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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-1996 - Santa Ana Municipal Code and Repealing Section 36-399 to Revise City's Parking Meter Regulations and Establish Downtown Parking Meter ZoneORDINANCE NO. NS-1996 . -065 REL :mb ( 9 ) 7/13/88, Rev.12/28/88 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTIONS 36-2, 36-398, 36-403, 36-405, 36-413, 36-431 AND 36-432 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND REPEAL- ING SECTION 36-399, TO REVISE THE CITY'S PARKING METER REGULATIONS AND ESTABLISH THE DOWNTOWN PARKING METER ZONE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That section 36-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-2. Parking meter zones. A parking meter zone, as hereinafter referred to, consists of those public street vehicular parking areas designated for metered parking by ordinance. SECTION 2: That section 36-398 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-398. Parking meter fees. The fee charged for parking in any metered parking space shall be $0.05 for each twelve minutes or $0.25 per hour. SECTION 3: That section 36-399 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 4: That section 36-403 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-403. Hours. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this article relating to the operation of parking meters shall be effective only between the hours of eight o'clock (8:00) a.m. and eight o'clock (8:00) p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of each week, except such parking limitations shall not be operative on any legal holiday. SECTION 5: That section 36-405 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-405. Use of slugs; damaging meter. No person shall deposit in any parking meter, any slug or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States, or deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully 066 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1996 PAGE TWO break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of, any parking meter. SECTION 6: That section 36-413 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-413. Application. Any person doing any building, construction, alter- ation, repair or addition to the structural detail or part of any building, or rendering any maintenance or janitor service to buildings on a contract basis in any parking meter zone and any public utility operating maintenance or service vehicles in such zone in the city may apply to the chief of police for a permit to use a parking meter hood. Such application shall state the name of the person, if a partnership, the names of the partners, the business address of the applicant, the nature of the business carried on by him, the fact that it is necessary to use a truck or other vehicle because of the equipment thereon or carried thereon, or the materials or machinery transported thereby, in said parking meter zones. Upon approval of said application, the chief of police shall forward said application to the director of finance for the issuance of the permit applied for. Such applications shall be numbered serially and be filed by the director of finance. SECTION 7: That section 36-431 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-431. Resolution to regulate. The council may, by resolution, declare the necessity for the use of parking meters on any municipally owned or operated parking lot, may fix and determine traffic patterns for the movement of traffic on such municipally owned or operated parking lot and governing the ingress and egress thereto and therefrom, and when the council regular- ly passes and adopts any resolution for any of said purposes the same shall control the use of the area affected there- by, and said regulations may be applied to lots open to public use or to lots restricted to certain classes of vehicles and to certain hours and days. 067 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1996 PAGE THREE SECTION 8: 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 municipally owned or operated, shall commit any of the following violations: (1) Enter said parking lot over any area or driveway or the portion between any curb returns which is not marked with the word "entrance" painted there- on 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. (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 parking 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 ex- ceeding ten (10) miles per hour. 068 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1996 PAGE FOUR (8) Fail to place the name and address of the driver, the name and address of the registered owner and the registration 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 infor- mation 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 council to be the maximum time for parking on such lot. (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 parking meter. (11) Leave any vehicle or thing in any parking space adjacent to or in front of any parking meter regulating parking in such space at any time when metered parking restrictions are in effect, while or after said meter shows a signal indicating unlawful 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 or operated parking lot in any manner so as to drive over the curb, curb- line or sidewalk, except in a driveway area or between curb returns. (15) Park or place any vehicle in any area designated exclusively for vehicles of physically handicapped persons, unless said vehicle displays either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to dis- abled persons pursuant to Section 22511.1 of the California vehicle Code or disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code. SECTION 9: The "Downtown Parking Meter Zone" is hereby established, consisting of that vehicular parking area designated on the map attached hereto as Exhibit A and incor- 069 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1996 PAGE FIVE porated herein by reference. The Executive Director of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause parking meters to be installed in said parking meter zone, subject to the purchasing rules and regulations of the Charter and ordinances of the City and such other direction as may be made by the City Council. SECTION 10: 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, subsection, sent- ence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconsti- tutional. SECTION 11: 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 violations 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 or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. ADOPTED this 6th day of February , 1989. D~ni~l H. Young [ Mayor ATTEST: rk of the Council COUNCILMEMBERS: Young Aye McGu i ga n Ave Acosta Aye Griset Absent M ay A,ye Pulido Aye APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~r City Attorney Parking Meter & Restricted Parking ' Vicinity Map ~ 071 II BLVD FIRST ST. Exhibit A