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city council Meeting 4-27-93
Santa Monica, California
STAFF REPORT
TO:
Mayor and City Council
SUBJECT:
city Attorney
Ordinance Amending Santa Monica Municipal Code
Sections 3.12.590, 3.12.610, and 3.20.020
to Prohibit the Use of Roller Skates, Whether
In Line or conventional, within the Bayside
District Area of Downtown Santa Monica and to
Permit the Use of Bicycles and Skates by
Public Safety Personnel
FROM:
At its meeting on September 15, 1992, the City Council
directed the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance prohibiting
the use of roller skates and roller blades wi thin the Bayside
District of Downtown Santa Monica and to permit the use of
bicycles and skates by public safety personnel. In response to
this direction, the accompany ordinance has been prepared and is
presented to the City council for its consideration.
The accompanying ordinance amends Municipal Code sections
3.12.590, 3.12.610, and 3.20.020 as follows:
Section 3.12.590. This section has been amended to add use
of roller skates to the list of activities prohibited in
designated areas, as well as to expand the areas within which
these activities are prohibited to include the Bayside District
of Downtown Santa Monica. This district is defined as that area
bounded by First Court on the west, Wilshire Boulevard on the
north, Fourth Court on the east, and Broadway on the south. In
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addition, a subsection has been added to provide that public
safety personnel may operate roller skates in the Bayside
District in the performance of their duties.
section 3.12.610. This section has been amended to add the
use of roller skates to the list of prohibited activities in
pUblic parking structures, excluding pUblic safety personnel who
may use roller skates in the performance of their duties.
section 3.20.020. This section has been amended to provide
that despite licensing requirements which require bicyclists to
stay off of sidewalks in the city and where elsewhere prohibited,
public safety personnel are allowed to operate bicycles in these
areas when they are engaged in the performance of their assigned
duties.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be introduced for first reading.
PREPARED BY: Joseph Lawrence, Acting city Attorney
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city Council Meeting 4-27-93
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 3.12.590, 3.12.610, AND 3.20.020
TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF ROLLER SKATES, WHETHER
IN LINE OR CONVENTIONAL, WITHIN THE BAYSIDE
DISTRICT AREA OF DOWNTOWN SANTA MONICA AND TO
PERMIT THE USE OF BICYCLES AND SKATES BY
PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 3.12.590 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION
3.12.590.
skateboardsL
Roller Skates -- Prohibited Areas.
(a) No person shall operate, ride,
or propel himself or herself by means of
a skateboard or roller skates of any
kind, including in line and conventional
skates, over or upon any portion of that
area described as the Bayside District of
Downtown Santa Monica, ln or upon the
Palisades Park, a public park, or in or
upon Library property.
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(b) Notwithstanding the above,
public safety personnel are authorized to
operate or use roller skates in the
above-described areas in the performance
of their assigned duties.
(c) For purposes of this Section,
the Bayside District of Downtown Santa
Monica is defined as follows: the area
bounded by First Court on the west,
Wilshire Boulevard on the north, Fourth
Court on the east, and Broadway on the
south.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 3.12.610 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.12.610. Ska~eboards and
Roller Skates Prohibited in PUblic
Parking structures.
(a) No person shall operate, ride,
or propel himself or herself by means of
a skateboard or roller skates of any
kind, including in line or conventional
skates, over or upon any portion of any
public parking structure located in the
city of Santa Monica, including but not
limited to those owned by the City of
Santa Monica and the Parking Authority of
the city of Santa Monica.
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(b) Notwithstanding the above,
public safety personnel are authorized to
operate or use roller skates in the
above-described areas in the performance
of their assigned duties.
SECTION 3. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 3.20.020 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3.20.020. License
Application.
(a) Any person desiring to operate
or use a bicycle upon any of the streets
of the City shall apply therefor to the
City Clerk or bicycle retailer
(authorized agent) who shall record the
name and address of the owner thereof and
a description of said bicycle. The City
Clerk or authorized agent shall issue the
license requested upon payment by the
applicant of the fee herein required.
Said license when issued shall entitle
the licensee to operate said bicycle for
which said license has been issued upon
all the streets, exclusive of the
sidewalks thereof or elsewhere prohibited
in the City.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing,
public safety personnel are authorized to
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operate bicycles upon all of the streets,
as well as upon public sidewalks, the
Third street Promenade, the Bayside
District of Downtown Santa Monica, and
anywhere else where in their opinion
bicycles are needed, necessary or
appropriate for the performance of their
assigned duties.
SECTION 4. 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, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 5. 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
remaining 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 6. 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
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within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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