4326ORDINANCE NO. 4326
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM REPEALING
TITLE 4, CHAPTER 4.75, SECTION 4.75.070 AND
ENACTING A NEW TITLE 4, CHAPTER 4.75, SECTION
4.75.070 PERTAINING TO TOWING OR IMPOUNDING
VEHICLES FROM PRIVATE PROPERTY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That Title 4, Chapter 4.75, Section 4.75.070 be, and
the same is hereby, repealed.
SECTION 2.
That Title 4, Chapter 4.75, Section 4.75.070, is
hereby added to the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as follows:
"4.75.070 NOTIFICATION
Before authorizing a tow service to remove
any illegally parked vehicle from private property,
the owner or person in lawful possession of the
private property must notify the Anaheim Police
Department of:
.010 The name, address and phone number of
the person authorizing removal of the illegally parked
vehicle from private property,.
.020 The location of the private property
.from which the vehicle is to be removed.
.030 The name, address and telephone number
of the location where the vehicle is to be stored.
.040 The license number, vehicle identification
number, model and color of the vehicle to be removed.
.050 The name and address of the person report-
ing the private property impound.
.060 The owner, or in the case of an apartment
or condominium, the association may designate an agency
to enforce the provisions of this ordinance. The person,
partnership or corporation so designated shall file with
the Police Department a copy of the agreement delegating
the responsibility to enforce the provisions of this
ordinance to said person, partnership or corporation with
the Anaheim Police Department Traffic Division. However,
such agency designated may not be made to any owner,
operator, or employee of any towing company.
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It is the responsibility of the permittee and
his tow service operator to ensure that the Anaheim Police
Department is notified by the owner or person in lawful
,. possession of the private property prior to the tow service
operator removing any illegally parked vehicle. The person
authorizing the impound must be physically present to
authorize the impound. The permittee will within 48 hours,
Saturday -Sunday and Holidays excepted, deliver to the
Anaheim Police Department Traffic Bureau a copy of the signed
authorization."
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby
declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word
of this chapter of the Code 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 chapter
independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as
may be declared invalid.
SECTION 4.
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, printed, 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 20th day of April,
1982.
ATTEST:
CITY L.FRK OF THE ITY OF ANAHEIM
FAL:jh
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance No. 4326 was introduced at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 13th day of April,
1982, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of
said City Council held on the 20th day of April, 1982, by the following
vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Overholt, Kaywood, Bay, Roth and Seymour
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSED?T: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Ordinance No. 4326 on the 20th day of April, 1982.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of the City of Anaheim this 20th day of April, 1982.
CITYL� ERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4326 aid was published once
in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 30th day of April, 1982.