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ORDINANCE NO. 369
The City Council of the City of Lodi, San Joaquin
County, California, does ordain as follows:
All the terms and provisions and directions of
“Emergency Power Director1 s Order“ issued under date of
Iaarch 16, 1948, and so issued by said Fhergency Power
Director pursuant to directions made by the Public Utilities
Commission of the State of California in its Case So. 4939,
are hereby adopted by the City of Lodi and the City of Lodi
and its residents and inhabitants are hereby directed to
abide by all the terms and conditions of said order, and it
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, with-
in the corporate limits of said City of Lodi to violate, or
fail to perform any of the terms or conditions of said order.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
terms or conditions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine of not exceeding Two Xundred Fifty ($250.00) Dollars
or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of San
Joaquin, State of California, for a term of not to exceed
thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment and in
addition thereto shall have such person’s o
power service and electric service disconne
disconnected, until such violator shall have paid the charges
established by said City of Lodi for connection of such
service and until such violator shall have agreed to abide by
all the terms and conditions of this ordinance.
Each day’s violation of any of the terms or conditions
of this ordinance shall be considered as a separate offense
and shall be punished accordingly.
There are three copies of such "Emergency Power
Director's Order" on file with the City Clerk of said City
of Lodi in his office, reference to which three copies, so
filed, is hereby made for further particulars.
Such amendments, alterations, or modifications, of
said order, as may be made by the said Power Director under
the authority of said Public Utilities Commission, shall
automatically become a part of this ordinance; and it shall
likewise be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
within the corporate limits of said City of Lodi, to fail to
perform or violate any of the terms or conditions or provi-
sions or directives of any such amendment, alteration or
modification,and shall be punishable by the same fine or
term of imprisonment, or both.
This ordinance shall be published once in The Lodi
Times, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in said
city, and, being an emergency ordinance, shall be in full
force and effect from and after its adoption and publication,
the said emergency consisting of the following facts, which
the said City Council does hereby find to exist:
Due to the lack and shortage of rainfall during the
present season, and consequent laek and shortage of power
generating facilities, there exists a critical shortage of
electric power in the State of California and in the said
City of Lodi; the Pacific Gas and Electric Company has
theref ore been ordered by said Emergency Power Director,
acting under the authority of the said Public Utilities
Commission, to curtail the amount of electric energy and
power delivered, and to be delivered, to its customers, one
of which is the City of Lodi. Therefore the amount of
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electric energy and power which is, and will be, received
by said City of Lodi for distribution, will be limited and
curtailed as provided in and by the said order. There is
therefore imminent danger that the people and customers of
said City of Lodi will be short, or possibly without,
electric energy for domestic, commercial and industrial uses
unless the City of Lodi limits the amount of electric energy
and power to be furnished to its customers in accordance with
the said Power Directarts Order and it is the intention hereof
to apply the said Power Director's order to the City of Lodi
and its customers to the same extent as the same is applicable
to the said Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Approved this a/ day of HQpcx 1948,
At
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I, J. F. BWZELY, City Clerk of the City of
Lodi and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said
City do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
No.
Council in regular meeting on the $4' day of
369 was regularly introduced in the said City
Mar cA 1948, and thereafter, on the
day of Mete/; 1948, regularly passed,
adopted and ordered to print by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen ,%&&/L .Z/h/t?F ~R,)T;I
NOES: Councilmen
ABSENT: Councilmen
I further certify that the Mayor approved and
signed the said ordinance on the date of its adoption.
DATED :
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