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MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTION 36-27
THEREOF PERTAINING TO OVERTIME PARKING
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 36-27 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read in words and figures, as follows:
(a) It shall he the duty of each police officer to take the
number of any vehicle or thing parked, placed, ranked, stored,
or left in violation of any of the provisions of this article;
the state vehicle license of such vehicle; the time and date
of such overparking; and the make of such vehicle; and to
issue, in writing, a citation for said violation in the same
form and subject to the same procedure provided for by the
ordinances of the city and the laws of the state applicable
to the traffic violation within the city.
(b) Any operator or owner of a vehicle to whom a citation
has been issued for any violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this chapter,
involving parking of such vehicle in a place where parking
is lawfully permitted for a period of time longer than the
lawful maximum period for such place where such vehicle is
parked, may, on or before the appearance date set out on
such citation, pay to the court as bail, as a penalty for,
and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of
three dollars ($3.00). Said payment may be made in person or
by mailing the same to the clerk of the municipal court,
Orange County, within said period. Any such owner or operator
failing to make such payment within said period and any person
violating any other provision of this chapter shall he deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than three dollar~ ($3.00)
nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or by imprisonment
in the county jail for not more than five (5) days or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
(c) Any operator or owner of a vehicle to whom a citation
has been issued for any violation of any of the provisions of
this chapter for which no provision for the posting of bail
in full satisfaction of which violation has been made in subsec-
tion (b) of this section~' may, prior to the appearance date
set out on such citation, deposit with the magistrate of said
municipal court, such bail as the magistrate shall fix as
reasonably sufficient. Thereafter, at the time when the case
is called for arraignment before the magistrate, if the
defendant shall not appear, either in person Or by counsel,
the magistrate may declare the bail forfeited and in his
discretion, order that no further proceedings shall be had in
such case. All proceedings and things not expressly provided
for in this sub-section (c) shall he done in accordance with
the provisions of sections 40500, 40501 and 40502 of the state
vehicle code as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended.
SECTION 2: That this ordinance shall take effect thirty days
from and after the date of its adoption.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA at its regular meeting held on the 2nd day of
August, 1971.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk
of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing
Ordinance was introduced to said council at its regular meeting
held on the 19th day of July, 1971, and was again considered by
said Council at its meeting held on the 2nd day of August, 1971,
and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES,
COUNCILMEN: Herrin, Evans, Villa, Yamamoto, Griset
NOES,
COUNCILMEN: Markel
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: Patterson
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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