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Home My WebLink AboutNS-1782 - Amending Sections and Adding Section to Chapter 36 of Santa Ana Municipal Code ...CDG :mb ~- 01~ 5/16/85 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1782 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTIONS 36-131, 36-142, 36-147, 36-147.1 AND ADDING SECTION 36-133 TO CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE, TO REVISE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ARTICLE IV, PARKING REGULATIONS 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 Executive Director of the Public Services Agency is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, to place and maintain and, when required herein, shall place the following 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, standing 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 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day for any purpose other than the loading or un- loading of passengers or materials, provided that the loadinG or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the unloading of materi- als 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 (3) 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 at all times or during certain hours of the day as designated by signs. Such restrictions may be limited so as not to apply, on specified days and, if so limited, such limitation Shall also be designated on said signs. ORDINANCE NO. NS-1782 PAGE TWO (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 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 36-142 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-142. Time limit parking. "The Executive Director of the Public Services Agency is authorized to place signs or markings prohibiting parking in ex- cess of twelve (12) minutes, twenty-four (24) minutes, one (1) hour, or two (2) hours on any portion of any street within the City, for any time period up to and including twenty-four (24) hours per day, where the council so directs by resolution, or where the Executive Director of the Public Services Agency deter- mines that such restriction is necessary to accommodate the public demand for short-term parking. Such restrictions may be limited so as not to apply on specified days. When a sign or marking giving notice of such a restriction is in place, no person shall park any vehicle or leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, for a period of time longer than set out on said sign or marking." SECTION 3: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a Section to Chapter 36, Article IV to read as follows: Sec. 36-133. No parking or standing - street sweeping. (a) No operator of any motor vehicle, and no person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle upon any street in the City that is designated as to days and times for street sweeping during the time period parking is prohibited for street sweeping. 013 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1782 PAGE THREE (b) The Executive Director of the Public Services Agency is hereby authorized to determine the locations of and to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, signs designating the hours during which, and day or days of the month on which, parking is prohibited in order to permit City equipment to sweep the streets. SECTION 4: That section 36-147 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-147. Parking on city property. Whenever the Executive Director of the Public Services Agency shall determine that parking or standing of vehicles on City property be prohibited, limited or restricted in any manner, including the issuing of permits for overnight parking, the Execu- tive Director of the Public Services Agency shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or re- stricted. When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand a vehicle contrary to the directions of such signs, and any vehi- cle parked in violation of such signs may be towed to a public storage garage at the expense of the owner of such vehicle; or the police department may, and it is granted authority to, issue a citation in the usual form and manner for any violation of the prohibition, limitation or restriction indicated by such signs or for any violation of the provisions of this article. Any parking, movement or ranking of any vehicle on any city-owned parking lot, whether open to the public or restricted to certain classes of vehicles, which is in violation of the language of subsections (1) through (9), (12) and (13) of section 36-142 is declared to be in violation of this article and shall be treated as though the lan- guage of said sections were set forth in full hereinafter. SECTION 5: That section 36-147.1 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 36-147.1. Parking on property of Community Redevelopment Agency or property of~joint powers agencies of which city is a member. (a) Whenever the city has entered into a joint powers agreement with any other public entity, section 36-147 of 014 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1782 PAGE FOUR this Code shall apply to any parking facility located within Santa Ana, owned or operated jointly by the parties to said agreement in the same manner and to the same extent'as if the facility were exclusively owned by the city, providing the governing body of said joint authority has first requested such application. (b) Section 36-147, of this Code shall apply to any parking facility or area owned by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana in the same manner and to the same extent as if the facility were exclusively owned by the city providing the Executive Director of the Community Rede- velopment Agency has first requested such application. SECTION 6: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason he~d to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court or compe- tent 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, sentence, 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 unconstitutional. ADOPTED this lst day of 0u]y , 1985. Daniel E. Griset ATTEST: Mayor ~/~nice C. Guy' ~lerk of the Co~'ncil%/ COUNCILMEMBERS: Griset Aye Acosta Aye Hart Absent Johnson Absent Luxembourger McGuigan A e Young APPROVED AS TO FORM: Edward- ~ < Coo~er City Attol~