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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0685ORDINANCE N0, 685 ~N ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 6 3 BY CHANGING THE NUMBER OF SECTION 17 to l~ AND CHANGING NUMBERS 1 TO 10 INCLUSIVE, TO A SINGLE NUMBER, VIZ,: 210, AND PROVIDING SUBSECTIONS THEREUNDER, The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ord.ain as follows: Section 1. That Section 17 of Ordinance 673 is hereby amended by changing the said section number 17 to 18. Section 2, That section 2 of Ordinance 673 is hereby amend.ed by substituting a single number, viz.: 210, for Sections 1 to 10 inclusive of Article XVII, and ten subsections thereund.er to read as follows: "Section 210. (a) PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS. METHOD OF REGULATION. Subject to the power of the board o£ Commissioners of Public Parking District No. 1, and all other board.s of commissioners of other public parking districts hereafter formed, to operate, manage, and control the parkin~ places and make and. enforce all necessary regulat3ons for their use as provided by Section 31780 of the Streets and. Highways Code, the method of regulation and control of parking or standing of vehicles in public off-street parking lats shall be deter- mined by the City Council. "(b) OVERTIME PARKING.a)The limit of parking times and the d.ays and hours during which parking limits shall apply on public off-street parking lots shall be established by resolution of the City Council, except that no such resolution by the City Council shall become effective or valid unless and until the board of Commissioners of Public Parking District No. 1, and. all other boards of other publ3c parking districts hereinafter £ormed shall have duly enaeted. and passed. a resolution in all respects the same as that enacted. and passed. by the City Council. "(2) When appropriate signs or markers d.esignating such parking time limits are in place giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand, or park said. -1- vehicle on any public off-street parking lot for longer than the perm3tted time. ~~(~) PARKING WITHIN PARKING SPACES. When parking spaces on public off-street parking lots are designated by lines or other appropriate marking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand, or park said vehicle other than in a regularly designated parking or loading space, across any such line or marking, or in such a position that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so d.esignated as a parking space. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped., or shall stand either wholly or partially in any d.riveway of any public off-street parking lot or in any manner which shall obstruct or interfere with the free movement of vehicles in such driveway or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or interfere with ingress to or egress from any regularly designated parking space. "(d) USE OF ENTRANCE AND EXIT. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any public off-street parking lot over any area or driveway or theportion between any curb returns which is not marked. with the word "entrance" or otherwise indicated. by arrows, signs, or words that it is a d.riveway or place for the entering of such parking lot. '~It shall be unlaw£ul for any person to move any vehicle from any such parking lot into any public way over any area except an area marked. with the word "exit" or otherwise ind.icated by arrows, signs, or words that it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking lot. ~~(e) USE OF AISLES. It shall be unlawful for an y person to travel in the direction opposite to that designated. in one-way aisles. It shall be unlawful for any person to travel on the left side of an aisle designated for two-way traffic movement. '~(P) LENGTH OF VEHICLES. It shall be unlawful Por any person to stop, stand, or park any vehicle having an over all length in excess of 21 feet in any public o£P-street parking lot. ~~(g) TRAILERS. It shall be unlawful £or any person to stop, -2- stand, or park any house or truck trailer in any publie off-street parking lot. "(h) SPEED OF VEHICLES, It shall be unlawful for any person to move any vehicle on any public off-street parking lot at any speed exceeding t~n (10) miles per hour. "(i) REMOVAL OF VEHICLES, The Police Department of the City of Lynwood is hereby empowered. to remove, or cause to have removed. to the nearest garage or place of safety, or to a garage designated. or maintained by the City of Lynwood., any vehicle that is stopped, stand.ing, or parked. on any public of£-street parking lot in violations of sub- sections (a), (b), (c), (d.), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of this ord.inance, or which is left on such public off-street parking lot for a period. exceeding thirty (30) hours. The provisions of Section 585 of the Vehicle Cod.e of the State of California pertaining to notice to owner and garage keeperts lien, shall apply in the event o£ such removal. "(j) PRIMA FACIE PRESUMPTION. In any prosecution charging a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance governing the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in any public off-street parking lot, proof that the particular vehicle described in the com- plaint was stopped., stand.ing, or parking in violation of any provision o£ this ordinance, together with proof that d.efendant named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing, or parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing, or parking such motor vehicle at the point where and for the time dur3ng which such violation occurred." Section 3. This ordi_nance is urgently required for the immed.iate preservation of the public peace, health, and. safety of the City of Lynwood, and. shall be in ef£ect immediately upon adoption. The following is a specific statement showing the emergency o£ this ordinance. The City of Lynwood is approaching the Christmas holiday season dur3ng which there is an abnormal congestion of the vehicles o£ Christmas shopping on the public streets and. in the parking lots. -3- The traffie violations greatly increase during this period and this ord.inance is greatly needed to correct certain clerical errors in an ordinance previously adopted. providing £or the issuing of citations for violations of of£-street parking regulations. Section 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and. cause the same to be published in the Lynwood. Press, a newspaper printed, published., and circulated in the City of Lynwood. Said urgeney ord.inance was read in full, adopted, and. ordered published at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Lynwood held. on the lOth day of December 4:30 p.m, by the following vote: ~ 1958> at Ayes: Councilmen Finch, Pender, Rowe, Summers, Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen English. / . , I~'~, iIi ~ STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES: ss. CITY OF LYNWOOD ) I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex-of£icio clerk of the Council o£ said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of ordinance No. 685 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood and that same was passed on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this lOth ^d~~, op Dec~r ~9 58. I 9