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City Council Meeting 4-27-99
Santa MOnica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1941
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 304050 AND REPEALING
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 3 04.060 AND 3.04.090
RELATING TO PARKING IN PUBLIC PARKING LOTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS
SECTION 1 Santa MOnica MUnicipal Code Section 3 04 050 IS hereby amended
to read as follows
Section 3.04.050 Payment of posted fee required.
A. Parking Lots with Attendants No person shall park a vehicle In
a public parking lot With an attendant on duty unless he or she has paid the
posted parking fee and displayed the receipt for payment on the vehicle
Any person who parks In an attended parking lot when no attendant IS on
duty shall pay the parking fee when eXiting the lot If an attendant IS then on
duty If a vehicle IS parked In an attended pu blic lot Without a parking receipt,
It shall be presumed that the vehicle entered the parking lot when there was
no attendant on duty
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8 Parking Lots with Pay and Display Machines. No person shall
park a vehicle In a publiC parking lot With a Pay and Display Machine unless
he or she has paid the posted parking fee and displayed the receipt
reflecting payment on the vehicle
C. Parking Lots with Honor Boxes. No person shall park a vehicle
In a public parking lot With an Honor Box unless he or she has deposited the
posted parking fee In the slot designated for the space In whIch the vehicle
IS parked
D. Removal of Parking Receipts Prohibited No person shall
remove a parking receIpt from another's vehIcle In a public parking lot.
E Penalty Any person vlolatmg this Section shall be gUilty of an
Infraction, which shall be pUnishable by a fine of Thirty-Eight Dollars
($38 00).
SECTION 2. MuniCipal Code SectIons 3 04060 and 3 04 090 are hereby repealed
SECTION 3 Any provIsion of the Santa Monica MUnicipal Code or appendices
thereto inconsistent With the provIsions of thiS Ordinance, to the extent of such
inCOnsistencies and no further, IS hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to
effect the proVIsIons of thIS Ordinance.
SECTION 4 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
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of competent JUriSdiction, such decIsion shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance The City Cou nC11 hereby declares that It would have passed this
Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion ofthe ordinance
would be subsequently declared Invalid or unconstitutional
SECTION 5 The Mayor shall sign 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 This Ordina nce shall become effective 30
days from Its adoption
APPROVED AS TO FORM
MARSHA J~ES MOUTRIE
City Attorney
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p\.no.connor. ~ayor
State of Cahforma )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
CIty of Santa Momca )
I. Mana M Stewart. CIty Clerk of the CIty of Santa MOllIca, do hereby certIfy that the
foregomg Ordmance No 1941 (CCS) had Its fIrst readmg on Apnl13. 1999. and was adopted
on Apnl 27. 1999 by the followmg vote
Aves
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CouncIl members
Femstem. Genser, Holbrook, McKeown, O'Connor,
Rosenstem
Noes
CouncIl members
None
Abstam
CouncIl member"
None
Absent
CouncIl members
None
ATTEST ~
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