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ORDINANCE NO. l659
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA RETITLING
CHAPTER 4 OF ARTICLE IV, RETITLING PARTS 1 AND
2 THEREOF, ADDING DIVISIONS 1 and 2 TO PART 2,
AND RENUMBERING THE SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 4 AND
ADDING A NEW PART 1 PROHIBITING PERSONS AND
VEHICLES IN CITY OWNED OR OPERATED PARKS BE-
TWEEN lO P.M. AND 7 A.M.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section l. That the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended
by amending Chapter 4 of Article IV as follows:
A. The title of Chapter 4 shall read "CITY PARK REGULATIONS."
B. The title to Part 2 of Chapter 4 shall read "WILDERNESS PARK."
C. There is hereby added a Division 1 to aforesaid Part 2, en-
titled "DEFINITIONS" and the following existing sections are
hereby made a part of aforesaid Division 1 and are renumbered
as follows: 4410 to 4421, 44l0.l to 4421.l, 44l0.2 to
442l.2, and 44l0.3 to 442l.3.
D. There is hereby added a Division 2 to aforesaid Part 2,
entitled "REGULATIONS" and the following existing sections
are hereby made a part of aforesaid Division 2 and are re-
numbered as follows: 4420 to 4422, 4420.l to 4422.l, 442l
to 4422.2, and 4422 to 4422.3.
E. There is hereby added a new Part 1 to Chapter 4 of Article
IV to read as follows:
"ARTICLE IV. PUBLIC WELFARE, MORALS AND POLICY
CHAPTER 4. CITY PARK REGULATIONS
PART l. CITY PARKS OTHER THAN WILDERNESS PARK
44l0. NIGHT USE PROHIBITED. No person shall at any
time between lO o'clock P.M. and 7 o'clock A.M. of the
fOllowing day be or remain in or upon or enter either on
foot or by vehicle or drive, operate, stop or be in any
vehicle within any park owned or operated by the City of
Arcadia.
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4ll0.1. PARKING RESTRICTED, TOWAWAY. No person
shall park any vehicle as defined in Section 442l.2 within
any park owned or operated by the City of Arcadia at any
time between the hours of 10 o'clock P.M. and 7 o'clock
A.M. of the following day while signs giving notice thereof
remain posted in said park. Any vehicle parked in violation
of section may be towed away at the owner's expense, provided
that there is posted on each such sign erected pursuant to
this section a notice that vehicles are subject to towaway
and the telephone number of the Arcadia Police Department.
The Public Works Director is hereby authorized to post the
signs specified in this section.
44l0.2. EXCEPTION. The provisions of this Part shall
not apply to Wilderness Park as defined in Section 442l.3
and shall not apply to any employee of the City, or of any
public utility or governmental agency who is required to
commit the acts prohibited by this Part in the course of
his employment.
Section 2. No person shall violate any provision, or fail to
comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person
violating any of the provisions or failing to comply with any of the
mandatory requirements of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under any provision
of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five
Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jailor County Jail
for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and im-
prisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense
for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of
any provision of the ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted
by such person and shall be punishable accordingly.
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Section 3. In addition to the penalties provided in the pre-
ceding Section, any condition caused or permitted to exist in viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a
public nuisance and may be, by the City, summarily abated as such,
and each day such condition continues shall be regarded as a new
and separate offense.
Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent juris-
diction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Arcadia
hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each
section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof
irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or un-
constitutional.
Section 5. Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal
hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution
for violation of 0 d h' h .
r inances, w loC v~olations were committed prior to
the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the
provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such
license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation
thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in
lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to
any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining
shall continue in full force and effect.
Section 6. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the pass-
age and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published in the official newspaper of the City of Arcadia within
fifteen (l5) days after its adoption.
a~~~~~e~ND ~ by the City Council of the City of Arcadia
at its/regular meeting held on the 1st day of November
, 1978.
f Arcadia.
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City
__I HE~EBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at
~dJ ourned . f h C' C . 1 f h C' fA'
aJTegular meetlng 0 t e loty ounCl 0 t e lty 0 rcadla, by
the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Margett, Pellegrino, Saelid and Parry.
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilman Gilb
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of the City of Arcadia.
City Clerk
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