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RESOLUTION NO. /e0
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY,
CALIFORNIA, REQUESTING THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
HEALTH AND ALL OTHER APPROPRIATE STATE, COUNTY AND
MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO SUPPORT
THE ADOPTION OF STATE -WIDE LEGISLATION REQUIRING MANUFAC-
TURERS OF MODEL GLUE AND RELATED SUBSTANCES TO REMOVE
FROM SUCH PRODUCTS THOSE ELEMENTS HARMFUL TO HUMAN LIFE,
TISSUE OR ORGANS WHEN FUMES FROM SUCH SUBSTANCES ARE
BREATHED OR INHALED, OR TO REQUIRE THE ADDITION OF AN
ODOR ELEMENT TO SUCH PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO GIVE AN
UNPLEASANT ODOR THERETO THUS DISCOURAGING THE VOLUNTARY
BREATHING OR INHALATION OF THE FUMES FROM SUCH PRODUCTS,
COMMONLY KNOWN AS "GLUE SNIFFING"
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Council of the
City of Downey, California, that there has been an increase over the past
few months in a practice generally known and commonly referred to as "glue
sniffing ", and
WHEREAS, such practice is not limited to any localized area or com-
munity but has occurred widely over the entire Southern California area,
and
WHEREAS, a number of cities have deemed the practice serious enough to
require the adoption and passage of regulatory ordinances prescribing
punitive measures against such practice, and
WHEREAS, such practice has been engaged in by children, youths and
other persons who are uninformed regarding the possible harmful effects of
such practice, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Downey, California, is
informed and believes that the breathing or inhalation of fumes from certain
glues and other related substances is or may be harmful to human tissue,
organs and life itself, and that there have been reported cases of such
practice involving brain damage and paralysis, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Downey, California, is
informed and believes that the harmful element included in the manufacture
of such products can be eliminated or substituted by a non - harmful element
or that a semi - offensive odor element can be added to such products without
impairment to any extent of the other properties, usefulness, efficiency or
marketability of such products by the manufacturers thereof, and
WHEREAS, such practice and the harmful and lasting effects thereof are
a matter of general concern to the people of the State of California and can
best be controlled and eliminated by State action designed to eliminate the
harmful element from such products or to add a repelling odor thereto rather
than by local punitive attion,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That it does hereby recommend and request that the State
Department of Public Health initiate a special investigation into all phases
of the practice generally known and commonly referred to as "glue sniffing"
and that such investigation give particular attention to the feasibility of
recommending state legislation requiring manufacturers of model glue and
other similar substances to eliminate from the manufacture thereof any non-
essential elements found to be harmful to human tissue, organs or life upon
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breathing or inhaling same and requiring the addition to such substances
of a semi - offensive odor designed to repell the voluntary breathing and
inhalation of fumes from such substances by children, youths and other
persons who may not be informed regarding the possible harmful effects of
such practice.
SECTION 2. That copies of this resolution be forwarded to each of
the following officials, boards and persons together with an official
request that each of them undertake personally to endorse and support this
request and recommendation in every way possible:
a. State Department of Public Health.
b. State Director of Public Health.
c. State Assemblyman, Carley V. Porter
d. State Assemblyman, George Willson
e. State Senator Richard Richards
f. State Attorney General, Stanley Mosk.
g. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors,
Attention: Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, 2nd Supervisorial
District.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
resolution.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 27th day of November, 1962.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the
City Council of the City of Downey at a regular meeting thereof held on the
27th day of November, 1962, by the following vote:
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Councilmen: =, / A-15 6112.-64-
NOES: Councilmen:
ABSENT: / Councilmen: 2
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