HomeMy WebLinkAbout65-37 Regulating Children Bus TransportORDINANCE NO. 65-37
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING RUSES TRANSPORTING
MINOR CHILDREN WITHIN THE CITY OF COSTA MESA.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. All buses, except those hereinafter specifically exempted,
transporting minor children, under the age of 18 years, either gratuitously or
for compensation, shall, while operating within the City of Costa Mesa, carry,
in addition to the driver, an adult person 18 years or over.
SECTION 2. At all stops made on City streets by buses for the purpose
of discharging minor children from the buses, the non -driver adult shall
precede the minor children from the bus, and shall then accompany each minor
child across any street that said minor children cross.
SECTION 3• Every such non -driver adult shall carry a vehicle warning
device to be provided by City, and shall, when accompanying a minor child
or children across any street, use said vehicle warning device.
SECTION 4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to the
following buses transporting minor children within the City of Costa Mesa:
(a) Any school bus, either public or private, regulated by the State of
California, (b) Any commercial carrier buses regulated by the State of
California.
SECTION 5• That any violation of this Ordinance shall be a misdemeanor
and be punishable by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or
imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding six (6) months or by both
sues fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 6. This ordinance is adopted as an urgency ordinance. The
facts constituting the urgency are as follows:
Buses transporting minor children are presently operating within the
City of Costa Mesa and discharging minor children from the buses for the purpose
of crossing streets without proper safeguard by adult supervision, or marked
pedestrian crossings. The increase in traffic on the streets of Costa Mesa
makes it imperative for the safety of such children that this ordinance become
effective immediately upon adoption.
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SECTION 7• This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its
adoption and shall within fifteen (15) days after its passage be published
once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, together with the names of
the members of the City Council voting for and against the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of October, 1965•
4Wryor of the My of Costa t esa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that
the above and foregoing Ordinance No. sd9 was introduced and considered section
by section at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
held on the J1 1, day of October, 1965, and thereafter passed and adopted as
a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the day of
October, 1965, by the following roll -call vote:
AYES: Councilmen -R -- /'J'
NOES: Councilmen - /V f+ -6
ABSENT: Councilmen - A10-1
Cly Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of theClerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
(SEAL) City Council of the City of Costa Mesa.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and
not a party to or interested in the below entitled matter. I
am the_L gal Advert leinrt Nanaaer
of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT, to newspaper of gen-
eral circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa
Mesa, County of Orange, State of California, and I certify
that Ordinance No.65-37 _ ,
of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete
copy, was printed and published in the regular issee(s) of
said newspaper on 0.ctober 12 — ---
I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing
is true and correct.
Executed on October 12th '19-65
at _ Costa Mesa , California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
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I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that Ordinance No. was introduced and Considered,
section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the
day of , 196—, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the _—day of — _ --- 196 by the
following roll -call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN
NOES: COUNCILMEN -
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN -
I FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No was published in the ORANGE COAST
DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the
_--day of -- —, 196—
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa