ORDINANCE NO. 23-___
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 12.64.200, 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 25th day of April 2023.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
DATE: __________________________
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 23-__ was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 11th day of April 2023. That thereafter, said ordinance was duly passed and adopted at the regular meeting of the City Council on the 25th day of April 2023, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 23- and was published in The Signal newspaper in accordance with State Law (G.C. 40806).
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CITY CLERK
EXHIBIT A:
REDLINED PRIOR
ORDINANCE
Chapter 12.08
DEFINITIONS
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 Hhighway, 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 Lloading Zzone” 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 Vvehicle loading Loading zoneZone” 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.
“Highway” means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes every way set apart for public travel except bridle trails and footpaths. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89) any public 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.
“Officer” or “police officer” “Enforcement Officer” means a sworn public safety officer authorized to conduct law enforcement activities in the City, whether that officer is a member of the City Police Department or County Sheriff Department or any City employee or agent with the authority to enforce any provision 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. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.08.110 Parkway.
“Parkway” means that portion of a Hhighway other than a roadway or a sidewalk. (Ord. 89-12, 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 Hhighway 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 Hhighway 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 or Hhighway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)
12.64.200 Vehicles Parked on Highway for More Than Over 72 Consecutive Hours—Removal by Police.
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 Highway in 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 Oofficer may cause the o removal ofe to a safe place every Vvehicle which has been parked or left standing upon a Hhighway for more than 72 or more consecutive hours to a safe place.
B. For the purposes 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 (150) 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 present, then measured from the lot line or boundary of the lot abutting its original stopped position.
C. For the purpose of this section, “ enforcement officer” means an enforcement officer as defined in this section.
D. For the purpose of this section, “highway” means a highway as defined in section
13.04.100 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code.
BC. As used in this section, the words “safe place” include, but are not confined to, any garage, parking lot or open space owned by, maintained by or under the jurisdiction of the City, and also every privately-owned garage the owner or proprietor of which will accept such Vvehicle. (Ord. 89-12, 6/27/89)