Ordinance Number 207369
ORDINANCE NO. 207
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO GRANTING A FRANCHISE TO THE
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO FIESTA ASSOCIATION TO CONDUCT
THE ANNUAL FIESTA DE LAS GOLONDRINAS, AND AMEND-
ING ORDINANCE NO. 171
The City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1
This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the
.i FIESTA DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 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
include 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 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, asso-
ciation, corporation company or organization of any
kind.
SECTION 3. GRANT OF AUTHORITY
There is hereby granted by the City to the Association
the right and privilege of operating, maintaining and conducting
within the City the annual Fiesta De Las Golondrinas commemmorating
the 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.
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'SECTION 5. LIABILITY --INDEMNIFICATION
It is expressly 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, judgment, execution, claim, or demand whatsoever, resulting
from negligence on the part of the Association in the conduct of
its annual Fiesta De Las Golondrinas 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 ^i
by suit or otherwise, made against the City on account of any
negligence as aforesaid on the part of the Association. Asso-
ciation 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) days notice of any intent to cancel.
SECTION 6. ASSOCIATION RULES
The Association shall have the authority to promulgate
such rules, regulations, terms and conditions governing 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, re-
gulations, terms 'and conditions shall not be in confilct with
the provisions hereof or of laws of the State of California.
SECTION 7. CONDITIONS
(a) PAssociation 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 parade.
(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.
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(d) Association shall, each year, provide the
City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano a map delin-
eating the parade route and a program of activities planned.
SECTION S. APPROVAL OF TRANSFER
The Association shall not sell or transfer any rights
under this Franchise to another. without Council approval. Pro-
vided, 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, assignment 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 applica-
ble 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
The Franchise 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 week Monday through Sunday during parade week.. Each such con-
cessionaire shall be subject to the Business License Ordinance of
the City of San Juan Capistrano. However, in lieu of the business
license fee payable pursuant to Section 16 B of said Ordinance, each
such concessionaire shall pay to the Association such amounts as may
be established by Association's Rules and Regulations for the right
andprivilegeof participatingin the Fiesta..
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.SECTION 12.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
thirty (30) days after its passage and prior to the expiration
of fifteen (15) days after the passage thereof, this ordinance
shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation
in the City of San Juan Capistrano, County of. Orange, State of
California.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of September,
1972, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
San Juan Capistrano, by the following vote,to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: BYRNES, CHERMAK, CAMMELL, THORPE,
WEATHERS
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ATTEST:
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