ORD 031U ORDINANCE NO. 31 U
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES REQUIRING EVERY PERSON
SELLING GASOLINE OR OTHER MOTOR
VEHICLE FUEL TO IMMEDIATELY POST A
SIGN INDICATING THE PRICE OF EACH
GRADE OF SUCH GASOLINE OR FUEL AND
PROHIBITING ANY SUCH PERSON FROM
ADVERTISING PRODUCTS WHICH ARE NOT
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SALE ,
I/ DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF AND
DECLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL
TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY .
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES HEREBY
ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS :
Section 1. A new Chapter 7 of Article III of the
Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code is hereby adopted to read:
"Chapter 7 . Business Regulations
3ZQQ. Gasoline Service Stations .
(a) Every person offering for sale
or selling any gasoline or other motor
vehicle fuel to the public from any place of
business in the City shall post or display a
sign which indicates the actual price per
gallon, including all taxes , at which each
grade of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel
is currently being sold.
(b) No person subject to the provisions
of subsection (a) of this section shall advertise
any grade of gasoline or other motor vehicle
fuel which is not immediately available for
sale to the public on the business premises . The
posting of a sign which advertises the unavail-
ability of a particular fuel and which is as
visible to the public as the gasoline price
signs required under subsection (a) hereof and
posted in conformity with Bus . & Prof. C .
§20880 et seq . shall comply with the require-
ments of this subsection.
Section 2 . As a part of the energy crisis , there
I/ is a shortage of gasoline and other motor vehicle fuel and
prices have risen dramatically. Motorists are often forced
to wait in lines for long periods of time before reaching fuel
pumps at service stations , consuming scarce fuel in the process .
If fuel prices are not conspicuously posted so that they are
visible from the street , motorists may be misled, and may
not wish to pay the fuel prices being charged even after
waiting in line. In addition, stations often run out of one
or more grades of gasoline . If motorists have no way of
knowing this in advance, additional time, money and fuel
will be wasted .
If this ordinance does not take immediate effect,
the public will suffer great inconvenience and expense, and
valuable fuel resources will be lost .
By reason of the foregoing facts , this ordinance
is urgently required for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, and safety and the same shall take
effect immediately upon the passage thereof.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 2nd day of
April , 1974.
AYES: Buerk, Dyda, Ruth, R. Ryan, M. Ryan
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NOES: None
ABSENT: None
YOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 31 U approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes at a meeting
thereof held on the 2nd day of April, 1974, and that said
ordinance was posted pursuant to law.
LEONARD C. WOOD, City Clerk and
Ex Officio Clerk of the Council
By ^ ,+ II! •
Deputy
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS. CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
The undersigned declares and certifies under penalty of
perjury:
That That he at all times herein mentioned was and now is the
duly qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes, California;
That on the * day of 19 711 he
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caused to be posted in three conspic ous public places, as required
by law,
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a copy of which is attached hereto, in the following public places
in this City:
City Hall
31244 Palos Verdes Drive West
a
Los Angeles County Fire Station
4000 Miraleste Plaza
Ridgecrest Intermediate School
28915 Northbay Road
Dated this day of , 19 7
LEONARD G. WOOD, CITY CLERK
EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE. COUNCIL
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Deputy