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o Santa Monica, California
TO Mayor and City CounCil
FROM City Staff
SUBJECT An Ordmance 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
Introduction
At Its meeting on Apn113, 1999, the City CounCil mtroduced for first reading an ordinance
amending Santa Monica MUnicipal Code Section 3 04 050 and repealing MUnicipal Code
Sections 3 04 060 and 3 04 090 relating to parkmg In public parking lots The ordinance
IS now presented to the City CounCil for adoption
Recommendation
It IS respectfully recommended that the accompanYing ordinance be adopted
PREPARED BY
Marsha Jones Moutne, City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 4-27-99
Santa MOnica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1941
(City Council Senes)
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 eXltmg the lot If an attendant IS then on
duty. If a vehicle IS parked In an attended public 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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B 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
o 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
(538 00)
SECTION 2 MUniCipal Code Sections 3 04 060 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 Ordmance
SECTION 4 If any section, subsectton, 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 remalnmg
portions of this OrdInance The CIty Council 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 of the 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 Ordmance The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once m the official
newspaper WIthin 15 days after Its adoption ThIs OrdInance shall become effective 30
days from ItS adoption
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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MARSHA J~ES MOUTR1E
City Attorney
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4m O'Connor, Mayor
State of CalIfornIa )
County of Los Angeles) S5
CIty of Santa MOllica )
1. Mana M Stewart. CIty Clerk of the CIty of Santa Moruca. do hereby certIfy that the
foregoIng Ordmance No 1941 (CCS) had Its first readmg on Apnl13. 1999. and was adopted
on Apnl 27. 1999 by the followmg vote
Ayes
CouncIl members
Femstem. Genser, Holbrook, McKeown, O'Connor.
Rosenstem
Noes
CouncIl members
None
Abstam
CouncIl member~
None
Absent
Council members
None
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Mana M Stewart, CIty Clerk