HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-04-25 - ORDINANCES - VEHICLES PARKED OVER 72 HOURSORDINANCE NO. 23 -2
""" AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 12.08 (DEFINITIONS) AND
CHAPTER 12.64.200 (VEHICLES PARKED OVER 72 HOURS) OF THE
SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The ordinance amends the following Chapters --of the Santa Clarita
Municipal Code: Chapter 12.08, entitled "Definitions" and Chapter 1 2.64.2J0, entitled "Vehicles
Parked Over 72 Hours." The City of Santa Clarita (City) operates a Parking Enforcement
program to enforce parking regulations. The City is empowered to enact rules to ensure that
members of the public park upon the public right-of-way in a manner that is consistent with the
purposes of these places and promotes the public's common benefit. The proposed amendments
to Title 12 will promote and encourage a safe, fair application of vehicles parked within the
public right-of-way, and are intended to ensure that the public can use and enjoy such places for
their intended purposes.
SECTION 2. Chapter 12.08 of the SCMC is hereby amended to read in its entirety as
shown in Exhibit A, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance.
The City Council declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one
or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts, or portions be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from its
passage and adoption.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published as required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 251h day of April 2023.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 23-2 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the I I th day of April 2023. That thereafter, said somma
ordinance was duly passed and adopted at the regular meeting of the City Council on the 251h day
of April 2023, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Miranda, Smyth, Weste, Gibbs
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: McLean
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 23-2
and was published in The Signal newspaper in accordance with State Law (G.C. 40806).
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EXHIBIT A.
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Sections:
12.08.010 Definitions Generally.
12.08.020 Words Defined in Vehicle Code.
12.08.030 Alley.
12.08.040 Bus Loading Zone.
12.08.050 Commercial Vehicle Loading Zone.
12.08.060 Council.
12.08.065 Director.
12.08.080 Highway.
12.08.085 Enforcement Officer.
12.08.090 Operator.
12.08.100 Park.
12.08.110 Parkway.
12.08.115 Paseo.
12.08.120 Passenger Loading Zone.
12.08.130 Pedestrian.
12.08.140 Person.
12.08.143 Police Department.
12.08.145 Private Street.
12.08.150 Roadway.
12.08.160 Roller Skates.
12.08.170 Section.
12.08.180 Sidewalk.
12.08.185 Skateboard.
12.08.200 Vehicle.
12.08.010 Definitions Generally.
Whenever in this Title the words or phrases hereinafter in this chapter defined are used,
they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter unless the
context indicates to the contrary. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.020 Words Defined in Vehicle Code.
Whenever any words or phrases used in this Title are not defined in this chapter, but
are defined in the Vehicle Code of this State, such definitions are incorporated herein
and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases as used in this Title as though
set forth in full. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.030 Alley.
"Alley" means any --ighway, as defined in this chapter, unnamed, and having a width
of less than 25 feet, and not provided with a sidewalk or sidewalks. (Ord. 89-12,
6/27/89)
12.08.040 Bus Loading Zone.
"Bus oading one" means the space adjacent to the curb or edge of a roadway
reserved for the exclusive use of buses during the loading or unloading of passengers.
(Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.050 Commercial Vehicle Loading Zone.
"Commercial -eh icle means that space adjacent to a curb
reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers
and materials marked and designated as hereinafter provided in this Title. (Ord. 89-12,
6/27/89)
12.08.060 Council.
"Council" means the City Council of the City. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.065 Director.
"Director" means the Public Works Director for the City, or the Director's designate.
(Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.080 Highway.
1. 1 of vvFh1-Alever n Maintained "Highway" means,4-I-I way or place —nature publicly main and open to
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highway,public street, public way or public place in the City, either owned by the City or
dedicated to the public. The term includes all or any part of the entire width of right-of-
way, and above and below the same, whether or not such entire area is actually used
for vehicular travel.
12.08.085 .enforcement Officer.
Enforcement Officer"means a sworn public safety officer
authorized to conduct law enforcement activities in the City, }-tG� -ra
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emplovee or agent with the authority to enforce any t)rovision of this code. (Ord. 89-12,
6/27/89)
12.08.090 Operator.
"Operator" means any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle. (Ord. 89-12,
6/27/89)
12.08.100 Park.
"Park" means to stop or allow to stand any vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than in obedience to official traffic -control devices or by direction of a police officer.
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12.08.110 Parkway.
"Parkway" means that portion of a Highway other than a roadway or a sidewalk. (Ord.
89-127 6/27/89)
12.08.115 Paseo.
"Paseo" means an improved walkway over private property over which an easement for
pedestrian traffic has been reserved. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.120 Passenger Loading Zone.
"Passenger loading zone" means that space adjacent to a curb reserved for the
exclusive use of vehicles during loading and unloading of passengers, marked and
designated. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.130 Pedestrian.
"Pedestrian" means any person afoot. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.140 Person.
"Person" means and includes every person, firm, corporation or other entity. (Ord. 89-
12, 6/27/89)
12.08.143 Police Department.
"Police Department" means the authorized agency charged by the City with law
enforcement responsibility, whether that agency is the City Police Department or the
County Sheriff Department. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.145 Private Street.
"Private Street" means a street over which private persons have an easement to travel,
and does not include driveways, paths, or other ways which no one has a right to travel
except by license. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.150 Roadway.
"Roadway" means that portion of a-Jghway between the regularly established curb
lines or, when no curbs exist, that portion improved, designated, and ordinarily used for
vehicular travel and parking. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.160 Roller Skates.
"Roller Skates" means any footwear or device which may be attached to feet or
footwear, to which wheels are attached and such wheels may be used to aid the wearer
in moving. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.170 Section.
"Section" means a section of the ordinance codified in this Title unless some other
ordinance or statute is specifically mentioned. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.180 Sidewalk.
"Sidewalk" means that improved portion of a =ighway between the curb lines or
traversable roadway and the adjacent property lines. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.185 Skateboard.
"Skateboard" means any board or any other object or device which has wheels attached
to it by any means whatsoever and which is propelled by pushing, pulling, or
gravitational forces, and to which there is not affixed any device or mechanism for
steering. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.200 Vehicle.
"Vehicle" means every device or animal by which any person or property is or may be
transported or drawn upon a street orb- -ighway, excepting devices moved by human
power or used exclusively upon rails. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.64.200 Vehicles Parked -§i§ J.q v for More Than Qvar 72 Consecutive
Hours Removal =%
A. No operator of any Vehicle shall leave said Vehicle parked or left standing, and no
registered owner of such Vehicle shall permit or allow said Vehicle to remain parked or
left standing, upon any Highwayin n the City for a period longer than seventy-two (72)
consecutive hours. Any such Vehicle shall be subject to removal by an Enforcement
Officer of the City of Santa Clarita._ An Eenforcement Oefficer may cause the e-remov�',a
ofe to a safe era every Vvehicle which has been parked or left standing upon a
jhighway for more than 72 eF moFe consecutive hoursI �
B. For the pu[poses of this section, a Vehicle shall be deemed to have been parked or
left standing when it has not been moved more than one hundred and fifty JJ 50) feet
from its original parked or stopped position, Distance in feet shall be measured from
the curb -face abutting its original stopped position. or if there is no curb -face pre
then measured from the lot line or boundary of the lot abutting its originai stoppe
-RC. AS used in this seCtiOn, the vvORjS ^S8fe pl8ce^ inC]Ude, but are not confined to, any
garage, parking lot or open space owned by, maintained by or under the jurisdiction of
the Cit», and also every privately -owned garage the owner or proprietor ofwhich will
accept such ehio|e. (Ord. 89-12. 8/27/89\