4689ORDINANCE NO. 4689
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING NEW SECTION 14.20.080
TO CHAPTER 14.20 OF TITLE 14 OF THE ANAHEIM
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION
OF CRUISING
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That new Section 14.20.080 prohibiting cruising on certain
designated streets be, and the same is hereby, added to Chapter
14.20 of Title 14 of the Anaheim Municipal Code, to read as
follows:
"14.20.080 CRUISING PROHIBITED
.010 It is unlawful for anyone to participate in
cruising upon any of the following designated highways in the
City of Anaheim:
1. State College Boulevard between Lincoln Avenue
and Wagner Street.
2. Santa Ana Street between East Street and State
College Boulevard.
3. Shepard Street between La Palma Avenue and
Carpenter Avenue.
4. Carpenter Avenue from Shepard Street east to
the end of Carpenter Avenue.
5. Any other highway as designated by the Chief of
Police or person assigned by him to designate such
locations.
A violation of this section is hereby declared to be an
infraction.
.020 The term "cruising" as used in this section
means driving a motor vehicle upon any portion of a highway
past a designated traffic control point a third time within
any two-hour period, after having driven past said designated
traffic control point twice within the same two-hour period
and having been given written notice regarding the prohibition
against cruising after passing the control point on at least
one previous occasion within said two-hour period.
Said designated traffic control points may be established at
one or more locations upon any highway designated in Subsection
.010 above where the ranking peace officer on duty in the area
determines, in his or her sole discretion, that conditions of
traffic congestion in the area so warrant.
Any person driving a motor vehicle past a designated traffic
control point more than three times within any two-hour period
shall be guilty of a separate infraction for each occasion said
vehicle is driven past such traffic control point in excess of the
third time within such two-hour period.
.030 The word "highway" as used in this section
shall mean the same as defined in Section 360 of the
California Vehicle Code.
.040 The term "motor vehicle" as used in this
section shall mean the same as defined in Section 415 of the
California Vehicle Code.
.050 The prohibition against cruising as used in
this section does not apply to:
a. An employee of the City of Anaheim or any
other local, state or federal governmental agency
when driving a motor vehicle while engaged in the
performance of his or her official duties.
b. Any person driving an ambulance, taxicab
or other business vehicle when being driven within
the course and scope of normal business activities.
C. Any person whose residence or place of
employment is either located upon property
immediately contiguous to, or is directly provided
with access from, any highway designated in
Subsection.010 above, or any person who has no other
alternate means of motor vehicular access to his or
her residence or place of employment other than by
the use of any such highway, when driving a motor
vehicle for purpose of ingress to or egress from
such person's residence or place of employment.
SECTION 2.
SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
ordinance hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be
invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed
all other portions of this ordinance independent of the
elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared
invalid.
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SECTION 3. CERTIFICATION
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within
fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a
newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in said
City, and Thirty (30) days from and after its final passage, it
shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 28th day of January, 1986.
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MAYOR OF THECITY OF HEIM
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 4689 was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 21st day of January, 1986,
and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said
City Council held on the 28th day of January, 1986, by the following vote of
the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Overholt, Bay, Pickler and Roth
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Ordinance No. 4689 on the 28th day of January, 1986.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal
of the City of Anaheim this 28th day of January, 1986.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is i:he original Ordinance No. 4689 and was published once in the
Anaheim Bulletin on the 7th day of February, 1986.
CITY CLERK