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"Section 3812.4. Same. Disobedience of Signs and Orders. No person shall do anything prohibited by any sign, nor dis- regard or fail to follow the directions contained in any sign, and no person shall fail or refuse to obey any order, instruc- tion, or direction given by any attendant employed by the City to such person while such person is within the dressing rooms, shower rooms, toilet rooms, in the Santa Aha Municipal Swimming Pool, or on any portion of the cement aprons bordering the saree o "Section 3812.5. Same. Eviction and Barring from Pool Use. Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 3812 through 3812.4, both inclusive, may be evicted from the Santa Ana Municipal Swimming Pool and the appurtenant buildings and structures, and any person repeatedly violating said Sections may be barred from the use ef said pool and appurtenant struc- tures for such period as the Director of Recreation may ap- prove. ~! SECTION 4' Experience with other swimming pools open to the public in the Southern California area has demonstrated that rough- ness in and about swimming pools, running upon the cement aprons adjoining swirmning pools, diving in the shallow portions of swimming pools, are consistently productive of serious bodily injury and death, and have occasioned many disabling injuries and many deaths from drowning. Such experience has further established that swim- ming in an unsupervised pool after hours, when the same is closed to the public and entirely unsupervised by lifeguards, greatly in- creases the likelihood of death from drowning. The City is about to open the Santa Ana Municipal Swimming Pool to the public, and there now exists in the City no Ordinance regulating its use in the interests of the safety of the public using the same. There- fore, in o~der to prevent or minimize the likelihood of tragic death or serious accident in and about said swimming pool, it is imperative that this Ordinance take immediate effect upon its publication. This Ordinance is therefore declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, and shall become effective immediately upon publication; and the City Council hereby declares that should any Court declare this declaration of reasons for urgency to be inadequate or insuf- ficient to Justify this Ordinance as an emergency Ordinance, that