise ox t w
c
p
e ablie
hieh
or any portion thereof is requested to make a contribution by reason of
or

because of any charitable purpose or benefit connected with or involved in

Y each appeal assemblage athletic

er
cr sports event basset benefit
argpaign contest dance drive entertainment exhibition eapoaition party
sale social gathering Solicit also means the
performance picnic or

sale of offer to sell or attempt to sell arty e dvertisement advertising ti

apace book card chance coupons device magazine membership merchandise
ticket or thing whatsoever in connection with which andor when
subscription
or where any appeal
and is made for y
at charitable purposes whatever or
and
charitable corporation or association is used
the name of arm charity or

or referred to in any such appeal as an inducement or reason for thb making

otier
of any such sale or when or where in connection with any such sale
to statement is made that the whole or enT part
to a ell or attempt sell any
of the proceeds from any such sale or selling will go to or be donateei to
or for charitable Solicit as defined herein shall be
purpose
when made whether or not the person making the same receives
deemed completed
Y sale herein
or makes ar referred to
any contribution

SEC 3 C6
Z niasion of Public Charities of the City of
The Com

Oakland heretofore created and now existing is hereby continued in full force

and effect and hereafter said Commission shall consist of seven 7 members
of all of whom shall be appointed by the Council on nomina
instead five 5
tion the Mayor anti not more than foux 4 of whom shall be of the same
by
sea nisaionera shall serve without compensation
All of the said Coma The
misaion shall be three 3 years
term of office of the members of said Coa
era heretofore appointed shall con
provided however that the five 5 memb
tinue in office hereunder for the balance of the terms they are
now serving
and the two 2 additional members to be appointed hereuaader shall so classify
themaelvea by lot that one shall go out of office on the first Monday in
January 1934 and one on the first 46onday in January 1935 If any vacancy
occurs the Council upon nomination by the E iayor shall fill the earns by
for the unexpired term The Commission shall in January of each
sppointment
who shall hold office for one 1
year elect one of its memoera president
and until his successor aber of said
is elected unless hie term as me
year
Commission shall Dave aspired sooner Said Commission shall appoint one of
its members as secretary and shall hold such meetings at such time and
pleas as it bray fix

3
2 x07
SEC IGATIC AND ENDORSEOC
I
S
I3QP
Id i BY COP
ISSION In
within of
connection with arty solicitation City of Oakland
the any contribution
for any charitable purpose with respect to which the notice of intention here
inafter in Section 315 provided for shall have been filed with the Com
2
mission said Commission shall have power to investigate the allegations of
statement or reports filed with said Com
sash notice oP intention or any
to any such solicitation aryl to have access to and to
mission pertaining

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inspect and make copies of all the books records and papers of any person cor

poration or asaooiation by or on whose behalf any such solicitation is made per

taining to such solicitation or the use or expenditure of any contribution ao So
licited estigate at any time the
Said Commission shall also have power to in
methods of making or conducting any charitable solicitation The Commission shall

estigation herein provided

also have power to publish any of the results of any i
for or auth prised and to give suoh publicity to ax
y such result by such means as

the Commission may deem best calculated to reach the general public and the person
interested Said Commission sh 11 have power to endorse such charitable corpora
tions or associations as shall pply
to said Commission for endorsement and prove
hereinafter forth
to the Commission that they have complied with the provisions set
in Section 3
08
2

SEC 08
2
3 REQiTIRE OF ASSOCIATION
S
i
iEIG Such charitable corporation
or association as shall apply for endorsement as in Section 07 provided shall
2
3

prove to the Commission

a title to any real property in the City of Oakland owned

That the
by such charitable corporation or asaooiation is vested in the name of said chari
table oorporation if it b e a corporation or else in the name or names of a
trustee or trustees under a declaration of trust or other written instrument set

ting forth the rights of such charitable oorporation or asaooiation therein

b That the declared purposes for which such oorporation or associa

tion is organised are charitable and not for the pecuniary profit of the members
or associates thereof or sny of them

c hat for at least three

T 3 months immediately prior to its e
endor

ment said ah writable oorporation or association has not violated any law or ordi
nance applicable to it and has faithfully complied with the provisions herein
after set forth in this section

d That all funds xeeeived by said charitable corporation or associa

tion and all disbursements madeby it have been entered upon the books of its
treasurer or other financial officer receipt has been given or tendered far all

moneys or property donated to it whenever the same is required by law or

other
ordinance ar expenditures other than petty Dash to a reasonable amount have
been made by checks signed by at least two 2 officers of suoh corporation or

association and that the bank books of such oorporation or asaooiation have been
balanced and reconciled with the books of accounts at reasonable intervals

e That no moneys of said charitable

corporation or association are
on loan directly or indirectly to ax
officer director trustee or employee
y

thereof and that said charitable oorporation or association has not paid out
or agreed or contracted to pay out more than ten 10 per Dent of any moneys
collected by solicitation within the City of Oakland for expenses of solicita

tion and has not diverted funds donated to it from any source to purposes other
than those for which they were donated

f That the work for which such charitable corporatf on or a8soeiati on

has been o rganized has at all times been faithfully performed

g by and other written rules and regulations of suoh

That
the laws
charitable oorporation or association define the power and duties of the
officers of such corporation or association and that a copy of the articles of
incorporation of such charitable corporation if it be a corporation and a
copy of all laws
by and other written rules and tions
regals of such charitable

oorporation or association have been filed with the Commission

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 hj That the officers and employees of such charitable corporation
or association are persons of good moral character and
good reputation and
that the said corporation or ercised reasonable Dare in
association has a
selecting persona o good moral character and xeasonable experience as

solicitors for its funds

SEC 3
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2 ADDITIONAL POWERB OF COI
flISSION The Commission shall

have the fo llor

ing powers t

aj To encourage the formation of new private charities when

needed and to foster all worthy enterprises of a charitable nature

bj Tv make recommendations to the Council upon all matters pertain

ing to charities upon which the Council may be called to act except as other
wise provided for by the Charter of the City of Oakland

oj supervise and direct the disbursement of any public funds

for charitable purposes except as otherwise provided by the Charter of the

City of Oakland which may be set apart or acquired by the Council in the
manner and for the purposes direoted by said Counoil

dl
To supervise and direct the disbursement of any funds donated
devised bequeathed to the City of Oakland for charitable purposes in the
or

manner and for the purposes directed by the Counoil which shall be in

accordance with the purposes for which acid funds were donated devised or
bequeathed if no specific purpose be eo declared then in the manner and
for the purposes directed by the Counoil and in the name of the City of
Oakland to administer a trust deolared or created in accordance with the
provisions of Section 49 3j of the Charter of the City of Oakland ibr
charitable purposes when and in the manner and for the purposes directed
by the Counoil which shall be in accordance with the purposes for which
said t rant was created if no specific purpose be so deolared then in
the manner and for the purpose direoted by the Council provided that if
the payment into the City Treasury of any moneys or property acquired by

donation devise bequest or trust for charitable purposes will be incon

sistent with the terms of such donation devise bequest or trust the Council
shall by resolution direct the Cemmieaionto provide for the safety and
preservation of the same in such manner as to the Counoil appears advisable
or
necessary in order to carry out the purposes of and the uses designated
by such donation devise bequest or trust

ej To encourage bequests and donations for charitable purposes

in the City of Oakland to investigate and devise means of removing or
improving conditions producing the need of relief therein and to collect and
preserve l
helpf statistics relating to charities

SEC 10
2
3 RTS OF CO
EF VtI3SION The Commission shall make
written reports of its activities to the Council annually as of July let
axd at such other times as shall be requested by the Council

SEC 3
11
2 SOLICITING FOR PR I9ATE NEEDS It shall be unlawful
for any person to solicit contributions for himself in or on any public
street or in any public place in the City of Oakland

SEC 312 tIN

2 UTHORIZED SOLICITATION RECEIPT It shall be
unlawful fbr any person to solicit contributions within the
City of Oa
i
klar
in the name of or on behalf of any charitable corporation or
association
unless such corporation or association has an unrevoked permit from the
Commission to solicit contributions as hereinafter provided and unless auoh
person is authorized in writing by such corporation or association to make
such solicitation and unless a copy of auoh authori
ation has been previously
filed with the Commission and unless auoh person shall tender to each person
who makes a contribution a written or printed receipt signed by the solicitor
rkicsh shah eontatn in addition to the amount or kind of the aoAa
on
substantially the matters hereinafter set forth in Section 3
14
2

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Y t

No receipt need be given or tendered however ff the donation be

of money and meYde by placing the same in a looked receptavle in such
is
manner that it is impracticable to ascertain either the amount donated or
the name of the donor and placard shall be conspicuously attached
if a card or

to such receptacle containing in

legible writing or printing the statements
required to be contained in the reoeipt by Section 3 14 of this hrtivle
2
Provided further that no receipt need be given for arty dvnation
inan amount
less than one 1 dollar

SEC 13 SOLICITATION BY
2
3 LIt shall be unlawful fDr
IFIDU
IN

any person to solicit contributions for charitable purposes in the Citf of

Oakland unless he has an unrevoked permit from the eamission to solicit con
tributiena as hereinafter provided and shall tender to each person who makes
a contribution the receipt provided for in Section 3
12
2

SEC 3
14 CCI
2 ffiQTS aF CEIPT he receipt
t required b1 Seotion
12 herein to
2
3 be
given shall contain the followings the name of the
charitable corporation or sesociation upon whose behalf the solicitation is

made a statement as to whether the donation solicited is to be applied fer

the general purpose of the charitable corporation or viation or
ass for

specific purposes and if for specific purposes the nature thereof shall be
clearly stated

If the solicitation is by a person for charitable pure

aea other
than in the name of or on behalf of
any charitable corporation or association
said receipt shall contain the Warne of said person and the specific purposes
for which such contribaticna are solicited

In all oases said reoeipt shall contain a statement as to the amount

if any of the money donated that is to be used for charitable purposes outside
the City of Oakland In the event that it is impracticable to state said amount
or percentage said receipt shall eo declare Said receipt shall also state
the proportionate part if any of the amount donated which is payable in
commiaeion or eapensea to the solicitor

SEC 15 NQ
2
3 ICE OF IIQTIt7Id TO SOLICIT
IN It shall be unlawful
for any person or charitable corporation or association to solicit contributions
within the City of Oakland for charitable purposes unleae within the fiscal
year of the City of Oakland in which such solicitation is made there ahs
l have
been filed with the Commission by the corporation or association upon wh
ae
behalf the solicitation is made or if such solicitation is to be made by an
individual for charitable purposes then by such individual written notice
of intention to solicit contributions within the City of Oaklarsl for charitable
ng the statements required to b e made in the written reoeipt
purposes eontainA
14 hereof provided for
in Section 3
2 Said notice of intention shall be
signed by two 2 officers of the charitable corporation or association upon
whose behalf the solicitation is to be made and shall be open tv the inspection
of the pub ic provided w
h ever that the written notice fintention to
solicit bindividual shall contain his name the specific purpose for which
solicitation is to be made and in addition the matter reg aired to b e con

tained in receipts by Seotion 3

I4
2

16 PERMIT REQUIRED CONTENTS

2
3 3EC It shall be unlawful for

any person charitable corporation or association to solicit cvntribntions

for charitable puxposea within the City of Oakland unless such person corpora
ked written permit from the Cvmraieaicn
tion or sasociation has an unrev
Said permit shall be numbered and contain the name and address of the person
charitable corporation yr association to whom iaeued the date of issuance and ex
piration date and au
ch other matters as in the judgment of the Commission
are deemed advisable Said permit shall expire one year from the date of
nleea sooner revoked by the Commission provided the Commission
its ieauance u
issue permits for a period of leas than one year whenever in its
may judgment
it is deemed advisable

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 SEC GRANTING DENYING AND REYOgING PERMITS
1
2
3 The Commission

shall grant a permit

required by Section 3 16 to any person charitable
2
ocrporation or association to solicit contributions within the City of Oakland
upon full compliance by thew with the requirements of this Article applicable
thereto provided how ever the Commission may deny a permit or revoke one
previously granted if it appears after investigation by the Cvmmissiont

a That the applicant or permittee or ar yee or

p agent empl
member drliereof has ever been convicted of a Peler
r or a misdemeanor involving
moral turpitude or does not have a good reputation for honesty character
integrity and sobriety or is m t a responsible person

b That the charitable purpose for which contributions are soliv

ited or are to b e solicited pithin the
City of Oakland involves the
handling dispensing o ffood and
or or clothing and or the providing of
shelter and
vr lodging and that the place where such food and
vr clothing
is to be and vr i kept ardor dispensed andlvr the place where such shelter

ardwr lodging is to be andor is provided fa not glean and sanitary

that any person who intends to or does handle or dispense such food andwr
clothing is not of ean or that er
y person who is in charge of or employed
in or in anywise occupied in the place where such shelter and
vr lodging is
provided is np t clean

c That the granting or continued existence of said permit would

not comport with public wel fare

d That the applicant or permittee or any

agent member or
employee thereof has violated ar of the provisions of this Article

3EC 23
1 8 PE dITS TBA1iSFERABLE
ON
1 APPEAL TQ COUNCIL Any
permit granted as in Section 3
16 required shall not b transferable
2
fritten notfoe of any denial cr revooativh of such permit shall be given to
the person charitable oorporation or association interested and a copy
sent to the Chief of Police The Chief of Police shall be notified of all
permits granted and to adlom ed
ias

Ar person charitable oorporation or association to whom a permit

is denied or whose permit is revoked may appeal to the Council within
fifteen 16 days after no tics of such denial or revocation Said Council
shall conduvt a hearing thereon at a date to be set by said Council and the
City Clerk shall give at least five 5 days notice thereof to the appellant
affi the Comtniission he Council
7 s determination after said hearing shall be
final and ooncluaive

SEC 3
19
2 84LICITATION BY RECEPTACLES It shall be unlawful
for any person or charitable avrporation or association to solicit funds by
means of boxes or receiptaclea upon any street or public place in the City
of Oakland except by written permission of the Commission Each boa or
receptacle moat bear in plain eight a number and also the yard or placard
referred to in Sevtion 2
3
1 2 of this Article Permission to solicit funds

by meant cf boaea or receptacles shall not be granted by the Commission unless

the person or vharitable oorporation or aeaovi
ation shall file with the
Commission a rn
written tics of intention to so solicit which shall
vontain
in addition to the matters
required in the notice of intention to solicit by
Sevtion 3
15
2 of this Article the location at which each box or reeeptaole
is to be placed its number and the name of the person in charge of the
same Said written permission when granted shall contain the lcoativn and
number of each bo and receptacle and the name of the
peravn in charge of the
same No evlicitation shall be made by means of any boa yr receptacle not
listed in said written permission

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 f

SEC 2
3 ACCOUNTING SYSTEFt REQIIIRED It shall be unlawful
for any person to solicit contributions within the City of Oakland for

charitable purposes on behalf of any corporation eaaociation or individual

an it shall be unlawful for any charitable corporation association or
individual to so solicit unless the same is maintaining a system of account
ing whereby all funds donated to it and all disbursements made by it are en
tared upon the books of its treasurer or other financial officer or of auoh

individual as the case may be

SEC 21
2
3 EXCEPTIONS TO APPLICATION OF THIS ARTICLE The
set forth shall not be applicable to
in this Article
visions hereinabove
pr
solicitation made upon premises owned or eooupied by the corporation or
association upon whose behalf such solicitation is made nor to solicitation
time of
for the relief of a specific individual specified by name at the
the solicitation where the entire amount collected without any deduction
shall they be
whatever shall be turned over to the named individual nor
able to or association soliciting contributions solely
applfo any corporation
from persons who are members thereof at the time of sash solicitation nor
shall they be applicable to solioitationa made solely for evangelical mis

religious purposes iea of the lmeriaan Red

nor to the activi
sionary or

Cross the Alameda County Tuberculosis Association in connection with

or

their annual enrollment campaign for m

mbership

SEC 22
2
3 ION IId SOLICITATION
T
DECEP It shall be nnlawYu for

any person corporation or association to make or perpetrate

any misstatement
or to write of air person en
or use the name
deception fraud
or print
literature letters or otherwise in connection with any charitable solicita
written
tion unless the eonaent thereto of such person whose name is so printed
or has been first obtained in connection with the solicitation within
used
the City of Oakland of any contribution for any charitable purpose

SEC 323 HOBS FOR CHILDREN PERpIIT

2 It shall be unlawful for
or aid in
any person to establish maintain conduct or manage establishing
oonduoting
maintaining or managing a hams for children including aLY insti

tution boarding house private home building or other place where any gild
under the age of sixteen years is boarded lodged or cared for or received
for any such purpose by Y person who is not the parent or other class
relative of such child or the guardian of the person of auoh child unless
there shall been issued by the Health Department eY the City of Oakland
have
and there remains in effect awritten permit eo to d specifying the name
and the
and address of the permittee the location of the home for children
number of children permitted to be kept in auoh home Application for such
shall be made in writing to the Health Department No each permit
permit
shall be issued unless the home for children conforms to the rules and regula
tions of the Health Department and unless in the opinion of the Health
fit
aent sash home i s a fit and proper place and the applicant is a
Depart
and to care for vhildren All such permits shall expire aia
proper person
6a months after the issuance thereof and shall be non
transferable Any such
permit may be revoked by the Health Department after notice and pportunity
for hearing for any cause for which an applic anon for such permit might
be denied

SEC 24
2
3 HOSE FOR CHILDREN REGULATION OF The Health Department
of the City of Oakland is hereby empowered to make such rules ate r egalations
for the homes for children hereinabove referred to in Section 3
23 ae it
2

may deem necessary

to promote the health comfort and welfare of the children
It shall be unlawful for any pars
n to maintain or
nduct manager
c
therein
a home for children without proper regard for the health comfort and welfare
of each child in such home or without complying with the rules and regulations
made by the Halth Depariasent pertaining thereto Every permittee under
oY this Article shall keep a register in the farm prescribed
Section 323
2
and shall immediately report in writing to the
by the Health Department
z tpa e receiving or discharging of a children together with
a t
ner
rt
such information as the said Department may require Any officer or employee
of the Health Department may enter aiu3 inspect homes for children nd inspect
e
the ieter
re thereof and the children therein

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 ARTICLE 3

LABOR A1
D IBORIAG CLASSES

SEC 01
3 STING
PIC The following Ordinance is an Initiative
measure adopted lllDsy 15 1917

Ali ORDIBANCE PROHIBITING LOId ETING CARRYING OR DIS

LRIlgG PI
PLAYING S BADGffi SIGNS OR TRAI
BA2O SPARBNCIES OR SPBAKING IH PUBLIC
STaEETS SID89YiLHS ALLEYS OR OTHER PUBLIC PLACffi IA A LOUD OR UNtTSUAL TOE
FOR CERTAIA SES
URP THEREIN NAMED AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR
P ANY VIOLATION
THSREOF

BE IT ORDAINED by the People of the City of Oaklarxl as follows

Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person in or upon any

public street sidewalk alley or public place in the City of Oakland to make
p loud or unusual noise yr tv speak in a loud or unusual tone or to cry
ax
out yr proclaim for the purposes of inducing or influ
nving or attempting
to induca or influence any person to refrain from entering ar
qworks yr
factory or any place of business or employment or for the purpose of inducing
or influencing or attempting to indxca or influence arOr person tv refrain
rvia purchasing or using any goods wares merchandise or other arts
t ia
or articles or for the purpose of inducing or influencing or attempting tv

induce yr influence any person to refrain from doing or performing any

service or labor in any works factory place of business yr empl
yment or
for the purpose of intimidating threatening or coercing or
attempting to
intimidate threaten or voerce any parson who is performing seeking or
obtaining service or labor in arty works factory place of business or
employment

Savtiwn 2 It shall be unlawful for arm person in or upon any

public street sidewalk alley or other public plane in the City of Oakland
to loiter in Front of or in the vicinity
of o r to picket in front of or
in the vicinity of or to carry show or display arty
banner transparency
badge or sign in front of or in the vicinity of any works or factory
or any place vP business or
employment for the purpose of inducing or in
fluencing or attempting to induce or influence any person to refrain from

entering any such works or factory or plane of business or employment or for

the purpose of ixlduoing or influencing or attempting to induce or
influence
arm person to refrain from purchasing or using any goods wares merchandise
yr other articles manufactured made or kept for sale
therein or far the
purpose of inducing or influencing or attempting to induce or influence arty
person to refrain from doing or performing ar4y service or labor in at works
favtory place of business or employment or for the purpose of intimidating
threatening or coercing or attempting to intimidate threaten or coerce any
person who ie performing seeking or obtaining service or labor in anp such
works factory place of business or eraplvyment

Sectfivn 3 t az
e
R p person violating aty of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not mare than One Hur
dred 0100
Dollars nor less than five 25 Dollars or by imprisonnment in the
Twenty
city 3aii for a period of not more than fifty 50 days nor less than
helve 12j days or by both such fine and imprisonment

ARTICLE 4

DISORDERLY CONDUCT

SEC 01
4
3 FANE AND PIOUS
P3 SBDI LANGUAGE It shall be unlawttii
r person within the
for an City of Oakland to utter or use within the
ona or
hearing
of mare persons
y profane vulgar opt seditiov
at s1engv gewoTas oT
epithets or to address another or to utter in the presence of
another any
words language or
expression or seditious remarks havfng a tendency to
incite or create a breach of the peace

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 SEC 02 OBSCENITY
4
3 It shall be unlawful for any person to
exhibit publicly or offer for
public exhibition or keep or place accessible
tv the public within the City of Oakland any lewd vulgar obscene or licenti
ous picture yr pictures or to keep or maintain or place accessible to the

pub lie any mechanical device rendering any lewrd vulgar obscene or licentious
song speech jest monologue dialogue or any reproduction oP the human
voice uttering immoral obscene lewd vulgar licentious or profane words

SEC 03
4
3 DRAL H
I EIBITIONS It shall be unlawful for at
r person
engaged in conductingoperating either as owner proprietor operat
or
r
manmger lessee agent or employee any theater arcade entertainment r
exhibition or for rperson whatsoever to give or cause or permit to be
ar
given or to advertise or cause or permit to be advertised or to participate
in any obscene indecent immoral or grime depicting play production
picture show entertainment or exhibition or atp delineation or illustration
of any nude human figure or air lewd indecent or lascivious act or anrp
matter or thing of an obsoene indecent or immoral nature or any oozing

e fight exhibition when the same is in such manner or detail ea tends

or pri

to vorrupt public murals

SEC 04
x
3 NT OF IRAL FXNIBITIONS
E
ABITE r time that
At ar
it shall be brought to the attention of the mayor or the Chief of Police
that the provisions of Section 3
Q3 of this Article are being violated it
4
shall be the duty of either of said officers or both of them to visit the

place where it is reported that au

ch violation exists arxi there to exsanine

into the same and should either of said officers upon such examination be of the
opinion that such violation does exist it shall be his duty to some notify
per son in chaxge of the exhibition production
or representation in
question
that the objectionable parts or features mtast be forthwith eliminated and
no longer exhibited produced or represented and upon auoh notification it
shall be the duty of the person o notified to immediately comply therewith
and tv then and there and at all times thereafter except as hereinafter

provided expunge and eliminate exhibition production or repre

from such enta
a uch features
objectionable parts or the whale thereof
or
In the
tion
event that said notification is not immediately co
lied with it shall be
the duty of said Mayor or Chief of Police tc forbid and present the further
continuance of the exhibition production or representation in question until
said notification shall be complied with and said person bo neglecting or
refusing to comply with said notification and all persons participating in
the production of such exhibition production or representation shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and aball be immediately arrested by

police officer by direction of said Mayor or said Chief of Police as for an

offens committed in the immediate presence of said police officer with
or without any warrant

3EC 3 05 APPEAI FROM ABAT

4 EN7 OF IM iRAL EXHIBITIONS
Any
person aggrieved by the action of the 16syor or the Chief of Police under the
provisions of Section 304 of this Article and who shall have complied
4
with the notification in said section provided or on whose behalf auoh

compliance was made may appeal the action of said Mayor or Chief of Police
to the City Council for review and action 1 hearing upon auoh appeal shall
be set by the Council at the earliest convenient time and at such hearing
evidence shall b e adduced and the decision of the Cuncil in a ugh matter
shall be final The Council may from time to time prescribe rules of pro
cedure tv be observed in auoh hearings for the purpose of favilitating auoh
reviews and the elimination of damage which may result to the appellant
from the action appealed from
by the delay resulting

SgC 4
3 58S AND DISGUISES
06 MA It shall be unlawful for anT
of Oakland to appear in public do J mask
person in the City gap cowl
hood or other thing congealing the identity of the wearer excepting however
persons attending or taking paxt in carnivals conducted in accordance
with
sue os perm of the px
gslorJ
under per authorities of tha City of aeicl
a persons holding a written permit to av conceal their identity which
permit ie issued by the Chief of Police

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4
3 LY
SE 0 BI A OFFICER
ENTIRG I It shall be

as person in the City oP Oakland to falsely represent himself

unlawful for y
to b e or to wear a badge of any officer of either the Police or Fire
a Office of the County of
Department of the City of Oakland or the Sheriff
or of s
conatable office with intent to deceive yr to use ar
Alameda any y
badge or device need by the Police Department or the Fire Department
sign
of the City of Oakland with such intent to deceive

SEC 43
0 8 II JRAI DRESS It shall be unlawful for air person
in the City of Oakland to appear in any lSublie place nude or in the attire
of a person of the opposite sex or in any indecent or lewd attire

SEC 3
09
4 It shall be awful
BATHING nnl for any person to bathe

or swim in the waters of Fake Merritt in the City of Oakland It shall be

unlawwful for any person to bathe or swim in the waters of the Estuary of

San Antonio or the Oakland Harbor or any of the waters tributary thereto
within the limits of the City of Oakland unless such person is clad in a

bathing suit or for any persons to disrobe at any place in the City of
Oakland for the purpose of bathing or swimming exvept under some shelter reason
such person from public view
ably protecting

SEC 3
10
4 NNP153
DRt3NK It shall be unlawful for any person
to appear in any public place or place open to public view in the City of
Oakland in an intoxicated or drunken condition

SEC 11
4
3 PROSTITUTION It shall be uYil
awful for any person
to keep or oarxy on or become an inmate of or a visitor to or to in any
of ill fame or prostitution in
way contribute to the support of any house
the City pf Oaklasid or to aid or assist or be engaged in oas
rying on or
pausing prostitution or to induce attempt
induce by arm solicit
or to

tion prostitution to b parried on in any house room or

place in the City
of Oakland or to solicit by word act gesture eigxi or otherwise aAy

person for the purpose of prostitution

It shall be unlssrful for any person in the City of Oakland engaged

in conducting any lodging hoses rooming house apartment house or hotel
to permit sir person to lodge therein without first requiring him to register
his true name and address in a register Dept for that purpose or to let any
room therein for the purpose of prostitution or any other immoral or illegal

purpose or to allow arry room to be so used or for any person occupying arCr
room in a lodging house rooming house apartment house or hotel to refuse
to register herein provided or to enter such room for the purpose
as of
or for any other immoral or illegal
prostitution purpose

ARTICLE 5

GAME OF CHANCE

3EC 301 DEFINITIONS

5 Pbr the purposes of this Article
and certain provisions shall be con
pertain words and phrases are defined
strued as herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that
a different meaning is intended

SEC 02
5
3 G ED
LI1
G9111 AEFII To gambl and
gambling is
the playing at a game device or contrivance in which the element of chaasce
is the for stakes or the betting on the result
controlling faptor of any
device o r contrivance whether it be one of skill or chance
game

SEC 3
03
5 BETTING DEFINED
A bet
and betting is an agree
impliedorb etseen two or more persons that money or some
ment express
valuable thing contributed by those so agreeing shall become the property
of one or some of them upon the happening or not happening in the future of
an event which at the time is an uncertainty or upon the ascertainment of
tie vtfn
a
t
dispute

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f
f

SEC 4S
t
5
3 AKE INED
DI A atake is a fund or valuable thing
or things contributed by tiro or more persona on an uacderatanding express
cr implied that each one so contributing is to have a chance to gain a
portion or all of such fund thing or imings dependent upon the happening
or uct happening o f sans uncertain event

SEC 3
45
5 PFTBLIC PLACE E
IID public plane ie any plane
or premises except a bona fide private dwelling qr an apartment suite or
room which is used in good faith as the residence of cns or more persons

SEC 6
t
5
3 G
I RG AND BETTING It shall be unlawful for any
person in any within the City of tfakland to gamble at cards dine
public plane
or any other game device or contrivance or to bet money upon the result of
y game or upon
ax the occurring of a future contingency or to knowingly visit
where betting is being carried on or eoadu
cted
any publie place gambling or

or tokn keep maintain or conduct or contribute to the support of

wingly
or betting is being habitually carried on or
any publie place where gambling
nducted
o or to knowingly 1 et o r sub
let or transfer the posaesaion of
arty premises for use for said purposes or to entice or peraeiade any person
cr persona to visit any public place known by the person ao inviting or
enticing or persuading to be a plcce where gambling or betting is being oarried
on yr conductedi or to buy or sail ar thing cf value won fa aarr game or as
the result of any bet or as the result of the determination of any uncertain
event

SEC 7
t
5
3 SLOT MACHINES It shall be unlawful for any person
either as owner lessee agent employee m rtgagee or otherwise to
operate keep maintain rent use or conduct within the City of Oakland
tape slot or card machine or any other maohix
any clcek e contrivance
or mechanical device upon the result of action of which money
appliance
or other valuable thing is staked or hasarded and which is operated or played
or depositing therein any coins checks slugs ball or a
by placing
other article or device or in any other mannsr and by means whereof or
as the result o P the operation of which any merchandise money representative
or articles of value checks or tokens redeemable in or exehang
eable for
money or any other thing of value is won or
lost or taken
from or obtained
such when the result of action or operation of cosh machine
from machine
contrivance appliance or rneehanioal device is dependent upon haaard or
chance

SEC 3
Q8
5 BETTING PIPSIt shall be unlawful for arty person to
print publish distribute eirculate
se12 or give away in the
City of
Oakland any chart table list sheet circular or publication of any kind

giving or purporting to give or represented as giving any list

or
probable
cr possible list of entries r horse race thereafter anywhere to take
for ar
be printed as part thereof or in connection therewith or in
place if there
any ether publication printing or writing accompanying the same or referring
thereto or Ecnnected therewith any tip information prediction or selection
or advice as to any key cipher or cryptogram indicating containing or giving
or selection of or advice as to the winner or
a tip information publication
probable winner or loser or probable loser or the result or probable result
of any such rave or the standing or probable standing of any horse therein
or any statement as to or comnent upon or reference to the form condition
or standing of or the actual probable or possible standing past present
or odds upon or against ar
or flzture of the betting wagering y horse named in
anch list or probable or possible list of entries or to print publish
the City of Oakland and printed
distribute circulate sell or give away in
or written information or pretended information comment tip prediction
enee concerning any horse or horse rage which will or may or is
or refer

designed to aid enable encourage or assist any person to bet or wager or to

establish odds or to day a basis upon which to bet or wager at arty tip
thereafter against any horse or upon any horse race

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 SIC 09
5
3 POOL LIBTG BOOKMAKIRG
SEI BETS A1QD YYAGER3 It shall be
unlawful for any person within the of
Oakland whether for gain hire re
City
ward or gratuitously or otherwise to sell or offer for sale buy or offer
to buy issue or in any manner dispose of purchase or acquire any interest in

any pool or purported pool or in anp pool ticket or purported pool ticket certi
ficate or purported certificate writing or
purported writing or other evidence
or purported evidence of the payment acceptance or deposit of
money or other
thing of value staked upon the result or purported result of any trial or purport
ed trial or contest or purported contest of skill speed or
power of endurance
of man or beast or between men and beasts or mechanical
apparatus or upon the
result or purported result of any lot chance casualty unknown or
contingent
event whatsoever or to lay make offer record or register or accept
any bet
or beta or wager or wagers upon the result or purported result of any such trial
or purported trial or contest or purported contest or to sot as a stakeholder of

any bet or wager laid thereon or to receive or pay over any money article or thing
of value the possession right of possession ownership or value of which has been
is or is to be determined by any cosh trial or purported trial or contest or
purported contest or is or is to be in atr way dependent upon the result thereof
or for any person
being the owner lessee or occupant of any room shed tenement
tent booth building float place or grounds or arm part thereof whether for
gain hire reward or gratuitously or otherwise to permit the same to be used or
occupied for any purpose hereinbefore in this section declared to be unlawful

SEC 10
5
3 LOTTERIES It shall be unlawful for any person in
the City
of Oakland to aid or
assist either
by printing writing advertising publishing
or otherwise fn setting up managing or drawing up any lottery or
selling or dis
posing of any ticket chance or share therein or to have in his possession aq
lottery ticket certificate paper or instrument purporting to repres
nt or repre
senting or understood to be or to represent ar
p ticket chance share or interest
in or depending upon the event of an4y lottery or az
y instrument stamp or device
used or intended to be used in or for contriving settirup preparing making
writing printing stamping or getting ready for sale or distribution ate lottery
ticket or tickets or to become an inmate of or visitor to or in
any manner con
tribute to the support of any office room or place where
any lottery ia or is
about to be contrived
prepared set
u drawn or sold or arty ticket of such
lottery is registered or to knowingly let or permit to be used any building or
premises or portion thereof knowing that it is to be used for any one of the pur
poses in this section d eelared to be unlawful

SEC 11
5
3 CARD GAMES It shall be unlawful for any person or any
social club or other club in the City of Oakland to conduct participate in
or any
card game in any public place or to which an admission fee ie charged unless
such person so cfal club or other club shall have first obtained a permit from
the Chief of Police of the City of Oakland to conduct such aand Such
game
permit shall be granted by the Chief of Police only after an
application there
for in writing has been made Such permit shall be granted within seven 7
days after such application is made unless it shall appear to said Chief of
Police that the applicant is not a fit and proper person to hold such a permit
or the moral conditions associated with such applicant are detrimental to public
morals Such permit shall continue in frill force and effect for a
period of one
year from and after the date it is issued unless within such period it shall be
revoked for good cause by the Chief of Police provided further that
nothing
herein shall prevent the granting by the Chief of Police of temporary permit
a

to be effective fora period of seven 7 days after the granting thereof

SEC 12
5
3 BARRICADID ROOI1iS It shall be unlawful for any
person
whether as owner agent lessor lessee tenant
otherwise without first
or or

obtaining a permit so to do to erect construct

maintain any barred or or

barricaded house or room or a room or hall with double doors or other

place
eo built constructed or protected as likely to be difficult of access or
ingress to police officers or members of the Fire Department in the performance
of their official d utiea or to erect hang or
maintain in or upon any building
any door made wholly of metal or metal and wood or any door composed of wood

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or of wood Haile sad glees vrer two 2 inhes in thickness No door
or room shall without a permit be fastened by any bar or bars prop or
props behind or across the name or be severed otherwise than by a lock or

locks bolt or bolts

SEC 13 PIT FOR BARRICADED ROOMS

5
3 Application for a permit
provided for in Seotioa
12of this Article
5
3 shall be in writing apeoifTing
the purpose or reason for which it ie sought the lvvatioa and character of
the ffieadaea involved and the address of the applicant and shall be filed
with the City Clerk Immediately upon filing it shall be referred to the
Chief ofthe Fire Department and the Chief of Police for investigation and

report Unless the Chief of the Fire Department or the Chief of Pvlioe shall
within seven 7 days after receipt of said application file with the City
Clerk a written report that it should be denied on the grounds that sash
house or room or door by reaeo n of its nature location or purpose specify
ectiona thereto has become or is likely to become a serious and
ing the ob
needless or unreaaonable obstruction or obstacle to members of the Fire
Department yr of the police Department in extinguishing fires making arrests
or raids or stherwise discharging their
public duties the permit shall be
granted Such permit may also be granted before the expiration of the seven
7j day period whenever the Chief o f Police and the Chief of the Fire Depart
merit shall file ea oh a written approval thereof

SEC 3 14 RE
5 OCATION OF PSfdIT FOR BARRICADED ROOFS APPEALS
HEARINGS Whenever any burred or barricaded house or room or dour referred
to in Section 3
12 F this Article shall be erected maintained or kept under
5
the authority of or by a permit provided for in Section 3
13 of this Article
5
and the Chief of the Fire Department or the Chief of Police shall file a
written report with the Council setting forth reasons for revocation of such
permit the Council shall fix a time for the hearing of the same and shall
send notice to the holder of such permit to appear at such time and show cause

why the said permit should not be revoked

Within 7 Jaya
after the denial of any application in the
seven
manner set forth in Section
13 the applicant may renew the application
5
3
by filing it with the City Council and the Council shall fig the time for the
hearing of the acme

In revoking confirming denying or granting any permit the Council

shall consider the application the reports of the Chief of the Fire Department
and the Chief of police and ether attending facts and circumatanaea and shall
exercise a reasonable and sound discretion in the premises

SEG 3
1
5BUILDING PEREIT BARRICADED ROOMS The permit provided
for in Section 5
3
1 3 of this Article shall be in addition to any building
permit which may be required under the building laws of the City The granting
of a permit by the Counaiil to erect or maintain a public garage shall be under
stood tv include authority to install necessary automatic fire doors of metal
or of metal and other material

ARTICLE 6

GATHERINGS AND MNETIbTGS

SEC 63
0 1 CONGREGATING IN STREETS Whenever the free passage
of any street or sidewalk shall be vbstru
cted by a crowd
except on the
ovoasivn of public meetings the persona composing such crowd shall disperse
or move on when directed to do so by a police officer It shall be unlawful
br any person to refuse to ao disp
rae or move on when so directed to do by
a police officer as herein provided

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 SEC 3
02
6 R8D It shall b unlawful for any person to
IGS
FL
in the City of
bear carry or display 3n any public assemblage or meeting
Oakland or in any parade or procession in or upon the streets of said city
other materiel
alp red flag banner or pennant of cloth paper or

SEC 03 RAT
6
3 OAS It shall be unlawful for any person within

the City of Oakland to promote conduct part in any public

carry on or tags
contests kmwn and designated as walkathons
exhibition of endurance commonly
cr dance marathons or skate marathons

STREI t
fAGS
1
I EE The following Ordinance is an Initiative
SEC 3
04
6 rI
measure aid pted 18 1915
d
u e GPy
u
z
G
6 o 5 G d
7 J 6
5
OEDIAAACE REGULATING THE HOLDING OF PUBLIC EEE3
INGS OAS 1
65OA ANY PUBLIC STRB
1
3AiC f OR IA AAY POBLIC SQUARE PARff LAl Y
ALLl
WITHIN TAE FIRE yIMITS OF THE CITY t3F OAKLAAD
COURT OR OTHER PUBLIC PLACE
CE AO 1836 OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND AND ALL ORI
AAD REPFdLIAG ORDII
AI IAAACFS
AND PARTS OF ORDIAANCES IN COAFLICT HEIA
ITH AND TIDING
PRO PEAALTIES IOR VIO

LATION THEREOF

B IT ORDAIAED the Council of the City of Oakland as follows

by

or
CTION
SF hereby declared to be unlawful for any person
1 It is
held on any
persona to conduct take part in or address any public meeting
court or other
public street or in any public square park lane alley
public place within the fire limits of the City of Oakland provided however
six otclock M
P and thirty minutes after ten
that between the hogs of
clock P
o of each day it shall be lawful for anyr person or persons to
take in or address any public meeting onthe following streets
conduct parrt
within the said fire limits toxit

Ninth Tenth axed Eleventh Streets between the westerly line

On
Street
of Clay Street and the easterly line of Franklin Street n Fifteenth
between the easterly line of Street and the westerly 13ne of
Nashington
Jefferson Street on Clay Street between the southerly line of Ninth Street
and the line of Eleventh StreetFranklin Street between the
sad on
mrtherly
line of Ninth Street and the
northerly line of Eleventh Street
southerly
meetings shall be so conducted as not
and provided fhrthee that such public
the of Oakland mw in force and effect
to violate the traffic ordinances of City

SECTION Q The wards address any public meeting as used in this

ordinance is defined to include the ri ght to speak freely and publish one
e

matter and illustrate the same provided however that

view8 on auy subject
no person or persons shall speak or publish anything of an immoral or treason

able character

SECTION 3 person violating any of the provisions of this

ordinance shall guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be

be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred lOOf dollars and in case said
fine be not the or persons
person so fined shall be imprisoned in the
paid
Prison oY the City of Oakland at the rate of one ly day for every two
City
dollars of the fine imposed and remaining unpaid
2 so

SECTIOA 4 Ordinance No 1836 entitled An Ordinance regulating

the holding of publio meetings in any public street square park lane
in front of the entrance to
alley court or other public plane or at
or axiy
situated within the fire limits of the City of Oakland
public building
approved October 2O 1897 and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in
with this ordinance are hereby repealed
conflict

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 SECTION 5 This ordinance shall take effeot the time and
at
in the manner provided by law

ARTICLE 7

FdRMING IfRUGS AND

HABIT ICATING bIQUORS
INTO

SEC 01
7
3 tTGS AND
I LIQUORS IN CITY PRISON It shall be unlawful

n of the Health Offioer of the

for air person without the written permiasi

City of Oakland to bring into or cause to be broughtigto the City Prison

of the City Oakland or to have in his poasesaivn while a prisoner in
of
said City Prison any opium or any of the preparations of opium or any
intozioating liquor

SEC 3
7s02 It shall be unlawful for a
OPIUM SMOgING p person
z
in the City of Oakland keep maintain manage or smoke opium in
to own
or beoome an inmate of or visit or resort tv or in axqway contribute
to the support vf any house or room yr plaoe where opium is smoked or where per
sons assemble for the purpose of amvkirg opium or inhaling the fumes of

opium or which is kept ea a place of resort for the smoking or other use
of opium

SEC 3
03
7 CACHOU It shall be unlawful for anp person in the
City of Oakland to
sell give away or have in hie possession for any
purpose p cachou oommonly knoarn as Japanese snuff
whatsoever ar

SEC 3
04
7 tNRONGFUL USE OF OPIUM AND OTHER DRUGS It shall be
unlawful for arty any person whatever
druggist or to sell yr give away
or deliver to any person in the City of Oakland excepting as hereinafter
05 of this Artivle provided opium o
in this section and in Seotion 3
7
any preparation thereof morphine coo
eine or any of their salts or any

solution or preparation in which one or mare of these substances is known

to be an ingredient

This seotion shall not apply to the filling by druggists of the

written orders preaoription of any licensed physician or one who
or upon
due inquiry is believed by the druggist to be such for any of the aub
stanoea hereinabove enumerated but vexy auoh order or preaoription meat be
numbered and dated at the tYme it is filled and the Weems and address of
the druggist filling it must be written or stamped in ink across the
Ease of such order or preaoription eo that it oannvt be erased without
detection and a label with similar date and number name and addreaa
shall be affixed to the bottle boa or package of the medicine before
its delivery and upon such label shall slay be written the name of the

physician who prescribed or ordered it Every such order or preaoription

or a copy thereof shall be kept by the druggist filling it for two years
and be subject to the inspeotion of any legally constituted couxt or vffieer

demanding it Nv copy of any euoh order or preaoription shall ever be filled

but the original order or pr eaoriptivn may be refilled once only excepting
as hereinafter provided and the druggist refilling it moat make a note

upon it that it has been refilled and also the date upon whioh it was re
filled IP it shall be refilled by an
r other druggist than the one who first
filled it a ooh druggist moat almo number it and stamp or write his name
and addreaa in ink across the fdaoe of it and keep it
or a Dopy of it for
two years subject to inspeotion as before ordered and sash order or pre
eoriptivn mast not again b refilled excepting upon the order or request
written upon a separate paper of the phyaici an who wrote the ordsr or pre

eoription and then only for as long a time not exceeding two weeks as the
physician may designate in Such order and such written order or request
must be kept b y the druggist for two years and be subject to inspection as
in the case of the original preaoription or order

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SB 3
0 5 DRUGS USED S INGREDIENTS IN FIXTURES Section 3
04
7
of this Article shall not apply to the sale of liniments or mi
tares for

external use that are of such nature that they cannot be taken internally
without danger to life or health nor to the sale of mrphine or vvcaine or
their salts or of opium in mixtures pills powders or solutions when in
combination with other active ingredients provided that no ire than eight
8 grains of opium and no mare than two 2j grains of rscrphine or cocaine
both combined shall b e sold to or for the same person
or their salts or

in one nor to the sale of paregoric nor the sale or gift cf any
any day
of the substanves enumerated in said Seotion 37
04 to hospitals asylums or

other publio or charitable institutions for use therein or to physicians

or dentists yr other druggists who are engaged in the business

SEC 3
06
7 1PRONGFUL USE OF AND FRAUDULENT PRESCRIPTIONS It

shall be unlawful for any persontv endeavor to procure an

y of the substances

enumerated 04 of this Artivle

in Seotion 3
7 by means of a t
frauduZen order

signed by fictitious name or

by means oP any
yr prescription or one a

other false statement or representation

al for any physician to give away or to prescribe

It shall be vnlawf
or give an order for any of the substances named tv any person eavepting

for the purpose of curing or alleviating disease

Licensing and regulating sale of intoxicating liquors

Note Re
See Ordinances 624 N
S as amended by 840 N S and Ordinance 1608 N all
S
initiative measures adopted prior to e adoption of the Eighteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States

ARTICLE 8

FRAUD ANI3 DECEIT

SEC 83
0 1 GAS AND ELEC2
RIC I TEft5 rful for
It shall be unla
intent to injure or defraud to
air person in the City of Oakland with
have in his possession arm machine appliance contrivance or devive of

r character used designed or intended to be weed to prevent a gas or

an
electric meter from vorreotly registering gas or electricity passing through
to diTert gas or electricity that should pass through it
it or

SEC 83
0 2 ALTERING AND FALSIFYING PUBLIC RECORDS It shall
be unlawful for any person to wilfully alter falsify deface mutilate
seorete or without the consent of the officer having custody of
dmatrcy
the same to remove the whole or any part of any beck map paper in tru
document or record filed deposited or recorded in an4p public office
ment
or with any publio officer of the City of Oakland

3BC 38 ICES It shall be unlawful for

03 DBFACIN
tYt ems person
to wilfully alter falsify deface mutilate remove or destroy without the
consent of the City of Oakland e offivial publio notice posted in any
public place in the City of Oakland by the said City before the date of hearing
as set Perth in said notice
s c
3
S Se
e c 3 8a
y
r
2 h G Y
D
e
S3 5
ARTICLE 9

ABINAyS AND BIRDS

3
0
9 1 DEFINITIONS
SEC The word dog as used in this Artivle
is hereby declared and defined to include any dog more than four 4 tenths
to include female
old and shall be deemed
a ell as male
dogs except when
herein
otherwise specially provided

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 The terffi uialioenaed dog as used in this Article is hereby
defined and declared to for which the license for the current
mean a dog
or to which the tag provided for in this Article
year has not been paid
is not attached

fifteen 15 consecutive
Y
Aa person keeping or harboring a dog for
be deemed to be the owner thereof within the meaning of this
days shall
Lrtiola

3EC 3
02
9 DOG LICENSE A license tax of Three Dollars 05
00
on each and every dog for the privilege of having and keeping such dog in

the City of Oakland is hereby required to be paid by the owner or person

having ctaetody or control cf such dog for eaoh year or fraction of a year
commencing on the first day of January or the first day of July of each
year She amount of eaoh license shall be paid to the Chief License Inspector
and upon payment thereof the said Chief License Inspector shall iasva a metal
anee thereof and the words Oakland
tag with the number and year of the isau
Dog Lioenae plainly insoribed thereon and shall enter in a register kept
by him for that purpose the ae
na and address of the owner of the dog lioenaed
licenee is issued a description of such dog the
or the person to whom auch

number of the tag and the date of its iaauanoe Duplicate metal tags may
be issued upon f
rit
paym fifty Bents 50 for eaoh duplicate tag ao issued

SEC 03
9
3 NEL hICENSL
DOG gE1 The license tax required by
this Artiole to be paid by the owner or person having the custody or control
of any dog for the privilege of having and keeping any such dog in the City
of Qaklard shall not apply to any person oonducting or maintaaining a dog
kennel in said City but every person condtaoting or maintaining a dog kennel
shall pay to said City for the privilege of keeping arty eaoh dog or doge
in eaoh dog kennel a lioenae tea ae follows IAOr one 1 to ten 10 dogs

inaitasive Ten Dollars 014 0413 for eleven 11 to fifteen 15 doge in

chisive Fifteen Dollars 015 00 for n 16 or asare doge Teenty
te
ai five
Dollars 25 each Exaction of a year eommenoing on the
00 for year or

first day of January or the first day of July of each year payable in
advance on the first day of January or the first day of July of each year
The amount of such lioenae shall be paid to the Chief Lioenae Inspector and
upon the payment thereof the said Chief Lioense Inspector shall issue as
or maintaining such dog kennel
many metal tags as the person conducting
shall requir not to exceed the maximum number which the payments of such

license shall entitle him to keep which tags shall have the number and year
of the iasuerice thereof and the words Oakland icense plainly inaoribed
Dog I
thereon and said Chief Lioense Inspector shall enter in a register kept
for that ptarpose the and address of the person conducting or main
by him name

atsrh dog kennel the looation of said dog kennel the number of dogs
taining
therein Far which licensee were issued the numbers of the tags issued and
the date of their isauaxice At any subsequent time within the period during
which said license is effective any person conducting or maintaining such
to him the maximum number of tags
dog kennel who shall not have had issued
to which the payment of eaoh license entitled him may have additional tags
issued to him upon regtaest until the aggregate number of tags issued to
him daring stash period ehe11 have equalled such maaimura number Such tags

shall be in the form hereinabove apeoified amd the Chief Lieenae Inspector
shall as to such additional tags enter in his register all the facts herein
before required to be entered upon the original iasuanoe of tags

04 DOG LICENSE A DEBT

SEC 39 The amount of ark lioenae imposed
deemed debt to the City of Oaklar
d and a person
by this Article shall be
a

or keeping a dog in the City of f3akland without having obtained

owning having
to an action in the name
a license so to do from said City shall be liable

of said City in any court of competent jurisdiction for the amount of license
be paid for the privilege of
imposed by and required by this Article to having
and keeping such dog in said City

4r
 SEC 05
9
3 IINLICE53BD DOGS It shall be unlawful for air person
to have harbor or keep or tp cause or permit to be harbored or kept any
unlicensed dog in the City of Oakland

SEC 306 N
9 EPING DC1GS NOT hIC
NSED REGISR
ERED dND i AGGED
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or allow any dog tv be kept or
to reannin upon ar premises under his immediate control unless sash dog shall
be registered and liaensed and shall have a collar or leather lbnd attached
inscribed
thereon on which there shall be a
tag as in this Article prescribed
provided however that such collar or leather band need not be attached to
such dog while such dog remains in the dwelling house of the owner or other
person having auatady thereof or in an enclosed yard adjacent thereto

SEC 309 DOGS AT LARGE

9 It shall he unlawful for any person
owning or having charge Dare or control of Y dog to permit or allow the
same to run at large upon any street lane alley court or other public

plane or on any private property without the oneent of the owner thereof
within the City of Oakland unless such dog shall be registered and liaensed
as in this Aacticle provided aiti3 shall have a Dollar or leather band attached

thereon on which there shall be a tag inscribed as in Sections 3 08 and

9
3
0
9 3 of this Article provided or to permit or allow suoh dog whether
liaensed and registered or not or leashed or unleashed to be in any publio
park in th City of Oakland or to permit or allow suoh dog whether liaensed
and registered or not tv maxi at large in axay school yard or public playground
or other place controlled by the Board of Education or the Board of Playground

Directors of the City of Oakland er for any person owning or having charg
acre or control of any female dog to permit or allow the samq whether licensed

and registered or not to

run at large when in heat during the l atrua period
c

upon any street lane alley court park or other public plane or on any
private property without the consent of the owner thereof within the City
of Oakland

SEC 08
9
3 DOGE BXCEPTED FROM LICEE
TSE REQUIRE
NTS The provisions
of this Article requiring dog license shall not apply to any dog owned by or
in the charge or Dare of a non
resident of the City of 0akland traveling

through the City of Oakland or temporarily sc

ourning therein fQr s period
not exceeding thirty 0 days nor to any dog brought to the City of 0akl and

exclusively for the purpose of entering the same in a dog show or dog ezhibi
tion and entered for and kept at any dog show or dog exhibition nor to any
dog owned by a non
resident of the City of Oakland when suoh dog has been

regularly liaensed in accordance with the laws cf the plane of residence of

suoh owner and shall have a collar or leather band attached thereon on whiah
there shall be a tag evidencing the exietenae of an unexpired license for such

dog in the plane of residence of suoh owner

SEC 09
9
3 1NSFERRING COC1N7
T EITING
ERF AND ITING DOG TAGS
RBI
it shall be ualawful for aray person keep upon or to auae or
to attach tc or

permit to be attached to or kept upon any dog any tag provided for in 3eationa
02 or 3
9
3 03 of this Article egaept
9 tag ia
aued to him for sash dog under
the provisions of this Article or to attach to yr keep upon or to cause yr
permit to be attached to or kept upon any dog or to make or to have in posaea
sion aYay counterfeit or imitation of any tag provided for in said Sections
02 or 03
9
3 X9 or to take from any dog any collar or leather band or tag
3
attached thereto except as provided in Section 3 06 of this Article
9

SEG 3
10
9 NDING DOGS
t
IM Any dog found running at large
contrary to the provisions of this Article shall be taken into custody by the
Pcuxidaaiaster of the City of Oaklaaid or his deputies and lodged in the City
Pound any sash dog may be redeemed by the owner or possessor thereof within
three 3 days of suoh impoundixig on the pament to the Poundmaster cf the
sum of Three Dollars 03
00 but if not eo redeemed said dog may be sold
at private gale for the auaa
ofnot lase than Three Dollars 00
3 And if
not redeemed or private sale suoh dog shall be killed oT bu
Bold s t i 1n
ascordanoe with the provisions of Section 3
19 of this Article relating
9
to killing or sale of impounded animals

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 SEC 11 FION FROM BOG LICENSES ANA CHARGES
9
3 IP any
person shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the Associated Charities
that such person by reason of unavoidable peserty merits ezemption from
the payment of any fees or charges provided Yor by this Article upon the
ted Charities the City Auditor and the City
recommendation of the Asaoci

ority vote of the whole Gbuncil by Resolution

Treasurer and upon the ma
the Poundmaater shall waive the payment of any such fees
or ohaxgea provided

that such ezemption from payment shall be presented to the

application for
undmaster within three 3j days after such fees or charges or any part there
Pc
from Pay
of have accrued and provided farther that upon such exemption
meat the Poundmaster shall dispose of any such dogs in his custody on
account of which such fees charges had accrued and had been waived in
or

the manner ae though such fees or charges had been regularly paid by such
person so ezempted from the payment thereof

SEC 312 ffi

9 iIAATION ANB T E
Z LING OF BOGS THAT BITS When
bitten
ever within the limits of the City of Oakland any dog shall have
any person it shall be the duty of the Poundmaster and he is hereby
directed to take into custody and keep such deg at the City Pound for a
period not to exceed two 2 weeks during which period the City Veterinarian
and Assistant shall determine whether or not said dog
to the Health Officer
is diseased or icious If the City Peterinarian and Assistant to the Health
vicious and in his judg
Officer shall determine that said dog is diseased or
ment should be killed notify the Pounclmaater of auoh determination
he shall
It shall then be thecluty of the Poundmaster and he is hereby directed to
kill said diseased or vicious dog immediately If the City Veterinarian and
Assistant to the lIealth Officer shall determine that such dog is not diseased

or vicicns said dog shall be released and delivered by the Poundmaster to

ly entitled theretol but no such dog taken into
the owner or person lawftii
custody and released in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this
section shall be permitted to run at large in s of the public lanes alleys
streets er other public places in the City of Oakland unless such dog is

properly mua sled Ary owner of or person lawfully entitled to any auoh
dog who allows or permits such dog to run at large in the City of Oskland in
violation of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor

3EC 3
13
9 RABIES EPIBEBIIC l
o twithatanding the provisions of
12 of this Article whenever
Section 3
9 in the judgment of the City Council

of the City of Oakland upon the recommendation of the Health Officer and the
ger of said City of Oakland it shall determine and declare that any
City ldaxm
disease epidemic exists within the City of Oakland by reason of rabies or for
it is necessary to protect
any other disease or pause or reason and that
and preserve the public health and safety the Council of the City shall by
resolution declare and determine the existence of an epidemic of auoh disease
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police of the City of
ti or Pc
Oaklaz tandmaster when so directed by the City Managr avid until such

time as it may b determined by said Council that auoh disease epidemic no

longer exists to immediately destroy or cause to be immediately destroyed in
the event such epidemic is one of any dog
rabies or dogs which may ha1
ebitten

any person or persona dog or dogs or other animal or

animals or which in
of theealth Officer is suffering Pxe m the disease cP
the judgment rabies and
to immediately Best cy or cause to be immediately destroyed the dog or dogs
ay other animal
or a animals which may have been bitten by any such dog or
or

dogs Sueh dog or dogs and such other animal or animals during the existence
of auoh epidemic are hereby declared to be an imminent menace tv Ih
e public
health acid safety Boring the continuanee of such epidemic ax
y pereoa or
persons owning any dog cr dogs wf thin the City of Oakland shall keep such dog
muszled at all times while it is at large and any dog or dogs unmuzsled and
running at large upon any of the public streets lanes alleys or other public
auoh epidemic shall be impounded and
places of the City of Oakland dozing
destroyed whether or not such dog or dogs be suffering from rabies or a
r other
disease and the Pound
naster or any member off the Police Depe
tmrant is sxe
authorized to enforce the provisions hereof

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 SEG 3
14
9 G KITH DAdaS
INTERFERI U1
P
FER Any person or persons
in arty manner interfering with the Pou
ndmaster or arty offfoer of the city
in the discharge of the duties prescribed in thin Article shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor

3EG 15
8
3 DOG ffidNEI
SBESTRICTED It shall be unlawful for any
person to establish or maintain arty institution or plane where more than five
5 doge are kept far sale or boarded within one hundred i0t Feet of any

reeidenoe dwelling church school public building or well or spring the

water from which ie used for human oonaumption

SEC 16
9
3 fALS AT i
I GS It shall be unlawful fbr any person

owning or having charge Dare ef e

oz bull caw horse colt
of control

hack mule calf sheep goat hog or other dcmeatio animal or a duck
goose chicken or other domestic fowl to allow or permit the same to run
re in the City of Oaklaryd or to pasture or herd or stake or tie for the
at lar
purpose f gracing the same in ar
y public street lane alley court or
other pub lio plane or grounds belonging to or under the control of the City
of Oakland er on any private property within the limits of the Gity of
Oakland unless with the consent of the owner or occupant of auoh property

SIB 317 IIil

9 ING A2QIMALS AR LARGE
OLTAT Any animal or fowl
enumerated in Section 9
3
1 fi of this Article found running at large or
otherwise contrary to the proviei
ns of said Seotion 3 16 of this Article
9
unded and safely kept
shall be taken up imp by the Poundmaster of city
the
of Oakland

iNhen any animal or fowl ie

impounded the Founamaeter shall
so

immediately notify the owner thereof if known

to him if not so known to him
he shall post three 3 notioess One on the City Hall Bulletin sard one
at the Gity Post Office and one in a oonapouous plane at the Gity Pound
Said notioea shall contain a full description of the said animal or fowl im

unded and shall set forth the fact that ur

p leas it is reclaimed it will be
sold at public auction to the highest bidder at a time and plane to be specified
in said notice which time shall not be leas than five 8 days nox more than
ten 10 days from the posting thereof and if said animals or fowl are not
reclaimed before the expiration of the time specified in said notice the Pound
master shall proceed to sell the same at the time and place and in the manner
apeoified in said notice provided that all animals and fowl so taken into
the custody of the Poundmaater which by reason of age or disease ar other

ity are unfit for further use or dangerous to be kept impounded shall
infira
be destroyed by him after ezamination by the veterinary Suxgeon of the Soc
y
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimale as soon thereafter as is conveniently

possible and in ogee of auah d estruotion of sash animal or fowl the Pound
maater shalt not be required to give the aforesaid notice

animal or fowl redeemed or sold wi t

unded
imp and zttinthe
time and
in the manner specified in this
Article shall be killed by the
ndraaster and by him buried in the city burial place for dead animals
Pap

SEG 3
18 AIMI
9 ItEGI I
iG OUNDED ANIMALS
F The owner Qf arm animal
fowl oa a
Soffit 3
x 7 e eae in Seotion 3
t
s
a
fi
or
s
impeunded 17
9
of this Article provided shall have the right to reclaim the same at anf tame
prior to the sale thereof upon payment to the Pundmaster of the costa and

charges hereinafter provided in this Article for impounding and keeping sash animal
or fowl or if sold the owner shall have the right to receive the proceeds of
the sale of such animal or fowl leas the coats and
charges aforesaid within
thirty 30 days after upon satiafaotory proof of hia ownership of
such sate

sash animal or fowl eo impounded or sold

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 sac 319 BARE OF AN I
9 ASTE The Poundmaeter
ALS BY PouND

all animals and fowl impounded by him to be provided with

shall cause
and upon his
sufficient food and water suitable for such animals and fowl
for all damages arising
neglecting so to do shall be liable to the owner
therefrom

SEC 320 FEES FOR KEEPING A

9 tIB
L S The Pourdmaster shall
animals or fowls
reoeive and collect from the owner of any of the following
ring fees for impounding and keeping the same
the follo

Horses bulls oxen and cows per head 4 00

Jacks mules steers and colts per head 00
X4
Hogs sheep goats and oalres per head 60
1
and domestic fowl per head 25 cents
Ihxcks geese

And the further sum for keeping the same per day

50 Dents
Horses bulls oxen and cows per head
5O Dents
Jacks mules steers and colts per head
25 Dents
Hogs sheep goats aixl calves per head
5 Dents
Ducks geese and domestic fowl per head

sSC 21
9
3 BIIRYING DEAD TALS
ANI It shall be the duty of all

persons having dead anima

sor fowl upon
l their premises or who shall be
the owners or possessors of any dead animals or fowl which died within the

City of Oakland to bury the same at least four 4 f aet underground except Data

dogs or fowl which shall be buried at least two 2 feet nbcier ground either
dead animal
upon the premises of suoh owner or upon the premises where such
or fowl is found or in the city burial place for dead animals or to have
such dead animals or fowl incinerated either under private contract
or by

eight 48 hours
the City pound wi thin forty after the same shall die and
animal or fowl it
upon the reQuest of any owner or possessor of arty dead
shall be the duty of the poundmaster to proceed forthwith to bury the same

fox dead for which he shall oolleot and

in the city burial place animals
receive from the owner or possessor of such dead animal or fowl the following
fees

For burying horses bulls oxen and code each X5

00
For burying jacks mules steers and Dolts eaoh X4
00
For burying hogs sheep goats and calves each 3
00
For burying ducks geese and domestic foul eaoh 25
For burying dogs or oats eaoh X1
00

If any person fails or ne gleots to bury any dead animal cr fowl as pro
vided for in this section then in such case it will be the duty of the Pound

master to proceed forthwith to bury the wane and it shall be lawful for the
Poundmaster to charge reoeive or oolleot from the owner or possessor of suoh
dead animal or fowl buried by him the fees hereinbefore provided and any
snob person so refusing or neglecting to bury or cause to be buried any
such dead animal or fowl as herein provided shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor

22 TAKING UP STRAY ANIEALS

3SC 3
9 Every person taking up
liable to be
impounded provisions
under theof this Axtiole shall
r animal
an
after taking such animal or if the same be
within tarelve 12 hours up
attached to a vehicle within four 4 hours give notice thereof to the
poundmaster or his Deputies or to the Chief of Police of the City of Oakland
yr to any incorporated Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animala in the
Poundmaster or suoh Society shall
Gity of Oakland snd the thereupon take
suoh animal into custody and every person to whom such animal may be
delivered or who shall roceive the same shall forthwith upon demand deliver
or to such incorporated
such animal to the Poundmaster Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to An3
male

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 g7ery person taking up such animal and failing
or neglecting
to give such notice
reYtaeing or neglecting to deliver such animal to
or

the Poundmaster or such incorporated Society for Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals upon demand shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor

incorporated Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

upon receiving any animal liable to be impounded shall thereupon notify
the Poundmaster and it shall b the
duty of the Pt
undmaeter to include
auoh animal in his list t sn pasting and said incorporated Society for
prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall have the right after three 3 days
to dispose of auoh animal if not reclaimed No charges greater than those
asked by the City Pound ae herein provided shall be asked by any such in
corporated Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

SEC 323 R
9 ORTS OR POUNI
STER AND NOTICE TO POLICE OF KILLIBG
The F
u ndmaster shall make a true
and correct report to the City Manager on the
first onday of each month of the animals and fowl of each kind impounded by
him during the previous month of the number redeemed and sold and the amount
received therefor and the number killed pf each kind with the number and
kiAd buried and the amount received therefor

The P
undmaster shall before he proceeds to kill arty animal subject
to be killed under the provisions of this the Captain of
Article notify
Police of his intention to kill such animal and the Captain of Police shall
detail an officer of police to be present at the killing of a uch animal

SEC 324 TISIPING CATTLE THROUGH STREETS

9 It shall be unlawful
for any person to drive or cause to be driven arm cattle
through the atreeta
of the City of Oakland at any time without the written permission of the
City
Manager ao to do which permit shall state the name of the applicant the
time of dsy and name of street or atreeta over which the applicant for same

may drive or cause to be driven any oattle

SEC 3 25 KEEPING FOAL AND CERTAIN ANIMALS IN APARTMENT HOUSE

9
HOTEL A BUSINESS 33ISTRIC It shall be unlawfulfbr any person to raise
D
or keep live chickens ducks geese an other fowl or pigeons
rabbits
guinea pigs or
goats in any enclosure or yard anywhere in the apartment
house hotel or business district of the City of Oakland egoept r en auoh
fowl or animals are kept within a bona fide produce market oemmiasion house
or store for
purposes of trade and while so kept are confined in small coops
bones or cages

For the purposes of this section the said apartment house hotel
and basins as district shall be and include the following defined district

Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Rallon Street

with the center line of Seventh Street thence westerly along the center
line cf Seventh Street to the center line of Grove Street thence
northerly
along the center line of Grove Street to the center line of San Pablo
Avenue
thence northerly along line of San Pablo Avenue to the center line
the center
of Tarenty
second Street thence easterly along the center line of Twenty
aeoond Street to the western line oP Telegraph Avenue thence
easterly in a
direct line to the intersection of the eastern line of
Broadway with the
center line of Grand Avenue thence easterly along the center line of
Gran Avenue to the center line of Harrison Street thence southerly along
the center line of Harrison Street to the center line of Twentieth
Street
thence easterly along the center line produced oP Twentieth
Street to the
western shore line of Lake Merritt thence fn a general
southerly direction
along the western shore line of bake Merritt to the center line produced
northerly of Fallon Street and thence southerly along the center Line
and its production of Fallon Street to the point of
beginning

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 The provisions of this creation shall xtot apply to the raising
or keeping of any fowl or animals under the direction of the City of Oakland
on any grounds or properties used by the City as a
public park soo or

cotta eum

SEC 26
9
3 PTITAHY gEEpI
S iG 4F NI
S It shall be unlawful

ax person in the City of Oakland to keep an

for y q sow horse cattle goat
swine or other animal or any fowl in such manner as may injuriously affect
the health of any neighborhood or anp person or to keep the same in any
yard stable pen or place which is not at all times kept clean ansi free
from stagnant water and ali filthy and unhealthful circumstances

SEC 27
9
3 NIbilLLS AFFLICTED
1 VPITH GLANDERS It shall be unlawful
for any person to us ride or drive any horse or other animal afflicted with
the disease known ae glanders within the public streets of the City of
Oakland or to water such diseased horse or other animal at LY watering
plane in any of the public streets or aea
pl within the City of Oakland

SEC 28 KEEPING OF FOWL

9
3 It shall be unlawful forany
person to keep any ducks geese chickens or other fowls in air enclosure
in the City of Oakland ualees the eacterior boundaries of acid enclosure
are more than twenty feet frost any dwelling church or school

SEC 93
2 8 MATER FOWL 4N LAKE EERRITT It shall be unlawful
r any person to threw missiles of any kind at or disturb in any way
f
water fowl on bake Aierritt

SEC 34 WILD BIRDS

9
3 It shall be unlat
frxl for any person to

trap snare or otherwise capture or kilt any wild bird in the City of
Oakland ezaept water fowl and birds of prey

SEC
3
9
3 1 SQIITRR
LS It shall be unlawful for any person to

import into the

City of i
Oakla or to sell or expose for sale or
exchange
or de liver or distribute within the City of Oakland any ground squirrel or
other squirrels

SEC 3
32
9 ANIMAL HOSPITALS It shall be unlawful for an
q person
to a tablish mainta in within the limits of the City of Oakland any
or

hospital home asylum or other institution where diseased or injured

oats dogs horses or other animals are treated cared for destroyed or
kept except where they are kept temporarily for temporary treatment in case of
emergency within three hundred feet of an
y church residence school house
dwelling house or any well or spring from which water is drawn for household
or drinking purposes C C3C uc 3

ARTICLE lO
o yT

MINORS

SEC 10
3
01 lS
P00LROO1 It ahali be unlawful for any person

conducting or public pool or billiard room in the City of

maintaining any
Oakland or any servant or employee of crush person to permit suffer or allow
any person wader the age of twenty
one years to enter visit or remain in
such public pool or billiard room or for any person under the age of twenty
one years to enter or remain in any public pool or billiard room in the
City
of Qakland or for suoh person for the purpose of gaining entrance to any
such public pool or billiard room in violation of the provisions of this

creation to lsely represent to the person conducting such pool or billiard

room or to any servant or employee of such person that cosh person so
representing is twenty
ane ye are of age

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 SEC 42 ON PUBLIC STREETS AT NIGHT
10 It shall be unlawful
for any mirror the of sixteen to be or p street
appear in ar
under age years
clock at night
o
square or public place in the City of Oakland after 9
and between said hoar and daylight of the following morning unless such
minor be by the parent guardian or other person having the
accompanied
lawttx2 control of such minor or have the express written permission of such

parent guardian or other person to be on the street between said hours

SEC 0310 SRO

3 G It shall be tullaxft
I1 l for any minor under

the age of sixteen years to smoke in any railway oar street oar or other

261 ublic conveyance or upon any street sgtaare pu lic buildin or c

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for any person to resist obstruct defeat or attempt to defeat the enforce
ment or eaecution of any lawful order of the Council of the City of akland
cr of any lawfully eating under the authority of the said Council
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ARTICLE 1

COICABLE DISEASES

SEC 4 S OF l1TSEASBD P
01 BRIDTGING BODII
1 RSONB INTO CITY It
shah be unlawful for any person whether as master captain conductor or
otherwise in charge of any boat vessel railroad oar or public or private
conveyance of ar0 kind to bring into the City of Oakland within one year
after the date of death the body of any deceased person who died of a corn
tagious disease

SEC 402 PRYSICIANS REQUIRED TO REPORT

1 It shall be unlawful
for artyattending or consulting physician nurse or other person having
charge of or oaring for any person afflicted with typhus fever ship fever
yellow fever Asiaticcholera smallpox bubonic plague diphtheria eearlet
a chickenpox typhoid fetter malaria fever measles pul
fever soaxletir
monary tuberculosis accompanied by expectoration or arty other contagious
disease to fail to immediately report in writing to the Health Offi
er of
the City of Oakland the nature of the disease the name of the person
afflicted and the place of his confinement or tv fail to report in writing
to the Health Officer every death mom any of the said diseases imamediately
after such death shall have occurred

SRC 403 HOt

1 S RDQUIRED TO REPORT
ffiOLDE It shall be unlawful
for ar0 householder of the City of Oakland to fail to report to the Health
Officer cf said City the namta of every inmate of his house whom he shall have
reason to believe sick of any of the contagious diseases referred to in

02 of this Artfole or to fail to report any

Section 4
1 ieat octs
c
si rring a
his house from any of said diseases

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 SEC 4
04
1 YETEftINARIANS REQIIIRED TO REPORT It shall be
unlawful for any veterinarian or
any other person caring for or attending
any animal sick of contagious pleuro tuberculosis foot and
pneumonia
mouth disease anthrax Tezae fever yooaie
otinon glanders fancy or
s
hydrophobia in the City
of Oakland to fail to report
immediately in
writing to the ealth Officer of said City the nature of the disease and
the place of confinement of such eaimal

3EC 14
0 5 YACCII
ATIONS In all vaccinations by or under
the authority
of the Health Officer or the City Physician of the City
of Oakland the vac
fne matter used shall b e bovine matter and no other
he use of any other matter in such vaceinationa shall be unlawful
1

SEC 14
0 6 FtIGATZON
t thenever at
y case of smallpox diph
theria ecarletina Asiatic cholera tuberculosis or other contagious
disease has ezieted in any budding or other place within the City of
Oaklan d it shall be the duty of the householder or proprietor of such place
or if such place has ceased to be
occupied then of the owner thereof to immedi
ately fumigate and disinfect au
h premises in the manner and to such extent
as the Health Officer of the City cf Oakland may
direct such Ytamiga
tion and
disinfection however to be done at the ezpenae of the City of Oakland
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to perform the foregoing duty

SEC 4
07
1 QUARINTINE NOTICES Whenever a case of
diphtheria
scarlet fever smallpox Aeiatio cholera yellow or typhus fever is reported
to the Health tie
Officer shall innnediately uae to be
cu displayed in a oon
spicuAUa place on the premises where such disease exists and put upon the
doorway or doorways of the house oar houses affected with such disease a
placard setting forth the fact which placard shall remain as av posted
during the continuance of the disease on said premises

No person except the duly authorised agent of the Health Department

shall remove tear down cover up obliterate or destroy any copy of any
order of the Health Department fixed on
any building as provided for herein

SEC 4
08
1 QUARANTINE REGULATIONS he Health Department of
R
the City of
O
a
k nd may proclaim such quarantine and establish and declare
such quarantine districts and grounds and the boundaries thereof as may
in its judgment preservation of public health and
be neoeasary for the
may when deemed
neeeesary require all vessels railroad Cara or other
public conveyances before the same shall land or stop at any landing depot
or any other etcpping place in the City of Os
kland to stop or touch at air
of the said districts grounds or bouixlaries e
o selected and established
for quarantine purposes and leave all au
ch persona with their stores and
baggage as in the opinion of the Health Officer or persons acting under
his authority stationed at such quarantine
site places or boundaries shall
be deemed proper cn account of the esiatence orgeneral report of Asiatic
cholera smallpox yellow or typhus fever or other contagious disease

he said Health Department

i shall make such rules and regulations
for the government of the quarantine or the health of the city as from time
to tune said department shall deem neoesaary and the
physicians or health
officers in charge of any quarantine station or place shall have
power to
make and enforce such regulations as
may be neoesaary for the proper manage
ment thereof and it shall be the duty of all persons in
quarantine and
all agent a officers policemen or others employed by the City in and about
said quarantine stations or places to carry out and
obey said rules and
regulations

SEC 409 HOSPITALS FOR COI

1 PAGIOUS DISEASES The Health
Department of the City of Oaklaz
l may locate establish and maintain a
hospital for contagious diseases and discontinue and remove the same when
and where sash location establishment and maintenanc or discontinuance
y be Accessary to the preservation of public health
morsl iuec
r Said
Department may appoint and remove at pleasure such physicians and nurses

7z
whose compensation xed by the Couneilj for said hospital as
shall be f
be necessary to maintain the fficiency of the same and welfare and
may
comfort of the inmates and may cause to be removed thereto and kept therein
of Oakland affected with smallpox
y pexsoa within the limits of the City
ax
Asiatic cholera cr typhus fever or other contagious disease
yellow
that no person unless he is unable or refuses to maintain such
provided
as may be prescribed by the rules axd regulations of the Health
quarantine
shall be so removed to any such hospital Phe Health Department
Department
make all rules and regulations regarding the conduct o P said hospital
may
as ttiay be by said department deemed advisable Ho person shall remove
disease from or to any hcuae or
a patient affected with any contagious
without the permission of
place within the limits of the City of Oakland
Health Officer

ARTICLE 2 g dc
F 90 GAS

SLK AND DAIRIES

CA A
YI
SEC 24
0 1 The provisions of this Code shall m t be construed
to in any manner affect the validity foree or oonstrvction of Ordinanc

71 HS of the City oP Oakland providing a milk inspecting division for

the maintenance of a milk inspection service to inspect milk milk products
dairies and dairy herds and oP places where milk or milk products are
and handling
produced handled or ec ld and regulating the sale poaeession
of milk Dream and milk products in the City of Oakland and providing for
inspection fees and penalty for violation of the provisions thereof J

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C i0 u
C
d w y

ARTICbE 3 os
y c
u
a
EEIAT

SEC 4
01
3 SUPIIiVISION OF MEAT PREPARATION It shall be

ny person to sell have in possession keep

unlawful for s or expose for

sale for human food the flesh of any wattle hogs sheep goats swine
or other poultry fish or meat food products unless
rabbits any animal
the same shall have been slaughtered or passed upon under the auperviaion
of the United States Government Inspector in accordance with the regw
la
tions relating to the inspection thereof as prescribed by the Department
of Agriculture of the United States or under the supervision of the State
of California Department of Agriculture Inspector in accordance with the
reof as prescribed by the Depart
regulations relating to the inapeotion th
ment of Agriculture of the State of California or under the supervision
of the Health Officer of the City of Oakland in accordance with the pro
visions of this Article

SEC 402 BRAND F g1

3 PROVAL RHQUIRED ON STS It shall b

unlawful for axe person to sell bare in poaeession keep or expose for
sale the flesh of cattle calves hogs sheep or goats or any meat food
products uAleea there has been pieced on each primal part thereof or on
such Ycod products a brand of approval of the Bureau of Animal industry
of Agriculture of the Cfty of
of the United States California Department
Oakland or of an authorised inspector whose brand or mark of identification
is adceptable to the Health Department of the City
of Oakland or for any
or other meat food products the flesh
person to manufacture into sausage
or meat of any animal designated in this Article except such flesh or meat
shall bear the brand of approval as provided herein

SEC 403 SAT PENT APPbIC9TTON FOR No person shall manu

3
slaughter or sell any of the anfraals fish or poultry or parts
facture
meat mentioned in Section 4
41 for use for Pood
3
thereof or other products
in the City of Oakland or engage in sunk business without first
purposes
to the Health Department of the
making appliwation in writing City of flakland
and obtaf
ng
z f ao to do which appliaatic
per t a shall be signed by the
person making the same and shall specify the location of the house or place
where it is proposed to slaughter handle ananufaoture or sell such animals
or
parts thereof fish or poultry and state the nature of the business proposed
to be carried on

3
 lTpon the filing of such application with the said Health Department
of the City of Oakland a duly authorised Meat Inspector of the City of
Oakland shall inspect said premises and if the seals shall be found to oomply
with the provisions of this Article relative to the conatrustion and
equip
ment etc he shall make a written report thereof to the Health
Officer
whereupsn the Health Department shall issue the permit applied for in writing
and cause a record thereof to be kept in said department

SEC 404 REQtTIREMENTS FOR PERMIT

3 No permit as required in
Section 3
4
0 3 of this Article shall be issued except the regulatiflns in thf a
Artiole set forth so far as they are applicable have been strictly complied
with

SEC 445 FL0411S AND WALLS

3 Rohe floor or floors and walla of
the slaughter house market or factory where meat or meat food products fish
or poultry are handled manut
actured or offered for sale shall be oonstrueted
of impervious material with smooth surface and semi
circular oorners and
maintained sufficiently tight to prevent the a urroundings order or abort the
same becoming contaminated by filth or offensive matters and all such floors
shall be conatruoted on sn incline and shall be sloped in such a manner as to

provide adequate drainage therefrom

SEC 406 gILLIN

3 G ROOM COOLING ROOM The slaughter house
or killing room shall be separate from arty room where stock or poultry are
fed Jl cooling room shall be provided apart from the killing room and shall
be separated from the killing room by a tight partition in the side or aides
next or nearest to the killing room The cooling room shall be
thoroughly
ventilated and well screened ao as to exclude flies and
other insects there
from

SEC 7
3
4 CONSTRUCTION OF PREMISES All
premises where meat
or meat food products fish or dressed poultry arekept stored bandied
manufactured or offered for sale shall be con atructed of impervious material
and painted with at least three 3j costa of flat white and one 1j coat
of white gloss enamel Said premises must be flyproof with
adequate light
and ventilation and be provided with a porcelain sink of adequate size with
hot and gold running water

SEC 34
0 8 iPI1CED PLACE OF BUSINESS 3UIRED
RE It shall be unlawful
to peddle by hand or from arty vehicle or sell from ar
p other than a fined
place of business as herein provided arty meat meat food produota or dressed
poultry

SEC 4
09
3 i
RATIO
IIEFRIc All meat markets must be equipped with
a fresh resat cooler of
a size not less than six 6 by eight 8 by nine 9
feet hi
a Coolers refrigerators and ice bones meat have a white gloss enamel
finish and maintain a temperature below forty
five 48 degrees Fahrenheit
with auSfieient circulation and be connected indirectly with the sewer to

comply with the plumbing laws of the City of Oakland

SEC 4
14 GL9SS
3
r DOORS FgN All markets shall be provided with
glass front and double acting glass door or doors A four
blade fa at traveling
fan or fans of sufficient size to prevent the entrance of flies other
or insects
must be installed inside of door or doors when it is desired to keep said door
or doors open provided however that mere a meat market is
installed in a

general open market that all meat and meat produata shall be enclosed in
sanitary refrigerated glass cease approved by the Chief Meat Inspector

SEC 411 COUiiTSRS

3 All counters must be at least three 3 feat
high and be provided with marble top and glees front at least fourteen 14
inches high and twelve 12 inches over the top so as to prevent all exposed
stuffs from being handled by patrons o
food fprospective
buyers
0

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 SEC 412 LLRD ROOD
3 Air lard room mat be finished with smooth
surface Portland Dement plaster and sufficient in aiae for the completion and
manufaoture of the lard with vent pipe at least fifteen 15 inohea fn dia
meter extending above apex of roof to remove all o
ore

SEC 4
13 TRAYS
3 Corn beef trays shall be of marble concaved
and drained without points or additional slabs of any kind

SEC 414 RACES REFUSE CANS

3 All meat racks rails hooks
or brackets must be of metal ldetal Dens for sorapa and trimmings and other
refuse acid garbage must be provided with tight metal covers aril sufficient
in number and size to care for all refuse

SEC 4
15 E
3 ARR
I
T S IN BASIS It shall be unlawfti for and
7 person to conduct or maintain a fish poultry or meat market in the b saement
of any building or in any apace below the level of the street

SEC 416 l3RATORY

3 LA I EQUIPI 5uffioient lavora
ories toilets
d olothes closets
ar for all employees and where women are employed separate

oratoriea toilets and olothes closets with adequate light and ventilation
la
must be provided together with an ample supply of soap towels and toilet
paper No lavoratory toilet room or living
room shall open directly into
any room where any article of food mentioned in this Article is kept stored
or handled

SEC 417 PE1

3 IT POSTED 90CATTON
RI The written permit in
Section 4
03 of this Article required when issued shall be kept at
3
all times posted in a oonepiouous place on the premises Said permit is
not transferable The holder thereof must
strictly conform to all the
regulations in this Artiole set
forth and in addition to the
other penalties
in this Artiole provided such permit may be revoked by the Health Offioer
for any violation of such regulations After such revooation such place
of business shall be closed until such time as all regulati one have been
complied with and a new permit granted

SEC 4
18
3 CLF OF S
SS
ANLINI LOYE
E 1 persona handling any
of the foods mentioned in this Article shall at all times keep their person
and wearing apps
rel in a cleanly condition All aprons gowns smocks axyd
other outer wearing apparel whioh is worn ma
t
s be of a white material which
Dan be easily washed and cleansed Ho person shall use air portion of any
such apparel as a handkerohief or to wipe the hand
i or face

SEC 19
3
4 VEHICLES Ho meats meat food
or
products intended
for purpose of sale shall be hauled in an3r pleasuxe oar All vehicles used
for delivery shall be lettered with name and address of
business with
letters at least three 3 inches high on small vehicles and six inches 6
him on large trucks and drays Ro cosh sign shall be covered at any time
and must at all times be plainly visible Pleasure oars shall not be used
for delivery

SBC 4
20
3 SLAIIGHTEEtING E
IiTTS
R TABbISHB All parts of htering
alaug
establishments including the slaughter houses storage rovma for meats
markets ihotories trucks carte wagons or other reoeptaelea stables or
oorrala used forstook shall be kept in a cleanly wholesome oondition
live
All trucks wagons carte acid other reoeptaclea or oonveyanoes must be
provided with at least one 1 freshly clean oanvae ooier and at least two
2 freshly clean lots of burlap each week sufficient in size to cover
the load in its entirety

SEC 421 SLAIIGHTE8II

3 G HOURS All inspection and
slaughtering
shall take place between the hours of seven o
clock A M and four o clack
M of any
I one day unless in emergency c saes a special permit in writing
i nat another time ie granted by tae 8
guthori alazigbteri alth 33oer
No slaughtering shall be done or inspection made on
any Sunday unless a
special permit in writing is granted therefor by the iealth Officer

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 3EG 422 AYAb OF OFFEIiSIVE MATTERS
3 All b1QOd and offal
shall be handled and disposed of in such a manner as not to permit decay or

offensive effluvia to emanate therefrom

All poultry feeding stations must be provided with sanitary

ly cleaned and
batteries with metal removable pans which mast be thoroa
reuse removed daily Said batteries must be cleaned and disinfected at
least once each week

SEG 4
23
3 AHIMALS TO ST
I
9 AT PLACE OF SLAUGATEa Gattle

moist stand for a four 24 hours

period of at east twenty and calves
and small animals twelve 12 hours at the place of slaughter before
p
u ltry
killing

SEC 34
2 4 EPIIQG LICE FOWG AND ANIl1LS It shall be unlawful
for any person to keep live chickens ducks geese turkeys or other live
fowl or animals in any cellar or basement underneath a grocery store
market or other place where food stuffs are kept for sale

r live chickens
It shall be unlawful for any pensen to keep ar
or live fowl or animals where food stuffs are pre
turke ducks
s geese

pared for sale or sold

25 APPLICATI01 FOR INSPECTION

SEC 4
3 In addition to the

in this Article provided for application in writing shall be made

permits
to the Health Officer for inspection of live stook live poultry and slaughter
ing as provided in this Article

SEC 26 TIES OF I23SPECTI01

3
4 OTICE
1 The days and parts of

days during which the slaughtering any animal or manufacturing any

work of

meat food products mentioned in this Article may be done shall be fixed by
betaresn the holder of the permit and the Health Officer or Meat
agreement
Inspector delegated by said Health Officer for such purpose In Dees an

agreement cannot b e had the Health Officer is hereby empowered to designate

hioh suoh slaughtering

the time at w shall be done

and where time has been fixed by

In case of daily inspection no

agreement or otherwise charge

the person in of the slaughtering mr suoh
the work
manufacturing shall notify the Inspector at the close of each day
of slaughtering or manufacturing will be commenced If no slaughtering or
be done on the following day then he shall notify the
manufacturing is to
time and on what succeeding day suoh work will neat be com
Inspector at what
menced

Where manufacturing does m t tape place daily

each slaughtering or
but at uncertain or infrequent times e t four 24 hours notice
least twenty

must be given the Health Department as to when the aerviee of an Inspector

wi 11 be re4uir ed

SEC 4
27
3 ZIFFFRSTATE SHI
NT INSPECTION All interstate

of live poultry must b e inspected by an authorized I

Bat Inspector
shipments
of the City of Oakland at time of arrival of said shipment The Health

Department shall be notified by any person receiving the same before the
oaded offered for sale or sold No poultry found to be diseased
same is us
or unfit for human consumption shall be passed for sale

SEG 34
2 8 INSPECTION DESIGNATED BY NtJtiBER If inspection is
the Health Department as provided in this Article the said Health
granted by
shall designate by number each slaughter ho
ase or sausage
factory
Department
to b e inspected which number shall be used on the mark stamp or brand adopted
for alI meats inspected as in this Article provided
by the City of Oakland

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 SEC 4
29 IIU OF ffi
3 ANDING The mark stamp ar brand of the
City of Oakland in this Article provided for shall be placed upon primal
parts of the animals only after ante
mortsm and goat mortem inspection has
been performed and the same found to be fit for human consumption and
at the time of slaughter and evisceration

SEC 430 TRADE NAMES ON HAAS AND BACONS

3 All smoked hams or
bacon must bear name trade
atrade mark or the name of the person producing
such product The said trade
name trade mark or runs of the person producing
auoh product must be stamped on each barn or baoon in letters not leas than

one l height and moat be stamped in such manner se to be perfectly

inch in

legible Sash aids of baoon moat bear not leas than tiro 2 of said trade

names trade
marks or Hansa of the person producing said product each fwhich
shall be planed not leas than two 2 inches from each end of said aide of
bacon in snob a manner that at least one 1 stamp will appear on each half of
aside of bacon The hams shall bear at least one i such trade
name trade
mark or the Hams of the parson producing said product All stamps for meat
or meat products trade
names trade marks or names of producers must be ap
proved by the Health Department N0 parson shall substitute the trade
name
or mark of any other person
trade on smoked or fresh meats

SEC 4
31
3 SSESSION A1
P D IISE OF STAMPS OR BRANDS It shall be
unlawful for any person sgoept the Inspector in this Article provided for
or a parson designated by the iealth Officer fbr such duties and Mile work
ing under the immediate supervision of an Inspector to have in poaseasion
keep or use any mark atat
p or brand provided or used for making sts mping
or branding anything in this Article
required to be marked stamped or branded
or for any person to have in poaseasion
keep make or use any mark stamp
brand or other device having thereon insignia or words similar in character
or import to the marks stamps or bra
la provided or used for marking stamping
or branding auoh articles or to in ar
y manner counterfeit auoh marks stamps
or brands

SgC 4
92
3 PARTLY DRESSED M6tTS AGE AND HEIGHT OF CALVES
Partly
Brassed hogs sheep calves goatsand may be
brought into the City of Oakland
for food purposes provided that the same shall be immediately brought to the
attention of the Health Department for inspection at a fee of twenty 20
vents ahead No such animal however shall be accepted unless at time of
such inapeotion the heads hearts liver lungs glands and umbilicus remain
attached by their natural attachments Minimum age of calves shall be three

3 weeks and maximum weight shall be two hundred 200 pounds dressed

3EC 4
33
3 CERTAIN N
S INSPEC
i @ED 3EFORE BROUGHT INTO CITX
BED DEFINID or dressed hogs sheep cal
o beef
j ea or goats may be
brought
into the City of Oakland for human consumption unless the same shall have been
officially inspected awd marked under the supervision of an authorised meat
inspector of a public agency at the time of slaughter and evfacer
ttion
Bovine animals which dress over to hundred 2O0 pounds shall be considered
beef

SEC 4
34
3 ADULTERATED FOOD No person shall sell keep use
for purpose of manufacture havein their poaseasion or offer for sale for
human food any meat a fish or poultry that is deemed adulterated within the
meaning of this Article

e standard of purity of food shall be that proclaimed by the Secre

7
tary of the United States Department of Agriculture or the California St4te
Department of Agriculture where standards are not fined by this Code or other
Ordinance of the City o f Oakl abd

Food shall be deemed adulterated within the meaning of this

Article in any of the following cases

7
 a If any substance has been mixed or packed o r mixed and
packed with the food so as to produce or lower or
injuriously affect its
quality purity strength or food values

b If any substance has b

en substituted wholly or in part for
the article of food

o If any essential or arty valuable constituent or ingredient

of the article of food has been wholly or in part abstracted

d If the package containing it or its label shall bear in any

er
mant sfiatement design or device hereby damage or inferiority is
ar
concealed

e If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious

ingredient

f If it is in any manner mechanically or otherwise blown up

or inflated

g If it consists in whole or in part

spoiled filthy of a

decomposedor putrid animal poultry fish

arty portion thereof unfit
or or

for food whether manufactured or not or if it fa the product of a diseased

animal poultry or fish or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter

SEC 35 AUTHORITY AND DUTY TO INSPECT

3
4 ATION
CONDE It shall
be the duty of the Health Officer
or Feat Inspectors and they are hereby
empowered to enter any plaee where meat or flesh of any animal fish or
poultry
or the thereof be
products may stored held kept exposed or offered for sale
for human food and every establishment where such meat or flesh is manufactured
into articles of food or preserved cored canned or otherwise prepared for
food and they shall inspect the same

Whenever such meat

or flesh shall upon inspection and
ezataination
be found not marked stamped or branded as in this Article required or if

saf8 meat or meat food products fish or poultry are found to be otherwise
unfit for human consumption as in this Article provided the said Health
Officer or Meat Inspectors shall cord emu the same as unfit for human food
andshall mark and mutilate the same and make the fact of such condemnation
apparent and shall immediately order the same by notice in writing to be
removed within four 4 hours and destroyed

SEC 436 USE OF SCRAPS

3 The use of scraps or trimmings from
retail markets in the manufacture of sausage or other meat food products
is unlawful

SEC 4 37 STANDARDS USED IN TESTS

3 It shall be the duty of the
Health Officer or beat Inspectors in determining what constitutes
meat
diseased
fish or poultry or meat fish or poultry unwholesome or otherwise unfit for
human consumption to be guided by the rules and regalations of the City of
Oakland and by the apeeificationa contained in the regulations of the Bureau
of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture or the
California State Department of Agriculture governing the inspection of meats
meat food products and the factories where same are handled or manufactured

SEC 38
3
4 FEAT HELD FOR TEST BE
QUARANTINED When meat or
meat food products fish or
poultry shall be
held for final inspection
by any
I2eat Inspector of the City a quarantine tag of suoh character as shall be
approved by the Health Officer shall be placed upon the acme and it shall be
unlawful for art per eon to remove the same without the authority of said
Health Officer

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 59 The fees
SEC 4
3 for special inspection service rendered

pursuant to the provisions oP this Article shall be ors followsa

tai If inspection fa furnished by a Feterinary Meat Inspector said

39The fees for upebiai insFect n sorvte
3
4
SEC
to the ppovisione of this Articie ahalY be aa
renders
pursue for a full month 8 aerviCeB
a If inspection ire follows
te8 hall be upon the fuxnished by a Veterinary Meeyt Inspeptor said
basis of Thrge Hundred Dollars
a services
h 00 for a full
E800
d by a District Meat Inspector and the
b If inspection is furnished by a District lest
ful ime of au Inspector and thq
h inspector fs required for a full
be ree Hundred Dollars OQT
300 for Bald month
C
montt said lee shall for a full month
Said fee shall be
c If both a Veterinary Meat
lnapegtor and a District Meat p
n ector
are d
equir for a full month is
such inspection for a mgnth
shall
a single eatablfahment tke pai
lee fora

bqqe ppS
Hundred
ik rs SttE600
a
i
I
DaI 08
n
tha f
a
dnf
uilimonhlothgss
Fifty Cents 2
60
in traveling to and
eeshall b e uponethe bash
per hour and the time
froln the pace where such
rendered shall be cotxl uted as 4f
s ofeTwo Doliais
pled by such inspeetox
ec
irispectio services are
t
in
and a Di
Inspector trict Meat
SingTB Oatabli8hment th@ eaid
a
e t o r which suerh fee ie charged
e A31 ees
inspe4tion
folldwing the month dut
shall bas payable on day
Tirat
the of thlr
tttont 1 be QO
O
inwhich the etion
innn f
eyavrw
a
gx render

d If inspection is furnished by a District l

beat Inspector for
less than a the said tee shall be upon the basis of 1
full month OO per
hour and the time occupied by such inspector in traveling to and from the
place where such inspection services are rendered shall be computed as time
for which such fee is charged

e All inspection fees shall be payable on the first day of the

month following the month during which the inspection services are rend e
d

poultry
SEC
or
40
3
4
meat products
hICENSES targets selling at
shall pay such license as may be required by
retail meat fish r 2
any other provisions of this Code or Ordinance of the City of Oakland

SEC 4
41
5 DEFAt3LT IN PAYIAG FEES If the fees in this trticle

provided for paid promptly upon the day the same become due under the
are not
terms of this Article no inspection of slaughtering or manufacturing or
of live stock or live poultry as provided in this Article shall be furnished
to the person firm or corporation so in default until the whole amo
nnt due
is paid to the City of Oakland

SHC 4
42 INSPECTION OUTSIDE OF CITY
3 Any person firm or
ide of the City of flakiand desiring to secure a permit
corporation located out
or arrange for the inspection in this Article provided for may do so by

paying the Ease and complying with all the other provisions of this Article

SEC 4
43 HOURS
3 OF BUSINESS It shall be unlawful for any person
firm or corporation to receive deliver sell or offer for sale any uncured
ar uncooked meats except between the hours of o clock A M and 6 o clock
M
P No place of business or stall or ent
depar in arty pleas of business
in the City o f Oakland where uncured or uncooked meats are received delivered
sold or offered for sale shall be kept open except between the hours of
7 oclock AM and 6 o clock P M It shall be unlawful for any person to
receive deliver sell or offer for sale or
place of business
keep ar
p or
stall or depar
rient in any place of business in the City of Oakland where such
uncured or uncooked meats are received delivered sold or offered for sale
open on Sunday New sDay
Year s Birthday
ashingtcn Decoration Day Fourth
of July Labor Day Admisa on
Day Thanksgiving Day or Christmas

ARTICLE 4
c
J ta a
OODS GENERALLY

3
ry SEC 4
4eO1
of the Market and Food
INSPECTION OF FOOD STUFFS
Inspector to visit at
It shall be the duty
frequent internals each public
andprivate market stall shop store warehouse cannery factory restaurant
and s torehouee in the City o f Oakland and to inspect each and all wagons
carts and vehicles of vendors or street hawkers in or about which dairy
products vegetables fruit bread or other provisions are kept held made
Qarxierd 3 Bette
t or ther disposition for human and t0
or
food examine and
carefully inspect all such food stuffs and provisions

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 SEC 4
02 PERMIT RBqNo person shall engage in the
UIRED
business of conducting maintaining any food establishment or prepare
or

sell or offer for sale any food for human consumption without a permit
first had and obtained after an inspection of the proposed business and
place business
of from the Market and Food Inspector of the City of Oakland
and hav ing paid such licenses as may be required by this Code or other
Ordinance of the City f Oakland eh permit shall be revocable by the
3u
arket and Food Inspector at any time when in his uQgment the food and
A
sanitary laws ofthe city state or national government are being viol ated

SEC 403 PLACE OF BIISINFSS TO BE KEPT CLEAN It shall be

rson keeping maintaining or being in charge of any
unlawful for any p
public private market stall shop store bakery ice Dream or sandy
or

factory storehouse warehouse cold storage Bart wagon or other vehicle

in on or about which any meat fish oysters birds fowl vegetables fruit
milk bread candies cakes or other provisions are kept held or stored
or offered for sale or other disposition as human food to fail to keep such

place in a cl can pure and wholesome condition

SEC 4
04 FOODS IN OPEN SCREEN ETC It shall be unlawful
for any person to ksep v egetablea fruit or any prepared food stuffs in
sn open receptable leas than two 2 feet above the floor It shall also
be unlawful to beep dairy products cookedmeats figs dates dried fruit
olives sauerkraut mince meat lard butter butterine sandy crackers
Oakes bread or prepared food exposed for sale in the open air to the
action of moisture soot dust and flies in the front of angr shop store
or other place

Every manager of a store market or other place where food is

prepared for sale stored for sale offered for sale or sold shall cause
the same to be screened effectually so as to prevent flies and other insects from

obtaining stases to such food and prevent the handling of same by patrons or
prospective purchasers

A11 fruits vegetables meats and other food kept or sold or

offered for sal sshall be kept in receptacles free from decayed matter of
all kinds

SEC 4
05 BOX LUNCHES It shall be unlawful to sell at retail

an3 prepared or bo lunch of sandwiches cooked meats cheese pies

consisting
or other perishable foods arranged in wrapped packages or pasteboard boxes or
other aontainera except that such container shall have a seal stamp or writing
fourth inch in height plainly showing the date
thereon with letters at least one
of the preparation of the lunch therein contained

SEC 406 VEHICLES Rn B E COGERED Every person who shall bring

into hold keep offer or erzpoae for sale yr sell or deliver for sale or
consumption within the City of Oakland any milk or milk product meat fish
or bread in any wagon a art or other vehicle shall provide such wagon Dart

or other vehicle with a suitable cover which shall be need at all times

SEC 4
07 ADJACENT TOILETS It shall be unlawful to prepare

keep for sale or sell arty kind of meat milk products fish game vegetable
fruit bread Oakes candies or other foods in arty room in which a toilet is
located or in any room opening directly into a toilet room unless there is
outside ventilation to such toilet room

SEC 44
08 WATER FlCILITIES ll dealers
A in meats fowls fish
vegetables fruits groceries or other human food shall maintain in their
respective places of business and in the part of the building
occupied by
them for business purposes at least one water faucet connected by pipes with a

suitable water supply Sanitary lavatory convenieneea mu

at be provided fox
the use of employees

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09 ZUORS
3 It shall b unlawful tv sell store displeyy
keep for purposes of sale any food in any stand shed or other building
or
proof floor Use of dirt gravel crush
without having a tight rat d rock

or earthen floors in air such establishment is strictly forbidden

10 USE OF CELLARS
4
SEC VENTILATION The baking of bread
manufacture of the cooking of other food is
cakes pies the candy or

from being in
dene cellar or basement or other room where there
prohibited a

is no direct ventilation to the outer air

SEC 11
4 CJINNING ESTARI
NTS
ISFI y person owning or manag
ing or Denning establishment or other place where meats
in charge of any

fish oysters fowls fruits or vegetables are canned or preserved for human
why shall keep or Donduat said place in an unclean unwholesome yr un
food
curing yr otherwise preserving arty
sanitary manner and any person canning
meats fish oysters fowl fruits or vegetables for human food Who shall
utilise in this way any diseased tainted or unwholesome meat fish oysters
fowl or any diseased or decayed or unwholesome fruit or vegetables or auV
fruit or vegetables from filthp Epxes baskets or other container or use
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
any chemical therein deleterious to health

SEC 4 5SANITARY COA1DITIQI4S

12 RE9TAUR1lN
1 It shall be unlawful

for any person in charge of any restaurant hotel or boarding house or other
piaee where food is sold or served in the cooked or rawstate to keep suoh
place in an unclean or unsanitary condition
and all persons employed in or
about such places shall keep themselves and their clothing in a clean and

healthful condition

13 RESTAURANTS PURE FOOD

4
SEC It shall be unlawful for ax
Y

person maintaining or in Dharge of ex

r restaurant hotel boarding house
or other place where meals or lunches are served in a Booked state
or other

to serve or cause to be served any tainted or diseased meat fish

wise
or u
hvlesome
oysters fowl or any diseased decayed or partially decayed
fruit vegetables or q
ax unwholesome food whatever to any person or persons

said sent to or persons to be eaten at any

either at place or any person
other place

SEC 414 KEEPING hIVE ANIMALS It shall be unlawful for any

to live chickens ducks turkeys or other live fowl in
persona keep geese
cellar or basement underneath any grocery store market or other place
y
at
where food stuffs are kept for sale It shall also be unlawful for arll person to

turkeys ducks or live fowl of any kind in any

keep any live chickens geese
kind of food stuffs are kept prepared for sale or sold
room where any
Slaughter houses and ether planes where fowl are killed and prepared for
sale storage shall be constructed with watertight flooring with properly
or

trapped sewer connections and these connected with the sewer and immediately
such killing the floor shall be thoroughly washed and the pleas at alb
after
in le and
pme onditi
times pt a n

hale f
F

d v
t
E
S 4 4
15 AOTICE TO CLF i
IIEN
ESTABLISH If the Market and Food

Inspeotor shall public or private market stall shop store bakery

find an
Y
storehouse cold rtorage warehouse stook yard slaughter house boat cart
or unwholesome condition
wagon or other vehicle in an unclean notice shall
f be given to the person in charge thereof to clean and purify the same so as
to put the same in a clean wholesome and proper sanitary condition within
hours from the time of such notice and if any person ao in charge
four 24
twenty
shall not put the same in a clean wholesome and proper sanitary condition
within sash time then such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor

SEC 4
16 AUULTERgTED F
OD Nc person stall sell ate adulterated
be properly labeled or prepared in aDDOrdance with
food exoept that the same

law

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tITATION
SA

SEC 4
01
5 DRAINAGE AND
SEWERAGE It shall be uul
awfgl for
any person owning having
or control of any premises to suffer or permit ar
r
drainage or sewerage situated oa such premises tc empty into or
upon any
public street public square or park in the City of Oakland or for aby person
tc throw into or deposit upon any public street or square or park an3r rubbage
garbage filth or glees or for any person to cause or permit any sewerage
or drainage or garbage of any house or premises to be discharged into or

deposited in Lake Merritt

3EC 4
02
5 CESSPOOLS It shall be unlawful for any person to
construct cr nee or have maintain any
or cesspool upon any lot or land owned
or nooupied by within one hundred and fifty 150
him in the City of Oakland
feet of either line of any street having a sewer therein ualees such cesspool
is properly connected with the street sewer and at all such conneotiona there
shall be a trap or other device to prevent the esaape of gee or other obnozioua
odors therefrom into the open air ao as to b e offensive to the senses of any
ediate neighborhood thereof and in all such oonnectione there
person in the ima
shall be maintained a c onstant supply of water sufficient to prevent aocumule
tion in said cesspool or the pipes or drains thereof

SEC 4
03
5 It shall be unlawful for any person
STAGNANT WATER
having poeaeasion or control of any real
property in the City of Oakland to
cause permit or allow any stagnant water or any obnoxious or o tfeneive sub
stance to stand or remain thereon

SEG 54
0 4 E ECTORATIflN It shall ba unlawful for az person to
spit or expectorate within the City of Oakland upon the floor or steps of any
oar or conveygnoe or any public building or upon any sidewalk or cross
public
walk

05 VACATING DISEASE INFECTED EtTILDINGS

SEC 4
5 Whenever it shall
be certified to the City Manager by theHealth Officer of the City of Oakland
that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason

infected with dissaee or

of its being so from other causes as to be likely
to cause sickness or disease among its
occupants the City Manager may issue
an order
requiring all persona therein to vacate said building or the L
objectionable part thereof and shall cause a c ony of said order to be affixed
conspicuously upon the front of the said building and shall also cause a
Dopy of said order to be served personally or by mail if personal service
cannot be made upon the owner agent or lessee of said building Said
order shall state the reasons for requiring the infested building or portions
thereof to be vacated and shall require that such premises be vacated within
ten 10 days after affixing said order thereon provided however that if
in the opinion of the Health Officer the public health and safety shall re
quire the said premises to be v coated sooner than as hereinabove provided the
Gity Manager may require and said order shall provide for the vacating of
such premises within a shorter time than ten lOj days in no case however
four 24 hours from the time of affixing a c upy of
to be lees than twenty
the order on the premises

SEC 4
06
5 ITARY BUILDIWGS DECLARED g NUI3INCE
IIiiSA1 All build

ings atures or
strn parts thereof
which are insanitary are
hereby declared
to be ahd are public nuieanoea axid the Health Officer of the of Oakland
City
is authorised and empowered to abate the same in use manner provided in
Sections 4
5 OS of this Article
07 and 45

2
9G G SEC 4
07
5 COMPLAIN AID H RIRGS Old INSAAI
fARY PREE
I3ES
Upon the filing by the Health Officer of the City of Oakland with the City
Manager of a written
complaint of the insanitary conditions of any premises
in the City of Oakland the City Manager shall forthwith preaeat such com
plaint to the City Council with a resolution directing a formal hewing
upon said complaint Upon the adoption of said resolution a time shall
be fixed for holding a hearing thereon and the Health Officer shall serve

s Dopy of said complaint together with a copy of the resolution and noti
te
of time of hearing upon the owner of said premises or his agent or
lessee
or the occupant thereof and shall cause a copy of said resolution to be

posted in a conspicuous place on such premises The findings of the City

Council upon concl uaion of the said hearing shall be set forth in the
resolution adopted by the Council and auoh findings shall be final

9BC 408 AB1

5 NT OF INSAldITARY PREIsiISES
J
TE The City Council

shall upon finding that the City of Oakland complaiaed of

any premises in
are insanitary and a nuisance as provided for in Section 4
07 of this
5
Article order the same mated and the Health Officer shall
thereupon poet
in a conspicuous place on such
premises a copy of said order and serve a
Dopy thereof upon the owner of said premises or his agent or lessee or
the occupant thereof Unless within forty
eight 48 hours after such
service of a copy of said order the owner or hisagent or lessee or the

occupant of said premises shall in writing notify the Health Officer that
he will make or cause to be made such alterations or repairs ae in tl e
judgment of the Health Officer shall be necessary to rerxier said premi
ea
sanitary the said Health Officer shall proceed to abate the same If such
notice be given to the Health
Officer however he shall grant a reasonable
time within which to make auoh alterations and repairs ae are
necessary but
if within said time such alterations or repairs are not completed e
Health Officer shall cause the abatement of the building structure or part
thereof or the premises found to be a nuisance The City Council shall
order to be paid and the Auditor shall audit and the Treasurer shall pay
all soma which may be necessarily expended by the Health Officer in abating
such nuisance and such amount so expended shall become a lien upon the

propertf upon which th d nuia c was bate

SEC 9
5 mss Qo jG
e
SPORTATION OF O
TR
9G
IVE TITERS
II
I It shall be
3 9

unlawfn for any person to convey or transport spun argr public street lane yr

alley wI thin the limits of the City of

Oakland any swill garbage filth
offal of any kind or any offensive or ill
smelling matter between the hours
of 12 o
clock noon anti 6 o
clock in the evening or to use arty Dart or vehicle
at say time for auoh transportation or conveyance of auy such offensive or
amelling matter
ill unless such means of conveyance is ao constructed and
covered ae to prevent any leakage thereof or any smell to emit therefrom

SEC 4w5
10 SEPJRATION OF AS
CS FROM GARBAGE It shall be unlawful
for any person whether as owner agent or occupant of
any premises in the
City of Oakland to cause or permit any ashes or cinders that may accumulate
on such preraiae to be or become mixed with any swill garbage or filth of
any
kind or any rubbage or any offensive or ill
smelling matter

3EC 45
11 PREMISES TO BE REPT StNITARY Etery person owning
occupying controlling q
or at
p reraiaea in the City of Oakland shall maintain
the acme in a clean and sanitary condition and free from any
accumulation
of garbage filth decayed matter or any matter detrimental to health All
garbage and waste matter on auoh pre sea shall be placed in a meta

shall be kept tightly covered 9C

G G fy
Dan and

It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the

City of Oakland
to cause any person who shall allow any accumulation of any offensive matters
as

in this section prohibited tt be notified to abolish and abate such nuisance

and to remove said offensive ma ttera and in case auoh person
shall fail to
comply with said notice within four j24
twenty hours after receiving the same
such nuisance may be abolished and abated and said matter removed under and by
order of the Health Officer and the person so failing to c oraply with the
notice shall be of
guilty a
misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall become

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indebted to the City of Oakland for all damages costa and charges incurred
ezistence and abatement of such
by the City of Oakland by reason of the
nuisance

SEC 4
12
5 I1 GARBAGE
DtEII It shall be unlawful for any person
on land or in water or waterways within the City
todump or place any any
dead butcher offal fish or parts of fish or at
y
of Oakland any animal
waste vegetable or animal matter whatever

13 RATS
SEC 4
5 Every person owning occupying or controlling
in the City of Oakland shall use for the
any wharf building or basement
protection thermof such funnels screens netting cement or other materials
of rata thereto and shall when
as may be necessary to prevent the ingress
so directed by the Health Officer of the City of Oakland use on such
or methods of rat eradication as may
per passes such rat traps or other means
by said Health Officer be deemed eceasar n

ARTICLE s
e4
c l

SEC 01
6
4 REQIIIRED FEE No person shall establish or
IT
PE1
maintain a public Damp without a permit in writing approved by the Council
said approval to b given in the exercise of a sound and reasonable discretion
after investigation and report by the Health Officer A fee of 15
00 per
annum shall b e charged for such permit Such permit shall b kept posted
in a conspicuous place in the public Damp permitted to be established or
maintained thereby Such permit may b reooked by the Council after hearing
and fvr good cause shown and after not less than five 5 days notice to
in charge s wch notice to contain the date and
the p ermittee or hie agent

pleas of hearing and the grouTxls of complaint

SEC 402 RECOFD OF GUESTS

6 Every person maintaining a public
record of the
Damp ground shall keep open to public inspection and accurate
the date
names of all persons using such public Damp the date of arrival
such
of leaving and the license number of the motor vehicle if any of all
be required by the City Manager
persona and sursh other information as may

SEC 4
03
6 LIMITiTION ON RESIDENCE It shall be unlawful for

the and his bona fide employees to remain or live

any person ezoept manager
in any public Damp for more than ninety 90 days in any sic 6 months period
and i t shall be unlawful for any public Damp permittee or his agent to
the control of such permit
permit any peraonto remain in the public Damp under
tee or his for longer than the period herein allowed
agent

04 UNLAWFUL TO FIOLA TE RULES In addition to the

SEC 46

regulations of the State Board o f Health every public Damp shall be main

tained in accordance with the rules set forth in this Article and it shall
be unlawful for any person maintaining a public Damp to violate any such
rules ox cause or permit the same to be violated

05 BUILDING AND PLU1liBING REQUIREMENTS

SEC 46 All buildings
and plumbing shall be erected installed and maintained in accord once with
state law and the provisions of this Code and Ordinances of the City of

Oakland applicable thereto

SEC 4
06
6 S
TOILBI In public Damps maintaining permanent
structures for living purposes toilet for each sex shall be
at least one

each ten 10 such living quarters not provided with private

provided for
toilets

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07
6 BATHING FACILITIES Shower baths or other bathing

facilities approved by the ealth Officer shall be provided in separate

ten 10 or more
compartments for sash seat in public camps accommodating
persons

SBC 4
08
6 SIBS There shall be provided one la or more
located
slop sinks properly connected with a sewer or cesspool conveniently
not equipped with
for every twenty 2O Damping spaces or living quarters
individual kitchen sinks

EC
S 4
0
6 9 LIGHTS Btirery clamp shall be provided with adequate
means lighting
of the same at night and all water cloehte and bathe shall

be provided with lights which shall be kept lighted from one half hoax

after sunset until half

one hoax before sunrise

10 KITCHENS
6
4
SBC ery public camp m t equipped with indivi
S
dual kitchens or kitchen faoilitiea for each camping party shall be provided

n adequate community
with a kitohen approved by the Health Officer

SFC
4
1
6 1 er b

in
p
o Damp and all

structures therein shall be conatruated and maintained a sanitary condition

The Health Officer shall have the power subject to the approva 1 of the City
ationa to provide for and insure
snag iro prescribe uniform xulea and regal
r
the maintenance of public camps and structure therein in a sanitary condition

ART

MISCELLANEOUS

SEC O14y7 MEDICINE SAifLPLES It shall be unle

l
rfu for any person

to go hoarse to house or place to place distributing any free sample

from
preparation intended for medicinal purposes
of any drug or medicine or

4x7 REGISTRY OF BIRTHS

SEC 02 Every physician midwife nurse
in writing within five 5
or other person assisting at a birth shall report
the Health Officer a certificate of registry of auoh bi
kh
days thereafter to
other matters the time and place of birth name
which shall contain among
the name residence age birth place and
sea rage and color of the child
of the parents the maiden name of the mother whether born in or
occupation
of and such other information as may be required by the said
out wedlock
Health Officer

SEC 03
4y7 YAi AND
REIe tEAiT OF DEAD BODIES
INTBRI It shall be
unlawful deposit in any cemetery in the City of Oakland the
for any person to

body of any human being who has died in said pity or to remove the same from
within the limits of the city without first having obtained and filed with
the Health Officer a certificate rigned by a regularly licensed
physician or
coroner setting forth as nearly as possible the name color
age place of
location and cause of death of the deceased and having
birth oocupation
burial or
also obtained from the Health Officer a permit in writing for such
to in or through the streets of
other purpose or for any person transport
the City of Oakland the body of any human being who has died without the
exhumed or
limits of the pity or any body or remains of a deceased person
unless the person so transporting au
eh body or remains
taken from any grave
obtain from the Health Officer a permit in writing therefor which
shall first
the body or remains
shall coomp any
e

The Health Officer aha11 collect the sum of one dollar 00

1 for
to this section
any permit issued pursuant

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7
4
SEC Rye Health Officer of
the City of akland shall whenever requested so to do issue certificates
of the records of the births and deaths as shown in the office of the Health

Department which said aertificatea shall be signed by said 8ealth Officer

and duly certified by the Clerk of the Health Department of one
charge
dollar 00
01 shall be made for the iasuanae of each certificate

SEC 405 CONFETTI

7 It shall be unlawful for any person to
Bather pick
or up from arty public street sidewalk or place except for the
purpose of cleaning such street sidewalk or place the substance generally
known and designated as oonfetti or to have in his possession or to sell
or offer for sale confetti that has been gathered or pi Cked up from any
public street sidewalk or place or to throw or cause to be thrown confetti
so gathered or picked up or oonfetti in mined colors r person or
upon az
the apparel of any individual

SEC 7
4
0 6 QUIET ZONES There is
hereby created and established
a zone of quiet in all within a distance of three hundred
territory embraced
300 feet of every hospital in the City
of Oakland and it shall be unlawful
for any person to make cause or permit to be made any
unnecessary naise
in any such zone of quiet or to cause any disturbance of e p ease and
quiet
of any of the inmates of any such hospital

It shall be the duty of the City Manager to place or clause to be

placed in conspicuous places on every street upon
which v be
ar hospital may
situated and at a of
distance not less than three hundred 300 feet in every
direction from said hospital a sign or placard displaying the words KNotieel
Zone of Quiet No loud or unnecessary noises permitted

SEC 4
07
7 OFFENSIVE PLACES AND OCCUPATIONS It shall be unlawful
for any person to establigh or maintain any slaughter house to keep any hog
to cure or keep hides skins or paltry to slaughter cattle sheep or any
other kiwi of to pursue tea
animal intain or carry on any other business or
o ccupation offensive to the senses or prejudicial to the
public health or
comfort within the limits of the City of Oakland provided that however
nothing in this section shall prohibit the establishment or of
maintaining
slaughter houses or the During or keeping of hides skins or paltry or the
slaughtering of cattle sheep or other animals
within the following described
district in said city wit

Beginning at a
point where the southeastern boundary line oP lands
conveyed by deed dated November 7th 1868 and recorded in Liber 36 of Deeds
at page 355 Alameda County Records intersects the southwestern line of the
100 foot right of way of the Central Pacific Railroad situated in
Brooklyn
Township now a part of said City of Oakland and
running thence along said
line of said Railroad t of Way
Ri south 42 degrees 23 minutes East 2 4 6
chains to the center of ditch thence along the center of said ditch south
a

64 degrees 15 minutes best 6

50 chains more or less to the center of a slough
leading to the Bay of San Leandro thence in a southwesterly direction follow
the
ing center of said slough with the survey of the shore line of the
Bay
of San Leandro at midway between Stations 201 and 202 of the survey of said
shore line in Seotion 17 Township 2 South Range 3 Weat as shown upon Sale
Map No 10 issued
by the Board of Tide Land Commissioners under an Lot
of the Legislature approved April let 1870 thence along said shore line in
a northwesterly direction to its interaeation with the said southeastern
boundary line of the land conveyed by said deed so recorded in Liber 36 of
Deeds at page 355 of Alameda Couhty Records as aforesaid and thence along
said bouxrlary line north 47 degrees East 14
50 chains North 84 degrees
46 chains North 58 degrees East 8
East 1fi 75 chains and North 61 degrees
East 30 links to the point of beginning

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skins or peltx
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 Provided Further that nothing established or maintained in said
or maintained as to create
above described district shall be ao established
and shall always be subject to the control of the Health Officer
a nuisance
of the City of Oakland

Nothing in this eeption provided shall be construed as preventing

the keeping dealing in or storing of salted hides skins or in peltry the
City of Oakland or the keeping or raising o f hogs within the following
described distript within the City of Oaklands

That pertain piece of land described as follows wit

to Bounded

the Weat Sausal Creek on the North by Palo Seoo Creek a

ui County Road
on by
Country Road No 1854 and
No 2848 on the East by Lincoln Avenue mown as

on the South by Wilbur Street extended in a Northwesterly direction to its

intersection with Sausal Creek

Provided further however that if any provision in this section

shall be found in conflipt with any provision of Article 1 Chapter 7 of
this Code the pr ovisiona set forth in said Article 1 of Chapter 7 shall
prevail

SEC 4r7
3
0 SILTING ORES It shall be unlawful for any person

to engage in the oapupation businesa of reducing or smelting ores contain

or
ing aulphureta of lead arsenic copper or antimony within the limits of the

City of Oakland
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C sue

TER 5
cxA

BUSINESSffi PROFESSIONS AND TRADES

ARTICLE 1 LICENSING AND CONTROL

ARTICLE 2 iITS
Pffi
ARTICLE 3 ADPSRTISING
ARTICLE 4 fTSEINTS
A
ARTICLE 5 BAIL BONDS
ARTICLE 6 BATH HOUSES BARBER SHOPS AND COSMETOLOGY

ARTICLE 7 HOSPITALS DRUG STORES AND PHYSICIANS

ARTICLE LAUNDRIES LINEN SUPPLY AND WASTE RAG SUPPLY ESTABLISA
8
INTS
ARTICLE 9 PAWN HAND DEALERS AND AUCTIONEEfiS
BROKERS SECOND
ARTICLE 10 PEDDLERS SOLICITORS ANND ITINERANT VENDORS
IVATE PATROL SERVICE
ARTICLE 11 P
ARTICLE 12 SERVICE STATIONS AND GARAGES
ARTICLE 13 TRADES AND MANUFACTORIES
ARTICLE i4 VEHICLES FOR HIRE
ARTICLE 15 MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESSES
ARTICLE 16 MISCELLANEOUS PEOVISIONS

ARTICLE 1

LICENSING AND CONTROL

SEC 01
1
5
DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Article certain

words and phr defined and o ertain provisions shall be construed as

ease are

herein set ut unless it shall be apparent from their context that a differ
ent meaning is intended

SEC 01
1
5 a3 BUSINffiS DEFINED Business shall be held and

construed to mean and include profeasiona trades occupations and all and
for elihood
li
every kind of palling carried
or
on
profit

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 SEC 5
0
1 1 b Et yOYEE EFINBA nployee shall mean all
persona engaged in the operation or conduct of any business whether as
owner any member of the ownerfa family partner agent
manager solicitor
and any and all other persona employed or working in said business

SEC 1
5
0 1 to YEgICbE DEPIE
D Pehiele is every device in
upon or by which ar or property is
3person or may be transported or drawn
upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used e
elusively upon stationary rails or tracks

SEC 01 d AVERAGE NUMBER OF PEEiSONS Et

1
5 OXED DEFINED
I
Average number of persona employed shall mean the average number of persons
employed daily in the
a business for the p eriod of one year and
applicant
shall be determined by ascertaining the total number of hours of service
performed by all employees during the previous year and dividing the total
number of hours of service thus obtained by the number of hours of service

constituting a days work according to the custom or laws governing such

employments and by again dividing the ears thus obtained by the number of
business Jaya in each year In computing the average number of persons
employ
ed fraction of numbers shall be oluded

SBC Er
02 SE
1 ICE REQUIRED
I It shall be unlawful for any person
either for himself or for any other person to commence or carry on any
business in this Article specified in the City of Oakland without first
having procured a license from said city
ao to do or without
complying with
arty and all of such business contained in this Article snd the
regulations
carrying on of any business without first having procured a license from
said city eo to d o or without complying with any and all regalationa of this
Article shall constitute a separate violation of this Code for each and
every day that such b
ineaa is so carried on

SEC03 3EPARATL LICENSB FOR EACH PLACE OF BUSINESS A

1
5
separate license must be obtained for each and every branch establishment
or separate place of business in which a business is
carried on esoept a
branch establishment operated by a person licensed under Section
28 of
1
5
this lrtiole ig which vase a duplicate license for each branch establish
ment shall be issued for a fee of X1
00 for each such place
SEC LICBaTSE DOES NUT PERMIT BUSINESS OTHERtIfISE PROHIBITED
04
1
5
The payment of
license fee required by the provisions of this Article and
a

its acceptance by the city and the issuance of a license to any person shall
not entitle the holder thereof to c
arty on arty business in or on Y building
or premises designated in such
license in the event that such or building
premises are situated in a locality in which the conduct of such business is
in violation of arty lee

SEC 05 DIES A POVPERS OP TRE

1
5 StJRER I ICENSL SPECT08
I1
AND POLICE OFFICERS The Treasurer of the City of Oakland and all License

Inspectors and employees of the Bureau of Permits and Licenses in the df s

charge and performaxice of their official duties and all police officers
shall have and ezeroise the power

First To make arrests for the violation of any of the proviaioaa

of this Article
Second To enter free of charge at any time
any place of business
for which a license is required and to demand the ezhibition of such license
for the c arrant term from any person engaged or employed in the transaction
of such buai Hess abd
Third To require the holder of any free license to write his signa
ture for purposes of comparison with that appearing on the original license

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 It is hereby made the duty of the Treasurer of the City of Oakland
of this
to cause the prosecution of all persons violating any provisions
Article

SEC 06
1
5 TECON
INTERST CE Every peddler solicitor or

other person to be entitled to eaemption from the payment of any

claiming
for in this Article upon the ground that such license oasts
license provided
a burden upon hisright to engage in commerce with foreign nations or among
t of the United States
the several states or conflicts with the regulatio
Congress respecting interstate commerpe shall file a verified statement with

the Bureau of Permits and Lioenaea disclosing the interstate or other char
acter of his business entitling such eaemption Such statement shall state
the name and location of the company or firm for which the orders are to
be aplicited or secured the name of the nearest local or state manager if
the kind of goods wares or merchandise to b delivered
any and his addreea
the place from which the game are forwarded the method of
to be shipped or

solicitation or taking orders the location of air warehouse factory

plant within the State o f California the method of delivery the name and
location of the residence of the applicant and arty other facts necessary to
establish such claim of eaemption A Dopy of the order blank contract fern
the
or other papers used by such person in taking ordmra shall be attached to
affidavit for the information of the Bureau of Permits and Licenses

If it appears that the applicant is entitled to such eaemption the

Bureau of Permits and Licenses shall forthwith issue a free license

SEC 07
1
5 CONTENTS OF LICEI Every person required to have
a license under the provisions of this Article shall make application for the same

to the Bureau of Permits and Lioenaea of the City of d upon the

Oakland ar
payment of the fee to said Bureau said Bureau shall issue to said
prescribed
to whom the
person a license which shall contain 1 the mane of the person
licennse is issued 2 the business licensed 3 the place where oh business
eu

is to be aarried on 4 the date of the expiration of such license 5 a

receipt for the amount of money paid for a aid lipenae and 6 auoh other in
formation as the Bureau of Permits and Licensee shall determine

The Bureau of Permits and Lioenaea

SEC 5
08
1 ENTIFICATION CAR11
IZ
shall issue to each person to mom a license is issued an identification card
for each employee that is engaged in peddling soliciting or distributing for
the licensee in the regular conduct of his business

Such identification card shall be in such form as the Bureau of

Permits and Licenses shall determine and shall be parried by each employee
at all times while carrying on the business for which it was issued who shall
demand
produce and exhibit the same on

SEC 08
1
5 DAL LICENSE
ANI All annual licenses issued under
this Article shall be dated as of the firat day of the month in which such

license is issued and shall expire one 1 year From that date unless other
herein
wise specifically provided

SEC 510 AFFIDAVIT FOR ISSUANCE OF FIRST LICENSE Upon a

1
to be issued for a newly
person making application for the first license
business he shall furnish to the Bureau of Permits and Licenses
established
far its guidance in ascertaining the amount of license to be paid by the
a written statement upon a form provided by the Bureau of Permits
applicant
and Licensee rorn to before a person authorized to administer oaths setting
e

forth such information as may be therein required and as may be necessary to

properly determine the amount of the license to be paid by the applicant

If the amount of the license to be paid by the applicant is based

number of persona employed or upon the gross receipts of

upon the average
or monthly piroul ation of aryl
his business or upon the average daily weekly
unber of pereone o be cnployad inn
he sha31 estimate the average A
tion
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his business or the receipta
groaa of his business or the average daily
publication ea
vase may be for the
or monthly circulation of any
weekly
the period to be covered by the lioenae to b e issued Such estimate if
save peed by the Bureau of Permits and Licenses as reasonable one shall be

used in determining the amount of license to be paid by the applicant

provided however the amount of the license so determi

d shall be tentative

only and such person shall within thirty 30 days after the expiration
of the period for which such license was issued furnish the said Bureau
with a sworn statement upon a form furnished by it showing the esavt
average number of persona employed in such buainesa or the eaaot gross
orthe exact average daily weekly or monthly
reaeipte of such bu
inesa
ation of auoh publioativn as the case may be during the period of
eireu
such license and the license for such period shall be finally ascertained
and paid in the manner provided by this ordinance for the ascertaining and
paying of renewal of licensee for other businesses after deducting from
the payment found to be due the amount paid at the time auoh first lioenae
was issued

Said ax auoh person another

Bureau shall not issue to y license

for the same or any other business until such person shall have furnished

to it the written s tatement and paid the lioenae as hereinabove required

SEC AFFIDAPIT FOR ISSUB

11
1
5 CE OF RENI NIAL OF LICENSE In
all oases the for the rene
ral of an aspired license shall render
applicant
to the Bureau of Permits and Licensee for its guidance in ascertaining the
amount of the license to be paid by the applicant a rritten statement

upon a form to be provided by the Bureau of Permits and Lioenaea sworn to

before a parson authorised to administer oaths setting forth auoh informs
tion concerning the a
applicant buainesa during the preceeding year as may
be required by the said Bureau to enable it to ascertain the amount of the
license fee to be paid by said ap plicant pursuant to the provisions of thin

Article provided the t auoh written statement rendered for the purpose of

determining the amount of license due under 3ectioh 5

29 of this Article
1
need not state the exact gross receipts the applicant
of but shall state

that the groae receipts of the applicant were between a certain meaimum
and minimum according to the schedule set forth in said section

SEC 12
1
5 IDAPIT NOT CONCLUSIPE
AFI No statement in this Article

required shall be oonaluaive upon the City of Oakland or any department

bureau officer or agent thereof and whenever it shall appear to the satie
faction of the Bureau of Permits and Licensee and it shall have reason to be
lieve that such statement does not set forth facts of the b
inesa the truce

for which license is required the said Bureau may withhold the issuance
a

of a lioenae therefor until auoh time as the applicant shall furnish to the
said Bureau eatisfaotory evidence of the truth of such statement If auoh
evidence is not furnished to the Bureau of Permits and Licenses within a

reasonable time or should it at any time appear to said Bureau that by

reason miarepreaentation fraud or any other cause whatsoever the
of error
license properly filed for any license famed the said
fee has not been
Bureau shall give t less than five 5 days written nvtioe to the licensee

to show cause at s time and place fixed in said nvtioe why a Pee to be
determined by the said Bureau and specified in said nvtioe should not be
filed for such license At such hearing the licensee shall appear and offer
evidence why such specified fee should not be filed as the license fee
After ouch hearing the Bureau of Permits and Licensee shall determine the
forthwith give written nvtioe to the
proper fee to be charged and shall
licences of such determination and the amount of auoh fe

The lioena may appeal in writing to the City Council within ten

10 days after nvtioe of the determination of the amount of the

fee The
Council shall forthwith set said matter for hearing and oauae nvtioe thereof
naee not less than five 5 days prior to such hearing
to be given to the lic
tsneh hearing the licensee shall show cause why the fee filed by the reau
of Permits and Lieenaea should not be approved The findings of the City
shall be final and conclusive in the matter
Council thereon

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fee finally determined shall be due rind payable ga of the

date the original license fee was dine and payable together with any penalties
fixed in
be
that may be due thereon provided however if each fee shall
accordance with the statement
original of the licensee then no penalty shall
attach to such fee by reason of any delinquency

served
Any notice herein required shall be deemed to have been
when the same is posted in the United States mail enclosed in a sealed
envelope postage prepaid addressed to such person at hie place of business

as the address of the same appears on the records of the Bureau of Permits

and Licensee

SEC CONFIDENTIAL DOCUME

13
1
5AFFIDAVIT S The statements
i
N
Article shall be deemed confidential
filed pursuant to the provisions of this
in character and shall not be subject to p ublie inspection and shall be kept
ao that the contents thereof shall not become known except to the persona
charged with the administration of this Axtiole

officer or employee who shall wilfully violate any provision

of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished

Code and such violation shall be cause for discharge

as in this provided
from the a
City service

SEC 514 VEHICLE PLATES Upon the payment of a license the

1
Bur of Permits and Licenses shall deliver to the licensee one 1 metal
au
in the conduct of his business
plate for each vehicle used by the licensee
which said plate shall be securely fastened at the front of suoh vehiole
except in case of a motorcycle or trailer then in the rear of such vehiale
to the license plate issued for suoh vehiole by the Department of Motor
Vehicles of the State of California In case of an animal drawn vehicle
suoh plate shall be fastened securely h vehiole in a con
the rear of su

spicuous place

Each shall have thereon the

SEC 15
1
5 RM ETC
PLATES
O
r plate
words Oakland or Oakland California any abbreviation thereof the
or

year for which the plate was issued and shall be in suoh form and color and con

Lain such other information as the Treasurer of the City of Oakland shall

determine

SEC 5
16
1 YFUL TO OPERATE VEHICLE WITHOUT PLATES
UALA It shall

to drive or operate or use or cause to be driven

be unlawful for y
ar person
his business without a plate
operated or used any vehicle in the conduct of
being attached as in this Article required or to
remove or defacse or
cover up said plate or to place the same upon any vehicle other than a vehicle
used by the applicant in his business or drive or operate or cause to be
driven or op crated any vehicle more than thirty 30 days after the expiration
of the period Hir which any plate was issued without payment of anew license
fee

17 PLATES FOR SUBSEQUEN

1
5
SEC PLY ACQUIRED VEHICLES If aub

the issuance of license and prior to its expiration date any

aequently to any
which a license plate has
licensee shall use any vehicle in his business for
he shall procure a license plate For such vehicle from the
not been issued
Said Bureau shall furnish such plate without
Bureau of Permits and Licenses
cost upon the production of satisfactory proof of ornership of such vehicle

by the licensee

SEC 18 TRANSFER OF LICENSE

1
5 PROCEDURE No license or vehicle
issued
or under any provisions of this Article shall be in ai
Y
plates granted
authorise other than the person
manner transferred or assigned
or any person
the business therein named or to transact such
named in the license to Derry ova
business in any pleas other that the place or location therein named without
of Permits and Licenses endorsed thereon
the written consent of the Bureau
At the time such lioense is assigned or transferred or the place fl r location ror

of suoh business is the person applying for such trans

the carrying on changed
fer or change shall pay to the Bureau of Permits and Licenses a fee of One

Dollar
OOj
1 for each assignmsnro or transfer

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 SEC 19 LICENSE T3 BE
1
5 PICIIOUSLY POSTED
COl EXCEPTION

Every person having lieenae under the provisions of this Article and carry
a

ing on a business at a fixed place of business shall keep such license posted
a exhibited chile in force in some vonspicuoua part of said place of business

of business
person having such a license and not having a fined place
Eery
shall carry ouch license with him at all times while v arirying on the business
for which the same waa granted

SEC 20
1
5 LOST LICENSE The Bureau of Permits and Livenaes
shall make charge
a of One Dollars
00 for each
01 dupliaat license or dupli
cate vehicle issued to license or vehicle plate issued under
plate replace any
the provisions of this Article which has been lost or destroyed the applicant
shall make eatiafactory proof of such lose

SEC 21 PENALTY FOR NON

1
5 PAYEEIQT OF ANNUAT LICENSE Every annual
license which is not paid wI thin a period of thirty 30 days from the time
the same becomes due and payable is hereby declared to be delinquent and the

Bureau of Permits and Licenaea shall thereupon add tv said license and colleot
a penalty of ten per cent lO of the license av delinquent if such lieer e
is not paid within sixty 60 d aya from the time such lioenae beeoraea due and
payable an additional Sum of fifteen per Dent 15 of said license shall be
added to said license and collected as a penalty

SEC 522 PENALTY FOR NON

1 FAYMENT OF A QU RTERLY LIC
SE Every
quarterly license which is not paid within a period of ten 10 days from the

time e and
the same becomes du hereby declared to be delinquent and
parable is
the Bureau of Permits said iereupon add to au
Licenses shall
t eh lioenae and

collect a penalty of ten per vent lOf of the lioenae eo delinquent if auvh
license is not paid within twenty 20 days from the time such license becomes
due and payable an additional sum of fifteen per vent 15 of said license
shall be added to said lioenae and collected as a penalty

23 PENALTY FOR NON

SEC 5
1 iTOF A DAILY LICENSE
PAY Every
is not at the close of business the day when
daily license which paid on

the name was due and payable is hereby declared to be delinquent and the

Bureau of Permits and Licenses shall thereupon add to said lioenae and

oollect a penalty of ten per sent 10 of said lioenae as delinquent if

cosh lioenae is not paid within ten 10 days from the time ah lieenae
au

beaeme dueand payable sn additional sum of fifteen per vent 15 of said

lioenae shall be added to said lieenae and collected as a penalty

SEC LICENSE A DEBT

24
1
5 ar lioenae fee and
The amount of p
the penalty imposed by the provisions of this Article shall be deemed a debt

to the City of Oakland and any person carrying on any business without first
having procured a license from said vity sv to do shall be liable to an action
in the name of said city in any court of competent juriadiation for the amount
such business
of license and penalties imposed on

SEC 525 CONYICTiON FOR VIOLATING ORDINANCE NOT YAI

1 PER OF LICENSE
of for transacting any business without
Tb vonviation and punishment
e anp person

a lieenae shell not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of arty lioenae
due or unpaid at the time of cosh conviction and nothing herein shall prevent
a criminal prosecution of any violation of the provisions of this Artiole

SEC 26
1
5 EVIDENCE OF LIABILITY In any action brought under or

arising out of any of the provisions of this Code or of

any Ordinance imposing
a lioenae tax the fact that a parry thereto represented himself as engaged in
tion of which a lioenae is required
the transaa
any business or calling for
or that such party exhibited a sign indicating such business or palling shall
be conclusive evidence of the liability of such party to pay for a license for
such business

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 3EC 27
1
5 Seery person conducting managing
MANUFACTURING
or carrying on ship
the business building
of ship repairing dry docking
steel fabrioation foundry forging or the business of manufacturing
com

commodity not
pounding or preparing for sale any article substance
or

of
otherwise speciffo ally licensed by this Article or any other provisions
annual license
Ordinance of the City of Oakland shall pay
an
this Code or ar
business aooord
fee based upon the average number of persona employed in such

ing to the following schedule

For the first person employed 00

X12
For the next 9 persona employed per person 00
3
For the next 3Ot persona employed per person 50
For all other persona employed per person 25

SEC iOLB RETAILIAG JOBBING AND OTHER BUSINESSES

SALIAG
28
1
5
NOT SPECIFICALLY LICENSED Every person conducting managing or carrying on
or fobbing business or otherwise engaged in the
any wholesale or retail
not other
selling of goods wares merchandise or other thing of value and
of this
wise specifically licensed by this Article or any other provisions
Code or any Ordf Hance of the City of Oakland and every person oonduoting
managing or tarrying on any b usinesa that ie not apeeifieally licensed by
this Article any other provisions
or of this Code y ordinance of the
or a

of Oakland shall pay an annual license fee based upon the average
City
number of persona employed in such business aeoording to the following

schedule

For the first person employed 6

0 0
For the next 9 persona employed per perso
n 00
3
For the next 300 persona employed per person 00
1
For all other persona employed per person 50

i3 C
li
oce
Gt
SEC
2
1
5 oCONNECT
PROFESaIONAL
SEMI
ESSTONAI PRO ED BUSINESS

naging or carrying on any business hereinafter in

Every person conducting me
this section enumerated or any combination thereof shall pay
an annual

license fee based upon the annual groaa reoeipta of such business according
to the following schedule

00
24 cl
0
1
Leas 00 groaa receipts
than
0
000 gross reoeipta and leas
X10 than 000
X20 gross

reaeipts 00
34
000 gross receipts
2p and 1 eas than 000
X30 groaa

receipts 00
44

000
X30 gross receipts and leas than 000
X50 groaa

eipta
re 00
64

000
50 groaa receipts and leas than 000
70 groaa

receipt s 00
84
OQ0
70 groaa receipts and less than 000
X100 gross
00
114
reaeipts
fl00
X104 gross reoeipta and less than 000
150 groaa
xeve ipt a 00
164

t000
1St groaa reoeipta and leas than 000
X200 groaa
00
214
rsoeipta

For all businesses groaa reoeipta of X200

having 000 or over the

sum of 00 plus
2i4 50 X100 groaa reoeipta or
000
00 Por each fraction

thereof in excess of groaa reoeipta

000
X200

computing groaa reoeipta

In any return of capital invested for
be excl uded
purchase of property or money lent advanced
or may
the

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 Outdoor
Accountant Auditor Advertising Advertising Council
law Attorney Patent
Advertising Appraiser Architect Assayer lttorney
at
Certified Public 1lceountant Chiropodist Chiropractor Civil Engineer
Collection Agency or Mercantile Agency Consulting Engineer Dentist Designer
or Decorator Draftsman Drugless Practitioner provided however that this
section shall not apply to persons who treat the sick through prayer or
spiritual means Eleotrieal Engineer Electrologiat Geologist Illustrator
riter Insurance Adjuster or Claims Adjuster Insurance Broker
or Show Card 4

Landsvape Gardener or Landscape 1lrehitect Lapidary Meehanival Engineer

in baying or selling obliga
Edney Lender or Money Broker or person engaged
tions Oculist Osteopath Physician Real Estate Broker Surgeon Surveyor
be deemed
Taxidermist Veterinarian 6othing in this section contained shall
the professions or
or construed as applying to any person engaged in any of
hereinbefore enumerated solely as an employee of any other person
occupations
the City of Oakland
conducting managing or carrying o n any sash business in

SEC 30
1
5 DAILY SHO@PING
THEATERS WING PICTURES ETC Every
person conducting managing carrying
or on daily production
the business of

vaudeville or the ezhibition of motion pictures

of theatrical or performances
or 1 ecture or entertainments or shows or contests or exhibitions not

licensed the provisions of thin Code or any Ordinance

otherwise specifically by
the seating
of the City of Oakland shall pay an annual license based upon
auditorium or other place according to the following
capacity of auoh theater
schedules Dente for each and every seat in any such theater auditorium
or other plac provided however that no such license shall be lase than

1 3
c
S
3
7
l
6
00
X50
SEC 15
3 1 THEATERS I VING PICTURES OTHEETC THAN DAILY
on the buarineas of producing
Every person conducting managing or parrying
theatrical or vaudeville performances or the exhibition of motion pictures
or lectures enta or shows or contests or exhibitions not
or entertai

otherwise specifically licensed by the provisions of this Code or anq Ordinanoe

of the Cittiy of Oakland shall pay a daily lioenae or an annual license based
upon the seating capacity of such theater
auditorium or other place according
to the following eohedules

A seating capacity of lase than 500 persona X2

50 per day
u rf 00
35 annually
A seating capacity of 500 persona and less than 1000 persona
00 per day or X60
X5 00 annually
A seating capacity of 1000 persona to 1500 persons inclu
aive
50 per day or
7 00 annually
85
00 per day or 5
And an additional sum of X1 00 annually for eaoh
250 seating capacity in excess of 1500 seating capacity

SEC 32
1
5 PUBLIC DANCE HALL Every person conducting managing
on the buaineas of a public dance hall shall pay a
l icenae based
or carrying
upon the number of days per weak that
dances are held according to the
following sohedule t

ere dances
Ih are held once a week per quarter 00
X10
inhere dances are held twice a wekk per quarter 15
00
Where dances are held three times week per quarter
a 00
20
Where dances are held four times a week per quarter 00
25
Where dances are held five times a week per quarter 00
30
here dances
t are held six times a week per qu
rter
e 00
35

trhere dances are held seven times a week per quarter 00

40

Where dances are held lees than once a week 00 for eaoh
2

day auoh dance is conducted

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 Any person having a license under this section shall not be re
quired to procure an additional license to conduct a dancing apademy at
the name lopation and under the same management as said public dance hall

For the purpose of this Article a public dance hall shall be

defined to maan any place where dancing is parried on and to which the pub
lic is admitted

SEC 33 PRIVATE DETECTIVE

1
5 Every person ponducting managing
or carrying on the business of a private detective shall pay an annual license
fee based upon the average number of persona employed in such business according
to the following schedule

1 to 2 o
per na inclusive 00
X36
The
sum of
00 for each and every additional person e
X10 ployed
over and above 2 persona

For the purpose of this Article a private detective shall be

defined as any person who Shall engage in the business of
furnishing or
supplying information as to the personal character or options of auy person
or who owns or conducts a business or agency for the above mentioned purposes
or who shall furnish police guards or watphmen to patrol any district or to
gaard or watch any property

SEC 34
1
5 HOTEL OFFICE BtTII
DING ETC Etrery person condupting
managing or parrying on a hotel gffic building rooming house or apartment
house shall pay an annual license fee of 50 for eaph and every room contained
d
in any such
G
building
For the purpose of this Article the words apartment house and
hotel shall be construed as defined in the State
Housing Apt of California

SEC 535 PEDDLER

1 Every person condupting managing or parrying
on the business of retail peddling of fresh fruits or vegetables or any food
for human consumption shall pay a license of 00
X15 per quarter or 00
X2
per day for each person esployed in such business

Every person conducting managing parrying on the business of

or

wholesale peddling of fresh fruits or vegetables or any food for human pon
sumption shall pay a license fee of 00 per quarter for each person
60
employed
in such business

Every person conduotin g

managing or earry ing on the business of
peddling any goods wares merphandise or other thing of value not otherwise
specifically licensed by this Code or any Ordinance of the City of Oakland
shall p ay a license of X20
00 per quarter or X2 00 per day for each person
employed in such business

For the purpose of this Article the word Peddling shall be

as going from house to house place to place or in or along the
defined
streets within the City of Oakland selling and making immediate delivery
or offering for sale and immediate delivery any goods wares merchandise
or anything of value in poaeesaion of the peddler

SEC 5
36
1 SOLICITOR Every person conducting managing or
carrying on the business of shall
solicitor pay a license of X2000 per quarter
or
00
X2 per day for es
ah person snployed in such business

the purpose of this Axtiole the word solicitor

For fshall be
defined any person who engages in the business of going from house to
as

house place to place or in or along

the streets Within the City of
Oakland
selling to king orders for or offering to sell or take orders fox goods
or

wares merchandise or other thing of value for future delivery or for Services
to be performed in the future

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 SEC 5 j37 ITINERANT VENDOR Every person conducting managing
or arrying on
the business of an itinerant vendor shall pay a license of
00
X25 per day and the auzri of 00
X5 per day for each person employed in
such business in excess of five 5
persona
6 d Q r
c
a o5 y ccu
t53J 2 3 y
For the purpose of this Article the words itinerant vendor shall
be defined as any person who engages in a temporary or transie business in

City of Oakland selling goods wares merchandise or arty other thing of

the
value with the intention of conducting such business in said city for a
period of not more than ninety 90 days and who for the purpose of carrying
vn such business hires leases or eooupies any room doorway vacant lot
building or other plane for the exhibition or sale of goods wares merchandise
or other thing of value

If the place in which a business is conducted is rented or leased

for a period of ninety 90 days or less such fact shall be presumptive
evidence that the business carried on therein is a transient bu
ainesa

SEC 38
1
5 JUNK COLLECTOR Every person conducting managing
or carrying on the business of Sunk
a collector shall pay an annual license
of 00
12 for each person employed in such business

For
the purpose of this Article the words n3urrk oolleotor shall
be defined any person who goes from place to place for the purpose of
as

engaging in or carrying on the business of collecting buying or selling

either at wholesale or retail any old raga bottles woks sans papers
meals or any other worn out or discarded material

SEC 39
1
5 JUNK DEALER Every person conducting managing or

carrying vn the bu
sineas of a dunk dealer shall pay an annual license of

00
50 and if the average number of persona employed exceeds three 3
then an additional sum of X5
00 for each sash additional ennployee

For the purpose of this Article the words dunk dealer shall be
defined as any person having a fixed place of business aril who is engaged
incarrying on the business of buying or selling either at wholesale or
retail any old raga bottles sacks Dana papers metals or
any other
worn out or discarded material

SEC 5y1
40 DAILY PUBLICATIONS
Every person conducting
managing carrying
or the publication or circulation of a daily or
on
daily
except Sunday newspaper or other publication shall pay an annual license
based upon the average daily cireul ation or the average daily except
Sunday
circulation based upon the circulation for the preceding license year
according to the following schedule

The sum of 00 for

25 the first 1000 average daily circulation
or average daily except Sunday circulation and an additional sum of X5
00
for each additional 1000 average daily oirculation
or average daily except
Sunday circulation

SEC 41 P
1
5
Y
HI
EF
Qf TBLIC TIONS Every person conducting
managing carrying
or on the
blieation or circulation of a weekly newspaper
or other weekly publication shall pay an annual license based upon the

average weekly circulation based upon the circulation for the preceding
license year according to the following schedule
Vr o O

The sum of 00
X10 for the first 5000 average weekly circulation
and an additional sum of 00 for each additional 1000 weekly circulation
3

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 42
1
5
SEC TIONSTHLY
I
1
pITBLICI fiery person conducting
managing carrying vn the publication or pirpulation of a monthly neWa
or

paper or other monthly publioaticn shall pay an aYmual license based

upon the average monthly piroulation based upon the pirpulation fvr the
prepeding license year according to the following schedule
5 eo

The sum of X10 for the first 5000 average monthly circulation
00
a an additional sum of X3
00 for each additional 1000 monthly cirpul ation

SEC 43 CIRCt7S
1
5 ETC Every person conducting managing or

parrying on the business of a circus menagerie wild West shoes dog and
pony shoal theatrical performance or any other like or similar exhibition
given under or surrounded or partially enclosed by panvaa shall pay a
license based upon the seating oapapity of such exhibition according to
the following schedule s

seating capacity
A of leas than 1000 persons X125
00 for the
first day and 00 for each additional day
75
A of 1000 persons and Ieea than 5000 persona
seating capacity
00 for the first day and X200
175 00 for each additional day
A seating papacity of 5000 persona and less than 8000 persons

00 for the first

300 day and 175 00 for each additional day
A seating pspapity of 8000 persons and less than 11
000 persona
00 for the first day and X300
500 00 for each additional day
A seating capaoity of 11
000 persona or more 750
00 for the
first day and 400 for each additional day
00

ln additions license fee of 00

X5 day shall be paid for every
per
side shoal exhibition entertainment or after
shoal in connection with arty
of the shoals ox exhibitions above mentioned When a separate fee is pharged
therefor

Every person conducting managing or parrying on azy proaeaafon

or parade in connection With any of the above shows or exhibitions and
not having a lipenae for say such shoal or exhibition within the
City of
Oakland shall pay 00 for each such procession or parade
500

SEC 544 CAENIVALS

1 AIMS ETC Every person conducting
managing or parrying on ar
r fl4
ir carnival ferric
Wheel spenip railway
round awing chute
go
merry chutes or other like or similar exhibition
the
or amusement shall pay a l icen
efee of 00 per quarter provided
100
however that such person shall first obtain a permit to hold or ncndupt
s he same om the Cit Manager i7yr k1
c
C
q
C No
s
portion
tee
C1

of any
y
street
y d
cu

shall be used
c j7 Gu
for the purpose
d

of conducting
any iror carnival
f9

SEC 45 AIIC
1
5 IONELft fiery person pondupting managing or
parrying on the business of an auctioneer for the sale at eruption of
any
real or personal property shall pay an annual lipenae fee of 00
300

SEC 46 B01
1
5 LING ALLEY C
E7 Lhrery person ponducting managing
or carrying on a public bowling alley ekes ball bat ball or other similar
device equipment or means of entertainment shall pay an annual lipenae fee
of 00
12 for each alley

SEC 47 DISTRIBOTING
1
5 HANDBILLS LTC L rery person ponducting
managing or carrying on the business of distributing handbills advertising
samples dodgers advertising matter or printed matter of any kind shall
pay a lipenae fee of X15
00 per quarter and an additional sum of 25 per
quarter fvr each and every person employed in excess of sixty 60a employees

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 l8SEC HLftBS PRffiCRIB G ETC Every person conducting
managing parrying
or on the bnainess of dealing in preparing or prespribing
herbs except drug stores physicians and surgeonsl shall pay an annual
license fee of 100
00 7s
SEC 49
1
5 POOL 08 BILLIARD ROOM Every person conducting manag
ing or parrying vn any public billiard or poolroom shall pay an annual license
of 00 for
20 one pool or billiard table and X500 for each and every table
in excess of one

SEC 50
5 STREET CAR ADPERTISING Every person conducting
managing or carrying on the business of street car advertising shall pay an

annual a fee of 00
200
n
lice q

SEC 51
1
5 PAWNBROKER Every person eondupting managing yr

on the business of a pawnbroker shall pay a license fee of 00

X45
parrying
per quarter
d
u
Cu y Bt
a
2
SEC 52
1
5 Every person conduoting managing or
TAXICABS E2
C
carrying o n any business regulated by Article 14 of this Chapter or any
Ordinance supplementary thereto and hereinafter enumerated shall pay an annual
li tense fee as follows

Taxicab 00 per public motor vehicle

business X10
00 per public motor vehicle
Motor bus business X20
ire b inees 10 per public motor
00 cle
veh
for
obile
Aputom

the streets
SEC
or
5
5
1 3 NEINSPAP ER
HAND ART Every p arson maintaini ng upon
part or other
sidewalks of the City of Oakland any hand
vehicle for the sale or offering for sale of newspapers or engaged in the

business of selling newspapers upon the streets or walks of said

sid city
license fee oP payable quarterly in advance
shall pay a 00
X40 per annum

SEC 54
1
5 Every person who shall conduct
MEAICIIJE PEDDLERS a

medicine show or in the business of peddling medicines pursuant to a

engage
permit granted under the provisions of Section 07
10 of this Chapter
5

shall p ay a license fee of X100

00 per day which Fee shall be paid in

advance for the entire time for which said permit is granted

SEC 55
1
5 UTOR BUS
D NSI0195 TO STREET RAIL
EXTE fAYS
Every person
motor busCity in the to
of Oakland or in
as an extension
operating a

connection with a street railroad pursuant to the provisions of Seption

14
5
31 of this Code ahali pay a license at the rate of sixty dollars 00
060
motor bus operated payable quarterly in advance license
Said
per annum per
fee shall be prorated so as to entitle the applicant to a license upon the

payment of that portion of the yearly license fee which shall bear the same
relation to the yearly license fee as that portion of the year for which the
shall bees to the entire year
license fee shall run

SEC 56
1
5 FLYING FIELDS Eery parson establishing conducting
ormaintaining any flying field as in Sections O9
I5 to
5 15 of this
5
12

Codereferred to shall pay a license fee in the amount of 00

X50 per rter
qus
payable in advance

57 AUTOMOBILE WRECKING ESTABLISHMENTS

1
5 SEC Every person
managing or carrying on the business of wrecking motor vehicles
conducting
or in the storing or selling of used or
hand parts or aceeasories of
seoond

motor vehicles shall pay a license fee of 00 per quarter

25
s
re ray dl 6
u J v
y

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 SEC 58 IETERAN
1
5 SE ION To any veteran or widow o f
any veteran of the IInited Statea service having honorable discharge gapers
showing service in the Civil War of the IInited Statea of America Spaniah
American War Phillippine War a2exioan Border War Siberian Service or
the war in Europe commonly known as the
World War or any veteran or
widow of such veteran of the IInited States naval forces who shall have
served in any of the above wars and been furloughed to the reserve service
or
placed on the inactive list under honorable conditions and who shall display
to the Bureau of Permits and Licensee satisfactory evidence of such service
and termination thereof the said Bureau shall allow of
an exemption 00
20
per year on one license for the conduct of any one business
py a
nsed
tic
provisions o f thi s Code or by any Ordinance of the City of
Oakland t such
3
business is owned solely by such veteran or the widow of any such veteran

All applications for the allowance of a 2000 per year exemption ae here
inabove provided must b e aooompanAed by proof satisfactory to the Bureau of
Permits and Licenses and such Bureau may take such time as it
may deem
necessary to investigate any applicant

SEC 59
1
5 FTION FOR
EAN IbtFIRPd ETC The Bureau of Permits and
Licenses shall upon the written recommendation of the Associated Charities
and the License Inspector that any person by reason of physical infirmity
unavoidable misfortuneunavoidable poverty merits exemption from the
or

operation of any lioense

required by ar
q provisions of this Cade or by any
Ordinance of the City of Oakland allow such person an exemption of X12
00
on one license for the coruluct of any one business licensed by any provisions
of this Code or by az
y Ordinance of the City of Oakland or a tree lioense
to peddle or solicit within the City of Oakland

SEC 60
1
5 SPT
EK LICENSES TO BE ENDORSED
Whenever the Bureau
of Permits and Licenses shall
issue p
an license granting the exemption here
inabove in Sections 58 and 5
1
5 59 provided for the person to whom such
1
license is issued shall endorse thereon hie signature in ink in the presence
of an anployee of the Bureau of Permits and Licensee and no such license
shall be transferable nP
d
GLc a3 J 8
c
Cu
S 5 z oF
t
s G
yea
Air license issued as in said Seotione 558 and 1
1 5
5 9 provided
aihall be issued only for the minimum lioense period for any such business
and may be reneged for the same period upon the same conditions and in the
same manner as originally obtained

ARTICLE 2r

PERMITS

SEC 5
01 PETITS GENERALLY
2 Whenever by the provisions of
this Chapter a permit from the City of Oakland is a prerequisite to the
operation or mai ntenanee of any business establishment or place or to
the furtherance of any undertaking or the doing of any thing unless other
wise specifically provided such permit shall be procured in the manner and
hereinafter in this Article set forth
be subject to the provisiona

SEC 02 APPLICATION
2
5 Application for aAY permit referred to
in Section 5
0
2 1 of this Article shall be filed with the City Clerk in
triplicate the original of which shall be duly acknowledged before some
person lawfully authorised to administer oaths and upon forms to be furnished
by said City Clerk and shall set forth the following informations

a A f
ll identification of the
u appl leant and all persons to be
directly or indirectly interested in the permit if granted

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 b ence and business address and the citizenship of the
The reai
all members of any firm or partnership or all officers
applicant including
and directors of any corporation applying

e The location of the proposed business establishment place

thing stc for which the d the name of the owner
permit is requested ar
and the present use of such premises

d The exact nature of the proposed business establishment place

thing etc for which the permit is requested and the name under which it

is to be operated

experience of
he past
R the applicant in the matter to which
the requested permit appertains and the name address and past experience
in such business or matter of the person to be in charge of the premises
or business

f Whether or not any permit has been revoked and if so the

circumstances of such renovation

g Such further information sa the City Manager or such official

of the City of Oakland toaeiiom the application may be referred may require

SEC 5
2x03 PROCEDURE ON APPLICATION Immediately on the filing
of any application for a permit as provided in Sections 5 01 and 5
2 02
2
of this Article the City Clerk shall place the acknowledged Dopy do the
permanent records of his office refer one copy
6 the City ger and one copy
to sash official of the City of Oakland the administrative funetiona of whom
are those primarily concerned with the granting or denying of such permit

which latter official hereinafter inihie Chapter referred to as the investigat

ing offici al shall make such inneatigation of the applicant and of the facts
set forth in such application as he shall deem advisable and shall make a
written report of such inveatigationa together with his recommendations relative
to disposal of the application to the City Manager who shall proceed to
act upon said application after a hearing set by the City Clerk for a day
certain not less than five 5 days nor more than thirty 30 days from the
date of filing said application At such hearing all persona interested shall be
entitled to file objections protests or recommendations in the premises Such

hearing may by the City er

Idana b ed
oontinu over from time to time ae cir
cumstances may require provided however that if hereinafter in this Chapter

specifically provided the investigating official may grant the permit applied
for without referring the same to the City Manager and with or without a hear

ing thereon as may be provided

SEC 5
0
2 4 NOTICE OF HEdIRING ON APPLIC
TION
A The City Clerk shall
in every case of application for a permit if a hearing is to be held thereon
place of such hearing to be held thereon
notify the applicant of the time and

as in 8eetion 5
03 of this Article
2 provided and such rwtiee
jhall
at least three 3 days before the date of such Q
hearing 4 b 3Jal
e
g
l j

In the event public notice of the hearing on any application

that a

in this Chapter required the City Clerk shall

may be hereinafter
for permit
a

cause a notice to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Oakland

for three 3 auocessive days and cause a copy thereof to be posted upon the

premises to be primarily affected by the granting of auvh permit and a copy

on the bulletin board near the Council Chambers Such notice shall a
t forth
the fact that such application has been filed the name of the applicant
the nature of the thing to be permitted and the time and place of hearing upon
such application

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 Whenever a notice shall be required the applicant upon
public
filing hia application shall pay to the City Clerk the sum of 00 and
15
such payment shall not be in lieu of any license or other tax otherwise

imposed by law

SEC 2
5ACTION ON APPLICATION
05 The City Manager or the

investigating official acting thereon shall deny the granting of any permit
tisfaotion that the applicant is not
applied for if it shall appear to hia Aa
a rson either for financial moral or other reasons to
fit and proper p
conduct or maintain the business establishment place or other thing to
which the application appertains that the applicant has not complied with
the provisions of this Code which directly appertain to the maintenance
or conduct of the business establishment place or other thing in question
or for the violation of any law appertaining thereto or for any other reason
hereinafter in this Chapter more specifically set forth

In granting or denying such permit and in specifying the conditions

if any upon which it is granted the City Manager or other official noting
thereon shall consider the character of the applicant as respects morality
honesty and integrity and all pertinent acts which may concern the health
safety and general welfare of the public and shall exercise a reasonable
and sound discretion in the premises The City Manager or other official

noting thereon in acting upon an application for a permit shall notify

the ins estigating official to whom such application was referred o f such
action

SEC 06 TRANSPNR 0 PEt

2
5 MITS No permit in this Chapter
shall be transferable nor apply to q
an premises other than those
required
originally specified as the location of the thing permitted except upon
written permission of the City Manager or other official lly granting
origlnq
such permit granted upon written p
a iication by the transferor made i n the
same manner as may be required in the instance of the original application

for such permit

5
0
2
SEC7 REPOCATION SUSPENSION OF PERMIT Any permit granted
pursuant to the
provisions of this Chapter may be by the City Manager or by
such other offieial who granted such permit revoked or suspended as in his
discretion may seem meet and just for any reason for which a granting of such

hereinafter in this
permit might be lawfully denied or for any other reason

Such revocation or shall be made

Chapter apeoifically provided auapenaion
to the holder of the permit so revoked or suspend
only upon a hearing granted
ed held before the City Manager after five 5 days notice to such permit
holder sating the grounds of complaint against him and stating the time
and place where such hearing will be held In the event of such revocation
or suspension any certificate issued in connection with the granting of
such permit shall by the holder thereof be forthwith surrendered to the

City Manager

Such revocation orsuspension of arty permit shall be in addition to

any other penalties more apeoifically provided in this Chapter

SEC 5 08 APPEALS
2 Any person excepting to any denial auapenaion
for or held by him pursuant to the provisions
or revocation of a permit applied
of this Chapter or to any action taken by any official of the City of Oakland

concerning such permit may appeal in writing to the City Council by filing

with the City Clerk a written notice of such appeal setting forth the
be filed within 14 days after
specific grounds thereof Such notice must
from but in no event 1 ester than thirty 30
notice of such action appealed
date of such action mhe City Clerk shall forthwith set said
days after
matter for hearing before the Council and cause notice thereof to be given

to the appellant not leas than five 5 days prior to such hearing At such
shall show on the grounds specified in the
hearing the appellant cause

notice of appeal why theaction ezcepted to should not be approved Such

be continued over from Dime to time and lts
hearing may by the Council
findings on the appeal shall be final and conclusive in the matter

10
 SEC INSPECTION OF PRENffSE
09
2
5 Y officer of the City of
Ar
Oakland charged with the enforcement or administration of any of the provisions
of this Chapter shall be permitted to enter and inspect at any reasonable time
without char ge or other restraint any premises to which arty permit granted
under the prvvisions of this Chapter may pertain or which are directly affected
the provi
ch permit for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not any of
by eu
sions of this Chapter applicable thereto are being violated

SEC 10
2
5 Any permit required under
IIITS TO BE EXHIBITED
P
in
the provisions of this Chapter shall be exhibited in a conapiououa plane
eea of the premises
that part to whioh the public has ac to whioh aueh permit

appertains

SEC CITY CLERK TO EXAMINE APPLICATIONS AS TO ZONE

11
2
5 Upon
the filing of any application for a permit as in this Article provided for
the City Clerk shall examine the same for the purpose of ascertaining h
ether
the business establishment or plane for which such permit is desired is
same is permitted pursuant
proposed to be located within a cone in which the
to the provisions of this Code and the Ordinances and laws of the City of
Oakland If auoh to nation ie not within such approved acne the City Clerk
shall refuse to aQCept auoh application

32 CITY CLERK TO BE NOTIFIED OF ACTIONS ON PERMITS

2
5
SEC y
Az
y action upon any application For a
official of the City of Oakland taking e

permit or permit to operate or maintain any business establishment or

upon any
place within the City of Oakland as in this Chapter provided for shall notify
the City C1 erk of auoh action and shall so far as possible supply the City
Clerk with copies of ail communications findings and reeorda pertaining to
file
auoh applications and permits and the City Clerk shall plane the same on
with the applications and permits to which they appertain

SEC EXPIRATION OF PERMIT

13
2
5 Any permit granted pursuant to
the provisions of this Chapter but under which the thing herein permitted

has not been done carried on or maintained within six months from the time

of the issuance of auoh permit shall expire by limitation and Deese to be valid
for any purpose Provided however that the City nager may renew auoh permit
upon written application being made prior to its expiration

TICLE 3
Al

AIfVERT IS ING

SEC 01
3
5 HANDBILLS AND CIRCULARS The following ordinance is

an initiative measure adopted November 8 1932

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE ION OF ADVERTISING I1fATTEB

RIBLFI
DIS3
UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION HEREOF AND REPEALING

ORDINANCE N0 3144 AND ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE

PITH

BE IT ORDAINED by the qualified Electors of the City of Oakland

ae follows

SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this ordinance the

words and phrases defined as follows
following are

aj PERSON A person is an individual association firm copartner

ship or corporation

b PRIVATE PROPERTY Private property is any parcel of real property

in the of Oakland or any dwelling residence or other building Chereon
City

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 c Advertising matter is any broadside
ADVERTISING MATTER
booklet card circular dodger handbill poster newspaper or other
advertising medium of similar nature excluding however any newspaper
class matter under the provisions of the United
eligible for entry ae second
State Poet Office Regalationa of Larch 3 1879 and ether regulations and
statutes of the United States

SECTION 2 UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE IN CERTAIN GASES It shall

be unlawful to distribute or cause to be distributed any advertising matter

in or upon private property when

a There is erected or painted in conspicuous place upon

a

such property a
sign containing the words No advertising matter or other
words of similar import or

b It is apparent that said property is vacant or

o It is apparent that a s distribution
previous day of

advertising matter has not been removed

SECTION 3 MANNER OF DISTRIBUTION Subject to the provisions

of the preceding section of this ordinance it is hereby dec
ared to be un

lawful for any person to distribute or cause to be distributed in or upon

any private property arty advertising matter except in the following manner
and distribution in such manner is hereby declared to be lawfula

a By Planing the same in a receptacle clip or other device

designed or intended to receive advertising matter when such receptacle
slip or other device shall have been erected in a conspicuous place near
the front door or front entrance or near the mail box of any private property
or

b If no a uch
receptacle clip o r other device shall have been
ereoted as provided then by handing said advertising matter to
hereinabove
an occupant of said property or placing the same upon the porch or vestibule of

a house or building vn said private property provided that in the latter case
said advertising matter is wrapped tied folded or otherwise so prepared
or planed that it will not be blown therefrom by the winds

SECTION 4 UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT PERMIT It shall b

unlawful for any person except the holder of a s

distributor permit granted
pursuant to the terms of this ordinance to distribute or cause to be diatri
buted by his employees or otherwise any advertising matter

SECTION 5 GRANTING OF PERMIT rperson desiring a distributor

Ar s per
mit shall file an application therefor with the City Clerk upon forms to be

furnished by said city clerk and containing such pertir

ent information ae
the city clerk may require

Forthwith upon filing such application said city clerk shall issue
a s
distributor permit to the applicant together with a aerial number thereon

without cost therefor and without any period of expiration thereof provided
however that in the event that a distributor
s permit previously issued to
the applicant shall have been revoked then such permit shall not be issued
to the applicant wit bout the consent of the chief of police the chief of
police shall consent to the iasu
ance of such permit if the applicant in the

sound discretion of the chief of police despite the previous revocation of

hie distributor
s permit is a fit and proper person to hold such permit

SECTION 6 RBPOCATION AND SiTSPENSION OF PERMIT Any distribbutor

s
issued under the provisions of this ordinance may be revoked by the
permit
Chief of Police in the event that the holder of such permit or any of hie
employees is distributing advertising matter contrary to the provisions of
this ordinance and to such an extent that in the discretion of the chief
the holder of such permit is not a fit and proper person to hold
of police

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the Dame Suchrevocation shall be made only after a hearing granted to
five days notice
the holder of suoh permit before the ohief of police upon
to such permit holder setting forth the gronnda of int
comple against him and
where suoh hearing will be held Such hearing
stating the time and place
revocation of a
diatributor
may be oo ntinued from time to time Upon any
the chief of police pro
permit the same shall be forthwith surrendered to
if is taken from the order revoking suoh
viding however that an appeal
hereinafter said order of revocation shall be stayed
permit as provided for
A distributor
a
until a final determination of such appeal by the city council
the chief of police for a definite period of time
permit may be suspended by
and subject to same
the limitations and procedure ae
for the same reasons
provided for the revocation of such permit

SECTION 7 DdETHOD OF APPEAL An appeal may be taken to the pity

council from any order of the ohief of police denying revoking or auapend
s permit by filing with the city clerk within fourteen
ing a distributor
days after notice of appealed from a written notice of gush appeal
the action

setting forth thegrounds The pity clerk shall forthwith set said
thereof

matter for he wring before the city council and cause notice thereof to be

given to the appellant not leas than five d aye prior to such hearing Such
continued Prom time to time by the pity ccuneil The city
hearing may be
council in the exercise of a sound and reasonable discretion shall upon
such appeal have the power to reverse modifp or affirm the action appealed
from

SECTION 8 MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE Any notice required by this

ordinance moat be in writing and may be given by personal service or by mail
In case of service by mail notice must be deposited in the United States
Post Office or in a d States poet box in
Unit a sealed envelope with postage
thereon prepaid addressed to the person on whom it ie to be served at his
last known address Service shall be deemed completed at the time of the
of the same in such post office or poet box
deposit

SECTION 9 FERNIT NUR

LEiER TO BE ON ADVERTISING ElITTER It shall be
unlawful for any person to distribute or cause to be distributed arty advertising
matter to or upon any private property unless there shall be printed stamped
or otherwise clearly designated in legible characters in a conspicuous place
the words
on the front page of each and every piece of advertising matter
ePermit
Diatributor No with the permit number designated by the
city clerk inserted thereon

SECTION 10CONSTITUTIONALITY If any section subsection eentenee

clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid suoh

decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this

ordinance

SECTION 11 Y Any person violating any provision of this

L
PENAII

ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof

fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by
shall be punishable by a

in the pity jail for a period of not more than twenty days or by
imprisonment
both such fine and imprisonment

SECTION 12 REPEAL Ordinance No 3144 and all ordinances in con

flict herewith are hereby repealed

SECTION 13 TAKING EFFECT Phis ordinance shall take effect five

of the official canvas
days after the declaration

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 3FC 02 POSTERS
3
5 It shall any person in the
be unlawful
for

City of Oakland except a public officer employes performance of

or in the

a public duty to poet stick stamp paint or otherwise affix or cause

to be posted stuck stamped painted or otherwise affixed say bill poster
notice sign or advertisement of any kind upon any private property without
on in writing from the owner agent trustee or occupant of such
psrmieai
premises or upon any telegraph telephone or electric light pole
or upon

sidewalk or square or
any sidewalk or upon any tree in arty public street
be required by law
upon any bridge or other public property except as may
or For any person to suspend any banner sign or advertising notioe from
or other devioe crossing or overhanging any
or attach the same to any wire
public Street

SEC 03
3
5 ADVERTISING IN PUBLIC STREE7
S It shall be unlawful

for ar
4Y person upon any public sidewalk or in any street in the City of
or support any banner sign transparency framework
Oakland to Derry bear
device or emblem used or purported to be used or intended as an adverti
e
ment of any trade profession or business place of business office store
or occupation or to distribute by hand or otherwise upon any sidewalk
other place or to throw upon any sidewalk street
street square or public
square or other public place any advertisement bill poster flyer notice
or advertisement device or emblem used or purporting to be used or intended
or merchandise or of an3 trade
aa an advertisement or notice of any article
or of any
business profession office store occupation person

SFC 04
53 ADVERTISING INTER IN TOR VEHICLF It is hereby

declared to be unlawful for any person to place affix or causestick or

or permit any other person in his behalf to plane stick or affix any broad

aide booklet card circular dodger handbill poster or any other

advertising medium of a like or similar nature In or upon any automobile or
other motor vehicle not in such personas rightful possession xhile said
automobile or other vehicle is in or upon any public street highwa3r or other
public place

SEC 5
05
3 HAND AND DEFECTIVE MERCHANDISE
SECOND It shall be

unlawful for any person in any newspaper magazine circular form letter or

any open publication published distributed or the City of

circulated in
label or other advertising medium or by
Oakland or on any billboard card
means of any other advertising medium or devioe to advertise Dell attention

to give publicity to the sale of any merchandise which merchandise is

or

hand or used merchandise or which merchandise is defective in any manner

second
or which merchandise consists of artielesor unite or parts known as eeeondaaa
or blemished merchandise been rejected by the manufac
or which merchandise has

turer thereof as not first class unless there be conspieuouely displayed

directly in connection with the name and description of such merchandise and
each ap eeified article unit or part thereof a direct and unequivocal statement
phrase or word which will clearly indicate that such merchandise or each

article unit or part thereof so advertised is second

hand used defective
or consists of seconds or is blemished merchandise or has been rejected by
the manufacturer thereof as the fact shall be

SEC 06
3
5 L
P
SIDE CLOCKS It shall be unlawful for any person

to maintain any clock erected on az

y sidewalk in the City of Oakland if
stand which the same is erected there shall be painted
upon the pole or upon
fastened or otherwise exhibited any advertisement notice words lettering
or any other thing than the name of the person firm or corpora ion
inscription
at whose expense and in front of whose premises said clock is erected and
maintained ill such clocks shall be maintained in good condition ao as to

co rree tly indicate the time

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 07 ING
3
SEC ITTE STREETS
I It shall be unlawful for any

person to scatter daub or leave any paint paste glue or other substance
used for painting and affizing advertising matter to a signboard or to
scatter or permit t o be scattered or thrown any bills waste matter paper
cloth or material of whatsoever kind removed from a signboard or any other
structure erected for advertising purposes upon any private property public
acreeta or other public property

SEC 5
08
3 3RAL ADVEEtTISI
I G It shall be unlawful for any

person to display for advertising upon any billboard or advertising

purposes

signboard or upon or in any window or upon any building or fence or in

any public place any delineation of air nude figure or any matter or thing

of an indecent or immoral nature

SEC 89
3
5 BOlRD LOC
C1RI OF SIG1 TIONS It shall be unlawful

controlling or maintaining any billboard or other

for any person owning
sign or structure upon which advertising matter is ezhibited
board fence
to refuse or neglect to out all weeds and removeall rubbage from the base

of same

SEC 10 MtITIIaITTNG SIGATS

3
5 It shall be unlawful for any person
to maliciously destroy a way mutilate any sign placed upon arty
or in
real estate advertising said real estate for sale or for rent whenever such

sign is placed thereon by the owner or authorised agent of the owner of said
real estate

SEC 11 FALSE lDVERTISING

3
5 It shall b e unlawful for any pera on
with intent deliver
to sell solicit or or to induce the
public in any
robligation relative to ax
manner to enter into an r goods vs res merchandise

matter or service to bring or place or cause to be brought or plaoed before

the public in the City of Oakland through or by means of arOr advertising
medium or device whatsoever or by public outcry or proclamation or by anrp
means or in any manner whatsoever any statement representation rtics
tsa
c
s
of
cognomen or designation concerning such goods wares merchandise matter
service which is false or untrue or which is in any manner deceptive or mis

leading

ARTICLE 4

AMiTSEME6TTS

SEC 01
4
5 tG TRES PERMIT
VI FICT
I It shall be unlawful for
or parry on or to cause or permit
arty person to conduct hold maintain
to be conducted held maintained or carried on or to participate therein
any public display ezhibition or showing of moving pictures within the

City of Oakland unless there eziats a valid permit therefor granted and
ezisting in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter
The investigating official referred to in Section 5
03 of thi a Chap
2 ber to

whom the application shall be referred shall be the Fire Marshal

SEC 02
4
5 PCE HALLS PERMIT
D It shall be unlawtlx for any

person to open conduct or participate in the opening con

parry on or to

a public dance in any public place in the City of

ducting or carrying on of
Oakland unless there eziats a valid permit therefor granted and ezisting in
2 of this Chapter
compliance with the provisions of Article The application

for such permit shall set forth in addition to the requirements specified
in Section 502 of this Chapter and such permit shall set forth the number
2
and date of the dances to be held under such permit The investigating official

to in Section 0
2
5 3 of this Chapter tv whom the application shall be
referred
referred shall be the Chief of Police

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 SEC 03 DANCE HALLS
4
5 REGULATIONS It shall be unlawful

for any person conducting any

d sues under apermit authorised in Section 5
02
4
of this Article or any public dance whatsoever in the City of Oakland or
any agent emp
loye representative
or of such person to violate or
permit
the violation of any of the following regulations

other public place in which any

a The hall ballroom or dancing
is being done shall be kept well lighted
b No immoral er obscene dancing shall be permitted
c No person under the age years shall be admitted unless
of 18

other person having the care

accompanied by his or her parent guardian or

and custody of such person

d No vinous spiritoua or other alcoholic beverage shall be permit
ted on the premises where such dance is being conducted or any premises directly
connected therewith
e No person under the influence of intoxicating liquor shall be ad

mitted
f No return checks shall be issued
dancing shall be permitted between the hours of 1 o
g No clock A M
and 9 o
clock A M next ensuing except with the written consent of the City
Manager and the Chief of Police
h A copy of this section shall be kept posted in a conspicuous
location in the hall ballroom or other public place where the dance is being
conducted and at all times during the continuance of such dance

04 DANCE HALL REGULATIONS TO V

4
5
SEC iOM APPLY The provisions

of Sections 5
0
4 2 and 503 of this Article shall be c on
4 trued to apply to

public daneea given by the management of hotels to public charitable exhibi

tions or entertainments given by any association or society and to public
daneea given by fraternal or social organizations even though no admission

fee is charged

SEC 505 CABARETS PERI iIT A cabaret shall be construed to in

clude any place where the general public is admitted and where entertainment
such as singing vaudeville or dancing is furnished by the management of
such place without charge to patrons and where liquid refreshments or foods
are sold be unlawful for any person to awn conduct operate or
It shall
maintain or participate
to therein or to cause or permit to be conducted
operated or maintained any cabaret in the City of Oakland unless there
exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the
provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter e application for such permit
frh
shall set forth in addition to the requirements specified in Section 5
02
2
of this Chapter the fact that the proposed location of such cabaret is not
within 300 feet of any church or synagogue or any building in use as a place
of public worship or public school or public library Public notice shall

be given as provided in Section 2

5
0 Chapter and the investigating
4 of this

official referred to in Section 5 Chapter to whom the application

03 of this
2
shall be referred shall be the Chi of of Police Irecommending the granting

or denying of such permit ying the

the Chief of Police and in granting or der
Manager shall give particular consideration to
the piece and
same the City
order and moral welfare of the public

SEC 06
4
5 1 REGULATIONS
CABAR It ahal
l be unlawful for any

the provisions of Section 5

05 of this
4
person operating a cabaret under
cabaret Ataoever
wT in the City of Oakland or arty agent
Article or any

representative of such person to permit any breach of peace therein

employee or

y tumultuous
or public order or decorum by ax
any disturbance of
riotous or
or to permit such cabaret to remain open
disorderly conduct or otherwise
between the hours of 1 oaloek A
or patrons to remain upon the premises
M
A next ensuing except with the written consent of the City
and 9 o
clock
of Police to violate any of the regulations set forth
Manager and Chief
or

in subdivisions a b c d and e of Section 5 03 of this Article

4
made applicable to the conduct of caba
reta in
which regulations are hereby
the City of pakland

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 SEC 07
4
5 CABARETS BOOTHS ENTERTAINERS STC It shall be
unlawful for ay person operating a oabaret under the
provisions of Seotion
05
4
5 of this rtictle or any cabaret whatsoever in the City of Oakland
or
any agent employee or representative of such pera on to crest noi
truot
maintain or cause or permit to be erected constructed or maintained within
sash oabaret aty private rooms booths or aompartmenta or any closed stalls
or arty alcoves of any
nature so arranged that the entire inner portion of
the same shall not at all times be visible or to permit or allow any female
entertainer operator or employee to leave such oabaret in company with any
patron of such place during the time sash oabaret is open for business or to
permit ar
y conduct in such place prejudicial to public morale or to permit
any entertainment in such cabaret except that which is fuxniahed by enter
tainers employed by the management of such cabaret and such entertainers shall
not be permitted to talk to or mingle with the patrons of such oabaret

YSEC 08
4
5 CABARET LICE
SS TAX Every person conducting
managing or maintaining the business of a oabaret in the City of Oakland
shall pay a license fee of 00 per quarter in advance and shall keep
50
a copy of the license issued by the City of Oakland together with a copy of
the permit issued pursuant to the provisions of Seotion 5
05 of this
4
Article together with a Dopy of Sections 505 5
4 06 5
4 07 and 5
4 08
4
of this Article including the reg
zlations set forth in Seotion 5 03 and
4
incorporated in Seotion 5
06 of this Article posted in a conepicuou
4 e
place in the premises maintained as such oabaret at all times during which
such oabaret is being operated

SEC 5 09 POOL ROOMS AND BO

4 iLING ALLEYS PERARIT It shall
be unlawful for any person to open conduct maintain or to
participate in
or permit the opening oonduuting or maintaining of any public pool room

or public billiard room or place having one or more pool tables or billiard

tables and open to the public for playing pool or billiards or any public
bowling alley or place open to the public for bowling in the
City of Oakland
unless there exists a v slid permit therefor granted and esiating in compliance
with the prcviaiona of Article 2 of this Chapter The investigating official
referred to in Seotion 503 of this Chapter to whom the application shall
Z
be referred shall be the Chief of Police

SRC 510 POOL ROOMS AND BOtAfLING ALLEYS

4 RFGtJLATIONS It shall
be unlawful for any person conducting or maintaining a pool rooms billiard

rooms or bowling alley under a permit authorised in Seotion 509 of this

4
Article or otherwise in the City of Oakland or for any servant or employee
of such pera on to have or maintain in connection with such pool rooms billiard
rooms or towling alley any private room or rooms excepting rooms used exclus

ively as toilets or 1av stories and for the purposes of this section private
rooms shall be deemed to be those rooms the entire interiors of which are not
exposed to view from the Hain entrance to such pool or billiard rooms or

bowling alley the from

as case may be or one of the main rooms rega
larly
and habitually used by the general public for the playing of pool or billiards
or of bowling or to ke ep open any auoh pool room billiard room or
bowling
alley or permit the same to be kept open between the hours of 1 o clock
pI and 9 O
A clock A next ensuing A Dopy of Seotion 01
20 0 Chapter
3
3 of this Code shall be at all times kept posted in a eonapieuou
a place in
every pool room and billiard room in the City of Oakland

SEC 511 SKATING RINK A skating rink as in this section

4
referred shall be construed ae any building structure or other place
to
where either roller or ice skates are rented for use or where a consideration
is ch merged for the privilege of the
skates in such placeuse of
It shall
be unlawful for any person to conduct maintain or to permit or cause
or

to be conducted or maintained any skating rink or to erect or reconstruaxt

or continue the erection of or the reconstruction of any building or

part thereof to be used as or occupied fdr the purpose of a skating

rink
or to alter repair or make additions to any existing buildiz
g Yor a sacs

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purpose within the City of Oakland unless there exists a valid permit there
for granted existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of
and
this Chapter The application for such permit shall set forth in addition to
the requirements specified in Section 502 of this Chapter the dimensions
2
and character of any building or buildings proposed to be so used and the
materials of which same is or is to be
constructed and shall further set
forth the fact that the premiaea in question are not within 200 feet of
any
building which is used and occupied as a hospital church or public school
Public notice shall b e given as provided in Section 5
44 of this Chapter and
2
the investigating official referred to in Section 503 of this Chapter to
2
whom the application shall be referred shall be the Fire Msxahal

SEC 12
4
5 RIDING ACADEMIES PI3 A riding academy as referred
to is this Section shall be construed to include any stable barn or other
building or group of buildings where more than three horses are kept or
stabled exclusively for the purpose of maintaining or conducting a school
or
club for equestrians and the general promotion oP horsemanship or for the
furnishing of any instructions in riding horses or for renting or letting
out horses for riding
purposes whether under the constant direction of an
instructor or in connection with the privileges of a
club or
society school
or for hire or otherwise

It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct

or maintain or to
permit to b e conducted
maintained
or or to
participate in the conduct or
maintenance of a riding acadea
q within the City of Oakland or to erect main
tain enlarge or alter any building for the purpose of keeping horses therein
for such purpose whether the same be conducted or maintained as an
independent
business or in connection with a school club or
society unless there exists
a valid permit therefor granted and etiating in compliance with the provisions
of Article 2 of this Chapter The application for such
permit shall set forth
in addition to the requirements specified in Section 502 of this Chapter
2
the number of horses to be kept the dimensions and character of the site and
buildings to be used the manner in which a ueh riding academy ie to be managed
or
maintained and a statement of the feet that the proposed location of such
riding academy is not within 74 feet of any residence dwelling house school
hospital or church Public notice sha11 be given as
provided in Section 504
2
of this Chapter and the investigating official referred to in Section
03
2
5
of this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the
Health Officer provided however that no permit shall be granted as provided
in said Article 2 of this Chapter until such application is also
approved by
the Fire Marshal of the City of Oakland

SEC 513 BIDING ACADEMIES MAINTENANCE

4 hIYER STABLES It
shall be unlawful for ate person maintaining or conducting a riding academy
as in Section 5
12 of this @hapter provided to fail to keep the
4
buildings
grounds and premiaea of such riding academy at all times in a clean well
ordered and sanitary condition or to fail to keep the horses connected there
with well groomed and healthy It shall be the duty of the Health Officer
of the City of nakland to cause proper inspection to be made for the enforce
ment o f this section

Nothing in this section nor inSection 5 12 of this Chapter

4

provided shall be a onstrued to change or affect any provisions of this Code

regulating the eatabiiahment or maintenance or prohibiting in certain resi
Y boar ding or livery stable
dence cones an Arty riding academy as in Section
12 of this Chapter defined wherein is also conducted or maintained the
4
5
general business of letting out boarding feeding or grooming horses for
hire or furnishing buggies or wagons for public use or where mules burros
d or work horses are kept shall be classed ae a public livery stable and
so regulated as in this Code provided

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 SEC 14
5F4 MINIATURE GOLF COURSES TS
PERII It shall be unlawful
for any perao n toconduct maintain or cause or permit to be conducted or main
or to participate in the oonduct or maintenance of any miniature pee
tained
wee or Tom Thumb golf course or any other golf course of such nature within
tD and
the City of Oakland unless there exists a valid permit therefor grant
existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter The
investigating official referred to in Seption 5
03 of this Chapter to whom
2
the application shall be referred shall be the Chief of Police

SEC 15 dINIATURE GOLF COt7RSES

4
5 REGULATIONS It shall be unlaw

ful for any person to operate maintain or cause yr permit to be operated

or
or maintained any miniature 8rolf pourae referred to in Section 5
14 of this
4
Chapter between the hours of 1
30 and 7 or to permit any 1ig
hta or
other illumination thereof to be vn during said hours or any work to be done
on such course during said hours if such golf course is located within 250 feet
of any residence apartment house flat hotel or other dwelling which ie ocpu

pied during the night or for arty auoh person to permit the electric lights or
other illumination of such golf course to be ao arranged or eo natrupted as
to permit a glare of light to b thrown directly upon any window of any auoh

place of dwelling which is oaeupied during the night or for any such person
to play or pause or permit to b e played any piano or other musie
1 instru
ment or any radio or phonograph or
any voice or sound amplifier ao that the
same is audible in any such place of dwelling between the hours of 10 o
clock
M and 7 o
P aloek A M next ensuing provided however that the provisions
in this Section contained requiring all lights to be extinguished and that
no work be done during certain hours of the night shall not apply to auph golf

courses as msy be housed in buildings constructed in accordance with the

building requirements of the City of Oaklend applicable to places of public

assemblage

SEC 16 MINIATtTRE GOLF COURSES

4
5 SANITARY FICILITIES It shall
be unlawful for any person to operate yrmaintain or cause or permit to be

operated or maintained any miniature golf course referred to in Seotion 14

4
5
of this Chapter unless there is maintained upon the premiaea thereof adequate
lavatories closets and all
water usual inpidental sanitary fapilitiea for
the use of whomsoever shall be lawfully upob the premiaea There shall be
not leas than one separate unit of said sanitary facilities for men and not
leas than one separate unit of said sanitary faoilitiea for women

ARTICLE 5

BAIL BONDS

SEC 01
6
3 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Article pertain
words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be ponstrued ao
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their pontext that a different
meaning is intended

a A BAIL BOND BROKBR is a person who for pompensation furnishes

or offers to furnish bail required by any court or judge in ar
p criminal

proceeding

b BAIL BOLD AGENTn is one mho for compensation ie employed by

a licensed bail bond broker to furnish or offer to furnish bail required by
any pourt in any criminal propeeding

p C0B9PENSATI0R is any emolument fee pommisaion or salarg

paid to a bail bond broker and
or bail bond agent for furnishing bail required
in axe criminal proceeding
by any court

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 d One act for compensation of furnishing or offering to furnish
bail to any person in any criminal proceeding shall constitute the person
furnishing or offering to furnish such bail a bail bond broker or bail bond
agent ae the
case may be provided that the provisions of this Article shall
not apply to any surety company duly authorized to do business in the 8
tate
provided however that arm agent representative yr attorney in fact of
any such surety company who shall fu or offer
rniah to furnish bail bonds
of such surety compaY
yfor a compensation in excess of that charged by such
surety company shall be deemed to be a bail bond broker within the meaning
of this Article

SEC 5
02 BAIL BOND BROKER PETITS It shall be unlawful for
arty person to engage in the business of orhold himself out as a bail bond
broker within the City of Oakland unless there exists a valid permit therefor
granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this
Chapter In addition to the requirements specified in Section 5
02 of this
2
Chapter the application for such permit if made b an association or partner
ship shall be signed and verified by each member thereof Such application
shall contain a statement o f the character of the work or business done the
dates when and the names and addresses of the persons for whom each applicant
e
i member of
each an association or partnership making application and
each officer and director of a corporation applicant has worked during the
five 5 years preceding the date of the the written reovmmendation
application
of five 5 residents of the
City of Oakland not related to or to be associated
with theapplicant fn the
E business each of whom shall certify that he
tia
has known each applicant for five 5
years prior to the date of the application
and that the applicant is honest trustworthy and of good The
reputation
person named in the application as the one who will have Charge of the bail
bond business if not one of the
applicants moat be a bail bond agent Public
notice shall be given as provided in Section 5
04 of this Chapter and the
2
investigating official referred to in Sectian 5
03 of this Chapter to whom
2
the application shall be referred shall be the Chief of Police

SEC 03
5 BAIL BOND BROKER
SBOND Upon the bail bond broker
s
permit being granted by the pity a
sager the applicant shall forthwith
file
with the City Glerk a sati sfaotory
bond upon a form furnished by the City Clerk
which bend shall be payable to the
City of Oakland and duly executed by the
applicant and a sufficient surety or sureties in the amount of X5000
00 Said
bond shall be conditioned upon the honest
and faithful performance by such bail
bond brv ker and his bail bond agents and
employees of any undertaking as a
licensed bail bond broker or bail bond agent or an employee of said broker licensed
under this Article and the strict
compliance with the provisions hereof Said
bond shall be further conditioned upon the payment of all
damages Wired by the
City of Oakland or any person damaged or defrau
tded by reason of the violation
of any of the provisions of this Article or
by reason of arty fraud practiced
or false
representation made by such bail bond broker his agents or employees
in connection with or growing out of any bail transaction contemplated by
this Article Any person who sustains any injury by reason of such fraud or
false representation of ax
y bail bond broker his agents or
employees shall
have the right in his own name to prosecute an action for
damages on said
bond against the said bail bond broker and the
surety

No surety on any bond required by this Article other thanlawfully

authorized surety companies shall be taken unless such
surety shall be a
payer of taxes on property not exempt from execution or subject to homestead
Claim the assessed value of which over and above all encumbrances is equal
in amount to his liabilities on all bonds on which
he may be surety to the
City and each sure ty shall certify and make an affidavit that he fa assessed
upon the 1 ast assessment roll of the County in his orvn name for property
in an amount greater than his liabilities on all bonds on which he is surety
to the City and that taxes on such property so assessed are not delinquent

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 All bonds required by this Article shall be approved by the City
Attorney and the City Manager Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction
of the City Manager that any surety upon any bond has for any reason become
insufficient or whenever any surety shall file with the City Clerk written
votive of the eanoellation revocation of any such
or
bond the licenses of
the bail bond broker and his agents thereby scoured shall ba ipso facto
suspended until such time ae a satisfactory bond is filed

SEC
04 BAIL BOND AGENT
5 tIT
PES It shall be unlawful for
ax person tv engage in the business of or hold himself out aa a bail
y
bond agent within the City of Oakland unless there exists a valid
permit
therefor granted and existing in aomplia
nce with the provisions of Article
2 of this Chapter The application for auah permit shall set in
forth
addition to the requirements specified in 3eatian 5
02 of this Chapter the
2
name and address of the bail bond broker employed by the applicant or in
whose employ he is to enter the character of the work or business done the
dates when and the name and address of each person for whdm he has worked
during the five 5j years preceding the date of application a recommendation
of the appliaant
eemployer and five 5j other reaidenta of the City of Oakland
not rels
ted to or to be associated with him in the basil bond
business who
shall certify that they have known him for the last three 3j years and that
he is honest trustworthy and of good reputatio n a recommendation of the
bail bond broker in whose employ he is to enter endorsing such applicant and
certifying to his employment by said bail bond broker The investigating
official referred tv in 3estian 5
03 of this Chapter tv whom the application
2
shall be referred shall be the Chief of Police

05 BAIL BOND LICENSE FEE Every person engaged in the

5
SEC
business ofbail bond broker shall pay a license fee of
a
00 per quarter
X100
payable in advazzse Every person engaged in the business of bail bond agent
shall pay a license fee vP X1
00 per year payable in advance No lioenae
shall be granted until a permit has been granted as in this Article provided

SEC 5 06 INFORMA
ON FILED BY BAII BOND BRO
P R Every person
engaged in the business of bail bond broker shall keep on file with the
Cite
Clerk the following informations

aj The name and address of all agents and employees employed by

him in said business

bj The name of the surety company together with the name and address
of the local representatives of such company with whom h has arranged to
furnish bonds for bail

oj e
h
1 name and address of all personal sureties on the bond herein
required of said broker

ery bail
r bond broker shall promptly Furnish the City Clerk with
information concerning any change which may take place in any of the matters
required under this section

SEC 07
5 SOLICITATION OF BAIL BOND BIISINESS It shall be
unlawful for any bail bond broker or bail bond tv solicit business
agent
in or about the City Hall or the lounge in or about or around the police
courts or the corridors thereof while court is in
session or in or about
the pity prison or other places where persons are confined under the
juris
diction of the City or to keep or station men in or about the entrances
or alevatvre of the city prison or police stations for the purpose of solicit

ing bail yr for any bail bond broker or agent to sot as a runner or Dapper
yr to solicit any business for attorneys or to make ta condition to the
d
furnishing of bail that the defendant or prisoner shall engage the services
of only particular attorney to represent auah defendant or prisoner or for
airy officer agent or employee of the City to act as a runner sapper or
solicit an
y bail business for bail borui brokers or bail bond agents

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 3EC 5
OS S
PEIS019ER UEST FOR B1IL
RRQ Aqy person in the custody
of a police officer of the City desiring bail shall make a written request for
such bail on a form to be supplied by the Police Department designating
therein the person he desires to furnish auoh bail

SEC 09
5 BAIL BOND BROffi2tS RECORDS Each bail bond broker must

keep at his office a well bound record in whioh he moat enter by typing or in
ink in legible writing in the English language at the time of each transaction

a The Harass and home addresses of all defendants for whom he has
rniahed or
fu deposited bail
b The date and hour of each such transaction
cj The offense or charge for whioh the arrest was made
d The name or number of the scurf before whom the case was heard
or set for hearing or trial
e The mount of the bail
f The character o f bai1 furnished

g The names and addresses of any person or persons agreeing to

vr4tlemnify auoh bail botxi broker against loss or liability on account of the
furnishing or depositing of such bail
h The general description of any property real or personal
deposited pledged with or assigned to auoh bail bond broker to emnify him
against loss or liability in respect to auah bail
i The disposition of said property upon the exoneration of the bail
The amount of the fees or commissions charged
k The name of the bail bond agent the employee or other persona
negotiating the bail or arranging details of same

SEC 10 REPORT Ta
5 CHIBF OF POLICE Each bail born broker shall
at 9 M
A each day furnish to the Chief of Police on a form to be furnished
by the Chief of Police a legible and oompleta Dopy of auoh record of all bail
furnished the previous day Said report shall be filed with the confidential
records of the Police Department

The books of each bail bond

broker together with the report filed
with the Police ahail be open to inspection to the Folios Department
Chief of
of the City of Oakland the City 1
tanager the City Attorney and the District
Attorney

SEC 511 REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF BRONgt

SAND S AGENT
PERMITS In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5
07 of this
2
Chapter upon which a permit may be revoked or suspended any bail bond broker
s
or agent
s permit granted hereunder may be revoked or suspended fors

a An
Y violation of any law pertaining to the bail bond business
b Making any substantial misrepresentation in connection with
said business
e Committing any fraud whatsoever in connection with said bail
bond business
V other act of the different
d An same or eharaoter than herein

specified which shall constitute fraud or dishonest dealing

SEC 12 COASTRUCTION
5 Nothing in this Article aha31 be con
strued as to interfere with any of the duties powers or funetiona of any
magistrate of arty court in accordance with the provisions of the
judge or

Penal Code of the State of California relative to bai 1 or with the constitu
tional rights of any d fendant in any cri
nal action or of any prisoner to be
i
released on ba il nor shall the validity of arty bail or undertaking filed
in any court be affected

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 ARTICLE 6

BATH HOUSES BARBEEt SF

K7PS AND COSMER
OLOGY

SEC 5
01
6 BATHS AND MASSAGES PERMITS It shall be unlawful
for any person to engage in or carry on or tq permit to be conducted or
parried on any business of giving Turkish Russian vapor sweat electric
salt magnetic or any ether kind or character of baths other than tub bathe
or any business of giving massage treatments or alcohol rube unless there
exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the
provisions of grticle 2 of this Chapter The application for such permit
shall set forth in addition to the requirements specified in Section 502
2
of this Chapter and such permit shall set forth the exact nature of the
baths and
or massages to be given and such application shall be accompanied
by the recommendation of two reputable persona in the City of pakland as to
the moral character of the applicant The in
eatigating official referred
to in Section 5
03 of this Chapter to arhom the application shall be re
2

ferred shall be the Health Office In addition to the grounds set forth
in Section 5
07 of this
2 Chapter any such permit may be revoked upon th
recommendation of the Chisf of Police establishing the fact that such person

holding such permit is not conducting ouch business in a moral way

SEC 502 BATAS AND MASSAGES

6 REGULATIONS It shall be unlawful
for any person either as cwner principal manager agent employee or servant
to give any baths or treatments referred to in Section 5
41 of thin Article
6
or any other kind or character of bathe other than tub
baths or massages to
any person except persons of the same sex as the person giving such treatments
provided however that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit
the giving of bathe and treatments by licensed and
practicing physicians or
trained or professional Harass to the sick

SEC 503 BATH HQITSES

6 ION REGULATIONS
SANITA2 It shall be
unlawful for any person engaged in the business or occupation for hire or
otherwise of providing and affording facilities to the public for bathing
fail to keep ar
to 1 maintain sash receptacle or receptacles in a clean and

sanitary condition or to keep any such receptacles which are not lined with
porcelain or other suitable metal atone the or Dement lining and provided
with proper sewer connections or for any auoh person or any manager or

employee of such
business to
permit more than one person to occupy or use
any auoh receptacle at the
same time or to permit any person to ecupy or
use any such receptacle until the same is
emptied of the water used by the
previous occupant and said receptacle thoroughly cleaned or for at
y auoh
person yr any manager or employee of such business to allow male and female
persona using such receptacles to dress or undress or to bathe in the same
room or
nt excepting however parents bathing children under the
compaxt
age of twelve years and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person to dress
or undress or bathe in the presence of one or more of the
opposite se
x

SEC 04 SWIM
6
5 ING POObS The provisions of Section 5
03 of
6
this Article other than those pertaining to the mingling of opposite asses
while dressing or u
ndreasing shall not apply to any person condtw Ling or

operating any tank or receptacle for swimming purposes which tank or

receptacle
covers an area of 250 square feet and attains a depth of at least three 3
feet and which is not used or maintained for washing or
cleaning purposes
It shall however be unlawful for any person to maintain or p such
operate ax
swimming tank unless it shall be completely emptied and cleaned twice a week
wit on each Tuesday and k
to riday night between the months of April and October
and at least once a week between the months of October 1st and April
1st and
on such nights the tanks shall be refilled with clean water

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 SEC 05 BARBER SHOPS
6
5 PERMITS For the purpose of this

section barber shop shall include any premises building or parts of

combination of the
building or place whereupon or wherein arty of or any
or tisnming
folloaring praotivea are varried on for hire or rewardz Shaving
or treatments
the beard or nutting the hair giving facial and soalp massages
or mechanical
with oils creams lotions or other preparatio ns either by hand
applying hair tonics
device singeing shampooing or dyeing the hair or

powder oils clays or 1

l tfiona to the scalp
applying cosmetics antiseptics
fans or
face or neck or removing superfluous hair oar warts from the soalp
neok

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of

conducting operating a barber shop unieas there exists a valid permit
or

therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article

2 of this Chapter set forth in
The application for auoh permit shall
02 of this Chapter
addition to the requirements specified in Seotion 5
2
other
and such permit shall set forth the proposed number of barber chairs or
stools contrivances upon which persons are to sit or lie fon the
ehaira or

purpose of reveiving any of the services rendered by such barber shop and
the number of the state certificate of registration if the applicant is a
registered barber investigating official referred to in Seotion 5
The 03
2
of this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the
Realth Officer In addition to the grounds specified in Section 5
07
2

of this Chapter any permit granted hereunder may be revoked or au

spended
for the violation of any of the provisions of the California Barber Law
or

act cosmetology or if such barber shop is not properly conduoted

y
ax concerning
in a clean and sanitary manner

SEC 06
56 OLOGY
I
COSMC It shall be unlawful for any person to

engage in the business of conducting or operatin g a ooametological e

tablish

ment which shall be cone trued to include any premises building or part
of building whereupon or wherein there is carried on any branch or any
a

combination of branches of cosmetology as defined by Avt 1755 of the General

haws of the State of California known ae the rAct Conoerning Cosmetology

approved May 31st 1927 unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted
of this Chapter
and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2

for such permit shall set forth in addition to

The application
02 of this Chapter and such permit
the requirements specified in Section 5
2
shall set forth the number of operators which shall include any person who
performs any of the practices of cosmetology as defined by the said sot con
cerning vosmetoloQyj and the number of the state licstase issued to the appli

cant by the State Board o f Cosmetology The investigating official referred

to in Section 5
03 of
2 this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred

shall be the Chief of Police

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 07 of this

2
5

Chapter any permit issued hereunder may be revoked or suspended for arty vio
lation of the aforesaid act concerning cosmetology or upon the recommendation
not
of the Chief Sanitary Inspector establishing the fact that such plane is
in clean and sanitary manner
properly conducted a

SBC 07
6
5 BARBLEt SHOPS AND COSBdETOLOGIClI TS
1
ESTABLISR
REGULATIONS It shall be unlawful for any person conducting managing or
for in Section 5
05 of this Chapter
6
operating any barber shop as provided
establishment as provided for in Section 5
06 of this
6
or any cosmetologioal
the maintenance operation thereof
person assisting in
or
Chapter or for any
therein to violate or permit to be violated any of the fo11oW
or employed
ing regulations

both men and women

aj Every s uah shop and establishment employing
toilets for each ass
shall maintain separate

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 b Only clean and unused towels shall be used upon any customer
and in no instance shall the same towel be used on more than one
person
c All operators and barbers while serving a customer moat wear
washable outer linen gov
na or coats which moat be changed clean and fresh
not leas than twice a week
dj dll clippers razors combs brushes shaving mugs shaving
brushes and all steel tools and appliances used by a barber or an operator
upon the hair face or neck of a customer must be sterilized or disinfected
before using upon another customer
ej 11 linens
A towels and clothe moat be kept in n
a inclosed recap
taele the clean and soiled articles must be kept separate
fj No barber or operator shall use
any alum or septic pencil upon
any customer
gj Bo hair cloth may b placed around the neck of p
ar customer
unless the same fa placed over a clean and fresh towel aani
tag cloth or other
material Such towel aani
tag cloth or other material so used shall not be
used on a second customer
hj Every such shop or establishment shall have running hot and cold
water
ij The use of
the operating room of the barber shop or co
metological
establishment ae living dining or sleeping quarters is prohibited
a

jj ill walla floors furniture receptacles jardinieres cuspidors

and all furnishings and fixtures of
barber hop or a cosmetological establishment
a

must be kept in a
anitaryclean and
condition at all times
s

kj i certificate of registration as a registered barber or as a register

ed apprentice issued by the Board of Barber
Examiners shall be framed and placed
in a co nspieuous place
for public inspection in the barber shop in which such
regis
tered barberregistered apprentice is employed and every operator holding a
or

license issued by the State Board of

Cosmetology shall display such license in a
conspicuous place for public inspection in the cosmetological establishment wherein
he is employed

ARTICLE

FiOSPITiLS II S iND PHYSICIANS ss 8

SEC 01
7
5 REPOi3T OF INJTTfiIES 0 C I
Y E6C
i 4YEES
I
Every phya ici an
surgeon other practitioner attending
or or
rendering or furnishing medical aurgi
cal or other attention or treatment to
any employee of the City of Oakland or shy
contractor or sub
contractor engaged in performing work for or under contract
with said City which employee has sustained an rpersonal injury by accident
arising out of and in the course of his employment by said City or in or
upon
said work shall within twenty
four hours after his first visit to and examina
tion of said injured employee or after having knowledge of such
injury furnish
a report in
writing to the Health Officer rotating the name age sea and address
of such injured employee the place where such
injured employee is located and
being attended or treated the character extent apparent cause and
probable
duration of his injury or injuries and in cases where the death of such em
ployee has occurred or resulted the fact time and cause of such death io
i
lation of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor

C 5 02 REPORTS OF II
7 TRAU1 INJURIES
ATIC It shall be the duty of
every person conducting
any hospital or drug store within the City of
Oakland
or the manager agent or other employee in charge of such drug store or
hospital
or
any ward or portion of such hospital to which any parson
having a traumatic
injury may Dome yr be brought to report the same immediately
both by telephone
and writing to the Police Department as soon as such injury shall be brought to
the attention of such person connected with such
hospital cr drug store and such
report shall state where such injured person is
if and extent
name of such person the
lovated
known the character or of such
Ishall also be the
duty injury
of every physician surgeon midwife or other
person who may b called at any
place in attendance upon any person having a traumatic injury to make a similar
report to the Police Department of the City of Oakland i violaticn of az proQi
sion of this section shall be a misdemeanor

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 SEC 03
7
5 MATERNITY HOS PITALS PERMITS It shall be unlawful
for any person within the City of Oakland to establish or maintain conduvt
or manage or
permit to be established maintained yr conducted any maternity
in asylum where females are or may be received cared for
hospital or lying
or treated during pregnancy or during or after delivery unless there exists
a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions
of article 2 of this Chapter vn for such permit shall set forth
The applicat
in addition to the requirements specified in 3eotion 5 02 of this Chapter
2
aril such permit shall set forth the number of females allowed to be received
or kept in such maternity hospital or
asylum The investigating official
referred to in Seotion 0
2
5 3 of this Chapter to whom the application shall
be referred shall be the Health Officer In addition to the grounds set
forth in Sevtion 5 07 of this Chapter az such permit may be revoked or
2
suspended upon the recormnendation of the Health Officer upon the grounds that
in asylum is being managed conduoted or main
such maternity hospital or lying
tainedwithout due regard to the health oomfort or morality of the inmates
thereof or without dus regard to proper sanitary or hygienic arrangements
or
oes and in these matters the said Health Officer shall be the sole
appliai
judge of suvh conditions

Providedhowever that the provisions of this sevtion and of those

contained in 3eotion 5
04 of this Chapter shall not apply to any person en
7
gaged in conducting and maintaining a genera hospital for the care and cure
of patients generally and the general practice of medioine and surgery therein

3EC 04
7
5 MATERNITY HOSPITALS
REGULATION Every person main
twining or conducting a in asylum as provided for
maternity hospital or Lying
03 of this Chapter shall keep a register wherein shall be entered
in Sevtion 5
7
the names and addresses of all females taken in and
or eared for at s ueh place
and all children born vn the premises and also the name and age of every child
who is given out adopted or taken away to or by any person together with the
ne and address of the person so adopting or taking away such child and within
na

eight hours after such child is given out or taken away shall cause a
forty
correct copy of the re gister relating to such child to be sent to the Health
Officer Such register shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection
of the Health Officer yr other representatives of the Health Department of the
City of Oakland which Health Offie er and representatives shall also be permitted
at such reasonable times to visit the female patients in such hospital or
asylum
A violwtion of any provision of this Sect
on shall be a misdemeanor

L off ar n
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DRIES ASTE RAG SUPPLY dENTS
STABLISHt
F
C P p
SEC 5fl1 DEFINITIONS
8 For the purposes of this lrtiole oertain
words and phrases are defined and vertain provisions shall be construed as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that they have
a different meaning

SEC 01 aj I
8
5 AIINDRY ESTABLISH6QENT DEFINED Laundry establish
ment shall include any place where any article of clothing na cry blankets
bed clothing or fabrics of any kind whatsoever are washed cr ironed
and
for hire
or where there is conducted the business of supplying to the public the use
of any said articles hetvf replav
the tli
n tme rtmilisai
s ei vrhen t
l
artii ae
v
upplied are soiled o r used including arty hand
laundry

ESC 01
8
5 b HAND LAUNDRY D8
FINED Hand laundry is any place
where laundering is done for hire entirely by hand and without the use of

machinery

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 SEC 501 o LAiJNDRY AND p
8 DEFINED Laundry is any article
orarticles of clothing napery blankets bed clotYiing or fabrics of any kind
whatsoever that have been or are ab out to be or are being wahhed and
or ir
Qae for hire Launder means a process whereby laundry is whahed and
ironed
or
for hire

SEC 01
8
5 d OUTSIDE DRIVER DEFINED Outside driver fa one who

operates or directs the operation of a vehicle for the purpose of soliciting

picking up and delivering laundry and who is not an employee of a laundry estab
lishment to which he takes such laundry for laundering

SEC 85
0 1 e WASTE R@GS DEFINED taste ragm are cloths rags or
waste used for wiping and cleaning the surfaces of machinery tools locomotives
engines motor vehicles carriages windows furniture and aurfaoe of articles
appliances erul engines in factories shops steamships boats and
generally used
for cleaning purposes in industrial employments and also used by mechanics and
workmen fo wiping from their persons soil incident to their
employment

SEC 02 LAUNDRY
8
5 ZNNT
ESTABL IT
PERI It shall be unlawful for
any person to
establish maintain conduct or engage in the business of a laundry
establishment in the City of Oakland unless there exists a valid
permit therefor
granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter
The investigating official referred to in Seotion 5
03 of this Chapter to whom
2
the application shall be referred shall be the Health Officer and he shall have
the power to grant or deny the permit applied for without referring the same to
the City Manager and he shall not be required to hold a
hearing thereon

Upon such applioation being referred to the Health Offi eer he shall
fj 5 days make or pause to be made an investigation of the faots
within ve
set forth in said application and an inspection of the premises to which such
application appertains and if such premises are found to ovmply with the require
ments of this Article and are found to be adequately equipped with such plumb
ing v entilating and other facilities as will render the proposed laundry estab
lishment sanitary and in all respects compatible with public health the Health
Officer shall issue a permit authorizing the operation and maintenance of such
laundry establishment If the application is denied notice of such denial
shall forthwith be given to the applicant

The Heal th Offioe r shall from time to time make

or cause to be
made
an inspection of all lauxxiry establishments in the
City of Oakland and at any
time that he shall find and determine that any such laundry establishment is

operated and maintai ned in violation of any provision of this Article or is a

menace to public health he shall suspend the permit granted to such
laundry
establishment for such period not to exceed ten 10 days as may in his dis
cretion be sufficient time to correct the condition complained of Notice
of such eluspeneions and of the improvements required shall forthwith be given
in writing to the person in charge of such laundry establishment and if at
the end of such specified time the said condition is not so correoted the
Health Officer shall revoke the said permit

SEC 503 tY
8 UNI BLISHi
L ST REGULATIONS BUILDING LOCATION
E
NTS
AND USES It shall be unlawful for any person to establish maintain operate
or engage in the business of a laundry establishment in the
City of Oakland
q part of that portion of any premises which is used for the purpose
within ar
of ting
cond any other public business profession trade ie terprise or meeting
place or for the purpose of
public or private lodging or for any residential
purposes or upon any premises any portion of which is frequented by persona
likely to spread infectious contagious or loathsome diseases or is occupied
or coed or frequented directly or indirectly for any immoral or unlawful
purposes and provided further if any portion of the premises upon which such
laundry establishment is established maintained or op crated is used for purposes
of cond Ming
or maintaining any other public business profession trade enter

prise or meeting place or for purpvaea of public or private lodging or for

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any residential purposes the portion of the premises so used shall be entirely
partitioned off from the portion used for purposes of such laundry establishment
by a substantial partition extending from the floor to the ceiling without
windows doors or other openings therein and constructed with a hard finish
surface

Further provided that an

application for a permit to establish a
laundry establishment herein provided may be denied upon the grounds that
as

the proposed location thereof is so nearly adjacent to any existing public school

church or hospital as to constitute in the sound discretion of the Health

Officer a menace to public health or a noise nuisance incompatible with the
lfare of such institution
w

SEC 85
0 4 LAUIODRY ESTABLISHA
NT REGULATIONS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
AND FACILITIES It shall be unlawful for any person to establish maintain
operate or engage in the business of a laundry establishment in any building
or any part of a
building within the City of Oakland unless the same complies
at all times with the following regulationaz

a The division walls throughout the premises so used shall extend

from the floor to the ceiling and shall be c onstruoted with a hard finish surface
b The flooring of the wash room or ation plant or a room
aterili
in which washing is done shall be constructed of Dement or other water
proof
material and equipped with adequate drainage faoilities
o All rooms so used shall be e
dequately ventilated the ventilating
faoilities to be at all times subject to the supervision and
approval of the
Health Officer

d Igo process of laundering including the operation of the machinery

shall be carried on or located below the sidewalk level
e No article of clothing washe in such laundry establishment shall
be dried in any room other than onebeing used exclusively for drying purposes
which room must be entirely out off 4om any other room excepting
by a door or
doors opening thereinto which door or doors shall at all times be kept closed
except when being used by persons entering or leaving such drying room provided
however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply where mechanical
drying equipment adequately ventilated and approved by the Health Officer is
used

SEC 05
x
5 LAUNDRY RSTABLISHM
TTREGULATIONS PRACTICES It shall
be unlawful for any persc5n maintaining operating conducting or engaging in
the business of a laundry establishment to commingle or permit the commingling
of any soiled unlaundered articles with any laundered or
partially laundered
articles or for
any person to dampen clothing or pei
mit clothing to be dampened
for the purpose of enabling the same to be ironed eaoept
by hand or machinery

3EC 06
8
5 LAUlQDRY ESTABLTSH
tT DRIVBRS SOLICITATION It shall
be unlawful for any
person to operate or permit or direct the operation of
any vehicle within the limits of the City of Oakland for the purpose of solicit
ing picking up or delivering laundry for hire unless such lau
niry is laundered
at a laundry establishment maintained and conducted in
conformity with the re
quirements of this Article and ordinances of the City of Oakland appertaining
thereto and the name and address of such laundry establishment must appear in
letters at least two 2 inches in height on both sides ofauch vehicle If
any outside driver operates or directs the operation of any vehicle within
the limits of the City of Oakland for any of the purposes specified in this

section such outside driver shall in addition to the other requirements of this
section cause to be displayed on said vehicle his own name and street
address
and sash outside driver shall have filed with the Clerk of the
City of Oakland
a certificate stating the name address and telephone number if any of the
laundry establishment to which is taken the laundry solicited and the by him
name and address of said outside driver The owner or manager of such laundry
establishment shall also endorse such outside drivers oertifieate so filed

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 SEC 547 LAUNDRY ESTABLISHI
8 dENT F1LSE AU VEItTISING It shall be
unlawful for any person to in arty manner repx
sent ar p laundry establishment
laundry when any part of the laundering done by such establishment
to be ahand
is done by machinery and it shall be unlawful for any establishment or for any
outside driver to use or cause to be used in any manner any nee that is so
similar to the name of a then existing laundry eatablis
nent in the Cfty of
Oakland as to deceive any person as to the identity of the sauna

SEC 08
8
5 LAUNDPY ESTABLISHMENT SIGNS It shall be unlawful for
any person to maintain
office building or other premises with any sign
any
displayed thereon which represents cosh place to be a laundry establishment if
all the processes of laundering are not done on such premises unless there
is displayed iequal magnitude with the aforesaid sign the name or names
and each of them of the laundry establishments where any or all of the launder
ing processes are in feat done

09
x
5 YIIENT
LATINI ABLISHI APPLICATION
S
F EXCEPTIONS The

provisions of this Artiele relative to eatablishmenta shall

laundry not apply
to any person doing the laundry work of not to exceed five 5 families

SLC 10
8
5 WASTE ERGS TO BE STERILIZED It shall be unlawful for
any person to supply or furnish his employees or any employee under his direc

tion with waste rags or to sell or offer for sale for waste rag purposes Y
ar
soiled or need sloths raga wearing apparel bedding or
atepart thereof un
less the same shall have been sterilised by a process of boiling for forty 40
i minutes insol ution containing at least five per
a sent 5 of caustic soda and

unless before such boiling the sleeves legs and bodices of garments have been
ripped and made into flat pisses

SEC 11
8
5 WASTE RAG SUPPLY ESTABI
ENTS
ISHP ITS
PERtt It shall be
unlawful for any person to establish maintain conduct or engage in the business
of laundering and sterilizing or in the business of selling or offering for

sale or delivering or supplying waste rags or

olothing material intended for
V use as waste rags for use within the
City of Oakland unless there exists a
valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions
hereinbefore in Section 5
02 a
8 t forth governing permits to operate laundry
establishments

SEC 12
8
5 WASTE RAGS MARgING PACKAGES Every package or parcel
of waste rags before being sold or offered for sale within the City of Oakland

H must b e marked Sterilized Waste Rags or

plainly Sterilised Wiping Rags with
the
number and date of the permit granted as in Section 1
8
5 1 of this article pro
c
vided for conducting the establishment in which suoh waste raga were laundered
and sterilized together with the words Health Department Oakland California
rq 6

SEC 513 WASTE R

8 GS LAUNISRIES It shall be unlawful for any

person to wash cleanse launder or sterilize soiled rags or soiled sloth material
pe
for waste rags in any laundry establishment where clothing or articles for personal
t
wear or for household use are laundered

5 d
c
ARTICLE 9

PAWN BROKERS HAND DEALERS AND AUCTIOI

SECOND RS

SEC 01
9
5 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this 9rticle certain
words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be aofistrued as

herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that a different

meaning is intended

5
0
9 1 aj PA4WN BROKER DEFINED Pawn Broker shall incltuie every
SEC
corporation
firm or other than banks trust companies or bond brokers
person
who n otherwise be regulated by law and authorized to deal in commercial
y papers
shares of stock bonds and other sertifi
catea of value who keeps s loan or paten

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office agea in or parries on the business of receiving jewelry precious
ea
or

atones valuables firearms plvthing or personal property or any other artiple

or artiples in pledge for loans yr as seouxity or in pawn for the lpepayment of
moneys and eaacta an interest for such loans

STC 01
9
5 bj RY DEALER DEI
A1QD JEYPEI
ff
SECOND D
INE Hand
Seoond

Jewelry Dealer shall include every person who engages in or oondupts the business
of buying selling or eaphanging old gold old silver platinum or articles of

platinum siloerware hand

seoond jewelry or other precious metals or stones

SEC 5
01
9 o RAND DEALER DI
SECOND FINED Head
Second Dealer shall
inolude every person who agea in
en or poaduots the business of buying selling
or exchanging whether as a separate business or in oanaeetion with other bu
in

essea aepoad
hand or adding and oalpulating maphines
lt typewriters
rebu3
hand
second bicycles bicycle acoeeaariea motorcyolea mvtorpycle aeoeeaories
scales clothing tools harnesses surgical dental or drawing instruments fire
arms pianos or other muaipal instruments furniture hoesehpld furnishings books
d army goods merchandise or ar other seoond
used and reclaim hand article or
articles or things eapepting however hand
second jewelry dealers and second
hand automobile dealers as herein defined and junk polleptors and junk dealers
as in Seotioas 3
1
5 8 acrd 3
1
5 9 of this Chapter defined nor shall it pertain
to automobile wrepking establishments as herein defined and provided further
that rw thing in this Artiple shall be understood to inolude ae seoond
hand deal
er8 persons who engage in the business of selling no other hand goods
second
or articles than those used and reclaimed rebuilt or remanufaptured articles
or goods which are purchased
by such dealer direct from bona fide wholesale deal
ers jobbers or manufapturers or from distributing agents of the United States
Array or Navy

SEC 5OI d EXCHANGE DEADER DEFINED Exphange Dealer shall in

9
elude every person whoengages in or cordacts the business of aepepting aepond
hand articles in full or partial payment for any other article or articles parried
as stock in trade by such person and shall include the apceptance of say article
in full or partial payment y rebuilt
for ar or remanufaotured article o similar
or different nature

01 el SI
3EC 5
9 RAND AUTOMOBILE DF
COND ALER DEFINED Sand
Seoond
Automobile Dealer shall include avert person who engages in or conducts the busin
ess ofbvying selling exphanging storing or otherwise dealing in used or
hand
seoond automobiles tires radiator a magsetos speedometers or other second
hand automobile accessories Q
y t e g3 G

3EC 01
9
5 f t3TONbJBILB WRECKING ES
A 9BLISHIVIENI DEFINED Automobile
9Preoking Ratablishment shall include say eatabliahrnent building or other place
where the business is parried on of wrecking old or used automobiles or other
motor vehicles sad adding or employing the accessories ar
iparts thereof in

equipping repairing or rebuilding motor vehicles or storing selling or other

wise disposing of such accessories or
parts
g
Gl
SEC 01
9
5 g IONEER bEFINED
AUC2 Auctioneer shall include every

person who shall at public outcry offer for sale as principal or agent to the
highest bidder on the spot ny testicle f me
o iae or p operty

SEC 5 02 PACY
9 N BROKERS HAND JE9YEI
SECOND RY DEALERS RANI
SECOND
DEALERS EXCHANGE DEALERS PERMITS It shall be unlawful for person to
an9

engage in Derry on conduct

or or or to permit to be parried on engaged in or
in the City of Oakland
conducted wi the business of say paws broker second
hand jewelry dealer aeaond
hand dealer exchange dealer whether as a separate
or

business or in oonneetion with any other

business or to advertise the same by
means of signs or notices on buildings or windows or by distribution of printed cir

oulars or by public display or otherwise in arty

manner whatsoever unless there eaista

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a permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions
valid
of Article 2 of this Chapt
r The application for such permit shall set forth
and such permit shall set forth the exact nature of the business to be carried
on and in addition to the requirements specified in Section 5
02 of this
2
Chapter such application shall set forth the fact that the applicant has been
a resident of the
City of Oakland than one year previous to the time
for more

of application and such application shall be accompanied by the signatures of

three 3 resident freeholders certifying to the good moral characfier and reputa
tion of the person or persona making such application The investigating official
03 of this Chapter
referred to in Section 5
2 to wham the application shall be
referred shall be the Chief of Police In addition to thegrounds set forth in
Section 07
2
5 of this Chapter y
ar permit may be revoked upoa the recommendation
of the Chief of Police establishing the fact that such permittee has or has had
in his possession any stolen article without there having been made a record of
such article as hereinafter in this lrticle provided

SEC 03
9
5 RECORD OF TRANSACTIONS Every person managing maintain

ing conducting the business of any pawn broker second

or hand jewelry dealer
hand dealer or exchange dealer in the City of Oakland
ascond shall keep or
cause to be kept at the stare
placeor business a
of well bound book contain

ing a record in which shall be legibly entered in the English language in ink
at the time of every egohange pledge pawn or other transfer of
purchase sale
posaeasion article
of any or loan thereon a description of sash article re
ceived er delivered in such transaction sufficient to identify the same includ
ing all particular or prominent marks cf identification that may be Pound on such
property the signature address age sex and description of the person receiving
delivering or transferring the property or who is otherwise dealt with the amount
of money paid or received in sash transaction and the rate of interest if any
anal the date and hour of the transaction

3EC 5
Od
9 INSPECTIONS AND REPORTS The record of transactions re

quired by the
provisions contained within Section 5
03 of this
9 Chapter shall
be open inspection by the Police Department at any time duxing business hours
for
and the Police Department ahail also have the right to thoroughly 3nspeot the

premises store or place where the business so recorded is being conducted at any
time in search of any lost or stolen property or to compare the entries kept in
eh records with the article or articles located on such premises or place of
au
business 111 persons in charge of such business and the agents and employees

thereof shall render to the Police Department such assistance as may be reasonably

necessary to enable it in such inspection or aearoh The person in charge of such

business shall each day excepting holidays furnish or cause to be furnished to
the Chief of Police at 9 otolock 1 a legible and complete Dopy of such record
and the Chief of Police shall upon receipt of such reports cause the same to
be permanently filed in the offices of the Police Department axed the saase shall
be open for inapeotion only to the Police Department of the City of Oakland or
upon an order of the court duly made for that purpose The said reports shall
be made upon forma to be furnished by the Chief of Police

05 RCH
SEC 5
9 iN13ISE HELD FOR THIRTY DAYS 111 articles purchased
received and exchanged pledged pawned or otherwise taken into posaeasion by
any person maintaining or operating the bu
sineas of pawnbroker second
hand jewelry
hand dealer or exchange dealer or the agent thereof shall be held
dealer second
for a period of thirty 30 days before being placed on exhibition sold exchanged
removed from the place of business where i t was received or delivered to any

person or otherwise disposed of provided however that any such article may be
delivered or returned at any time to the true owner thereof or his authorised agent

SEC 06
9
5 PvRCHAaSES FR0 EINORS AND SERPINTS It shall be unlawful

for any person maintaining or cond acting the business of any pawn broker second
hand jewelry dealer second
hand dealer or egehange dealer or any went or em

ployee thereof to purchase or take ax

y goods or article or thing offered to him

by any manor knowingly purchase or take any such goods articles or things
or

from any servant or apprentice without first ascertaining that such erticla or
the the delivering the or that such servant
thing is property of person same
or apprentice has the authority from the owner to deliver or sell such property

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 SEC 07
9
5 HOURS It shall be unlawful for any person conducting
or maintaining the business of pawn broker hand
second jewelry dealer aecond
hand dealer or phange dealer
e or any agent or
employee thereof to keep or
cause to be
kept place such of business open
on the lat day of January the
30th day of
day the 4th day of July the 25th day of December of eaoh year
or on any Sunday or on any other day eseept between the hours of 7 oclock g I
aryl 7 o
clock PM provided however that on Saturdays and days preceding
the aforesaid holidays such business may be kept open until 11 oclock P Pd

Axjy engaged in conducting any business other than those hereinebove

person

mentioned on premises as such business or in conjunction with the same

the wane

shall notwithstanding close the place of such other business at the same time and
in the same manner ae herein provided No person shall be engaged in any occupa
eh place of business or businesses or remain Ch erein during any such
tion at au
time eaoh place of business or businesses fa by this seption required to be
closed

SEC 08
9
5 Ny U
Ii
SECOND BILE DEAI
f PE 114D E
IOBII tIi
O
T
gII G
CKIA
TS PERMITS
BLISHPlI
EST It shall be unlawful for any person tv engage in
or carry on or conduct or to permit to be parried on engaged in or conducted
within the City of Oakland the business of a hand automobile
second dealer
or the business of an automobile
wrecking establishment aunless there eaiata
valid permit therefor granted
existing in and
compliance with the provisions
of Article 2 of this Chapter The application for suoh permit shall set forth
and such permit shall set forth the exact nature of the business to be parried

on and in the case of an

application for a permit to operate or maintain an
automobile wrecking establishment such application shall set forth in addition
to the requirements apevified in Section 502 of this Chap ter e dimensions
2
and pharacter of construction of the building in which suoh busineae is proposed
to be parried on and the permit granted pursuant thereto shall be at all times

lationa in this Code provided pertaining to permits granted

subject to all regu
for the maimenance and operation of a public mirage ting officials
The inveatiga
03 of this Chapter to whom the application shall be
referred to in Section 5
2

referred shall be the Chief of Police and in addition thereto in 1 ie case of

application for to maintain an automobile wrecking eatab
any a permit operate or

liahment such application must also be approved by the Fire Marshal and public
notice of the on such application shall be given as provided in Section

ing
heara
SEC 09
9
5 SECCIND UTOMOBILE DEALERS A1VD UTO1t
HAND DBILE RECKIAG
0
E03
q
9
JENTS
STABLISH
1
RECORDS
carrying on the business of a second
iND REPORTS Every person operatiog maintaining or
hand automobile dealer or an automobile

wreaking establishment shall keep or pause to be kept a record of the purchase

sale exchange or storage of any automobile or part thereof or apoesaory thereto
which record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Chief of Police
or any officer detailed by him and suph person shall as often as the Chief of

Police shall direct make out and deliver to him on a blank form to be furnished

by the Chief of Police a full and complete report of the purchase sale ea
change storage or other tranaaption of such property The said report shall
fn the neene of the person from mom purchased the make state license
oonta
number motor number body number style and seating capacity of all second
hand automobiles purchased sold exchanged or placed in storage the make size
and hand automobile
number of second tares and the make and number of second
hand radiators speedometers and magnetos eo purchased sold exchanged or
otherwise dealt with together with suoh other information concerning said
property as may b e necessary to prove ownership or identity of such second
harbd
automobiles or automobile parts and accessories violation of ar
p provision

of this aeotion shall be a misdemeanor and it shall further b unlawful for

s nch business to dispose of
any such person engaged in any any second hand auto
mobile or part thereof or accessory thereto until a report has been made con
or exchange of acid property to the Chief of Police
cerning the purchase sale
and he or an officer detailed by him shall have had an opportunity of inspecting
the same

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 SEC 10 BILE
9
5 UTO O
A RSHIP CERTIFICATE Every person engaged
in the business of an automobile
wrecking establishment shall immediatel upon
the receipt of the ownership certificate of any motor vehicle a tamp r
and
write avross the face of said certificate the word Wrecked and said certifi
cate together with the license plates on such motor ehicle shall be turned over
to the Police Department of the City of Oakland The Chief of Police of said
department shall designate a member thereof to collect said ownership eertifi
eatea a number plat ea from said automobile wrecking eatabliahmenta and turn
the same over to the Division of Mstor vehicles of the State of California Any
viola tion of the provisia na of this section shall be a misdemeanor

SEC 11
9
5 RAND BUILDING MATERIAL
STORAGE OF SECOND fIT
PERi
It shall be unlawful for Y
aperson to establish or maintain or to cause to
be established or maintained any yard place or premises for the storage of
hand building material unless there eaiata a valid permit therefor
second
granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this
Chapter The investigating official referred to in eotion 5
03 of this
2
Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the Fire liarshal

SEC 12
9
5 STORAGE OF RAND
SECOND BUILIING MATERIAL REGULATION
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or maintai3 or cause to
be established or main to ined any yard plane or
premises for the storage of
hand building
second material unless the same be
continuously equipped with
one l inch hose reel and one 2 gallon fire extinguisher both in working con

dition for each 8000 square feet of area of such premises or fraction thereof
All building materi al in such yards and premises shall be placed in piles with
aisles a t least 3 feet in width between such piles

SEC 13
9
5 J DEALERS A19D COLLECTORS PERMITS It shall be un

lawful for any person to engage in or carry on or conduct or to permit to be

carried en engaged in or conducted within the City of Oakland the business
of junk collector or a junk dealer as defined in Sections 5
a 38 and 5
1 39
1
of this Chapter unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing
in complianc
e with the provisions of Article 2 of this Chap ter The inveatfgating
official referred to in Section 5
03 of this Chapter to whom the application
2
shall be referred shall be the Chief of Police

SEG 5
14
9 JtSNR DEALERS AND COLLECTORS RECORDS Every person
engaged in carrying ting the bq
on or condo aineae of junk dealer or
junk
collector referred to in Section 5
13 of this Chapter
9 shall
keep or cause
to be kept at such place of bainess a s ubstantialwell
bound book and shall
promptly enter therein an exact dead
ription of all personal property pureheaed
by him the date of purchase the name and residence or place of business of the
person from whom purchased and all particular and prominent marks of identifica
tion that may be found on such property said book shall be kept neat and clean
and all notes made therein shall be neatly and legibly written in ink and in
the English language and such book shall at all times during the ordinary hours
of business be open to the inspection of the Chief of Police or arty officer

designated by him c

SEC 15 JUNK DEALERS AND COLLECTORS

9
5 REGULATIONS It shall be
unlawful for any junk dealer to dispose
of any junk until at least five 5
days have elapsed since he took possession of same or to receive any personal

property by way of pledge or pawn or to engage in the business of a pawn

a

broker on the premises wherein the business of junk dealer is loaa

same
ted or
for any junk collector or junk dealer to purchase collect or acquire any

property or to keep or cause to be kept such place of business open on any

Sunday or on the 1st day of January the 30th day of bIay the 4th day of July
or the 25th day of December or upon any day appointed by the President of

the United States or by the Governor of this State for a public fast thanks
giving or holiday or at any time except between the hours of 8230 oclock ApI
and clock P
6 o t

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 It shall be unlawful to store or keep any bones or refuse foodstuff
or particles thereof which may
or any junk intermingled with food materials

rodents serve as food far them or to permit such

attract rats mice or like or

materials to accumulate on the premises of any junk dealer or junk collector

r materials
or in any junk yard or junk shop whatsoever except such bones or oth
le or other solid or pervious
be stored in a covered bin of metal concrete ti
substance so constructed as to be entirely rai
proof

SEC 16
9
5 EER
IOI
lUC2 ITS
PERA It shall be unlawful for any person
maintain
on or
to engage in the callingauctioneer or to hold ooxzluct carry
of
for holding publiv auction sales or to advertise or
any auction room or place
an auctioneer or to conduct carry on or main
hold himself out tc the public as

there
tain any sale of goods by public auotion in the City of Oakland unless
and ezisting in compliance with t2 pro
ezfsts a valid permit therefor granted
The applicant for such permit must be a
visions of Article 2 of this Chapter
citizen of the tJaited States and of the State of California The investigating
official referred to in Section 503 of this Chapter to whom the application
2
be the Chief of Police Such permit may be granted to
shall be referred shall
a firm or corporation provided such firm or corporation shall designate a member
thereof to act as such auctioneer

SEC 5
17
9 EB
AUCTIOI BOND FORFLITUFtES No person shall engage
auctioneer in theCity of Oakland
unless to the
in addition
in the calling of an
the provisions of Section 1
9
5 6 of this Chapter he shall
permit required under
Clerk bond for the faithful performance of his duties
have filed with the City a

which bond shall be in th principal amount of X5000 00 payable to the City of

vo or more sureties each of whom must be worth
Oakland and shall be signed by i
said sum Said borxi shall be approved by the City NLanager and the City Attorney

For every viol an on of any of the provisions of this Article pertaining

to the calling of auctioneer or to auctions in addition to such penalty
as may

be otherwise provided for such violation such auctioneer shall forfeit to the

of Oakland the sum of X250 which amount shall be recoverable upon said
City 00
bond

SEC 5
1
9 8 AUCTIONS FALSE REPRESENTATIONS SUBSTITUTED MERC
TDISE
to or att amp t to sell by
FALSE BIDS It shall be unlawful for any person sell
goods wares or merchandise false
auction or to advertise for sale by auction any

ly representing pretending the same to be in whole or in part a bankrupt or

or

insolvent stock damaged goods or goods saved from a firs or to make any
or

false statement as to the previous history ownership quality or character of

such goods wares and merchandise or for any parson to offer for sale at auction
arty article and induce its purchase by any bidder and afterwards to substitute any
article in lieu of that offered to and purchased by the bidder except with the
sknowledge and consent
bidder

Tt shall be unlawful for an3 person to falsely act as bidder in the

oapaaity of ghat nonly known as a capper boaster or rahiller merely for
is ao
the purpose of increasing the amount of the bide at any auction sale or place for
false bid or pretend to buy
conducting public auctions or to offer or make any
any article sold or offered for

EJ
L
sal
a
e tany
I
D ationC
a
lio
pub
HIBITI
ELR t shall be unlawful for
SEC 19
9
5 AUCTIONS
any person to sell dispose of
or offer sale public auction in the City
for at

of Oakland or to cause or permit sold disposed of or offered for sale

to be

at public auction any platinum gold silver or plated ware precious stones

other jewelry whether the same shall be

precious stones watches or
or semi

their own property or whether they shall sell the same as agents or employees

of others

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 5
2
9 0 AUCTIONS
SEC JEWELRY ESTATES AND STOCK ON HAND The

provisions of Section 9
5
1 9 of this Chapter shall not apply to 3udiaial sales
or sales by egecutara or administrators nor to sale at public anotion of the
stook on hand of any person that shall for the period of one year nett preced
of Oakland as a
ing such sale have been continuously in business in the City
retail or wholesale merchant of such merchandise as is referred to in Section
Such sales at auction of the stock on hand of
19 of this Article
9
5 public
ex
such merchant shall be held on s uceesaive days Sundays and 1 egal holidays
cepted and shall not continue for more than thirty 34 days in all from the

cormnencement of said sale and shall be permitted only where such merchant is

bona fide disposing of his stock for the purpose of retiring from business

SEC 21
9
5
UCTfON JEWELRY PER1ti4IT It shall be unlawful for
this 2fl of
of Seotion 5
9
any person to conduct any sale under the provisions
Article unless such person shall not less than fifteen 15y nor more than
thirty 30 days previous to conducting such sale procure a perndt so to do
which permit shall be granted and existing in compliance with the provisions
of Article 2 of this Chapter permit shall set forth
The application for such
02 of thin Chapter
in addition to the requirements specified in Seotion 5
2
the purpose of the sale the expected duration of the sale a detailed i temi
a
or grade of each item of the goods wares
tion of the quality quantity kind
and merchandise to be sold the wholesale value thereof and the name of the
auctioneer who shall conduct the sale Such application must also be accompanied
by satisfactory evidence t2iat the jewelry proposed to be sold is a bona fide
s stock in trade and not secured purchased or brought
part of the applicant
into said place of business for or in anticipation of said sale The inve
ti

gating official referred to in Section 501 of this

2 to whom the appli

cation ahal
l be

be ol
referred hiefa
e ter
Chap oe

b
In no event shall jewe
any auction ale of ry as erein provided for

be conducted between the hours of 6 o

eiock Pid and 8 clock A
o 2 next ensuing
I

SEC 22
9
5 AUCTION CRIER Any auctioneer may employ a Drier at
any sale and the said auctioneer shall
be responsible t5tpon his bond for the
sots of said Drier

SEC 5
23
9 AUCTIONS
a record book in which he must enter al
each sale which book must be open at all
RECORDS REPORTS Each auctioneer must keep
salea the amountpaid and the date of
times to the inspection of the Police

Department of the City of Oakland and any other peraan interested therein Daily
reports must be filed with the Chief of Police of all sales held under the pxo

viaions of this Article pertaining to auctions which reports shall set forth

a description of the Article cold the persona to whom sold the amount received
the lot number or pledge number or stock number of the itesas so sold which
shall in eaoh case comply with such number contained in the inventory filed

previous to holding aueh sale contained within the application for a permit as
provided in Section 521 of this Chapter
9 A violation of any provision of this
section shall be deemed a misdemeanor

SEC 24
9
5 I
POLICEB TO REPORT NEVY BUSINESSES All patrolmen in
the Police City
of the of Oakland shall render a full and complete
Department
report Police of all new stores opening for business on Beata
to the Chief of
within their patrol giving data as to the license number date of opening
nature of the business owner
s name former plane of business And aueh other

information as may b required by the Chief of Police

SEC
5
2
9 5 AUCTIONS PENALTIES person or persons aggrieved
or damaged by any act o fan auctioneer in the City o f Oakland in violation of or
contrary to the provisions of this Article may be liable to an action against
such au
ationeer and his bondsmen upon his official bond therefor

SEC 26 AUCTIONS
9
5 POR CHARITIES The provisions of this Article

relative to auctioneers and auction sales shall not apply to ar

Y auction held
for charitable or volent
ben purposes or any c urch fair festival or bazaar
r
E i
v
y
rs
t
arzci
e

9
au ti 4
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 ARTICLE 10

PEDDLERS SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT QENDORS

BTC01
1
5 0 PEDDLERS POLICE CERTIFICATE It shall be unlawful
for any person to solicit or take orders from house to house or upon any
reithin the
public street grounds or squares or within any public buildinga
ire of mervhandfse or other thing of
City of aakland for sale any article
value or to peddle the same or solicit in such manner any monies funds
articles merchandise or other thing of value for any charitable religious
business ar other purpose without a police certificate provided however
that no such certificate shall be required of drummers traveling salesmen
or other persons engaged in soliciting or taking orders ezcluaively from the

trade or established retail dealers for the delivery of goods wares yr

merchandise by wholesale

SEC 10
5
02 APPLICATION FOR AND GRANTING OF POLICE CERTIFICATE
An application for a police certificate required by the provisions of Section
10 of this Chapter shall be made in writing to the Chief of Police shall
5
01
be presented in person and shall set forth the nature of the business of the

applicant the firm or corporation which the applicant represents the kind of
goods or property to be sold solicited or dealt in and such further informa
tion as the Chief of Police may require Such application shall be accompanied

by the written recommendation of not less than five 5j citisena of the City
of Oakland concerning the moral character honesty and integrity of the appli
cant The applicant upon filing his application shall be fingerprinted by
the Bureau of Identification

The Chief of Police if satisfied as to the moral character honesty

and integrity of the applicant shall issue to him a police certificate to engage
in the said business within the City of Oakland which certificate shall be
effective for a period of one year from date of issuance and any renewal thereof
shall be made upon application made as herein required in the instance of the

original application Such police certificate together with any license other
wise required of such person by the provisions of this Cvde shall be at all
times carried by the person therein certified when he is engaged in said business
The Chief of Police shall at all times maintain in his office a complete list
of all persons to whom such police certificates have been issued

SEC 10
5
03 NO PEDDLER SIGNS It shall be unlawful for any person
the business of peddling defined in Section 35 of this Chapter
1
5
carrying on as

orany person pretending to be a peddler or any solicitor as defined in Section

36 of Chia Chap ter or any person pretending to be a solicitor to ring the
1
5
bell or knock at the door of any residence or dwelling whereon a sign bearing the
words No Peddlers or import are painted or affixed so ae
words of similar
to be exposed tv public view or to peddle or pretend to peddle or to solicit
or pretend to solicit in any building wherein or whereon the wards No Peddlers
or words of similar import are painted or affixed so as to be exposed to public
view

SEC 10
5
04 PEDDLERS CERTIFICATE OF ACCURACY It Shall b unlawful
for any person to engage in or carry on the business of itinerant vendor s
defined in Section 5
3
1 of this Chapter or of peddling fruits vegetables

meat poultry fish game or other edible foods of any kind as peddling is
defined in Section 5
35 of this Chapter
1 or of junk collector or junk dealer
as defined in Sections 38 and 5
1
5 39 of this
1 Chapter in the City of Oaklami
without first obtaining a certificate of accuracy issued to such person and

signed by the Sealer of eights and I4ieasures of Alameda County certifying that
1
the weig aueasures scales or other apparatus or appliances used or to be
hta
used for weighing or measuring any commodity or article sold or to be sold by
such person in the City of Oakland and bought or sold by such person to be
accurate and no license shall be granted to any such person as provided in
Article 1 of this Chapter unless such person upon application for such license
exhibits to the Bceau of Permits and Licenses for inspection a certificate
of accuracy issued and dated not ire than one hundred 100 nays previous to
the date of such application for a license and upon issuing such license the

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Bureau of Permits and Licenses shall write or stamp upon the face of the certi

ficate of accuracy the license number and the date such license is issued

SEC 05
10 PEDDLING FOODSTUFFS FR0
5 1I VEHICLES It shall be unlawful
for farmers hucksters or vendors of fruits vegetables
fish or dairy products
to display for sale such goods wares and merchandise to the
passing public
in or from wagons vehicles
portable or stands
or sidewalks on
of the streets
the City of Oakland provided that in this section contained
however nothing
shall be construed as forbidding the peddling of such goods wares or merchan
dise from house to house in wagons or other vehicles as may
be permitted by
regulations el
sewhere set forth in this Chapter

SAC 10
5
06 PEDDLING PUBLICATIONS It shal be unlawful for say
person to sell or offer for sale any book periodical or other
publication
except newspapers om any hand
cart or other vehicle upon the streets or
sidewalks of the City of Oakland or to maintain any hand
Dart or other vehicle
for the sale or for sale of newspapers or to sell or offer for sale
offering
any newspapers any from
cart
hand or other vehicle
upon the streets or sidewalks
of said City without first
having obtained a p ermit therefor in compliance with
the provisions of Article 2 of this he investigating official referred
Z
Chapter
to in Section 5
03 of Chia Chapter to whom the
2 shall be application referred
shall be the Chief of Folice

SEC 07
10 MgDICINE PEDDLERS
5 It shall be unlawful for eay person
to engage in the business of dealing in or
peddling medicine by calling atten
tion to his wares or advertising the wane
by use of music entertainment special
fancy ur grotesque dres or other device upon sap public street or any open
unenclosed or vacant lot or parcel of land whether the actual sale of au
ch wares
is made upon said premises or elsewhere unless there exists a valid
permit there
for granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this
Chapter The application for auoh permit shall set forth in addition to the
requirements specified in Section 5
02 of this Chapter and such permit shall
2
set forth the character or nature of the amusement to be furnished and the
length of time proposed to conduct acid business The investigating official
referred to in Section 2
5
0 3 of this to whom the
Chapter application shall be
referred shall be the Chief of Folice

SEC 10
5
48 PEDDLERS It shall be unlawful for
CARTS STANDS
ax person having charge or control
y of a
cart wagon or any vehicle used for
the vending of goods wares
merchandise meats fruits or vegetables therefrom
commonly known as peddlerat carts or
wagons to occupy or permit to be occupied
as stand for such cart wagon or vehicle any portion of any street lane
a

alley or sidewalk in the City o f Oakland o r to cause or permit such cart o r

wagon
to stand within three hundred 300 feet of any entrance to any public park or
school house for the purpose of peddling such goods or merchandise therefrom

Nothing in this Section shall be so construed as to conflict with or

repeal provisio n of this Code or any Ordinance establishing and regulating
arty
a street market in the City of Oakland

SEC 10 G
5
09 DLIR IN CERTAIN DISTRICT
P It shall be unlawful for
any person to traffic
in vend or sell or attempt to to traffic in vend or offer
or sell any goods wares merchandise meats vegetables fruits berries
produce or any article of household family or domestic supplies within the
territory hereinafter in this section defined unless the same is done by such
person et a fixed place of business conducted in a
building or store lativfully occu
pied by him

The territoryabove referred to in this section is bounded

and particularly
described as follows All that portion of the City of Oakland bounded on the
south by a line drawn parallel to and 100 feet
southerly of the southern line of
First Street on the east by a line drawn parallel to and 100 feet
easterly of
the eastern line of Harrison Street on the north by a line drawn
parallel to end
I00 feet northerly of the northern line of 17th
Street and on the west by a line
drawn parallel to and 100 feet westerly of the western line of Jefferson
Street
and also

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 at the intersection of aline dram parallel to and 100
Beginning
feet southerly of the southern line of First Street with a parallel line drawn

to and 100 feet easterly of the eastern line of Vice Street thence northerly
feet southerly
along said last named line to a line drawn parallel to and 100
line
of the southern line of 11th Street thence easterly along said last named
center line of
to the penter line of Fallon Street thence northerly along the
thence
Fallon Street and its production to the western shore of Lake Merritt
to line drawn
northerly and westerly along the western shore of bake Merritt
a

to and 100 feet easterly of the eastern line of Ha rrison Boulevard

parallel
100
thence northerly along said last named line to a line drawn parallel to and
thenc
feet northerly of the northern line of 22nd Street and Grand Avenue
to a line drawn parallel
westerly along said last named line and its productions
thence souther
to and 100 feet westerly o i the western line of San Pablo Avenue
to and 100 feet westerly
ly along said last named line to a line drawn parallel
named line
last
of the western line of Grove Street thenoe southerly along said
pf First
to a line drawn parallel to and 100 feet southerly of the southern line
of beginning
Street thence easterly along said last named line to the point

10 PADDLING IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS

SRC 10
5 CONSTRUCTION Nothing
1
5
09 0 contained shad be construed as preventing or making unlaw
in Section
ful the prompt delivery in good faith of any of said personal property to or

at any such fixed place of business oondu in such building

so situated and oted
or store within said territory in any case where such personal property so
faith consigned goods or has actually
being delivered is actually and in good
and in good faith been theretofore purchased at a place outside of said terri

such lawful occupant of such fixed place of business actually doing

tory by
is in either such case then being delivered
business therein and said property
to him thereat provided however that the Chief of Police of the City of Oak
at time a permit to any person to sell such
land in his discretion may any grant
the fire limits of the City
personal property within such district and within
limited not to exceed five 5 days
of Oakland for a period only

ARTICLE 11 a 35
ia
PRIVATE PATROL SEfiVICE a
t
i V

SEC 01
11 flEFINITI0N5
5 For the purposes of this Article pertain

words and phrases are defined and pertain provisions shall be construed as
their context that different
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from a

meaning is intended

a patrol system is any business which purports to furnish

TMPrivate
terri
or does furnish any private poliperasn watchman or guard to patrol any
watch of another person in the City of Oakland
tory or to guard or property

watchman is any individual who patrols any terri

b nPrivate patrol
tory guards
or or property of another person within the City of Oakland
watches

and who is employed by a person holding a private patrol system permit or who
himself holds a permit to operate a private patrol system and a private patrol
s ermit as req
watchman red Article
b c

11 UI
SEC 02
5 lL TO OPERATE A R
P
tLAW 1IVATE PATROL SYS
EM 1
T ITHOUT A

2IT
PERI It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person either as princi
or otherwise to engage in the business of operating a private
pal or agent
exist
patrol system unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and
of Article 2 of this Chapter and as here
ing in compliance with the provisions
inafter in this Article set forth If the applicant for such permit is an in
If the applicant is an
dividual he shall sign the applipation personally
partnership
oo such application shall be signed person
association firm or

or intending to compose such association firm or

ally by each person composing
If the applicant is a corporation such applipation shall be
partnership
co
its Board of Direotors Such application shall b e
signed by each member of
sworn to by a22 persons psi fining the same
before some person authorized to ad

minister oaths

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 SEC 03
11 CO1dT
5 TS 0 PPLIC
1 TION FOR PRIVATE P1TROb SYSTEM
in Section 502 of this
2
PIT In addition to the requirements specified
Chapter application
the for a permit required under the pr oviaions of Section
shall set forth the following informations
11 of this Article
5
02

The business or occupation for the five 5 years last past of

a
the name and address of each em
each person signing the giving
application
termination of employment and the natuxe of
ployer the date of commencement anti
the services performed by each such person
b The territory of the City of Oakland in which it is desired to
operate the proposed private patrol system
o The hours during which it is proposed to patrol much territory or

render guard or watchman service

principal place of business of the applicant
d The address of the
branch
or the proposed principal place of buainesa and all existing or
proposed
offices
State whether or not the applicant holds a lieenae issued by the
e
Board of Prison Directors of the State of California as a private detective
If the applicant holds license give the date of the issuance thereof
a uch a

and the name surety or sureties

and address of his If the applicant has ever

applied for such a lieenae and had the seats denied give date of application
ever been
f State whether any person signing the application has
eommissio of or a charge involving moral
arrested on a charge of the n a felony
turpitude at an time c r arrested for any reason within the five 5 years

last past giving full details

g If the applicant is a corporation the application shall be accom
or minutes authorizing the appli
panied by a certified copy of the resolution
cation

The City Clerk shall maintain a permanent file to be known as Appli

cations and Permits for Private Patrol Syatema wherein he shall maintain separ

ately all records and documents of his office pertaining

to each private patrol
permit application and private patrol watchman permit

SEC 11
5
04 AURE 0 APPLICATION FOR PRIVATE PdTROL SYST
PROC i

T
PER1 t3pon application being filed for a Private Patrol System Permit ae in
this Article provided the investigating official referred to in Section 03
2
5
of this to whom the application shall be referred shall be the Chief
Chapter
of Police Upon receipt of acme the Chi of of Police shall forthwith make an
investigation as to the truthfulness of the facts therein set forth and the
ttion and character competency and integrity of each person signing the
repu
application and whether the management conduct and operation of such proposed
private patrol system will or will not comport with the public welfare and for

this purpose shall consider any facts or evidence bearing on the moral fitness

and reputation private patrol system and

of those who will be in charge of such

any other sold cute or foot tending enlightening the City Manager
to assist in

in this respect iTpon the completion of such investigation he shall file a

written report thereof in duplicate with the City Clerk who shall forthwith
deliver a e opy thereof to the City Manager

11 CITY BffARAGER TO HOLD HEARING OR APPLICATION

SEC 05
5 IIpon
of the written report of the Chief of Police as in Section 04
1
5 1 of
receipt
this Article provided the City Clerk shall forthwith set the application for

public hearing before the City tanager at a date not less than five 5 days
after its receipt The City Clerk shall give written notice to the applicant

anti to such other persona as may in writing request notice and shall post

a notice on the Bulletin Board of the City Council in the City Hall of the day
time and place of such hearing not less than teuo 2 days prior to such hearing

Suchhearing may be continued over from time to time ae the circumstances may

require

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 SEC 11
5
06 CITY EiA IIpon application
NAGER 0 GRANT OR DERTY PERIt
IIT
for private patrol system permit as in this Article provided for the City
a

manager shall grant or deny the same to the applicant within ten 10 days after
the completion of the hearing thereon in Section 0511 of this Article provided
5

for but such permit shall not b e issued until the applicant shall exhibit to
the City taxiager a valid and existing license issued to him by the Bureau of
Permiis and Licenses to carry on such business and shall have filed with the City
Clerk a surety bond as hereinafter in this Article provided or shall have filed
with said City Clerk a certified copy of a valid and existing license issued to
the applicant by the Board of Prison Directors of the State of California to

carry on the business of a private detective provided however the City IKana gar
shall deny an application if it appears

a That any person signing the application has ever been convicted
of a felony or a
misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or

b hat any person signing the application does not have a good
reputation for honesty o r char after or integrity or sobriety or is not a

or
responsible person
e reason within his sound discretion that a private patrol
For any

system is not needed within the territory set forth in the application or for

any other reason would not comport the public welfare

with

SEC 07
11 SURETY BOND
5 Any person who has made applioatioa for
a private patrol system permit under this Article and who does not hold a valid
permit issued by the Board of Prison Directors of the State of California to
carry on the business of a private detective shall before any permit is issued
to him deliver to and file with the City Clerk of the City of Oakland a surety

bond caseated by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of

00 conditioned for the faithful and honest
California in the sum of X2004
conduct of such business by such applicant which bond shall be upon a form pro
vided by said City Clerk and approved as to its form and execution by the City

Attorney Sudh bowl shall be taken in the name of the people of the City of
Oakland and every p eraon injured b y the wilful or malicious or negligent or
rongf sat of the principal his agents or employees may bring an action
e
ul
on said bond in his own name to recover damages suffered by reason of said wil
ful or malicious or negligent or wrongful act A surety bond filed ae herein

requuired may be cancelled only by service of a written notice upon the City Clerk
of the City of Oakland not leas than five 5 days prior to the effective date
of such cancellation and the holder of a private patrol system permit and his
private patrol watchmen thereby secured shall be ipso facto suspended upon the
cancellation of said bond until such time as another bond is filed as her ei n
required in the first instance
aC
Cc mooyJ
c
C
SEC 08
11
5 CONDITIONS OP IT
PEFI FOR PRIVATE PATROL SYSTEM Any
permit fora privat patrol system in this Article provided for shall be issued
upon the following terms and conditions

a
That such private patrol ayatem shall be operated and conducted eet
sub
supervision of the Chief of Police of the City of Oakland and
to the general
b That the holder of such permit will require each private patrol
watchman ea
loyed by him to
1 Report by telephone to such places and at sash intervals
as the Chief o f Police
may require

2 Report by telephone to the nearest police station immedi

ately upon receipt of any police signal system
3 Aid assist and co operate with the Oakland Police Depart
went in the detention or apprehension of persona sue

o f viola Ling the law

og
ct
p
ec
C 09
S 11
5 TL TO ACT AS T
W
L
N
t PRIVA PATROL ATCH
E tVIITHOIIT
IA
dIT
PEA1 It shall be unlawful for any person to act ae a private patrol e
tchman
or for any person holding private patrol ayatem permit to employ or permit
a

arty person to sot ae a private patrol watchman unless such person holds sn un
revoked permit to so act as provided in this Article The holder of a permit
for a private patrol system may file with the City Clerk an application in

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triplicate requesting that a permit to sat
private patrol watchman be
as a

issued to the person therein named The

application shall b e accompanied by
a filing fee of
00
X5 and shall be upon a form supplied by the City Clerk and
shall be sworn to before a person authorised to administer oaths and must state
the length of time that the affiant has known such person that he has investigat
ed such person and believes him to be a man of good charae ter honesty and reputa
tion competency and integrity and physically and mentally epgable of performing
the duties of private patrol watohman and that he will require such person if
a permit is granted to
him to conform to and abide by all requirements of this
Article If the applicant is the holder of a private patrol system permit he
need only file the written statement required by Section 10
11 o
5 this
ii off
5 wiN
fY c l
Article
8
s

SPERMIT
FOR ATCH
MAN
SEC 11
5
10 WRITTEN
Such
MPANY
S
t
CONTEl
STATE for
APPLICATION
1

private patrol wad chman permit

application a

in Seotion 09
11 provided for shall be aocompanied by a written statement
5
in triplicate upon a form supplied by the City Clerk sworn to by the person
to whom it is desired that a permit be iaswed before a person authorised to
administer oaths setting forth the following information

a The full name and home address of such person

b The business or
occupation for the five 5 years last past
of such person giving the name and address of each employer the date of commence
ment and termination of employee nt and the nature of the services performed
e
If he has ever been arrested on a charge of the eonnnission of a
felony charge involving moral turpitude at any time or arrested for any
o r

reason within five 5 years last past give full details

d T hat he is able to read srrite and speak the English language
e Such other information as the City Manager or Chief of Police
may require

SEC 11 PROCEDURE ON PPLICATION FOR S

5
11 ACCHMAN PERMIT
i Inunedi
ately receipt of an application for a private patrol watchman
upon the s permit
and the written statement in this Article provided for the City Clerk shall
forward one copy thereof to the Chief of Police one copy to the
City Manager
and file the original with the records of his office pertaining to the permit
issued to the applicant

The person named in application for

an aprivate patrol watehman
a
permit shall within three 3 days after the filing of such application with
the City Clerk present himself to the Bureau of Criminal Identifioation of the

Oakland Police Department to be photographed and fingerprinted The Inspector

in Charge of said Bureau shall forthwith cause said to be
person photographed
and fingerprinted and such photograph and fingerprints shall be filed in the
permanent records of said Bureau

SEC 12
11 CHIEF OF POLICE TO GRANT OR DENY N1TCH
5 S PER
lAN IT
bipt by the Chief of Police of a Dopy of such app7xzation fora watch
Upon ree
s permit as in Section 11
man 11 of this Article provided ar
5 d the written
serning same he shall forthwith investigate the truthfulness
statement cor
of the facts therein set forth the moral fitness and
reputation character
integrity and competency of the person who made such statement and if upon
the completion of such investigation he concludes that such statements are

true and that he is aqualified and fit person to sot as a private patrol
watchman he shall issue a permit to such person granting him the right to sot
as a private patrol watchman for the person making the application provided

however such application must be denied if it appears

a That such person has been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor

involving moral turpitude or of a violation of the Eighteenth 9
nendment to
the United States Constitution or any act of the State of California
carrying
out the objeote and purposes of said constitutional amendment or arty state or
federal narcotic law or

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 fib That he does not have
good reputation for honesty or character
a

or
integrity or is not
responsible person or does not have the necessary mental
a

or moral or physical qualifications to

perform the duties of a private patrol
watchman or

c That he cannot read or write or speak the English language

SEC 13
11 REtTOCATIOI OF PFiI9
5 TE PATROL S TCBfS PEft
A IT any
permit granted pursuant to this Article for a private patrol watchman may be
revoked by the Chief of Police for any reason for which the
granting of such
permit might be lawfully denied or for the violation of arty provision of
this Article or whenever it shall appear to the Chief of Police that said
person does not have the intelligence or
courage or judgment necessary for
the performance of the duties of private patrol watchman or has been under
a

the influence of intoxicating liquors while performing his duties or for an

p
other good cause Such revocation shall be made only after a
hearing granted
to the holder of such permit before the Chief of Police in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2
5
0 7 of this Chapter

SEC 111
5 S PERMIT TO EXPIRE
1Q
@IATCII4 TA permit to act as
a private patrol watchman unless previously revoked as in this Article
provided
shall expire and terminate upon the termination or revocation of the
permit
granted to the person who made application for his private patrol watchman
permit or upon his discharge removal or resignation as an employee of the
person who made application for his permit

SEC
11 tIlVLA
5
15 1Fi1L TO VE t IS I7IQIFCIR SIl
R TO POLICE ETC
A
2L It
shall be unlawful for any person to wear or cause or
permit to be worn any
uniform in the operation of a private patrol
system that is similar to the uni
form used by the Oakland Police or Fire
Departments and no uniform shall be
worn unless the same shall have been first approved
by the Chief of Police

SEC 11 UL
5
16 TNP
u
G
TI
UI TO DISPLAY BADGE SI
ILAR TO POLICE ETC
It shall be unlawful for any person to wear or
display or cause to be worn
or
displayed any badge or insignia similar in design to that used the Oak by
land Police or Fire Departments and no badge or insignia shall be
worn dis
played or used ir any manner unless the same has been first approved by the
Chief of Police

SEC 17
11 UNLA9dF
5 TL TO 1 TpFAC
T
R
U E PSIYATE PATROL WATCH1
S BADGE
fAN
It shall be unlawful for any person to make or manufacture or sell
any badge
of a like or similar design to that used by the Oakland
Police or Department
Oakland Fire Department or to make or manufacture or sell any badge
to be used
by a private patrol system or private patrol watchman except upon the written
order oP the Chief o f Police

SEC 11 UNL1
5
18 tJL TO USE RA
W 1K ETC NITFIOUT CONSENT OF CHIEF
OF POLICE It shall be unlawful for any person to use wear or exhibit any
rank or insignia of rank orcause or permit to be used worn or exhibited
any
rank or insignia of rank by any person operating or
employed by a person operat
ing a private patrol system except such as may be approved in writing by the
Chief of Police

SEC 11 CHIEF OF POLICE TO

5
19 FILE COpfPL
S The Chief of Police
AI
is hereby authorized empowered and directed to file or cause to be filed with
the Bo and of Prison Directors of the State of California a complaint
against any
person holding a permit to Derry on the business of private detective issued by
such Board whenever he believes good cause eziats therefor

SEC 2011 itTST A

5 PY LICENSE TAX Nothing in this Article contained
shall be construed to permit any person to operate a private patrol system unless
such person shall have first paid axU license that may be required by Article 1
of this Chapter or by other Ordinance of the City of Oakland and nothing herein
11 be construed ss a waiver of any such license
ah

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 ARTICLE 12

SERVICE STATIONS AND GARAGES

SEC 12
5
01 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Article pertain

words and phrases axe defined and certain previsions shall be construed as

herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that they have

a different meaning

SEC 12
5
02 PIIBLIC GARA IlEFINED Public garage is a building
or premises where motor vehicles are rented out to or hired by the public
other
or where a charge is made for any work done on or in repairing motor vehicles
for the public or where more than foux automobiles or more than eight motor
cycles are kept for arty Purpose whatsoever provided h vwever aueh term shall
not inclufie factories or plants for the manufacture or assembling of new motor

vehicles aea or automobile sales rooms storing motor

or commercial warehou

vehicles in which no gasolihe distillate or other foal is maintained or placed

and shall not b e o onstrued to include commercial garages automobile aerviee
service stations or automobile parking stations as said
stations automobile super
terms are hereinafter in this section defined

SEC 03
1
5 2 CTAL GARAGE DEFINED
COI A Commercial garage is a
or other premises in which more than four automo
building or portion thereof
biles or more than eight motorcyelea are kept or stored and are so kept or

stored incidental to and in furtherance of a private commercial enterprise but

are ot
n so in any manner servisAd for e public excepting
kept stored or

however that said term shall include hotel garages maintained ezcluaively for
the patrons and tenants of such hotel and in which no repair work or other
service than storage is allowed

SEC 12
5
04 NT H
APAR Apartment house
SE GARAGE DEFINED

garage is any building or room attached

to maintained or conducted in connec
tion with any apartment house as defined by the State FIousing Act which
of automobiles
building or room is used built or designed for the housing
to the tenants o f such apartment house
belonging

12 AL7TOi
SEC 05
5 ESERVICE STATION DEFINED
OBII Automobile

service station is a building or portion thereof or other premises used for

the purpose of furnishing gasoline and
Qr lubricating oils in the open air
to motor vehicles

SEC 12
5
06 SERVICE STATION DEFINED
BILE SUPER
AIITOMt Automobile
service
super station is a building group of buildings used
or for the purpose

rnishing gasoline
of f
u or
and lubricating oils in the open air to motor

battery tire and similar

vehicles and in or from which greasing washing
services are rendered to the public but in which no motor vehicles are stored
or kept and no mayor repairs are made

SEC 507
1 2 AUTOMOBILE PARKING STATION DEFINED Automobile parking

station is any iot parcel of land or premises where motor vehicles are stored

kept or parked for the public in the open air and a charge is made therefor
and no other service is offered the pub lie provided however that said term
shall not be construed to include any building or structure in which motor

vehicles are wtored kept or Parked

5EC 08
12
5 TOR VEHICLE ESTABLISHMENT DEFINID A motor vehicle

establishment is any Public garage commercial garage automobile service

service station automobile parking station as

station automobile super or

herein defined
Ga
SEC 12
5
09 DYE WORKS CLOTHES CLEANING ESTABLISI
IENT DEFINED

Dye works cleaning establishment is any building

clothes or premises
where more than one quart of kaoline is kept or stored for use for cleaning
or article of weariz apparel or abria of
dyeing or renovating any clothing
any kind

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 SEC 12
5
10 IIT REQtTIRED
PER It shall be unlav
ful for arty person

to establish conduct maintain

use or or cause or permit to be established
conrivated maintained or used any building lot parcel of land or premises
as a motor vehicle establishment dye works or clothes cleaning establishment
or to erect or construct or to continua to erect or construct or to alter
additions to building or part or to extend or
repair or make p
ar thereof
be used for the of motor
enlarge any premises to as or occupied purpose a

vehicle establishment or a dye works or clothes cleaning establishment without

first obtaining a written permit therefor from the City aneger which permit

shall be granted and existing in compliance with d1e proviaiorss of Article 2

of this Chapter In addition to the requirements specified in Section 502
2
of thisChapter the application for such permit shall state the exact size
of the site or place to be used the dimensions height and character of any
or buildings proposed to be so used and the materials used in the
building
oonstruation of same

If the permit applied for includes the right to erect or construct

or to continue to erect or aonatruat or to alter repair or make additions

to any building part thereof or to extents or enlarge any premises the

or

said application be accompanied by a complete set of plans and elevations

shall
of such proposed improvement Such permit shall not however be in lieu of

any building permit required by the provisions of this Code but no permit issued

by the Building Inspector for any such building shall be valid until the permit
herein provided for has been secured The investigating official referred to
in Section 503 of this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred
2
shall be the Fire hharahal Such application must however also have the

approval of the Building Inspector before a permit shall be granted

SEC 12 USE OF AI
5
11 TT FIOUSE
ART GARAGES Apartment house ragEs
shall be used exclusively housingfor
of automobiles belonging to the tenants of

the apartment house in connection with which said garage is conducted It shall
be unlawful for any person apartment house garage or any portion
to use any

thereof for oonatruction alteration or repair of automobiles or for the

the
storage for commercial purposes of automobile parts or aeceasoriea provided
that minor repairs of automobiles lawfully housed in any such garage may be
made therein No gasoline except that carried in the gasoline tanks of auto
mobiles shall be kept in such garage and no gasoline shall be put into or
taken out of any automobile while the same is in such garage

SEC 12 SALE OF GASOLINE

5
12 IDENTIFICATION OF MANUFACTTTREft It
is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to eels gasoline as defined
05 of this Code from any tank barrel drum or other movable
in Section 2
1
or stationary container unless there is aeaurely fastened in a manner plainly
visible to any person purchasing such gasoline a metal disk twelve 12

inches in diameter bearing in letters mt leas than one 1 inch in height

the name of the firm manufacturing such gasoline provided however that in
case such gasoline is sold from a pump attached to any such container such disk

shall be securely fastened in like manner to said pump

It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person selling gasoline

to fill any tank of any motor propelled vehicle while the engine of said motor

propelled vehicle is in operation

12 SAFE OF LUBRICANTS
SEC 13
5 IDENTIFICATION OF PROCEDURE It
shall be unlawful for any person to sell offer for sale or deliver oar to
aquae r permit to be sold offered for sale or delivered in the City of Oakland

any oil representedlubricating oil for the cylinders of internal combustion

as

engines unless there shall be firmly attached or painted at or near the point of
outlet from which said oil represented as lubricating oil for the cylinders of
internal combustion engines is drawn or poured out for sale or delivery a sign
or label consisting of the word or words in letters not 1 ess than three 3
inches in height compriadng the brand or trade name of said lubricating oil
that when said sign or label is attached to the faucet or valve
provided or a

tank true or on the letters

tank ag shall be not less than 4
3 inch in height

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 and
provided that if the above required sign or label is on a container having
capacity of fifteen 15 gallons or leas the letters shall be not leas than
a

inch in height and provided that if any of said lubricating oil shall have
no brand or trade name the above required sign or label shall consist of the
words in letters t less than three 3 inches high with the exceptions
above provided nLubricating oil no brand

SEC 12 SALE OF LUffi

5
14 IC ATION
ItIISREPRESEI It shall be
unlawful for any person to display any sign label or other designating mark which
describes any petroleum oil or petroleum product not actually sold or offered
for sale or delivery at the location at which the sign or other designating
mark is displayed or to display any label upon an
q container which label
names or describes a petroleum product not actually contained therein but
offered for sale or sold as such
C
Ott 2 c
Y
3 e5 l AS l

ARTICLE 13

TRADES AftD MAl

iJFACTURIES

SEC 01
13 BAK
5 tIES STANDARD LOAVES OF BREAD It shall be un
lawful for any person to make or procure for the purpose of sale or sell or
offer or expose for sale within the City of Oakland any bread the loaves
of which are not standard in weight as herein
provided The standard small
loaf shall weigh unwrapped twelve hours avoir after
baking sixteen ounces

dupfos The standard large loaf shall weigh unwrapped

twelve hours after
baking twenty
four ounces avoirdupois Twin loaves or multiple loaves may
be baked sold offered or exposed for sale provided each unit thereof con
forms to the standard weights as herein fixed

A commercial tolerance is hereby fixed on the standard small loaf of

one ounce in excess and a commercial tolerance on the a tan
dard large loaf of
one and half
one ounces in excess There shall however be no tolerance below
the standard weights specified

SEC 13
5
02 BAKEdiIES RD SLEIGHT OF ROLLS
STAND INSPECTIONS
It shall be unlawful for any person to make
the purpose of sale or procure far
or sell or offer or expose for sale any rolls if an4y unit thereof shall
weigh
when unwrapped twelve hours after baking less than one ounce or more than
three canoes

All inapeetions of the weight of bread and rolls shall be made by

averaging the weight of not leas than twenty
five loaves of br ad of any one
unit Such average weight of bread loaf or rolls shall not be leas than the
minimum nor more than the maximum weight prescribed by the regulat ons set
v
o f 7L
v
ro
forth in this section a Section 01 Rse
13 of this Article
5
ffouRs
o
3
5
c
s yvD as of
ERy 96ods E6G
aA y o 6
7
SEC 03
13 PICKLE MANtJFACTU
5 E3ING It shall be unlawful for any
person to store within the limits of any one block in the City of Oakland more
than one thousand 1000 gallons of pieklea or vegetable produce in the course
of preparatimh therefor unless the same b e kept in water
tight casks tanks
bottles or Sara securely aloaed or for any person to engage in the
business
or assist in the business of manufacturing pieklea within the limits of the

City of Oakland provided that the

provisions of this section shall not apply
to storage or
the manufaature pickles within the limits of that portion of
of

the City of Oakland bounded on the south and west by the southern and western

boundary lines of the City of Oakland and on the north and east by a line run
ning along the northern line of the Southern Pacific mole from the western
boundary of the City of Oakland to an intersection with the northern line of
the lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Company thence along the northern
line of the lauds of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to its intersection
with the center line of Third street thence along the center line of Third
Street to the center line of Lewis Street thence along the center line of Lewis
Street extended southerly to the center line of First Street extended westerly
thence easterly along the center line of First Street
extending westerly and

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 to the oenter line of Oak Street thence
along the center 1 ins of First Street
Oak Street extended southerly to the southern
southerly along the center line of
boundary line of the City of Oakland

fAL ETC
13 RIDUCING OF ANII SUBSTANCES It shall be
SEC 04
5
to maintain or operate or permit to be maintained or
unlawful for any person
of tallow or other
operated any ests
blishment for the rendering or reducing
animal or vegetable s ubatance to carry on or conduct the business of rerxler
or

reducing the same unless the rendering reducing heating or steaming

ing or

of any animal or vegetable substance

generating noisome or unwholesome odors

or gaseous vapors be conducted tight kettles tanks or boilers and

in steam
or destroy the
in such manner as shall entirely condense decompose deodorise
in event unless the same was established
ddors vapors or gaseous products or any

prior to and has been continuously maintained and conducted since July 1916
within that certain tract of land bounded and
or unless the same b e located
described as follows

at where the southeastern boundary line of lands

Beginning a point
conveyed by deed dated November 7th 1868 and recorded in Liber 36 of Deeds
the southwestern line of the
at page 355 Alameda County Records intersects
100 foot right of way of the Central Pacific Railroad situated in Brooklyn
said line
Township now a part of said City of Oakland and running thence along
railroad of South 420 23 East 2
4 6 chains to the center of
of said right way

a ditch thence along the center of said ditch South 640 15 West 5
6 0 chains
thence
more or less to the oenter of a slough leading to the Bay of San Leandro
in a southwesterly direction following the oenter of said slough to the inter

aection of the oenter line of said slough with the Survey of the shore line of
the of San Leandro at midway between Stations 201 and 202 of the Survey
Bay
of said shore line in Section 17 Township 2 South Range 3 West as shown

upon Sale 1tap No 10 issued by the Board of Tide Land Commissioners under an

Act of the Legislature approved April t 1870 along said shore line
la thence

in a northwesterly direction to its intersection with the said southeastern

said deed recorded in Liber 36 of
boundary line of the land conveyed by so

Deeds at page X55 of Alameda County Records as aforesaid and thence along

said boundary line North 470 East 50 chains

14 North o
84 25 chains
East 11
North 660 East 16
46 chains No rth 5840 East 8
75 chains and North 6l East
30 links to the point of beginning

SEC 05
13 1
5 ATTRESS DEFINED he term mattress as used in
3

this Article shall be construed to mean and include any quilted pad eoraforter
mattress mattress pad bunk quilt or cushion stuffed or filled with wool hair
be used couch other bed for
or other soft material to on a or sleeping or

reclining purposes

SEC 13 4fATTRESSES
5
06 CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH DEPARTTI
ENT It shall

be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate or engage in the business

of making or remaking and the sale of mattresses within any building room
in the City
dwelling basement or cellar or any other premises wi
apartment
of Oakland without having first obtained a certificate issued by the Health
Department after duly inspecting such premises and signed by the Health Officer
of the City of Oakland that the premises are in a sanitary condition and that
all arrangements for carrying on the business without injury to public heeelth
have been complied with in accordance with the provisions of this Code and other
Ordinances of the City of Oakland and that all provisions of law pertaining
to the conduct of such establishments have been complied with Said certificate
when issued shall be kept displayed in a jt
proraine place on the said premises and

shall b e valid for a period of ane year from the date of issue at the end of

which time a new certificate moat be procured as herein provided

Such certificate may at any time be revoked for cause upon recommenda
tion of the Health Officer and in accordance with the provisions set forth in

Section 5
07 of this
2 Chapter

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 SEC 07
13 lUtATTRESSES
5 RIALS USED
I
A
l It shall be unlawful for
be used in the making
any person to employ or use or permit to remaking or
renovating of any mattress or to sell offer to sell deliver or eona
ign or
have in his possession with the intent to sell deliver or eonaign any mattress
in which there has been used in making remaking or renovating the same any
material of any kind that has been used in or has formed a part of any mattress
used in or about any public or private hospital or institution for the treatment
of persons suffering from disease or for or about any person having any infec
tious or contagious disease or any material known as shoddy and made in whole
or in part from old or out clothing
worn earpet or other fabric or material
from which shoddy is constructed or any material whatsoever of which
prior
use has been made unless all of the aid material has been thoroughly sterilized
t
ax disinfected by a proeesa approved by the Health Department of the City of
Oak land

SEC 13 MATTRESSES
5
08 STERILIZATION TAG It shall be unlawful
for any person to cause or permit to be renovated or remade bought sold or
offered for sale or to have in his possession with intent to sell any renovated
or remade or used or s hand mattress unless the
eeond same has en sterilized

and has thereto attached or upon a muslin or linen tag not smaller than three
inches square permanently attached to the covering thereof statement in
a the

English language Betting forth in type not smaller than twenty point the
following facts This is a renovated used mattress and has been sterilized
with material used on

by
mon year s name
rm
Health Departmentts Certificate No

SEC 13
5
09 MATTRESSES USED pL4T
3IAI STERILIZATION It shall
be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale or deliver or consign
or to permit to be sold or offered for sale or delivered consigned or to
or

have in hi spossesaion with intent to sell deliver or y material

consign ax
which has been previously used as or formed a part of any mattress unless
the same has been sterilized in a manner satisfactory to the He alth Department

SEC 13 ATTHESSES
5
10 STATEAFEIGR OF 1
ATERIALS It shall be
unlawful for any person to directly or indirectly at wholesale or retail or
by public auction or otherwise sell offer for sale deliver or sonaign or
auction or cause or permit the same to be done or have in his possession with
intent to
sell deliver or consign any mattress that shall not have plainly
and indelibly stamped printed thereon or upon a muslin or linen tag not
or

smaller than three inches aguare permanently attached to the covering thereof
a statement in the English language setting forth the kind or kinds of materials
used in filling the said
mattress and whether the same are in whole or in part
new or old or hand
gecond
or shoddy and the name and address of the manufacturer
or
and the vendor thereof together with the tag required by the provisions of
13 of this Article which statement of materials shall be in sub
Section 08
5

stantially the following form

2ATERIALS USED IN FILLING

I

Vendor

Address

This Article is made in compliance with the Oakland b4txnicipal Code

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 SEC 11
13
5 TTRESSES dATERIlILS DEFILED In making the statement
13 of this Chapter relative to the use of materials
required by Seotion 10
5
in mattresses or in otherwise representing or defining materials used in any
mattress offered for sale in the City of Oakland it shall be unlawful to use

the word felt as applied to cotton unless it shall be designated whether said
felt is felted ootton or felted linters or to use the word floes or

words of like import if there has been used in filling said mattress any materials
which are not termed as Kapok or to use the word hair unless said mattress
is entirely manufactured of animals hair or to use any misleading terms or

designation or any term or designation likely to mislead

Any mattress made from more than one new material shall have stamped
upon the tag attached thereto the pe rcentage of eaoh material so used Any
mattress made from any material oP which prior use has been made shall have

stamped or printed upon the tag attached thereto in type not smaller than
twenty point the words seoond
hand material Any mattress made from material
known as shoddy shall have stamped or printed upon the tag atttaohed thereto
in type not smaller than
taeenty point the words shoddy material

3EC 12
13
5 MATTRESSES DEFACING TAGS Any person who shall remove
deface alter or in any manner attempt the same or shall oause to be removed
or

defaced or altered any mark or statement placed upon any mattress under the
provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor

SEC 13 MATTRESSES
5
13 IO2vTS
1
REGULA The Health Department of the

City of Oakland shall from time to time adopt such rules and regulations govern
ing the sanitation diainfeotion axed sterilization of mattresses
as it may deem

necessary and proper to give effect to the provisions of this Article relative to
the manufacture and sale of mattresses and said department shall have the power
to enforce such rules and regulations so made

SEC 14
13
5 MATTRESSES SEPARATE OFFENSES The unit for a separate
and distinct offense in violation of any of the provisions of Sections 05
13
5
and 13
13
5 both inclusive of this Chapter shall be eaoh and every mattress
made remade renovated sold offered for sale delivered oonsigned or po sess
ed with intent to cell deliver or consign contrary to the provisions of said
sections

ARTICLE 14

VEHICLES FOR HIRE

SEC 14
5
01 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Article oertain
words and phrases are defined and oertain provisions shall be construed as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that they have
a different meaning

SEC 14
5
01 a TAXICAB DEFINED A tabicab is an automobile or

auto propelled vehicle u

other motor aed in the transportation of passengers
for hire over the public streets of the City of Oakland and not over a defined
route or upon a fined schedule which vehicle is equipped with a taximeter by
which the charge is mechanically calculated

14 b AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE DEFINED An automobile for hire

SEC 01
5
is automobile or other auto
an motor iropelled vehicle used 3n the
transportation
of Passengers for hire over the public streets of the City of Oakland and not
over a defined route or upon a fixed schedule and is hired only upon a time

basis and is not equipped with a taximeter excepting however that drive
youraelf vehicles as herein defined hearses and ambulances are not included
within said Ahr ass

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 SEC 14
5
01 c j FVEHICLE DEFINED
XOLfRSPI
DRIVE A self
yo
drive
vehicle is an automobile or other motor
auto propelled vehicle offered to the
public for hire for the transportation of passengers over the public streets of
the City of Oaklarxl and without a driver
being supplied therewith

SEC 14
5
01 da TORBIIS DEFI
9
1 A motorbus is an automobile or
other auto
motor propelled vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for
hire over the public streets of the City of Oakland and over a defined route
and upon fixed
schedule excepting motorbus continuations of street railway
a

lines or
andpart of a street railway system and auto stages plying between
a

the City of Oakland and other cities The tera shall include sightseeing busses
and motorbusaes used by lines for
air of their
transportation patrons

SEC 01
1
5 4 ej PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE DEFINED A public motor
vehiole
ie arty taxicab automobile for hire drive
yourself vehicle or motorbus
as herein defined

14 fj O
SEC 01
5 NEf DEFINED
f An owner is any person firm or

corporatio n having proprietary Qontrol of or right to proprietary control of any

public motor vehicle as herein defined

SEC 14 gj DRIVER DEFIN

5
01 D A driver is any person in charge
of or operating any public motor vehicle as herein defined either ae agent
employee or otherwise unde the direction of the owner as herein
e
S 5 v i
1 oL ry defined
C rte Q
c
l
1
C
SEC 02
14 OWNER
5 SP IT TO OPER
F TE PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE It shall
be unlawful to operate any public motor vehicle in the of
City Oakland unless
the owner thereof shall apply for and
obtain a permit so to do which permit
shall be applied for granted and in
existence all in compliance with the
provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter The application for such owner
s permit
shall at forth in addition to the requirements specified in Section 5
02 of
2
this Chapter the number of vehicles proposed to be operated a
complete descrip
tion of the vehicles proposed to be and of the
operated proposed operations
together with the initial rates to be charged therefor In addition thereto
every application for an owner
s permit to
operate a motorbus shall set forth in
full the proposed routes and schedules and every applioation for an owners
permit t o operate a taxicab shall set forth in full the color scheme and
oharacteriatic insignia to be used to designate the vehicles of said owner
Suoh
applications for an owner
s permit shall also be accompanied
by a sworn financial
statement of the applicant Public notice shall be
given as provided in Section
l 04 of this Chapter and the contents of such notice in addition to those
2
5
specified in Seotion 504 shall include a statement of the kind and number of
2
the vehicles to be
operated and the nature of the proposed operations The
investigating official referred to in Seotion 503 of this Chapter to whom
2
the application shall be
referred shall be the Chief of Police
11 l
Gc
c
SEC 03
14
5 ACTION ON APPLI ATION
SPERMIT 2C7 OPERATE
OWNER FOR
PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE
In addition to the grounds set forth in Section
05
2
5
of this
Chapter upon which an application for an owner
s permit may be
denied
the City Bdanager shall der
rthe same if it shall appear to his satisfaction that
sash vehicle proposed to be operated is inadequate or unsafe that the applio ant
has been convicted of a felony or a viole
tion of the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Conertitution of the UnitedStates or of any narcotic law or of any penal
law involving moral turpitude that the applioant
s proposed color scheme or
other insignia will tend to confuse the identification of the
vehicles proposed
to be operated by such applicant with those of another owner
operating in the
City of Oakland that in case of an application to operate a motorbus the proposed
schedule is inadequate or the proposed route is incompatible with expedient
traffic regulations Further the City Manager may deny the granting of
any
permit to op crate any public motor vehicle in the City of Oakland for the reason
that there is insufficient public need for the
or demand
operation of the vehicle
or vehicles for which a permit has been
applied or for any reasonable cause
which within his sound discretion renders the proposed operations undesirable
to the of Oakland
City or inadequate

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 SEC 14 SUSPENS IOId AND REVOCATION OF R
5
04 fNE S PERMIT
O TO OPERATE
PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5 07
2
of this Chapter upon which the City IUlanager may revoke or s
owner
suspend any
permit to operate a public motor
vehicle e City Manager shall have the power
to suspend or revoke the same for a violation of any of the provisions of
ao

this Code or any Ordinance relating to traffic or use of

streets or for a
failure to pay any judgment for damages arising from the unlawful or
negligent
operation of the public motor vehicle for which the permit was issued

SEC 14 DRIVER
5
05 SPE JiIT TO OPEft1T
EA PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE It
shall be unlawful for any driver tooperate any public motor vehicle in the
City of Oakland unless there exists
a valid permit so to do as herein
provided
Application for such driver
spermit shall be made to the Chief of Police shall
be in writing and in duplicate and the original thereof shall be
duly aaknow
ledged before some person lawfully authorized to administer oaths Such original
shall be forthwith transmitted by the Chief of Police to the
City Clerk Said
application shall set forth the name age and address of the applicant his past
experience in operating automobiles the names and addressee of hie employers
during the preceding period of three 3 years whether or not a chauffeur
s
license issued to him by the State of California or any state or governmental
agency has ever been revoked the name and address of the owner by whom he ie
to be employed Ae driver which said owner shall endorse
a the said applioation
and such additional information as the Chief of Police may require

SEC 14
5
06 SP
DRIVER HRMTT 3RE D
PROCEI AIv UIRE14tENTS
REQ Upon
applioation for a a
driver tand before it shall
perm issued the driver be
whether the owner or otherwise must evidence a proficient knowledge of the
traffic laws of the City of Oakland and of the State of
California and demon
strate his ability to operate a public motor
vehicle all to the satisfaction
of the Chief of Police Upon satisfying the foregoing requirements said
driver shall be fingerprinted by and his record filed in the Folice
Department
Bureau of Identifiaatio n Said driver shall also file with his application two
2j recent photographs Size
by 12 12 inch inch one to be filed with his
applioation and one to be permanently attached to his driver
spermit when issued
which permit shall be posted in a place conspicuous from the pa
asengers compart
ment of the public motor vehicle while said driver is
operating same Every
spermit issued hereunder shall set forth the
driver
name of the owner for which
said driver is authorized to operate a public motor
vehicle and shall be valid
only so long as he continues in the employ of such owner Upon the termination
of such employment the acid driver shall forthwith surrender his driver
spermit
to the Chief of Police No such driver
s
permit shall be granted to envy person
under the age 21
one
twenty of Such driver permit may be denied upon
s years
substantial evidence of facts of either physioa
l or moral deficiencies of the

applicant which in the sound discretion of the Chief of would render Police
such applicant not competent person to
a operate a public motor vehicle

such driver
s permit issued hereunder
Nlo t
u tuUet
shall be transferable in any
event Lw 5 f o Q
4
d0 aoG 2
en

SEC 07
14 SUSPET
5 TSION AIdD REVOCATION OF DRIVER
SPERP 1T The
City Manager and the Chief of Police and either of them shall have the power to
revoke or suspend any driver
spermit issued hereunder in the event the holder
thereof shall be found guilty of a viol ation of any provisions of this Article
or shall be found guilty of reaklesa driving or for the viol ation
ofany other
provisions of this Code or other law which violation in the sound
discretion of
said official shall be deemed sufficient evidence of the fact that said driver
is not a competent person to operate a public motor vehicle Such revocation by
the Chief of Police together with the reason therefor shall be forthwith
reported
to the City Manager

In the event
of such revocation or suspension of a driver s
permit such
certificate may be issued in connection therewith shall
as
be by the holder
thereof
forthwith surrendered to the Chief of Polie
r

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 SEC 08
14 RECORD OF PIII
5 TS Every official of the City of
Oakland either sending or receiving from one not such an official
arty matter
pertaining to any owner
s or driverspermit issued under the
provisions of
Chia Article shall forthwith transmit to the
City Clerk a copy of such matter
if it is in writing unless the original thereof is by the terms of this Article
required to be filed with the City Clerk or otherwise a written memorandum
concerning same and all suoh documents shall be placed file by the
on
City Clerk
with the application
pertaining to such permit

SEC 14
5
09
NO 14
JTOR BUS IIN tT AREA
C In order that the safety
of the public be
adequately protected and to relieve the congested condition
may
of the street traffic now
existing no permit for the operation of any motorbus
as such shall hereafter be
granted under the provisions of this Article upon
any of the streets of the City of Oakland within the following described area
wit
to

Commencing at the point of intersection of the north line of Seventh

Street with the east line of Clay Street thence
running easterly along the
northerly line of Seventh Street to its intersection with the east line of Webster

Street thence northerly along the east line of Webster Street to its intersection
with the south ling of Twentieth Street thence westerly along the south line of
Twentieth Street to its intersection with the easterly line of San Pablo
Avenue
thence southeasterly along the easterly line of San Pablo Avenue to its intersection
with the east line of Clay Street produced thence southerly along said easterly
line of Clay Street to fis intersection with the north line of Seventh
Street
being the point of commencement
provided however that the City Idanager may
on arty public occasion or in case of any public
emergency or necessity and
upon oral or written applioation grant to holders of permits issued under the
provisions of this Article special permits for such public occasion or during
such public emergency or necessity to operate upon or use
any or all of the
streets within the area hereinabove described in connection with the route
or routes described in the appl cation upon which such permit was issued

C 14 MC
5SEC
10 OR PERIGEE LIABILITY POLICY ED
2 REQUI It shall be
unlawful for any owner to drive or
operate or cause or permit to be driven or
operated any public motor vehicle in the City of Oakland unless such owner shall
have placed on file with the City Clerk a written certificate or certificates of
a responsible and solvent
corporation authorized to issue such policy under the laws
of the State of California that it has issued to or for the
benefit of the owner
a motor vehicle
liability policy or policies which at the date of said certificate
or certificates are in full Evros and effect and designating therein that arty
and all public motor vehicles which
may be driven or operated under arty permit
granted to such owner under the provisions of this Article are or will be covered
under
cy ooli
l
said cie S
a 0
SEC 14
5
11 CONDITION OF OTOR PERIGEE LIABILITY POLICY
A AMOUNTS
The motor vehicle
liability policy required under the provisions of Section 10
14
5
of this Chapter shall insure the owner defined
as herein and y other person
ar
using responsible for the use of any such vehicle with the consent express
or
or implied of such owner against loss from the liability imposed upon such
owner by law for injury to or death of arty person or damage to
property grow
ing out of the maintenance operation or ownership of any public motor vehicle
to the amount or limit of X5000
00 exclusive of interest and costs Qn account
of injury to or death of any one person and subject to the same limit as
respects injury to or death of one person of X10
00 exclusive of interest
000
and cost on account of an
p one accident resulting in injury to or death of more
than one person and of X1
00 for damage to property of others resulting from
000
any one accident provided however that said motor vehicle
liability policies
yourself vehicles need m t insure against lose for injury to or
covering drive
death of occupants of such vehicle

Said motor vehicle liability policy shall inure to the benefit of

any and all persons other than occupants of yourself
drive vehicles suffering
loss or damage ei ther to person or
property as herein provided end
of the insurance carrier shall be in no manner
e liability
abrogated or abated by the death
of the tort feasor or
and the owner

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 SEC 14
5
12 TOR VEHICLE LIABILITY INSURANCE TCELLATIONS
C
CONTINUING LIABILITY Every certificate required under the provisions of Section
14 of this Chapter shall certify that the motor vehicle liability polivy
5
10
or policies therein cited shall not be cancelled except upon ten 10 days
prior written notice thereof to the City E
lanager Said motor vehicle liability
insurance shall be s continuing liability up to the full amount thereof notwith
tes thereof shall eo certify
standing any reeovery thereon and said eertifica
All motor vehicle liability policies and all certificates thereof shall be

subject to approval of the City Attarney and the City Mara g

the er in any and all
matters and if at any time in the judgment of the City Ranager said motor
vehicle liability policies are not sufficient for axe cause said 1V1ana ger may
require the owner of such public motor vehiole who filed the same to replace
said motor vehicle policies within ten 10 days with other policies in accordance
with the provisions of this Article If said owner fails to replace said motor

vehicle policies within said ten 10 day period with good and sufficient pvli
ciea as aforesaid then at the termination of said period the owners permit
issued hereunder shall be by such failure automatically suspended until such time
as said requir anent is complied with and the Chief of Police shall enforce such
y
suspensian i 3 1 ia

SEC 14 T
5
13 IXI Every taximeter used by any taxivab in
TER
the City of Oakland shall type and design approved by the Chief of Police
be of a

and shall be so located in the vehicle as to render the figures visible to the

passengers No other fare shall be charged than is recorded on 9uvh taximeter

Such taximeter shall be subjeot to inspection from time to time by the Chief of
Police or his authorized representative and the Chief of Police shall ca
mpel the
owner to discontinue the operation of any taxicab in which the taximeter is tbund
to a alculate inaccurately until such taximeter shall be replaced with one approved
by the Chief of Police or shall be adjusted to his satisfaction

SEC 14 TAXICAB COLOR DESIGN

5
14 Every owner operating a taxicab
in the City of Oakland shall adopt a characteristic color scheme and shall use
the same on all vehicles operated by it No change whatever in the color scheme
or distinguishing characteristics of arty taxicab shall be made without written
be unlawful for any person
permission from the Chief of Police and it shall
soliciting patronage for any public motor vehicle to represent by word or sign
or insignia or accoutrements that the public motor vehicle for rich he is

soliciting such patronage is a vehicle owned or operated by other than the actual
owner

SEC 15
14 TA
5 ICAB SIGNS Every taxicab operated in the City of
Oakland shall have painted upon the side of said cab the name of the owner or
the fictitious name under which the owner operates together with the number of
the permit granted to said owner in accordance with the provisions of this Article
be displayed on any taxicab shall be
The lettering of same and all signs to

subject at all times to the approval of the Chief of Police Every driver while
taxicab shall at all times maintain the flag attached to the taxi
operating any
meter in such a position as tocorrectly denote whether said vehicle is or is not
employed and shall at all times place the flag of such taximeter in a recording
non

position at the termination of each and ev ry service

14 TAXICAB STANDS
5
16 a Chief o Police may upon the written
SEC
T taxicab
of an or automobile for hire owner permit such owner to allow
application
at certain designated places wile awaiting
any vehicle operated by him to stand
employment Suah application shall state the number and kind of vehicles for

which the permit is sougkit and the proposed location of such stand appli
Such

cation must be accompanied by the written consent of the person primarily affected
reason of the fact that such vehicle shall stand in front of the premises
by
either owned or occupied by him or in which he is otherwise interested Not more

than three 3 such vehicles shall be permitted to at and upon either side of a

street within the limits of any one block No permit shall be issued for any
stand to be located within fifty 50 feet of another such stand on the same side
of any street nor shall more than two 2 stands be granted to any owner for

each licensed public motor vehicle loo owner shall permit any vehicle operated

by him and no driver shall cause any such vehicle to stand vile awaiting employ
ment at any place other than a stand for v
hich a permit has been granted as herein
provided

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 SEC 17
14 ERCI
5 T75IYE tTSE BY PASSENGERS na taxicab or auto
11h
mobile for hire is engaged the occupants shall have the exclusive right to
the full and free use of the passenger
compartment and it shall be unlawful
for the owner or driver off such vehicle to solicit or carry passengers contrary
to such right
OR bra 3
z
c
for the owner
SEC 18
3
5 4 I
c
u
lr
IMi3M AR
A
f
RECEIPT FOR FARE r I shall be unlawful
or driver of any taxicab or automobile for hire to demand
pharge or

for auph service any amount greater than the rates hereinafter
For set
forth
taxicab service First one
quarter mile or fraotion thereof twenty
five
25 Dents each one quarter mile or fraotion thereof thereafter tan 10
Dents for each passenger over one 1 twenty 20 Dents each two 2j minutes
of w siting time or fraotion thereof ten 10 Dente For automobile for hire
service or for tsaioab service when such service is upon an hourly basis
First one half hour or fraction thereof for service Two Dollars
00
02
half 1
for each supceeding one 2 hour for service at the rate of Two Dollars
00
02 half hour
per one

he driver of any public motor vehicle other than a motorbus shall

I
give a receiptupon the request of any passenger for the fare paid by such
passenger

SEC 19
14 3TORBUS S8R
5 PICE TO GENERAL P
TBLIC No driver of any
motorbus in the City of Oakland 11
aha at any time unless said vehicle is filled
to legal capacity refuse to carry any person offering himself to be parried and
tendering the fare for the same to an
p place in the route of a aid vehicle pro

vided however that such driver shall refuse transportation to any person who
ie in an intoxipated condition or who is conducting himself in a boisterous or
otherwise unruly manner

SEC 14 li
5
20 3TORBUS MAXIMUM FARE It shall be unlawful for e
person engaged in the business of operating a motorbus in the of Oaklarn3 City to
charge a greater fare than ten 10 cents within the corporate limits of the Gity
of Oakland

SEC 14 MOTORBUS
5
21 IOPd OF T
7I
COIIIPL RIP It shall be unlawful for
any driver oi any motorbus in the City of Oakland who has received a passenger
for any announced or agreed trip except for reasons beyond the control of the
owner or driver to fail to complete said trip with all reasonable
dispatch
and without any extra payment of fare or to fail refu
ae or neglect to operate
such motorbus between the termini and over the entire route
spepified in the
permit granted to so operate

SEC 22
14
5 MOTORBUS CHANGE IN ROUTE No owner or driver of any
a
motorbu operated in the City of Oakland shall at any time change or alter the
route of same except upon permission duly ited by the City anager after
gra
application is made therefor

SEC 14
5
23 MOTORBUS LIGHTS No motorbus operated in the City of
Oakland other than a motorbus used by an air
line for transportation of its
shall be operated in the night time unless the passengers
patrons compartment
thereof be kept continuously lighted

SEC 14
5
24 IVJ3TORBUS STOPS It shall be unlawful for
any motorbus
operated in the City of Oakland to receive or discharge
era within
pasaer
any intersection of streets and in all cases such reception and of
discharge
be at a
pasaengera shall point as near the curb as may be practicable and
shall be through and from the aide of such motorbus nearest the street curb
and on the hand
right side thereof The plapes of receiving and discharging
passengers by motorbuases shall be at all times subject to order of the Chief
of Police

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SEC 14 T
5
25 f ORBLTS 3A
ILGROSSING
R
3 It shall be unlawful for
y person
ax operating a motorbus to permit cause or allow such vehicle to cross
any railroad track at ay intersecting street in the City of Oakland over whioh
railroad trains are operated without bringing auoh vehicle to a full stop be
fore crossing said railroad traok it shall be unlawful for
y person operating
ar
auoh motorbus to permit cause or allow cosh vehicle to Dross any street railroad
track at any intersecting street unless auoh person shall have reduced the speed
of such vehicle to m t more than five 5 miles per hour while crossing stzeh
track provided that at any point where a flagman is at ationed auoh person
oper
ating such motorbus shall t be required to atop unless warned or directed by
such flagman so to do and provided further that at any point where a traffio
officer is atatiorbed such person operating such motorbus shell comply with the
direction of such traffio officer

SEC 14 EMERGENCY PEf

5
26 MITS The City Council may in oase of any
publio emergency or necessity waive or modify by resolution any all of the
or

requirements of this Article pertaining to publio motor vehicles and may authorize
and direct the City Clerk to issue a temporary permit for the operation of any
public motor vehicle over and upon the public streets of the City of Oakland
without exacting any application fee or license fee
therefor to arLg p eraon reoommend
ed by the Chief of Police such permit to be revocable at
any time with yr with
out notioe by the Chief of Police or by the City Council

SEC 14
5
27 DI VE
A
ITIONAL iICLES Any owner holding a permit to operate
one or mare publio motor vehicles ae provided in this Article who desires to add
to the number of such vehicles shall do
only upon obtaining fromthe City
so

nager permission therefor

Ms which shall be
granted only upon applioation made
in the same manner and under the same proceedings as are
required in this Artiole
in the instance of obtaining the original
permit Any owner holding a permit to
operate one or more public motor vehicles as provided in this Article who desires
to substitute a different vehicle for a vehicle operated under such
permit shall
do so only upon obtaining from the
City Manager permission therefor which shall
be granted only upon written applioation
setting forth the particulars of auoh
proposed substitution and upon otherwise complying with the requirealenta of this
Article The City Manager shall have the same authority in granting or
denying
such applioation for permission to add or substitute vehicles as is hereinbefore
in this Article vested in him in the matter of
original applications

SEC 28
14 X1
5 IM LOAD It shall be unlawful to drive or
operate
any publio motor vehicle in the City of Oakland while auoh vehi cle is
oarryirig
or sustaining the wef ght of tyro or more persons in excess of the
seating capacity
thereof according to the statement thereof contained in the applioation upon
which the permit to operate such vehicle was
granted or to permit any pasaen
er
to ride upon the running board of such vehicle or to sit
upon the fender or dash
or doors thereof provided however that firemen of the
City of Oakland may ride
free upon arty motorbus or arty
part thereof on their way to or from fires along
the regular route then being traversed For the purposes of this
section children
in arms shall not be considered as persons

3EC 29
14
5 PY FEATURES
SAFE TORBUS SIGNS The safety features and
equipment of all
publio motor vehicles operated under permit issued under the
provisions of this Article shall be at ali times subject to the jurisdiction and
orders of the Chief of Police All motorbusses operated pursuant to
permit
issued under the provisions of this Article shall Derry on the front
of auoh
vehicle a sign plainly readable by night or by
day at a distance of one hundred
100 feet giving the route to be traversed ar
d the termini of said route and
the price or fare charged Such sign shall be subject to the
approval of the
Chief of Polioe

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i y

14 DAILY OPERATION
5
30
SEC yery person hoYding aperniit under
the provisions of this Article relative to public motor vehicles shall regularly
and daily operate his or its licensed public motor vehicle business during eaoh
day of the license year to the extent reasonably necessary to meet the public
demand for such service Upon abandonment of such public motor vehicle service
for a
period of ten 10
consecutive days by an owner the City Manager may
conduct a hearing upon five 5 daya notice to the holder of said permit and
unless good and sufficient cause forsuch abandonment is evidenced revoke
the
said permit granted under the terms of this Article

SEC 14 I
5
31 S The
7mORBUS EXTENSIONS OF STREW RAILFO provisions
hereinbefore in this Article set forth in Sections 14 to 30
5
01 14
5 both

inclusive shall not apply to motorbuses operated upon the streets of the City
of Oakland as an extension to or in connection with a street railroad It
shall be unlawful for ar
Y person to operate or cause dr permit to be operated
arty such motorbus extension to a attest railroad unless exists a valid
there

permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Article
2 of this Chapter The application for such permit shall set forth in addition
to the requirements sp ecified in Section 5
02 of this Chapter the fact that
2
the applicant is the owner of a street railroad in the City of Oakland and that
he will operate such motorbus or busses in connection with such street railroad
and under the same management responsibility and control as such street railroad
the route or routes including the streets proposed to be traversed and the
termini thereof the minimum schedule to b e observed showing minimum times of

departure from iaaid termini the transfer points or points at which connection
is to be made with said street railroad the number of motorbusaes proposed to
be operated and the type horse power and seating capacity of each of said
motorbussea the age of the applicant if the same is a natural person

The investigating official referred to in Section 5

03
2 o f this

Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the Chi of of Police

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5

0
2 5 of this Chapter
the granting of eaoh may be denied if it is the opinion of the City
permit
nager that
fa the public convenience and necessity do not warrant the operation
of such motorbus or busses in accordance with said application

Such permit if granted shall remain in full force and effect during
the life of the anchise of the street railroad with which said bus line connects
or as to which it is an extension thereof or is operated in connection therewith
but such permit and the service rendered thereunder may be revoked and abandoned

upon the application of the holder thereof with the a onsent of the City Council

SEC 3214 INCREASE IN NCTMBER OF BUSSES OPERATED

5 Any provision
in thi Chapter set forth to the contrary notwithstanding the holder of any
a

permit provided for under Section 31

14 of this Chapter may from time totime
5
as in his dud gment may b e proper increase the number of busses operated upon
any route concerning v
hich a permit has been granted and may increase the
schedule or time of departure less than the minimum schedule set forth in the

application as 14 set
in said Section 31
5 out

SEC 33
14
5 TRAN ORTATION FO HIRE 0 TUNNEL ROAD It shall be
unlawful for any person to directly or indirectly conduct or engage in or in
any manner carry on the business or occupation of transporting persons for hire
to be transported for hire by means of any motor
or permit or cause persons

vehicle along upon and over those certain streets known as Tunnel Road includ

ing the tunnel on acid road Skyline Boulevard or Snake Road provided however
that portions of said Tunnel Road and Skyline Boulevard between the limits
those
of the City of Berkeley and Lookout Point may be used by sightseeing busses

having a seating capacity of not more than twenty

seven passengers and having
a wheel base mt to exceed two hundred and twenty inches which sightseeing
busses are operated under a permit granted and existing in accordance with the
provisions set forth in Article 2 of this Chapter

SEC 34 SOLICITING PATRONAGE

514 It shall be unlawful for any

person while soliciting or endeavoring to secure passengers or freight or

other custom for any public motor vehicle or any vehicle for hire whatsoever

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or any eapreas wagon or lodging house or boarding house to
for any hotel
be any railway depot
on orplatform pavement or walk provided for
passenger
the use of railroad pa
sengera or between such platform pavement or walk
and any railroad train standing in front of such depot or between any rail

way tracks over which passengers usually pass to or from such train

No person shall solicit patronage for any hotel vehicle or other

business upon y railroad train steamboat
at
or
public carrier or vehicle what
soever within the corporate limits of the City of Oakland witho ut first having

obtained permission so to do from the owner charterer lessee or managing agent

of such owner charterer or lessee of such railroad train steamboat or other
vehicle

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1
5
SEC 4 LTVERY STABLES It shall be unlawful for any person to
or permit to be established or main twined any build
maintain
eatablish or cause
stable unless there egista a valid permit
ing or premises as a public livery
therefor granted and egiating in accordance with the provisions of Article 2
of this Chapter Pablio notice shall be given as provided in Section 5 04
2
of this Chapter and the investigating official referred to in Section 5 03
2
of this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the Health
Officer The granting of such permit shall also be subject to the approval
of the Fire Marshal

ARTICLE 15

IISCELLANEL BUSINESSES
P
US

SEC 15
5
01 COAL AND V It shall be unlawful for any
OOD YARDS

person to establish construct

maintain or cause or permit to be constructed
or

established or maintained any yard for the storage sale or handling of coal
or wood unless there esiata a valid permit therefor granted and egiating in
compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of this Chapter The application
for such permit shall set forth in addition to Section 502 of this Chapter
2

the else of the place to be so used the dimensions and character of any build
ing or buildings proposed tv be ao used and the materials used in the construc
tion thereof Public notice shall be given as provided in Section 5
04
2

oP th is Chapter The investigating official referred to in Section 5

03
2
of Chia Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be the Fire
B1larahal

No permit shall be required as herein set forth to maintain any

such yard legally established on or before July lst 1928 and since said date

continuously maintained

SEC 15
5
02 LE OF SAND AND
S GRAVEL It shall be unlawful for a
person to engage in the business of selling ruck sand or gravel or any ad
to sell the
within the City of Oakland
mixture thereof or same in anyaiay other
than by avoirdupois net weight and weighed on a scale that has been duly inspected
and sealed by the Sealer of Weights and Measures or to fail to furnish to the
purchaser thereof with each lot of said materials a certificate showing the
date of the weighing gross weight tare weight and the net weight of acid materi
als the name and address of the seller and purchaser of said materials and
the number of the conveyance in which said ma
erialt are delivered if such con
E
of the
veyance be numbered and the name person in charge of such conveyance
In case such conveyance contains or transports more than one kind of the afore
mentioned materials said certificate shall show the net weight of each kind
of material being sold transported or carried

It shall be unlawful for any person to transport haul or carry rock

sand or gravel orany admixture thereof upon any public street or way within
the City of Oakland unless such load is accompanied by the certificate herein
above in this Se
tion required

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 15 FORTUNE TELLING
5
03SEC OTISTF
HYPI It shall be unlawful for

any person to exhibit or ponduot in the City of Oakland for fees salary or
other compensation the business art or practice of astrology palmistry
phrenology life telling partomacy clairvoyance clairaudienpe
reading fortune
gasinc hypnotism mediumship prophecy augury divination magio or
crystal
Q
necromancy

SEC 0415 BUCKET SHOPS

5 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of Seotions

15 06
5
05 15
5 and 1
5
07 5 hereinafter in this Article set forth certain words

and phrases are defined and pertain provisions shall be construed as in Chia
eeetion set out unless it shall be apparent from their context that a different

meaning is intended

a
ContraptTM shall mean any agreement trade contract or transaction
Seourities shall mean all evidences of debt or property and
b
options for the purchase or sale thereof shares in any corporation or associa
tion bonds coupons scrip rights ohoses in action and other evidences of
debtor property and options for the purchase or sale thereof
e Commodities shall mean anything movable that is bought and

sold
d Bucket Shop shall mean and include any room office store
building or other place where any contract prohibited by the provisionaset
forth in Sections 15 06
5
05 15 and 07
5 15 of this Article is made or offer
5

ed to be made
e Keeper shall mean any person owning keeping managing operating
or promoting a bucket shop or assisting to keep manage operate or promote a
bucket shop
or Bucket Shopping shall mean
f Bucketing 1 The making of
or offering to
make any contract respecting the purchase or sale of any securi
ties or commodities wherein both parties thereto intend that such contract shall

be or may be terminated closed o r settled according to or upon the basis of

the public market quotations of prises made on any beard of trade or exchange
upon which said securities or commodities are dealt in and without a bona fide

purchase or sale of the same or 2 the making of or offering to make arty

contract respecting the purchase or sale of any securities or commodities
wherein both parties thereto intend that such contract shall be or may be deemed
eloaed such public market quotations of prices
settled when for
terminated or

the securities or commodities named in such contract shall reach a certain

figure without apurchase or sale of the same or 3 the making of

bona fide
to contract respeating the purphase or sale of any sepuri
or offering make any

ties or connnodities wherein both parties thereto do not intend the aptual or
bona fide receipt or delivery of such securities or commodities but do intend
a settlement of awch pontract based upon the differences in such public market

uotationa
c of prices at which said securities or commodities are or are asserted
to be bought and sold

SEC 15 BUCK
5
05 SHOPS OPER4TION OF Any person who shall within
Oakland make offer to any contract defined or d eaignated
the City of or make
in Section 04
15 of this Article
5 as bucketin g or buoket shopping or who
shall be a keeper of any bucket shop or who shall within the City of Oakland
communicate repeive exhibit or display in any manner any statement of quota
tions of prices of any securities or commodities with an intent to make or offer
to make or to aid in making or offering to make any contraot prohibited by
the provisions of this grticle as bucketing or bucket shopping shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor

SEC 15
5
06 BUCKFI SHOPS USING PRERITS
SAS y
Ax person who shall
within the City of Oakland enter or visit or be or remain in any room or premises
or place used in whole or in part as
parrying
a place for conducting or on a

bucket bucketing or bucket shopping or who shall knowingly permit

shop or

Y house room apartment premises or plape owned by him or under his charge
ar
or control to be used in whole or in part as a place for conducting or carrying
on a bucket shop or bucketingn or ttbucket shopping shall be g iilty of a
misdemeanor

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cSf
A
G
21
C
S
Y
ORDINANCE No
AN ORDINANCE ADDING SECTIO 16 to 20
b
13 15 BOTH IN
b
CLUSIVE TO THE OAI DMUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING THE
LAA
BUSINESS OF STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL AND REQUIRING CER
TIFICATES PERMITS AND BONDS THEREFOR
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Oakland as follows
SECTION 1 16 to 20
Sections 13
b 16 both inclusive are hereby
6
added to the Oakland Municipal Code which sections shall be numbered
and shall provide as hereinafter set forth
SEC 1b STRUCTURAL PESTS
5
13 AND BUSINESS OF STRUC
TURAL PEST CONTROL DEFINED For the purposes of this Article
structure pests are defined as termites or other wood
boring insects
or any kind of fungus growth or plant growth which causes decay in
structures or buildings and the business of structural peat control is
defined as the inspection or treatment or the prescribing of any method
ent for hire of soil
of treatrr lumber poles atructurea buildings or

parts thereof for the purpose of destroying ezterminating controlling

or

structural pests or the re airing of damage done by structural pests

SEC 14 15 STRUCTURAL
6 PEST CONTROL CERTIFICATE RE
QUIRED It shall be unlawful for any person to establish maintain
conduct or engage in the business of structural pest control or to in
any manner solicit such buaineea or hold himself out or advertise him
self to br engaged in such business unless he shall have first obtained
a certificate therefor granted and ezisting in compliance with the pro
visions hereinafter in this Article set forth
SEC l
b
l6b STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL CERTIFICATE APPLI
CATION FOR EXAMINATION AND FEE Application for a structural
pest control certificate required by Section 14 16 of this Article shall
5
be made in writing upon forma supplied by and shall be filed with the
Building Inspector Such application shall set forth a full identifica
tion of the applicant his past ezperience pertaining to the control and
extermination of structural paste and such further information as the
Building Inspector may require and shall be accompanied by an ezam
ination fee n the amount of ten dollars 10 00
Upon the filing of ouch application or at such subsequent time ae
the Building Inspector may designate the Buliding Inspector together
with such other competent persons as the City Manager may designate
shall ezamine the applicant for the purpose of determining whether he
is competent and qualified withitt the requirements o this Article and
within the sound discretion of said examiners to engage in the buaineae
of structural peat control If the applicant is found to be so qualified
heshall be granted a certificate ao stating
SEC 1616 STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL CERTIFICATE REVO
b
CATIOA The structural peat control certifioate provided for in Section
15 of this Article may be revoked by the City Manager upon rec
b
15
ommendation of the Building Inspector upon a hearing granted for the
violation of any provision of this Article pertaining to structural peat
Control or any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant hereto or
for any other reason which in the sound discretion of the City Manager
renders such certificate holder incompetent or unfit to engage in the
bueinesa of structural peat control in a manner compatible with the
welfare of the people of the City o1 Oakland The right of appeal pro
f
vided for in Section b 08 of
2 thts Code shall apply to revocations in this
section provided t
SEC ib
5
17 TRUCTU L PEST CONTROL PERMIT AND FEE
o commence or o any atructural
It shall be unlaw u or any person
peat control work ea to cause the same to be commenced or done in
the City of Oakland without first obtaining from the Building Depart
ment a permit eo to do Application for such permit shall designate
the nature of the work to be done and the location thereof and shall
be accompanied bq a permit fee in the amount of one dollar j1 00
which shall be in addition to all building permit fees required by the
ordinances of the City of Oakland The Buliding Inspector rnap ezamine
the structure or building concerning which a permit is applied Por
before issuing said permit No such permit chaff be granted unless
there 1s on deposit a bond in compLance with Section 19 Ib of this
b
Article and no such permit shall be granted to other than a holder of
a structure pest control certificate required by Section l4 lbof this
5
Article Ali work done under such permit shall be done by or under
the personal supervision of a certified operator
SEC 1815 STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL INSPECTIONS
5 It shall
be the duty of the Building Inspector to cause an inspection to be made
of all structural peat control work to ascertain whether or not such
vork fe being done or has been done in accordance with the provisions
of this Article and the permit leaned therefor The Building Inspector
may require of the permlttee reports of ail such work done and he

and his authorised agents are empowered to enter buildings

premises
and atructurea for the purpose of determining whether or not persons
who hold certificates to engage in the business of structural pest con
trol are engaging in this practice to a lawful and suitable manner
SEC 1916 STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL BOND
5 No person who
makes application fora permit required pursuant to Section 1 15 of
b
this Article shall be granted such permit unless there Ia on file with
the Building Inspector a valid and existing surety bond executed by
a surety company authorized to do business in the State of California
in the sun oL 00 000 conditioned for the faithful and honest conduct
1
of the bueinesa of structural peat control by such applicant and for
the compliance with the provisions of this Article and the rules and
regulations promulgated pursuant hereto Said bond shall be continu
ous in effect unless cancelled by written notice to the Building In
bond shall be approved as to its form and legality by
spector Said
the City Attorney shall be taken in the name of the people of the City
the
of Oakland and every person inJured by wilful and malicious or
negligent or wrongful act of the said certificate holder designated
therein or his agents or employees may bring an action on said bond
in his own name to recover damages suffered by reason of said wilful
or malicious or negligent or wrongful act

SEC 16
6
20 STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL METHODS RULES
AND REGULATIONS All structural pest control work done in the Clty
of Oakland shall comply with the ordinances of the City of Oakland reg
ulating building construction alteration and repair and shall as to
fife methods chemicals and other solutions and preparations employed
be subject to the approval of the Building Inspector who shalt eo tar
as practicable require a conformance with the recommendations of
Circular No 318 oP the University of California College of Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Station Berkeley California Every person en
gaged in the bueinesa of structural peat control shall permit the Build
ing Inspector or his deputy at any time to take a sample of any or
all solutions or materials being used in such business
The Building Inspector may promulgate and enforce such rules and
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
Article pertaining to structural pest control
SECTION 2 SAVING CLAUSE IP any section subsection sertence
clause or phrase of this ordinance is or any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance and the Council of the City of
Oakland hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and
each section avb section sentence clause and phrase thereof irrespec
five of the fact that any one or more of other sections sub sections
sentences clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional
SECTION 3 This ordinance shall take effect immediatley
In Council Oakland Calif Jnne 14 1934 Passed to print for two
days by the following vote Councilmen Arlett Beach DePaoli
Ayes
Fitasimmone Gresham Jacobsen Quinn Slavich and President McCracken
9 Noes None Absent None
W W CHAPPELI City Clerk
No 804
June 19th 2t
 SEC 15 B
5
07 tTCKET SHOPS NT OF S9Z R
STATEN 3QUIRED Leery person
shall upon demand to any customer or
furnish principal for whom such person
has exevuted ar
q order for the actual pvrphase or sale of any securities or vommod
ities either for immediate future
delivery a written statement containing the
or
names of the persona from whom such property alas bought or to whom it has been sold
as the fact may be the time when place where and the prise at which the same was
either bought or sold and if such person shall refuse or neglect to furnish such
statement within twenty
fotar hours after auoh demand such refusal or neglect shall
be prima Facie evidence that the sot of such person refusing to furnish auoh state
ment in regards to such purchase or sale waa
bucketing or bucket shopping with
in the terms of this Artipl

ii r0
C
SI 15
5
Od ING ESTABLI HMENTS It shall be unlawful for any
person to conduct or maintain or cause r permit to be vonducted
or maintained a
undertaking establishment or funeral parlor within the City of Oakland without first
obtaining a permit therefor granted and existing in socordanpe with the provisions
set forth in Sevtion 7
05 of this Code
1

SEC 15
5
09 FLYING FIELD DEFINED For the purposes of this lrtiole a

nflyfng field aha11 be construed to include any field or place from or to which

aeroplanes or other aircraft are flown or where aviation activities are carried
on in the air for the purpose of selling and demonstrating aircraft for sphoola
of instruotivn for the parrying of goods mervhandise or passengers for hire or

reward or for other pub lie purposes

SEC 15 FLYING FIELD

5
10 PREREQIIISITES TO OPERATING It shall be un

lawful for any person to establish conduct ox maintain a flying field within the
City Oakland or enlarge or alter the boundaries of the same or erect any etrup
of
tures thereupon without first planing the same in safe and proper pondition for the
purposes intended paying the license Ease by this Chapter required and obtaining
a permit therefor in writing from the City Council

SEC 11
15
5 FLYING FIELD tAdIT
P
permit requ3 The
d in Section 5
r
10 of this Article
15 shall be granted and exist in
compliance with the provisions
of Article 2 of Chia Chapter In addition to the requirements specified in Sevtion
02 of this Chapter the application for auph permit shall specify the
2
5
location
size and character of the proposed flying field the number and
type of aircraft to
be used the location and size of any buildings thereon and the manner in which the
business is to be managed or maintained Public notice eh all be given as provided
in Section 504 of this Chapter an
2 xl the investigating official referred to in
Sevtion 503 of this Chapter to whom the application shall be referred shall be
2
the Chief of Police Such application shall also be referred to the Superintendent
of the Oakland huzicipal Airport

SEC 15 FLYING FIELD

5
12 EXCEPTIONS Nothing in Sevtions 09
15
5
15
5
10 or 15 of this
5
11 Chapter provided nor the requirement that a license fee
be paid as in Sevtion 556 of is Chapter provided shall be vonstrued to
1
apply
to officers and members of the IInited States Army and Navy or the urine
Corps or
officials of the United States while actively engaged in the operation of aircraft
in the service of the gr
vernment nor be construed to apply to or interfere with
the conduct or management of the Oakland Municipal Airport or the flying operation
pervision of aircraft in connection therewith
or st So far as applicable the pro
visions of said sections relative to flying fields shall be deemed tv be in addition
to any rules and re
ations provided for the use
wul of auoh Airport by the Beard of
Pert Commissioners of the City of Oakland here a
flying field is proposed to be
located in the port area of the city application therefor must be made exclusively
tote said Board of Port Commissioners and it9 approval scoured

6
ARTICLE 16

ISCELL PROVISIONS
1
OVS

41
1
5 6 FRANCHISES P
3EC LZRMITS AND PRIVILEGES STATEPtLQiTT OF RECEIPTS
TO WHOM APPLIESThe provisions of Sections 02
16 03
5 16 04
5 16 05
5 16
5
and 16 of this Article shall apply to every person operating any business
5
06

14s
under artyfranchise permit or privilege granted by the City of Oakland wherein
there is required to be paid to said City a stipulated percentage of gross

receipts except a franchise permit or privilege wherein a definite date is set

for the making of su
la payments

SEC 16 FRANCHISES
5
02 PMTS AND PRIVILEGES TT OF
STATE
RECEIPTS REQUIRED Every person referred to in Section 16 of this Article
5
01
as subject to the provisions of this Article operating any business under a
franchise permit privilege
or granted by the City of Oakland wherein there
is required to be paid annually to said City a stipulated percentage of gross
receipts shall file annually in the office of the Cfty Auditor a verified state
ment writing of gross receipts arising from all business done by said person
in
under said franchise permit or privilege within the City of Oakland for the fis
cal year ending on the 30th day of June preceding the filing of such statement
16 this Article as subject to
and every person referred to in Section Ol
5
of
the provisions of this Article operating any business under a franchise permit
or privilege granted by the City of Oakland where there is required to be paid

annually to said City a stipulated percentage of gross receipts shall file

semi
annually in the office of the City Auditor a verified statement in writing
semi
of gross receipts arising from all the business done by said person under said

franchise permit or privilege within the City of Oakland during the period
of six months ending on the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December respecti
vely preceding the filing of such statement

SEC 16
5
03 CITY CLERK TO SUPPLY FOI TT OF RECEIPTS
iS FOR STATII
1iII
On or day of July of each year the City Clerk shall farniah
before the 1st
and ard
fore copyaof the standard form of verified statement of gross receipts
to each person referred to in Seotion 01
16 of this Article as subject to
5
the provisions of this Article operating any business under a franohiae permit
or privilege requiring the payment of a
stipulated percentage of groan receipts
under such franchise permit or privilege and on or before the lat day of

January of each year the City Clerk shall likewise furnish and forward a copy
of the standard form of verified atPtement of gross receipts to each such person
subject to the provisions of this Article operating any business under a franchise
permit or privilege requiring the payment semi
annually of a stipulated percentage
of gross receipts under such franchise permit or privilege

SEC 16
5
04 NT JF RECEIPTS
t
STATEi IITTED TO AUDITOR AND CLERK
I
SUB
Such verified statement hereinabove in Sections 16 and
5
02
16 of this
5
03
Article referred to shall be submitted to the Auditor in the form
and detail
of the standard form of verified statement of gross receipts furnished by the

City Clerk All statements filed annually shall be filed in the office of the
City Auditor on or before the lat day of August each year and all statements
annually shall be filed in the office of the City Auditor on or before
filed semi
the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August respectively of each year
Every such statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the person or of a
member of the firm or of the president vice
president or general manager of
the corporation operating under the franchise to which such statement refers

A copy of each verified statement shall be filed in the office of

the City Clerk at the time of the filing of the original statement with the

City Auditor

SEC 16 FRAI
5
05 TCHISES PERMITS AND PRIVILEGES tIE OF PAYING
TI
PERCENTAGES lIINATION BY AUDITOR
ERA The stipulated percentage of gross
receipts provided to be paid for the use and enjoyment of any such franchise

permit or privilege in Section 0116 of this Article referred to shall be

5
to the City Clerk at the time of filing the verified statement provided
paid
16 of this Article
for in Seotion 04
5 The City Clerk shall forthwith pay

all moneys so received by him to the City Treasurer

150
 such
It shall be the duty of the Auditor to forthwith examine every
verified City from
statement and ascertain the amount due and payable to said
the person filing the same The Auditor may for such purpose exercise the
Section 20 of the Charter of the City of Oakland
powers conferred upon him by
as he may deem neoessary In case the Auditor shall find the amount of per

eentage receipts shown by

of gross such report and paid to the City Clerk at

the time of filing the same to be the full and correct amount due and payable
se the Auditor
to the City he shall certify that faot to the City Clerk In oa
such report
shall find that the amount of peroentage of gross receipts shown by
is not the full or
and paid to the City Clerk at the time of filing the same
he shall certify that fact to the
correct amount due and payable to the City
the of such
City Clerk who shall thereupon notify the person making payment
asoertained by the Auditor as
finding and of the true and correct amount
aa
The balance of
aforesaid and demand payment of the full and correct amount
said amount shall be forthwith paid to said City Clerk by said person and if it
be not so paid within ten days after said demand the City Clerk shall report
such default in payment to the W
ayor

SEC 16 FRANCHISES
5
06 fITS AAT9 PRIVILEGES
P SREPORT OF
CLERK

On before the 15th day of February and the 15th day of

ILURE TO
F COplPLY or

it shall be the of the City Clerk to file a semi

August of each year duty
annual at atement with the y
A or setting forth the names of all persona or
corporations who or ply with any of the provisions of
which have failed to oo
this Article relative to franchises permits and privileges

Gnu v
7
c O 2ys e i 3
i
cxApTE 6

PUBLIC ptORKS

ARTICLE 1 S TDEt
fALKS AND BS
CTk
ARTICLE 2 STREETS
ARTICLE 3 PARKS BOULEVzItDS
ARTICLE 4 GARBAGE DISPOSAL

ARTICLE 1

S IDEWALKS D CURBS
9N

SEC 601 NOTICE n REPAIR

1 yIHEN GIVEN If any portion of any

sidewalk in the City of Oakland shall be out of repair or in a dangerous

improved
or defective condition or in a condition to endanger persona o r property passing

thereon or in a condition to interfere with the public convenience in the use

thereof and the Superintendent of Streets shall have personal notice of the same
it shall be his duty to notify the owner or person in possession of the property

fronting on that portion of the sidewalk so out of repair to repair the same

9GIVEAT
HC Such notice to
SEC 02 NOTICE TO REPAIR
1
6 repair pro
01 of this Article may be giv en by delivering a written
vided for in Section 6
1

notice personally to the owner or to the person in possession of the property

facing upon the sidewalk so out of repair or by mailing postage prepaid to
the person in possession of such property or to the owner thereof or his last
known address as the same appears on the taz rolls of the City of Oakland and
when address so appears to the general delivery of
no
the City of Oakland s

notice to repair such sidewalk so out of repair aryl the Superintendent of Streets

shall immeAiately upon the mailing of said notice cause a copy thereof printed
on a oard not 1 eas than eight by ten inches 8 x 10 in size to be posted in

a conspicuous place on said property

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 SEC 03 NOTICE TO REPAIR
1
6 CONTENTS Such notice to repair
provided for in Section 01 of this Article
1
6 shall particularly specify what
be done and what materials
work is required to be done and how the same is to
shall be used in said repair that if said repair is not commenced within five

5 days after notice is given as aforesaid and diligently and without inter
ruption prosecuted to completion the Superintendent of Streets shall make auoh

repair and the cost of the same shall be a lien on auoh property that if
said repair is not commenced as required by said notice the Superintendent of

Streets shall forthwith repair said sidewalk

SEC 04
1
6 REPAIR BY CITY If upon the expiration of the five 5

day period provided 03 of this Article the said repair has

for in Section 6
1
not been commenced the Superintendent of Streets shall proceed to make such

repair and upon completion thereof the said Superintendent of Streets shall
file a rp tics with the City Council setting forth the feat that the repair has
and the cost thereof The City Council shall thereupon fix a
been completed
time for hearing protests against the assessment for the cost of auoh repair
Said time shall not be less than ten 10 days from the date of filing Superin
tendent of Streets notice aforesaid

SEC 6
05
1 REPAIR NOTICE OF HEARING ON ASSESSMENT OF COST The

Superintendent forthwith upon the time of hearing provided for

of Streets shall
in Section 0
1
6 4 of this Article being fixed either personally serve upon the
owner or per son in possession of the facing upon the sidewalk ao re
property
paired or mail postage prepaid a notice addressed to the person in possession

of the property affected or the owner thereof at his last known address as the

same appears on Oakland

the tax rolls of the
City of and when no address so

of Oakland setting forth a state

appears to the general delivery of the City
ment of the coat of the said repair and specifying the date hour and pleas when
the Council of the City of Oakland will hear protests of the assessment of the
cost of such repair upon such property

IIpon the date and hour set protests the Council

for the hearing of
shall hear and consider all
Protests proceed to affirm
if there be any and then
or reject the assessment of the a oat of such repair upon auoh property The

date for hearing of protests and affirming o r rejecting the assessment may be
continued from day to day

SEC 06 REPAIR
1
6 NOTICE OF LIEN If the coat of auoh repair
hereinabove in this Article provided for is assessed upon the property fronting
not paid within five 5
upon the sidewalk so repaired and the assessment is
days after its oonfirmation by the Council the cost of such repair shall become
a lien upon the property fronting upon the sidewalk ao repaired upon the Super
intendent of Streets filing to the office of the County Recorder of the County
of Alameda State of California a oertifieate substantially in the following
form towit

NOTICE OF LIEN

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by Article 1 Chapter 6 of the

Oakland Municipal Code I did on the day of 19

cause the sidewalk in front of the rea proper y hereinafter describe to

repaired and improved and the Council of the City of Oakland did on the

day of 19 By Resolution No assess the oos of

auoh reps r and mprovemenupon propertyeina
er er described and
the real

the same has not been paid nor any part thereof and the City of Oakland does
lien the real property hereinafter described in the sum of
hereby claim a on

the cost of said repair and improvement and the same shall be a lien
the said sum has been paid in full and discharged
upon acid real property until
of record

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 real property hereinbefore mentioned and upon which a lien is
The
hereby olaimed is that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in
the City of Oakland County of Alameda State of California and particularly
ed as follows
deseri towit

Description

Dated this day of 19

Superintendent of Streets

6
0
1
SEC7 REPAIR EFFECT OF LIEN The notice of lien when recorded
as hereinbefore in Section 6
06
1 of this Article provided shall be a lien upon
such property and such lien shall so continue until the coat of such repair has
Such lien shall be subordinate to
been paid in full and discharged of record
all special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property but it
shall have priority over all special asaesscnent liens which may thereafter be
created against the said property and from and after the date of the recording of

said m tics of lien all persons shall be deemed to have had notice of the contents

thereof

3EC 6
071
1 NOTICE TQ REPAIR DANGEROUS CONDITIONS 1Henever any
court the City of Oakland or air
portion of any street lane alley or place in
sidewalk constructed thereon according to law shall b e out of repair and in
condition to endanger persons or property passing thereon for in condition to inter
fere with the public convenience in the use thereof it shall be the duty of the

Superintendent of Streets of said City to require by notice in writing be

delivered personally or left on the premises the owners or o ocupanta

to them
of lots or portions of lots fronting on said portion of said street lane alley
court or place or of said portion of said walk so out of repair as aforesaid
to repair forthwith said portion of said street lane alley court or place to
the center thereof or said sidewalk in front of the property of which he is the
to
owner or tenant or occupant specifying in said notice what repairs are required
be made

It shall be unlawful for said owner or tenant or oocupant of said lots

or portion of said lots to neglect refuse for the period of three days from
or

the date of the service of the aforesaid notice to make said repairs and dili
and without interruption to prosecute the same to completion
gently

SEC 08
1
6 GRASS AND OTH OBSTRUCTIONS Every owner of real property
in the City keep the entire width of sidewalk in front of such
of Oakland shall

property from curb to lot line free and clear of all grass weeds rubbish or
other obstructions or materials which from any cause whatever shall have aceumula
ted or may accumulate upon such sidewalk above the established grade of the same

Upon the failure or refusal of any such o

mer of real property in the
City of Oakland to ao remove any obstructions from the sidewalk as herein provided
forth relative to the of
the proviaiona hereinbefore in this Article set repair
sidewalks Sections 01
1
6 07 both
1
6 inclusive shall apply

C
SE 09 OBST
1
6 UCTIONS GENERALLY LOADING It shall be unlawful
to be
placed or suffer to remain upon
for arty person to place or aause any
sidewalk in the City of Oakland any goods res or
ws
merchandise or any other

object or substance provided however that not to exceed one

third 3
1 of

the width of any sidewalk may be used for not to exceed thirty 30 minutes
while actually engaged in the loading or unloading of any goods wares or mer

chandise or any other object or substance provided further however newspaper

arri periodical ranks or
and stands located on the inner or outer edge of aide
from the proviaiona of this aeation
walka are excepted

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 SEC 610 OBSTRUCTIONS IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS
1 Anything in Section
6
0
1 9 of this Article to the contrary notwithstanding it is hereby declared to

rful for merchants doing business in that portion of the City of Oakland
be a
bounded on the north the southern line of Seventh Street on the west by the
by
eastern line of Broadway on the south by the waterfront and by the
on the east

eastern line of Fallon Street to use the sidewalk in front premises

of their
for the display and sale of goods wares and merchandise provided however
that there shall be maintained at all times a clear spade along such sidewalk

of not less than four 4j feet in width for the use of pedestrians

SEC ll PRIVATE CONTRACT DEFINID

l
6 The words private contract
as used in this Article with reference to private construction of sidewalks
driveways or curbs shall be construed to mean construction other than let by
the City of Oakland or permitted by resolution of the Council of the City of
Oakland

SEC 12 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF SID

1
6 KS AND
A2 IVEVPAYS
I IT
l
PER

UIRED
RE FEE It is hereby declared to lawful for any person to repair
be us
or construct or cause to be repaired or constructed by private contract in
the y Dement sidewalk cement driveway or to cut any ourb
City of Oakland ax
for the purpose of constructing a driveway or to begin the excavation for the

purpose of constructing a sidewalk or driveway without first ottaining froaa

the Department of Streets a permit in writing so to do Excepting however
that a property owner when notified by the Superintendent of Streets to repair
an existing sidewalk may make such repair to the extent of not more than 25

square feet without the necessity of obtaining a permit therefor The Department
of Streets shall charge a fee of one dollar 01
00 for each and every permit
when such permit oovera more than 25 aguare feet of work in area
issued

SEC 613 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDE

1 IALRS A1 D DRIVEWAYS INSPECTION

FEE It shall be the duty of the Department of Streets to cause an inspection

to be made of cement side
ralk or cement driveway constructed under private con

tract as referred to in Seotion 12

1
6 to ascertain whether suoh work is being

done or has been done in accordance wi h the provisions of this Article and
the permit issued therefor
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i9
The Department of Streets shall charge an inspection fee upon all

fobs of 100 square feet of work over or of half Dent

one 2j
1 per square foot
of Dement sidewalk or cement driveway inspected

SEC 14
1
6 K AND DRIVEFYAY INSPECTION FIDS DEPOSITED IN ADVANCE
I
SIDE
4t the time of the issuance of a permit ae in Seotion 6
12 required the appli
1
eant shall deposit with the Street Department the estimated fee based upon the
fees in this Article
specified and no permit
required by as said section shall
be deposit shall have first been made After the Department of
issued until such
Streets shall have inspected such cement work the fee for such inapeotion shall
be charged against the deposit made to secure such inapeotion fee If the deposit
for such inspection fee is in excess of the fee actually charged the Department
of Streets shall refund the excess upon demand duly made within six months after
the issuance of the permit If such deposit is not sufficient to co
er such in

spection fee and the deficiency is not paid within thirty 30j days after notice
such deficiency shall be deducted from the hereinafter mentioned guarantee deposit

SEC 15
1
6 iALK AND DRIVEWAY FF
SIDE ES FCTND TO WfIICH CREDITID All
collected pursuant to the provisions of this Article sl
all oredited to
fees
e yr7
a
Appropriation
the General Fund S reet
Department Ynp
16
E GUARANTID DEPOSIT Before the issuance of a permit provided

for in Section 1
6
1 2 of this Article the person desiring the same shall deposit
with the City of Oakland the sum of One Hundred Dollars 0100
00 which deposit
be known the Guarantee Deposit and shall be maintained at said sum of
shall as

00j If at any time after making such deposit the amount

One hundred Dollars 100
of sidewalk and
or driveway constructed and
or repaired and guaranteed by said

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epoait as herein provided shall exceed 3000 square feet the said guarantee de
posit shall be increased to and maintained at the aura of Two Hundred Dollars

00
0200 The said guarantee deposit shall be retained by the City of Oakland
for period of twelve 12 months after the date of the completion of the work
a

called for in the last permit issued and no permit shall at any time be issued
unless such guarantee deposit shall be reimbursed by the depositor for arty deduc
tions made ae in this Article provided If within tanelve 12 months after the

completion of the work ealle3 for in arty permit the sidewalk and
or driveway
should break disintegrate or otherwise fail to comply with the provisions of
this Article the Superintendent of Streets of said City shall notify the person

making the deposit of such break disintegration or

failure and specify the

repairs needed or work to be done and such person shall within ten 10 days
from the elate of such notice make such specified repairs If such repairs be
not made within the fixed time the same may be made by said Superintendent of
Streets and the cost of said repairs shall be paid from the guarantee deposit
on hand with said City demand being made for said costa by the Sup erintendent
of Streets of twelve 12 months from the date of completion
After the lapse
of the work called for in the last permit issued to any permittee upon written
demand of such permittee or the auoeesaors or assigns thereof where such
transfer or assighment is made in the manner as hereinafter provided accompanied

by a certificate from the Superintendent of Streets stating that all needed

repairs have been made and this Article otherwise complied with the City of
Oakland shall return the guarantee deposit or such portion thereof ae may
remain after deduction of all fees for repairs and work done as aforesaid to
the person depositing the acme or his said auceeasora or assigns

SEC 17
1
6 SIDEVGALK AND DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION OBSTRUCTIONS The

permit granted pursuant to Section 1

6
1 2 of this Article shall carry with it
the

right to place or cause to be placed upon the street adjacent to the place
where the construction alteration or repair work is to be performed such materials
or appliances as may be necessary for use d how
in performing such work provid

ever that such materials and appliances shall not occupy more than third
one
3
C1 of the roadway in front of said c work and shall be placed thereon
onatruction

subject to the direption and

approval Superintendent of Streets
of the In rip
event shall said appliances or materials be plaosd within five 5 Feet of any
railroad or street car track All materials debris and appliances shall be
so placed as not to obstruct any gutterway and shall be so cared for as to
prevent them from being blown or otherwise parried into any gutterway or a y
c
catch basin or any portion of the street other than that lawfully occupied by
ch obstruction
au The permit granted shall preapribe the date when work shall

begin and the time of the occupancy of the street provided however that the
Superintendent of Streets may order said materials appliances and debris or
three 3
any portion thereof to be removed within days after written notice
and in the event the same is not remov ed within the time prescribed by the
Superintendent of Streets or in the permit as the case may be the Superinten

dent of Streets may pause the same to be removed and charge the costs thereof
against the guarantee deposit h
R e placing of materials appliances and debris
upon the street for the purpose of such construction work and the removal thereof
shall be held to be a part of such construction work

SEC 18 SIDEV7ALIt AND

1
6 AY CONSTRUCTION
DRIVE TIRE OF COl
TION
L
C
If all of the private construction or
and repair work of arty sidewalk or
and
the time
allowed by the permit
driveway be not completed at the expiration of

appertaining thereto and in accordance with the terms of this Article the

Superintendent of Streets may notify the contractor to complete said work within
two days and if not so completed the Superintendent of Streets is hereby
authorized to have the same done at the expense of the contractor and his guaran
tee deposit or as much thereof as may be necessary shall be applied in payment
therefor

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 SEC 6 SIDE AND DRIVEG7IY CONSTRUCTION
19 PALK
1 IT FORMS
PEEt

CONDITIONS AlQD REQITIREI

ENTS POSTING Permits granted pursuant to Section
12 of this Article
1
6 shall be upon forma and shall specify the name and
residence of the applicant the loc ation of the property in front of which the
proposed sidewalk or
and driveway is to be repaired constructed the or
and
said walk and
length and width of or driv eRay and the member o P square feet to

be repaired and shall a

or constructed Provided however that in no case

permit be granted to construct sidewalks where the Council has declared its

intention to construct such sidewalks under the general lava of the Estate of

California and also provided that in the event any of the terms or conditions
of this Article are not complied with within the time fixed for compliance no
further permit shall be issued to such person while such person causes or permits
such compliance to continue or ie
non indebted to the City of Oakland for money

expended in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Article

onstruetion under this Article shall be posted conspicu

All permits for c

ously on the job

SEC 620 TRANSFER OF GUARANTEE DEPOSI

1 T The guarantee deposit re
be transferred to a third party
ferred to in Section 6
16 of this gx
1 ticle may
where such transfer is made pursuant to a judgment of court or by an agreement
bona fide sale of the business of the
of dissolution of a partnership or upon a

person having made such deposit and holding the receipt therefor by any person
or

having ceased to do work under said permit and entitled to a return of ai

ar

16 of this Article
deposit as provided in Section 6
1 In the event of any transfer
the receipt for such deposit or satisfactory proof of the lose of same moat be
delivered to the Superintendent of Streets No transfer shall be made of said

deposit other than as herein provided

of a transfer of said guarantee deposit such transfer shall

In the event
in way affect the liability
no of said deposit for any work done by the person

transferring said deposit nor shall it in any way affect the liability of such

person under the provisions of this Article

SEC 21 TRANSFER OF
1
6 YIZ FOR PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDE
PERI KS
IAI

OR 7fiIVEWAYS No construction or
and repair of sidewalks or
and
driveways to be
performed under a permit issued pursuant to this Article shall be performed except
by or under the supervision of the designated permittee who shall also be the
ntraetor for said work In the event
peraon who is responsible to the owner or eo
it shall at any time be ascertained that any work is being done or has bean done

under a permit issued to one other than the person responsible to the owner or

contractor for said work and it shall be proven that the use of acid permit was
with the knowledge and consent express or implied of the designated permittee
then the guarantee deposit made by such permittee shall become forfeited to the
be guilty of
City of Oakland and the person doing or having done the work shall a

misdemeanor

SEC PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDE

22
1
6 SA DRIVE
TAL IAYS PLI
C02

AIiTCE IITH IT
PE TD ADOPTED SPECIFICATIONS All lks
aidewe or
and driveways moat
in accordance with the permit
be repaired or
and
constructed in every particular
therefor issued must be completed within thirty days from the date of permit
cases where have been notified to make repairs provided in Sec
except in ovrners as

07 inclusive
01 to 6
tion 6
1 1 Article unless
of this an extension of time

thereon be granted by Superintendent of Streets and

the must be in accordance

with such specifications es may dopted by resolution

be e of the Council from

time to time for the private construction or

and repair of sidewalks and
or
driveways
TAv

SEC PRIVATE CONST

23
1
6 tTCTION OF TALKS SIDEt AND yFJAYS
DRIVE REPAVING

TCTIONS
R
3
03 SAFETY IIRES
1sE In the private construction repair of side or
and
and refuse terials
ma to be removed imme
walks and
ordriveways all rejected are

diately from the work and all surplus materials shall be removed from the work
within two 2j days after the Construction of the sidewalk is complete

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 contractor shall provide and maintain such fences and red lights
The
as may be necessary to prevent avoidable accidents to the publi c

Ro material or other obstruction shall be placed within fifteen 15

times readily aeceasible to
feet of the fire hydrants which moat be at all
the Fire Department

SEC 624 DRIVF

1 AY DEFINED APPROVED 1
IDTH Any approaoh to and
from the street over or upon the curbing or parking or sidewalk area for the

purpose of a driveway and that portion of the sidewalk directly fronting upon

sucih approaoh from the street ie hereby defined as a driveway Such driveway
shall not be less than eight feet nor more than twenty feet between euxb returns
except that with the approval of the Superintendent of Stre
ta such driveway many

be constructed to a greater width and shall be eonatructed in the same manner

as sidewalks except that the driveway shall be at least six inches in thickness

SLC 25
1
6 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF RBS
Ci7 IT
PEFd FEE It is
hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to construct or eauae to be con
contract independently of other street work any concrete
structed by private
curb any Aublic str
on t without first obtaining from the Superintendent oP
shall charge
Streets a permit in writing so to do The Superintendent of Streets
for each and every ao
a fee of One Do am 01
00 per1mit D uY
s
iled 3J
G
A 2C UR6 U P
f i
AE 65 s
J

SEC 1
6
2 6 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF CURBS ING SPECIFICATIONS
FIT

DEPOSIT OF FEES No permit required under Section 2

1
6 5 of this Art
ele shall
be granted or if granted valid unless the person applying therefor
shall be
shall have lst Department of Streets three 3 seta of apeeifi
filed with the

eations with aeetional plan attached prepared by the City E igineer for the
curb work 2nd deposited in advance with the Superintendent of Streets
proposed
to all estimated fees for printing engineering services
sufficient money cover

and special superintendents or inspeetors compensation The amount so to be

deposited shall be determined by the Superintendent of Streets in each instance

SEC 27 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF CURBS

1
6 PERRIkTTIT ITS
TET
1
CC TIME OF

C019
PLETION Aray permit required this Article shall provide
under Section 2E
1
6 of

for the compl etion of the work within specified time to be determined by the
a

the Superintendent of
Superintendent of Streets which time may be extended by
Streets and shall further provide that the work be done in conformity with the

said specifications filed and to the satisfaction and acceptance of the Superin
tendent of Streets

SEC 28 PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF CURBS APPOINTT

1
6 fiTT AND COMPENSATION
OF INSPECTORS ENGINEERING SERVICES The Superintendent of Streets shall have the

same to appoint suitable persons to inspect the curb construc

superintend or
power
tion work by private contract as is or Superintendent of
may be vested in the
Streets by the lava of the State of California in the case of public eontraota
the of such persons shall be the same as for special superinten
and compensation
dents or inspectors employed under public contracts as authorized by such state

Tsars

YPhen in the judgment of the Superintendent of Streets engineering

services are necessary for the proper construction of such work such services shall
be rendered by the City Engineerfs office and the fees to be charged therefor shall
in Ordinance No 3901 S as it
N now ists or
e as it racy hereafter
be as provided
be amended

9
n L
x
11 29
1
6 SE PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION OF CURBS COLLECTION OF FEES CERTI
FICATE OF ACCEPTANCE VIOLATIONS the
In private construction of curbs as pro
25 to 6
vided for in Sections 6
1 28 of this Article the Superinte
1 ent of
for
printing engineering aerviees and special
Streets shall collect all fees due

superintendentat or inapectors compensation and shall not issue to the contractor

the Superintendent of Streets certificate of acceptance of the work until auah

fees are paid Said fees shall be deducted from the deposit required in Section
if any sha 1 be refunded
26 of this Article and the balance remaining
1
6 to

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the depositor upon demand made within wiz months from the date of issuance of
the permit In the event the said deposit is found insuffioient to Dover all
necessary fees the said certificate of acceptance shall he withheld until su
f
to said of Streets
fieient money to cover the deficiency is paid Superintendent

Arty person who shall oollect money for work

or attempt to oollect
done under the provisions of said Sections 2
1
b 5 to 2
1
6 8 of this Article

before the Superinte ndent of Streets issues his certificate of acoeptance of

said work shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
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ARTICLE 2

STREETS

SEC 01
2
6 DISTURBANCE OF STREETS PERMIT It shall be unlawful

for any person to make or cause or permit to exoavation in or

made any be
or oth er public plaoe
under the aurfaoe of any public street alley sidewalk
for the installation repair or removal of any pipe conduit duct or tunnel
at obtaining from the Bureau of Permits
or any other purpose witheut fir
for
to
and Licenses a written permit to make such excavation and making a epoait
such public street alley side
cover the cost of inspection and of restoring

walk or other public place to its original condition together with the inci
all hereinafter in this Article
expenses in connection therewith
as pro
dental
vided Said Bureau shall before issuing such permit require

First A written application therefor to be made and filed with said

Bureau wherein the applies nt shall set forth the name and residence or business
and shall state in detail the laps
address of the person making sucks application
tion and area of each exoavation interuted to be made and shall state the purpose
for which the excavation is to be made and used

The of plat in duplicate showing the location

Second presentation a

and such other details

of eeGh proposed exoavation and the dimensions thereof
as the Bureau of Permits and Licenses may require to be shown upon such plat

provided that the filing of plate shall not be required when c

e avations are made

for service connections or for the looation of trouble in conduits or pipes or

for making repairs thereto and

Third That applicant show legal authority to occupy and use

the
for the purpose mentioned in said application the streets alleys sidewalks or

wherein the excavation is proposed to be made

other public places

It shall be unlawful for make or to cause or permit to

any person to
to cause or permit to be
be made any exoavation or to install or maintain or
installed or main twined any tank pipe conduit duct or tunnel in or under the
other public place at any looation
y public street alley sidewalk or
surface of ax
other than that described in the application and shown on the plats filed by such
of this Article
person as requi red by the provisions

SEC 42 APPLICATION FOR PEEHJIIT TO EXCAVATE

2
6 DEPOSITS When appli
is made as provided for in Section 0
2
6 1 of this Article and
astion for permit
a

such application to excavate and the details shown upon the accompanying duplicate
the terms of this Article and the
plats when such plats are required comply with
regulations of the City Council the application and duplicate plate shall be
ient of Streets and the applioation for permit to make
approved by the Superinter
house connection to sewers shall be approved by the Health Department After such
shall be filed in the office of the
approvals one of the duplicate plats Superin
tendent of Streets as a public record The applioation axithe other duplicate
of Permits and Licenses together with special
plat shall be filed with the Bureau
deposits as follows towit A
sum
equal to fifty j50j cents per square foot of
suxfaoe of each such excavation to be made in streets or other public places which

have been paved a sum equal to thirty j30 cents for

each square foot of surface

tion to be made
of each such exoav in streets or other public places which have

been macadamised and a sum equal to fifteen j151 cents for each square foot of

surface of each such excavation to be made in streets or other public places which

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are neither macadamized nor paved provided that no deposit shall be less than
seven dollars 00
07 and provided further that any person intending to make
excavations in public streets alleys or other public places may make and maintain
with the City of Oakland a general deposit in the sum of One Thousand Dollars
O00 which general deposit shall be used for the same purpose as the special
1
OO
deposits described hereinbefore in this section and while such general deposit is
maintained at the said sum of One Thousand Dollars OOj
000 such person shall
1
not be required to make the special deposits hereinbefore in this section provided
but shall be required to comply with all of the other provisions of this Article

provided rther that the deposit to be made for a permit to excavate for the
i
t
purpose of making house connections to sewers or for making repairs to the same
shall be made as hereinafter required

SEC 03
2
6 VATION FOR SEt
EXCI R CO1
CTION
l DEPOSIT 9Vhen an appli
cation is made for
permita to excavate
for the purpose of making a house connection
with a sewer or for repairs to the same the person making such application shall

make a special deposit for each excavation with the Bureau of Permits and Licenses
in the sum of fifteen dollars 015 if such excavation is to be made in a paved
00
street and the sum of ten dollars if such excavation is to be made in a
OO
1O
street that has not been paved provided however that any person may make and
maintain with the said City of Oakland a general deposit of one hundred dollars

OOj which general deposit shall be used for the same purpose as the sp ecial
1OO
deposits for house connections referred to in this section and while such general
deposit is maintained at the said sum of one hundred dollars 00 such person
100
shall not be required to make the special deposits for
such purpose as in Section
02 of this Article provided for
2
6 but shall be required to comply with all of
the other provisions of this Article

SEC 6
204
E7CCAVAT IO1VT FOR STORAGE T@
S
NI DEPOSIT Whenever any per aon
desires t
o install repair a tank or tanks far the storage of gasoline or oil
or

in lieu of the separate deposits in Section 6 02 of this Article set forth said
2
person may make and maintain kith the said City of Oakland a general deposit of one
hundred dollars 100
00 which general deposit shall be used for the same purpose
as the special deposits referred to in Seotion 6 02 of this Article and while
2
such general deposit is maintained at the said sum of one hundred dollar9 0100
00
said person shall not b e required to make the special deposits for such purposes
as in said Section 6
02 provided for but shall be required to comply with all
2
of the other provisions of this Article

SEC 05
2
6 EXCAVATION FOR PART OF BUILI
ING DEPOSIT VPhen applica
an

tion is made to excavate with in the sidewalk area for the purpose ofmaintaining
a covered area
way the construction plans of which are approved by the Building
Inspector and a building permit issued therefor such application shall be aeeompan
ied by a special deposit as provided for in Seotion 6
02 of this Article covering
2

only su much of the proposed area to be excavated as lies outside the walls of the
structure for which thusaid building permit is issued

SEC 06 EXCAVATIONS
2
6 ISSiJANCE RECORD ANP CONTENTS OF PFRr
IT
REFILLING Ar
D TIl
E Upon receiving a written application as provided in Seotion
01 of thin Article and one of the duplicate plats when such plats are re
2
6
quired bearing the approval required by this Article and the general or special
deposit required by thin Article the Bureau of Permits and Licenses shall issue
a written permit to make such excav
tion and shall open and keep an account thereof
provided however that said Bureau shall clot issue such permit unless the applicant
has 1 egal authority to occupy and use for the purpose mentioned in the application
the streets alleys sidewalks or other public places covered by said application

Such
permit shall state whether the work to be done is covered by a
general special deposit and if a special deposit shall state the amount thereof
or

and shall be a receipt therefor It shall also specify the person to whom the

same is issued the atreet

alley or other public place and the particular portion

or be excavated and the extent of such excavation

portions thereof to No permit
shall be transferable Every such permit except for making house connections t
sewers or for irs to the acme shall become and be void unless the
making rep

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excavation to be made pursuant thereto is commenced within ten lOj
days from
the date of issuance of such permit and the work diligently prosecuted as in this
Article required Every permit for making a house connection to a sewer or for
making repairs to the same shall become and be void unless all work to be done
pursuant thereto shall be done and the excavation refilled in the manner required
by this Article within thirty 30j days after the date of such permit and provided
farther that arty excavation made for the purpose of
making a house connection to
a sewer shall be refilled in the required by this Article within five 5j
manner

days after inspection of the pipe by the Health Department of the City of Oakland
if a pipe be laid or within five 5j days after the date of the
permit if no pipe
be laid and nothing herein contained shall be deemed or cons trued to allow a longer

period of tirse therefor

If amp person shall failrefuse or neglect to complete the making of

any house oonnection to a sewer to refill any excavation within the time re
or

quired by this section then the Superintendent of Streets shall oomplete the
refilling of such excavation in the manner required by this Article and the City
of Oakland shall retain the cost of suoh refilling from the
special deposit made
for such excavation if a special deposit shall have been made
or in case a
general deposit is maintained as provided in this Article the said pity shall
retain such amount from such general deposit

SEC 67 REFILLING EgCAVATIONS

0
2 When any exoavation is made as
hereinbefore in this Article provided for all refilling of said excavations shall
be made in the wit
to
following manner

The dirt shall be replaced and carefully tamped in layers not exoeeding
two 2j feet in thickness and each such layer shall be weil flooded with water
before the next auoh layer is put on and the last layer shall be well flooded and
tamped although the same may be less than two 2 feet in thickness except that
in refilling excavations made in localities where the soil is clay or adobe each
layer shall be one lj foot thick and thoroughly tamped and no water shall be
used nor shall said flooding be required excepting in paved
streets in which case
the filling shall be placed in layers m t exceeding six 6j inches in
thickness
and each layer thoroughly tamped In all oases where a pipe not exceeding six
6j inches in diameter is placeain said exoavation all the dirt removed therefrom
shall be
rbgleiced e tA Turineiing
l
hak ti eion
t
r
C
dp
r
u mbof the
Superintendent of Streets
If the a treat or place where such exoavation is made has been maoadamized
the macadam removed therefrom shall be kept separate from all other material The
trench shall be refilled in the manner hereinbefore
provided up to the under aide
of such macadam the macadam shall be replaced on the surface of the filled trench
and thoroughly tamped to
correspond with the undisturbed portion of the street and
all longitudinal trenches shall then be rolled with a roller
weighing not less than
six 6j tons If the macadam or road surface has been oiled the material replaced
shall be treated with oil of the same and
quality quantity as was
originally used
Iaterial shall be used if necessary to provide the same thickness of macadam
I
Ner
as was removed If the street or other public place in which such excavation is
made has been pavedthe excavation shall be refilled as hereinbefore
provided
up to the under side of the permanent pavement and when such
refilling is in
proper condition the pavement torn up or damaged by such excavation shall be
replaced

All asphalt bituminous rock atone blockbrick and wooden block pave
ments replaced shall be laid on a concrete foundation six 6j inches thick and
the pavement torn up or damaged by such excavation shall be replaced in accordance
with the specifications then in use by the City of Oakland for the
laying of
asphalt bituminous rock asphalt maoadam atone block brick concrete and wooden
block p avementa

The replacing of pavements shall be done under the supervision of an

inspector duly authorized by the Superintendent of Streets to inspect such work
and the Superintendent of Streets shall collect as hereinafter in this Article

specified for the cost of replacement from the person making the excavation the
cost of said inspection at the rate of seven dollars
00 per day of eight
07
8j hours for each inspector so employed

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 SEC 08
2
6 EXC BY CITY IF NOT CO1t
REFILLING VATIONS PIrETED IN SPECIFIED
excavation made as hereinbefore in this Artiole provided
TII refilling
In any
not
for asphalt or bituminous rock surface of the disturbed pavement is
if the

replaced by the person making the excavation within six 6 days after the con

crete foundation for the same has been placed or if the macsadam replaoed is not
treated with oil as hereinbefore required within three 3 days after au ch mada
dam

is replaced then the Superintendent of Streets is hereby authorized to replaoe such

bituminous rock surface to treat such macadam with oil and to collect
asphalt or or

from the person liable for such work the cost of replacing said asphalt or bitumin
ous rock or oil treatment If the payment for said replacement rvrk is not made
be deducted
within a reasonable time then the coat of said replacement work shall
from the deposits retained by said City from the person making
by the City of Oakland
the excavation

All money collected by the Superintendent of Streets or deducted from

the deposits for the cost of replacements and inspection thereon as herein provided
shall bepaid to the Treasurer of said City and placed in the Street Fund of
City
said City

SEC 09
2
6 EXCAVATIONS CONVENIENCE AND SAF
TY OF P
UELIC TRAVEL It

shall be the duty of Beery person making any excavation in any publio street alley
all street
or other public place to maintain safe crossings for vehicle traffic at
intersections anti safe crossings for pedestrians at intervals of not more than

three hundred 300j feet If any such excavation is made across any public street
safe crossing ahall be maintained at all times for vehicles
or alley at least one
and access must be provided to all fire hydrants and water gates
pedestrians Free
excavated shall be laid compactly along the side of the trench and kept
All materials
trimmed up so as to cause as little inconvenience as possible to public travel If

the street is not wide enough to hold the excavated materials without using part
tion is made shall erect a
ezoava
of the adjacent sidewalk the person by whom the
tight board fence upon and along such sidewalk and keep a passageway at least six
and along such ralk
sidev All gutters shall be maintained
6 feet in width open upon
for at least one
free and unobstructed for the full depth of the adjacent curb and
foot in width from the face of such curb at the gutter line herever a gutter
V
lj
crosses intersecting street
an an adequate waterway shall be provided and at all

times maintained

It shall also be the duty of every person excavating or otherwise obstrt

et
foot 4t walkw
limits to erect and maintain a four
Y
ing any sidewalk in the fire
outside of the curb line along such excavation or obstruction during such time as
the sidewalk may remain impassible with a substantial railing on each aide to pro
teet pedestrians

It shall also be the duty of every person making any excavation in any
at each
public street al4iley or other public place to place and maintain barriers
be neoessary along the excavation
end of such excavi
tion and at such places as may
maintain lights at each end of such exca
to prevent accident and also to place and
the
vation and at distances of
not more than fifty 50 feet along line thereof from

sunset each to sunrise of the next day until such excavation is entirely re
day
to refuse to
filled and it shall be unlawful for any person fail or neglect comply
with any requirement contained in this section

6
1
2 0 DILIGEI
SEC CE IN COPtPI LEmING SATISFACTORILY Then any exoavation

in Section 6
01
2 of this Article is made after such excavation is commenced the

work of making and refilling the same shall be prosecuted with due diligence and
so as not to obstruct the street or other public place yr travel thereon more

If the work is not so prosecuted or if the

than actually necessary therefor
is
work of refilling does not in the ident of Streets comply
judgment of the Superinte
the Superintendent of Streets shall notify the
with the terms of this Article
that the work is not being prosecuted with due diligence
person named in the permit
of such excavation has not been properly done and shall
or that the refilaing
five 5 days after the service of such notice to proceed
requ3 re such person within
of such work or properly to complete the same as the
with the diligent prosecution

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case may be Such notice shall be written or printed and shall be served person
of business of such person
ally or by leaving the same at the residence or place
be such place of business or residence fa un
or if such person cannot found and
such notice be served by depositing
known or is outside of the City of Oakland may

the assns in the postoffice in a sealed envelope postage fully prepaid addressed
to such person at such place of business or residence if known or if unknown
If such notice is not complied with the Superintendent of
at the City of Oakland
excavation and to
Streets shall do such work as may be necessary to refill such
street other or part thereof excavated to as good
restore the or public place
condition as the same was in before such excavation was made

EXCAVATIONS GUARAr1TY OF PROPER REFILL

11
2
6 The person by
SEC
whom any excavation ha11 be made in az public street alley or other public

be held to guarantee the work of refilling and repair

place shall deemed and
1 year after the refilling of such excavation
thereof for the period of cne

in materials enever
th within such period of
against all defects workmanship or

of any public street or place so

one y part of the pavement or surface
year
need of repairs by reason of any defect in workmanship
guaranteed becomes in
or material used in such work of refilling or repair the Superintendent of Streets
shall serve on the person by whom the excavation was made a written notice stating
the repairs necessary and requiring such repairs to be made within five 5 days
after the service of such notice Such notioe shall be served in the manner provided
in Section 6
l of this Article and if the same is not complied with the Superin

tendent of Streets shall at once make such repairs

SEC 26
1 S BALANCE OF ZfEPOSITS
2 EXCAVATIO DISPOSITION The balance

of each such deposit made for arty excavation permit as hereinbefore in this Article
this Article for have
provided for after the deductions hereinbefore in provided
been made shall be retained by the City of Oakland for one 1 year tom the date

of the completion of the work which said deposit covers

city shall also deduct the coat of any work done or repairs made
The said
by the Superintendent of Streets as provided for in this Article from any and all
deposits then on hand belonging to or that may thereafter be made by any person
required by this Article to do arty work or to make any repair under the provisions
of this Article argl who shall have failed refused or neglected to perform such
work or to make such repairs On demand after the expiration of such period of one

year such special deposit less the deductions made pursuant to this Article shall
be aeturned to the person making the same or to his or its assigns

Each made pursuant to the provisions of thi a Article may

general deposit
be returned at any time to the person making the same or to his or its assigns
after first making the deductions om authorized by this Article provided
theref

however that the City of Oakland shall retain of each such general deposit such

amounts anal for such period of time as would be required by this Article if the
amount of such general deposit had been paid as special deposits for permits for
the several excavations made by reason of such general deposit

SEC 13 EXC
2
6 AVATION5 SUPERVISION OF SUPERINTENAEI
i OF STREETS
of
A11 excavaticna refilling of excavations and repairing street surfaces pursu

shall be made under the and

ant to the provisions of this Article supervision
direction of the Superintendent of Streets It shall be the duty of the said

Superintendent of Streets to supervise and direct all such making and refilling

of excavations and repairing of street surfaces and to require that all such

refilling and repairing comply with the requirements of the provisions

exf2aPatiOna
of the ordinances of the said City
of this Code arxi

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 SEC14 CONDUITS OF UTILITIES
2
6 M1PS OF LOCATIONS It is hereby
or having an interest
maSle the duty of every person owning using controlling
in pipes Bond uits ducts or tunnels under the a urfaee p public
of an street
alley sidewalk or public place for supplying or conveying gas electricity
other

mater steam ammonia or oil in to or from the City of Oakland or to or from

the Superintendent of
its inhabitants or for Y other purpose upon demand of
a
to file in the office of the Superintendent of Streets upon a twenty
Streets
shall be demanded by said
four 24 houra notice such map or set of maps as
shay in detail
Superintendent of Streets which said map or set of maps shall

the ezaet location aie description installation if known of all

and date of
services and service pipes and of all valves pressure regula
mains laterals
transformer chambers or other appliances instal
tors drips manholes handholea
led beneath the surface of such publio streets alleys sidewalks or other public
planed in the City of Oakland belonging to used by or under the control of auoh
or in which a uch person has aray interest It shall also be the duty of
person
every person upon demand of said Superintendent of four 24
Streets upon twenty
to file such corrected map or set of maps as shall be demanded by
hours notice
the of Streets showing the eoanplete installation of all such pipes
Superintendent to
and appliances including all installations made during the previous year
ether
and including the last day of such year Fach such map shall be accompanied by an

affidavit endorsed thereon elubacribed ate sworn to by such person or by a member

of the firm or by the president or secretary of the corporation to the effect that
the wane correctly exhibits the details required by this Article to be shown thereon

Whenever any pipe co ndrait duct tunnel or other structure located under

the surface of a public street alley or other public place or the use thereof
an interest in the
abandoned the person owning using controlling
or having
is
acme shall within thirty 30 days after such abandonment file in the office
location of the pipe
of the Superintendent of Streets a map giving in detail the
d uct tunnel or other structure so abandoned Each map or set of maps
conduit
of this section shall show in detail the location
filed pursuant to the provisions
structures abandoned subse
of all such pipes conduits ducts tunnels or other
quent to the filing of the last pr eoeding map or set of maps

SEG 2
6
1 5 EKCAVATIONS EEN CURB AND SIDEWALK
IN AREA5 BETb IIT
PE

It shall be nnlawfW for any person to make or to mouse or permit to be made

any ezcavation under

or to remove or to cause or to permit to be removed any
other formation from under that portion of any sidewalk lying be
earth dirt or

tween the curb line and aline parallel thereto and distant therefrom one fourth

4
1 of the legal width of the sidewalk

Provided however that the superintendent of Streets may with the un

animous approral by resolution of the City Council iasu s permits for the making

of excavations under the aforementioned portion of any sidewalks Before any such

permit is issued however a request in writing to the Superintendent of Streets

shall be made therefor accompanied by a detailed plan of such excavation showing

the proposed location thereof all appurtenances thereto and the purposes for which
it is to be used Any such excavation shall be ao constructed and maintained as
to afford literal aublateral ad3acent and overhead support of the surrounding
embankments and struetuxea satisfactory to the Superintendent of Streets

This section shall not present the necessary excavation for laying pipes
or sewer connections across such portions of the sidewalks Any permit issued under
the provisions of this Section may be revoked at any tune by the City Council when
in its udgmsnt the public need requires it The City of Oakland shall have the
excavated area constructed or maintained ender the
right to use any portion of the
authority of the aforementioned permit for the construction and maintenance of
and other publio work and improvements
sewers pipe lines conduits

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 SEC 6 16 EXCAVATIONS
2 DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS PiTERIALS All
surplus material removed under the provisions of this Article relative to excavations
shall if required by him he delivered to such points as the Superintendent of
Streets shall direct provided the distance such material is required to be
hauled does not exceed one mile

None of the provisions

of thin Article relative to excavations shall

to work
done to done
apply any or be along in or upon anp public street alley
or other public place pursuant to any law of the State of California providing

for the improvement thereof or to any work done or to b e done along in or upon

any such street alley or other public place pursuant to any contract for improve
ment authorized by the City Council nor to excavations made
by any department
board or officer of the City of Oakland in the discharge of its or his official
duties provided however that the provisions contained in Section 6 09 of this
2
Article shall apply to all such work and to all excavations to be made in
along
or upon any public street alley or other public place

SEC 6
17 EXCAVATIONS
2 iERGENCIES Nothing in this 9rtiele relative
to excavations shall be construed to prevent any person
maintaining any pipe or
conduit in any public street alley or public place by virtue of ar law ordi
nance or permit from making such excavations as may be necessary for the preserva
tion of life or property when such necessity arises provided that the person
making cosh excavation shall obtain permit therefor within four
a
4 days thereafter

SEC 18 TIOTT
2
6 EXCAV IIT PEH SUBJECT TO RIGHTS IN OTHERS Every permit
for an excavation in or under the surface of any public
street alley or other public
plane shall be granted subject to the right of the City of Oakland or of ar
p other
person entitled thereto to use that part of such
street alley or other public
place for ar
p purpose for which such street alley or other public place may be
lawfully used

SEC 19 IIViPROV
2
6 ENT
E IT TO
PEH CIRCTJLATE PEPITION FOR It shall
be unlawful for any person to circulate a petition requesting the Council to order
the improvement of any street pursuant to the terms of ordinance or
statute or to
solicit private contracts for the improvement of such street without first
having
obtained permission so to do from the Superintendent of Streets

Any person desiring said permit shall first file with the Superintendent
of Streets a written statement
showing location type character and description
of said work in such detail s said
a
Superintendent of Streets may require Said
Superintendent of Streets if he is of the opinion that
public necessity and
convenience require the doing of acid
work that the proposed improvement is feas
ible and
beneficial and the cost is not
prohibitive may grant permission to cir
cu1 ate such
petition or solicit such private contract for the
doing of said work
provided however that the Superintendent of Streets may rescind
any permit granted
under the provisions of this Seotion

Such permission together with acopy of said written tement

at shall
be attached to Said petition or contract and shall be exhibited to the signer
before his signature is obtained

Each request for a signature to such petition oontraot

or in violation
hereof shall be considered a separ ate and distinct viol ation

SEC 6
20
2 NI BY PRIVATE CONTRACT
OVEP
TP
Il IT REQUIRED
PER No
person shall cause or e1 low
the construction by private contract of any street
work in any public street of the City of Oakland in front of property owned by
him or under his charge or control unless permission therefor shall have been
first obtained from the City Council Provided however that nothing herein shall
be construed to apply to the private construction of sidewalks driveways or curbs
as provided for in Article 1 of this Chapter

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 a41SEC 621 IMPROVE
2 NT BY PRIVATE COE RACT FILING Ar1D APP
OVAL OF SPECI
FICATIONS No permission to perform street work by private contract shall be
granted
or if granted shall be
valid unless the persona applying for the same shall have lj
filed with the City Clerk plena and apecificationa for the work prepared by the
City Engineer or with the approval of the City Engineer endorsed thereon
2j
filed with the Superintendent of Streets three certified copies of said
plena and
specifications and a certified copy of the contract entered into between the cvn
traetor and the property owners with affidavit attached sworn to before a Notary
Public that all signatures to the oontract are of owners of record or their
authorized agent also a letter in duplicate stating the total amount of front
feet on the
street the total amount signed and the percentage the same bears to
the total frontage excepting however that in case no contract exists then the
person or persona obtaining permission to perform street work
shall in addition
to filing plans and apeeifieations Stith the Superintendent of
Streets deposit with
him in advance of doing said work sufficient money to cover the fees and compen
sation specified in Section 6
25 of this Article also excepting that in case
2
the cost of the street work does not exceed five
seventy dollars OOj
75 then
specifications without plans will be required to be filed with the City Clerk
and Superintendent of streets in lieu of the and apecifioations heretofore
plena
mentioned

SEC ENT22
2
6
ROVEP
I PRIVATE I
CON
I tACT REQUIREMENTS The private
contract for street improvement
referred to in Section 621 of this Article shall
2
provide for the completion of the work within a specified time which time may be
extended by the City Council and for the
construction in conformity with the
plena and speoifioationa adopted by the City Council for street work of the charac
ter contracted for and the completion of the work to the aatisfaetion and accept
ance of the Superintendent of Streets A11 contracts entered into between the
owners of any property and the contractor or his agent shall be in
duplicate and
shall contain all items of expense and the total contract price therefor and no
other payment she 1 be allowed to or recovered such
by contractor ecbher than as
itemized and set forth in said contract The original of such contract shall be
held by the contractor or his and the
agent duplicate shall be held by the owners
who moat receipt to the agent or contractor therefor

SEC 623 IPRPROVEIt

2 NT BY PRIVATE CONTRACT IN ACCORDANCE IITH ADOPTED
SPECIFICATIONS All street work done by private contract shall be in aoeordance
with the plans and specifications adopted by the Council to the line and
grade
established or approved by the City
Engineer and shall be to the satisfaction
and acceptance of the Superintendent of Streets

SEC 6
24 IM1
2 TT BY PRIVATE CONTRACT
ROVEIk11 CERTIFICATE OF COrJII
LETION
AND APPROVAL hen street work is done by private
@
contract upon completion of
the work specified in the contract the contractor shall secure lj from the
Engineer
for the work the engineer
s certificate which shall state the work has been done
to line and grade if the engineering work has been done outside of the City
s
Engineer Office a copy o f the Engineer
s Certificate shall be filed in said
office and in the office of the Superintendent of
Streets 2j From the Sup erin
tendent of Streets his certificate which shall atate that the work has been done
in conformity with the specifications and to the satisfaction and
acceptance of
the Superintendent of Streets

The Street Superintendent

shall have the same power to appoint a s unable
person to superintend inspect construction as is or may be rested fn the
or
Super
intendent of Streets by the general law of the State of California in the
case o f
public contracts and the compensation of such person shall e the same as for
special superintendents or inspectors employed under public contracts

SEC 25
2
6 NT BY PRIVATE COITRACT
IaflPROVE FEES fhen street work
is done by private contract the
City Engineer if the engineering work is done
by
him hail
a receive for the services performed by him in connection wi th pr lost e
contracts for which a permit is granted pursuant to the terms of
this Article
such fees as are now allowed or shall be hereafter allowed by the Ordinances of
the City of Oakland

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 The Street Superintendent shall collect all fees due for printing City
Engineers fees superintendent or inspeetor compensation
unpaid and special s
and shall not issue to the oontraetor the Street s
Superintendent osrtificate

hereinbefore in Seotion 6
24 of this Article provided
2 for until the fees above

mentioned are
paid
h DENIAL OF RIGHT TO AS
SEC 626
2 I
ROVEME
Ip1P BY PRIVATE CONTRACT
PENALTY In addition to any other penalty provided by this p person who
Code ar
shall colleot money or attempt to oollect money for street work done under any

private contract granted pursuant to the terms of this Artiole until the oertifi

Cates of the Engineer and Street Superintendent shall have been issued as herein

before in Seotion 6
24 of this Article
2 provided for or who shall viol ate or
o
street work
attempt to violate any of the provisions of this Article pertaining to
by private eontraot shall be denied the privilege of thereafter doing any kind ll
of street work in the City of kland L
d7
3
jJ
SEC 6 27 TRACKS OF ET
r
1ti
4i ILROAD
CD ROBBING STREFJI BEING PAVED

@Yherever arty street railroad operating upon the public streets of the City of

public street in said City which is being paved with a hard

Oakland crosses any

surfaeed pavement upon a concrete foundation such basalt blocks

as sheet asphalt

vitrified brick or other similar material any person operating such street rail
road shall at the time the work of paving is done on the erosa street reconstruct
to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets of the City of Oakland the
C
tracks of such street railroad at such crossing in the manner shown upon that
certain plan prepared by the City Engineer entitled Sectional Plan of Street
Railway Track Construction for Street Intersection Type A Oakland Cal August
1919 and filed on the 26th day of August 1919 in the office of the City Clerk
of said City

28 TRACKS OF RAILROAD CROSSING STREET BEING PAVID

SEC 6
2 ythenever

any railroad operating upon the public streets of the City of Oakland other than
a street railroad crosses any public street in the City of Oakland which is being

paved with a surfaoed pavement upon a concrete foundation such as sheet

hard

asphalt basalt blocks vitrified brink or other similar material any person
railroad other than said street railroad shall at the time the
operating such
work of paving is done on the cross street reconstruct to the
satisfaotion of
the of Streets of the City of Oakland the tracks of such railroad
Superintendent
at such crossing in the shown upon that certain plan prepared by the City
manner

Engineer entitled Sectional Plan type Railroad Track Construction for

of Heavy

Street Intersection Type A Oakland Cal August 1919 and filed vn the 26th
day of August 1919 in the office o f the City Clerk of said City

SEC 29 PAVET
2
6 NT BY RAILROADS TO BE SA1
E AS REST OF STREET In all

cases where a public street within the City of Oakland is now or shall be hereafter
macadam that portion of such street to be
paved with bithulithic concrete or oil
kept in order or repair by any street railroad having a track or tracks thereon
shall be paved with the same pavement as the other portion of the street

The laying of said pavement upon such portion of such street shall be
commenced within ten 10 days after the completion and acceptance by the Superin
of such street
tendent of Streets of the pavement upon the remainder in width

this section shall to all franchises

The provisions of apply existing
not
and all franchises hereafter nted but shall
grs apply to Broadway or tashington
Streets or to Fourteenth Street between Broadway and Washington Streets

SEC 30
2
6 CKS D
TR I PAVEPIERFI TO BE LAIR IACCORDANCE t
I1 ITH APPROVED

PLAiIS All car laid by any person in the City of Oakland

tracks to be hereafter
and all street roadway tv be laid within the apace required by law to
pavement and

ined by railway oompaniea shall be constructed according to detail Plana

be main
which must be prepared b y the party or parties who propose to do the work Said
plans must be submitted to and approved by the City Engineer before constructio n

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begins and all work must
be done to the satisfaction of
the City Engineer and Super
intendent of Streets A11 existing tracks and street pavement and roadways the
design of which is not approved by the City Engineer when removed for any other
purpose than ordinary repair of roadbed must be replaced by track or pavement con
forming to the above requirements The plans as aforesaid must sh av in detail a
Dross section of the proposed track and pavement and roadway and the alignment
ll railway tracks must be satisfactory to the City Engineer
of e

All railroad tracks and street pavement must be laid on the official

grade of the street and all existing tracks and street pavement not on official

grade must be rec onstructed upon the order of the City Council

SEC 31
2
6 TRACKS ANCE OF PAVEP
IITTEf fiTT BETVYEEN
I NOTICE TQ REPAIR
track tracks in the of
Any person owning or operating any City
car Oakland shall
or

be required to maintain and sprinkle said track or tracks and the pavement and
roadway between and adjacent thereto and two 2 feet each side thereof in a condition
the and the of Streets of said of
satisfactory to City Alfa
nager Superintendent City
Oakland

Any owner superintendent or other officer of any corporation or association

erating any street railroad in the City of Oakland shall upon notice from
owning or or
the Superintendent of Streets of the City of Oakland make all repairs specified in
said n
tice Any car track which presents serious obstruction to travel in the cro s

ing of vehicles will be subject to removal by the Superintendent of Streets without

notice to the owners or officers in charge of said track

SEC 32 TRAC
2
6 IR
REP T BE DE 3Y CImY IT NC
T CDF UPON N0
ICE
After service of notice to make any repairs as provided for in Section 6
31 of
2
this Article and the time for beginning work as specified having epired the
Superintendent of Streets may proceed to make any necessary repairs and the cost
of the work plus one hundred per Dent 1000 shall be charged to the person served
with said notice and the amount so charged shall constitute alien upon the property
of said person

Any work provided for by Section 2

6
3 1 of this Article must be commenced
within three 3 days after service of notice and prosecuted diligently to completion
unless the time for beginning work is otherwise specified in said notice

SEC 33 TR
2
6 CKS TYPE A
TU LAYING All tracks hereafter to be laid
for any street railroad in any public street in the City of Oakland shall be con
truc
ted of standard rails of the moat approved pattern and in a good and substantial

manner and so as to present the least possible obstruction to travel and the cross

ing of vehicles All rails heretofore in use which do not conform to the foregoing
provisions when remo ved for any other purpose than for ordinary repair of the
roadbed stringers or tie a shall be replaced by rails conforming and in a manner
conforming to said foregoing provisions

A11 tracks for any street railroad now or hereafter to be constructed

in any public street in the of Oakland shall be laid in such that the
City a manner

top of the rail or rails shall be flush with the street between the rails and for two

feet on either side of such rails and between the tracks if there is more than one

SEC 34
2
6 TRAC PAL AID
i
REI T
RFPLACE2 No track tracks in use
or

any street railroad in the of Oakland ans laid in any

by City public street in said
shall be taken up or removed to any part of said street elsewhere for
City or

temporary or other purposes without first obtaining permission for said work from
the Council of the City of Oakland

tNhenever any such track or tracks are taken up for temporary purposes
such track or tracks must be replaced promptly and with as little obstruction to
travel as possible and in accordance with the provisions of this Article applicable
thereto

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 All such tracks for said street railroads in the City of Oakland shall
be laid in accordance with the official grade of the public street in which such
traoks are laid and whenever the grade of any such street is changed such tracks
shall be relaid promptly to conform to the change of grade

SEC 35 TRACKS
2
6 TEIaT
ABAATDONA REPAVING fhenever any street rail
l
road track laid in orupon any public street in the City of Oakland fa taken up for
abandonment of its use the person owning or controlling such street railroad track
shall sove
re such track promptly and repave that portion of the street formerly
used by the tracks so removed between the rails and for taro 2j feet on either side
thereof Such re
pavement and all paving required by the provisions of this
Artiole
relative to tracks shall be done with similar materials of as good quality as the
jaeent roadway
ad and shall be done in accordance with the general specifications
provided by ordinance or otherwise for similar street work

2
6SEC
36 TRACFS t VT3ERE Ir11PROVID TYPE OF PAY
iENT IS IN TSE
F In all
aes where
e any public street in the City of Oakland is paved with asphalt bitu
men vrooden blocks or other improved paving material and when a portion of such
street is to be kept in repair by any street railroad such portion of said street
shall not be macadamized or remacadamized nor shall any macadam be laid thereon
and such portion of said attest which is to be kept in repair by any street railroad
moat be properly paved and such paving must be done to the satisfaction of the Super
intendent of Streets of the City o f Oakland

All work herefnbefore in this Article required to be done by a Street

Railroad Company shall be done promptly in a good substantial manner and to the
satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets

No owner superintendent or ether official of any firm corpora

or any
tion or association owning operating or controlling any street railroad in the
City of Oakland ethall cause or knowingly allow any work to be done or fail to b e
done in violation of the provisions of this article

SEC 6
37
2 LIGHTING DESIGN OF S TANDAP
DS The three 3 decorative
designs as sIxown on that certain drawint entitled Standard Designs for Ornamental
Street Righting Standards
City of Oakland August 24 1127 filed in the office
of the Superintendent of the Electrical
Department are hereby adopted and established
as standard decorative designs for ornamental street
hting standards for use in
li
the City of Oakland

The decorative design of all ornamental street lighting standards hereafter

installed in or on any public street of the City of Oakland shall substantially con
form to one or the other of the aforesaid designs

Aa used in this Article the term lighting standard shall not be construed
to include the lighting unit or lighting fixture supported by or on such lighting
standard

SEC 38
2
6 LIGHTING STANDARDS TO BE CAST IROI All ornamental street
lighting standards hereafter installed in or any public street of the City of
on

Oakland shall be constructed of east iron excepting such inner reinfora

tng tubes
and such bolts screws and other small parts as be made
may neoeasarily of other
metals

SEC 39 LIGHTING
2
6 INTENANCE BY CITY 9VHEN
I4iA No ornaanental street
lighting starxiard hereafter installed in
public street of the City of
or on any
Oakland or in or on any area used b designated or set apart for use by the
public as a public street shall hereafter be lighted or maintained either wholly
or partly at the expense of the City of Oakland unless such lighting standard shall

conform to the requirements of this Article and then only to such extent and
subject to such conditions and regulations as may 4om time to time be presoribed
or established by or with the approval of the City Council

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 SEC 640 LIGHTING
2 APPROVAL OF CITY BEFt
3E ENERGY IS SIIPPLIED
No person shall make any electric service connection to or supply any electrical

energy to any ornamental street lighting installation until the Electrical

shall have inspected and approved such installation
Department as conforming to this
Code and to ordinances rules arri regulations of the City of Oakland thereto per
taining

SEC 41
2
6 LIGHTING
REPLACEMENTS NOT AFFECTED This Article shall
not be construed as applying to the replacement or installation at or closely
re
adjac ent to its existing location of any street lighting standard heretofore
installed in the City of Oakland as in cases where such replacement or reinstal
lation is occasioned by damage to such lighting standard or by temporary removal
thereof on account of street work or other construction work in the vicinity
thereof

SEC 42 LTGH ING

2
6 ELECTR LIERS From and after June 30 1913
no permission to install electroliers in upon any of the streets lanes alleys
or

or other public places in the City of Oakland shall be granted by the Council of
the City of Oakland by
any officer or employee of said City to any person and
or

no electroliers shall be installed in a of the streets

lanes alleys or other
public places in the City of Oakland provided that permission may be granted
to iris tall electroliers and electroliers many be installed upon the granting of
such permission in the following described district in the City of Oakland
t
pi
Beginning at the intersection of the westerly line of IVlarket Street
with the northerly line of Seventeenth Street running thence easterly along the
northerly line of Seventeenth Street to the intersection of the nor therly line of
Seventeenth Street with the
easterly Line of Webster Street running thence
southerly along the eesterly line of Webster Street to the intersection of the
easterly line of Webster Street with the southerly line of Seventh Street running
thence westerly along the southerly line of Seventh Street to the
intersection of
the southerly line of Seventh Street with the
westerly line of pl
arket Street
and running thence northerly along the
westerly line of A
arket Street to the
point o f beginning

Provided however that all electroliers installed West of Jefferson

Street
w ithin the limits of the foregoing district shall not exceed four
4J
to the block and shall conform in general style size and
appearance to the
electroliers nrnv being maintained by the City of
Oakland unless otherwise
authorized by the unanimous vote of the Whole Council

SEC 643 Ul
2 D tWIRE DISTRICTS DEFIN
DERGROtT D For the purpose
of removing poles and overhead wires and placing all electrical Wires and con
ductors underground the following districts are d esignated as
urxlerground districts
and described as follows

TDERGROUr3D DISTRICT N
UI 0 1

Bounded as foliowss Commencing at the northwest corner of Washington

and Eleventh Street and thence northerly along the est side of Washington Street
to the north side of bburteenth Street and thence along the north side of Four
teenth Street to the center line of Franklin Street thence along the center
line
of Franklin Street to the center line of Eleventh Street and thence the along
center line of Eleventh Street to the western Line of Washington Street thence
northerly to the point of beginning

TnTD DISTRICT NO 2
IINDERGRQ

Bounded as fo11oW9 Commencing at the northwest corner of San Pablo

Avenue and Fourteenth Street thence
along the west side of San Pablo Avenue to
north side of Seventeenth Street thence along the north sifie of
Seventeenth
Street to east side o f Telegraph Avenue thence along the north side of
Seventeenth
Street to east side of Broadway Street thence along the east side of
dwap
Broa
Street to the north side of Fourteenth Street thence westerly along the north
side of Fourteenth Street to point of beginning

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 ND IISTRICT NC
TI3ERGROT
UI 3

Bounded as follows Commencing at the intersection of the center

line o f Eleventh Street and western line of
Washington Street thence along
the oenter Iine of Eleventh Street to the east side of
Broadway Street thence
along the east side of Broadway Street to the southeast corner of Broadway and
Seventh Streets thence from the so utheast corner of
Broadway and Seventh
Streets along the south side of Seventh Street to west aide of
Washington
Street thence along the west side of Washington Street to the point of beginning

DER GR
UI dD DISTRICT N0 4
1
I

Bounded as follows All those portions of the following desoribed

streets Franklin Street from the south property line of Seventh Street to
the north property line of Fourteenth Street except such portion of said street
as is already included in underground district No 1 Seventh Eighth Ninth
Tenth and Eleventh Streets from the west line of Franklin Street to the east
property line of Broadway except that portion of Eleventh Street that is
already included in underground district No 1 Twelfth Street from the east
Iine of Franklin Street to the east line of First avenue and Lakeside
Boulevard
from the no rth line of Twelfth Street to the west ine of First Avenue Eleventh
Street andThirteenth Street from the east line of Franklin Street to the west
line of Webster Street

UNDEE2GROUND DISTRICT N0 5

Bounded as follows All those portions of the following described

streets Clay Street from the south line of Seventh Street to the
southwesterly
property line of San Pablo Avenue
Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth and Eleventh
Streets from the east line of Clay Street to the west line of Washington Street
Twelfth tiirteenth and Fourteenth Streets from the east line of Jefferson Street
to the west line of Clay Street and from the east line of
Clay Street to the
west line of Washington Street Fifteenth Street and Sixteenth Street from the
east line of Clay Street to the line of San Fablo Avenue
southwesterly

D DTSTRICT N0
GROUt
UND 6

Bounded as follows
All those portions of the following described
streets San Pablo
Avenue Telegraph Avenue and Broadway from the north
property line of Seventeenth Street to the south property line of Twentieth
Street Eighteenth Street and Nineteenth Street from the west property line
of Telegraph Avenue to the northeasterly sine of San Pablo avenue

D
Jl
DERGROT
t7N DISTRICT N0 7

Bounded as follows
All those portions of the following described
streets Broadway and
Washington Streets from the south line of Seventh Street
to the north line of Third
Street Fourth Street Fifth Street and Sixth Street
from the east line of Clay Street to the west line of
Washington Street and from
the east line o f Washington Street to the west line of
Broadway and from the
east line of Broadway to the west line of Franklin Street

tGROUND DISTRICT
UND A

Thirteenth Street from the west Iine of Webster Street to the east
Iine of Alice Street

Fourteenth Street from the east line of Franklin Street tar

ection
inter
ite
with the north line of Twelfth Street

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 Fifteenth Street from line of Jefferson Street to the
the East
to the west
west line of Clay Street and from the east line of Broadway Street
to the west
line of Franklin Street and from the west line of Franklin Street
line of Harrison Street when eo and as extended

Sixteenth Street from the east line of Jefferson Street to the west

line of Clay Street

Seventeenth Street from the east line of Broadway Street to the west
the west
line of Franklin Street and from the west line of Franklin Street to
line of Harrison Street when so and as extended

Nineteenth Street from the east line of Telegraph Avenue to the east

line of Broadway Street

William Street from the east line of San Pablo Avenue to the west
line of Telegraph Avenue

Street from the south line of Twentieth Street to the south

Broadway
line of Hawthorne Avenue

Franklin Street from the north line of Fourteenth Street to the south

line of Nineteenth Street

Webster Street from the north line of Twelfth Street to the north line

of Seventeenth Street ae such line of Seventeenth Street will be when extended

Oak Street from the north line of Twelfth Street to the south line of

Lake Street

elfth Street to its

Fallon Street from the north line of Te intersection

with Fourteenth Street

Boulevard along the westerly shore of Lake I

ierritt from Lake Street

to Harrison Boulevard

Harrison Boulevard from the north line of Twentieth street to the south

third Street
line of Twenty

Lakeshore Bout evard from the west line of First Avenue to the west

line of Wayne Avenue

UNDERGROUND DISTRICT B

Jefferson Street from the north line of 13th Street to the west line

of San Pablo Avenue

Nineteenth Street from the east line of Broadway to the west line

of Webster Street

Hobart Street from the east line of Broadway to the west line of

Webster Street

of Nineteenth Street to
Franklin Street from the south line the south

senty Street and from the south line of

line of first
T first
Twenty Street to

the east line of Broadway when so extended

first Street
Twenty from the east line of Broadway to the west line

of Webster Street

Grand Avenue from the east line of Broadway to the west line of

Webster Street

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 entieth Street
Te from the east line of San Pablo venue to the west

line of Webster Street

tDERGROUND DISTRICT C
U

Street from the south line of Seventeenth Street to the south line
Webster
of Rt
entieth Street

UNDERGROUND DISTRICT D

tandana Boulevard to the

Lakeshore Avenue from the southern line of Pd
east of Lake
southern line of Lake Park Avenue as said southern line exists
Shore Avenue

Lake Park Avenue from the eastern line of Grand Avenue to the center

line of Lakeshore Avenue

Harrison Street from the north line of Twelfth Street to the north

line of Twentieth Street

of Alice Street to its intersection

Thirteenth Street from the east line
with Foux teenth Street

SEC 6
4
2 4 POLES AND OVERHEAD WIRES PROHIBITED It shall be unlawful

in any Underground District defined in Section 4

2
6 3 of this Article except

District No 7 for any person to erect maintain continue use operate or

employ over or upon the streets ox alleys in any of said Underground Districts
except District No 7 any overhead wires overhead cable device or apparatus
by through over or b y means of which electricity is has been or may be in any
manner transmitted conducted or conveyed for electric light heat power tele
structure support
graph telephone signaling or other purpose or pole or other
ing the same or to keep continue maintain use operate
or employ any such

pole or asiy such overhead wire cable device or apparatus axed all such poles
overhead wires cables devices or apparatus shall be deemed a public nuisance
provided however that it shall be lawful to continue the maintenance of a four
span lead for local distribution in the block from San Pablo Avenue to Tele
4
graph Avenue on Twentieth Street

7 as defined in Section 6
It shall be unlawful in District No 43
2
use of wires for
for any person owning
making the transmission
or
of this Article
of signals or intelligence to erect maintain continue use operate or employ
any pole overhead wire overhead cable or device over or upon the streets in
said District No 7 by through over or by means of which signals or intelli

gence is transmitted Except that such person may employ distributing poles with
their wires upon or over Fourth Fifth and Sixth Streets providing drop w irea

do not cross Washington Streets A distributing pole is hereby de

Broadway or

fined to be a passageways connecting it with an under

pole having one or more
to conaumer
s
ground conduit and said pole being used for purposes of distribution
connection by of overhead wires with
premises only and not having an overhEad means

any other pole or fixture

7 to erect
It shall be unlawful in said District No for any person

continue use operate or employ any pole or overhead wire cable or

maintain
device over or upon the streets of said District No 7 by through or by means
of which electricity is or has been or may be transmitted conducted or conveyed
for the purpose of electric light hest or power except that such person may

two lead with their wires

over or upon Fourth Fifth or Sixth Streets
employ span a
wires do not cross Broadway or Washington Streets
providing drop wires or line
to be of
overhead 9pan lead is heresy
A two defined a lead three poles one of
it with an underground
which has connection of one or more passageways connecting
conduit system or has not more than two wires connecting said lead with any other
of the above definition is understood an extension
pole lead The latter part as

o f the term span

two lead put in only to apply to District
of the general Weaning
No 7

@ s 3 acs
1
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3 5L
 It shall be unlawful in said District No 7 for any person to keep
employ arty such pole orany a uch overhead
continue maintain use operate or

such poles
wire cable device or apparatus except as herein provided and all
and apparatus as aforesaid shallbe
and all such overhead wires cables devices
deemed public nuisances except such as are herein exempted from the provisions
of this Article

SEC 45
2
6 MaINTENANC OF POLES AND MIRES TN UNDERGROUND DISTRICTS

A JIISDTOR Any person who shall erect or so construct place or keep maintain
any of the purposes
whatever for
continue employ operate or use in any manner

referred to in Section 6
44 of this Article any
2 such pole or overhead wire
such as are in said Section 6
44 exempted
2
cable device or apparatus excepting
in acid Underground Districts defined
in any of the streets or alleys specified
in Section 6
43 of this Article
2 or any portion of said streets or alleys or

to take dot
rn and any and all such poles overhead wires
who shall neglect remove

cables devices apparatus shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each fifteen

or

15 days that may elapse for the failure to comply vaith the provisions herect8
shall constitute a separate
ense
off
SEC 646 POLES s
2 IRES SPECIAL TEMPORARY PEZISSION The
of upon some
City Council may grant special permission in cases emergency or

unusually special occasion without discrimination to any person t0 erect con

atruct install maintain use or operate poles overhead wires cables devices
or apparatus for a period not exceeding sixty 60 days in each case anything
in this Axticle to the contrary otwithstanding

SEC 47Ul
2
6 TDERGROUND DISTRICTS IS TO RE
EXCEPTICI UIREMENTS Poles
posts used
or posts used exclusively for supporting street lights and poles or

exclusively fvr supporting fire alarm boxes o r other similar municipal equipment
may be erected and maintained in said Underground Districts defined in Section
43 of this article under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the City
2
6
Council and are exempt from the provisions of this Article relative to Under
ground Districts

fires of a continuous lead crossing any of the streets sp ecified in

said Underground Districts at a nteraection when such continuous
street i lead

is on a street on which poles overhead wires cables devices or apparatus

are not prohibited are hereby exempt from the provisions of this Article relative
to Underground Districts

Electric railways are hereby expressly exempt from the provisions of

this Article relative to Underground Districts insofar as it affects poles and
wires used exclusively for railway purposes

Overhead wires used for district telegraph and messenger service are

exempt from the provisions of this Article relative to Underground Districts

provided a permit therefor designating the location and manner of construction
thereof shall first be obtained from the electrical department

SEC 48 BdOV
2
6 I LTG BUILDII
tG IT
PER It shall be unlawful for

any person to move or cause to building in on upon across or

be moved any

along or into any public street highway in the City of Oakland without first
or

do
obtaining a permit in writing so to Appiic ation for such permit shall be
filed with the City T
anager and shall specify the character of the building to
be moved the place 4 om which and the place to which said building is to be
moved the streets over or through which it is desired to move the building and

the method of such moving and locomotion and said application shall contain
the written assent to the proposed location of said building from the persons
of the feet front of lots of the same block on the same street
owning the majority
in which it is proposed to locate such building and also from the persons owning

themajority of the feet front of lots of the same street on the block opposite
the proposed location Said application shall also contain a certificate of the
the value of the house or
Building Inspector of the City of Oakland stating
to be moved
building proposed

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 The for
applicant a permit shall at the time his application is
filed give written notice to the owners of property situated within one

hundred and fifty 150

feet of the exterior boundaries of the lot or piece of
land on which said building is to be located which notice shall set forth the
character of the building to be moved the from which and the
place to place
which it is to be moved and the value of the
building as certified to by the
Building Inspector Five 5 days shall elapse between the filing of the appli
cation and the action thereon by the City Al
anager

SEC 649 IVD9

2 TG BUILDII
T S FEES Al D D SITS Upon filing an
application far a permit to wove a building as provided for in Section 6 48
2
of this Article such applicant shall deposit with the Bureau of Permits and
Licenses the sum of One hundred 7ollars 10000j as a guaranty that he will
pay any and all damages which may result by reason of the moving of said
building
by the applicant his agent employees or working men to any property belonging
to the City of Oakland Such applicant shall also pay the said Bureau of Permits
ark I
icensea the following fee 1 If the method of moving and locomotion is
such that the building rests upon wooden rollers
supported by the street aryl the
method of locomotion by turning a capstan staked to the
street the fee shall
be twenty
five dollars 25 00 and five dollars 0 5 00 additional for each one
thousand 1000 feet or fractional part Cher eof if the said building is to be
moved along any public street or highway in excess of one thousand
000 feet
1
measured on the shortest direct Tine streets to the point
along of destination
such distance to be determined by the
Superintendent of Streets and 2 if the
manner of moving such
building is that of placing it upon a vehicle and the
vehicle is self propelled or drawn or
by propellt vehicle the fee
self
shall be five dollars 00
5
0 QM horse
DM1
i3J
ttC

SEC 50
2
6
f
J
l VIl BUILDINGS I1N12Y TO OR OBSTRUCTIOI
T OF STREI
S
I
The moving of any er upon
building or across any pub lic street or highway in
the City of Oakland as provided for in Seotion 48 tSf this
2
6 Article shall be
done in a careful and
prosecuted with diligence and shall be
manner shall b e
under the superintendence and control of and performed to the satisfaction and
approval of the Superintendent of Streets No person owning or having charge
of the moving of any building through the public streets shall cause or allow
the injury of any street sidev
alk curb tree fence or private or public
property by reason of such moving nor permit the said building to be or stand
on any street lane alley or public ground within the limits of one block for
a period of time 1Qnger than twenty four 24j hours unless sueh time is extended
by the Superintendent of Streets nor shall permit the same to obstruct the
operation of y
ax street railroad or railroad e
cept between the hours of One
Thirty 1
30 and Five 5 A

SEC 51 iOVING
2
6 BUILDINGS CUPTTNG WIRES When the moving of
any building as provided for in Section 6
4
2 8 of this Article requires the
cutting or temporary removal of any pole or poles or any wire or wires of any
public or private telegraph telephone electric light street railroad or
railway or any other wire passing along or over any street lane or alley the
person in charge of such moving at least twelve 12 hours in advance of reach
ing such pole or wire shall notify
the person having charge of and control over
such pole or wire and the person so notified shall cause such pole or wire to be
removed or cut and replaced provided
that in every case in which nutting of
wires in the City of Oakland
may be necessary the Superintendent of
the Electri
cal 13epartment shall be notified of the wires cut and replaced The person
having charge of the removal of the building shall pay the entire cost and ex
pense of Dotting removing and replacing the same including the poles to which
said wires of the Cfty of Oakland may b e attached

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 6
5
2
SEC2 MOVING BUILDIIQGS REPAIRING DA
AGE DANE When in
4
2
6 8 of this Article any
moving arty building as provided for in Section
is occasioned to any fence tree street sidewalk dr to ar
y
damage thereby
wire belonging to the City of Oakland the person moving said build
pole or
in the event
ing shall immediately repair or replace the damage so done and
that repair or replacement cannot be made the City Manager shall estimate
the amount of damage actually done the person moving said building shall
and

pay the damage so done and in the event that upon three 3 days notice to

the said person to repair or replace or pay said damage the repair or replace
ment or Payment has not been mad the same may be made by the City of Oakland
out of the money deposited Frith the Bureau of Permits and Licenses as provided
in Section 6
49 of this Article
2

SEC 53 MC
2
6 VING BUILDIRTGS TRICTED DISTRICTS
R It shall be

unlawful for Y person to move

ar pause to be moved any building in
or on

upon or across or along Broadway between the north line of Seventh

or into

tes
S and the south line of Twentieth Street Harrison Street between the
north line of Twentieth Street and the south line of Twenty
fourth Street and

in on upon along or into Twelfth Street and East Twelfth Street between
Jefferson Street and First Avenue or in on upon along or into Seventh Street
between Bay and Fallon Streets except acros9 Seventh Street at its intersection
with Madison Street at its intersection with Castro Street and at its inter
section with Center Street or in on upon along or into Webster Street between
Water Street and Thirteenth Street except across Webster Street at its inter
section with Fifth Street or in on upon along or into Franklin Street between
second Street or in on upon along or into Twenti
Fourteenth Street and Twenty
eth Street between Franklin Street and Curtis Street except across Twentieth
Street at its intersection with West Street or in on upon along or into Twenty
first Street between Curtis Street and San Pablo Avenue except across Twent
first
r
Street at its interseotion with West Street or in on upon along or into Jones

Street between San Pablo Avenue and Telegraph Avenue or in on upon along or
into Street between Telegraph Avenue and Franklin Street or in
second
Twenty
on upon along or into Eighteenth Street between Wood Street and Market Street
and at
intersection with Filbert Street
pt aorosa Eighteenth Street at its
exc
its intersection with Campbell Street or in on upon along or into Nineteenth
Street between Market Street and Castro Street excepting however that houses
and Eighteenth
may be moved aorosa said described portions of Seventh Street
Street and across Webster Street between Water Street and Seventh Street provid

ing said houses while being moved will pass under a line distant twenty 20 feet
above the surface of the street provided however that permission may be granted
any person to move or Deus a
to b e moved any building in upon or aorosa any of
the foregoing streets in this section enumerated upon receiving the unanimous
consent of the City Council

54 LEAKS
2
6 It shall be unlawful for any person
SEC IN VPATEft FIPES

owning controlling water pipes in the City of Oaklaxxi to permit a leak to exist
or

in any of the same within any public street or pub ic place in the City of Oakland
four 24
for more than twenty hours after notice of such leak has been given to
such person or for any such per son owning or controlling such water pipes to
water from a leak in such pipe to remain
permit any soil saturated or softened by
in or under any public street for a longer period than is actually necessary for
the work of removing the same said work to begin within twenty four 24 hours
after notice of the presence of such saturated or softened soil has been given
b to completion All such saturated
to said person and to e diligently prosecuted
or softened material shall be replaced with firm material compacted and otherwise
with regulations of the City of Oakland for refilling excava
placed in accordance
tlona

Notice as herein provided for may be given in writing to the person

owning or controlling such water pipes by any person having knowledge thereof
to give notice of such
and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets
leaks as come to his attention

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1
 SEC 55 MIRING MORTAR ON STREETS
2
6 It shall be unlawful for arty
person to place or cause to be pieced anywhere upon the s urfaee of the roadway
of any public streets in the City of Oakland
or upon the surface of any improved
sidewalk therein mortar in
moist state for arty purpose whatsoever or to mix
a

or prepare the same upon such roadway or sidewalk unless such mortar be placed
mixed or epared in a tight box or upon a close fitted platform or bed

No moist concrete shall be allowed to stand on the surface of any

street improved sidewalk for a longer period th an one hour after mixing and
or

on completion of the job all surplus material shall be removed and the street or
sidewalk surface aashed cleaned and left in the same condition as before mixing
No rock sand gravel or cement shall be washed into and left in either gutters
or catch basins or alloyed to furl its way into catch basins

SEC 656 SPTLLIwG SAND ON STREETS

2 It shall be unlawful for any
person to use within the City of Oakland any cart wagon or other vehicle for
the purpose of carrying sand earth or rock on or over
any public street unless
the same is tight and so constructed as to prevent the deposit of such sand
earth or rock in whole or in part in or upon such public street

SEC 57 TACKS
2
6 4DrD GLASS It shall rful for
be unlav any person to
throw or deposit tacks broken glass or ware upon the sidewalks streets avenues
alleys or other public places in the City of Oakland

SEC 58 INJURING 3IDI

2
6 ALKS A
TD STREETS It shall be unlawful for
any person to cut carve hack hew or otherwise injure or deface any sidewalk
curb gutter or pavement on any public street in the City of Oakland

SEC 59
2
6 BURNING l
UBBISH It shall be unlawful for
any person to
set fire to or burn or to cause to be set fire to burned any rags paper
or

wood or any rubbish on any public street or public ground within the Fire Limits
of the City of Oakland or upon any street or sidewalk paved with or constructed
of bituminous rock or any other combustible material without first obtaining
a written permi fro1177 the Supe i27
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PARS AND BOULEVARDS

SEC 01
3
6 TS For
DEFIRTITIO the purpose o f this article oertain
words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as herein
set out unless it shall be apparent from the context that have different
they a

meaning

a Improvement The term Improv anent when used in this Article

in reference to trees or
shrubs shall include the removal
planting or maintenance
of same and any or all acts necessary thereto

b paintenance taintain
T The words maintenances or maintain
when used in this Article in reference to trees or shrubs shall include clipping
spraying fertilising irrigating propping treating for disease or injury and
any other similar acts which promote the life
growth health or beauty of such
trees or shrubs

c Public Streets Public street when used in this Article shall

include all public streets avenues highways alleys walks aAd lanes in the City
of Oakland

goats Boats shall include canoes

d row boats sail boats hydro
planes sand any Rnd all other watercraft

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 SEC 02
3
6 POWERS AND AUI
iORITX OQEB TREES The Board of Park
Directors shall have full power and authority over the planting removal and
maintenance of trees and shrubs in
upon any public street in the City of
or

Oakland and shall have the right and power to establish rules and regulations
relating thereto and said Board shall recoaenend to the Council the enactment
of such o niinancea as it may deem necessary to protect said trees and shrubs

SEC 03
3
6 tOUS TREES A NUISANCE SUTd
DANGF IlARY POWF TO REPAOYE SAI

Any tree or shrub growing in any public street or sidewalk or on a private

estate and overhanging or projecting into any such street affi which is endangering
or which may in any way endanger the security or usefulness of any public street
sewer or
sidewalk is hereby declared to be a public nuisance The Board of Park
Directors may remove such tree or shrub or such parts thereof as are liable to
fall or are dangerous or an obstruction provided that except in case of manifest

public danger and immediate necessity no such tree or shrub shall be wholly cut
down or removed unless ten 10 days notice i n writing shall be
given by the Board
to an occupant
owner or agent of the priv ate estate moat immediately affected by
such cutting
or removal and if any owner occupant or agent of such estate shall
within seven 7 days after the giving of such notice file with the safd Board
his objections in writing to aueh removal such tree or shrub shall not be out down
or removed unless said Board shall give such owner or other proper person who has
made said objection a reasonable opportunity to be heard in support of such objection
and shall thereafter approve in writing the removal of the same if aueh objection
is not sustained

04 PERMIT TO MAINTAIN REMOVE ILATE

3
6
SEC T7 ATTACH T0 OR DETACH
A
FROM TREES It shall be unlawful for any person to make arty tree or shrub improve
ment or to d4stroy deface or mutilate ar
p tree or shrub in anti along any public

street or to attach
place any rope wire sign poster handbill or other thing
or

to or on any treegrowing in any public street or any guard or protection of such

tree or to eataseor permit any wire charged with electricity to Dome in contact with
any such tree without having first obtained a written permit therefor from the Board
of Park Directors

SEC 6
05
3 LEADS IN GAS PIPES It shall be the of any person owning
duty
maintaining operating any gas pipes
or or gas mains beneath the surface of any
public street to prevent leaks in aueh pipes or mains and to repair the same imme
diately In the event that said person refuses or neglects to repair said Ieaks
within five days after written notice from the Board of Park Directors to
repair the came it sha11 b e lawful for the Superintendent of Streets at the re
quest of the Board of Park Directors to make the necessary repairs thereto and
the cost and expense of making said repairs shall be paid to the City of Oakland

by e person owning maintaining or operating said gas pipes or gas mains

SEC 06 PEflMITS GFNERALL

3
6 t The Board of Park Directors may author
ise the Superintendent of Parks or any other officer to under its jurisdiction
issue p ermita in this Article required to be scoured from the said Board and
notices in this Article required to be given Every permit granted ender Section
04 of this Article shall specifically prescribe the work to be done under it
3
6
and aha11 expire sixty 60j days from its date A charge of fifty 50 Dents shall
be made for each to trim trees in front of
permit property not owned by the appli
cant Arty permit granted may be rl
voked by the Board of Park Directors at any time
upon satisfactory proof to said Board that the privilege thereunder is
being abused

SEC 6
07
3 LAKE M
tRITT BOAT LICENSE
Any person who shall own any
boat boats
or and shall use the on Lake
Merritt and any person ownixtg any
same

boat or boats who shall hereafter desire to place the same on Lake Merritt shall
be required to take out a license for each such boat fxom the Board of Playground

Directors and pay a license fee therefor in the manner hereinafter provided for
and shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Board of Playground Directors
as hereinafter provided or which said Board may from time to time prescribe
by
resolution

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 Applications for such license ah all be made to the Board of Playground
Directors on blank forms to be furnished each applicant After investigation
such
as the Board shall deem sufficient the application may be granted or rejected
If granted the applicant shall pay the Board of Playground Directors the sum of

00 for each boat owned by him and proposed to be used on Lake

dollar 01
one

Merritt Said awns so paid shall be for and cover the period of the balance of
the then fiscal year A license fee in said sum of one dollar OOj
1
y for each
boat so used shall be paid annually hen granted a metal license tag shall be
11
delivered to each applicant which shall be conspicuously fastened to the boat
licensed The Board of Playground Directors shall have the right to reject any
or applications or to revoke any license previously granted For purposes of
all

public celebrations races festivals or other public occasions the President

of the Board of Playground Directors may grant temporary free permits for racing
boats or other watercraft to be placed on Lake 2erritt Holders of such temporary

permits shall comply with all rules and regulations imposed by the B
trd of Play

ground Directors

SEC 08
3
6 LAKE S
ITT SPEED OF
BOATS Speed of mechanically pro
pelled boats an Lake BrTerritt is limited to eight S miles an hour unless special
permission to exceed such limit is granted by the Board of Playground Directors

SEC 09
3
6 LAKE E
ITT BOATS IN CERTAIl AREAS It shall be unlawful
for any person between the first day of October and the last day of April next

succeeding to row drive propel or

navigate any boat in over or upon any part
of the following described area of Lake Merritt to
wit

That portion of the northeastern arm of Lake Merritt that lies north

easterly of a line bearing north 38a 13f west from a point on the eastern line
of Lakeshore Boulevard distant thereon one hundred and sixty 160 feet southerly
from h production of the entire line of that portion of Hanover Avenue that lies
between Bayne and Newton Avenues

Thin section shall not apply to the employees of the City of Oakland

properly engaged in work for said city in or upon the above described area and
authorized by the Board of Playground Directors or the Board of Park Directors to
be thereon

SEC 610 PUBLIC GROUNDS

3 Any person who shall enter upon any of
the public squares water front or submerged la nds or any other lands belonging
to or held by the City of Oakland and dig up the earth or deposit any earth
rock or other substance thereon or shall erect or attempt to erect any building
wharf or structure of any kind by driving or setting up poste or piles or in
any appropriate or encumber any portion of the real estate belonging
other manner
to or held by the City of Oakland unless such person shall have first obtained

proper authority so to do shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor

SEC 611
3 rG u
CARRYIt TCHETS IrT PARKS It shall be unlawful for any
of Oakland any hatchet axe machete
person to carry in any public park of the City
brush knife or any other device other than pocket knife capable of cutting de
facing or mutilating trees or shrubs without permission so to do from the Board
of Park Directors of the City of Oakland or its duly authorized representatives

SEC 12 DEFOSITIT
3
6 G REFiTSE No person shall throw any dead animal
or offensive matter or substance or refuse of any kind upon the ground of any

public park in the City of Oakland

13 DESTRnYING NOTICES
SEC 6
3 injure deface or
No person shall

destroy any notice rules regulations

or for the
government of parks posted or
in any manner permanently fixed by order or permission of the Board of Park Direc

tires in said parks

tors nor fix any bills or na

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 SEC 614 IS
3 ANTI2 No person shall lead any horse in the limits of
or permit any horse that is not harnessed
any public park in the City of Oakland
and attached to a vehicle or equestrian to enter the same and
mounted by an

no person shall turn loose into said parks any dogs cattle swine groats or other
animals or permit the same to run at large in such parks and police officers axxi
park employees are hereby given authority to capture and destroy any oats found
running at large within said parka

SEC 15 PAR
3
6 tTS I
iDES ENTERT
I dEETINGS No military or other

parade or procession or funeral shall take place or pass through the limits of

of Oakland without the order or permission of the

any public park in the City
Board of Park Directors and no person shall have or hold any musical theatrical
or other entertainment in the said parka without the order or permission of the said

Board and meeting of any kind assembled through advertisement shall

gathering or
no

be permitted in the said parka without bhe previous permission of the Board nor
shall any gathering or meeting for polit
l
ct purposes be permitted in the said parka
under any situations

SEC 16
3
6 S No person
1
GA1 shall engage in any game of baseball
cricket shinx
y football croquet or any other game with ball and bat within
the limits of any public parks in the City of Oakland except on such grounds as

pecially designated for such purpose

shall bee

SEC 617 BOATS AND BOAT RACEu

3 No person shall be permitted to use the
shores of Lake Merritt as a landing place for boats or to keep thereat boats for
hire or floating bos
t houses with pleasure boats for hire or keep boats of any
kind in Lake Iderritt except under a license issued as provided in Section 607
3
of this article and only at places designated by and under restrictions and regula

tions promulgated by the Board of Park Directors oT the Board of Playground Directors
and noregatta or boat race by clubs or otherwise shall take place upon Lake
PJierritt without permission granted by either of said boards

SEC 18 4UEAPONS
3
6 DISTURBING BIRDS No person shall carry firearms
or discharge any firearms in any public park in the City of Oakland or shoot birds

or throw atones or other missiles within the boundaries of said parka or disturb

the waterfowl on Lake Merritt or on any pond or in any way disturb any bird in any
of said parka

SEC 619 SELLING BARES GiiAMING ETC

3 No person shall expose or dis

play any article for sale within arty public park in the City of Oakland without
the order or permission of the Board of Park Directors or the Board of Playground
be allowed
Directors and no gaming shall in said parka nor any obscene or indecent
act performed therein

SEC 20 FISH
3
6 No person sh all fish in Lake Ierritt without written

permission from the Board of Park Dix eetors so to do and no person shall in any
event be allowed to catch more than two 2 base in one day in Lake Merritt

SEC 21
3
6 INJiTRING TREES AP
D OTHER PROP
2TIES It shall be unlawful

for any person to trespass upon the grass of any public park in the City of Oakland
or to pick flowers from the same or to cut break or in anywise injure damage

or deface the trees shrubs turf buildings fences benches fountains ry

atatua
to foul any fountains or within
or any fixtures connected therewith or springs
said park

No tramps or
SEC 22
3
6 TDALISM ETC
VAGRANTS YA disorderly crowds
shall be allowed in any public park in the City of Oakland and sleeping on the
benches or seats and pilfering or vandalism of any sort is strictly prohibited

SEC 23 THE
3
6 Z00 It shall be unlawful for any person to tease
or frighten any of
injure the birds animal a reptiles or fish be longing to or

confined is the municipal zoo

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 SEC 24
3
6 FIRES No person shall be permitted to make or kindle
a fire of any kind within any publio park in the City of Oakland except at suoh
spots
as may be designated by the Board of Park Direotors or the Board of Playground
Direotors

SEC 25 TRAFFIC RE GiTLATIONS

3
6 It shall be unlawful for any person
to drive ide within the boundaries of any public park
i
or in the City df Oakland
at a rate og speed exceeding fifteen 15 miles per hour for any person to
or

ride or drive within the limits of a aid

parka upon any other than the avenues and
roads provided therefor aril no wagon or vehicle of burden shall pass through the
said parks except upon such road or avenue as shall be designated by the Board of
Park Direotors for such transportation

No person shall enter or 1 save

any of said parks except by such gates
roads paths or avenues as may be for such purpose provided and arranged

No vehicle for hire shall stand upon an

p part of any public park in the
City of Oaklahd for the purpose of hire except in waiting for persons taken by it
into such park except at such points as
may be specially designated by the Board
of Park Directors
3 3 b o o
Ga

ARTICLE 4

GARBAGE DISPOSAL

SEC 6
01
4 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Artiole oertain
words and phrases aredefined and oertain provisions shall be construed as herein
set out unless it shall be apparent from the content that they have a different

meaning

a Garbage shall include kitohen and table refuse offal swill

and also every accumulation of animal vegetable and other matter that attends
the preparation consumption decay or dealing in or storage of
meats fish fowls
birds fruits or vegetables saving and excepting that dead animals and offal
of slaughter houses are not included within the
meaning of said word Garbage
as herein
defined refuse crockery bottles tin vessels trimmings from lawns
and flower gardens pasteboard boxes paper
straw packing materials boxes
ashes and all combustible waste matter
non

b let Garbage
n shall mean all clean garbage suitable for food for
hogs and shall be held to consist of and include only kitchen and table refuse
offal and swill and every accumulation of animal vegetable and other matter
that attends the preparation consumption decay or dealing in or storage of
meats fish fowls birds fruits or vegetables in all restaurants cafes oafeter
ias hospitals hotels boarding houses clubs and all other like eating places
in the City o f Oakland

SEC 602 LOCATION OF DEPOSITS

4 FEES It shall be unlawful to
deposit garbage in the City of Oakland in any place other than the Ii
nicipal
Garbage Plant maintained by the City o0akland on the western waterfront for
the receipt of garbage
a 36 2
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SEC 03
4
6 RATES OF COl
ENSATION FOR COLLECTION The rates of
compensation be collected by any person collecting
to
garbage within the City
of Oakland shall be as follows
For the removal of garbage from each
residence
house home place occupied by one family as living quarters the maximum rate
or

collected from the owner occupant tenant or lessee of such

residence house
home or place shall be fifty 50 cents per month for a regular weekly removal
of thirty 30 gallons or leas for the removal twice a week of
thirty 30
gallons or less of garbage the rate collected from the occupant tenant or
lessee of each house flat or building occupied by one family shall not exceed

five 75 cents per month For the removal of garbage in excess of

seventy

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ORDINANCE NO 9
AN ORDINANCE ADDING A NEW A TICLE TO Cl3APTE OF THE
OAKLAND MUNICIPAL TO BE
CODE KNOWN AS ARTICLE 4 AND TO
BE ENTITLED REAL ESTATE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS AND
ADDING SECTIONS 7 01 TO 7
4 09 INCLUSIVE
4
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Oakland as follows
riUN 1 There is hereby added to Chapter 7 of the Oakland Mu
SEC
nicipal Code a new article to be known as Article 4 and entitled Real
Estate Subdivision Regulations which said article shall contain sectio
numbered and providing respectively as follows
ARTICLE 4 AL ESTATE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
SEC 7 01
4 SU For the purposes of this a
VISION DEFINED
title the word Su v ion shall mean a tract of land composed of fiv
5 or more lots o acre or less in area provided that when any perso
within one 1 c ar divides any tract into
ar y five 5 or more part
of one 1 acre 1 s in ize such tract shall be deemed a subdivision
SEC 4 02 EFINED For the Purposes of this articie
the word Street s lu a street highway avenue road lane
alley or other open w e r pub is use
C 7
S 03
4 STRE TS M D ICATED It shall be unlawful
for any person to contract for sell or r to sell any sub
division or part thereof until the or str therein have been
dedicated to public use as in this article provid
The dedication f any street to public use I b made only by a
itten offer of
wc nation filed with the City C u the City of Oak
land and an ace nee thereof by such council
SEC 04
4
7 A E C ACCOMPANY OFFE OF DEDICATION
An offer of ded atio t ecompanied by ac rate maps and dia
grams in duplicate ho g ocation of the pr perty proposed to be
dedicated and its locati in atio ail other adjoining streets and
shall show the width an grade of streets sidewalks curbs and the
proposed storm and sanitary drain tem and the type of material
proposed to be used in the construe on a eof

SEC 7 05
4 OFFER OF DEDI A I REFER FOR INVESTIGA
TION The Council shall upon re ip f cb o r of dedication refer
the same to the City Planntng Co mi i of t sty of Oakland and
the Superintendent of Streets of the City Oakla f inv tigation and
written recommendation
SEC 4 06 OFFER OF DEllICATiON REPOR N The City
Planning Commission and the Superintendent of Stree shall make a
written report to the City Council and either re mend the approval or
rejection of such offer of dedication If the reco ndation of either
shall disapprove of such offer of dedication the Supers endent of Streets
or the City Planning Commission as the case may be sha21 state in clear
and concise terms what changes alterations or additions will render the
offered dedication acceptable
SEC 7 0 RESECTION OF OFFER
4 CONDITION OF ACCEPTANCE
li the City Council shall reject the offer of dedication its resolution of
rejection shall state in clear and concise terms what changes alterations
or additions will render the offer of dedication acceptable to the Council
SEC 7 08
4 CONDITION OF ACCEPTANCE OF DEDICATION Before
the City Cauncii may accept an offer of dedication of any street such
streef must be either improved in a manner satisfactory to the City
Council or there must be delivered to the City Clerk of the City of Oak
land asurety company bond in an amount fixed by the Council as the esti
mated cost of the improvements required by the Council Such bond shall
provide that if the street is not tmpraved in accordance with the resolu
tion of acceptance of the Council the City may perform such work or let
a contract therefor and the surety will pay for the same in an amount
not to exceed the sum specified in the bond
In lieu of a surety company band a deposit of money in the same
amount may be made in which case tie person posting such money may
withdraw the same in proportion to the
progress of the work ugon the
written certification of the Superintendent of Streets certifying what
proportion of the work has been completed and what amount may be
withdrawn
C 4
SF 09 UNDEDICATED STREETS NUISANCE Any street
opened constructed or maintained contrary to the provisions of this article
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the Superintendent of
Streets of the City of Oakland is
hereby authorized and empowered to
summarily abate the same
In Council Oakland Calif Sept 22 1936 Passed to print for two days
by the following vote Ayes Councilmen Beach DePaoll Fitzaimmona
Jacobsen Quinn Shattuck Slavich Tutt and President McCracken 9
None Absent
Noes None
W W CHAPPELL City
No 72 Sept 24th 2T
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 SEC 01
1 ej BUILDING is a structure h suing a roof supported
by columns or walls

3EC 1
01 f BUNGALOW COURT is a group of deteuched dwellings
upon a lot fronting upon s common court

SEC 1
01 g COURT is a space on a lot open and nnobatructed from
the ground to the algr and bounded on two or more aides by a building

SBC 1
01 h DWELLING is a building which is u
aed or intended
or
designed to be used for living purposes

SBB 01 i
1 DWELLING SINGLE F
I LY is a detached davalling
designed or intended or used for the use of one
family and containing one
kitchen only

SRC 1
41 IriPBGLING 11
IPLE
L1 is a
dwelling designed or

intended or used for the use of two or more farr

ilies living independently
of each other and doing their own cooking on the premises

SEC 1
01 k fILY is any number of individuals living together
FAA
in the name dwelling as a single non
prerfit housekeeping unit as diatingaished
from group ocoupying
a a club fraternity house sorority house or similar
institutions

SEC 01
1 1 HEIGHT OF BUILDING is the vertical dietanoe from
the low eat point of the finished ceiling o fthe tap story in the building to the
surface of the g
vund ad3aoent tp the building

SEC 1
01m HOTEL is a dwelling oontaf Wing six or more guest
rooms usually occupied singly designed or intended to be occupied for compensa
tion as a transient or permanent abiding place of individuals including lodging
and rooming houses dormitories public and private clubs fraternity
houses
sorority houses and similar institutions

SEC 1
01 n LOT is a parcel of land under one ownership o
ceupied
or capable of being occupied by a structure having a iron tags upon a street Lot
lines are the boundary lines of lots shown
aubdfvision map of the
as on the last
area involved on record in the office of the County Raeorder of
ameda County
provided tf there is no such subdivision map or if the boundaries of a lot as
vn on cosh a subdivision map have been changed by recorded eonvl
aho tnoes then
the lot lines of each a lot are the boundaries se established by the last record
ed conveyance

SBC 17
0 1 o LOT CORNER is s Iot situated at the lunation of
twointersecting streets All parts of the width of such a corner lot which are
distant more than 5 feet from the nearest junction point of the teb intersecting
streets shall be deemed to b an interior lot The over3
er or his authorized

agent may designate either street frontage of such corner lot as being the front
thereof for the purpose of determining the width thereof The front of a corner
lot is that side of such lot upon which the main entrance of the
building thereon
is located

SEC 01
1 p LOT INTII3IOR is a lot other than a oorner lot

SEC 101 q RON ATG USF is

C
GONFORI use of
a a
building or lot
that does not conform with the regulations of the use cone in which it is situated

SEC 1
01 r BACK LINE is the
SE3 rear boundary line of a front
yard

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 SBC 101 s tE is anything o ona truoted or erected the
Y
STBUC
use of which requires location on the ground or attaohed to something hiving e

looation on the ground eaoept stairs ramps or walks not attaohed to a building

SEC 701 t
1 TERATION is a change in the support
STRUCTURAL II
ing members of a building such as bearing walls columns beams or girders

SEC 701 u YARD is a space other than a court on a lot upon which
1
is situated a building open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky except
n this Article otherwise provided
as i

Ste 01 v
1
7 YARD 8CNT is a yard aorosa the full width of the
extreme front line
lot extending from the front boundary line of the lot to the
of the building The depth thereof is the distance between the front lot line
measured at right angles thereto and the extreme front of the building

SEC 01 1 w YARD REAR is a yard aorosa the full width of the

extreme rear line of the
lot having a depth measured at right angles to the
toward the
building and extending from the extreme rear line of the building
rear of the lot to the depth required by this Article

SEC 01
1
7 x YARD SIDE is a yard between the extreme aide of the
building and the ad3aoent side line of the lot extending from the front yard
to the yard and connecting therewith
rear The depth thereof is the distance
between the aide line of the lot measured at right angles thereto and the ex
treme side of the building

02 RESIDENTIAL aJNE CLASS A

SEC 7
1 In Class A Zone no build
ereoted or structur
ing or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter
the
ally altered unless otherwise provided in this Article except for one of
following uses

a Single family dwelling

b Churches
o Islprovement Clubs
d Commaznity centers libraries museums parks and playgrounds
publicly operated
e Schools
f Accessory buildings incident to any of the above uses

g Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses no t

involving the conduct of business provided that a
a

musician dentist physician or other person authorized

by law to practice medicine employing not more than one
g maintain an office in his dwelling
assistant ma
h Fame plates not exceeding one square foot in area and signs
not exceeding six square Peet in area appertaining to the
lease hire or sale of a building or premises provided
that such signs shall not be equipped with glaring or flicker

ing lights provided further that no sign shall be permitted

fa the front yard
n
oy C 7ri
SEC 03
1
7
L
RffiIDENTIA ZONE CLAS B In Class B Zone no building

or lam shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected or structurally

unless otherwise provided in this Article ezoept for one or more of the
altered
uses
following

a Ax use permitted in Class A Zone

y

Courts
ltiple Dwellings Bungalow
b N

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 D Boarding Houses and Hotels Btasineas may be conducted in a hotel

for the sole convenience of the occupants of the building provided however
there shall be no entrance to such place of business ezcept from the inside of the

building

d Private oluba fraternities sororities and lodges e

R epting those
the ohief of which is a service customarily Dsrried on as a business
activity

Institutions of educational philanthropic charaRter

e an or

f Rest Home Convalescent Home and Hvme for the Aged or Infirm other
than for the insane or feeble
minded 1Qo building may be occupied for aty auoh
and in writing by the Health
purpose untilthe same has been inspected approved
Office and the Bureau of Fire Prevention of the City of Oakland and no building
unless such building or buildings
or buildings may be used for any such purpose
is at all times completely surrounded by a yard of not less than fifty Peet in
depth provided however that such yard area may be occupied by accessory build

ings

g Accessory buildings incident to array of the above uses

i
p h Railroad passenger stations

subject to the same

All advertising signs in Class B Zone shall be
restriction as advertising signs in Class A Zone

7 dJ y c X30 y
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SSC 7
04
1 BUSINESS ZONE CLASS C In Class C Zone any building
or land ezcept as otherwise provided for in thf a Article may be used for a
Y
lawful purpose ezcept the ga
followix

other than those whose products sold only at retail

a B akeriss are

on the premises

b Blacksmith or horseshoeing shops

D Bottling works
d Building material and storage yards
e Brewing or distilling works
f Carting ezpressing hauling or storage yards
g Contxaotors plants or storage yards
h Coal coke or wood yards
ij
Cooperage works
Fruit Denning or Packing plants
j
Ice plants or storage houses of more than 15 tone daily Rapacity
k
1 I aundriea other than laundries oDRUpying 2000 square feet or
less in which all machinery is operated by hand or electricity and in which all
noise smoke and steam is eliminated

m Livery stab lea or riding academies

n Lumber yards
o Lachine shops
Lilk bottling or distributing stations other than retail business
p a

conducted on the premise s

q Stone rmnumental works

r Any building trade or industry which is nozious or offensive by reason

e emission of odors duet atnoke ga
of th s vibration or noise or which imposes any

eztraordinaxy hazard to life or property

s to be located in Class D Zone or Class E Zone
Aiay use required
Not more than 25 of the total floor apace of a building or structure
in Class C Ane may be used for light manufaoturing
devoted to any use permitted
or repairs carried on in connection with any of such u
aea

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 05 UNDERTAKING TS
SEC 1 ffiTILBLIS Anything in this Code to
the contrary n0 person shall hereafter establish and maintain
notwithstanding
or Derry on the business of faneral director or undertaker or mortician or em
balmer or morgae or other place fbr the care storage or preparation of dead
human bodies prior burial to permit first had and obtained from the
without a

Council of the City of Oakland Leery application for a permit as required by

this Section shall be made in the same manner as the petitions are made for the

23 of
provided by Section 7
1 this Article
rescuing of property as

SEC GASOLINE OH OIL STATIONS IN CLASS C f1

06
1 E No property

in Class
Zone shallCbe used for a retail gasoline or oil attpply
or premises
station mlesa a public comfort station is provided in Donnection therewith and
no grease rack washing rack or accessory buildings shall be installed or used
in connection with such a retail gasoline or oil supply station where the same

is cated
1 immediately nett to a residence district unless such grease rank
washing rack or accessory buildings are set back from all street frontages as
far as the front line of the buildings on the adjacent lots M

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7INDUSTRIIAL ZONE CLASS
07 In Class D Zone any building

or land may be used for any lawful purpose whatsoever a Dept manufacture of
The following industries shall be pernaitted in this one onlyt
explosives

w aj nmonia chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture

s n b Asphalt manufacture
a or refining
xssl a Auto wrecking establishment
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s d Brick and ti le terra cotta manufacture or storage

eI Boiler works
f Carpet or bag cleaning establishment
gj Coal and wood yard N t
J

hj Cemetery mausoleum eolumbarium or any other place intended as

the resting place for the remains of human dead

Crematory
jj Creosote treatment or manufacture
k Distillation of coal wood or bones

1 Fat rendering
m Fertiliser manufacture
n Gas illuminating or heating manufacture

oj Glue manufacture
Incineration or reduction of garbage offal dead animals or refuse
pj
q Iron foundry
r Lamp black manufacture
s Lime dement and plaster o parts manufacture
t psi nt manufacture
uj Petroleum pumping refining and storage
v Pickle sauerkraut sausage or vinegar manufacture
w Railroad yard or roundhouse
x 8awhidea and skins During and tanning
y Bolling mill
woodworking mill
Saw planing or

Scrap metal junk or rags storage iling

bs
or
aa
bb Slaughter of animals or fowls
cD Smelting of iron
dd Soap manufacture

ee Stock yards
ff Stone mill and quarry

gg Sulphurous sulphuric nitric or hydrochlorid said manufacture

hh Tallow grease and lard manufacture or refining
fij Tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture
chewing manufacture
jj Tobacco
kk Trades or industries similar to the
above which are noxious or
offensive by reason of the emission of odor dust smoke gas vibration or noise

or which impose arty extraordinary hasard to life or property

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SEC 8 INDUSTRIAL pNE CLASS E In Class B Zone any build
ing structure or
land may be used for any la
rful purpose whatsoever except those
uses in this Article required to be boated in Clara D Zone provided that no

buainea trade or industry shall be permitted in said acne which is noxious or

offensiTe by reason of the emission of odor duet smoke gas vibration or noise
or which imposes any extraordinary haaard to life or property

SEC fi
09 F80NT YARD AREBS All interior lots in Class A Zone
1
and Clara B Zone upon which a building is hereafter constructed shall have a
Front yard of not lase than 5 feet in
depth provided if lots comprising 40
or more of the frontage of a block are developed with buildings
other than
accessory buildings
then the front yards of the remaining 1 ta in such block
ahali have a minimum depth equal to the av erase
depth of the front yards already es
tablished provided further that if a vacant lot lies immediately betv
een two
lots already built upon the front yard of such middle lot shall have a minimum
depth equal to the average depth of the front yards of the two ad3oinfng lots
provided further that a front yard of a lot need not in aayy case be more than 5
feet in depth

All corner lots in Class A Zone and Class B Zone upon which abuild
ing is hereafter constructed shall have a yard of not leas than 3 feet on both
street frontages

SBC 10 HEIE
1
7 T RffiTRICTIONS In Class
A Zone no building shall
be erected to a height in eacesa cf 35 feet In B
Class Zone no building shall
be erected to a height in excess of 155 feet nor more than 12 stories

SEC 1
11 PTTBLIC BUILDINGS Public buildings not in this Article
apeoifieally provided for may be located anywhere within the city that the City
Council may determine by resolution

SEC fi
12 NON
1 CONFORMING tT3ES 1D
LA The lawtt
l use of anp land
existing at the time of the adoption of this Code althou such use does not c on
form to the provisions
hereof may be continued but no structure shall be erected
thereon except in conformity wi th the provisions of this Article After sash
non use is discontinued air future use
conforming of said premises shall be in
conformity with the provisions of this Article

SEC 1
13 ING USES
CONFOE
NOli BIIILDING The lawful use of a building
existing on any lot at the time of the adoption of this Code
may be continued al
though such use does not conform with the provisions of this Articl and such use
may b e extended throughout the if no addition or structural
building alterations
are made thereto fir
building erected for commercial purposes and which was
vacant at the time of the adoption of this
Code may be occupied by any use permitted
in ones A B and C If no additions or struc
4wcal alterations are made a non
conforming use of a building racy be changed to another non
conforming use of the
same or more restricted elassifioation

3gC fi
14 NOIt CONFOR
1 dIPG USES RESTORATION Nothing in this Article
sha11 be deemed to prevent ithe restoration of a building destroyed to the extent
of not more than 50 of its reasonable value by fire
ploaion or other eaanalty
e
or the continued occupancy or use of such building or part thereof which existed
at the time of such
partial deetructicn

SEC 15
1 CONFORMING ERSFS
NON ffiiPORARY
3 Temporary permits for
ormative uses of
conf
non
property in any zone may be granted by resolution of the
City Council without notice or hearing thereon for a period of not to exceed 30
consecutive days Permits so granted shall
automatically terminate at the time
ap ecified and shall not be renewed within 60 days thereafter

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 SEC 716 REDUCTI08 OF LOT FORBII
1 t1E1P No lot area shall be ao

reduced diminished
or that the yards or other open spaces shall be smaller than

prescribed by this Article

YARD FOR EACH BUILDING Except as in this Article provided

SEC 7
17
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other open apace provided about any building for the purpose of comply
no yard or

of the set forth in this Article shall be oon

ing with the provisions regulations
aidered as providing yard a for any other
or open apace building and no yard or
open apace on an adjoining property shall be considered ae providing a yard or
a lot whereon a building is to be erected
open apace on

7
1
1 8 OIPB BUILDING TO A LOT
SEC Except as in this Article provided
erected shall be located on a lot ae in this Article
every building hereafter
defined provided that where a building covers a portion of two or more lots
the land actually built upon shall be treated as one lot

SEC 19
1
7 PROJECTIONS INTO YJRDS To part of ax
y building hereafter
al addition to an eaiating building hereafter conatnue
constructed nor any part of f
shall extend into of the yards in this Article eat abliahed except ae
ted any
follows

ornamental features and sills may

a Belt course buttresses eaves
extend into any yard not more than 12 inches A chimney or flue may t
a end into

p yard
an not more than 17 inahea

b Fire escapes platforms and balconies constructed of open metal

work may extend not more than 4 feet into the front and rear yards of any lot
and the aide yard of the street side of a corner lot Bay windows may extend
into any such above the
yard first floor of the building not to eacmed 3 feet

c A garage as an accessory building may be erected in the front yard

of s lot on which the average elope of the area between the front property line
back line ascends or descends from the property line 20
and the set E or more
provided that said garage shall not exceed 12 feet in height affi shall ba set
back from the front property line not lees than 4 feet

SEC 720 GARAGffi

1 It shall be unlawftil to use any lot in Clara

A Zone Class
or B Zone solely for the erection and maintenance thereon of
to
garages or other accessory buildings provided in cases where it is necessary
for dwellings eaiating on March 20 1931 such garages may
provide garage apace
be erected and maintained as aecesaoriea to such dwellings on lots adjacent to
and connected with the lot oa which said dwelling is located and provided further
that such garages shall be loc aced not less than 60 feet from the front lot line
and shall not project beyo
l any established back line
set

21 GRAM AVENUE RESTRICTIONS

1
7 SEC All property fronting upon Grand

Avenue between Harrison Street and the extension northwesterly of the center line
nbarcadero and all property
of El E fronting upon Bay Pl ace between Monteoito
Avenue and Grand Avenue inelud ed within Class C Zone is hereby subjected to
the following restrictions

a Ao sidewalk door or sidewalk elevator shall be oonatruated or maintained

on the portions of Grand Avenue abutting the above described real property without
from the Council of the City of Oakland
a permit therefor

merchandise ah all be stored or deposited

b Rio goods wares or upon
the portions of Grand Avenue including the sidewalks thereof abutting the above

described real property except during the progress of the construction or altera
tion of a building

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 c No building shall be erected upon said real property or any
and every vertical section thereof is two
portion thereof unless building
such

stories ox more in height A building acid sections thereof shall be deemed to be

sash
two stories or more in height if the ceiling of the uppermost story of
main or the first floor thereof
building or section is not less than 28 feet above
of this subdivision shall not apply to
Provided however that the provisions
the construction or erection of a gasoline service station

building roof sign or street sign shall be constructed

cr
d No
altered without a permit therefor from the Council first had and obtained Any
shall file with the City Clerk an application therefor
person desiring such permit
work The City Clerk shall
accompanied by plans axed specifications of the proposed
set said natter for hearing on a day not lase than five 5 nor more than ten 10

dasa after the filing of such applic ation IIpon the day set for hearing or to which
such matter shall have been continued by the Council the Council shall by resolution
in the exercise of a sound and reasonable discretion grant or derma said application
to such conditions and restrictions as such Council
in whole or in part or subject
shall deem reasonable The Council shall have the power to ad opt n
g eral plans
rules and regulations in furtherance hereof

7
2
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SEC 2 BCTILDING PMTS Every application for a building permit
shall show the established set
bank lines in the block the use height and area of
accurate ground plan of the
the proposed building and shall be accompanied by an
drawn to scale of pct less than 20 feet
location of the building on the lot a

to the inch The Building Inspector shall furnish the necessary blanks for such

information

7
2
1
SEC 3 CBAHGE OF 2ANES OAR MAY PETITION Any person owning
S
N other Ordinance of the City
property in a zone created by Ordinance 4789 or

of Oakland may petition to have the same reclassified in the following manner

a Tlie owner or his may circulate a petition among the owners

agent
within 200 feet of the exterior boundaries of the property sought
of property
to be rezoned requesting the rezoning thereof

Such be upon a form provided by the City Clerk

petition shall
b
and in addition to any statement that the petitioner may set forth therein it

a name 2 his rea

shall contain 1 the petition
r gence 3j description of
the present use f such preperty 6
the property proposed to be rezoned 4
intended if 6 an accurate diagram drawn to scale of said
the use rezoned
and the streets and lots withix 200 feet of the exterior boundaries
property
therein and their uses and 7
thereof showing locations types of buildings
if a building is proposed to be erected a sketch thereof must b e attached to

the petition The truthfulness of all matters set forth in the petition must

be verified by the petitioner

c The rezoning petition blank must be dated as of its issuance

and signed by the City Clerk and must be returned and filed in his office within
30 days thereafter

dIf such petition is returned to the City Clerk within 30 days

fix a day for
after itsissuance properly executed the City Clerk shall forthwith
thereon by the City Planning Commission and he shall immediately cause
a hearing

in conspicuous places on both aides of the streets not

aoticea to be posted
rezoned and within a di
more than 100 feet apart within the areas sought tote
outside of the exterior boundaries of the property desired to
tance of 200 feet
be rezoned

Such notices shall be posted not lase than 5 days nor more than 30

days before the date of such hearing

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 SEC 7
24
1 IdGE OF
CHA ONES FORS OF NOTICE Such notice provided
fvr in subdivision d 23 of this Article shall
of Section 7
1 be headed Notice
of rearing of Petition to Rezone Property in type of not less than 1 inch in
height The remainder of such notice shall be printed in legible characters and
shall be in anbstantially the following form

NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION iC REZONE PROP

iTYt

Notice is hereby given that the owner of the property located at Number

Street and described as followsa

Ileacript io n
has filed a with the City Clerk of the City of akland requesting that the
petition
above 8eacribed property be rezoned from Class to Class so as to allow

said property to be used for

nThat a hearing will be held on said petition before the City Planning
Commmission at the hour of o
o lock M on the day of
19 in o
Roo ie City
o al
H

All persons interested may file with the Gity Clerk a written protest
against suah rezoning before the date and hoar of such 2iearing or may appear before
said Commission at said time and place and present evidence for or against the
granting of e petition

C y er an Ez o o er o e

City Council

SEC 25
I
7
CHiiNGE OF ANffi HEARING BY CITY PLdNNING CO
ISSION The

City Planning Commission shall at the hearing set as provided in Section

23
1
dj of this Article hear the petitioner for a change of zones and those consenting
or objecting to the proposed change of zones and may conti
nue suoh hearing from
time to time for the purpose of obtaining or hearing further evidence

Upon the completion of such hearing the Commission shall within 10

days thereafter submit a written report to the City Council together with its
recommendation thereon The City Council shall mt sot upon such petition until
after receipt of the recommendations of said Oommisaion

7
2
1 SEC
6 CHANGE OF ZONTS DEPOSIT All petitions for a change
of zones in this Article provided must
as be accompanied by a deposit in an
amount fined by the rules of the City Planning Commission to pay the coat of
printing and posting the notices of hearing such petition publication of ordin
ances and such other expenses as may be incurred All sums in ezceas of the ex
penes incurred shall be returned to the depositor upon completion of the matter
30 8
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SEC Z
29
1 TIC
UTO CEZANING 3

Any lot in Class Bn Zone that lies

immediately adjacent to a lot in Class C Zone shall be rezone as a Cl ass C
lot whenever the Class C lot shall have been developed for commercial use in
accordance with the provisions of this Artfale provided that for the purpose
of this section such rezoned lot shall have a width of not to exceed 75 feet
except where the owner thereof shall construct thereon abuilding of a greater
size built immediately adjacent to the original Class C Zone lot in which case

any such rezoned lot shall be of suoh width as may be required for suoh building

A lot of Class B Zone shall be deemed to lie immediately adjacent

to a lot of Class C Zone

a hen a lot of Class B Zone is in actual aide

line contact with
a side or re line of
r a lot of Class nC Zone

I89
 b hen a lot of Class
i C Zone and one or more lots of Class B
Zone abut upon a common street intersection

Such
rezoning shall b made by the City Planning Commission upon
written application of the owner of the lots soeght to be rezoned and proof of
the facts herein required The City Planning Commission shall keep a permanent
record of such rezoning and shall notify the Building Inspector and the
CitT
Clerk thereof

SBC 7128 BOARD OF AATIIST1

S CREATION AMID ORGANIZATION A
Board of Acijustmenta is hereby created and established and shall be
composed of
the followin8 Bedding Inspector Chief of the Fire Departeuent Health Officer
City Planning Investigator and the City Attorney provided axe member of the
Board may in writing designate a qualified person in his department to act in
his place and stead and any person ao appointed is hereby vested with all
power
vested in the person for whom he substitutes

Board shall forthwith organise and elect from its members a Chairman
Phe
and Yi ce
Chairman e City Planning Investigator sha11 act as
Secretary of said
Board and shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of said Board

A public meeting of said Board shall b e held at least once a month and
at such other times as the Board may determine

SEC 729 BOARD OF AUJUST

1 S POWERS Said Board of Ad
estments
created by Section 7
28 of this Article ie hereby vested with full and
1
complete
power to

a Hold hearings on such matters asmay properly come before it and

to make written recommendations to the Council concerning an such matter
City

b Give a written answer to any question propounded in writing by the

Building Inapeotor concerning the application of any part of this Article or of
Ordinance 4789 N
S of the City of Oakland

c ice written recommendations to the City Council concerning arQr

matter covered by this Article or Ordinance 4789 S
N of the City of Oakland
by

d Interpret the provisions of this Article in harmony with the funda

mental purpose and intent hereof and in Dees of practical difficulty or unneces
sary hardship in the carrying out of the strict letter oP this Article the Board
may vary any regulation or provisions hereof eo long as such action is in harmony
with the general purpose and intent hereof and in accordance with the general or
specific rules herein contained so that the and intent of this
spirit Article
shall be observed the public health public safety and the general welfare secured
and substantial justice done

e Do and perform such things as this Article or the Council may direct

f Adopt from time to time auah rules as

may be deemed necessary to
Derry into effect the powers herein vested in the Board provided said rules shall
be approved by the City Council

SSC 730 PERMITS ISE

1 PHEF REQUIRED
0 Nothing in this Article shall
be deemed to wive any requirement of this Code or of any Ordinance of the
City
of Oakland that t sp eeial permit be procured for the construction of
any building
or structure or the location of any business trade or industry

SEC 31
1
7 ENR PEIiR
II
FRAIID IONS An3r signature to
applications
petitions protests provided for in
or this Article which is procured
by fraud or
misrepresentation or the withholding of information concerning the real intent of
such epplicati on petition or
proteaty shall be void and oP no effect and the
person or persona perpetrating such fraud or making such
misrepresentations or

withholding such shall

informatiori be guilty of a misdemeanor

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thirty 30j gallons if removed with the regular weekly or twice a w eek collections
the maximum rate shall be one
half cent
per gallon OOj per
1 or one dollar
cubic yard per collection For ttimes other than the
the removal of garbage a
regular weekly or twice a week collections and for the removal of all other garbs
ge
from place or person the rate of removal of which has not been hereinabove
any
half 72j cents for the first
specified the maximum rate shall be seven and one
ten 10 gallons and five 5j cents for each additional ten lOj gallons removed
at the same time Nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing an

authorized garbage collector from charging a less rate or charge for the collection
of garbage than fixed herein

SEC 04 COLLECTION RESTRICTED TO

4
6 TTTRACTEES OF CITY
C At such
time as there is in force a contract or contracts between the City of Oakland and

any person for the collection of garbage or wet garbage in the City it shall be
unlawful for any person other than such contractor or those persons in the employ

of such contractor to collect any garbage or wet garbage within the City of Oakland

ANy person fifty 50 gallons of wet garbage a week

producing in excess of

shall place all such wet garbagecontainer apart from his dry
in a suitable

garbage so that both said wet garbage and said dry garbage may be separately and
collected the contractees of the City under such regula
conveniently by agents or

tions as the Real th Officer of the City may from time to time impose It shall
be unlawful for any such person producing in excess of fifty 50j gallons per week

of wet garbage to sell or dispose of the same and all of it must be delivered to

its contractees for removal and disposal

the City of Oakland agents or p

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words and phrases are defined Q
nd certain provisions shall be construed as herein
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set out unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have a different S
meaning

SEC 01 aj
1
7 Residential Zone Glass A or Class A Zone Resi
dential Zone Class B or Class B Zone Class TMBusiness Zone Class C or

@ Zone Industrial Zone Class D or Class D Zone and Industrial Zone

Class E or Class E Zone refer to such zones as they are respectively
defined and described in Ordinance 4789 N
S of the City of Oakland as amended
or as such zones
may be hereafter established and defined by other Ordinances of
the City of Oakl and

SEC 01 b
1
7 ACCESSARY BUILDINGS is a subordinate building or

portion of the main building the use of which is incidental to that of the main

building

SEC 701 ej BLOCK is the frontage on one side of a street lying

1

between two intersecting streets or between one intersecting street and the end
of such street

SEC 01 d
1
7 G HOUSE is
3OARDIn any dwelling where meals or meals
and lodging furnished for compensation to three
are or more persons other than
members of a family

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3SC 732 NiTISANCES
1 Arm building or atnncture
is declared tc be a oontin
z
in violation of arty provision of
this Article hereby
la No license
y be abated
in the manner provided by
ing public nuisance and ma business in arty building
to conduct a
shall hereafter be granted to any person
maintained in violation of this Article
erected altered or

ARTICLE 2

BUILDING Nom
w

SEC 01
2
7 BUILDING BERS REQi
NUR 1RED All entrances from public
of Oakland to shall be numbered as hereinafter in
streets of the City buildings
be placed upon
this Article provided The number of each and every entrance shall
or ixrnnediately above the door or gate closing said entrance Each figure of said
The
numbers shall be at least two inches in height and of corresponding width
thereon within
appropriate number of any entrance to any building shall be placed
tenant of
tenant or sub
ten days after the receipt by the owner occupant lessee
such building of a notice from the Building Inspector of the number or numbers
for in
designated for such building and all numbers other than the number provided
this Article for the respective entrances shall bo removed from every building by
the owners occupants lessens tenants or sub tenants thereof within ten days
from the service of said notice designating the appropriate numbers to be placed
thereon It shall b the of the Building Inspector to designate the respective
duty
numbers for streets heretofore laid out hereafter to be
or
buildings fronting on

U
tt1 laid out or extended As amended by Ord No 2029 C
1
5 42 passed Oct 2 1945
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r SEC 02 SYSTEM AND

2
7 RECORD Oi ERIidG
TiJ14
1 The stezn
sy of numbering
shall be the shown upon that certain map entitled Nap showing plan of
one

v assigning numbers by blocks and portions of blocks for Douse numbering purposes
0 0
in the City of Oakland which said map was adopted by Ordinance 322 and is

hereby tinued in full force and effect

cor A record of building numbers assigned
shall be kept on the block maps in the office of the Building Inspector As
cn
a amended by Ord No 2029 C S passed Oct 2 1945
M
cn o

SEC 03
2
7 NT OF N
APFLICATION FOR DESIGNATIOP AND ASSIGN TNBERS Upon
the of a building or buildings or alterations thereto changing entrances
Q completion
o rr it shall be unlawful for th owners agents occupants tenants lessees or sub
lessees to assign or
place any number thereon unless the same shall have been
the and application must be made at
sfficially designated by Building Inspector
q
the office of said Building Inspector for such designation of numbers As amended
o
a by Ord No 2029 S
Tf
C passed Oct 2 1945
s
aq s
a
A 4 SEC 04
2
7 CORRECTING ERRONEOUS 4BERS
NUr In cases where incorrect

A s numbers have been placed and remain or shall hereafter bo placed on any house or
building the ner agent
ot other person as
or in this Article d shall
provid
E
upon notification of the error by thi Building Tnsp correct the number within
ctor
ten days after official notification As amended by Ord No 2029 C
S passed
R
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Oct 2 1945

SEC Ob
2
7 UNNUMBERED BUILDINGS AND TFD NUMBERS
OBLITER In cases

where a house remains unnumbered or where a house may have been numbered and the
telligiblo the owner
number since lost or destroyed or defaced as to bo unin
said house to bo
agent or other person as in this Article provided shall cause
numbered in accordance with the official notification of the Building Inspeotor
within ten davs As amended by Ord No 2029 C S passed Oct 2
N 1945

7
0
2 6 VIOLATION A MISDEMEANOR
SEC Any person violating any provision
of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor CAmnd by 02029 IO
S
CI

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BiCS LI
SST D dIS CELLl
AN NE4IIS

SEC 701 BUILDING AND STRUCTt

3 RR DEFINED r the purposes of
I
this Article the word bui
lding and the word strwoture shall not be Donstrued
to inclw
de a Doping a fence not higher than three feet a retaining wall or a
walk or stairway leading to the building

SEC 742 SET

3 BAGS LINES CEEDINGS FOR ESTABLISHING
PR PaoDeedings
for the ment of set
establia bank lines along any portion of
any street in the City
of Oakland may be initiated and condnated as in this Article provided A verified
petition may be filed with the City CouaDil asking that suoh set
beak line or lines
be established Said petition shall describe the Street or streets or
portion of
street along which such baDk lines
set to be established and
are sought shall
aeoompanied by a sketch map showing the street and lot lines and the propose
or

bank line or lines and the distance thereof from the

set
regularly established
property line of said street or streets

The City Council shall thereafter cause an investigation to be made and

if satisfied that the proposed set
beak line or lines should be established as set
forth in said petition or should be established so as to include other and addition
al street or streets or portions of streets may establish said line or lines in the
manner hereinafter in this Artiole described

SEC 03
3
7 BACg LINES
SET AUTHORITY OF
COUNCIL TO ESTABLISH Whenever
the public peace health safety Domfort conv enience interest or welfaae may so
require the said City Covnoil of the City of Oakland is hereby authorised and em
powered to determine the minimum distance back of the street line for the erectidn of
buildings or atruc
tures along any portion of ar a treet in the Lity of Oakl
nd ant
e
to order the establishment of a line to be known and
designated as a set
back line
between which said line and the street line no building or structure shall
be
erected oonstructed or placed

EC 7
8 04 S
3 WAGE LINE
1 RESOLUTION OF IA2
ION PQBLICATIOA
f
ffi9
P
S TING A NOTICE Before ordering the establishment of ate set
baok life author
ized by Section 3
03 of this Article the City CounDil shall pass a resolution
of intention so to do designating the set
baDk line or lines proposed tD be
established Said resolution shall be published onus in the offioial nee
spaper
of the Ctty of d and
0altlas twoDopier oY said resolution shall be posted cen
spionously at least 140 Peet apart upon the side of each street in frost of esah
block or part of block of any etree where such set
beak lino is propoffied to be
established Said resolution shall contain also a notice of iie c1s
y hover and
plane when and where any an8 all persons Saving any objection to the establish
ment of the proposed set
back line or lines may appear before the City Caaxtcil
and present any objection whiDh they may have to said proposed set
beak line or
lines as set forth in said resolution of intention
Said time of hearing shall
not be less than 15 days or tre than 3O des from the data cf the adoption of
the resolution of intention and said publioation and posting of said resolution shall
be made at least 10 days before the time fixed for said hearing

C 7 05 SS
3 dCK LINTS
B
d BTO BUILDING PSSB2IT FSIPDING F
TABLISH
9
After the adoption of said resolution of intention acid prior tthe ti ae the
ordinance establishing a set
baDk line or line in such prooeedinga
es ePfeo
beo
tive no building permit shall be issued for the ereD
i on of
air building er
struDture between any proposed set
baok line and the street line and any permit
so issued shall be void

SEC 3
06 BACK LINES
SET SSTING SSTABLISH1 0F
7
F A ear ti
a
not later than the hour set for
hearing objeetiama nd protests sstal
fihe
t
rh
li
baDk line or lines any person having a
ment of the proposed set sst im
ints
any land neon whioh said set
back line is proposed to be earablisbed fil8 with
the City Clerk s written prDtsst or objectioh eaiast the esi
ef e sa
me
atilia d
back line or lines designated in the resolution of Intention
set h pro
3 lr
es

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 be in writing and moat be delivered to said City Clerk not later than the
taust
hoar set for said hearing and no other pro testa or objeotiona shall be considered

by the City Council upon said hearing All proteatants may appear before the
City Council at said hearing either in person or by eounael and be heard in
support of their protest or objection bt the time set for hearing or at arm
time to which the said hearing may be continued the Gbuncil shall proceed to
hear and pass upon all protests or objections so made and its decision shall be

final and conclusive

City Council shall base power and jurisdiction to sustain any

Said
protest objection
or p any and all protests
and abandon said proceeding or der
or objeotiona and order by ordinance the establishment of said set
back line or
lines deaeribed in the said resolution of intention or to order the setae eatabliah
ed with such changes or modifications as the Council may deem proper

SEC 07
3
7 BACK LINES
SET UNLRWFIIL TO CONST
UCT BUILDING ETC
OUTSIDE OF From azzd after the taking effect of aweh ordinance establishing any
back line
set or lines it shall be unlawful for arty person tv construct or place
any building wall fence or other structure within the apace between the street
bank line ao established and the Building Inspector of the City
line and the set
of Qakland shall refuse to issue any permit for any building or structure to be
erected within such space

SEC 70 SET
3 BACK LINES VIOLATION OF ORDINRNCE ESTABLISHING
A
n y person violating any of the provisions of any ordinance establishing any set
back line pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor

SEC 7
09
3 JYAL OF QONTS
REN It is
hereby declared to be unlawfulu
for any person to remove 0r disturb or or disturbed any
cause to be removed
monument of granite concrete iron or other lasting material set for the purpose
of locating or preserving the lines of any street or property subdivision within
ty of Oakland without first obtaining permission in writing a Dopy of
the C
which is to be filed by the applicant therefor in the Office of the City Engineer
before it becomes effeetivej from the City tanager so to do said p ermisaioa to
be granted upon the condition that the person applying therefor shall cause to
be replaced at hfs ezpense by the City Engineer of this City the monument eo
removed or otherwise disturbed

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Ct ARTICLE 1 PLUiBING DEFINITIONS GENER9L PROVISIONS
RETICLE 2 PLUMBING LICENSES BOARD OF EICAMINERS PEREITS AND FEES
ARTICLE 3 PLUMBING INSPECT IPiSPECTIONS AND TESTS
ARTICLE 4 PLUMBING MATEEIRL AND PORSMAt
TSHIP STAtQDARDS
RHTICLE 5 PLUMBING FIXTU TYPES ETC
ARTICLE 6 HOL6B SEtNERS
RRTICLE 7 PLUMBING GAS FITTING AND GAS ME
ERS
T
RETICLE 8 PLUMBING MISCELLANEOi
ARTICLE 9 GRS APPLIANCES DEFINITIONS LICENSES PERMITS FEES
AND INSPECTIONS
Affil ICLE 10 GRS APPLIANCES GENERRL
ARTICLE ll GAS FtTRNACES
ARTICLE l2 GAS APPLIANCES VENTILATION MISCELL6NPOiTS

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 ARTICLE 1

PLUtdBING DEFINITIONS 8AL P809

GEN ISIONS

SEC 8 01 DEFINITIONS
1 For the purposes of the provisions of
this Chapter pertaining to plumbing certai n words and phrases are defined and
certain provisions shall be construed as in this Article set out unless it shall
be more specifically provitisd or shall be apparent from their oontext that a
different meaning is intended

SEC 8
02
1 EBING INSPECTOR 08 INSPECTOR is any representative
t
PI
of the Plmnbing Department of the City of Oakland duly authorised to make inspeo
ti on

SEC 9
03
1 PLi1EBING is the art or trade of
putting into buildings
or the
premises thereabout pipes the fixtures and
fittings for conveying gas
a water wastes vents end sewage including the installation of the drainage

system and the changing of or replaRing of ax0 part of the drainage system
f any buildings or the premises thereabout
e

SEC 04 DRIINAE SYS

1
8 P is the syate i of pipes and fittings ithin
or without a building composing the complete installation df the soil waste vent
leader and sewer pipes of such building including the connection with the main
sewer or septic tank

SEC 8
05
1 BITILDING is an architectural stru
ature covered by one roof
and enclosing walla

SEC 1
8
0 6 BiJILDING COIIRT is an arrangement of dwellings oonatruoted
on a parcel of land having only one street frontage and the access to which is

gained through a common entranoe way

SEC 1
8
0 7 SOIL PIPE is any pipe which oonveya the discharge of
water
closets or other fixtures served by traps three inches 3
i in aise or larger

SEC 808 9rASTE PIPE is any pipe which conveys the discharge of any
1
fiaturea served by traps two inohes 2 in aise or amal
er

SEC 8
09 HOUSE DRIIN is that part of the horisontal piping of a
1
house drainage system beneath the level of the first floor whioh receives the
discharge of soil waste and other drainage lines within the walla of any building

SEC 10
1
8 PENT PIPE is a pipe proceeding from a fixture opening in
a drainage system provided for the purpose of ventilating said system and to prevent
syphonage and back pressure

SSC 8
11
1 BdAIN YENR is a vent pipe proceeding from a fixture open
ing and terminating at the roof

SIC 8
12
1 ANCH VENTS
Bi are single or oombined aenta whioh terminate
in a main vent

SEC 13
1
8 t
tTRi
EF1t 9ENTS are inverted emergency yenta which are
parried back to a point of oonneotion with the horisontal run of waste mom fixture
served

SEC 14
1
8 TRIP is a fitting so constructed as to prevent the passage
of air or gas through a waste or soil pipe into a room where a plumbing fixture is
located

SEC 8
15
1 S
A
F
I UE are pipes which carry off storm wastes from roof
to house drain house sewer yard or street

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 16 PLUMBIATG FIXTQRE3 are water closets basins bathe
SEC 8
1

sinks wash rs
tra urinals drinking fountains dental wastes showers refrigerators
and lightwell deck surface cellar floor and sump drains or any other device
the connection of which with a drainage system is required

C 8
S 17
1 SMALL FIxTUBES are fixtures served by a trap two inches
2 in wise or smaller

SEC 18
1
8 BATTERY OF FIXTURES is permissible arrangement of waste
a

or soil piping for fixtures where such fixtures leaigned to be set along the
are

same wall line or along a common wall and in adjacent rooms whereby it will
not be required to separately vent each trap

SEC 8PERTICAL PIPE ie any line of pipe rising from a level

19
1
at an angle the same as or greater than that developed by the use of 600 1 6

bends or like fittings Heights of vertical lines of pipe shall be computed by

aline projected perpendicularly from the point of connection with the house
drain or house sewer to a required level

SEC 520 HORIZONTAL PIPE is p

1 ar line of pipe rising from a level
at en angle lase tban that developed by the 6 bends or like fittings
use of 600 1

SEC 821 BOIL OR 1

1 ASTE STACK is a line of pipes c naisting of soil
or waste and rent pipes a
tending from the house drain to roof and serving fixtures
on more than one floor

SEC 8HOUSE SEWER is the horizontal piping of a drainage system

22
1
half 2 feet from foundation wall of building and ending
beginning two and one
at its comlection with the main sewer or septic tank

SEC 8
23
1 SEPTIC gNK is a watertight acmpartment into which raw

sewage is discharged in order that the more solid materials may be liquified largely
deodorized and rendered less dangerous preparatory to final disposition

SEC 24 HOUSE GAS PIPING is any

1
8 fittings run of gas piping or

installed on
premisesany building or in ax
y on the outlet aide of the gas meter
beginning within thirty inches 30 of the meter location or extending from gas
where beyond said location and ending at the capped or plugged outlets
pipes ax
ready to connect with gas fixtures or gas appliances but does not include the
connection of the gas fiaturea gas appliances or gas meter or any portion of
the gas service piping from the street mains

SEC 5 H INSPECTION is the inspection of the work

25 ROt
1 aanahip
and the materials used in the plumbing work of a building made before any piping
is concealed and before sash piping is put into use through the connection of axtiy
fixtures

SEC 26 FINAL
1
8 INSPECTIOIQ is the inspection of the plumbing work of
a building made after all plumbing fixtures have been set and eonneoted and after
all gas and water piping has been completed

SEC 8
27
1 fASTER PLUMBER ie a person who himself or in the case
1
of a firm or corporation then a bona fide member oP the firm or corporation is
skilled in the planning superintending and p raotical installation of plumbing
arx ho
w ocessfully passed the required examination and received a
shall have su
license as a Idaater Plumber

28 JOURNEYMAN PLUS is
SEC 8
1 one who is skilled in the trade

or work of plumbing and labors as such mechanic and has su

aoeasfully passed the
required examination and received a license as a
Journeyman Plumber

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1
8
TICI PLUMBER is one who is a learner or beginner
APPRBN
and o isworking to
perfect himself at the trade of plumbing An Apprentice
Plumber when working with a Master Plumber or a Journeyman Plumber on any work
subject to the requirements of this chapter shall not be required to be licensed
Not more than one Apprentice Plumber shall work with a Ma
eter Plumber or a Journey
man Plumber at
any one time

C 8
S1 1030 SIDS SE9PER CONTIiAC
OH is one sttto is specially licensed to
lay or conatract house sewers
of vitrified clay pipe or septic tanks

SEC 31
1
8 LIGHTNEI is
L axt open space within a building which space
is entirely surrounded by walls

SEC 832 Al
1 PLICATION USE OF BtJ
ILDINGS THERE NTS
QUIR HOT COMPLIED
R
VPITH It shall b unlawf
l
n for any person to cause or pern
it any plumbing to be
done or any plumbing equipment installation or system ge systems
draine including
sewers eptic tanks soils wastes gas fittings fixtures pipes ventilation
a

systems and the installation extension connection and disconnection thereof to

be done to be maintained or to ezist on any premises in the
City of Oakland
unless the same hilly complies in all
respects with the provisions atyd requirements
of Chia chapter or to knowingly use occupy
inhabit or to let o r lease or sell
for the purpose of occupancy or inhabitation any
building or premises in which
any such non
compliance exists and every day s continuation of arty such non com

pliance shall be a separate offense

ARTICLE 2

PLC LICENSES BOARD OF INERS PF

ESAAI uIITS AND FEES

SEC 01 LICENSE
2
8 UIREA SoI
RE hal1 be unlawfhl for any person to
engage in carry on or conduct the business
to labor or perform services
of or
aa a Raster Plumber Journeyman Plumber or as a Side Sewer Contractor in the
City
of Oakland until he shall base first obtained a license from the
City of Oakland
authorising him to carry on such business or labor as such mechanic

SEC 8
02 APPLICATION FOR LICENSE
2 Each applicant for
a lioense to
do business as or labor as a Master Plumber or as a
Journeyman
Plumber or as a
Side Sewer Contractor must file an inapplication writing with the Health Depart
ment on an application blank furnishedby the Health Department

SEC 803 ISSUANCE OF LICENSE

2 A Master Plumber
s license or a
Journeyman Plumbers license may be issued to any person over 21 years of age
upon
the payment of the fees as required by this ohapter and after an examination of
the applicant has been made by the Board of Plumbing
Examiners and its oertifiaate
made to the applicant that he has passed the ezamination and is
qualified to re
ceive alicense provided that no p rgon who was licensed as a Buster Plumber
or as a Journeyman
Plumber in the City of Oakland on or after January 1 1926
will be required to be examined as required in this Chapter sash lioense
being
sufficient evidence of prr3vious examination A a
H ster sPlumber license shall
entitle the owner thereof to all the rights and privileges of a Journeyman
Plumber

SEC 8
04 RE40CATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSES
2 very license issued
P
hereunder shall be subjeot to revocation or suspension
by the Council for violation
by the holder of suoh license or by his agent or employee of any provision or
requirement of this ohapter pertaining to plumbing or of any ordinance of the
City
of Oakland pertaining thereto or of the rules and rege
i ations hereunder established
or ordinances amendatory hereof or for the making of any false
statement in the
application for such license or for any other cause which the City Council shall
deem to be good and sufficient Hhen the license of ax
p person shall have been
revoked no suaeeeding license shall be issued to such person without the
approval
and consent of the Council Upon revocation of any license all permits
outstanding
under such license shall thereupon become void and shall be
cancelled then any

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 such
license shall have been permit shall be issued to the holder of
suspended no

license and no new work for which a permit is required shall be undertaken by such
shall not be construed to
holder during the period of such suspension but this
authorized under permits issued under
prohibit the performance of any work duly
such license prior to the date of suspension
thereof The penalties of revocation
aeation shall not be a affect anry at her
bar to or
and suspension prescribed in this
in this Chapter but shall be cumulative and in addition
remedy or penalty prescribed
to such other remedies or penalties

Such revocation or suspension shall be made only upon a hearing granted

the person subjected thereto and written notice of such hearing shall be given at
least five 5 days prior to the date of such hearing

50 cecd
SEC 5
2
8 DISP Every Master Plumber shall dis
GISTERED NAME
his full regis
play by a sign in a eonspicuoua location at his place of busines
and no unlicensed person shall dis
tered name and the word plumbing or plumber
play any like sign

LENDING O F LICENSE PROHIBITED Any Master Plumber lending his

SEC 8
06
2
of
license to any person or persona or taking out permits at the office of e Bo and

Health in his name for the use of arty person or persons not regularly licensed shall
have his license suspended or revoked as in this Chapter provided

At the time of issuance of license to a

SEC 8
0
2 LICENSE CARD a

ster Plumber
e
M or to a Journeyman Plumber it shall be the duty of the Health Depart

ment to issue to the licensee a card Qertifying that he has passed the examination

the Board of Plumbing Examiners and that a license has been issued to him
given by
to conduct the business of or labor as a Master Plumber or Journeyman Plvmber as
the case may be hia card shall contain upon its face the name address type of
I

license license number end signature of the licensee and shall be carried for identi

fication at all times when working sub3ect to the regulations of this Chapter
purposes
required by an officer so authorised
Said card must be produced and exhibited when
under the provisions of this Chapter

SEC 8
08
2 A Board of Plumbing
BOARD OF PLUMBING EXAMINERS
CREATED
shall beby the City Manager and shall hold office at his pl ea
Examiners appointed
sure ster Plumber a licensed Journeyman
This Board shall consist of a licensed Me
Plumber and the Plumbing Inspector

SEC BING EXAMINERS

09 BOARD OF PLU9
2
8 DUTIES dfEETINGS It ahal 1 be

rd of Plumbing Examiners to examine each

of the Boe applicant for a Master
the duty
Plumber or Journeyman Plumber license upon his qualifications and ability to conduct

such business and to labor as a licensed plumber and shall certify to the Plumbing
Inspector the names of all applicants who auaoeasfully pass the examinations conducted
by the said Board

The Bo and of Plumbing Examiners shall meet in the rooms of the Health De
and at such times and other places as may be determined by a majority of the
partment
Bo and

SEC 810 ELIGIBILITY FOR EXAMINATION

2 Should an applicant for a
slicense fail to pass the examination given
Plumber or a Journeyman Plumber
Master s
not be eligible to take such examination again
by the Board of Examiners he shall
take the exam
within period of six months An unsuccessful applicant wishing to
a
for
ination again shall make a new application and pay the fees as herein required
an original application

SEC 11 BOARD OF PLUMBING iINERS

2
8 EXAI ENSATION Excepting the
U
CO
Flumbing Inapeator the members of the Board of Examiners shall receive as compensa

tion for their services the sum of Five Dollars 05

00 for each meeting of the Board
that no member of the Board shall receive rro re than Ten Dollars
provided however
10
0
00 in any one month

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 12 LICENSE FEES
2
8
SEC Every I6aster Plumber and every Side Sewer
Contractor shall pay such license as may be required by this Code or
by any ordi
nance of the City of Oakland Every Journeyman Plumber shall pay a license of
Fifty cents 50 per year payable in advance

SEC 8
13 ExANITIO
2 FEB to be examined
Every applicant desiring
by the Board of Plumbing Examiners
aster Plumber
ll for
s license or a Journeyman
a

slicense shall pay an examination fee to the Bureau of Permits

Plumber
and Licenses
of Ten Dollars IO
OO for each time such applicant takes the examination given
by said Board

SEC 14
2
8
PLLIBdBING FEES
I
P1 or every plumbing permit issued a
fee for such permit and inspection incidentalthereto shall be paid in advance com
puted from the number of fixtures proposed to be provided for in the whole or part
of a drainage system or the number of old fixtures proposed to be with news
replayed
Fiatures without
1 a change in a drainage system as shown in the application for permit
to install or alter ar
p plumbing or drainage system as follows

Minimum fee 00
X1
First twelve 12 fixtures 75 Dents per fixture
Next thirty 38j fixtures
eight 50 Dents per fixture
Next fifty 50 fixtures 25 Dente per fixture
All over one hundred 100 fixtures 15 cents per fixture

SEC 8
15 G
2 AS F PING PERMIT FEES For every gas piping permit issued a
fee shall be paid in advance as followas

Minimum fee
00
X1
For each gas outlet 25

SEC I6 1ND
2
8
MIT INSPECTION FE The following permit and inspection
fees shall be charged

Every house sewer complete 50

X2
Every building court connection to main sewer 2
5 0
Elrery septic tank outfit complete 50
2
Every building court house connected to build
ing court main 50
1
Every sewer extension 0
1
P Every aide sewer replac ent 50
X1
SEC 17 REFUNDING FEES
2
8 PROHIBITET No license fee or examination
fee paid under this Chapter shall be remitted or refunded under arty circumstances

ac
C
c Asa ucd
SEC 8
18 PERA
2 IITS REQU ED It shall be unlawful
to install or
alter
or eeuae tc be installed
altered any plumbing or drainage system sewer septic
ar

tents or gas piping of any building without first obtaining a permit from the Health
Department eo to do Provided that all permits for house sewers which will require
the opening of any street or public right of way will be issued in
accordance with
the requirements of the Street Department of the
City of Oakland and of the provisions
of this Code appertaining thereto

SEC 2
8
1 9 PERMITS APPLICATION FOR AND GRANTING OF Permits shall be
issued for the installationor alteration of
any plumbing work plumbing
fixtuxea
drainage system septic or
sewer tanks gas piping when application on fox na pro
vided by the Health Department For such permit shall have been made to and
approved
by the Plumbing Inspector and the required fees paid

SEC 28
2 0 IfITS
PF PLI7 tIBITIG CONTENTS OF Plumbing permits shall show
the total number of plumbing fixtures proposed to be
installed as indicated by the
number of fixture
outlats provided for or the number of old fixtures to b e
replaced
and also the amount of Fes paid Permits for alterations in a drainage
system where
no new fixture outlets are to be installed shall be issued upon payment of the mini
mum fee

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 SEC 821 PEf
2 MITS GAS PIPING Permits for gas piping shall show the
total number of gas outlets to b provided for and such other information as may be
ired by
reg3 the health Department

SEC 22 LAPSE OF PER112IT

2
8 CEMENT OF ORg
1
C0 It work under a permit

be not commenced within six months from the date of anae

iasu or if after partial
completion the work be disoontinusd for
period of one year the permit shall there
a

upon become void and no work shall be done at the premises until a new permit shall
have been secured Anew fee shall b paid upon the isauanae of the said new permit

SEC 823 Ot1

2 S PE
Et
TE T
The Plumbing Department maJ issue to an
individual not lioensed hereunder special owner
s permit authorizing said individual
a

to install alter change or repair plumbing equipment in on or about a building of

which said individual is owner provided however that no plumbing work authorized
under any such special owner
s permit shall be done nor shall the owner holding such

permit allow any work to be done except personally by the owner to whom the permit
is issued or by a member of his immediate family living and residing with him and

designated in the application and if this or any other provision hereof shall be
violated by the holder of such special owner
s permit or if ar Y false statement
shall be made in the application for such permit such permit shall be aubjeot to
immediate oanaellation by the Plumbing Inspector and the holder thereof shall be
liable to the penalty provided for violation of this Chapter

SEC 824 SPECIAL PER

2 dITS APPLICATION FOR Ehrery ind ividu
l desir
ing obtain any owner
to s permit under the provisions of thin Chapter
appertaining
to plumbing shall first file an application for registration sworn to before a

DTotary Public or the City Clerk which application shall set forth the bastion of
the premises where the work is proposed to be done that the appiioant is the owner
of said premises the person who shall do such work and swch other information as
may be required by the Plumbing Inapeator After approval of said application by
the Plumbing such permit
Inapeator shall be granted upon payment of the fees herein
provided and otherwise subject to the pro
isiona of this Chapter

ARTICLE 3

PLUMING INSPECTORS INSPECTIONS AND TESTS

SEC 801 ROUGH INSPECTION

3 TIME NOTICE t7pon oiid
iao of the
drainage system gas or water supply piping in any building and prior to the
conoealment thereof the Plumbing Departanent shall be notifi ed that said work is
ready for the rough inspection and furnished with the permit number therefor
whereupon the Plumbing Inapeotor will inspect the same within forty
eight 48
hours thereafter and provided
further that where the bottom of the first floor
joists are within thirty inches 3O
j of the ground no flooring shall be laid
until the rough inspection has been made

SEC 8
02
3 GENERAL INSPECTION NOTICE TO REPIIR ABATING 19LTISANCES
The Plumbing Inapeator shall have the authority to inapeat the plumbing drainage
system sewer septic tank or gas fitting of any building now or hereafter ePeoted
and in ease he finds any of the plumbing therein in an unsanitary oondition and
dangerous to the publio health he shall notify the owner or agent of the building
in writing to make the necessary repairs to said plumbing work
ly under
immediat
penalty of having the building condemned as s public nuiaanae In Dees such re
pairs are not made or commenced and prosecuted in good ihith within ten Jaya after
notice as aforesaid such building shall be declared unfit for human habitation and
a public nuisance and it shall be the duty of the City Attorney to take the necea
aary legal proceedings at once for the atement of said nuisance after being di
rected by the City Council to cornmenae such action

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 AZL WORK AND MATERIALS TO TESTED PHODS
D A Plumbing
SEC 8
03
3
inspector shall examine and teat all work and materials regulated under the provi
sions of this Chapter and for that purpose all openings in a drainage system
and the pipes filled with water Any
lying within a building shall be closed
All joints shall be water
tight IInder
material fowad defective shall be removed
the Plumbing Inspector the
traordinary conditions and if deemed necessary by
e
test may be applied YPooden plugs will not be permitted to
smoke or peppermint
be used as testing plugs

SEC 8 S IN SECTIONS
04 TESTING SYSTEM
3 Drainage systems may be tested
another
in sections provided that when all sections are finally connected together
teat be made by filling the entire system with water to a height
of ten Yeet 10
above the highest point of eonneotio n

SEC 8
05
3 WATER SUPPLY PIPING T8ST8 Mater supply piping shall be
mains continuously For
subjected to a teat by applying the pre9aure in the city
a p oY four
twenty 24 hours or applying a hydrostatic pressure o Y 125 pounds
riod
half hour
one All joints shall be watertight
per square inch for a period of
Any piping found defective shall be removed

Gas supply piping shall be sub

8
0
3
SEC YPIPING
6 GAS SUPP7 TESTS
ight of a colwan of mercury eight
jected to an air pressure test equal to that of the w
sly for fifteen minutes All necessary tooie
inches 8 in height applied eontinuou
to whom the germit
and appurtenances for such a teat shall be furnished by the person
was i sawed for the installation

SEC 8 07 SEVPf INSPECTION

3 TESTS Upon the completion of the house
as the case may be
sewer and its connection with the main sewer or septic tanks
be noti
and before ashy portion of the same is covered the Plumbing Inspector shall
fied that the said work is ready for inspection and the permit number shall be

furnished whereupon the Plumbing Inspector will inspect the same If in the
teat the same it may
opinion oY the Plumbing Inspector it be deemed necessary to
be tested by being filled with water tc a point above the inlet Any defective
with materials
pipe or materials shall be removed and replaced in a womanlike manner
that will pass the aforesaid teat

8
0
3
SEC8 ROUGH INSPECTION CARD Upon the inspection and passage of
the workmanship and materials furnished in the drainage system and the gas and water

supply piping as described above the Plumbing Inspector shall issue a rough inspec
tion card which shall be posted in the meter box and kept there until after the
final inspection as in this Chapter provided

SEC 09
3
8 FINAI INSPECTION CERTIFICATE NOTICE TO GAS COMPANY
Immediately completion
upon the of the plumbing drainage system gee or water
piping the Plumbing Department shall be notified that said plumbing work is ready

for final inspection and be furnished with the permit number thereof
it shall
The Plumbing inspector shall then make a final insp action of such cork within
the same to
it48 hours after receiving said notice and if he finds
eig
forty
conform to the provisions of this Chapter a certificate of final inspection shall
be issued b y him to the Master Plumber performing such w
rk If such final inspec

tion be of gas piping a copy of the certificate of final inspection shall be

issued to the gas company supplying gas to the premises notifying it that such
ctory and ready Yor the setting of
building and gss piping has been found satiafs
a gas meter or meters and it shall be unlawful for any gas company or person to

set or 8ause to be set or connected axY gas meter or meters with any gas pipe
until such certificate of Final inspection as herein provided shall have been

given

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 ARTICLE 4

L A10
BING MATEaII
PLUk D ORB1i
NSHIP ST
RIAS
ftD

SEC 8
01
4 3fiATBRIgI STANDARDS AL
GENSI hhenever under
i this Chapter
reference is made to any of the following types of material they shall be deemed
to be of such quality weight and oonstruotion as are in the judgment of the
Plumbing Inspector generally known to the trade

Standard cs9t iron coil pipe and fittings

tedium cast iron soil pipe and fittings
Extra heavy cast iron soil pipe and fittings
Cast iron or brass drainage fittings
Galvanised and bleak malleable fittings
Lead pipe bends and traps of weight and quality known as E
Braes pipe to be iron pipe size
Braes tubing and traps
Titrified clay pipe to be of No 1 grade

SEC 8
02
4 TERIAI
A
P
S QUALITY All materials moat be of good quality
and free from defeota

SEC 8
0
4 3 5TA1Q3aARD CAST IRON SOIL PIPE STandaxd cast iron soil
pipe and fittings of like type may be used for all house sewer house drain soil

assts vent or leader pipes except as otherwise provided in this Chapter

SEC 04
4
8 EXTRA HLAVY CAST IRON FIFE MERE REQUIRED Exoept as

specifically provided
otherwise articlein this in every building of four stories

or more height extra heavy oast iron pipe and fittings shall be used for all
in

house drain soil and waste pipes when the same lie under the ground or whenever
oast iron pipe and fittings are used for the house sewer house drain soil or
waste pipes in bnilding8 of this type 1 hen oast iron pipe is used for the house

sewer that portion extending from the property line to the main sewer in the
street shall in all oases be aonstruoted of extra heavy oast iron pipe and fittiz
ga
ll
h extra heavy pipe and fittings shall have cast thereon the words Extra Heavy
or EXFIY e ntamber of stories of a building shall be determined as defined in
the Building Code

SEC 805 GALPANIZED BROUGHT PIPE AND CAST IRON 3

4 INAGE FITTING8
9
Galvanised wrought pipe and cast iron drainage fittings may be used for ar
p house
drain soil waste vent or leader
pipes except where any waste pipe one and one
half inches l or smaller
horiEOntally
rune provided that a horizontal ezten

sion four inches 4

of this material not to exceed twenty n in length measured
from the water seal of the fixture trap to where it eonnectq with the waste or soil

pipe may be used as an extension from a fixture trap to a waste line ezeapt that
in the case of a dental cuspidor the horizontal extension as aforementioned may
be three feet 3 provided however that galvanised wrought iron or galvanized

o steel pipe shall not be run horizontally under the ground and except further
o as provided in Section 8
51 of this Chapter
4

SEC 8
06
4 PIPS AND PITT NGS I
OR WATER PIPING vanized wrought
GA
iron or galvanized steel
pipe and galvanized malleable fittings shall be used for
all water piping work except that brass pipe may be used in lieu thereof

SEC 07
4
8 PIPE AND FITTINGS FOR GAS PIPING Galvanized or black
pipe and malleable fittings or brass pipe and brass fittings may be used
fought
q s
we piping subject to the requirements of Section 804 of this Chapter
7

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 SEC 8
08
4 LEAD PIPELead pipe may be used for waste or vent pipes

provided that the extreme length of any vent dose not eaoeed five feet 5 Lead
soil pipe or bends not to eaoeed two feet 2 in length may be used for branch
aonneotiona for slop sinlts toilets leaders or other like fixtures All bends or
interaeotions shall be at angles corresponding to sanitary Ta Ys 116 1 6 or
bend
8
1 All 3ointa shall be wiped in a Workmanlike r
mane and all conneotiona
of lead pipe With either cast iron or wrought iron pipe must be made with brass
ferrules of the same size as the receiving opening and be conneoted to the same

by a wiped point and b e properly caulked With oakum and molten lead provided
however combination lead berxis or lead ferrules may be used No lead pipe or
lead bends shall be installed in concrete or under the ground

C
SEC 8
09
4 BRASS PIPE pipe with cast
Brass iron drainage fittings
may be used for any portion of a drainage system

SEC 4
8
1 0 BRASS TUBING FOR EXTE
SIONS Brass tubing may be used for
extension from a trap of like material provided the extension be made as follows
Extensions or changes in direotion on the waste aide of trap shall be made by
means of a swaged point or an exterior brass sleeve or solder elbow all points
to be well soldered Extensions on the inlet side of trap may be made in like
manner or by means of slip 3oint fittings

SEC 48
1 1 VITRIFIED CLAY PIPE Vitrified olay pipe may be used for
house or drain lines wherever the venter 1 ins of said
sewer pipe lies at a distance
half feet 2
of trvo and one t or more outside the foundation wall of any building
Such pipe shall be laid at a depth whereby the top of pipe shall be not lees than
twelve inches 12 below finished grade

SEC 8 12 INTE
9 DIATE S1 CTIONS OF i EREIq KIN
P
DTI AS 8PROHIBITED
The use of intermedia to sections of different kinds or types of pipe or fittings
will not be a1loWdtl on any soil Waste or leader pipe or in any house drain

SEC 8
13
4 GES IN I01
CHA2 DIREC BRANCHES All changes in direction
or branches in a shall be made with combination Y and 1
drainage system 8 bends
Ys 116 1 4 1 5 6 or 1
1 8 bends ezoept that one
quarter 1 4 bends shall
not be used Where eonneotion is made with a horizontal line of pipe if the connect
ing vertical soil or Waste pipe extends more than one floor above the point of
connection Connection with a house drain between the vertioal and the horizontal
and extensions of cleanouts when necessary to be extended up to a floor level
shall be made at an angle not leas than that produced by a bend Single or 6
1
double sanitary Ta may be used on vertical lines except as provided for in Section
14 of this Article
4
8

SEC 8
14 SANITARY
4 Ts Sanitary Ts When installed horizontally may
be used for vertical vent branohes Sanitary Ts three inches 3 in size or
larger With two inch j
2 branch openings may be used when in a horizontal run of

pipe to receive the disoharge 4om a waste pipe

SEC 8 15 CLEA
4 S All oleanouta shall be a separate fitting and
NOU1
shall be installed at the end of each horizontal line of the house drain where
the run of pipe and fittings is five feet 5 in length or longer and whegrever
a water leader
rain is connected to the drainage system excepting as provided
in Section 8
59 of this
4 Chapter

SEC 4
8
1 6 CLEANOTJfS SIZE AND BrATERIAL Cleanouts up to and includ
ing four inches 4 in size shall be not 1 eas in size than the
pipe which they
serve For use in drainage fittings they shall be braes iron pipe size plugs
for use in cant iron soil pipe they shall be construoted of brass or east iron
bodies With tapped tope not less than one
fourth of an inoh 4
1
in thickness
and tapped With not less than six full ironpipe threads and wi th ppigot
size
ends and shall be of a size ae shown in the following jtable
Provided however

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no vleanout need be lamer than four inches 4 in size

Size Tapped

2 1
3
n

Cleanout plugs shall be of brass and not leas than eighth inch
one
lf8 in thickness with a head not lase than one inch 1 square and one inoh

1 in height provided that where vounter sunk or inverted type of head is

desired such type may be used

SEC 17
4
8 NODTS
CLF LOCATION Cleanouta shall be placed fn an
avoessible lovation the plug of which shall not be set closer than twelve inches
12 to any obstruvtion They may be extended through a wall provided they
inches 2 beyond the finish line of wall If impracti
project ltivt less than two
cal to install in the horizontal line they may be placed in a vertical line by
means of a Y branch and bend at a point not greater than two feet 2 from the

point of connection with the house drain

SEC 4 8
1 8 FL008 COI
HECTIONS Floor connections for slop sinks
slop hoppers closets and other like fixtures where oast iron pipe or oast iron
bends are used shall be made by means of an approved slotted floor flange not less
than one quarter inoh 1 4 in thickness If threaded such flange shall be
of braes and shall have at least four 4 threads standard iron pipe size If
to be caulked a ooh flange shall be of oast brass or cast iron and shall be least
at
two inches 2 in depth and onequarter inoh 1 4 in thickness Cvnneotion between
futures and said flange may be made by means of a pure linseed oil puny or any
approved gasket and the future shall be held securely in place by means of brass
bolts

SEC 8
19
4 SQUARE CROSSES UNIONS ETC
BEl9DS PROHIBITED All bend e
square tees unions saddle fittings cleanouta
crosses or cast integral in fittings
and bell traps are prohibited

SEC 8
20
4 OUTLETS Side outlets in one
quarter bends shall not receive
the discharge from any soil or waste pipe Heel outlets in one
quarter bends shall
not x
eveiva the diseharg
e from any soil or waste pipe except when ss
ne is in a verti

cal position Side outlets or high heel 4 by 2 one

quarter bends may be used
inch outlet is to be used sa a vent provided
in a horizontal position when the two
that the bottom of the 2 outlet opening is higher than the top level of the Your
inch 4 receiving part of the fitting

SEC 821 DOUBLE HITB FITTINGS

4 INVERTED JOINTS Double hub fittings
or inverted joints shall not be used in sewer soil drain leader or waste pipes

SEC 822 EXTENSION

4 SAND RECOP NECTIOI OF DRAINAGE SYSTEIV6 there an

ge system fa desired ax3d where the piping of such

extension to any existing drain
existing drainage system is in good condition then awah extension may be made of
materials of the same type kind anal quality as was originally used provided ell
other requirements of this Chapter as to installation size of soil or Baste piping
and number of fixtures allowed be adhered to provided further that na extensions
of vitrified clay or terra cotta pipe shall be allowed within a building other than
that which may be required for special chemical wastes When a building is moved
or raised the existing soil or waste pipes be reconnected to the house drain or
may
that they are in good condition and that the plumbing fixtures are
sewer provided
trapped and vented to protect them from syphonage All plumbing fixtures not per
missible to be installed under this Chapter moat be removed The venting of toilets
all new installations and all other provisions of this Chapter must be vomplied with

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 SEC 8
23 IIRRMARSHIP GENPRALLY All plumbing and drainage work must
be done in a thorough and workmanlike manner and subject to the approval of the
Plumbing Inspector

24 DRAINAGE SYSTEM
SEC 8
4 TO BE DIRECT FILL The drainage system
in as direct a manner as ossible and shall have a continuous
must be arranged
fall of not less than axter
gu
one inch 1 to the foot

SSC 48
2 5 DRAINAGE SYSTt FASTS TO TILDING The drainage system

eaoept where acme lies on or in the ground shall be securely fastened to the
hooks Cast iron pipe shall be fastened
building frame with heavy bands straps or

at intervals not exceeding five feet 5 Wrought pipe shall be fastened at

intervals not exceeding ten feet 14

SEC 8
26
4 TiEPIATION 1diO NTS
REQIIIRII Where because of arehiteetur

al construction it is not
feasible Plumbing Inspec
in tha sound discretion of the
with the of this Chapter pertaining to plumb
tor to comply strictly requirements
ing such slight deviations therefrom as may be required may be permitted by the
Plumbing Inspector

SEC 48
2 7 SQINTS IN CAST IRON ENDS OF WROUGHT PIPE All joints fn
oast iron pipe and fittings must b e made with a packing of oakum and run fall

with molten lead properly caulked All ends of wrought pipe shall tree thoroughly

reamed

SEC 28
4
8 DRAINAGE SYSTEM NOT TO BE BUILT INTO 11tfASONRY No portion

of the drainage system shall be built into Y brick

az atone or concrete wall When

necessary to eoneeal eueh pipes they must be run in suitable recesses

SEC 29
4
8 OPENINGS THROUGH WALLS TO FILLED Viherever any pipe
passes through any partition the surrounding space shall be
foundation wall or
filled with the same material of which the foundation wall or partition is oonstauct

ed or a suitable t
m al flashing or Dollar shall be fitted aroua
dsuch pipes in order

to prevent the entrance of ermin into the premises

SEC 30
4
8 OUS HOW FAR TO E7CTFND In order that the house

sewer may be laic to connect with the main sewer or septic tank in a direct line

all soil and waste pipes or house drains shall b e extended to the front side
or rear of the building as the case may require grid shall extend not less than
two feet 2 beyond the foundation wall

SEC 831 HOUSE SEVERS TO BE DIRECT

4 House sewers shall be laid
in direct line from the main sewer to their connection with soil waste or house
a

drain pipes No bends will be allowed eaoept to connect with main sewer or with
waste or house drain pi
soil
d j
Cf f
SEC
8
3
4 2 JOINTS IBT VITRIFIED CLAY PIPE Joints in vitrified clay pipe
ved type of bitumen jointing material
shall be wade by means of an appP The bells
and spigots shall be centered by means of an oakum gasket well caulked into plac
and the bell shall be filled with t
he jointing material run hot to a depth not 1 ass
half inches 1
than one and one

SEC 8
33
4 SOIL ANA DRAIN PIPES SIZE Soil pipes where horizontal
or hmase drains when serving futures requiring outlets three inches 3 or

larger shall not be of smaller sire than shown in the following t able provided that
water closets shall not be served with a soil pipe less than four inches 4n in
diameter Other fixtures requiring floor connections may be served with soil pipe
not less than three inches 3n in diameter except as provided in Section 8 55
4

3 soil pipe for 8 futures

Ott soil pipe for lb fixtures
5 soil pipe for 4O fixtures
6 soil pipe for 8O fixtures
8 soil pipe no limit

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 Vertical soil pipes may have the number of fixtures increased one
half
the number allowed by the above table

SEC 8 34 BASTE PIPES

4 SIZE faste pipes receiving the discharge
fromsmall fixtures shall not be of a smaller sire than shown in the following
table
lpipe for 3 fixtures
2 pipe for 8 fixtures
pipe for 16 fixtures
3 pipe for 30 Pixturea
4 pipe no limit

SEC 835 TRAPS

4 FIXTIIRffi SEPARATELY TRAPPED pfATERIALS Except as
otherwise provided all plumbing fixtures shall be separately and effectively
trapped Traps may be constructed of cast or tubular brass oast iron vitreous
china porcelain or lead

SEC 36
4
8 TRAPS CTIONS
COI Traps shall be firmly and substantially
connected to fixture and the trap
a seal shall be within one foot 1 of the fixture
outlet Excepting as provided in Sections 8
09 and 8
5 11 of this Chapter a trap
5
of one fixture shall not discharge into another trap or fixture All traps shall be
set true to their seal

SEC 37 TRAPS
4
8 SIZE Except as provided in Seotion 8
51 of this
4
Chapter when a trap two inches 2 or smaller in diameter is installed the total
fall between the waste level of the trap and the vent shall not exceed the
depth
of the trap seal loo trap waste pipe or vent pipe from at
y plumbing fixture shall
be less than one and half inches l
one j in diameter except that a trap Prom a

basin drinking fountain may bs one and one

quarter inches l
or
j
SEC 8
38
4 BRASS TRIPS
Brass traps may be connected to a threaded waste
pipe by means of
iron pipe size threaded hesagon nut the same
a braes to be soldered
to trap end but the flange covering same shall in no case be soldered to trap or
by means of an exposed slip 3oint iron pipe size t connection set at least one
inoh 1 from the finished wall line

SEC 39 SINGLE TRAP SERVING f

4
8 TO FISTURES Two sinks two dental
cuspidors or a sink and a wash tray when set ad3acent in the same
room may be
served with one trap

SEC 40
4
8 DRiJM TRAPS Drum traps shall be not less in size than 4 x
8 and shall be fitted with oast brass iron pipe size threaded Ilea Hoot riot less
than three inches 3 in size with either raised or countersuak saluare heads They
shall be eo set that the cleanout will at all times be
accessible

SEC 8
41
4 DEEP SFAL TRAPS
Deep seal traps shall be of size not less
than one and one
half inches land
shall be so constructed that the waste inlet
of trap shall be wholly imanersed in the seal of the trap ire body of trap shall
be not less than three inches
j in diameter The oleanout of suQh trap shall be
3
so arranged that the body of the trap may be screwed apart for
cleaning purposes
within the line of the water seal

SEC 8
45
4 TRAPS FOR CATCB BASINS Traps for use in connection with
cement or similar vetch basins may be constructed by the use of a
inoh 3
three j
or larger sanitary tee set horizontally with aide outlet turned down
vertically
and a cleanout caulked into horizontal hub Such traps shall at all times be set
in the catch basin to facilitate cleaning

SEC 8
43
4 VENTS REQIIIRED To
provide adequate air circulation in the
drainage system prevent syphonage or back pressure except as otherwise
and to
pro
vided in this Chapter all traps shall be provided with vent pipes of a bore not
less in size than and within thirty inohes 30 of the trap served
See Seotion
37j Two fizturea of the same kind setbank to back or side by side within
4
8
the prescribed distance may have a common coil or waste pipe and common
vent

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 SEC 844 VENR
4 5 INSTALLATION TIDN
LOC Vent pipes shall be
carried up to and throclgh the roof one foot 1 Ho vent shall terminate within
a point three feet
3 above or twelve feet 12 from at r door window or other
opening or any water supply tank No vent shall terminate within the line of and
beneath an save or overhang of any roof In case a building has more than one
roof level and a v ent pipe would
emerge through a roof level wi thin the limits
prohibited above then said vent pipe must b e extended to the wall supporting the
higher roof and carried up to and through this roof one foot 1 All vent pipes
shall be so graded and connected as to drain condensation into soil or waste lines

SEC 45 SOIL STACKS

4
8 gSTE S4
i ACKS rery soil stack eer
I ing fiz
tures on or above the second floor must continue full bore to a point one foot
1 above the roof Every watee stack beginning on or below the first floor serv
ing fixtures on or above the fdurth Fioor moat continue f
1 bore to a point one
7
foot 1 above the roof

SEC 8
46
4 BRANCH VENTS SIZE LOCATION Branch vents may be used
if the branch be made at an angle of leas than 94o and provided the pipe size
conforms to the following tablesz

Branch vent sizes for ents from small fixtures shall be of pipe sizes
as set forth in table No 1 Branch vent aisea from fixtures served by traps
larger than two inches 2 may be of pipe sizes as set forth in table No 2
Branch vent aisea for fixtures as set forth in tables No 1 and No
2 when com
bined shall be of pipe sizes as computed on the basis that tao fixtures under
table No 1 shall equal one fixture under table No 2

TABLE NO 1

1 pipe for 3 fixtures

2 pipe for 8 fixtures
pipe for 16 fixtures
3 pipe for 30 fixtures

4 pipe no limit

TABLE NO 2

2TM pipe for

4 fixtures
pipe for 8 fixtures
3 pipe for 15 fixtures
4 pipe no limit

Branch vents shall not be made at leas than three feet aia inches
a point
6
3 above the floor level of the fixture or fixtures served

SEC 8
47
4 S
VEIN SIZB E TOILET
yygg IS INSTALLED Every banding
in which a toilet fa installed shall have at least one four inch 4 vent from
the toilet except that where private
a garage is to be used in conjunction with a
residence and is connected tc the same sewer a toilet in the garage on the first
floor may be served with a vent pipe mt lees than two inohea 2 in diameter
there more than one hcrase sewer serves any
building such additional sewer shall
be ventilated by at least ones two inch
2 vent pipe

SEC 48 BATH
4
8 FACILITY RRAPS AND VENTS VENT SIZES A shower bath
moat b served with not less in sire than two inches
a trap 2 in diameter A
bathtub may be served with a trap two inches 2 in
diameter The traps in either
of the above cases may be vented with a one and one
half inch lpipe subject
to the requirements of Section 8
45
4 A water closet or other plumbing fixture
served with a trap larger than two inches a located in a
basement first or
mezzanine floors may be vented with a two inch 2n pipe provided the length of
such vent is not greater than thirty
five feet 35t 1lPher a mere than irt five
feet j
35 in length the pipe of such vent shall be increased one
half inch 1
3n s
se for
2
each sracceeding thirty feet 3 subject to the requirements of
Sections 8
45 and 8
4 47
4

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 A future nerved by a trap iwo inches 2n in diameter may be vented
with a one half inch
and one 1 pipe provided however ti
t where a two
e
inch 2 trap is so vented not more than two small plumbing fixtures shall be
vented by a one and one half inch 1 pipe

SEC 8
49
4 QENTS TO RISE Y
vERTICALI Wherever practia
bie vent pipes
shall rise vertically from thepoint of connection with any waste pipe for a di
tance not less than eighteen inches 18n

SEC 8 50 BATTERIES OF FIXTURES

4 INSTALLATION YENTS Batteries
of futures shall be installed as follows Waste or soil pipe lines shall have
a fall not greater than
uarter inoh 1
one 4n to one foot 1 within the
limits of t
e required vent pipes Yent pipe a for suoh batteries shall be of same
size of pipe as the soil or waste pipe served and shall be installed one at the
high end of nosh waste or soil pipe after the opening for the first
future and
one beyond the opening for the last future in such
waste or soil pipe line When
a battery of plumbing futures
require that the branches of the soil or waste pipe
within the battery have a high point at both ends of the
battery then the main
soil or waste pipe at the point of intersection of the two branches moat also be
eztended fall bore throw the roof Not more than eight 8 futures will be
permitted between the limits of any such vent pipes An exposed cleanout shall be
installed at the him point of such waste or soil pipe line

3EC 51
4
8 BATTERIES OF S3ldALL FI
TURES INSTALLATION Except as
herein provided batteries of small fixtures shall not have their waste pipe
openings a greater distance apart than three feet siz inches 3
6 and the fall
from the trap of the fixture to where it conneota to the horizontal waste line of
the battery shall m t exceed seven and one
half inches 7
measuring perpendi
cularly from the center of the outlet of the fixture trap to the canter of the
horizontal waste Line of the battery When exposed nosh waste pipe
may be con
structed of gal
snized wrought iron pipe Fixture openings shall be made means by
oP Y cr TY branches Batteries of water closets or other fixtures requiring floor
connections shall not have their soil pipe openings a greater distance apart than
five feet 5 eaoept that floor drains
fizturea served by traps two inches
or
2 in size may be installed at a greater distance apart than above mentioned pro
vided that the waste or soil pipe be of a sire larger than that of the
trap served
Small fixtures may be branched into a soil pipe battery provided
they be properly
vented

3EC 852 VENTS FOR STARE FIXTC

4 iES Where a building already
constructed is of more than one story in height and it is desired to install one
or more plumbing fizturea on the mezzanine first floor or basement of a store in attch
a
building then such future or futures may be vented by a return vent to the
waste or soil pipe line provided that said vent shall be returned from a point
not lower than three feet siz inches
6 above the floor line of said future
3
or fixtures and that the vent shall be of the size as
eo vented required in this
Chapter ezcept where soil pipe is used to serve a fixture or fixtures then the
vent must be the same size as the soil And provided further that in a
pipe
store on the first floor or basement of a
building already erected and where such
store does not open into a
living apartment sinks wash basins and drinking foun
tains may be installed without a vent pipe provided the fixture be
nerved with a
trap of the Drum Pattern or a deep seal trap the body of the trap to be not less
than three inches 3 in diameter and provided further
however where grease
traps are required the same must be vented

SEC 53
4
8 LIGHTWELL I
AIDTS Lightwell drains shall be of a size
not 1 ass than inches 2 in diameter and shall be trapped vented and
two
a clean
out provided adjacent to the trap and shall be supplied with water through an aeees
sible hose
bibb

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 SEC 54 SI
4
8 ACE BRAINS
BF Surfave drains shall have sxi effective
trap of not less than three inches 3 in diameter and need not be vented
When catch basins are desired they shall be construvted of vast iron vitrified
clay cement
or If of vast iron they shall be of size and type as described
in Section 857 of this Chapter
4 If of itrified clay they shall be of a size
not lesathan fourteen invhes 14 inside diameter and eighteen inches 18 deep
If cement is used the same shall be at least 16 x 18 deep and the walls and
bottom at least aiz inches 6 thick When itrified vlay or cement oatah basins
are installed they shall be provided with a trap as deavribed in Section 8
42
4
and a suitable vast iron strainer

11hen traps other than those deavribed above are used they shall be
fitted with a oast iron or brass catvh basin and frame not leas in sass than 9
x 9 with suitable vast braes strainer Suvh eatoh basin shall be eonnevted to
the trap by means of a osulked bell or screw joint SurFace drains shall be
supplied with water through an accessible hose
bibb

SEC 8
55
4 CEbLAR BRAINS DOOR DRAINS Cellar drains or floor
drains on the first floor shall have an effevtive trap of not less than three
invhes 3 in diameter and need not be vented provided however a trap two
inches 2 in diameter may be used in a cellar or on the first floor but must
be vented

For all floor drains above the first fluor the shall be not lase
trap
in size than two inches in diameter and shall be vented

Cellar or favor drains shall be fitted with oast iron or brass watch
basins with suitable vast braes strainers which shall connect to the trap by means
of s osulked bell or screw joint provided however in a basement a oleanout
may
be used in place of a strainer A11 yeller or floor drains shall be supplied with
water an accessible hose
through bibb Where abasement is below the level cf the
house sewer water from a basement flour drain may be wasted into a
watertight sump
and may be diavharged into the house drain or house sewer by means of an ejector
provided a swing check valve of the same size as the discharge pipe is installed

SBC 8 56 TOTLET FLOOR BRAINS

4 For the purpose cf this Chapter a
Public Toilet Rovm is defined sa any toilet room open for the aeoommodation of the
public

In all public toilet rooms and any toilet room where tNO 2 or more
toilets are installed said rooms shall be provfled with floor drains If wall
type urinals are installed in the above toilet rooms the floor drain must be
located beneath the urinal If stall type urinals are uae and the fluor ie
pitched or eloped to drain to such stall a the flours need not have a floor
separate
drain bibb shall
hose be provided for of said floors
washing or
replenishing
of water in said floor drain

SEC 57 FLOOR BRAINS

4
8 GARAGES CATCH BASINS Tc prevent sand
grease oil or other objectionable matter entering the
drainage system floor
drains in or adjacent to private 8aragea or washracke shall b provided with vast
iron cement or itrified clay catch basins tlPhen eateh basins are constructed
of cast iron the wise of catvh basins shall not be lase than 12
z 16 and 18

deep Such vetch basins may have trap cast

integral vast iron gratings and shall
have ezpoaed acceeaible oleanout plugs If constructed of vitrified
clay they
shall be of a sire not leas than fourteen inches 14 in diameter inside mea ure
ment and not less than eighteen inches 18 deep If cement ie
used the same
shall be of a size not less than 16 a 16 z 18 deep The walls and bottom
shall b at least siz invhes 6 thick same to have a vast iron
grating When
cement or vitrified play catch basins are installed they shall be provf
dd with
a trap as described in Section 8
42
4

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 Public garages and washracks shall have a drain of ro t lase than four
inches 4 in diameter and catch basins of sizes to be approved by the Flumbing
Inspector Garage or oil service pits shall not be connected to any drainage

system Garage floor drains or washracka above the ground floor shall be provided
with suitable wrought iron not ateelj or oast iron catch basins

SEC 58 DRAINAGE SYSTEPdS

4
8 BELOW SEGPE
R LEPEL
Any portion PS
SUlt
of a drainage system lying below the level of the house
shall be drained sewer
into a sump constructed of a sat iron or wrought iron
not steel one quarter
of an inch 1
4 in thickness which shall be imbedded in a concrete pit the
wall and floor o f ehich shall be constructed of fine
aggregate ooncrete nut less
than six inches 6n in thickness Provided however a waste pipe from a wash
tray may b wasted into an approved watertight swap not leas in size than fourteen
inahea 14 in diameter and twenty
four inahea 24 in depth Such sump shall
be served wi th approved electric discharge pump
an A swing check valve nut less
in size than the diaaharge pipe shall be installed All swaps must b e installed
in a sanitary manner satisfactory to the Health Department

SEC 8
59
4 SUBdPS FOR DISCHARGE OF SIXTEEN OR LESS FIXTURES DISCBARG
ING PUII
S Up to and
including the discharge of sixteen 16 fizturea into a
swap the inside diameter of such sump shall be not lase than thirty inches 30
j
and of sufficient depth to provide a storage chamber of not less than
thirty inches
30 approximately ninety g0 gallons below the lowest inlet pip An electric
self pump with a discharging capacity of
acting sixty 64J gallons
not leas than
per minute shall be installed in such sump and the motor and all electrical connee
tiona therefor shall be loo aced above the level of the floor of the basement or room
in which such pump is located

SEC 8
60
4 SUMPS FOR DISCHARGB OF FORE THAN SIXTEEN FIXTCTftPS Sumps
receiving diaaharge of more than sixteen fixtures shall be ins felled and fitted
the
in a like manner as above pt
exa that for each additional ten fixtures discharging
into such sump the depth of storage chaanber shall be increased six inches 6
approximately forty 44j gallons and a pump capacity equal to four 4 gallons per
minute discharge for each fixture discharging into
sump shall be supplied A oerti
fieate of the manufacturer of such pump will be required certifying to such
capacity

SEC 8
61 SiJMP VENTS
4 Sumps shall be provided with a vent and shall
extend to the roof Said vent shall be of a size not lase than the inlet to
pipe
the sump provided however no vent need be larger than three inches 3 in
diameter An all brass swing shack valve shall be installed in the line
discharge
before entry into the house drain or sewer

SEC 8
6
4 RAIN WATER LEADER CONNECTION WITH SANITARY DRAIN PROHIBITED
No rain water leader
shall be aormected with any sanitary drain except by permission
of the City l
ngineer

SEC 8
63
4 LEADERS NOT TO BE USED FOR OTHER PURPOSES adera shall
L
not be used as soil waste or vent pipes nor shall soil waste or vent pipes be
used as rain water leaders

SEC 4
8
6 4 LEADER CONSTRUCTION Except as provided in Section 8
67
4
leaders shall be constructed subject to the same requirements ae if they were soil
or waste pipes When the leader is within the
building it shall be of oast iron
or galvanized wrought galvanized steel pipe and shall be tested
iron or
then a
leader is eonneated to the drainage system and in the ground that portion of
the leader in the ground shall be east iron or galvanized wrought iron pipe

SEC 65 ROOF COId1CECTIONS

4
8 T LEADERS
BETWEffi Roof connections between
oast iron or galvanized wrought iron leaders shall be made by means of a combination
lead and iron ferrule screwed or a sulked to the leader and
firmly soldered to the
outlet box

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 66 LEADERS TO BE ROVIDED WITH TRAPS
SEC 8
4 I
e adera connected to the
most be pro
drainage syeteis shall be provided with a trap An acoeasible oleanout
vided for each trap such trap to be located sa near the point of oonneotion with
the Novae drain or house sewer as practioable provided that where the roof outlet

of a leader is at a point twelve feet 12 from a adjoining property line

or

where the roof outlet is above or iwelve feet 12 distant from all water tanks
doors windows or other openings then said trap may be omitted provided however
or
that when the traA is omitted the leaders shall be a onatructed of oast iron
galvanised wrought iron Pipe as provided in Section 8
64
4

PLACE OF DISCHARGE CONSTRUCTION The running

3EC 8
67
4 LEADERS
oP roof or surface water on a public sidewalk is prohibited Leaders may discharge
or
into the street gutters through oast iron pipe galvanised wrought iron pipe
vitrified play pipe provided that vitrified play pipe shall not be used between
the proper ty line and the curb Exterior leaders may be constructed of galvanised

sheet metal or popper subject to Seotion 866 An exterior leader constructed

4
of galvanised iron or Dapper vn a building when said leader abuts on the street

line shall be constructed of oast iron or galvanised wrought iron pipe five feet
5 above the cuxb level to and under the sidewalk to the street gutter When

connected to the house sewer or house drain the same must have a oast iron trap
with cleanout and be connected at a point five feet 5t above tike ground level
with cast iron pipe a galvanised wrought iron pipe

ABTICLE 5

PLUMBING S TYPES ETC

PErRE
FIX

01 GENERAL DESIGN AN3 COIQSTRUCTION

SEC 8
5 Every plumbing fixture
including ail the appurtenances thereof hereafter installed shall be of a design
and construction approved by the Bureau of Standards of the Plumbing and Heating
Industries Bureau and every such fixture shall be marked or labeled with a dis
tinctive trademark or name as a means of identification and determination of the

quality or standard of said fixture

SEC 802
5 SECOND HAND The requirements of Seotion 5
FIRTUBES 8
0 1
shall not be construed applying
as to the installation of any
seoond hand fixture
provided however that every second hand fixture hereafter installed shall be
approved by the Plumbing Tnapector as to its fitness for use and every such second
hand fixture shall be distinctly marked as a seoond hand fixture and such mark
shall only be removed by the person for whom said fixture was installed or by
their authorised representative

3EC 8
03
5 WATER SUPPLY CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL Ezoept as other
wise provided all plumbing fixtures shall be directly supplied with running water
and shall be constructed of porcelain itreous china or enameled iron Laundry
trays may be constructed of Dement or glared earthezurare The use of page pltu
ger
common hopper flush rim hopper effect set
off and washout closet bowls are

prohibited

SEC 58
0 S All closet bowls shall be of types commonly known
4 CL03Ed
as Washdown Reverse Trap or Syphon def tinter supply may be by means of either
individual tan3 supply or by fluahometer type vales Bowls having one and one
quarter
inch 1 flushing inlets and ten k supply shall be supplied with a tank the bottom

oP which shall not be set oloaer than five and half

one 5 feet from the floor

level upon which the bowl is set

SEC 8 05 URIRALS
5 Urireal fixtures shall be
supplied with water by
means of individual tank supply or by fluahometer type valves
Provided that two
or more urinals when set up in group form may be supplied u
fro one tank the oapaoity
of a discharge from which shall be not leas than one gallon for each urinal Ott each
ae otherwise provided the floors walls and partitions about a
discharge Except
urinal and for a distance of two feet 2t in every direction therefrom shall be

constructed of ei ther sheet lead glass elate marble Ceramic file or cem
nt

provided that when vitreous china or pvpoelain stall type urinals are used then

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the floor only in front of the urinal and fora distance of eighteen inches 18
out need be constructed of ceramic the or cement and the stall shall be ao set

that this the or cement floor ao required will drain into the urinal Stall type
urinals shall be served with a trap not smaller than three inches 3 in diameter
Mall type urinals must fie served with a waste m t smaller than two inches 2
in diameter but may be served with a one and onehalf inch 1 trap provided

that where wall type urinals are installed a floor drain must be placed under the

urinal

SLC 8
06
5 Ro bath tub shall be built into any corner or
BATH TUBS
recess location unless the fixture is provided with a suitable extension shoulder
cloaed
or lip to engage the wall surfacing so as to prevent water leakage into the

in area Plain roll rim bath tubs are forbidden to be installed as a in

built
fixture

SBC 807 D
5 NTAL CUSPIDORS Dental cuspidors shall be supplied with

a drum trap with the eleanout plug accessible The inlet side of this trap may
be extended to a distance of not more than wiz feet 6 by means of a one and
fixture locsation
quarter
one inoh y pipe to the

SEC 8
08
5 ER URES
INDUSTRIAL AND OT IICR
F Fixtures for special in
dustrial restaurant other ogee
or may be constructed of sheet metal or eware
bo
s
for chemical laboratories Such fixtures shall be
Food may be used when required
connected to a drainage system in a manner satisfactory to the Flumbing Inspector

SBC 09
5
8 WASTE PIPffi FROM FOOD li
CEFTACLB a waste
In no case shall
from refrigerator
a box ice ice
cabinet icing cooling
cream fixture or or
pipe
any other receptacle where food is kept be connected direct to the drainage system
but may be connected indirectly in the drainage system if connected in the following
manners It shall discharge into a drip funnel not less than six inches 6 in
diameter constructed of copper or brass of not less in weight than sixteen
16
ounces per square foot to which shall be securely soldered a threaded brass pipe

extension Such drip funnel shall be fitted with a suitable protective screen and
shall be securely screwed to the trap serving the fixture he same shall be served
2
with a drum trap which shall be located as closely as practicable to the fixture

or it may be drained into a oast iron hopper not less than eight inches 8 in

tsecurely
b
heig screwed or caulked to the trap The top rim of the hopper shall
not be leas than one inch 1 above the floor then located on a basement or a

first floor such traps need not be vented When located above the first floor such

trap shall in this Chapter required except that where more than one
ented
eb as
such trap
served
s they may be branched into a common waste pipe and need not be
served with independent vent pipes provided that the waste pipe from the trap
located at the hig3sest level be extended full bore to the roof and further provided
that such waste pipe shall discharge into an open plumbing fixture

SEC 8
10
5 DRINKING FOUNTAINS When a drinking fountain is installed

and it is nct within attached to the building it may be installed without a went
or

provided that a deep seal drum trap or three inch S cast iron trap is used

SEC 11
5 GREASE R
RAPS Sinks or other fixtures in restaurants hotels
boarding houses and other public cooking places where greasy waste is discharged shall
be connected to a grease trap the capacity of which shall not be less than three

gallons and shall be vented Trvo sinks or a sink and dishwasher may be connected
to one grease trap provided the distance from the outlet of the furthest fixture

does not exceed six feet 6 Sinks or other fixtures in slaughter houses packing
lard rendering establishments or other like establishments where greasy
houses
waste is discharged shall be connected to a suitable grease trap the cap acity of
which shall be of such volume as may be found necessary by the Plumbing Inspector
establishment and shall be of such material as the Inspector may re
for each such

quire in order to prevent grease and sediment from entering the City sewer

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 SEC 12 ST08E FIATURES
5
8 Sinks in bakeries ereameriea butcher
shops fish markets shall be provided with
or a trap of the Drum pattern as described
in Section 840 of this Chapter
4

SEC 13
5
8 STEAD ExHAUST No steam exhaust shall connect to any part
of drainage system
a The drainage of a steam condenser may be connected to a

drainage system provided the method of connection be approved by the Plumbing

Inspector

SEC 8
14
5 L
CHEBRICI SINKS OR DRAINS
drainage system from buildingsThe
where chemicals are used which would tend to
disintegrate corrode or damage
materials ordinarily required under this Chapter shall be installed in such a manner
as to meet the approval of the Plumbing Inspector

11RTICLE 6

HOUSE SE4rERS

SEC 01
6
8 PLUDdBING FIXTIIRES BE CONNECTED WITH MAIN SE4P
R Every
building in which plumbing fiaturea are installed shall be separately and independently
connected with a main sewer or a septic tank except as otherwise provided herein

SEC 8
602 0 BUILDINGS ON SII
T TTGLE LOT Where there are two buildings
ene in the front and one in the rear on an interior lot that has but one street

frontage then the same may serve both buildings provided that in all oases this
Chapter shall be in all other respects complied with

SEC 503 SERVICE BUILDINGS

6 Service buildings such as a gl
age
aervanta quarters power house o r other like building where required as an ad
junct to and to be used in connection with a reaidence public building or
commercial plant may be connected to the house the main
sewer serving building

SIC 04
6
8 ARY C11MPS
08
TEMi Buildings in a temporary public camp need
not be separately and independently connected with the main sewer duxing the ezist
ence of such temporary caap

SEC 05
6
8 SIZE OF HOUSE SEf1
ERS L House sewers shall mt be less
FgI
in sine than the pipe they serve and shall have a continuous fall of not 1 esa than
quarter
one of an inch lf4 to the foot provided that the house sewer from the
street main to the property line shall not b e 1 esa in aise than five inches 5

SEC 8
06
6 CONFECTION TO tiAIld SIMPER When a house sewer is connected
to a main sewer in the street that of the house
portion sewer from the curb to the
main moat be at least three feet 3 below the curb grade provided that when a
house in street is leas three feet
sewer a than 3 belowa curb grade the same
moat be covered with at least six inches 6 of concrete to protect the same from
breakage

1111 house sewer connections to the main sewer shall be merle with a
piece
of pipe not more than one foot 1 in length and must be tightly fitted to the
opening in main sewer and heavily cemented

SEC 07
6
8 USE OF OLD SEWERS Old house sewers may be used in connection
with new plumbing work when upon examination by the Plumbing Department they are
found to be in good condition

SEC 8
08
6 REPLICING VITRIFIED CLAY PIPE Nhen either an old or new
building is placed upon a lot which hoe s vitrified i
y pipe house sewer within the
line of any part of the foundation walla said sewer moat be
replaced with c sat iron
pipe to comply with the provisions of this Chapter

nan addition to building is constructed over sr

a
y vitrified clay pipe
house sewer then the vitrified clay pipe moat be replaced with cant iron pipe to
comply wick the provisions of this Chalbter

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 SEC 8
09
6 PERAiITS NOT R8QUI8ED
WHEN A Permit will not be required
for the purpose of removing stoppages or repairing any leaks in house sewer except
thereof with other or
when it is necessary to replace house sewers or any portion
made nevessary outside the property
different material or when ezvavationa are

lines

0 BUILDING COURT COSJN CORl4ECTION ewer from a build

House
SEC 68
1
ing court may be connected to a main sewer through
a common pipe provided that
such common be not leas to else than
pipe aiz inches j
6 in diameter and that
be direct line to the main sewer
in A lamp hole oP the requirements
it shall run a
be placed within tao and onehalf feet
and speeifioations of the Street Department shall
of the house located the farthest from the
j of the paint of connection sewer
shall be laid under
main sewer Such house sewers connecting to this common pipe
a main sewer
the same requirements as if they were to connect directly tv

SEC 811 TILE DRAINS

6 Tile drains placed order cellar yr basement

floors or around the outer walls of a building may be made of field drain tale
and diavharged into the street gutter Nhen a the drain
or earthern
rare pipe
is co house sewer into a sump or a handh
the drain must discharge le
ected to a

with the handhole extended to the ground level and

or similar trap opening up

the opening covered and protected with a suitable cast iron cover

SEC 6
8
1 2 PEIiISSION TO CROSS LOTS Phen there is not a main sewer
in the street alley or avenue upon which the lot abuts and the construction of

such main sewer impracticable and it becomes necessary to extend a sewer

is
of such last
across a lot or lots permission ao to do may be granted by the owner
also granting to the Cif f Oakland an easement sat
mentioned lot or lute upon
for sewer purposes avross such lot or lets
isfactvey tv the City Engineer public
and along the route of such sewer

8
1
6 3SEPTIC TANKS TNHI T NO SEIt FACILITIES fi there i s no
here
SEC
available main sewer within flee hundred feet 5001 measured along streets
or public right
ways
of upon which a lot abuts the hoes o sew
r
alleys avenues
shall be connected with septic tanks as provided and provided furth
hereinafter

er that whenever amain sewer is extended to point within the five hundred foot
a

limit as described above then the aforesaid septic tank moat be abandoned remDVed
or broken up and the house eewer connected with the main sewer

ESC 14
6
8 SEPTIC TANGS CONSTRIICTION
COMPART
S
1 Septic tanks
premises
may be constructed They
on shall
the be in the form
where permitted
mate pipes from sinks and wash trays
of three 3 compartments and eaeepting
all soil and waste pipes shall discharge through three 3 compartments ste
As

from sinks and wash trays shall discharge through two 2 compartments only
pipes
have
ey shall be vonstructed of fine aggregate concrete Each compartment shall
1
a manhole not leas than eighteen inches 18 in size Plans and xpeoifioationa

as required for septic tanks are on file in the office o P the Plumbing Inspector

ESC 15 SEP
6
5 IC TANK CONNECTIONS
1 All oonnectivna with and between

each septio tank shall be made by means of Ta set vertical and eo installed that

the surface cP the water content shall not be greatly disturbed when water is flow
ing through the tank

SEC 68
1 6 SEPTIC FANS DISCHARGE FACILITIES The discharge from sept c

tanks shall be conducted through i

i eld the drain oP a sire not less than that

the tanks and of length hereinafter specified

of the pipe catering

SEC 68
1 7 ANUFACTUREI3 SEPTIC TAAHS anufaetured septic Lanka

by the Health Officer and the Plumbing Inspeotor may be used if the
approved
as herein required are satisfied
s
e
i
capacit
ESC 818 SEPTIC TANS FOR TpIL
6 S CAPACITIES Septic tanks receiv
not than two toilets therein may be of size not leas in
ing the discharge of more

capacity than one hundred 100 gallons

in each compartment and shall be served

with a field the drain of not less than one hundred feet n
lOA in length For

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each and every additional toilet to be served such capacity shall be increased

lions and shall he served with additional field the drains

five
twenty 25
of not lase than five feet 25
twenty in length

SEC 819 SF
6 TIC A iK FOR SAhALL FIXTTUEES CAPACITIES Septic tanks
five 5 small fixtures be of sine
receiving the discharge of not more than may
not leas in than one hundred 100 gallons and shall be served with a
capacity
field file drain of not leas than one hundred feet 100 in length For each

additional five 5 fixtures or Fraction thereof to be served auoh oapaeity

and such increase in capacity shall be
shall bra increased fifty 50 gallons
served with additional field file drain of not less than five
twenty feet 25
in length

SEC 68
2 0 FIELD TILE DRAINS H0 LAID Field tale drains shall be

laid not less than eighteen inches 18 below the surface level of the ground
They shall be covered with loose rock and shall be so laid that seventy
five
cf sash drain have a fall of not
feet 75 of each one hundred feet 100 shall
more than eighth
one of an inch 8
1 to one foot

ARTICLE 7

PLUMBING GAS FITTING A1

D GAS ISIS

SEC 8
01
7 GAS PIPING SCOPE STANDARDS Gas piping under this

Article shall include all that piping installed for the conveyance of gas for
any purpose beginning at the meter location
and continuing to and including that
point where the outlets are left napped or plugged

The regulations hereinafter in this Article set out shall be the

standard for ation and installation of house gas piping work
the eonatru

SEC 802 GAS PIPING F

7 R FUEL AND INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES TTS
REQUIHE
For fuel and industrial purposes the diameter of house gas piping install
d fn any
building the number of lineal feet and the number of openings allowed shall be
in mity with
b
on the fol lowing table s

NII1dBER AND SIZI OF OPENINGS ALLOYED

Length Pipe
Allowed Sine 1 l l 2 2 3 4

20 1
100 3 1
125 1 S 2 1
150 l 8 4 2 1
1751 1 10 7 4 2 1
250 2 18 14 7 3 2 1

300 28 22 12 5 3 2 I
350 3 60 41 20 9 6 3 2 1
400 4 140 86 43 20 12 6 4 2 1

SEC 803 ING

7 COIdPU3 PIPE SIZES For the computing of pipe siaea

set forth in the table in Section 8

02 case following e
7 half inch
qu3valenta of one
pipe outlets will governs

Each kitchen outlet to include range and a water heater with inlet pipe
not 1 anger than one
half inch 3 outlets

Each other outlet for gas appliances having inlet pipe not larger than
half inch
one ing illuminating outlets
includ 1outlet

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 Provided that outlets designed to serve gas
appliances shall be not
leas in size than the inlet pipes to such applianoes The total number of outlets
allowed in the above mentioned table for such pipe size shall be used for computing
the size of the house gas piping

SEC 04 TYPE OF PIPES

8 Galvanized wrought pipe and malleable
fit fittings
v
or brass pipe and brass fittings shall be used for all house gas piping when said
Aipes are used on the ezterior of a building underground when embedded in concrete
C or masonry or where exposed to unusual damp oonditions

SEC 05
7
8 PIPE INSTALLATION All gas pipes shall be wehl scoured to
the building and shall be graded toward the meter wherever possible Vertical pipe
risers shall have placed at the bottom of eaoh riser a tee plugged with a long
nipple and oap the same size as the vertical pipe to serve as a dir
pocket
t

SEC 06
7
8 DRIP PIPES Piping trapped by
a change of grade shall be

provided with a au3tabie drip pipe Said

drip pipe must be of the same size sa the
pipe ft serves the outlet of such drip pipe to be carried to an axpoaed accessible
location

SEC 8
07 PIPE BRANCHES All branohea moat be taken from aides or
top
of horizontal runs

O8
SECS PIPE SUPPORTS All gas piping must be rigidly supported by
straps or hooka in such a manner as to prevent moving

O9
8
SEC CENTER OUTLETS OR DROPS Ihere practicable all center out
lets or drops must be aware bend and securely fastened and where straight drops
are
necessary straps must be soldered thereto and securely fastene
4

SEC 10 PAS
7
8 INSTALLED BY SUPPLY CA
PANY LOCATION APPROVAL
All meters when owned
or under control of the person supplying gas shall be
installed by the person supplying the gas All gas meter locations moat be
approved by the Flumbing Inspector or his deputies and shall be located as near
as practicable to the point where the service pipe enters the property

SEC 8
11 SEVERAL A2BPERS TO BE AT ONE LOCATION dYhere more than
one meter is set in a building they must ali be set at one and so
location placed
as to be at all times accessible for inspection reading and and
testing shutting
off gsa supply

SEC 12
8 LOCATION E TWO BUILDINGS When one building is
in the rear of another b wilding on an interior lot the location of the meters will
be determined by the Plumbing Inspector or his deputies

SEC 8 13 LOCATION OF DETER PIPING

7 The house gas piping must start
within thirty inches 30TM of the proposed location of the gas meter and where
it is ryaeesaary to set more than one a meter the ends of such house gas pipes
must be eighteen inches 18 apart horizontally at
the meter location If more
than one horizontal line of meter openings be required then the vertical distance
between eaoh horizontal lines shall be not lase than thirty inches 3 and the
outlets shall be so arranged as to terminate at the right of the inlet location
of the gas meter

SEC 8l4 GAS E ERS IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS PROHIBITED

1 Gas meters
shall not be located under show windows or in engine boiler heater or electric
rooms wader stairways or under outside stairways when building is more than one
1 story in height Access to all gas meters must s through an opening or door
not less than 18 z 24n long

SEC 815 TAGS DESIGNATING a

7 CTION SUPPLIED House gas piping at
the meter location shallbe plainly marked with tags to designate the
section of
the building supp2fed

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1
7
SRC 6 M9iER OPENINGS ASIGHT REQUIRID fln each house gaa
the meter looation shall terminate
piping run of 29 outlets or lees the opening at
at a hei ght of not less than thirty inches 3fl above the floor and when there
shall terminate at a heist of not less
are more than 29 outlets the said opening
inohes 48 above the floor
than forty eight

SIC 17
7
8 RXPOSED METERS When a gas meter is boated outside of a

building or when the same is exposed the same must be protected against the

weather

18 CERTIFICATP TO BE EXFIIBITED TO SUPPLY COMPANY Before

SEG 8
7
to any building that has not already been
making any connection to supply gas
to furnish thereto shall a
a certain hether
e
supplied with gas the person about gas
exhi
and for that purpose may demand the production and
a oertifieate be supplied

the tenant or oeoupant of the building in which

bition of such certificate by owner
such house gaa piping
or gas fitting is boated before supplying gas therefor

IT FOR TEMPORARY SUPPLY When temporary use of gas is

SRC 8
19 PEl
7
permit for anxch ware for a period not
desired bing Inspector may grant
the Pl a

piping whioh it i a desired to

to exceed thirty sflj days provided that the gas
be used be given a teat equal to that required as a final inspection

SEC 78
2 4 CAPPII4G OUTLET UP 3VAL OF FIXTURE
OAT REB It shall be unlaw
disconnect fixture or gas appliance without sapping or
ful to remove cr any gas
plugging with a screwed joint fitting the outlet from ich said fixture
or gaa

or gas appliances are not

ppli anoe was removed g1I outlets to whioh fixtures
connected shall be left Dapped gas tight on any piping system being installed al
tered extended or repaired

SEC 821 EXTENSIONS AND BRAtQCH CO

7 ECTIOIQS An extension or branch

connection may be made to connect one gaa future or a appliance in a building al

ge
or branch connection does not
ready supplied with s diere the proposed extension
exceed twenty feet 20 measuring from the point where the branch connectioa or
extension begins to where it connects to the inlet of the gaa fixture or gas appli
ant7 e

SflNRY ETC
22 PIPING IN 3
SEC 8
7 l ALLS
1 8o gaa piping shall be built
or concrete walls When necessary to conceal pipe in this
in brick stone masonry
manner it must be run in suitable recesses

SRC 8
7 TING LEAKS
23 STOPPING AND LOCi No said Dement or ar
r other

eompoaitio n shall be used for the purpose of repairing orstopping leaks Water
shall not be used for the looation of leaks

SEC 8
24
7 RUNNING THREAD 3OIbTTS PROHIBITED No running thread joint9
shall be used

SIC 8
2
7 5 UNIOBT COUPLINGS BUSHINGS Where necessary ground joint
be used Bushings shall not be used in
union or right and left couplings may
concealed work

SEC 26 INSTALLATIOg BY APPLIANCE DEALER

7
8 A gas appliance dealer
to connect gas appliances sold by himself with
may install the necessary piping
the requirements of this Chapter
gas meter or gaa pipes of any building provided
for the installation of the piping complied
are with the required permits secured

and the necessary fees paid

ARTICI 8

PLUMBIRG MISCELLANEOIIS

SEC 801 CONNOTING S FROM TfiITHOUT THE CITY It shall be unlawful

without having first obtained the permission of the Covnnil of the
for any person
City of Oakland so to do to directly or indirectly diaaharge deposit or introduce
from without the City of Oakland any sewage drainage ar garbage matter in or into

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armwithin the City of Oakland or in or into any
sewer sewer extension sewer
therewith
neetion connecting
r
CO
er
ube
rf
branchdd
Outside sewers for the purposes of this section are those lying outside
e City of Oakland The use or ance of the use or connection
oonnection or eontinu
of any outside sewsr in conjunction or connection with any sewer eatenaion or sewer

pipe which connects with any sewer within this City by which outside
sewer use or

the continuance of either any sewage drainage or garbage matter is

nnection
a or
to be conveyed into any
allowed or caused directly or indirectly introduoed or

sewer within this City violation of this section unless

is and shall be deemed a

such outside use is began or oontinued or before such outside connection is

before
made or maintained permission of said Council to enter upon or continue such use
or to make or maintain such connection shall have first been obtained

SEC 802 STORM il TION INTO SEiiYER

ATERS INTRODT It shall be unlaw
ful for any person to introduce any storm flood or rain water into any sewer in
the City of Oakland which at any point between the place of such introduction and
the outlet of said sewer at tide water has a capacity of lees than seven 7y
gallons per minute for each core of territory drained or served by said rawer
it shall be unlsarful to connect the drain pipes leading from the roof of a
LT house

building or dwelling with any such sewer or to maintain any suoh oonnection

It is hereby made the duty of the City Engineer of the City of Oakland

upon request from any person interested to estimate the capacity of any sewer in
any territory within the City of Oakland Doming within the class described in this
eecticn and to furnish a statement to such person clearly indicating whether or not
the sewer in regard to which suoh person requests information Domes within the
terms of this section In preparing such estimate the City Engineer shall give due

regard to inside dimensions of sewer hydraulic grade of sewer with the surface of

tide water assumed to be at an elevation of one foot below Oakland City Base and
the area of territory drained or served by suoh sewer

SEC 503 PRIVY OR V

8 ULT TOILETS PERMIT REQUIRED it shall be un
Iawfal for any person to construct any privy or vaul toilet
hout having first
ri

obtained a permit therefor from the Chief Plumbing Inspector The said permit shall
be in the following words

PERMIT 1rOR PRIVY OR VAULT TOILE

i

NT AA1D SUBJECT TO
ISStTEfl BY THE PLUMBING DEPARTiI E RULES AID REGULA
T
TIONS OF Tx DEPARTMERT
THE AEAI

This permit is issued to to construct and

maintain a
privy vault toilet at ea premises being
owned by vault of et must
s pr vy or comply with all
rules re a ons o e ea th Department and the provisions of the Oakland
Ltnicipal Code
I

Date of issue
Chief Plt
mbing nape c or
Tack this on inside of
privy or vault toilet

SEC S
8 I Y R V TOI TS IT
7PER FEB iIBITING PENT
EX
No person shall be granted a permit to construct or maintain a privy or vault toilet

04 has been paid therefor Said permit shall be securely and

until a fee of I
permanently fixed to an inside wall of said privy or vault toilet and subject to
inspection at any time

SEC 805 PRIVY OR FAULT TOILET ABANDONBdENT A privy or vault toilet

corsstrueted under a permit issued pursuant to this Article shall be destroyed and
the ault covered with at least two feet of dirt within five days after a toilet on
the premises has been connected with the sewer

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 ARTICLE 9 cCe oo C rn

GAS APPLIANCES DEFINITIONS LICENSES PERMITS FEES AND

IOA
IA

SEC 01
9
8 Ordinances S and 4329
4328 A S
N of the City of Oakland
regulating the installation maintenance and repair of gas appliances and warm

air furnaces are not affected by this Code other than as may be specifically pr
v id ed Q
COQ 3 oe 9
her ei n
ee
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L
2
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T
CHAP

ELECTRRICAb CODE

ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AAD CONSTRUCTION

ARTICLE 2 LICENSES AND DEPOSIT
S
ARTICLE 3 PETITS IASPECTIONS AND FEES
ARTICLE 4 RHGULATIONS AND PRACTICES
ARTIBLE 5 IAISTRATION AND Ei
AD 7
RCEQ

AflTICLE 1

IAITIODIa AND CONSTRUCTION

Dffi

SEC 941 DEFINITIONS

1 For the purposes of this Chapter certain
words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as
herein set out unless it shall be apparent From their context that a different

meaning is intended

SEC 01
1
9 aj APPROVED means approved in writing by the Electrical

Department

SEC 901 b BUILDING means and includes any edifice structure

1
orenclosure whether roofed or unroofed temporary or permanent public quasi
public or private and al so includes any signboard bill
board and similar structure

SEC 19
0 1 c ELECTRICAL IEPARTMENT means the Electrical Department
of the City of Oakland

SEC 901 d The terms EQUIP

1 lfENT and ELECT RICAL EQUIPA2EN
T when
used without any glass designation or other expressed limitation mean and in
clude any and all electrical machinery apparatus appliances devices fixtures
fittings materials wires cables conductors poles and pole lines for the genera
tion transmission distribution or utilisation of electric power or energy for
lighting heating power mechanical electro
chemical signaling communication
ornamental advertising or other purposes

SEC 901 e
1 The term ELECTRICAL EQUTP
ENT OF CLASS 1 means and
includes any and all electrical equipment as hereinbefore defined in Section 9
O1
I
d with the following axceptione 1 Equipment used exclusively for signaling
or oomrnunication purposes excepting equipment used for radio communication
purposes
which operates at not more than 48 volts to ground or between air t
RO points of the
circuit and which generates transmits or utilises not more than 250 watts 2
il
soellaneoua other equipment not included under 1 above which operates at
not mare than 48 volts to ground or between any twv points of the circuit and
which generates transmits or utilises not nwre than 250 watts and which is not
connected directly or indirectly to any Iight heat or power circuit

SEC 9
O1
1 f The term ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OP CLASS 2 means and
includes any a all eleotrieal equipment hereinbefore excepted in Section 9
01
1
e as not being included within the meaning of the term electrical equipment of
Class 1

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 SEC 9
01
1 g The term
ELECTRICAL 19ORS when used without any glass
designation other
expressed limitation means and includes the installation
or

construction erection connection alteration and repair of any and all electri
cal equipment and the term shall be broadly construed to include also the electri
cal equipment with respect to which the term is used

SEC 9
01
1 h The term ELECTRICAL WORK OIL CLASS 1 means electrical
work as hereinbefore defined 01 g
in Section 9
1 restricted to electrical
equipment of Class 1

SEC 901 i The term ELECTRICAL WORK OF CLASS 2 means electrical

1
work ae hereinbefore defined in Section 9
01 g restricted to electrical equip
1
ment of Class 2

SEC 901 i3 The term HOLDER when

1 aced with reference to any license
or permit means the lawful holder the person to whom the license or permit is
lawfully issued or lawfully transferred

SEC 9 01
1 k The phrase IN OR OR ABOLM as applied to any building
means and includes in on under over attached to connected to or supported by
or 4om

SEC 1 9
0 1 1 The terms ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR and INSPECTOR mean arty
representative of the Electrical Department duly authorized to make
inspections

SEC 1 9
4 1 m The term INSPECTED means
inspected by a duly authorized
representative of the Electrical Department

SEC 01
1
9 n The term LICENSEE means
arty person duly 1 ieensed wader
the provisions of this Chapter

SEC 9
01
1 o The term BRANCH CIRCUIT means and includes every circuit
for the particular protection of which an individual out
cut or set of
fuses is in
stalled or required to be installed

SEC 9
01
1 p The term OUTLET means and includes every point on a

circuit or system of wiring where current is is intended to

or
be issued from such
circuit or
system of wiring or where current or a circuit or
portion thereof ia
or is intended to be controlled r
C d
Gc 0 3 C g Cc
d
c
SI lam P u
E
a
e
2 u

1
9 SEC
02 CONSTRUCTION I
UE
lfINI1 IdTS DEVIATIONS
u
REQUIR The require
ments prescribed in Sections 9
07 to 9
4 28 inclusive of this Chapter shall be
4
deemed the minimum
requirements upon which the rules and regulations provided for
in Seotion 9
0
4 6 Shall be based but shall not be deemed to constitute complete re
quirements in respect to the safety of electrical work and equipment as required by
said Section The Superintendent of the Electrical
Department may for good cause
or when the public interest mays equire permit deviation from the requirements of
Sections 08 94
4
9 09 9
11
4 9
2
4 2 and 9
23
4

SEC 19
0 3 INTERPRETATION OF RULES A ND REGULATIONS In the matter of
dispute as to the interpretation or application of any rule or regulation estab
any
lished under the provisions of this Chapter with respect to electrical
work or as to
any decision made pursuant to any such rule or regulation by any Inspector the de
eiaion of the Superintendent of the Electrical Department shall be final

SEC 904 APPLIC

1 TIflN TO PIl33LIC UTILITIES The provisions of Sections 9
01
2
and 01 of this Chapter shall not apply to any electrical work performed by any electri
3
9
cal corporation telephone corporation telegraph corporation railroad
corporation or
street railroad corporation on or with electrical equipment awned
controlled and opera or
ted or used by and for the exclusive benefit of such corporation in the conduct
of its
business as a public utility or to any other work which any such corporation
may be 4
ti
tled under the Constitution or any law of the State of California to perform without

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paytaent of tax but ell other provisions of this Chapter shall apply
any municipal
insofar they may consistently be applicable to all electrical work performed
as

by all such corporations provided however that nothing herein shall be construed
to allcnr any such corporation to perform electrical work for the public or to

engage in the business of electrical contracting as described in Section 9 01 of

2
this Chapter ezcept under and is compliance with ail provisions and requirements
of this Chapter he terms electrical corporation telephone corporation tele
7

graph corporation railroad corporation and stxeet railroad corporation are

used in this section as said terms are defined in the Public IItilities got of the
State of California

9
0
1SBC
5 CE4tTaIN PROVISIONS NOT TO APPLY TO CERTlINV
ORK Thy pro
visions of Sections
01 and 9
2
9 O1 of this Chapter shall not be construed to re
3
quire a license or permit
1 for the manufacture or repair of electrical equip
ment by a person regularly engaged in conducting or carrying on the business of
such manufacture or repair provided all electrical work inoident
thereto shall be
confined to the particular building or premises wherein or whereon such business
is regularly established and conducted or 2 for the attachment of portable de
vices which together vrith their portable sables and appurtenances are approved for
attachment to appropriate fined parts of permanently installed wiring or other eleo
trioal equipment provided such permanent wiring or other electrical equipment
shall have been inspected and approved for the attachment of auoh portable devices
thereto or 3 for the display or demonstration of electrical apparatus or appliances
in the regular place of business of a dealer in auoh apparatus or appliances provided
the wiring or other eleotrioal equipment to which such apparatus or appliances are
attached or connected shall have been inspected and approved for the attachment or
connection of such apparatus or applianoee thereto
N 4 for experimental eleotrioal
work in laboratories of recognised educational institutions of college rating or

S for the installation repair or maintenance of eleotrioal equipment for messenger

call watchman
sclock or Pire or burglar alarm systems or similar systems provided
such work be performed by a person operating auoh system ender authority of a general
permit or franchise granted by the City of Oakland or 6 for the installation alter
ation or repair of amateur radio communication equipment which urea rnt more than
50 watts of primary power and which ie supplied with primary power from a battery
and which has no outdoor antenna more than 45 feet in length or elevated more than
25 feet above ground at the highest point and which h s no antenna or other wires

supported above or oroxaing over any light heat or power wires pr 7 for a
electrical work of Class 2 provided however that all provisions and requirementst
of this article other than those of said Sections 9 01 and 9
2 01 shall so far
3
as applicable and not inoonaiatent with the foregoing provisions of this section

apply to all eleatrioal work and all eleotrioal equipment above mentioned in this
section

SEC 06
1
9 STEAM 4
V SELS AND MOTOR VEHICLES Nothing oantained in this
Chapter shall apply to the eleatrioal equipment of any steam vessel or other water
Draft operated or intended to be operated under the navigation or inspection laws
of the United States or of any foreign country Nothing contained in this Chapter
shall apply to eleotrioal equipment on any motor vehicle

SEC 9
07
1 TION TO CITY NTS
PLIC
aF DEPARTIV No provision o f this G
hapter
with respect to licenses cash deposits or fixing or payment of fees for permits
or
inapeations apply to arty eleatrioal work performed for ans department
shall

board or City of Oakland by ans employee carried on the pay roll of

office of the

any auoh department board or office but all other provisions of this Chapter
including requirements as to obtaining permits and inspections shall apply insofar
as the same mss be applicable to all such electrical work performed
by any of said
departments boards or offices

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 ARTICLE 2

LICENSES AND DEPOSITS

SEC 901 LICENSE REQIIIRED

2 It shall be 7nlawfn for any person to
u
engage in conduct or carry on the business of installing altering repairing
or maintaining electrical
equipment of Class 1 in on or about any building
eaeept under and in accordance with an electrioian
a license duly granted to such
person as in this Article provided

Except as otherwise in this Chapt

eapresaly provided it shall be un
er

lawful for any person to

install alter repair any electrical equipment of
or

Class 1 in on or abo ut any building eaeept a person holding an electrician

s
license to him duly granted as in this Article provided or a person who is an
immediate and bona fide employee of and who is working for and u ier the super
vision and direction of a person holding such a license provided that this shall
not be construed to require arty person owning operating or using an established
installation of electrical equipment to hold a license for the operation use
or ordinary care and maintenance of such installation but such work of Dare and
maintenance performed without a license shall not cover or include any additions
to or alterations or changes in arp electrical equipment of Class 1 or any
repairs to or replacement of any electric wiring for any electrical equipment
of Class 1 in on or about alp building unless the same shall have been authorized
under a special permit issued in accordance with the p roviaions of Section 9
05
3
06 or 9
3
9 081 of this Chapter
3

SEC 902 APPLICATION I

2 DR LICENSE Every application for an electri
ciants license shall be made in writing in such forms and detail as shall be pre
scribed by the Electrical Department Every applies tion shall in addition to
such other information as may be required
by the Eleotricah Department set fo rtht
1 e name under which the business is
14 to be conducted which shall be the
name in which the
application is made and in which the license is to be issued
2 If a corporation the names of the President Viee
President Secretary and
Iilanager thereof 3 If a firm the name of every member thereof 4 That the
ioant has an established place of business in the Statevof California 5
app
Location and address of main office or principal place of basin
ss in the State
of California 6 Name and business address of duly authorized agent or
representa
tive in the City of Oakland if any 7 That the applicant agrees that in the
conduct of the business and in the performance of all electrical work undertaken
by him he will be eub
eet to and will faithfully comply with all previsions and
requirements of this Chapter and of all ordinances rules and regulations of the
City of Oakland pertaining to such business and such electrical work 8 That
the individual signing the application is a lawful representative of the applicant
and is authorized axed empowered to act for him

Every euc h application shall be accompanied by a certificate subscribed

by the individual signing the application stating that all facts and matters in
said application a et forth are true and correct

SEC 2 9
0 3 BUSINESS LICENSE TAX Every electrician shall pay such li
cense mayasbe required by the provisions of Chapter 5 of this Code or by any
other nance
dfof the City of Oakland
d No license shall be issued until the

application therefor shall have been approved as correct in form by the Superinten
dent of the Electrical Department nor until the applicant shall have
deposited the
sum of 100
00 with the Bureau of Permits and Licensee as required by Section 9 05
2
of this Article The Council may for good cause prohibit the issuance of a license
to any applicant therefor

Y Every person obtaining a license hereunder shall immediately present the

same at the office of the Electrical Department for registration and shall thereafter

immediately notify said Department in writing of any and every change of his business
address

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 SEC 9
04
2 BIGHTS aND RESPORSIBIbITIES OF LICENSEE a
eleotrician
Ari
license when duly issued and registered under and in acoordanee with the provisions
of i
a article shall entitle the holder thereof for the period of one year unless
sooner revoke8 or suspended to engage generally for all lawful purposes in the
business described in Section 01 of this artiole subjeot however to oompli
2
9
ance by the holder hie agents and employees with all provisions requirements and
restrictions oontained in this Chapter and in all ordinanoes rules and regulations
of the City of Oakland pertaining to such business and r work performed in oon
to anr
neotion therewith The holder of a license shall be responsible for all work done and

sots performed thereunder

SEC 9
05
2 CASH DEPOSIT REQIIIRED DEPOSIT FOND rery person obtaining
a license under the of this article shall deposit and shall maintain an
provisions
deposit with the Bureau of Permits and Lioensea aubjeot to the provisions in this
Chapter oontained the sum 00 in Dash ae a guaranty
100
of ore hundred dollars
Por the payment of all permits and inepectiona that may become due and be
fees for
owed by said person to the City of Oakland and as a further guaranty that all
electrical work done under the authority of said license will be done in complianc e
with all the provisions and requirements of this Chapter and of the rulers and regu
lativna established under the provisions of this Chapter

The Bureau of Permits and Lioensea shall receive the deposits aforesaid
and shall pause the same to b placed in the City Treasury in a special trust fund
to be known as the Electrical Inspection Deposit Fund which fyuid is hereby eatab
liahed

SEC 06
2
9 aLS F RDA DEPOSIT
WITHDRA fhenever in pureu
noe of any
provision of this Chapter it shall become necessary to deduct from the deposit made
by any lioenaee the amount of any fees or other charges which shall be due and ow
ing to the City of Oakland by such iicenseg
the Superintendent of the Electrical
Department shall draw a check against the said deposit payable to the proper bureau
department or officer of the City of Oakland and upon approval of said check by
the City Auditor the City Treasurer shall pay the same out of the deposit againa t
which it i s drawn

The Superintendent of the Electrical Department shall m tify the licensee

of every such deduction or withdrawal from his deposit acid within five days thereafter
the said licensee shall again deposit with the Bureau o f Permits and I
icensea a
sufficient sum to replenish hie deposit and bring the same up to the required amount
of one hundred dollars 100
00 The Bureau of Permits and Licensee shall immediately
notify the Eleotrical Department when any such defioiency in any deposit has been
made good

No permit required under the provisions of this Chapter shall be issued

to any licensee while the Dash deposit of said licensee is less than the speoified
amount of one hundred dollars 0100
00
07 RETORN OF DEPOSITS
SEC 9
2 hen any person having obtained a
and Dash deposit as in this Artiole provided shall have ceased tv
license made
carry vn all business and perform all work for which a license is by this Chapter
required and when all work under permits issued to said person shall have been

completed inspected approved and when all fees and

and other charges due and ow

ing to the City of Oakland by said person shall have been paid and if nv ohargea

shall be then pending against said person for any violation of this Chapter or any
ordinance rule or regulation of the City of Oakland pertaining to elevtrioal work
then said person shall be entitled to have returned to him the said deposit of one
00j or suoh portion thereof as may then remain to hie credit
hundred dollars 100
after deduction therefrom as in this Chapter specified

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 BEC 908 ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF LICENSE
2 No license issued
under this Article shall be assignable or transferable without the approval of
such assignment or transfer endorsed on the license in writing by the Superinten
dent of the Electrical Department nor shall any such approval be given by said
Superintendent until evidence shall have been presented to his satisfaction that
there are bona fide and reasonable grounds for such assignment or transfer other
than a mere trade or sale of the license nor until the person to whom such a sign
ment or transfer is made shall have filed an application as provided in Section
02 of this Article with r aspect to an original licensee and shall have deposited
2
9
with the Bureau of Permits and Livensea the sum of one hundred dollars 100
00
05 of this 1
as provided in Section 9
2 xticle nor until such person shall have
accepted writing all liability and responsibility wader this Chapter and the
in
ordinaneea rules std regulations of the City of Oakland for all unoompleted and
unapproved work perfvrme8 by the original licensee and for all fees and other
charges due and to become due to the City of Oakland by said original livenaee
Every assignment and transfer of a license shall be registered with the Bureau of
Permits and Licenses Permits standing in the name of the original licensee and
work not oompleted or not approved on the date of transfer of any license
covering
shall be transferred to the new holder of the license

SEC 9
09
2 REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION OF LICENSE Every license issued
under this Chapter shall be subject to revooation or suspension by the Council for
viol ation by the holder of such license or by his agent or employee of any provision
or requirement of this Chapter or of the rules and regaiationa hereunder established
or of any ordinance rule or regulation of the City of Oakland pertaining to electri
val work or for the making off any false state meat in the application for such license
or for any other vauae which the Council shall deem to be good and sufficient hen
V
the license of any person shall have been revoked no suviceeding license shall be
issued to such person without the approval and consent of the Council Upon revoca
tion of any license all permits outstanding under auvh license shall thereupon be
vome void and shall be cancelled When any license shall have been suspended no

permit shall be issued to the holder of auoh license and no new work for which a

permit is required shall be undertaken by auoh holder during the period of auvh

suspension but this shall not be construed to prohibit the performance of an work
duly authorised under permits ieaued under such license prior to the date of auapen
aion thereof The penalties of revocation and suspension prescribed in this section
shall not be a bar to or affect ar
p other remedy or penalty prescribed in this Code
but shall be vumulative and in addition to such other remedies or penalties

SEC 9 10 UNLAWFUL TO LEAD LICENSE OR PERIUIIT

2 It shall be unlawful for

any person licensed under the provisions of this Chapter to lend his lieenae or

any permit issued thereunder to any other person or knowingly to allow any person
other than his immediate and bona fide employee working for him and under his super
vision anddirection to do any electrical work under any permit issued to him or to

authorise give consent to or

knowingly allow any other person in any manner to use
his lieenae or his name or any permit issued to him for the purpose of aiding auoh
person or any other person in evading directly o r indirectly any provision or
requirement of this Chapter or of any other ordinance or of ar
rp rule or regal ation
of the City of Oakland pertaining to electrical work
nn any prosecution for viol ativn
of this aevtion if it shall be proved that at
y person as principal or representing
himself as principal did enter into any vontraot or agreement oral or written
express or implied to perform arty elevtrieal work for which a permit is herein
required and that no permit was issued to said person for said electrical work and
that said person did himself perform or did employ another person under vontraot of
hire for personal service to perform or assist in performing said elevtrieal work
or any
part thereof in the o arrying out or execution of said vontraot or ag
e
ment said electrical work was isawed to and in the name of a
and that per mit for

person licensed hereunder snd that said licensee o whom said permit was issued did
not appear as one of the principal parties to the said vontraot or agreement and was
not known as auvh principal party by the other principal party thereto then such
proof of facts as aforesaid shall be prima favie evidenoe of a violation of this
Chapter by the said lieenae to whom the aid permit shall have been iasuad and by
the said person who shall have entered into the said contract or agreement to perform
the said elevtrieal work

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 ARTICLE 3

PERMITS INSPECTIONS AND P

ES
F

SEC 41
5
9 FCiI TO DO
IINLI CERTAIN WORK WIT
OIFI PERMIT
It shall be
unlawful for any person to install alter repair add to dhange any electrical or

equipment of Class 1 in on or about any building w it2wut first having obtained

from the Electrical Department a permit authorising said person to do said work

Provided however that in oases where an emergency or urgent nedeasity

den be shown to exist and to prevent obtaining permit prior to beginning rro rk sudh
work may be begun prior to issuance of permit by a person who is licensed hereunder
and who is then entitled to obtain permits provided said person shall give notifi
cation thereof by telephone or otherwise to the Electrical Department immediately
upon beginning said emergency work or as soon thereafter as the office of the Elec
trical Department shall be open for provided that in every sudh
business and further
Dees a permit shall be obtained within 24 hours exclusive of Sways and holidays
after audh easergeney work aha
l have been begun and if the person doing said work shall
fail to give suoh notifidation or to obtain a permit within the time above specified
then the fees to be charged under permit subsequently issued for said work shall be
increased as provided in Seddon 9 5 of this Artidle and the person doing the
1
3
work shall be subject to the penalty provided for violation of this Chapter

Provided farther that thiaseotion shall not be construed to require a

permit to be obtained for minor repairs whidh are necessary and incident to the ordi

nery maintenance in good operating condition of apparatus appliances or devices of

an est ablished installation provided however that such minor repairs shall not
Dover include the installation addition alteration or vhange of ar electrical
or

equipment of Class 1 or axe repairs to or replacement of any eledtrid wiring for

any electrical equipment of Class 1

SEC 39 02 APPLICATIONS FOE PERMITS All applications for permits

shall be msde fn writing and shall be in such form and detail and shall give such
relevant information as shall be prescribed and required by the Electrical Depart
ment When in any case deemed nceseary by the Superintendent of the leetrical
Department plans diagrams and specifioationa giving such details of the propoae8
work ae may be required shall b e filed before permit is issued provided however
that plane shall not be required for small jobs that can be fully and adequately
described in writing

The Superintendent f the Electrical Department may in anp case refuse

o

to issue a permit if it shall for any reason appear that the proposed work will
not be done in compliance with or that the work when completed will not comply
with all provisions of this Chapter and rules and regulations thereto per twining

SEC 9
03
3 MITS GENEEAL P130YISIONS CONCERNING
f
PE Every permit shall
be issued in suoh form and detail as shall be prescribed by the Eleetrfeal Department
shall specify the geographical location of the premises whereon the work authorised

thereby is to be done shall be conspicuously posted by the holder thereof on aid

premises and shall be valid only for the location ao ap edified If the work
authorised by any permit shall be oontinuAUSly suspended for a period of 90 days
audh per mit shall thereupon and thereafter be null and void No permit shall be
assignable or transferable except under and in accordance with suoh restrictions
and rules as shall be prescribed by the Electrical Departmen t

SEC 9
04 PERMITS
3 TO GYHOM ISSIIED Except as otherwise in this
Chapter expressly provided no permit to install alter repair add to or change
any electrical equipment of Clae 1 in on or about any building shall be issued
by the Electrical Department to any person nDt duly licensed hereunder nor to an
r
suoh licensee unless he shall then have on deposit with the City Treasurer the sum
of one hundred dollars 100
00 as required by Section 9 05 of this Chapter
2

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 SEG 9
05
3 apeoial annual permit may be
SPECIAL A14NLTAL PERMIT A
issued by the 8leetrieal Department to a person not holding any license under
this Chapter but owning or managing and operating or using a then established
ple in manu
plant or installation of electrical equipment of Class 1 sa for exaa
fapturing plants mercantile eatabliahmenta hotels etc provided that such special
annual permit shall only be construed to authorise the holder thereof and his bona
fide employees to maintain and make repairs to the said installation of electrical

equipment operated or used by him and located only on auoh premises as shall be
definitely specified in the permit and to make auoh minor alterations and changes
therein and auoh minor additions thereto as shall be incident to the regular conduct
of the bsineaa or industry parried on or o0ndupted on the premises whereon the said
ire tallation of electrical equipment i s located but no auoh special annual permit
shall be construed to authorize any extensive new eleotrioal work of Glass 1 which
shall be done only under the authorisation oP a license and regular permits as here
inbefore in this Chapter provided provided further that the holder of every ouch
special annual permit shall have regularly in his employ a person properly qualified
to perform in eomplianpe with this Chapter and the ordinances rules and regulations
of the City o f Oakland thereto pertaining all eleotrioal work done under the authori
sation of auoh permit provided further that the holder of every such special annu
1

permit shall keep a record of all permanent alterations changes and additions made
thereunder which record shall be open to inapeption at all times by any duly author
ised representative of the Electrical Department provided further that every auoh

special anrnxal permit shall be subject tv panpellation and revopation by the Super
intendent of the 8leptrioal Department if the holder thereof shall persistently
viol ate or fail to comply with the provisions of this Chapter or of tl rules and
regulations hereunder established

A fee of twelve dollars 00j

12 shall be paid annually in advance for
everyapeoial annual permit issued hereunder which fee and permit shall be in lieu
of allother fees and permits for work done uxuter and authority granted
within the

by said apeoial annual permit The Superintendent of the 8lectrical

Department shall
at such intervals as may in his discretion be necessary or advisable aquae inapeptiona
to be made on the premises covered by every arch apeoial annual permit

SEC 9
06
3 SPECIAL OWNER
S PERMIT The Electrical Department may issue
to an individual not licensed under this Chapter a owner permit authorizing
special s
said individual to install alter change or repair eleotrioal
equipment in on or
about building
a o f which said individual owner is Provided that
but not elsewhere
no eleotrioal work authorised under ax y auoh apeoial s
owner permit shall be done
nor shall the owner holding any such permit allow any such work to be done expept
personally by the owner to whom the permit is issued or by a member of his immediate
family living and residing with dim axed if this or any other provision of this Chapter
shall b e violated by the holder of auoh apeoial a
ewner permit auoh permit shall be
aubjept to immediate panpellation by the Superintendent of the Electrical Department
and the holder thereof shall b liable to the penalty provided for violation of this

Chapter

SEC 07 APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL OWNER

3
9 S PERMIT Every individual
desiring to obtain any apeoial permit under the provisions of Section 9
06 of this
3
Article shall first file an application for registration which application shall
set forth the location of the building where the work is proposed to be done and

that the applicant is the building

owner of said axed such other information
may ae

be required by the Eleotrioal Department After approval of ffiaid application by

the Superintendent of the Sleptrical Department and before issuance of any permit
the applicant shall deposit with the Bureau of Permits and Licenses the sum of twenty

00 in sash as a guaranty for the payment of fees for permits and

five dollars 025

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inspections and as a further guaranty that all electrical work done under the
authority of any permit issued to the applicant will be done in compliance with
all provisions of this Chapter and of the rules and regulations hereunder established
Said sash deposit shall be subject to all the provisions and corxlitiona including
return of deposit after completion of the work ae prescribed in Section 906 of
2
this Chapter with respect to similar Dash deposits made by licensees

SEC 9
08
3 FEES UNT3ER SPECIAL OWNER
S PERMITFees to be charged for

special owners permits issued

hereunder inspection
and of work performed under
for
such special permits and the payment of such fees shall be determined in acoordance
with and be subject to all conditions and provisions contained in Section 9 15
3

18 both
to 9
3 inclusive of this Article

SEC 081
3
9 SPECIAL FUR ACE DEAL S PERMIT The Electrical Department

may issue special furnace dealer

a e permit to any person not licensed ender this Chapt
er and to engage in the business of installing
but duly licensed by theCity of Oak3

gas heating furnaces or

and appliances provided that each such special furnace
8
dealer permit shall be issued subject to the following limitations and conditions
1 each soh aped al permit shall only authorize the holder thereof and hie bona
fideemployees to install approved electric ignition devices or appliances of rateQ
capacity not exceeding 100 watts together with the necessary secondary wiring there
for and the necessary branch circuit extension for supplying such devices or appli
ances from an existing wiring system 2 each such special permit shall Dover and
be valid for work only on the premises at one location 3 each auoh special permit
the holder thereof and the work performed thereunder shall be subject to and shall
comply with all applicable provisions and requirements of this Chapter which are
not in o onflict with any expressly stated provision or requirement of this section
4 every person desiring to obtain such special permits shall deposit and maintain
on deposit with the Bureau of Permits and Licenses the sum of 25
00 in Dash which
Dash deposit shall b subject to all the provisions and conditions including return
of deposit after compl etion of the work as prescribed in Section 905 of this
2
Chapter with respect to similar Dash deposits made by licenaesesunder this Chapter
5 fees to be charged for such special permits and for inspections of work performed
thereunder and the payment of auoh Ease shall b e in acoordance with and shall b e
subject to all conditions and provisions contained in Sections 915 to 9
3 18 both
3
inclusive of this Chapter

3EC 909 NOTICE REQIIIR

3 ED 9REN WORK IS READY FOR INSPECTION Within
24 exclusive of Sundays and holidays after completion of the installation or
hours
other work covered by any permit issued under this Chapter and also at such other
times and as often during the progress of the work as may be necessary for proper
inspection thereof the person to whom said permit was issued shall give notice to
the Electrical Department in manner and form as prescribed by that Department that
the said installation or other work is ready for inspeotion

SEC 10
3
9 INSPECTION OF WORK COPERED BY PERMITS Aa soon as is reasonab7
practicable after receipt of any notice in due form as in Section 3
9
0 9 of this Article
provided and also at auoh other times and
as often during the progress of the work
as
may in the discretion of the
Superintendent of the Electrical Department be
advisable the Electrical Department shall aquae an inspection to be made of the
said installation or other work IY the Elevtrioal Department shall find that said
work has not been done in compliance with or that said installation or other work
does not then conform to the provisions of this Chapter and of the ordinances rules
and regulations thereto pertaining or that said installation or other work is not

ready or in condition for inspeotion as in this Chapter required said Department

shall condemn the acme or withhold approval thereof as the case may require and
shall give notice of auoh action to the holder of the permit which notice shall
state wherein or why the said installation or other work is unsatisfactory

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 SEC 11
3
9 CORRECTI01 OF DEFECTS IN WORK Within ten days after suoh

notice is for in Section 10

3
9 of this Article or within such further
as provided
reasonable length of time thereafter a may be the Superintendent of
prescribed by
the Electrical Department said holder of the permit shall correct the said installa
tion of other work in all particulars wherein or with respect to which it shall have
been found unsatiafaotory and he shall immediately notify the Electrical Department
when such corrections shall hate been made

If any person shall fail neglect or refuse to correct within ten days
after notification by the Electrical Department or within such further reasonable
length of time thereafter as may be prescribed by the Superintendent of the Eleatri
val Department anr defect error or deficiency in any eleotriaal work performed
by or under the control of said person such failure neglect or refusal ahali be
deemed sufficient cause Por the Superintendent of the Eleatrieal Department to re

ftiae and said Superintendent ie hereby authori

ed and empowered to refuse to issue

any permit to said person until said eleotrical work shall have been corrected
further
and inspected and found to conform in all particulars with the provisio na of this
Chapter and of all ordinances rules and regulations thereto pertaining

SEC 12
3
9 PLUBlIBING AND OTHER WORK TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE WIRING IS IN

3P8CTED Before the eleetria wiring in acy building is inspected and

approved and
before any such wiring shall be deemed ready for inspection all gas
steam water
which to be located in any portion
sewer furnace and other piping and tubing are

of the building in which any of said wiring ie located shall be installed in place
the building shall be roofed and wherever shy of said wiring is to be oonaealed
all lathing stripe furring bridging backing and headers shall be in place

SEC 13 UNLAWI
3
9 ULAFTER I1SPECTION TO INTERFERE WITH OR CHANGE ANY
PLACE TAL WORK ADJACENT TO WIRING WITHOUT DUE AUTHORITY
OR TO 1henever
EQUIPEENT
any eleotrie wiring or other electrical equipment shall have been inspected and approved
it shall thereafter be unlawful for any person to damage or interfere with the same

without due authority and it shall likewise thereafter be unlawful for any person
whether working under authority of the original or of any new permit in a manner
to change or alter such wiring or other eleotrical equipment without reporting such
changes or alterations to the Electrical Department for re
inspection

Whenever the electric wiring in on or about any bn3

iding shall have been
inspected and approved it shall thereafter be uniawfnl for any person to plane any
sheet metal pipe or other metal work within five inches of ar
r electrical conductor
of any ao
called cancelled knob and tube system of wiring or within two inches of

any ao
called open wiring without having been authorised so to do by the Electrical
Department and then only when suoh conductors are protected in such manner as shall
be prescribed by said Department

SEC 9
14
3 JFUL TO
UNLA9 CONCEAL WIRING OR OTHER BaUIPMENT BEFORE INSPECTION
It shall be unlawful for arty person to lath over seal or in any manner cover or con

ceal or to cause to be lathed over sealed or in any maxiner covered or concealed

any wiring or other eleotrical equipment for installation of which a permit is herein
required until such wiring or other eleotrical equipment shall have been inspected
and approved by the Electrical Department The Eleotrieal Department shall have the

power to remov or require the removal of a ay obstruction that prevents proper in

spection of any eleatrical equipment

SEC 9
15
3 FEES FOR PEE
MITS AND INSPECTIONS Every person to whom p
an
permit is iaa wad under the provisions of this Chapter shall be charged and shall pay
to the City therefor and for inspection of work performed thereunder
of Oakland fees
in accordance with the schedule hereinafter in this Article fixed and presaribed

provided however that if any eleotrical work for which a permit is herein required
shall be commenced by any person before suoh permit has been issued then fees for

permit and inspections greater in amount by fifty per Dent than the fees hereinafter
prescribed shall be charged to and shall be paid by such person for any permit aub
sequently issued to him for such work and for inspection thereof unless the same

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 shall here
shall have bean commenced under stress of emergency and notice thereof
been given the Electrical Department and permit shall have been applied for and
38aued within 24 ho ura exclusive of Sundays and holidays as provided in Section
01 of this Article but thepayment of az
3
9 p such greater Ease shall not be eon

atrued ss being in lieu of or as relieving any person of the penalty prescribed

for a violation of this Chapter

SEC 9
16
3 ION 0 F FEES
UTAR
COA Fmea for electric wiring shall be
vn the number of branch oircuits and number of outlets
determined by and computed
and the wiring Ease eo determined and oomputed shall Dover and include on new work
the service wires meter cabinet board
switch main and distribution
feeder panels

panels when said equipment is installed under the same permit with the wiring system
with which said eQuipment is to be used Said wiring fees shall be in addition to
the fee for permit acid shall be in addition to the fees as separately prescribed
for such machines apparatus fixtures and devioea as may b e supplied by yr used in

oonneotion with sash wiring system

SEC 17
3
9 SCHEDULE 0 FEES The Ease requir under the provisions of

ectiona 9
15 and
3 16 of this Article
3
9 shall be in amount ae follows

50
lj Permits issuing and filing each

Branch oircuita for lighting heating power signaling or

2
other purposes each 05

o f nv t over 1320 watts rated oapaci ty for lighting

3 Outlets
or other purposes and for which Ease are not
heating power signaling
herein specially prescribed each 05

Outlets for main service awitohea service meters main

awitohboaxda feeder panels or distribution panels are not bo be oounted

4 Outlets of more than 1320 watts rated oapacity for lighting

other purposes and for which fees are not herein
heating power signaling or

10
specially preavribed eaoh

Outlets for main aervioe switches aervioe meters main switchboards

feeder panels or distribution panels are not to be counted

attached when installed not more

5 Outlets including reoeptaoles
then 24 inches apart for
border strip or
footlights or for outline decorative
group lighting elsewhere than electric signs each 02
display or on

b Outlets including attached receptaelea for temporary festoon

or decorative
lighting or for temporary working lights for use in building con

atruotion eaoh O1

7j Feea for inspection of alterations and changes in esiating wiring

shall be determined on the same basis as fees for new wiring e

Sj Changes in existing service or entrance wires or changes in

wiring neeesaitated by change in location of service meter or main aervioe switch
reach installation ao changed 25

when not attached to or included with apparatus for

9 Switches
whivh fee is herein specially preavribed each 05

Ruin aervioe switches and switches on switchboards distribution

panels arrimotor control Panels are not to be included under this item

and cord
10 Lighting fixtures brackets pendants drops when not

herein specially classified each 05

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 wall sockets and similar fixtures not herein
11 8eceptacles
each s05
specially classified

12j Ranges heaters air water and other kinds furnaces and

welding maahinea each as

followsi

For each rated kw or

a
kv and fraction o f either up to and in
a
kv 10
cluding 20 kw or

For each kw or a and fraction of either by which the rating

kv
exceeds 20 kw or a
kv 05

that the maximum fee for any one such appliance or

Provided
machine shall be 50
7

including starting and controlling apparatus therefor

13j otora
and wiring between same and motor each as follows

For each rated p and

h fraction thereof up to and including 20
10
p
h

For each h
p and fraction thereof by which the rating of the motor
exceeds 20 05
p
h

that the maximum fee for arty one motor shall be 50

7
Provided

1Yhen motors are temporarily installed for use in the construction

or repair of buildings the fees therefor shall be fifty percent of those above

pr es onbed

When a motor and the controlling apparatus therefor are installed

ender two separate permits fifty per Dent of the fees ae above prescribed shall
be charged under each permit but if there be no permit of record for the motor
the person under whose permit the electrical connections are made to the motor
shall be responsible for the total amount of the fees for such motor as above
prescribed

including switchboard and controlling e8paratus there

14 Generators
for and wiring between save and generator each as follows

Fbr a ach rated kw or a arxi fraction of either

kv up to and including
20 kw or a
kv 10

For asoh kw or a
kv and fraction of either by which the rating ex

ceeds 20 kw or a
kv 05

that the maximum fee for generator shall be 50

7
Provided any one

generator sets balancer sets

15 1Sotor dynamotors and converters
between same end
including controlling apparatus therefor and wiring machine
each as follows

For Each rated kw or a

kv and fraction of either up to and iing
inolu
20 kae or a
kv 15

For each kw or a
kv and fraction of either by which the rating exoeeda

Provided that the maximum fee for any one such machine shall be 10
00

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 Transformers and balance coils when not embodied in or invluded
16
with apparatus for which fee is herein specially prescribed eaoh as follows

For eaoh rated a and

kv fraotion thereof up to and including 10

eaoh and faction thereof by which the rating exceeds

For a
kv

Provided that the maximum fee for say one rmer shall
tranaII6 be 00
5

17 Motion picture machines including operating motor if any

eaoh 75

18 Ara laps atereoptivon lamps vapor lamps flood lighting

projectors and spot lights each 10

19 Rectifiers mercury are vibrating and electrolytic eaoh

as follows

For eaoh kw and fraction thereof of maximum rated output up to and

includ ing 10 kw 10

For eaoh kw and fraotion thereof by which the maximum rated output
da 10 kw
exve 05

Provided that the maximum fee for any one such rectifier shall

be 50
7

20 Electric signs minimum fee each 50

1

21 Wireless telegraph outfits eaoh 50

22 Miseellaneoua machines apparatus and appliances not herein

specifically provided for eaoh as follows

For a ach rated ke or a and

kv fraotion of either up to and including

For eaoh kw or a
kv and fraction of either by which the rating
exceeds 10 kw or a
kv fl5

Provided that the cimum fee for any

ma one anch machine piece of

apparatus or appliance anal 1 be 00

23 Repairs br minor repairs to equipment ich repairs do not in

vd
volve say alterations or charigea in or additions tv any ezisting wiring sad which

inone visit no fee will be charged other than the fee for the
can be inepeoted

permit If more than one inspeotion is necessary under any such permit a fee of
25 cen
a will be charged for sash additional inspeotion

24 When extra inspections are made necessary by reason of deficient

otherwise through
or fault or error on the part of the holder of
or defective work
the permit or on the part of his employees only one eaoh extra inspeotion shall be
made under the regular fees as herein prescribed and for each and every further
visit of inapeetion for which the holder of the permit or his employee is entirely
50 cents shall be charged
reapona ible a fee of

for special annual permit to be ae prescribed in 3eeticn 9

05
3
25 Fee

of this tic1
1

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 SEC 9
1
3 TOF FEES Whenever the Electrical Department shall
PAY
render to az person any permit under the provisions of this Chapter any
obtaining
bill or statement specifying the amount of the fees then due by and charged to
suoh person payment in full of such fees shall be made to the Bureau of Permits
and Licenses within fifteen days thereafter Arty such bill or statement shall be
deemed to have been duly rendered when deposited in the II
S mail postage prepaid
directed to the person for whom intended at the address registered by him with the
E1 eotrical Department If the fees included in any such bill or statement be not

paid in full within the said period of fifteen days no further permit shall there
after be issued to suoh person until payment in full of such fees ahali have been
made If the Ease included in any such bill or statement shall not be paid in full
before the ezpiration of thirty days from and after the date on which suoh bill or
statement shall have been rendered then without further notice the
Superintendent
of the Electrical Department shall as provided in Section 9
06 of this Chapter
2
deduct the amount of suoh fees together with any additional charges rich shall
have accrued against suoh person from the Dash deposit theretofore merle by suoh
person Fees for permits shall be due and chargeable upon issuance of permit Fees
for inspection shall be due and chargeable when first inspection of the work or
equipment covered thereby shall have been made

SEC 19
3
9 TIFICATE OF
CE SPECTTOR
II When the eleotrioal work oovered
by any permit shall have been completed inspected and approved the Electrical
Department shall upon requ
st therefor issue to the holder of the permit a oertifi
oate of such inspection and approval Such certificate shall specify the installation
or other work covered thereby and the date of last inspection thexeof
may be final or
preliminary and may or may not authorize the use of electric current in the equipment
oovered thereby as the oiroumstanees and conditions of the case T determine shall
be sub
eot to cancellation for good and sufficient cause and shall automatically be
come null and void if any alterati on change or addition not duly authorised
by permit
shall be made in or to the equipment oovered thereby provided however that the
Elevtrioai Department may in any case refuse to approve to issue certificate of inspec
tion of or to authorize the use of electric current
in any installation or other
work if the holder of the permit for suoh installation or other work shall be then
indebted to the City of Oakland for any fees for permits or inspections under the pro
visions of this Chapter and said Department may continue suoh efuaal until suoh fees
r

shall have been paid in full

ARTICLE 4

IONS A1
REGIILA ID PiiAGTICES

SEC 9
01
4 FnL in 1Gi
UNLAW KE SER9ICE CONI9ECTION WITROUT APPR09AL OF
ELECTRICAL DEP
I SPOI
ARTEER RE FOR UNI
SIBILITY AWFtTL CONNECTIOIPS It shall be unlawfal
for any person engaged in the distribution or sale of eleots
ical every to connect his
distribution system or any live supply or service conductor ox conductors tom said
distribution system to any eleotrioal equipment in on or about arty bai
lding or to
cause or allow arty such Connection to be made until the Electrical Department shall
have inspected s
id electrical equipment and shall have authorized suoh connection
to be made thereto Every person engaged in the distribution or sale of electrical
energy and orsning or operating any eleotrioal distribution system shall be held
reapo naible for allsupply or service connections from such distribution system owned
or operated by him and in any prosecution for violation of this
section if it shall
be proved that any eleotrioal distribution system or any live
supply or service con
ductor therefrom was connected to any electrical equipment in on or about any
building before such connection had been authorised as in this Chapter provided such
proof shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section by the person
owning or operating the said distribution system

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 ISCONIO OF UNI
02 REQUIRING ECTION
I AWFtTL CONIECTION Whenever
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the Eleotrical Department shall find any electrical distribution system or any lire
supply or service conductor therefrom to have been connected
to any electrical equip
ment in on or about any building without authority therefor as in this Chapter re
and em
quired the Superintendent of the Eleotrical 7epartment shall be authorized
powered to cause such system or conductor to be disconnected from said electrical
the person owning
equipment or to order and require the acme to be disconnected by
or operating said distribution system

SEC 9
03
4 POWSR COMPANIES TO NOTIFY ELECTRICAI DEPARTEENT OF METER INSTAL

LATIONS SERVICE CONNIlCTIONS AND CAANGES OF SERVICE Whenever any person engaged
in the distribution sale of electrical energy shall set or install or re
or set or
of electrical
install in on or about any building arty me terfDr the measurement
re
connect supply or service to any installation of elec
energy or shall connect or re
trical equipment in on or about any building or shall change the nominal voltage
of supply or service to any installation of electrical equipment in on or about

any building or shall change any such supply or service from 2wire din 3wfre or

vice versa or from single phase to polyphase or vice versa or from direct current
to alternating current or vice versa said person shall within two 2 days there
lusive of Sundays and holidays give written notice to the Eleotrical De
after ez
installation or of such supply or service
partment of such meter installation or re
connection or reconnection or of such change of supply of aervioe which notice
shall specify the location and address of the installation affected and for failure
neglect or refusal to give auah notice within the time above specified said person
shall be subject to the penalty provided for violation of
Chapter provided
thia
however that said notice need not be given with respect to any such meter installa
atallation or any such a
tion or reir yply or aervioe connection or reconnection or
ange of supply or service which shall have been azpreasly approved and
any such vh
authorized by the Electrical Department within thirty 30j days previous to the date
on ehicli said meter installation or reinstallation or said supply or service connec
tion or reconnection or said change of supply or aervioe is made provided fuxther
parianent may at his discretion waive
that the Superintendent of the Eleotrical D
temporarily or permanently any or all requirements of this section by giving notice
in writing of such waiver to all persons engaged in the distribution or sale of
eleotri cal energy and said Superintendent may likewise at aYLY time revoke such waiver

by notice in writing to all such per eons

SEC 9
04 UI
4 UL TO CONNECT OR USE CERTAIN EQUIP
WF tENT WITHOUT APPROVAL
OF ELECTRICAL EENT
AH3
ZEI It shall be unlawful for any person to connect or cause
to be connected to any source of electrical energy any electrical equipment for
installation of which a permit is in this Chapter required or to use electric current
or by means of any sash eleotrical equipment until such connection and
in through
use shall have been authorised by the E1 eetrical Department

SEC 9
05
4 TEM SERVICE CONNECTION
ORARY The Superintendent of the Eleo
at his discretion precious to final inspection and approval
trical department may
of any electrical equipment or at other times grant permission for temporary supply
of electrical energy to and temporary use of said eleotrical equipment if in his
dgment
u said eleotrical equipment is in such condition that current may be used
therein without danger or property and if there ezista a reasonably urgent
to life

necessity for such temporary use Such permission shall be aub

ect to revocation at
any time atyd shall automatically ezpire at the termination of the period of time
for which it is granted

4106 SAFETY OF ELECTRICAL WORFC AND EQUIPMEN

SEC 9 P REQUIRED RULFS AND

REGULATIONS All eleotrical work shall be so performed and all eleotrical equip
ment shall be eo constructed installed Protected operated repaired and maintained

that said eleotrical work and electrical equipment will be to such eztent as is
reasonably possible safe and free frrom risk or danger of accident or injury by fire

sock or otherwise to either person or property and the Superintendent of the

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Electrical Department is hereby authorised and empowered to prescribe and establish
tione with respect to eleetri
from time to time and to enforce such rules and regule
eal work and the materials fittings and appliances used therein and with reapeot
to the construction installation protection operation repair and maintenance
of electrical equipment as he may deem proper or necessary for carrying out and en
forcing the foregoing requirements of this section a Dopy of which rules and regula
tions shall be kept on file in the office of the Electrical Department The Superin
tendent of the Electrical Department is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish

copies of said rules and regulations to persons performing or having supervision of

electrical work in the City of Oakland

SEC 07
4
9 CONSTRUCTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS
Nothing that may
be contained in the rules and
regulations provided for in Section 46 of this
4
9
lrticle shall be construed to waive or set aside but said rules and regulations shall
be supplementary to and in addition to any provision or requirement with respect to
electrical taork or the eonatruetion installation protection operation repair or
maintenance of electrical equipment ghat may be contained in any law of the State of
California or in any order rule or regulation of the Railroad Coaaaiasion or of the
Industrial Accident Commiasivn or in any other order rule or regulation made pur
provisions of any law of the State and the requirements of Such State
suant to the
laws and of such orders rules and regulations as may be made
pursuant to the pro
visions thereof shall determine and they and
hereby declared to be
establish are

the minimum requirements of the City of Oakland with respect to the particular eleo
trioal work and with reapeot to the particular construction installation protection

operation repair or maintenance of eleetrioal equipment to which said State Laws

orders rules and regulations shall by act of the Legislature expressly apply

SEC 9 08 NATIONAL ELECTRICXL CODE

4 All electrical work and equipment
shall comply with the requirements of the National Electrical Code of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters as supplemented amended and interpreted by the rules
and regulations he reinbefore provided for in Section 9
06
4

SEC 9
09
4 APPROVED MATERIALS Vlhen there are obtainable for any given

purpose materials fittings devices appliances or that have been examined by a

properly qualified and authorised body and approved listed or labeled as conform
ing to the standards of the Underwriters Laboratories the United States Bureau of
Standards or other similar institution of recognized standing then such materials
fittings devisee or appliances shall be used in preference to others which have not
been so examined and approved listed or labeled The use of all materials fittings

devices and appliances shall in all ogees be subject to the rules and regulations
established under the provisions of this Chapter

SEC 10
4
9 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of Section 9
11 to 9
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4

incluaive of this Article the following d efinitiona shall apply Frame building
means a frame ae defined and intended in the Building Code of the City of
building
Oakland Dwelling apartment hones and hotel means a dwelling apartment
house or hotel as defined in the State Housing Act The terms wiring and electric

wiring mean and include all fixed wiring for light heat or power ptarpoaes and all
fixed wiring for other purposes which is in direct eleetrioal connection with any

light heat or power circuit excepting wiring in or on a power station at substation

controlled and operated by and located o n the premises of a power company or
railway
company

SEC 9
11 CONDUITS
4 PRECEDENCE OF NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE All elec
tric wiring hereafter installed in or on any building shall
be installed in approved

rigid metal conduit except as otherwise provided in subsequent Sections of this

Chapter provided that where any special requirement of this Chapter or of the
aforesaid National Electrical Code expressly preacri
res or prohibits air particular
wiring method or methods for any special purpose condition or location as for
exampl for servicing certain mptora potential
high systems theatres hoistways
and hazardous locations then such special requirement shall take precedence over
arty general exceptions or provisions of this Chapter in any point of apparent conflict
or inconeiatency therewith

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 SEC 4x
1 2 FLEXIBLE METAL CONDUITS approved flexible metal conduit
may be used as a substitute for rigid metal conduit or other wiring methods in build
ings of any type or class of construction subject to the following restrictions
1 Unless the oonductors contained therein are lead
covered flexible metal conduit
shall not be installed where exposed to the weather or otherwise exposed to exaeasive
moisture as in portions of such ple
aes ae canneries meat peaking plants dairies
and the public laundries or where exposed to oil corrosive vapors or other aub
ataneea that have a rapidly injurious effect on the conductors or their insulation
Flexible metal conduit shall not be fished into any concealed apace in which
concealed knob and tube
wiring is installed unless it can first be definitely deter
mined that the conduit will not some in contact with the existing knob and tube wiring
or unless such existing wiring is permanently disconnected
from all source of supply

SEC 13 AR
4
9 BJURED CABLE CONDUITS Subject to the restrictions herein
after svribed approved
pa armoured vable may be used ae a substitute for rigid metal
conduit or other wiring m 1 In
ethoda in the following places frame buildings
2 In existing buildings of other than frame c onatruation where the sable is fished
into concealed locations or used in wiring show windows show cases display cabinets
or similar store fixtures or used in making approved under
plaster extenwions to
existing lighting or appliance branch circuits or by special permission in other
locations where the use of rigid conduit is impracticable

SEC 914 D
4 URE CABLE
A INSTALLATION The installation of anaoured
sable shall be anbject to the following restrictions in and on all buildings 1
Armoured sable shall not be installed where the voltage between arty tso oonductors
exceeds 300 volts or where the voltage between arty conductor and ground exceeds 150
volts or where the surrounding temperature exceeds 120 degrees Fahrenheit 2 Are
moored gable shall not be fished into any concealed space in which concealed knob
and tube wiring is instal led unless it can first be
definitely determined that the
cable will not come in contact with the existing ltob and tube wiring or unless such
existing wiring is permanently disconnected fY
om all source oP supply 3 armoured
cable containing more than two conductors shall not be installed eaept in branch
oircuita

SEC 9
16
4 SURFACE PIETAL BACI
AY
1
approved surface metal raceway may be
used as a substitute for
rigid metal conduit or other wiring methods in exposed dry
locations in buildings of any type or class of oonstruation provided that the use
of s urfaae metal rageway shall b e subject to all restrictions prescribed in said
National Electrical Code

SEC 49
1 6 CONCEALED XNOB AND TUBE WTBING Subject to the restrictions
hereinafter in this section prescribed concealed knob and tube wiring may be used
as a substitute for rigid metal conduit or other wiring methods in the following
buildings 1 Buildings used and intended to be used only as dwellings 2 Frame
buildings containing not mere than two stories and basement and not used or intended
to be used only as dwellings

Concealed knob and tube wiring shall not be installed under conditions or
for the purposes as follows in
a building including those hereinabove mentioned
1 Where the else of the aonduatora exceeds Na S A
G or where
W the voltage be
tween any tso conductors exoeeda 300 volts or where the voltage between ar
p conductor
and ground exoeeda 150 volts 2 For service wiring or for rune from service swit
ches to meterlooationa except as herein provided for single family frame dwellings
3 iror motors rated at one horse
power or more or for feeders or circuits leading to
exterior electric signs 4 In unfinished spaces under buildings provided that in
unfinished or unsealed basements
other pass under those buildings in which con
or

cealed knob and tube

wiring is permitted open or concealed knob and tube work may
be used for grounding conductors and also for short wiring runs not
exceeding 5 feet
in length leading between meter cabinet and wall above provided such
grounding con
ductors and short runs are adequately protected by location or otherwise from meahani
cal injury

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 SEC 1
4 STALLIC TUBING
1 Approved electrical metallic tubing may be
used a8 a substitute forrigid metal ponduit or other wiring methods for exposed or
concealed work in buildings of any type oonstruotion subject to the
or class of
following restrictions 1 Electrical metallic
tubing shall be installed only in
dry loo ations s
here during installation or ofterward it will not be subject to
severe mechanical injury nor to corrosive vapors provided that it may be buried
in concrete or ether masonry excepting cinder oonorete and cinder
if used only
fill
with approved water
tight fittings 2 It shall 3t be need where the voltage be
tween conductors or to ground exceeds 300 volts unless the oorductora are lead
oovered 3 It shall not be u
aed in sizes larger than 2inch nomina
I trade size
nor Yor conductors larger than No 6 GgP
A

SEC 918 UNDERFLOOR RACE

4 fAY lpproved urxlerflpor raceway may be used
as substitute for rigid metal conduit or other
a
wiring methods in buildings of
Class A or Class B as respectively defined in the Building Code of the of City
Oakland provided that the use of urd erfloor raceway shall be subject to all restric
tions preaoribed in said National Electrical Code

SEC 919 BARE BUS

4 BARS AND RISERS By special permission obtained in
writing and in advance from the Superintendent of the Eleetrioal Department approved
bare bus
bars and risers may be used as substitutes for rigid metal conduit or other
wiring methods in buildings of Class A or Class B as reapevtively defined in the
Building Code of the City of Oakland provided that the use of bare bus
bare and
risers shall be subject to ali restrictions preaoribed in said National Electrical
Code

SEC 920 bZETAL GtTTTERS

4 approved metal gutters may b used as a
substitute for rigid metal conduit or other wiring methods for encasing conductors
at distribution centers and meter loo ationa
and by special permission at other loca
tions where the use of rigid conduit is
impracticable

SEC 921 OPEN FIRING

4 Open wiring may be used as a substitute for
rigid metal conduit or other wiring methods as followas 1 Open wiring operating at
not over 600 volts may be used for distinctly
tempo rary purpo ass in building oonstruo
tion or other con
truation work in
experimental or emergency work aixi in i
e wiring
of exhibitions fairs and similar
celebrations of a temporary nature but all au
ch
temporary open wiring shall be promptly discontinued and removed upon expiration of
the period of time for which it ins temporarily approved 2 By special permission
obtained in advance open wiring with suitable special insulation
encloauxe or
protection may be installed in locations where corrosive spray flumes or apors
exist as in portions of some chemical
works metal refineries and other industries
3 Open knob and tube work may be used in unfinished attics and roof spaces of those
buildings in which concealed knob and tube wiring is permitted and also for pertain
wiring in spaces under said buildings as provided in Seption 9
fi of ibis Article
1
4
which open work shall be subject to the voltage limitations and other restrictions
herein prescribed with respect to concealed knob
and tube work

SEC 922 SERVICB WIRING

4 Anything to the contrary in this Chapter
notwithstanding all service wiring in or on any building shall be installed in
approved rigid metal cord uf
t or approved lead
covered and steel armoured
cable
provided that the Superintendent of the Electrical Department may permit the instal
lation of oonoealed knob and tube service
wiring in single
family frame dwellings
SEC 923 SERVICE OUTLETS
4 Service outlets for overhead services
shall be lopated at least 18 feet above ground height of
building permitting and
shall be at or within one foot of the extreme end of
building nearest the overhead
supply line and in such position that service drops may be attached within approxi
mately 18 inches thereof aryl maintain required clearances All service conduit and
conduit fittings installed on the exterior of any building shall be galvanized or
aherardised All services operating at more than 600 volts shall be run
underground
from supply line to building except buildings used
only as power stations yr aub
atativna of power companies and
railway companies

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 SEC24 CHANGES EICTENSIONS AND REPAIRS
x
9 1 When making changes
in or extensionsto an existing concealed knob and tube installation wires separately

encased in continuous lengths of approved flexible tubing may be substituted for

flexible metal conduit or other required wiring method when fished into a permanently

dry concealed spade in which knob and tube wiring is installed 2 When making
changes in or extensions to other satiating installations a wiring method of the
same type as that of the existing installation may be substituted for the method
otherwise required by this Chapter when such change or extension does not exceed 5
feet iri length 3 Underplaster extensions to existing lighting or apAlianoe branch
circuits may be installed in the rules
under oorditions and in manner as preacribed
and regulations hereinbefore in this Chapter provided for 4 When repairs to
wiring are necessary on account of damage by fire a wiring method of the same

type as that of the existing installation may be substituted for the generally re
the of such existing wiring method will not result in
quired method provided use

the continuance of any unsafe or hasardous condition and provided such eaiating in
stallation was lawfully installed

SEC 5 DECORATIVE LIGHTING

i
9 Wiring for temporary interior decorative
lighting and for exterior decorative and festoon lighting may be installed under
conditions and in manner as prescribed in the rules and regulations hereinbefore in

this Chapter provided

SEC 26
4
9 CUTOUTS In new installations not more than two sub

feeder or branch circuit cutouts shall be installed on the Load side of any meter

in an4y meter cabinet ope ring to the exterior of a building For a larger number of

cutouts distribution center shall be provided at suitable location within the

build3 ng

SEC 9
27
4 APARTMENT HOUSE AND HOTEL LIGHTING Electricity or gas shall
be used for the
lights installed in apartment houses and hotels to comply with
Section 66 of the State Housing Act provided electricity or gas is available in
the building

Whenever any dwelling o r apartment house hereafter constructed is wired

for electric lighting and whenever y existing building i s hereafter converted

at7
into an apartment house and wired for electric lightir an approved concealed con
tact type plug receptacle shall be installed in each living room parlor dining
room and kitchen provided however that this shall not apply to dwellings cost
00 as evidenced by the building permit If any such receptacle
ing less than X1200
in a kitchen dining room bath room laundry breakfast room or breakfast nook
is connected to a branch lighting circuit no additional plug reoeptaole shall be
connected to such lighting circuit So far as is reasonably practicable all man

ually operated switches shall be of the safety type and all panelboarda and sub
stitutes therefor shall be of the protected typ e

SEC
28 TRANSBRS
4
9 No transformer operating at more than 600
volts the roof
shall be installed
on of any building other than power stations
and an
QnA
astati unless installed in a transformer vault constructed in substantial

compliance with the requirements of the National Electrical Code No such trans
the roof of any
former vault shall be constructed on building until the Building
shall have the structure of the building ae being of sttgti0i
nt
Inspevtor approved
strength to carry the additional weight of such vault and the equipment contained
there in

SEC 29
4
9 WIRING IN DYE 1PORKS GARAGES ETC In every dye works
in every clothes cleaning establishment in every public garage irrespective of
its rise or capacity and in every apartment house garage and private garage hav
ir sufficient floor area to permit the storage therein of more than two automo
biles irrespective of whether such floor area be in one or wore rooms or compart
ments all electric wiring hereafter installed including wiring in ceilings and
in attics and roof apace a if any next thereover shall be installed in approved
metal Qonduit or srruoured cable except that wiring in rooms used oz
ly as oYficea
or show rooms may be installed in approved metal raceway

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 When any dye works clothes cleaning establishment or public garage or
an3 other garage having floor area as above specified occupies a portion of a
building the foregoing requirements shall apply to all electric wiring hereafter
installed in or under every portion of such building which is in or below the
or for the purpose of such dye works clothes clean
uppermost story thereof used as
ing establishment or garage and which is not entirely separated therefrom by tight

unpierced fire walls and fireproof floors

Nobuilding heretofore erected and not now used for a dye works olothea
cleaning bliahment or any type of garage or hereafter erected for and used
es

for some other purpose shall hereafter b e converted into or occupied for any such
purpose until all the requirements hereinabove prescribed shall have been complied
with

SEC 9 3C UNLAWFUL TC CAUSE OR AGLOW CORK TO BE DONE IN VIOLATION OF CODE

4
OR REGULATIONS it shall be unlawful for arty person either ae owner lessee

occupant tenant manager agent contraotor architect engineer eleotrieian or

otherwise to aquae any electrical work to b e unlawflzlly done without a permit or
otherwise in any manner contrary to any provisions of this Code or of ar 4rdinanee
or of the rules and regulations under this Chapter established or l owingly to
allow to be so unlawfully done electrical work of which he shall be in charge
or control either as owner lessee occupant tenant manager agent contraotor

architect engineer eleetrici an or otherwise

ARTICLE 5

IdINISTRATION AND EL
AI FORCEMENT

SEC9
0
5 1 G POWERS O1 ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT WITH RESPECT TO
1
ENFORCEI OI ASNS
I ORDINANCES ETC CONCERNING ELECTRICAL WORK The Electrical
Department is hereby authorised and empow Bred under the direction of the Superin
tendent thereof to enforce all Iawa and ordinances and all lawful orders rules
and regulati ons that are now or may hereafter be in effect with respect to the per
formance of elevtrical work and the construction installation protection altera
tion repair operation maintenance and use of electrical equipment to have and
to ezereise jurisdiction over and auperviaion of all electrical work and all elec
trical equipment insofar and to such an as may be necessary for the adequate
extent
enforcement of such 1aws ordinances orders rules and regulations and to in

spect and re
inspect ate and all electrical work and electrical equipment at such
times and as often as in the discretion of the Superintendent of the Electrical

Department may be necessary to determine that such laws ordinances orders rules
and regulations shall have been or are being complied with ctrioal equip
All el
ment now existing or that may hereafter be lled
instA shall be subject to auvh
auperviaion inspection and inspection
re

SEC 9
02
5 TATION AND DISCON
CONDEt ION OF ELECTRICAL EQtTIPMENT
Cd When
ever the Electrical Department shall find any eleotrioal equipment to have been
unlawfully installed changed or altered or to be operated or used in a manner
or ender conditions contrary to the provisions of this Chapter or of any ordinance
rate or regulation thereto pertaining or in the judgment of the Superintendent
of the ELeetriaal Department to be defeotive or unsafe or dangerous to person or

property the Superintendent of the Electrical Department shall have the authority
and power and he is hereby authorised and empowered to condemn such unlawfully

installed changed or altered or unlawfolly operated or used or defeotive unsafe

or d angerouaeleotrioal equipment and to prohibit the further use thereof until the
awftil defective unsafe or dangerous conditions with respect thereto shall
said uxil
have been remedied and said Superintendent is likewise further authorised and em
powered thereupon u
s mnarily to disoonneat any such elevtrieal equipment from its
source of current supply and to place a seal upon such disconnected egzi paent or to

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disconnect the supply or service wires to the building or premises wherein yr whereon
auoh equipment is boated and to place a seal thereon
or tv order and
require the
hie supply or aer
person supplying electric al energy tv such equipment to disoonneot
said
viee wires and discontinue the supply of eleotrical energy to such equipment or
or control of any
Superintendent may gave notioe to the person owning or in charge
equipment directing that the unlawful defective unsafe
or
such condemned eleotrical
within a
dangerous conditions thereof or with respect thereto be remedied or removed
of time to be fixed in said notice and any person who shall fail neglect or
period
refuse to comply with any such notice within the time and in the manner therein speci
this Chapter In any
fied shall be subject to the penalty provided for viol an on of
of the Eleotriea Department may take action in any
specific Dees the Superintendent
or every manner her einbefore authorized as the oiroumataneea and conditions of the
case shall in his discretion warrant

SEC 03
5
9 NOTICE OF CONDEl
INATION lienever the Electrical Department
pursuant to the 02 of this Article shall disoonneot any elec
provisions of Section 9
5
trical equipment yr order and require the seals to be disoonnecte a notioe in writ
ing the reason for such disconnection shall be given to the person owning
stating
or shall be conspicuously
or or control of such electrical equipment
in charge
the premises whereon the said equipment cthe Eleotri
is boated and when
et
posted on

oal Department shall likewise disconnect or order and require the dieoonnectivn of
service notioe in writing stating the reason for such disconnec
any s apply or wires
tion shall also be given to the person supplying electrical energy through such supply
or service wires

SEC 9
04
5 BE DISCONNECTED VVHEE Sp ORDERED
SUPPLY TO It shall be unlaw
ful electrical to electrical equipment to fail
for any person supplying energy any
neglect or refuse immediately to disconnect his supply or service wires and discon

tinue the supply of electrical energy to auoh electrical equipment den notified and

directed sv to do under and in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Article

SEC 05
5
9 APPROYAI AFTER CORRECTION OF CONDEMNED NT
EQUIPN then any

ah all have been condemned and disconnected

the in aooordance with
electrical equipment
foregoing provisions of this Article it shall thereafter be unlawful for any person
to reconnect auoh eleotrical equipment to any source of eleotrical energy or to pause
it tv b e so reconnected or to use any electrical current in through or by means of
such electrical equipment or to supply any eleotrical energy thereto or to remove
or any placed thereon
seal
break until the unlawful defective unsafe or dangerous
pond itivna withrespect to such electrical equipment shall have been remedied and the

Electrical Department shall have inspected and approved the same

SEC 9
06
5 nd Inspectors of the Electrical
a
RIGHT 0 F ENTRY Officials

ment
Depar shall have
right the
they hereby authorised and empowered to enter
and are

or go upon any building or premises at any reasonable hour for the purpose of in
pect
or about
ing or witnessing the operation or use of any electrical equipment in on
auoh building or premises or for any other purposes in furtherance of the provisions
o this Chapter and they shall be given prompt access to ar and all such eleotrical
equipment upon application to the person owning or in charge or control of the same
that the Inspector shall upon request exhibit badge or other
provided however a

reasonable evidence of his identity and authority

SEC 07
5
9 FUL TO
A
UNI INTERFERE TITH INSPECTOR It shall be unlawful
for any person in chaxge or oontrol of any electrical equipment to refuse any Inapeotor

access to such equipment and it shall be unlawful for any person in any manner to

hinder mole at or interfere with any Inspector or other duly authorized representative
of the Electrical Department in the performance of his lawful duties

SEC 9
08
5 NOTICES GIVEN HEREUNDER Any notice which may pursuant to
oP this Chapter he given by the Eleotrioal Department or by the Super
any proviaton
Bereof to
intendent t any person holdinf ax3y license or permit issued hereunder or

to any person engaged in the distribution or sale of eleotrical energy or to any

other person ehs12 be deemed duly givenwhen deposited in the U
S Nrr
ilpostage
prepaid directed to the person for whom intended at the last known address of said

person or at the address if an

y last registered by him with the Eleotrioal Department

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 SEC 09
5
9 CITY NOT LIABLE Nothing contained in this Chapter shall
be construed to relieve from or lessen the responsibility or liability of arm person
for in3ury damage to person or property caused by or resulting from any defect
or

of any nature in any electrical work performed by said person or in any electrical

equipment owned controlled installed operated or used by him nor shall the City
of Oakland or any officer agent or employee thereof incur or be held as assuming si0 y
or in of permit permission certificate
liability by reason consequence y license
ax
of inspection inspection or approval authorized in this Chapter or issued or given
as in this Chapter provided or by reason or in consequence of axy things done or
acts performed pursuant to any provision of this Chapter

SEC 10
5
9 VIOLATIONS acting as
MISDFR y person whether
principal agent officer manager
superintendent capacity violating or in any other

disobeying or refusing to comply with any provision or requirement of this Chapter

or of the rules and regulations hereunder established ornowingly inducing anot
e
sv to do s all be deemed guilty of sdemea or
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01 The ordinances of the City of Oakland regulating building
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