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ORDINANCE NO. 878 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY G~ SANTA ANA REGULATING THE USE OF DEVICES OR APPARATUS WHICH INTERFERES WITH RADIO BROADCAST RECEPTION; A~gD PROVIDING THE PENALTY FOR A VIOLATION THEREOF. The City Council of the City of Eanta Ana do ordain as follows: Section 1. It shall be Unlawful for any pers6n, firm or corporation to operate in the City of Santa Ana any apparatus generating or causing high frequen¢ oscillations which interferes with radio broadcast receiving apparatus, or wireless receiving apparatus, between the Hours of six o'clock P.M. and eleven o'clock P.M.; except that a person duly licensed to practice medicine, osteopathy chiropractic or dentistr~ by the State of California, in a case of absolute emergency arising in the course of practice of his profession, and which case demands immediate treatment between the aforementioned hours, may operate, or cause to be operated under his direct supervision, any machine necessary to give an emergency treatment in such case. Section 2. Any device or apparatus such as violet Ray Machines, machln using the Tesla Coil or principle, X-Ray Machines and Diathermy machir~s which interfere with the intelligibility of radio ~ece~$iQn, u~®~ all the following conditions shall be considered as coming within the terms of this Ordinance: (a) Such device or apparatus must be situated One Hundred (100) £eet or more from the receiving equipment with which it interferes. (b) The radio receiving equipment interfered with shall be operated on a volume comparable to a person speaking in a normal tone of vo~ e. (c) The broadcasting station whose program is being received when the i~terference occurs must have a power output of at least I K.~. and ~ust be located not more than forty (40) miles distant from the receiving set. It is expressly understood and provided, however, that this Ordinance shall not apply to radio stations, either broadcast, commercial, or amateur, licensed by the Federal Government, or which are engaged in interstate public utilities under the supervision of the State Railroad commlnuication, or to Commission. Section 3. The City Electrician of the City of Santa Ana shall have the right to enter upon any premises in said City, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of inspecting the installation and working of all apparatus coming within the terms of this Ordinance and it shall be unlawful for any person, f~rm or corporation to interfere with the City Electrician in making such inspection, or to refuse to permit the said City Electrician to enter the premises £or such purposes. Section 4. ~nen an inspection and test shall have been made by the City Electrician as herein provided for, and it is found that equiMnent or apparatus coming within the terms of this Ordinance is being operated in violatio of the terms hereof, the person or persons responsible for the ope~ation of such equipment shall be notified in writing to discontinue the use of such machine or apparatus, or to make additions, repairs or modifications thereof in order that the same may be operated in a manner ~.£nich complied with the provisions of this ordinance. The mailing of a registered letter, enclosing sucl notice, addressed to the owner or operator of the machine or ap~Rratus at the