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Home My WebLink AboutNS-1302JLC:ar 3/12/76 ORDINANCE NS-1302 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTIONS 36-131, 36-138 AND 36-432 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO PLACE AND MAINTAIN BLUE CURB MARKINGS OR SIGNS INDICATING PARKING LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY FOR VEHICLES OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS, AND PROHIBITING PARKING OF UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES IN PARKING AREAS DESIGNATED FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That section 36-131 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-131. Parking signs and curb markings, color legend. The director of public works is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, to place and maintain and, when required herein, shall place the follow- ing curb markings or signs to indicate parking, standing or stopping regulations and said curb markings and signs shall have the meanings as herein set forth as follows: (1) Red curb markings shall mean no stopping, stand- ing or parking at any time of any day except as permitted by the vehicle code. (2) Yellow curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking between seven o'clock (7:00) a.m. and six o'clock (6:00) p.m. of any day for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes, and such loading or unloading shall be actively carried on during all of the said time. (3) White curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any day for any purpose other than stopping for three minutes or less for the purpose of loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox. (4) Green curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for a period of time longer than twelve (12) or twenty-four (24) minutes, as designated by signs, at any time between seven o'clock (7:00) a.m. and six o'clock (6:00) p.m. of any day except holidays. (5) Blue curb markings or a sign consisting of a profile view of a wheelchair with occupant in white on a blue background posted immediately adjacent to and visible from each parking space, indicates parking for the exclusive use of physically handicapped persons whose vehicles display either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled ORDINANCE NO. NS-1302 PAGE TWO persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code. SECTION 2: That section 36-138 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-138. Parking spaces, bus zones, loading zones and physi~cal.l¥ handicappedzones. (a) The director of public works is authorized to install parking space markings to indicate the parking spaces adjacent to curb where authorized parking is permitted. No person shall stand or park any vehicle on any public street in the city where the surface of said street has been marked with painted lines designating parking spaces or stalls so that said vehicle is across or upon any such line or in such a position that said vehicle is not entirely within the area designated by such lines as a parking space or stall. (b) The director of public works is authorized to establish bus zones for the loading and unloading of buses and common carriers of passengers, and to determine the loca- tion and length thereof. (c) The director of public works is authorized to establish loading zones, and no person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any loading zone for a period of time longer than is permitted for such loading zone. (d) The director of public works is authorized to establish and maintain parking zones limited exclusively for vehicles of physically handicapped persons displaying either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code SECTION 3: That section 36-432 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-432. violations - Enumerated. No person, on any public parking lot which is mun- icipally owned, shall commit any of the following violations: (1) Enter said parking lot over any area or drive- way or the portion between any curb returns which is not marked with the word "entrance" painted thereon or in some manner clearly designated for use as an entrance. (2) Park, place or rank any vehicle on any portion of such lot in such a manner as to interfere with or restrict the freedom of traffic movement between the areas indicated for parking, or to interfere with the free ingress or egress to and from said lot. (3) 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 lot. ORDINANCE NO. NS-1302 PAGE THREE (4) Park any vehicle with a trailer or any other thing attached thereto which extends into the areas commonly used for traffic movement. (5) Park, place or rank any vehicle or thing on any portion of said property which has been marked in red or by pavement stripes or words or signs to indicate that no park- ing is permitted. (6) Park any vehicle or thing in any manner except entirely within the area indicated for vehicular parking by parallel lines painted upon the paved surface or in any manner so that any portion of said vehicle or thing extends over or across any line painted on the paved portion of said property. (7) Move any vehicle on any such lot at any speed exceeding ten (10) miles per.hour. (8) Fail to place the name and address of the driver, the name and address of the registered owner and the registra- tion number of any vehicle that has collided with any other vehicle or thing on such parking lot on the vehicle or thing collided with if the same is unattended, or to give such in- formation to the person in charge of the other vehicle or thing if the same is attended. (9) Permit any vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond any period of time declared by resolution of the coun- cil to be the maximum time for parking on such lot, or to re- main in any metered parking place adjacent to or in front of any parking meter placed to regulate parking in the space occu- pied by such vehicle while the signal showing legal parking is not displayed by said parking meter. (10) Deposit any coin, slug or thing in any parking meter on such lot other than a coin of the United States of America, of the size or value indicated for use in such park- ing meter. (11) Leave any vehicle or thing in any parking space adjacent to or in front of any parking meter at any time be- tween the hours of seven (.7) a.m. and five (5) p.m., of any day, while or after said meter shows a signal indicating un- lawful parking. (12) Park or place any truck exceeding two (2) tons in gross weight, upon any portion of any parking lot. (13) Drink any alcoholic beverage on said parking lot at any time of day or night. (14) Move any vehicle onto or move any vehicle off of any municipally owned parking lot in any manner so as to drive over the curb, curbline or sidewalk, except in a drive- way area or between curb returns. (!5) Park or place any vehicle in any area desig- nated exclusively for vehicles of physically handicapped per- sons, unless said vehicle displays either one of the distin- guishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Ve- hicle Code. ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1302 PAGE FOUR SECTION 4: If any section, subsection, 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 of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsec- tion, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, clauses or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 5: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which vio- lations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty nor the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or case deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations there- under appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana at its re§ular meeting held on the 5th day of April , 1976. ATTEST: fl. ORENCE I. MALONE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF SANTA ANA ) I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; foregoing Ordinance was introduced to said Council that I am that the at its ORDINANCE NO. NS-1302 PAGE FIVE adjourned regular meeting held on the 22nd day of March , 1976, and was again considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 5th day of April , 1976, and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Evans, Yamam0to, Bricken, Garthe, Brandt, Ward NOES: COUNCILMEN: None Ortiz, ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: APPROVED AS TO FORM: KEITH L. GOW CITY ATTORNEY None FLOUNCE L MALONE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL ~ %