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Ordinance No. 04-1311/Page
members, and this Ordinance shall result in the codifying of this provision while modifying it to
better comply with Constitutional protections; and
NOW, THEREFORE,the City Council of the City of Carson, California, does hereby ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Carson hereby finds and declares the
above-referenced recitals are true and correct.
SECTION 2. Anew chapter 13 is added to Article IV of the Carson Municipal Code, to
read in its entirety as follows:
"Chapter 13. LOITERING BY CREMINAL STREET GANGS
41301 Prohibited acts. A. It is unlawful for any person who is a member of a
"criminal street gang" as that term is defined in California Penal Code Section 186.22(f) or who
is acting in concert with a member of a criminal street gang to loiter or idle in a"public place" as
defined in paragraph B of this Section under any of the following circumstances:
(1) With the intent to publicize a criminal street gang's do minance over certain
territory in order to intimidate nonmembers of the gang from entering, remaining in, or using the
public place of adjacent area;
(2) With the intent to conceal ongoing commerce in illegal drugs or other
unlawful activity.
B. For purposes of this chapter, a"public place" means the public way and any
other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned, including, but not limited
to any street, sidewalk, avenue, highway, road, curb area, alley, park, playground or other public
ground or public building, any common area of a school, hospital, apartment house, office
building,, transport facility, shop, privately owned place of business, to which the public is
invited, including any place of amusement, entertainment, or eating place. Any "public place"
also includes the front yard area, driveway and walkway of any business, hotel, motel, or multi-
family residential dwelling.
41302 Powers of law enforcement officers not limited. Nothing in this chapter
shall be construed in any way to limit the power or right of a law enforcement officer to make
any investigation, detention or arrest as such law enforcement officer would be permitted to
make in absence of this chapter.
41303 Parental control. Any parent(s), legal guardian(s), or other adult
person(s) authorized by said parent(s) or guardian(s) to have the care and custody of a minor,
who knowingly permits or by insufficient control allows a minor to violate the provisions of this
chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
41304 Penalty. Violation of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by
a fine not to exceed$1,000.00 or by impri sonment not to exceed six months, or both."
1007/00 U29138.01
Ordinance No. 04-1311/Page ;
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause phrase or portion
of this Ordinance 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
portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this
Ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause phrase or portions thereot
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences,
i clauses phrases or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty (30) days after its passage. Upon the effective date of this ordinance, Resolution No. 03-
1 adopted by the City of Carson on April 1, 2003, shall be repealed, however, nothing in this
ordinance shall affect the validity of criminal actions filed prior to the effective date of this
ordinance.
SECTION S. PUBLICATION. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to
certify to the passage of this Ordinance and to cause the same, or a summary thereof, or display
advertisement, duly prepared according to law, to be published in accordance with law.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this I"day of June 2004.
IF L--
!TA'P-YOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
Approved as to form:
CITY ATTOINEY
1007/001/29138.01
ordinance NO. 04-1311/page
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 four; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance
No. 04-1311 passed first reading on May 18, 2004, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of
said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 1st d ay o f June, 200 4, and t hat
the same was passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COi1NCIL MEMBERS: Mayor Dear, Santarina, and Ruiz-Raber
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Calas
City Clerk, City ofCarso , California