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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-18-03 Amend 10.30.04- Permit Parking ProgramORDINANCE NO. 18- 03 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING SECTION 10.30.040 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PERMIT PARKING PROGRAM.N"HEREAS, Chapter10.30 of the Orange Municipal Code regulates those areas in the City which are subject to the Neighborhood Parking Pemlit Program; and N"HEREAS, the Orange Police Department has [(mnd that the ordinance as currently written does not provide the authority to address issues of misuse or abuse of the program; and N"HEREAS, the proposed amendments will result in a more efficient and equitable permit program,NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:SECTION I:Chapter 10.30.040 is hereby amended as follows:Permit Parking -Portions of Certain Designated Public Streets -The Neighborhood Parking Permit Program.A. No person shall park a motor vehicle at any time on portions of certain designated public streets unless a valid parking permit is affixed in a manner directed by the Police Department when signs have been posted giving notice thereof. A valid parking permit shall be required to park any motor vehicle on stated portions of any public street designated by resolution of the City Council and on file with the City Clerk. A parking permit and/or visitor' s permit is valid only in the neighborhood parking permit area for which the permit was issued.13. No person shall make, duplicate, reproduce, transfer, sell or give any permit issued for the Neighborhood Parking Permit Program without authorization of the City Council.Nor shall any person distribute or circulate any duplicate, reproduction or copy of any permit issued for the Neighborhood Parking Permit Program. Any violation of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor and any misuse or abuse of the permit may result in its confiscation.C. The program to mitigate the intrusion of college-oriented or other long-term vehicular parking on streets in residential areas to assure that local residents and their guests have convenient parking on streets in proximity to their homes shall be referred to as the Neighborhood D. The City Council may, by resolution" establish additional areas, delete or modify existing areas and set forth qualifications, procedures, fees and other requirements pertinent to the Neighborhood Parking Permit Program_ E. The Chief of Police shall implement and administer the Neighborhood Parking Permit Program including, but not limited to, assuring appropriate signage and the issuance of parking permits. In addition, the Chief of Police shall report to the City Council from time to time, or when requested to do so by the Council, on the implementation of the Program and recommend appropriate measures to improve the ProgranL SECTION II: Should any section, subsection, clause, or provision of this Ordinance for any reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; it being hereby expressly declared that this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof would have been prepared, proposed, approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION III: A summary of this Ordinance 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. A summary of this Ordinance shall also be published once within fifteen (15) days after this Ordinance's passage in a newspaper of general circulation, published, and circulated in the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text of such adopted Ordinan:::e along with the names of those City Council members voting for and against the Ordinan:::e in accordance with Government Code Section 36933. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final passage. ADOPTED this 13th day of January, 2004 1t()t- Mark A. /Murphy, Mayor, Ci fOrange 2 ATTEST: MaryE. M STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF ORANGE ) MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the 9th day of December, 2003, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the 13th day of January, 2004, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: Ambriz, Alvarez" Murphy, Coontz, Cavecche COUNCILMEMBERS: None COUNCILMEMBERS: None COUNCILMEMBERS: None M~~~~~range 3