HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0673ORDINANCE NO, 673
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING
ORDINANCE NUMBER 493 BY ADDING A NEW SECTION
17 TO ARTICLE I AND BY REPEALING ARTICLE XVII
AND ADDING A NEW ARTICLE XVII,
The City Council of the City of Lynwood. does ordain as
follows:
Section 1. That Article I of Ordinance No. 493 is hereby
amended by adding Section 17, to read as follows:
"Section 17. PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS, Public off-
street parking lots shall include all public off-street parking lots
established by the City Council, including but not restricted to
public off-street parking in Public Park District No. 1 as provided.
for by city ordinances numbered 642 and. 659, respectively."
Section 2. That Article XVII of Ordinance No. 493 is hereby
repealed. and a new Article XVII is hereby ad-ded, to read. as ,follows:
"Article XVII.
"Section 1. PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS, METHOD OF'
REGULATION. Subject to the power of the board of Commissioners of
Public Parking District No, 1, and. all other boards of commissioners
of other public parking districts hereafter formed, to operate, manage,
and. control the parking places and make and enforce all necessary
regulations 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 lots shall be
determined. by the City Council.
"Section 2, OVERTIME PARKING,
"(a) The limit of parking times and. the days 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
resolution in all respects the same as that enacted and. passed by
the City Council.
"(b) When appropriate signs or markers designating 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.
vehicle on any public off-street parking lot for longer than the per-
mitted time.
°Section 3. 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 designated. as a parking space. No vehicle
shall be parked, stopped, nor shall stand either wholly or partially
in any driveway 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,
"Section 4, 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 the portion between any curb returns which is not
marked with the word. "entrance" or otherwise indicated by arrows,
signs, or words that it is a driveway or place for the entering of
such parking lot.
"It shall be unlawful 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 indicated. by arrows, signs,
or words that it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking
side of ariaisle designated for two-way traffic movement. "
"Section 6, LENGTH OF VEHICLES, It shall be unlawful for
any person to stop, stand, or park any vehicle having an overall
length in excess of 21 feet in any public off-street parking lot,
"Section 7. TRAILERS, It shall be unlawful for any person
to stop, stand, or park any house or truck trailer in a'ny public off-
street parking lot,
"Section 8, 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 ten (10) miles per hour.
"Section 9. 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 other place of safety, or to a garage
designated or maintained by the City of Lynwood, any vehicle that is
stopped., standing, or parked on any public off-street parking lot in
violation of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of this ordinance, 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 Code of the State of California pertaining~td notice to owner
and. garage keeperts lien, shall apply in the event of such removal.
"Section 10. 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 complaint was stopped., standing, or parking in violation of
any provision of this ordinance, together with proof that defendant
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
published once in the Lynwood. Press, a weekly newspaper published,
printed., and. circulated in the City of Lynwood, California..
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 20th day of May 1958, and finally
ad.'ourned
adopted and ordered published. a.t ar~regular meeting of said Council
held. on the 27thd.ay of May, 1958, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen English, Finch, Pender, Summers.
Noes: Councilmen
Absent: Councilmen
None.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; ss.
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the
City of Lynwood, and. ex-officio clerk of the Council
of said City, do hereby certify that the above is
a true and. correct copy of ordinance No. 673
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 28th day of May 19 58•
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