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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 2394
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA ANA AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE
TO REVISE THE MUNICIPAL CODE DUE TO CHANGES
IN THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE AND
CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIANS ON CITY STREETS.
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana desires to ensure the safety of
pedestrians and vehicular travel within City limits; and
WHEREAS, the construction of medians on City streets has created an
undefined area of travel within Santa Ana roadways;
WHEREAS, the definition of pedestrian has been amended in the California
Vehicle Code; and
WHEREAS, the changes in the streets of Santa Ana and the California
Vehicle Code has created ambiguity within the Santa Ana Municipal Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Santa Ana Municipal Code section 36-8 is hereby adopted to
read as follows:
Sec. 36-8. Parkway.
The parkway is that portion of the street other than the roadway, median or the
sidewalk.
SECTION 2: That Santa Ana Municipal Code section 36-10 is hereby adopted
to read as follows:
Sec. 36o10. Pedestrian.
(a) A pedestrian is any person who is afoot or who is using a means of
conveyance propelled by human power other than a bicycle.
(b) A pedestrian includes any person who is operating a self-propelled
wheelchair, invalid tricycle, or motorized quadricycle and, by reason of physical
disability, is otherwise unable to move about as pedestrian as specified in
subdivision (a).
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SECTION 3: That Santa Ana Municipal Code section 36-16--36-24 is hereby
adopted to read as follows:
Sec. 36-16 Median.
The median is that portion of the street which separates lanes of vehicular
traffic and is not the roadway, sidewalk or parkway.
Secs. 36-17--36-24. Reserved.
SECTION 4: That Santa Ana Municipal Code section 36-41 is hereby adopted
to read as follows:
Sec. 36-41. Miscellaneous driving movements and acts prohibited.
No person shall:
(1) Drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral procession while it
is in motion and when such vehicles are identified as part of such
procession by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a
pennant or other identifying insignia or by such other method as
may be determined and designated by the chief of police. This
provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled
by traffic-control signals or police officers.
(2)
While ~-iding any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, skateboard,
motorized skateboard, roller skates, or any toy vehicle, attach the
same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway, and no
person driving any vehicle shall permit the same to be done.
(3)
Drive any motor vehicle within or over any sidewalk area or any
parkway except at a driveway.
(4)
Drive over or across any new pavement or freshly painted marking,
when any street barrier, sign or marking is in place, warning
persons not to drive over or across the same, or when a sign is in
place stating that the street, or any portion thereof, is closed.
(5)
Drive or operate a vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of
any barrier or sign erected pursuant to the provisions of any
ordinance of the city, or by any public utilities, or by any
department of the city, or by any other person pursuant to law or
contract with the city, and no unauthorized person shall move or
alter the position of any such barrier or sign.
(6)
Drive a vehicle onto or from any freeway except at such entrances
and exits as are established by public authority.
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(7)
(8)
Park any vehicle within three hundred (300) feet of any fire
apparatus which is stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
Ride a bicycle or skateboard upon a sidewalk within a business
district, as that te,m is defined in California Vehicle Code, Section
235. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle or skateboard upon a
sidewalk other than in a business district, or in any other public
place, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian.
(9)
Drive a vehicle into an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless
there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or
crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without
obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians in such
intersection or crosswalk, notwithstanding any official traffic-
control device or signal indication to proceed.
(10) Drive any motor vehicle upon or over a median.
SECTION 5: That Santa Ana Municipal Code section 36-118 is hereby adopted
to read as follows:
Sec. 36-118. Standing in median.
No person shall stand, walk or sit on any median other than in a safety zone or
in a crosswalk. This section shall not apply to any public officer, construction
worker or employee of a public utility or its agent acting in the line of duty if
such presence on the median is necessary to carry out the functions of the job.
ADOPTED this 16thday of August, 1999.
ATTEST:
c. Guy '
Clerk of the Council
CO UNCILMEMBERSi'
Pulido Aye
Lutz Aye
Bist Absent
Christy Aye
Franklin Aye
McGuigan Aye
Moreno Not Voting
Migffe(A. Pulido
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Fletcher
City Attorney
Denah H. Yosh~na
Deputy City At~mey (J
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Ordinance No. NS-2394
CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY & PUBLICATION
State of California
County of Orange
I, JANICE C. GUY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby certify the attached Ordinance No.
///,5 ~ ,,~ .5 f~ to be the original ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ama on ~ ; and that said ordinance was published in accordance with the
Charter of the City of Santa Aha.
Date:
~i~ of the Council
City of Santa Ana