ORDINANCE NO 26-0011
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MANHATTAN BEACH AMENDING MANHATTAN BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 3.24 (PARKING METERS) OF TITLE 3 (PUBLIC SAFETY) AND CHAPTER 14.01 (DEFINITIONS) OF TITLE 14 (TRAFFIC) AND ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 14.42 (PAID PARKING) TO TITLE 14 (TRAFFIC) TO MODIFY PAID PUBLIC PARKING REGULATIONS, AND MAKING A DETERMINATION OF EXEMPTION UNDER THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MANHATTAN BEACH DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 3.24 (PARKING METERS) of Title 3 (PUBLIC SAFETY) OF the Manhattan Beach Municipal Code (“Municipal Code”) is hereby amended by renaming Chapter 3.24 to “MERCHANT PARKING PERMITS”.
SECTION 2. Chapter 3.24 (MERCHANT PARKING PERMITS) of Title 3 (PUBLIC SAFETY) of the Municipal Code is hereby amended by repealing the following sections in their entirety and designating those sections as “Reserved”:
3.24.010 – Definitions.
3.24.020 – Penalty.
3.24.030 – Parking meter zones.
3.24.040 – Parking meter rates.
3.24.050 – Deposit of coin.
3.24.060 – Parking meter violations.
3.24.070 – Time limits.
3.24.080 – Use of substitute coins unlawful.
3.24.090 - Repealed.
3.24.095 – Parking fund.
3.24.100 - Repealed.
3.24.110 – Off-street parking meters.
3.24.120 – Issuance of payment of notice of parking violations.
3.24.130 – Special rules and regulations.
3.24.140 – Parking in off-street public parking spaces.
3.24.160 – Parking in publicly-owned or controlled parking lots.
SECTION 3. Chapter 14.03 (DEFINITIONS) of Title 14 (TRAFFIC) of the Municipal Code is hereby amended by deleting Section 14.01.080 (Holidays) in its entirety and designating that section as “Reserved” and adding the following new sections as follows:
“14.01.102 – Operator
Every person who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as agent, employee or permittee of the owner.” “14.01.105 – Paid Parking Device.
Any device used to accept payment for parking, including parking meters, pay stations, web applications, mobile devices, or other methods approved by the City, including any associated signage.” “14.01.125 – Payment.
Any lawful currency of the United States of America, credit cards, debit cards, or any other payment method authorized by the City and designated by the legend of the paid parking device or adjacent signage.” “14.01.155 – Street.
Any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway or other public place located in the City and established for the use of vehicles. Street also includes the definition of street pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 591.” “14.01.158 – Vehicle
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks.” SECTION 4. Title 14 (TRAFFIC) of the Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a new Chapter 14.42 (PAID PARKING), to read as follows:
“Chapter 14.42-PAID PARKING
Sections:
14.42.010 - Paid parking zones.
A. The City Council shall by resolution establish paid parking zones on City owned or controlled on and off-street parking facilities.
B. The regulation of vehicle parking by paid parking devices and the requirement for paid parking in paid parking zones shall become effective upon the installation of paid parking devices, as designated by the City Manager.
C. In the event no paid parking device is installed for a parking space within a designated paid parking zone, the maximum time for parking in any such space shall be that which is permitted or provided for under the provisions of this Code, related resolution, or any other law or regulation of the City.
14.42.020 - Paid parking rates; days and hours of paid parking enforcement; time limits.
The City Council shall by resolution establish the range of paid parking rates, days and hours of paid parking enforcement, and time limits for paid parking zones.
14.42.030 - Payment required.
No person shall park a vehicle within a paid parking zone during such time that payment is required without immediately depositing payment with a paid parking device, except during such time as is reasonably necessary to initiate a parking session for such vehicle or as otherwise permitted by this title, unless the paid parking device indicates at the time such vehicle is parked that an unexpired portion remains of the period of time for which a payment has previously been deposited.
14.42.040 - Paid parking violations.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any person to do the following:
A. Attach or allow to lean against a paid parking device any bicycle, news rack, fabric, handbill, flier, sticker, note, or other object.
B. Deposit or cause to be deposited a payment in a paid parking device for the purpose of extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal maximum time for parking which has been established within a paid parking zone or space.
C. Cause or allow any vehicle to remain parked or left standing in any time-limit parking zone or space for a period longer than the posted time limit whether or not paid parking is required.
D. Cause or allow any vehicle, after receiving a notice of violation for failure to deposit payment under Section 14.42.030, to remain stopped, parked, or left standing within a paid parking zone or space beyond the maximum time limit established for that paid parking zone or space, measured from the time the initial notice of violation was issued. A separate violation of this provision shall occur each and every period during which such violation exists.
E. Re-park a vehicle within the same paid parking zone in order to extend the vehicle's parking time beyond the maximum parking limit limits established for the specific paid parking zone. For purposes of this section, a vehicle shall be deemed "re-parked" and in violation hereof if a vehicle is parked in any public parking space within the same paid parking zone during a set “time-out” period as established by resolution of the City Council, which begins after the maximum posted time limit as measured from the time the vehicle is first parked within the paid parking zone. A separate violation of this provision shall occur each and every time a vehicle is re-parked in violation of this section.
F. Make a payment or cause to make a payment in any paid parking device with any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin, any counterfeit currency of the United States of America, or any currency for any other country other than the United States of America, or any other unlawful electronic transaction.
G. Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any paid parking device or related signage.” SECTION 5. The City Council hereby finds that the Ordinance is not a "project under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) because the Ordinance does not involve any commitment to a specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment, as contemplated by CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4). Furthermore, the City Council hereby finds that there is no possibility that the Ordinance may have a significant effect on the environment pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because imposing regulations on public parking authorized by this Ordinance will not result in a permanent alteration of property nor the construction of any new or expanded structures or other direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. The Ordinance is an administrative process and regulates the manner in which vehicles are parked on public property.
SECTION 6. Any provisions of the Municipal Code, or appendices thereto, or any other ordinances of the City, to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Ordinance, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 8. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and operation 30 days after its final passage and adoption.
SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and cause a summary of this Ordinance to be published as provided by law. The summary shall be published and a certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk at least five (5) days prior to the City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be adopted. Within fifteen (15) days after the adoption of this Ordinance, the City Clerk shall cause a summary to be published with the names of those City Council members voting for and against this Ordinance and shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance along with the names of those City Council members voting for and against the Ordinance.
ADOPTED October 6, 2026.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
JOE FRANKLIN
Mayor
ATTEST:
LIZA TAMURA
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
QUINN M. BARROW
City Attorney
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