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ORDINANCE NO. 3099
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH QRTIINANCE CODE BY
AMENDING CHAPTER 10.20, PERTAINING TO PROHIBITED
AREAS FOR VEHICLES AND SKATEBOARDS
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
hereby ordain as follows :
SECTION 1: Huntington Beach Municipal Code Chapter
10 . 20, Section 10 .20.010 relating to protruding loads, and
Huntington Beach Municipal Code Chapter 10 .20, Section
10.20 .030 relating to skateboards are hereby repealed.
SECTION 2 : Section 10 .20 . 040 of Chapter 10 .20 of the
Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows :
10 . 20 , 040 Skateboards and Roller Skates - Definitions .
(a) A "business district" is defined for purposes of
this section, as any area within the City of
Huntington Beach bordering one side of a local
street or a highway for a distance of at least
600 feet, or bordering both sides of a local
street or a highway for at least 300 feet, where
at least 50 percent of the property is occupied
by buildings in use for business .
(b) Rollerskate and rollerblade shall mean any
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footwear or device which may be attached to the
foot or footwear, to which wheels are attached
and such wheels may be used by the wearer in
moving .
(c) Skateboard shall mean a board of any material,
which has wheels attached to and such wheels may
be used for moving or propulsion.
10 . 20 . 042 Skateboards and Roller Skates
Prohibited Uses .
(a) No person shall use a skateboard, roller blades,
or roller skates in any business district .
(b) No person shall use a skateboard, roller blades,
or roller skates in a manner which creates a
nuisance. For purposes of this section
"nuisance" is defined as any activity which;
1) threatens injury to persons or property;
2) creates an obstruction or presents a
hazard to the free use of public or
private property by pedestrians or
motorists; or
3) generates loud or unreasonable noise.
(c) The City Council may, from time to time,
designate certain areas for skateboard use. Such
areas shall be designated by resolution of the
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City Council and posted with signs which are
consistent with the standards for signs utilized
by the Department of Public Works .
SECTION 3 . The City Council finds after listening to
the public comments reporting the great dangers and personal
injury resulting from skateboard use in business districts that
the prohibitions contained in this ordinance are urgently
required to protect the health and safety of the city' s
citizens from the current intermix of skateboards and the
pedestrians on our city' s sidewalk.
We therefore find that we must pass this ordinance as an
emergency ordinance pursuant to the City Charter, section 501.
SECTION 4 . This ordinance shall take effect immediately
after adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 15TH
day of April , 1991.
- - Mayor
ATTES : APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk y/6-4/City Attorney
7RZWE VD A VED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Adm nis rator
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Emergency Ord, No. 3099
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )'
I CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of
the City Council of the said City, do herby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was read to the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the
15th day of April 19- 91 , and was passed and adopted by
at least four-fifths (4/5) affirmative votes of said City Council .
AYES: Councilmembers:
MacAllister,_ Winchell, Silva, Green, Kelly, Robitaille. Moulton-Patterson
NOES: Councilmembers:
None
ASSENT: Councilmembers:
None
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of the City Council of the City
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