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BY:
ORDINANCE NO. 311
ITEM 11. A.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, ADDING
SECTION 10.04.205 TO THE MOORPARK
MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE PARKING
OF OVERSIZED VEHICLES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES
HEREBY FIND AS FOLLOWS:
A. California Vehicle Code Section 22507 authorizes
cities to limit or prohibit the parking of vehicles by type
within the City; and
B. Oversized vehicles create public safety issues in that
they can impact passing vehicular traffic, impair visibility of
police, and create access problems for fire and medical
emergency vehicles. They can also create hazards for
pedestrians attempting to cross the street, and emerging into
traffic from behind such vehicles.
SECTION 2. The following section is added to the Moorpark
Municipal Code:
"Section 10.04.205 Parking of oversized vehicles, trailers and
fifth wheels.
(a) No person shall park or leave standing any
oversized vehicle, as further defined herein, upon any
public street or highway in the City designated by City
Council resolution as subject to the provisions of this
section, which designation shall become effective upon
posting of notice of such prohibition, as required by
California Vehicle Code section 22507 and sections
supplementary or amendatory thereto.
(b) For the purpose of this section the term
"oversized vehicle" shall mean any vehicle, as defined by
Section 670 of the Vehicle Code, or combination of
vehicles, which exceeds nineteen (191) feet in length,
seven (7) feet in width, or eight (8) feet in height,
exclusive of projecting lights or devices allowed by
Sections 35109, 35110, or 35112 of the Vehicle Code, as may
be amended.
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(c) The prohibitions contained in paragraph (a) shall
not apply to any commercial vehicles in a residential
district making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and
merchandise from or to any building or structure located on
the restricted streets or highways or for the purpose of
delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide
repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any
building or structure upon the restricted streets or
highways for which a building permit has previously been
obtained.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The
Moorpark City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted
this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one
or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion
may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30)
days after its passage and adoption.
SECTION 5. 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 (15) days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark Star
a 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 16th day of March, 2005.
Patrick Hunter, Mayor
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk
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