HomeMy WebLinkAbout00-15 Failure to Display a Handicapped Parking Placard when parked in SpaceORDINANCE NO. 00-15
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA ADDING SECTION 10-
199 TO THE COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING THE FAILURE TO DISPLAY A
HANDICAPPED PARKING PLACARD WHEN PARKED IN A
HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section. Section 10-199 is hereby added to the Costa Mesa Municipal Code
to read as follows:
"Sec. 10-199. Failure to display handicapped parking placard.
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to display a handicapped placard or
license that has been lawfully issued to that person on any vehicle parked in a stall
or space designated for handicapped persons pursuant to the vehicle code. Any
violation of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty in the amount of thirty-
five dollars ($35). For purposes of this section, handicapped placard or license
shall mean the distinguishing placard issued pursuant to vehicle code section
22511.55 or 22511.59 or the special identification license plate issued pursuant
to vehicle code section 5007."
Section 2. Severability.-
If
everability:
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion
of this Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person, is for any reason held
to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of
this Ordinance or its application to other persons. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions of the application thereof to any person, be declared invalid or
unconstitutional. No portion of this Ordinance shall supersede any local, State, or
Federal law, regulation, or codes dealing with life safety factors.
Section 3. Publication.
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 NEWPORT BEACH -COSTA MESA.
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 18th day of September, 2000.
PS�of t e City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
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Deputy Cit Jerk, of the City of Costa Mesa
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, MARY T. ELLIOTT, Deputy 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. 00-15 was introduced and considered section by section at a
regular meeting of said City Council held on the 5" day of .September, 2000, and
thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council
held on the 18th day of September, 2000, by the following roll call vote:
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ABSENT: NOA)C:--
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa this 19th day of September, 2000.
Deputy Citylerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Cou it of the City of Costa Mesa