Ordinance Number 277ORDINANCE NO. 277
PROVIDING FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE
ANNUAL ADIOS A LAS GOLONDRINAS Y
FIESTA DE LOS ARTES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO GRANTING A FRANCHISE TO
THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
The City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. This Ordinances shall be known and may be
cited as the Adios a Las Golondrinas y Fiesta de los Artes Franchise
ORDINANCE.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms,
phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meaning given
herein, when not inconsistent with the context, words used in the
present tense include the future, words in the plural number in-
clude the singular number, and words in the singular number include
the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not
merely directory.
(1) "City" is the City of San Juan Capistrano.
(2) "Association" is the San Juan Capistrano Chamber of
Commerce, the grantee of rights under this Franchise.
(3) "Council" is the City Council of the City of San
Juan Capistrano.
(4) "Person" is any person, firm, partnership, associa-
tion, corporation company or organization of any
kind.
SECTION 3. GRANT OF AUTHORITY
T ere is ereby granted by the City to the Association
the right and privilege of operating, maintaining and conducting
within the City the annual Fiesta De Adios a Las Golondrinas y de
Artes commemorating an historical heritage of San Juan Capistrano.
SECTION 4. COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND ORDINANCES
The Association shall, at all times during the life of
this Franchise, be subject to all lawful exercise of the police
power by the City, and to such reasonable regulation as the City
shall hereafter by resolution or ordinance provide.
SECTION 5. LIABILITY --INDEMNIFICATION
It is expexpressly understood and agreed by and between the
Association and the City that the Association shall save the City
harmless from all loss sustained by the City on account of any
suit, judgement, execution, claim, or demand whatsoever, resulting
from negligence on the part of the Association in the conduct of
its annual Fiesta De Adios a Las Golondrinas y de Artes in the City.
The City shall notify the Association's representative in the City
within fifteen (15) days after the presentation of any claim or
demand, either by suit or otherwise, made against the City on
account of any negligence as aforesaid on the part of the Associa-
tion. Association shall, in addition, secure, from an insurance
company approved by City, public liability insurance including the
City as an additional insured in the following amounts: $100,000.00
bodily injury for each person; $300,000.00 bodily injury for each
accident; $50,000.00 property damage. The aforesaid insurance
policy shall also contain the provision that the City will be
given ten (10) daysnoticeof any intent to cancel.
SECTION 6. ASSOCIATION RULES
'P e�i.ssociation shall have the authority to promulgate
such rules, regulations, terms and conditions governiny the conduct
of its business as shall be reasonably necessary to enable it to
exercise its rights and perform its obligations under this Franchise.
Provided, however, that such rules, regulations, terms and conditions
shall not be in conflict with the provisions hereof or of laws of
the State of California.
SECTION 7. CONDITIONS
(a) Association shall cause the public streets which are
used for its fiesta to be properly swept and cleaned before 9:00
a.m. the day following the last day of the fiesta.
(b) Association shall provide all necessary traffic
safety devices, barricades and directional signs to maintain an
orderly flow and circulation of traffic.
(c) Association shall coordinate with the City and the
appropriate law enforcement agencies for the presence of a suf-
ficient number of trained personnel to maintain and monitor the
traffic.
(d) Association shall, each year, provide the City Clerk
of the City of San Juan Capistrano a complete program of activities
planned.
SECTION 8. APPROVAL OF TRANSFER
Wie Association shall not sell or transfer any rights
under this Franchise to another without council approval. Provided,
that no sale or transfer shall be effective until the vendee,
assignee or lessee has filed in the office of the City Clerk an
instrument, duly executed, reciting the fact of such sale, assign-
ment or lease, accepting the terms of the Franchise, and agreeing
to perform all the conditions thereof.
SECTION 9. CITY RIGHTS IN FRANCHISE
The right is hereby reserved to the City to adopt, in
addition to the provisions herein contained and existing applicable
ordinances, such additional regulations as it shall find necessary
in the exercise of the police power, provided that such regulations,
by Ordinance or otherwise, shall be reasonable, and not in conflict
with the rights herein granted, and shall not be in conflict with
the laws of the State of California.
SECTION 10. TERM OF FRANCHISE
T e Franc ise and the rights herein granted shall take
effect and be in force from and after the final passage here, as
required by law, and shall continue thereafter from year to year.
Provided, however, the City may, for any reason, terminate this
Franchise upon thirty (30) days written notice to the Association.
SECTION 11. CONCESSIONS
Association shall have the right and authority.to select
and to control such concessionaires and other businesses which
desire to establish their business activities within the City for
the duration of the festival. Each such concessionaire shall be
subject to the Business License Ordinance of the Cit -7 of San Juan
Capistrano. However, in lieu of the. business license fee payable
pursuant to Section 16 B of said Ordinance, each such concession-
aire shall pay to the association such amounts as may be established
by Association's Rules .and Regulations for the right and privilege
of participating in the fiesta.
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SECTION 12. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force thirty D ays from and after its passage.
SECTION 13. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Or inad anceanand cause the same to be published in a news-
paper of general circulation in the CIty of San Juan Capistrano
within fifteen (15) days after its passage.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of
September , 1974, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Sweeney, Weathers, Nash, Heckscher
and Mayor Byrnes
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Y I.. E , M.D., MAYOR
City of San Juan Capistrano
ATTEST:
ITY CL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, MARY ANN HANOVER, City Clerk of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 277 adopted by the City
Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano, California, at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 18th day of September , 1974.
(SEAL) -CITY Ci2A
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