ORD-10-81 REQUIRES EMERGENCY OVERRIDE CONTROL DEVICES FOR ALL MECHANICAL PARKING GATES IN CONTROLLED VEHICLE PARKING AREAS AND ON PRIVATE STREETSORDINANCE NO. 10-
81 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING
CHAPTER 15.52 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY ADDING SECTION 15.52.125 TO
RE-QUIRE EMERGENCY OVERRIDE
CONTROL DEVICES FOR ALL MECHANICAL
PARKING GATES IN CONTROLLED VEHICLE
PARKING AREAS AND ON PRIVATE
STHEETS.WHEREAS, mechanical parking gates are often used as ameansofcontrollingaccesstoorfromvehicleparkingareasandprivatestreets;
and WHEREAS, the installation of a master key-operated emergency override control switch on each mechanical parking
gate will provide Fire and Police emergency vehicles withimmediateaccessintocontrolledvehicleparkingareasandprivatestreetswithoutdamagingthemechanicalgatesortheemergency
vehicles; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined thattheemergencyoverridecontroldevicesonmechanicalparkinggatesaresuchasignificantsafetyfeaturethatthisOrdinanceshallhaveretro-active, as well as
prospective, effect.NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OFORANGEDOESORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:Chapter 15.52 of the Orange Municipal Code isherebyamendedbyaddingSection15.52.125 to read
as follows:15.52.125. Mechanical Parking Gates - Emergency Override Control Devices Required. Except
as otherwise provided in this Section, owners
or operators of controlled vehicle parking
areas and private streets which use mechanicalparkinggatestocontrolmotorvehicleingressoregressshallinstallandmaintainanemergency
override control device on each gate. Said device
shall be a master key-operated type switch
which shall comply with City of Orange
standards. Provisions of this Section shall not apply to
a vehicle parking area or private street when
emergency or other public service vehicles have
immediate access to said parking area or private streetwithoutdelay.Except as otherwise provided in
this Section,emergency override control devices shallberequiredforallsaidmechanicalparkinggateswhetherornotsaidgateswereinstalledbeforeoraftertheeffect-ive date of
this
SECTION II:
This Ordinance shall be published once within fifteen (15) daysafteritspassageintheOrangeCityNews, a newspaper of generalcirculation, published and circulated in the City of Orange, and
shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of its
final passage.
ADOPTED this 23rd day of June
WITNESS my hand and seal this 23rd day of June 1981.
1981.
ATTEST:
auh Ji!- ~CITYCLE~T' cr Y OF ORANGE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY
OF ORANGE ss CITY
OF ORANGE I,
MARILYN J. JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, Cali-fornia,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was intro-duced
at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day
of June , 1981, and thereafter at a regular meeting of said
City Council duly held on the 23rd day of June , 1981,was
duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:AYES:
COUNCILMEN: Barrera, Smith, Mayor Beam, Perez, Beyer NOES:
COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN: None jL
9J1~.
J -MarilY~Jense. ~CITY
CLERK OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE 2-liiii......
ORMJGE CITY NEWS
PUBLICATION DATE: t\Tednesday, 7 -1'-81
LEGAL NOTICE
ORDINANCE NO. 10-
81 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE
AMENDING CITY OF
ORANGE CHAPTER 15.52 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING
SECTION 15.52.125 TO REQUIRE EMERGENCY OVERRIDE CONTROL DEVICES FOR
ALL MECHANICAL PARKING GATES IN CONTROLLED VEHICLE PARKING
AREAS AND ON PRIVATE
STREETS.Original on file in the City Clerk's
Dept.)
SYNOPSIS:Ordinance No. 10-81 amends the Orange Municipal
Code to require emergency override control devices
for all mechanical parking gates in controlled
vehicle parking areas and on
private streets.ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Orange at
a regular meeting held Tuesday June 23, 1981, by the
following vote:AYES: COUNCILMEN: BARRERA, SMITH, MAYOR BEAM,
PEREZ, BEYER NOES:
COUNCILMEN: NONE ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN: NONE Marilyn J. Jensen,
City Clerk feet to the true point of
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