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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #496 ORDINANCE NO. L� (O AN ORDINANCE OF THE. CITY OF HUNTII'JGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING ITS TRAFFIC AND REG- ULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC STREETS IN THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DEFIN- ING AND ESTABLISHING A PARKING METER ZONE AND REGULATING AND CONTROLLING AND PROVIDING FOR INSPECTION OF THE TIME PARKING OF VEHICLES THEREIN BY THE USE OF PARKING METERS; PRES- CRIBING LIMITS OF TIME FOR PARKING IN PARKING METER ZONE; AND PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE AND PUNISHMENT FOR ITS VIOLAT- ION. The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, , California., do ordain as follows: Section 1: DEFINITIONS: WheneIve-r in this ordinance the following .terms , are used, thoy shall have the meanings _Y respectively ascribed to them in this section: STREET: Every way set apart for public travel • except alleyways, bridle paths and foot paths. ROADWAY: That portion_ of a street between the regularly established curb lines. SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines. VEHICLE: A conveyance propelled by motor power. PARKING METER ZONE: Parking Meter Zone shall mean that certain area hereinafter described, within the City of Huntington Beach, and established by the City Council as a zone within which the parking of vehicles upon streets shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with th6) aid of timing devices and meters, herein 1 Ord. 496 referred to as "parking meters" or "meters® " Section 2: The following area within the City of Hunting— ton Beach is hereby established as the PARKING METER ZONE, and the parking of vehicles upon the streets within said zone is hereby declared to be subject to the provisions of this ordin— ances That certain area within the City of Huntington Beach bounded by the following line: Beginning at the point of intersection of the westerly line of Fifth Street with the southerly line of Olive Avenue; thence southwesterly along the westerly line oft Fifth Street to the northerly line of Ocean Avenue; thence northwesterly • alo rag" the northerly line of said Ocean Avenue to the: Westerly line of Sixth Street; thence southwesterly along" the westerly line of Sixth Street as produced southwesterly to a point 32 feet distant from the southwesterly line of Ocean Avenue; thence southeasterly and 32 feet distant from and parallel to the south— erly line of said Ocean Avenue 460 feet; thence northerly and . at' right angles to the southerly line of Ocean Avenue; thence southeasterly along the southerly line of Ocean Avenue 380 feet; thence ;southwesterly at right angles to said southerly line of Ocean Avenue to a point 32 feet distant from said southerly line of Ocean Avenue; thence southeasterly and 32 feet distant from and parallel to the said southerly line of Ocean Avenue to the easterly line- of Second Street as produced; thence northeasterly along the easterly line of Second Street as produced to the r northerly line. of Ocean Avenue;thence northwesterly along the northerly line of Ocean Avenue to the easterly line of Third Street; thence northeasterly along the easterly line of Third Street to the center line of Olive Avenue; thence northwesterly along the center line of Dlive Avenue to the easterly line of Main Street; thence northeasterly along. the easterly line of Main Street to the southerly line of Orange Avenue; thence - northwesterly along the southerly line of Orange Avenue to: the westerly line of' Main Street; thence southwesterly along the westerly line of Main Street to the northerly line of Olive Avenue; thence westerly along the northerly line of Olive Avenue to the westerly line of Fifth Street; thence southerly along the westerly line of Fifth Street to the 0 point of beginning® 2 Ord. 496 Section 3: The Superintendent of streets is hereby authorized and directed to install meters within the parking meter zone hereby established, or hereafter established by the Council, for the purpose of, and in such numbers, and at such places, and of such type , as in his ,judgment may be necessary to the regu.lation,'J control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein, including the reservation of loading zones for commercial vehicles. Section 4: Parking meters installed in parking meter zones shall be installed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces hereinafter described, and each parking meter shall be so constructed and adjusted as to show, when properly operated, a signal • that' the space adjacent to which it is installed is or is not legally in use. Section 5: The Superintendent of Streets shall have lines or markings painted upon the cur& or street adjacent to each parking meter, designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall be parked within said lines or markings. It shall be un- lawful to park any vehicle across any such lines or mark- ings, or to park a vehicle in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings. 3 Ord. 496 Section 6: It shall bevehicle uunlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any registered in his name, or operated or controlled by him$ to be upon any street within the parking meter zone in a space adjacent to which a parking meter is installed for more than twelve consecutive minutes if the parking meter there installed is a twelve minute meter; or for more than sixty consecutive minutes, if the parking meter there installed is a sixty minute meter, or for more than one Hundred twenty 'aonsecutive minutes if the meter there installed is a one hundred twenty minute meter, or for more than five consec— utive hours, if the meter there installed is a five hour meter, or at any time during which the meter is showing a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use -- other than such time as is necessary to operate the meter to show legal parking -- between the hours of nine o 'clock A M a0L six o'clock P M of any day, excepting Sundays and Holidays between October 15 and May 15, and further excepting meters located on streets I within said district other than on Ocean Avenue and on Main Street between Ocean Avenue and Walnut Avenue from May 15 to October 15. Section 7: Parking meters when installed and properly opgnated shall be so adjusted as to show legal parking :as follows: r .(a) 12 MINUTE DETER: To show legal parking during a period of 12 minutes upon and after the deposit therein of a United States one cent coin; (b) 60 MINUTE 'METER** To show legal parking during a period of 12 minutes from and after the deposit 4 Ord. 496 therein of a United States one cent coin, twenty-four minutes upon and after the deposit therein of two United States one cent coins, thirty-six minutes upon and after the deposit therein of three United States one cent coins, forty-eight minutes upon and after the deposit therein of four United States one cent coins, sixty minutes upon and after the deposit therein of five United States one cent coins, or one United States five cent coin; ( c ) 120 MINUTE DIETER: To show legal marking during a period of .twelve minutes from and after the deposit therein of a United States one cent coin, twenty- four mluutes upon and after the deposit therein of two United States one cent coins, thirty-six minutes upon and after the deposit therein of three United States one cent coins, forty-eight minutes upon and after the deposit therein of four United States one cent coins, sixty minutes upon and after the deposit therein of five United States one cent coins, or one United States five cent coin, and one hundred twenty minutes from and after the deposit therein of five United States one cent 1 coins and one United States five cent coin, or two United States five cent coins; (d) 5 HOUR METER: Five hour meter to show legal parking during a period of one hour upon and after the deposit therein of "one United States five cent coin, two hours upon and after the deposit therein of two United 1 5 Ord. 496 • States five cent coins; three hours upon and after the deposit therein of three United States five cent coins; four hours upon and after the deposit therein of four United Stat stcoins, five hours upon and after the deposit therein of five United States five cent coins, or one United States twenty-five cent coin. Payments for the aforesaid amounts for the above periods shall be made for parking in the areas in the parking meter zone set forth hereinabove in accordance with the 'hype of meter installed at each parking spaces Section 8: It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device, or metallic substitute for a one cent or a five cent or a tvaenty-five cent coin of the United States. 0 Section 0: It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to open, or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed pursuant to this ordinance, or to hitch any animals thereto. Section 10: It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police under the direction of the City Council to keep account of all violations of this ordinances (a) He shall keep an account of and report the number of each parkin; meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such 6 Ord. 496 • parking meter is . or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, the date and hour of such violation, the make and state license number of such vehicle, and any other facts a knowledge of which is necessary to a. thorough understanding of the cirdum- stances attending such violation. (b) He shall attach to such vehicle a notice stating that it has been parked in violation of this • ordinance, and instrucLng the owner or operator to report to the City Judge in regard to such violation. The owner or operator may, within twenty-four (24) hours after the time when such noticevas attached to such vehicle, pay to the City Judge, or his duly author- ized deputy, in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of fifty cents (50¢) . 0 (c ) The City Judge may authorize as his deputy to accept the payments, hereinabove in this section mentioned, the Chief of Police of the City of Huntington Beach, or the Police Secretary of the City of Huntington Beach. Section 11: Any person violating any pro-- 0 vision of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be J punishable by a. fine not exceeding Three hundred Dollars ($300.00) , or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of Orange, for a period not exceed- ing three (3) months, pr by both fine and imprisonment. The provisions of this paragraph are subject to the provisions of Section 10 of this ordimnce. 7 Ora. 496 • Section 12: The amount of the coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided herein, is hereby levied and assessed as a fee to provide for the proper regulation, bontrol, and inspection of traffic upon the public streets, and to cover the cost of sup- ervising,regulating, and inspecting the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zone provided for herein; the cost of placing and maintaining lines or marking, designating ng parking spaces in parking meter zone, and the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection; inspection, installation, operation, maintenance , con- trol, and use of the parking meters installed hereunder, and the special fund in iv^hich such fees shall be placed shall be devoted exclusively to those purposes. Section 13: It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to designate some person or persons to make regular collections of the money deposited in said parking meters, and to deliver the money to the City Treasurer, and it shall also be the duty of the City Treasurer to count the money and place it in a special fund to be known as the "Parking Meter Fund", which fund shall be used exclusively for the purposes specified in Section 12. Such person or persons making such collections shall be bonded in the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to insure the faithful performance of his or their duties. 8 0 Ord. 496 • Section 14: It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets to maintain signs in the various areas within the parking meter zone , indicating the type of meter there installed and the days and hours during which the parking meters are in operation. Such signs may either be on separate sign posts, or painted on the curbs, or fastened n to the parking meters, in the discretion of the Superintendent of Streets. • Section 15: This ordinance shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary to, and not in conflict with, nor a repeal of existing ordinance of this City, but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of traffic and parking in the parking meter zone provided for herein. Section 16: If any section, part of section, • sentence, clause, or pose of this ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining provisions hereof shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. Section 17: All ordinances or parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with the pro— visions of this ordinance are here 3* repealed. r _ Section 18: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach News , a weekly newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the City of Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, and thirty days after r 9 Ord. 496 • the adoption hereof the same shall take effect and be in force. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California, a regular meeting thereof held on the day of , 1946. MAYOR ~T•v Ci y Clerk • 10 Ord, 496 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) County of Orange ) 88 City of Huntington Beach 0 I , C. R. FURR, the duly elected, qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, is five; that the foregoing Ordinance was first read to said City Counc at a regular meeting thereof held on the 4 day of _ , 1946, and was again read to said City Counc regular meeting thereof held on the _/ _ day of 1946, and was passed and adopted by the of2attivote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council as follows: AYES: Councilmen: r NOES: Councilmen: / ABSENT: Councilmen: City Clerk and ex-officidl-Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California. 1 11