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HomeMy WebLinkAbout239 - Appointment of Life GuardsORDINANCE FO.239 — AN ORDNANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF LIFE GUARDS, PRESCRIBING THEIR DUTIES AND QUALIFICA- TIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF THEIR COM• PENSATION. The Board of Trustees of the city ,of Newport Beach de ordain as fol- lows: SECTION 1. In order to afford assistauce to per- sons who may be in danger of drown -i iug in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and of Newport Bay within the cor- porate limits of the City of Newport) Beach, a life saving corps is hereby', created In and for said City, which) shall consist of not to cxceeo ten per- Eons to be designated as and styled as life guards, who shall have the quali- ficatious hereinafter specified, and be appointed by the Board of Trus- tees to serve only during Lhe plea - .sure of said Board, provided, that nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as requiring or imposing upon the Board of Trustees a duty to appoint any number of life guards. SECTION 2. Every person, before he or she ie appointed a life guard, shall first establish to the satisfaction of the Board of Trustees that. said persons possess the qualifications requir- ed by the Senior life saving test of the American Red Cross Life Saving methods as revised to March, 1923, A. 'R. C. 1005, and have successfully passed the following additional test: 1. Swim with buoy from stand- ard Sheffield & Deraga Life - Saving Cylinder and Reel, through surf and 800 feet out to sea. (Moderate sea.), 2. Swim with buoy 200 yards with a person weighing 150 pounds (minimum) supported by buoy. 3. (a) Make a surface dive 15 ft. depth, and bring up 12 -it.. lead weight; (b) Make a satisfactory raciug dive: (c) Make satisfact- ory dive from heighth of fifteen feet; (b) Make satisfactory shal- low dive. 4. Demonstrate ability going through surf in different types of boats with the oars of vary- ing length up to 12 ft. 5. Lift 100 -1b. bar bell from ground to arm's length above head. 6. Run barefooted on sand one mile in 7 miuutes, or less. 7. Demonstrate ability grvlug first aid, fainting, cuts, fractures, sun and fire burns, extracting fishing hooks. 8. Throw 19 inch solid cork ring buoy 65 ft. with 3 -16 inch line attached, Into a 35 ft square., 9. Climb 2 inch rope 20 ft u9- iug hands only. 10. Carry 25 lb. lead weight 35 yards in the water. 11. Lift and carry (Life - Saver's carry) 200 lb. 150 ft in soft sand. 12. Swim American Crawl Stroke, TRUDGEON, or Trud- geou -Crawl Stroke 100 yds. fully dressed, disrobe to bathing suit saving all articles of clothing. 13. Swim one mile in ocean. 14. Demonstrate ability to in- stiuct beginners in swimming and Life- Saving methods. N SECTION 3. _ Every person appointed a lifeguard shall serve as such during the plea- sure of the Board of Trustees and on such days and during eye hours of the day from time to tame speci- fied by said Board, and may be dis- missed without prior notice. The compensation of any person appoint- ed a life guard shall be stated in the order of his or her appointment and shall be paid as any Omer claim against the City of Newport Beach. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of any person appointed a life guard while serving as such to be and remain In the vicinity and patrol the shore or beach of the Pacific Ocean and of Newport Bay within the city of Newport Beach, during the hours during which such Person shall be on duty, and especial- ly at or near the place where persons are bathing in the waters of the Paci- fic Ocean and Newport Bay, and to render such assistance as :6 reason - bly within the power of the life guard to rescue and save the life of any person or persons who are drowniug or in danger of oe:ng drowned therein; provided, however, that the failure of a life guard to be at or near a person in danger of drowning or to rescue or save Lae HIS of any person shall not be construed or held the fault or negligence of the city of Newport Beach, or of any life guard, it being the intention of this Ordinance to provide only such means as is reasonable to assist persons bathing in the Pacific Ocean and Newport Bay in time of danger, but not as an obligation or Gnty to do so. SECTION 5. The above and foregoing Ordinance shall be published once in NEWPORT NEWS, a newspaper of general cir- culatiou printed, published and cir- culated in the city of Newport Beach, and shall take effect and be in force thirty days alter its passage. I hereby certify the foregoing Ordi- nance was duly introduced aL a regu- lar meeting of the Board of Trustees . held on the 30th. day of Jury, 1923, .. and and was Passed at a regular• meeting' of said board of 'f lee terms held oil the 6th. day of August, 1923, by the af- firmative vote of the following named members of said Board: AYES, Trustees, J. J. Schuitker, H. C. Sloan, Geo P. Wilson, Conrad Richter, L. S. Wilkinson. NOES, Trustees, none. ABSENT, Trustees, none. ATTEST: ALFRED SMITH Clerk of the city of Newnert Beach. The above and foregoing Ordinance having been duly passed by the Board of Trustees of the city or Newport Beach, I hereby approve the same this 6th. day of August, 1923. J. J. SCHNITKER President of the Board or Trustees City of Newport Beach. Publish August 10, 1923.