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City council Meeting 12-8-92
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1658(CCS}
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING CHAPTER 3.16 OF THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING PARKING METERS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
section 3.16.060 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.060.
Parking Meter.
The
words "parking meter" shall mean and include
any mechanical or electronic deVIce or meter
erected for the regulation of parking by
authority of this Chapter.
SECTION 2.
Section 3.16.45 IS added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.45.
In-vehicle parkinq
Requlator.
The words "in-vehicle parkinq
regulator"
shall mean and
include
any
mechanical or electronic device or meter which
is properly obtained for rental or lease from
the city and which is used, placed or attached
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inside a motor vehicle for the requlation of
parkinq by authority of thlS Chapter.
SECTION 3. section 3.16.125 ~s added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.125. Rental, Lease and
Maintenance of In-Vehicle Parking Requlators.
The parkinq and Traffic Enqineer shall be
responsible for the rental, lease and
maintenance of in-vehicle parking regulators.
The City council by resolutlon shall approve
rules and requlations as necessary for the
rental, lease, use and malntenance of 1n-
vehicle parkinq requlators.
SECTION 4. section 3.16.120 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.120. operation of Parking
Meters. When any vehicle shall be parked in
any metered parking space, the operator
immediately shall deposit the required coin in
the manner prescribed on the parking meter
unless the parking meter indicates an
unexpired portion remains of the period for
which coins had been deposited previously, or
the operator immediately has placed into
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operation an in-vehicle parking requlator in
90mpliance with rules and regulations approved
gy the City Councll, or ln a period of
emergency determlned by an officer of the Fire
or Police Department, or ln compliance with
the directions of a police officer or traffic
control sign or signal. In no event shall it
be lawful to park a vehicle in a designated
metered parking space in excess of the maximum
parking time limit set by the Parking and
Traffic Engineer.
SECTION 5. Section 3.16.140 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.140. Funds Derived from
Parking Meters ~nd In-vehicle Parking
Regulators. Sections 3.16.150 and 3.16.160
prescribe the collection of parking meter and
~n-vehicle parking requlator funds.
SECTION 6. Section 3.16.150 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.150. Collection. The
Director of Finance shall be authorized to
make regular collectlons of the money
deposited in the parklng meters and to deliver
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the money to the City Treasurer who shall
count and deposit the funds. The Parking and
Traffic Engineer shall collect fees for rental
or lease of in-vehicle parklnq requlators, and
shall promptly convey all funds collected from
such fees to the city Treasurer who shall
count and deposlt the funds.
SECTION 7. section 3.16.160 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.160. Use of Funds. The
coins deposited in parking meters and the
funds collected from the rental or lease of
in-vehicle parking regulators shall be used to
defray the expense of proper regulation of
traffic upon the public streets of the city;
to provide for the cost of supervision,
regulation and control of the parking of
vehicles in parking meter zones, includinq the
use of in-vehicle parking regulators therein;
and to cover the cost of purchase,
supervision, protection, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control
and use of parking meters and in-vehicle
parklng requlators and may be used for such
other uses as are proper.
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SECTION 8. section 3.16.250 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.250. Violation - Parking
Where Meter Indicates Time Limit is Over. It
is a violation to permit any vehicle to remain
or be placed in any parking space adjacent to
any parking meter while said meter is
displaying a signal indicating that the time
for which coins had been deposited in said
meter has expired, except when an 1n-vehicle
parking regulator IS 1n operation in
compliance wIth thIS Chapter.
SECTION 9. section 3.16.270 of the Santa Monica MunicIpal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.270. Violation - Damaging
Parking Meters or In-Vehicle parking
Regulators. It is a violation to deface,
injure, tamper with, open or willfully break,
alter, destroy, or impair the usefulness of
any parking meter or any in-vehicle parkinq
regulator installed or provided under the
prov1sions of this Chapter.
SECTION 10. section 3.16.265 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
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SECTION 3.16.265. violation - Parking.
It is a violation to display or cause to be
displayed in a motor vehicle, any 1n-vehicle
parking regulator when the t1me remaining in
said requlator has expired, or when said
regulator has been defaced, injured, tampered
with, altered, destroyed or impaired, or when
said requlator is not being used in compliance
with this Code, or to display or cause to be
displayed in a motor vehicle, any false or
imitation device which appears or purports to
be an in-veh1cle parkinq regulator.
SECTION 11. Sect10n 3.16.290 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION
3 .16 . 290 .
Fines.
Notwithstanding any other prov1s1on of this
Code to the contrary, violation of sections
3.04.050, 3.04.070, 3.04.080, 3.04.090,
3.04.100, 3.04.140, 3.04.150, 3.04.160,
3.12.250, 3.12.260, 3.12.270, 3.12.300,
3.12.310, 3.12.370, 3.12.380, 3.12.390,
3.12.400, 3.12.400, 3.12.410, 3.12.420,
3.12.430, 3.12.440, 3.12.460, 3.12.470,
3.12.520, 3.12.530, 3.12.550, 3.12.570,
3.12.620, 3.12.630, 3.12.640, 3.12.650,
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2.13.660, 3.12.770, 3.12.810, 3.12.820,
3.12.830, 3.12.860, 3.12.870, 3.12.880,
3.12.890, 3.12.920, 3.12.930, 3.12.940,
3.12.10000, 3.12.1010, 3.12.1020, 3.16.265, or
former sections 3336 and 3378 of this Code
shall be punishable by the following fines:
1. If court appearance is made or
bail posted within the time set forth in the
notice of violation or notice to appear, not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall
be assessed.
2. If no appearance 1S made nor
required ball posted as set forth in
subsection 1 above, after a warrant of arrest
is issued in the manner required by law, not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall
be assessed.
SECTION 12. Bectlon 3.16.300 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.16.300. Not\vi thstanding any
other provision of this Code to the contrary,
violations of Sections 3.04.020, 3.04.110,
3.04.180, 3.12.330, 3.12.340, 3.12.540,
3.12.580, 3.12.590, 3.12.610, 3.12.730,
3.12.740, 3.12.760, 3.12.780, 3.12.790,
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3.12.840, 3.12.850, 3.12.910, 3.12.1030,
3.12.1040,3.16.240,3.16.250 or 3.16.260 of
this Code shall be punishable by the following
fines:
1. If court appearance is made or
bail posted within the tlme set forth ln the
notice of violation or notice to appear, not
less than ten dollars ($10.00) shall be
assessed.
2. If no appearance 1S made nor
required bail posted as set forth 1n
subsection 1 above, after a warrant of arrest
is issued In the manner required by law, not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall
be assessed.
SECTION 13. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or appendices thereto 1nconsistent \011 th the provisions of this
Ordinance, to the extent of such 1nconsistencies and no further,
are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to affect
the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 14. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or
phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
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remaining portions of the ordinance.
The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed thlS Ordinance and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase not declared
invalid or unconstltutional without regard to whether any portion
of the ordinance would be subsequently declared lnvalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 15.
The Mayor shall slgn and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance.
The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.
The ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from lts adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Acting City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 8th day of December, 1992.
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1 Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1658(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the city
council on the 17th day of November 1992; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City CouncIl on
the 8th day of December 1992 by the following council vote:
Ayes: councilmembers: Abdo, Genser, Greenberg,
Holbrook, Olsen, Rosenstein,
Vazquez
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
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