HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 359 2007 1003ORDINANCE NO. 359
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 12.16.010 AND
12.16.140 OF CHAPTER 12.16, PARKS, OF TITLE 12,
STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES, OF
THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, Chapter 12.16 of Title 12 of the Moorpark Municipal Code sets forth
the requirements for City Parks; and
WHEREAS, the City Council determined that Section 12.16.010 (Hours of
operation) and Section 12.16.140 (Requirement and enforcement of park rental permits)
should be amended to further clarify the Municipal Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City of Moorpark Municipal Code, Section 12.16.010, Chapter
12.16, Parks, Title 12, Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places, shall be amended in its
entirety to read as follows:
12.16.010 Hours of operation.
No person shall enter or remain in any public park, public open space or public
recreation grounds from dusk to six (6:00) a.m.
The City of Moorpark Municipal Code, Section 12.16.1.40, Chapter 12.16, Parks,
Title 12, Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places, shall be amended in its entirety to read
as follows:
12.16.140 Requirement and enforcement of park rental permits.
The city rents portions of its parks and park facilities. The city has the ability to
issue and enforce park and facility rental permits. No person shall interfere with
an authorized permitted rental of a city park or park facility. No person or group
shall hold a gathering at a city park which exceeds fifty (50) people in attendance
without first obtaining a permit for such gathering from the City. No person or
entity shall engage in any for - profit activity or filming of any kind, with the
exception of filming by an individual when such activities are not for commercial
purposes and are for personal use, in any City Park without first obtaining a
permit from the City, regardless of the size of the activities or number of
participants.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part of portion
of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance. The City council declares that it would have adopted this
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Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clauses, phases, part of portion
thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its
passage and adoption.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
ordinance, shall enter this ordinance in the book of original ordinances of the City of
Moorpark, shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of
the proceedings of the City Council at w e me is passed and adopted, and
shall, within fifteen (15) days after pass a and adopti thereof, cause the same to be
published once in the Moorpark Star a daily newspape of the general circu tion, as
defined in Section 6008 of the Gov nment Code, for the ity of Mo park, an which is
hereby designed for the purpose. j
PASSED AND ADOPTED/the 3rd day of October,P07.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
I, Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do
hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing Ordinance No. 359 was
adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a regular meeting held on the 3rd
day of October, 2007, and that the same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Millhouse, Parvin, Van Dam, and Mayor Hunter
NOES: Councilmember Mikos
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 11th day of October, 2007.
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City erk
(seal)