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of any such rule or regulation so adopted and promulgated is hereby declared
<br /> to be a misdemeanor.
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<br /> SECTION 8: It shall be unlawful to disobey any lawful direction or
<br /> order of a peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman, or other person duly
<br /> authorized to wear and wearing the official insignia issued by the Santa Ana
<br /> Civilian Defense Council, given during a period of air rai~ alarm, which order
<br /> is reasonably necessary for the maintenance of public order or safety or to
<br /> effect the extinguishment or obscuration of light.
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<br /> SECTION 7: Any illumination contrary to the provisions oft his ordinance,
<br /> or to any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated in accordance with Section
<br /> $ hereof, constitutes a public nuisance, and the same may be summarily abated
<br /> by any peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman. Any structure may be
<br /> entered.by any peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman, using reasonable
<br /> force if necessary, for the purpose of abating such a nuisance by extinguishing
<br /> such illumination.
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<br /> .SECTION 8: At the commencement of a period of air raid alarm, the
<br /> operator of any motor vehicle shall forthwith bring such vehicle as far as
<br /> possible to the side of the street, road or highway off the main traveled
<br /> portion thereof, and the operator of such motor vehicle, and the operator of
<br /> any street car, shall bring such motor vehicle or street car to a stop clear
<br /> of any crossing, intersection, fire house, fire plug, hospital or other emer-
<br /> gency depot or area, and if such period is during the hours of darkness, shall
<br /> extinguish all lights therein or thereon, and said motor vehicle or street
<br /> car shall remain so situated during the period of air raid alarm, unless di-
<br /> rected or ordered to move by a peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman.
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<br /> SECTION 9: The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to blackout
<br /> emergency vehicles, which shall include the following:
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<br /> l) All Army and Navy vehicles;
<br /> 2) All vehicles with United States Goverrnnent credentials indicating
<br /> the necessity of emergency movement;
<br /> 3) All authorized emergency vehicles as defined in sections 44 and
<br /> 44.1 of the Vehicle Code of California;
<br /> 4) All vehicles of the California State Guard, while actually on duty;
<br /> 8) All vehicles of volunteer personnel engaged in the operation of the
<br /> aircraft warning service of the Fourth Interceptor command while such personnel
<br /> are actually going to or from their posts of duty;
<br /> 8) All vehicles certified by sheriffs, district attorneys, the Calif-
<br /> ornia State Highway Patrol, police chiefs, and fire chiefs, when within the
<br /> respective territorial Jurisdictions of the certifying office, as being essen-
<br /> tial to the preservation of the public peace and safety or to the dissemin-
<br /> ation of public information or to the national defense; provided, however,
<br /> that such vehicles shall conform to the uniform lighting regulations approved
<br /> by the Department of Notor Vehicles and the California State Highway Patrol
<br /> for blackout emergency vehicles. No certificate shall be issued which con-
<br /> flicts with any regulation or order of the United States Army applicable in
<br /> the area for which the certificate is issued.
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<br /> .~C.TION 10: It shall be unlawful for any person without authority, during
<br />any air raid alarm, to use, wear, exhibit or possess any uniform, insignia,
<br />credential, or other indication of authority, or any imitation thereof, adopted
<br />and issued by any official civilian defense organization.
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<br /> SECTION ll: Any person who shall operate a siren, whistle or other audible
<br />device in such a manner as to simulate an air raid warning signal or an all
<br />clear signal, except upon order of the Civilian Defense Control Officer o~ ather
<br />proper authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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<br /> SECTION l~: The provisions of every ordinance of this city and every
<br />administrative order made pursuant thereto, requiring any illumination to be
<br />maintained in conflict with this ordinance or with any rule or regulation made
<br />pursuant to ~ection § of this ordinance, shall be deemed suspended during the
<br />period between any air raid warning signal and the next succeeding all clear
<br />signal.
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