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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #1490 ORDINANCE NO. 1490 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING CHAPTER 659 ARTICLES 650, 651, 652 and 654 RELATING TO PARKING METER ZONES AND METER ENFORCEMENT AND AMENDING CHAPTER 63, ARTICLE 633, SECTION 6332 (c) RELATING TO LOADING ZONES The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Sections 6511, 6512, 6512.1, 6512.2 and 6512.3, Article 651, Chapter 65 of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code and Sections 6525 and 6526.4, Article 652, Chapter 65 of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Sections 6500, 6500.1, 6500.6 of Article 650, Chapter 65, of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code are hereby amended to read as follows: 6500. DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as herein set forth, unless the provisions of the context otherwise require. 6500.1. PARKING METER ZONES. Means those certain areas within the city within which the parking of vehicles upon streets or city-owned or leased land shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with the aid of timing devices and meters, herein referred to as "parking meters" or "meters". (496, 609. ) 6500.6 DIRECTOR. Means the Director of Harbors, Beaches and Development of the "City of Huntington Beach. SECTION 3. Article 651 of Chapter 65 of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby amended by adding thereto, Sections 6510 6511 and 6512 to read as follows: 6510. ESTABLISHMENT OF PARKING METER ZONES. Parking meter zones may be established and determin5dy resolution of the city council and parking of vehicles within any such zone shall be as provided in this chapter. 1. 6511. COUNCIL TO PRESCRIBE METER OPERATION. The parking time allowed following deposit of suc coins as provided in this Chapter, the hours during which such deposits are required, and the directions which shall appear on the parking meters, shall be such as may be prescribed by the Council, by resolution. (496,592) 6512. VARIED PARKING METER TIMES. When the City Council designates the parking times a owe o lowing deposit of such coins as provided in this chapter and more than one (1) parking time is so designated, the Director may place the meters in such locations within the zone as he shall deem proper and consistent with the intention of the City Council. SECTION 4. Sections 6521, 6522, 6522.1 and 6523 of Article 652, Chapter 65, is hereby amended to read as follows: 6521. INSTALLATION OF PARKING METERS. The Director, when directed by the council, shall cause to a installed upon such streets or portions thereof or city owned or leased land within the parking meter zones, adjacent to each designated parking space, such parking meters as shall have ben approved by the council (496, 582, 609) 6522. SIGNS FOR METERS. It is the duty of the Department of Public Works to maintain signs in the various areas within the parking meter zones, indicating the type of meter there installed and the days and hours during which the parking meters are in operation. 6522.1. LOCATION OF SIGNS. Such signs may either be on separate posts, painted on the curbs, or fastened to the parking meters, in the discretion of the Department of Public Works . (496) 6523. SPACES FOR PARKING. The Department of Public Works shall have lines or markings painted upon the curbs, streets or area adjacent to each parking meter, desi nating the parking space for which said meter is to be used. (6095 SECTION 5. Sections 6541.3 and 6542 of Article 654, Chapter 65 of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code are hereby amended to read as sollows: 6541.3. PAYMENT. The owner or operator may, within twenty-four (24) ours after the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle pay to the judge of a court of competent juris- diction, or his duly authorized deputy, in full satisfaction for such violation, the sum of two dollars ($2.00) in a business parking meter zone, the sum of five dollars ($5.00) in a residential parking meter zone, the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in a recreation parking meter zone. I 2. 6542. VIOLATION: MAXIMUM PENALTY. Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any resolution adopted pursuant to this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of a, misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a, fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) , or by imprisonment in the county jail of the County of Orange, for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment . SECTION 6 . Section 6332 (c) of Article 633, Chapter 63 of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby amended to read. as follows : 6332 (c) . White shall mean no stopping, standing or park- ing for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 6: 00 A.M. and. 6:00 P.M. of any day including Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, and except as follows : (1) When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a, mailbox, the restrictions shall apply at all times . (2) When such zone is in front of a theater or church, the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater or church is closed . SECTION 7. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter or any part thereof is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining por- tions of this chapter or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed. each section, subsection, sub- division, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitution- al. SECTION 8 . The provisions of these sections insofar as they are substantially the same as existing provisions of the 3 • Huntington Beach Ordinance Code relating to the same subject shall be construed as restatements and. continuations and not as new enactments . SECTION 9. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause same to be published within fifteen days after adoption in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly news- paper of general circulation, printed. and. published. in Huntington Beach, California. SECTION 10. Upon the effective date of this ordinance, Ordinance No . 1491 is hereby repealed . PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a, regular meeting thereof held on the 7th day of April, 1969. Ma, o r ATTEST: Cit erk APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney 4. Ord. No . STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I , PAUL C . JONES, the duly elected, qualified, and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex officio Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 17th day of March , 1969 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 7th day of April , 19 69 , and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council . AYES : Councilmen: Shipley, Bartlett, McCracken, Kaufman, Matney, Green, Coen NOES : Councilmen: None ABSENT : Councilmen: None City Clerk and officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California 1, PAUL C. JONES, CITY CLERK of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council, do hereby certify that this ordinance has been blished i the Huntington Beach New n 19 .. In ac ce with he City Ch ter of said City. City Clerk Deputy City Clerk