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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-2028 - Amending Sections 36-413 through 36-419 of Santa Ana Municipal Code and Adding Section 36-420 Thereto to Revise the City's Parking Meter Hood Permit RegulationsREL:mb(23) 5/2/89 Rev. 5/19/89 ORDINANCE NO. NS-2D~ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTIONS 36-413 THROUGH 36-419 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING SECTION 36-420 THERETO TO REVISE THE CITY'S PARKING METER HOOD PERMIT REGULATIONS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-413 is hereby 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 downtown development manager for a permit to use a parking meter hood. Such application shall state the name of the person, organization, or, 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 the materials or machinery transported thereby, in said parking meter zones. Upon approval of said applica- tion, the downtown development manager shall forward said application to the director of finance for the issu- ance of the permit applied for. Such applications shall be numbered serially and be filed by the director of finance. SECTION 2: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-414 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-414. Issuance--Initially; legend. Upon receipt of an application for a hood permit approved as hereinabove provided for and payment of the required charges, the director of finance shall issue a permit which shall be numbered, and each of which permits shall be accompanied by a numbered hood, and on ORDINANCE NO. NS- M3£~ PAGE TWO the reverse side, shall carry the legend in boldface type "NO PARKING." The permit shall further recite the ~a~e o~ issuance, the date upon which it expires and the name and address of the permittee. No permit shall be issued to any applicant who does not hold a paid-up business license in the city, if such license is required. SECTION 3: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-415 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-415. Same--After revocation. When the finance director finds that any person holding a permit under the provisions of Chapter 36, Division 2 has violated the provisions of this division, the permittee shall immediately deliver the same to the director of finance upon receipt of notice of revocation by mail. Said permittee may appeal to the council pursuant to the pro- visions of Chapter 3 of this Code. Unless the council after hearing shall waive the revocation, no permittee shall be issued a new permit or hood within thirty (30) days of such revocation. The council at any hearing held, or if there is no hearing requested, the downtown development manager may extend the period during which no new permit or hood shall be issued to, but not exceeding, one hundred eighty (180) days. SECTION 4: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-416 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-416. Charges--For permit. The minimum charge for any hood permit so issued shall be two dollars ($2.00) per day or any part thereof. A permit may be issued for a maximum period of six (6) months. All permittees shall, prior to the issuance or renewal of any permit, make a deposit of ten dollars ($10.00) for each hood issued, which deposit shall be re- turned upon the surrender of the hood in good condition to the office of the director of finance through the downtown development office. ORDINANCE NO. NS-~0~8 PAGE THREE SECTION 5: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-417 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-417. Same--For lost, damaged or withheld permits or hoods. The loss of any permit or hood shall be reported to the downtown development manager not later than noon on the next succeeding business day following the loss and the permittee shall pay to the city ten dollars ($10.00) for each hood lost. The permittee shall pay to the city ten dollars ($10.00) for any hood in his possession that becomes damaged beyond repair. In the event repair is possible said permittee shall pay the cost of such repair, which in no case shall exceed ten dollars ($10.00). The provisions for payment, in case of damage hereinabove set out, shall not apply to damage or deterioration from normal usage or to damage by vandalism or malicious mis- chief committed by persons other than permittee, his agents or employees. If the permittee fails to return the hood and fails to renew his permit granted hereunder, by paying the charges hereinabove fixed therefor, within seven (7) days of the expiration of said permit, he shall pay to the city for such unlawful withholding of such hood, the sum of ten dollars ($10.00). No new permit or hood shall be issued to any permittee when any payment provided for in this section has become due and has not been paid. The determination of the cause of damage to any hood shall be made by the downtown development manager. SECTION 6: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-418 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-418. Cancellation of permit. The downtown development manager shall revoke any permit issued hereunder and immediately take up and return to the director of finance such permit and the hood accomp- anying the same, for any of the following reasons: (1) When the permittee has failed to pay any charge or fee provided for in this article. ORDINANCE NO. NS-20~8 PAGE FOUR (2) When the circumstances or needs under which the permit was granted no longer exist. (3) When permittee ceases to carry a business license in the city or fails to pay the current business license fee due thereunder if such license is required. (4) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter without the display of a current unrevoked permit in the transparent window of said hood. (5) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter for any purpose other than the business purposes permitted by this article. (6) When the hood is not removed from the parking meter immediately upon the completion of work for which this article permits hood to be used. (7) When any person other than permittee or his regular employee or agent is allowed to use hood. the (8) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter adjacent to and regulating a stall where parking is limited to twenty-four (24) minutes or less. SECTION 7: That Santa Ana Municipal Code Section 36-419 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 36-419. Special U.S. recruiter hood. United States Government recruiting officers in charge of any recruiting office located in a building in front of which parking is regulated by meters may apply to the down- town development manager for a permit to use parking meter hoods in front of or near said recruiting office, and shall furnish such information on the application as the downtown development manager may require. The downtown development manager shall determine the number of hoods which shall be used and shall forward his approval to the director of finance, who shall issue a numbered permit for each hood approved without any charge or deposit for hoods to accompany the permits. ORDINANCE NO. NS-2D~ PAGE FIVE Each permit shall be marked for use with the United States government-owned armed forces recruiting vehicle only, and said hood shall not be valid and may be picked up and permit revoked if used with any other vehicle or for any reason specified in subsections (3), (5), (7), (8) or (9) of section 36-418. SECTION 8: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 36-420, which said section reads as follows: Sec. 36-420. Funerals Any organization conducting a funeral in any building in a parking meter zone may apply to the downtown develop- ment manager for a permit to use parking meter hoods in front of or near such building during such funeral and shall furnish such information on the application as the downtown development manager may require. The downtown development manager shall determine the number of hoods which shall be issued, the area in which they may be used, and the time during which they may be used, and shall forward his approval to the director of finance, for issuance of a permit in accordance with section 36-414. SECTION 9: 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 10: 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 222 ORDINANCE NO. NS-2028 PAGE SIX ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertain- ing shall continue in full force and effect. ADOPTED this ]8th day of September , 1989. Mayor ATTEST: ~]~rVlce C. Guy Elerk of the Coun&il/ COU NCI LMEMBE RS .' Young Acosta Griset May McGuigan Norton Pulido A e Absent APPROVED AS TO FORM: Edw~r~ City Attorney