HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 228 1997 0416ORDINANCE NO. 228
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, ADDING ARTICLE V TO
C APT=R 10.04 OF TITLE 10 OF THE MOORPARK
MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION
OF ADMINIBTRATIVE COSTS RELATING TO THE
REMOVAL, IMPOUND, STORAGE AND RELEASE OF
IMPOUNDED VEHICLES
WZZREAS, Vehicle Code section 22850.5 authorizes the City to
adopt an ordinance for the imposition of a charge equal to its
administrative costs relating to the removal, impound, storage or
release of impounded vehicles;
NOR, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Moorpark
does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended by
adding Article V to Chapter 10.04 of Title 10 to read as follows:
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"Article V
Collection of Administrative Fees for Towed Vehicles
"Section 10.04.310 Impounded Vehicles; Administrative Fee
"(a) An administrative fee equal to the administrative
costs incurred by the City relating to the removal, impound,
storage and release of impounded vehicles shall be imposed
on the registered owners of the vehicles or on their agents.
The amount of the administrative fee shall be established by
resolution of the City Council. The administrative fee
shall be paid to the City Manager's designee prior to the
release of the vehicle.
"(b) The administrative fee shall be in addition to
any other charges authorized or imposed pursuant to the
California Vehicle Code.
"(c) For purposes of this section, impounded vehicle
shall not include any vehicle that was towed under an
abatement program or sold at a lien sale pursuant to section
3068.1 to 3074, inclusive, of the California Vehicle Code
and section 22851 of the California Civil Code, or their
successor statutes, unless the sale is sufficient in amount
to pay the lienholder's total charge and the administrative
fee."
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase, part of portion of this ordinance is for any reason held
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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 ordinance and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more section,
subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of
original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the
passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of
the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and
shall, within fifteen 915) days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark
Star, a daily newspaper of general circulation, as defined in
Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark,
and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this
ATTEST:
- Lillian E. Hare, City Clerk
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MOORPARK
799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark, California 93021 (805) 529 -6864
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
I, Lillian E. Hare, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark,
California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 228 was adopted by the
City Council of the City of Moorpark at a meeting held on
the 16th day of APR 1997, and that
the same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:COUNCILMEMBERS EVANS, TEASLEY, WOZNIAK AND MAYOR HUNTER
NOES:NONE
ABSENT: COUNCLMEMBER PEREZ
ABSTAIN: NONE
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 18th day of APRIL , 1997.
Lillian E. Hare
City Clerk
PATRICK HUNTER BERNARDO M. PEREZ CHRISTOPHER EVANS DEBBIE RODGERS TEASLEY JOHN E. WOZNIAK
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