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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 3694 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 -2- 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 -3- 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 : -4 -