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ORDINANCE NO. 98-1137
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA,
RELATING TO INTERFERENCE WITH SPECIAL EVENTS AND
AMENDING THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Code Amendment. Chapter 1 (Prohibited Conduct; Offenses) of Article
IV (Public Safety) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a new
Section 4116 to read as follows:
"4116. Interference with Special Events.
A. Prohibition. No person shall interfere with, disrupt or impede a special event
staged in or upon a public place.
B. Definitions. For the purpose of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
1. 'Special event' means a lawfully conducted fair, parade, exposition,
procession or similar activity for which either: (i) city services are required
because of interference with normal vehicular traffic or pedestrian traffic; or
(ii) an extraordinary need for sanitation or other city services is reasonably
expected to be generated.
2. 'Interfere with, disrupt or impede a special event' means to do any of the
following:
a. Block or obstruct the passage of participants, vehicles or animals in a
special event along the special event route.
b. Walk, run, rollerskate, rollerblade, skateboard or ride a wheeled vehicle
through, between, with or among the participants, vehicles or animals
in a special event.
c. Drop, roll, throw, toss, squirt or propel a gaseous, liquid, semisolid or
solid matter toward or among the participants, vehicles or animals in a
special event.
d. Grab, hold, strike, hit, pull or push any participant, vehicle or animal in
a special event.
e. Mount any vehicle or animal in a special event.
f. Generate, amplify or broadcast any noises or sounds using any
loudspeaker, amplifier, instrument or similar device other than sounds
generated solely by the human voice or body unaided by any such
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loudspeaker, amplifier, instrument or similar device, along a special
event route while the special event is in progress at that location.
3. 'Public place' means publicly owned buildings, streets, sidewalks and rights-
of-way.
C. Exemptions. This Section shall not apply to persons acting in cases of bona fide
emergency or with the permission of the special event organizer."
Section 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance or any part hereof is for any reason held to
be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance or any part hereof. The City Council of the City of Carson hereby declares that
it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 5"' day of May, 1998.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK MAYOR
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I, Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinance No. 98-1137, passed first reading on April 21, 1998, was duly and regularly adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on May 5, 1998,
and that the same was passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mayor Fajardo, Calas, O'Neal and Sweeney
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Olaes ,
City Clerk, City of Carson, Cal fornia
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