HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-2218 - Amending Sections of the Santa Ana Municipal Code to Revise the City's Garage Sale Regulations049
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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 2218
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
AMENDING SECTIONS 41-65.5 AND 41-193 OF
THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO REVISE
THE CITY'S GARAGE SALE REGULATIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That section 41-65.5 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 41--65.5. Garage sale.
A garage sale is a sale of goods, wares or merchandise from
residential property where the public is invited onto such property
to purchase such items; provided, however, that "garage sale" shall
not include any sale of the personal belongings of a recently
deceased resident of such property.
SECTION 2: That section 41-193 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 41-193. Garage sale regulations.
No person shall conduct, or allow to be conducted, a garage
sale on residentially zoned property in violation of the following
regulations:
(a)
Garage sales may only be conducted on the first weekend
of the months of March, June, September and December.
For purposes of this section, "weekend" means Saturday
and Sunday.
(b) Garage sale activity shall be limited to the hours of
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(c) Garage sale activity may not be conducted in the public
sidewalks, parkways, streets or alleys.
(d)
Ail items sold at a garage sale must be used goods, wares
or merchandise of a household nature, from that house-
hold, and not acquired elsewhere for resale.
(e)
Garage sale advertising signs may not be posted on
telephone poles, streetlights, traffic signs, or any
other structure in the public right-of-way. Such signs
may not be posted anywhere earlier than one (1) week
prior to the first date of the garage sale nor more than
one (1) day after the last date of the garage sale.
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~: 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.
SECTION 4: 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 20th day of June , 1994.
ATTEST:
C. Guy ~
of the Counci%l/
Mayor
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young Aye
Pulido Aye
Lutz Aye
McGuigan Aye
Mills Aye
Moreno Ay~
Richardson Absent
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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
~/~ ;Z 7~ I ~ to be the original ordinance adopted by the Ci~ty Council of the City
of Santa Aha on ~ and that said ordinance was published in accordance
with the Charter of the City of Santa Ana.
Date: