HomeMy WebLinkAbout83-06 Amending 72-Hour Vehicle Parking ProvisionI i
ORDINANCE NO. 6`3-'(6
AN ORDINANCE OF.THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE 72 -HOUR
VEHICLE PARKING PROVISION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the, City of Costa Mesa hereby finds
and declares as follows:
1. The City has a law which prohibits parking a vehicle on the
street for more than 72 consecutive hours.
2. The purpose of this law is to prohibit the storing of vehicles on
public streets, to promote safe, clean and aesthetic streets and neighbor-
hoods, and to allow the equitable use of the streets by all nearby property
owners and their guests for temporary parking.
3. The existing law needs to be strengthened to prevent its circum-
vention by, among other ways, merely moving a vehicle an insignificant
distance or removing a vehicle from its parking place for an insignificant
period of time.
ACCORDINGLY, the City Council hereby amends the Costa Mesa Municipal
Code as follows:
SECTION 2.
1. Amend Section 10-185(b) to read:
"(b) No person who owns or has possession, custody, or
control of any motor vehicle (as defined in Sec-
tion 670 of the California Motor Vehicle Code),
excluding those covered in subsection (a) above,
shall park, or leave standing, such a vehicle
upon any street for more than a period of 72
consecutive hours.
This subsection is violated if:
(1) At the end of such period the vehicle is
parked in the same place as the beginning
of such period and physical marking or
other facts indicate that the vehicle has
not been moved; or
(2) At the end of such period the vehicle is
parked on the street within 1,056 feet of
where it was parked at the beginning of
such period, unless the owner or custodian
establishes that the vehicle has been
moved more than 2/10 of one mile for at
least 3 consecutive hours; or
(3) During such period the vehicle has not been
removed from its parking place to a loca-
tion off the public street or more than
1,056 feet away for a period of at least
3 consecutive hours."
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2. Amend Section 10-185(c) to read:
"(c) Vehicles found parked in violation of this
Section may be cited, removed, or both, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10-69."
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take -effect and be in full force
thirty (30) days from and after the passage thereof, and prior to the
expiration of fifteen (15) days from its passage shall be published once
in the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa or, in the alternative,
the City Clerk may cause to be published a summary of this Ordinance and a
certified copy of the text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the office
of the City Clerk five (5) days prior to the date of adoption of this
Ordinance, and within fifteen (15) days after adoption, the City Clerk
shall cause to be published the aforementioned summary and shall post in
the office of the City Clerk a certified copy of this Ordinance together
with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against
the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this a.J day of 1983.'
Mayor of the Clity of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
C'ty Clerk of the City of Costa Me
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing Ordinance No. 9T� was introduced and considered sectiog} by
sect on at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the .2,21"3ay
of 1983, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole_
a aregular eting of said City Council held on the day of
, 1983, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: /�
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:��-�
IN WITNESS UIEREOF, I have hereunto et my and and affixed the
Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this may of , 1983.
Ci y Clerk and ex -officio Clerk o the
City Council of the City of Costa/Mesa
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