HomeMy WebLinkAbout88-21 Solicitation of Employment, Business, or Contributions from Public Streets and HighwaysORDINANCE NO. 88-21
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO SOLICITATION
OF EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS, OR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS.
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 does hereby find
and declare as follows:
WHEREAS, persons are gathering daily on public streets and sidewalks at
various loctions in the City for the purpose of obtaining employment by approach-
ing potential employers who drive to the sites in motor vehicles; and
WHEREAS, this practice is causing a host of problems involving traffic
safety and congestion, pedestrian obstruction and harassment, among others, when
such persons approach the vehicles to talk with the occupants and get into the
vehicles; and
WHEREAS, potential employers contribute to this problem by regularly
driving to these locations and stopping in the street to pick up workers; and
WHEREAS, similar problems are caused when persons enter upon a street
or highway to solicit business or contributions from occupants of vehicles
temporarily stopped;
ACCORDINGLY, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does hereby enact
Chapter XIX of Title 10 of the City of Costa Mesa Municipal Code as set forth
below.
SECTION 2.
CHAPTER XIX. SOLICITATION OF EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS, OR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
STREETS.
Section 10-354. Solicitation from Streets Prohibited.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to stand on a street or highway
and solicit, or attempt to solicit, employment, business, or contributions from
an occupant of any motor vehicle. For purposes of this section, street or high-
way shall mean all of the area dedicated to public use for public street purposes
and shall include, but not be limited to, roadways, parkways, medians, alleys,
sidewalks, curbs, and public ways.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person.to stop, park or stand a motor
vehicle on a street or highway fran which any occupant attempts to hire or hires
for employment another person or persons.
SECTION 3.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect thirty
(30) days from and after its passage and, before the expiration of fifteen (15)
days after 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 surTmary
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 adop-
tion, 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 19th day of December, 1988.
`Mayor o CityCosta Mesa
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FOCI:
City ClArk of the City of Cos Mesa City Attorney
STkTE 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. 88-21 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting
of said City Council held on the 5th day, of December, 1988, and thereafter
passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said Council held on the
19th day of December, 1988, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: ,`, �yvx�u c.K-P�� �y /1)e�ABc-1�
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: —4d7"—
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: (io-�
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of the
City of Costa Mesa this -20th -day of December, 1988.
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Ci y Clerk and ex -officio Clerk off the
City Council. of the City of Costy Mesa