HomeMy Public PortalAbout15-1552ORDINANCE NO. 15-1552
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION
4212 TO ARTICLE IV, CHAPTER 2 OF THE CARSON
MUNICIPAL CODE TO ALLOW LIMITED
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE USE AT CITY EVENTS IN
CITY PARKS.
WHEREAS, Carson Municipal Code Article IV, Chapter 2 regulates the
consumption of alcohol in and around public spaces such as public sidewalks, public
streets, public parks and public buildings; and
WHEREAS, under Sections 4200.5 and 4209, no person shall drink any alcoholic
beverage upon any public street, alleyway, sidewalk, parkway, public building,
lavatories, auto park, lobby or any public park, parking lot of public park or building of
any public park; and
WHEREAS the City Council desires to allow limited alcoholic beverage use at
City events taking place in City parks under certain conditions; and
WHEREAS to accomplish the aforementioned action, the City Council must
amend Article IV, Chapter 2 of the Carson Municipal Code to add Section 4212.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON,
CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The foregoing Recitals are declared as true and correct and adopted
into the terms of this Ordinance by this reference.
Section 2. Section 4212 is hereby added to Article 11, Chapter 7 of the Carson
Municipal Code section as follows:
"4212 Limited Alcoholic Beverage Use On Public Property—Special Permit
Notwithstanding the other prohibitions of this chapter, the Council may
grant special permits for the sale or consumption of wine or beer at special
functions or activities in public parks in the City of Carson and only at
City of Carson functions or activities. Any such permit with the sale of
beer or wine shall be given to City -authorized vendors and such vendors
shall be subject to the license requirements of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Act of the State.
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Section 3. The City Council hereby finds that it can be seen with certainty that
there is no possibility the adoption and implementation of this Ordinance may have a
significant effect on the environment. The Ordinance is therefore exempt from the
environmental review requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant
to Section 1506 1 (b) (3) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
Section 4. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or
phrase of this section, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any reason
held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the
validity or enforceability of the remaining sections, subsections, subdivisions,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this section, or its application to any other
person or circumstance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted each
section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, subdivisions,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases hereof be declared invalid or unenforceable.
Section 5. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published at least once
in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City within fifteen
(15) days after its passage, in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code,
and shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its
second reading and adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council
on this Ist day of April, 2015.
ATTESTED:
City Clerk Jim Dear
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Mayor Pro Tem Elito Santarina
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF CARSON
1, Jim Dear, 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 three; that the foregoing
-1552 passed first reading on March 4, 2015, was duly
ordinance, being Ordinance No. 15
and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said
Council, held on the I" day of April, 2015, and that the same was passed and adopted by
the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mayor Pro Tem Santarina, Davis—Holmes and
Robles
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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City Clerk Jim Dear
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