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ORDINANCE NS-1088 AMENDING THE SANTA ANA 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. -1-