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TAT: 5/13/92
ORDINANCE NO. NS- 2160
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA ANA AMENDING THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL
CODE BY ADDING AN ARTICLE ENTITLED CAMPING AND
STORAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TO CHAPTER 10 OF
THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND AMENDING
SECTION 1-18.3 RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITY.
city Council of the city of Santa Ana does ordain
The as
follows:
~ That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended
by adding an Article to Chapter 10, to be numbered Article VIII,
which said Article reads as follows:
ARTICLE VIII. CAMPING AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Section 10-400. Purpose.
The public streets and areas within the City of
Santa Ana should be readily accessible and available to
residents and the public at large. The use of these areas for
camping purposes or storage of personal property interferes
with the rights of others to use the areas for which they were
intended. The purpose of this Article is to maintain public
streets and areas within the City of Santa Ana in a clean and
accessible condition.
Section 10-401. Definitions.
Unless the particular provisions or the context otherwise
requires, the definitions contained in this section shall
govern the construction, meaning and application of words and
phrases used in this Article.
(a) Camp means to pitch or occupy camp facilities; to
live temporarily in a camp facility or outdoors; to use camp
paraphernalia.
(b) Cam_~p__facilities include, but are not limited to,
tents, huts, or temporary shelters.
(c) Camp paraphernalia includes, but is not limited to,
tarpaulins, cots, beds, sleeping bags, hammocks or non-city
designated cooking facilities and similar equipment.
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(d) Park means the same as defined in section 31-1 of
this Code.
(e) Store means to put aside or accumulate for use when
needed, to put for safekeeping, to place or leave in a
location.
(f) Street means the same as defined in section 1-2 of
this Code.
seotion 10-402. Unlawful Camping.
It shall be unlawful for any person to camp, occupy camp
facilities or use camp paraphernalia in the following areas,
except as otherwise provided:
(a) any street;
(b) any public parking lot or public area,
unimproved.
improved or
seotion 10-403. Storage of Personal Property in Publio
Plaoes.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store personal
property, including camp facilities and camp paraphernalia, in
the following areas, except as otherwise provided by
resolution of the City Council:
(a) any park;
(b) any street;
(c) any public parking lot or public area,
unimproved.
improved or
SECTION 2: That Section 1-18.3 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to reads as follows:
Bee. 1-18.3.
Recreation, parks an4 Oommunity services
authority to issue oitations.
The director of recreation, parks and community services
and park rangers employed within the department of recreation,
parks, and community services have the duty to enforce the
provisions of Chapter 31 and Article VIII of Chapter 10 of
this Code where the director has maintenance responsibility,
and are authorized to arrest persons without a warrant
whenever they have reasonable cause to believe that the person
to be arrested has committed a violation of said provisions in
their presence. In any case in which a person is arrested
pursuant to this section and the person arrested does not
demand to be taken before a magistrate, said officer or
employee making the arrest shall prepare a written notice to
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appear and release the person on his or her promise to appear
as prescribed by Chapter 5 C, Title III, of Part 2 of the
Penal Code of the State of California (commencing with Section
853.6).
~ 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, 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.
~ 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 3rd day of Auqust 199 2 .
ATTEST:
Clerk of the Council/
Mayor
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young Aye
Pulido Aye
Acosta
Griset
McGuigan
Norton Aye
Richardson
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Edward
city Attorney
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CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY & PUBLICATION
State of California
County of Orange
I, JANICE C. GUY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby certify the
attached Ordinance ~-~/~ to be the original ordinance
adopted by the city Council of the City of Santa 'Ana on
~- 3- f~- ; and that said ordinance was published in
accordance with the Charter of the ~ty of Santa Ana.
~lerk of the Chunc'~l, Date
city of Santa Ana