HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 2015 0701 CCSA REG ITEM 11A CITY OF MOORPARK,CALIFORNIA
City Council Meeting
of 7-/-420/6" ITEM 11.A.
ACTION:
t`30. ORDINANCE NO. 434
BY: !„ ,
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 10.04, TRAFFIC
CODE, OF TITLE 10, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, OF
THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE, TO ADD A
PARKING CONTROL OFFICER DEFINITION AND AN
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY SECTION
WHEREAS, parking enforcement is vital to protection of the public's health,
safety, property, and quality of life, including the safe and appropriate use of public
streets for vehicular parking; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is appropriate to amend
Chapter 10.04, Vehicles and Traffic, to define "parking control officer" and provide for
the enforcement authority of such officers; and
WHEREAS, at the regular meeting of June 17, 2015, the City Council introduced
for first reading an ordinance amending Chapter 10.04, and following second reading of
the ordinance at the regular meeting of July 1 , 2015, the Council reached its decision to
adopt the ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (B) of Section 10.04.010 (Definitions) of Article 1
(General Provisions) of Chapter 10.04 (Traffic Code) of Title 10 (Vehicles and Traffic) of
the Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended to add the following new definition in
alphabetical order:
"Parking control officer" means a city employee or volunteer whose
job classification or position is designated by resolution of the city council,
or a Ventura County Sheriffs Department employee or volunteer whose
job classification or position is designated by the city's police chief, as
having the authority to enforce parking restrictions and issue parking
citations for violation of the City's Traffic Code and the Vehicle Code,
provided that all such employees and volunteers shall meet the minimum
training standards set by the City's police chief prior to exercising the
enforcement authority specified in this Article."
SECTION 2. Article 1 (General Provisions) of Chapter 10.04 (Traffic Code) of
Title 10 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended to
add Section 10.04.035, Enforcement Authority, to read as follows:
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"10.04.035 Enforcement Authority.
Violation of any provision of this chapter may be enforced by any
means legally available to the city. Parking control officers are authorized
and empowered to enforce all of the provisions of the city's Traffic Code,
and are hereby granted the authority to issue parking citations and
citations for violation of the city's Traffic Code and the parking restrictions
contained in the Vehicle Code, and as both may be amended from time to
time. This authority shall be in addition to the authority granted to police
officers, traffic control officers and law enforcement personnel pursuant to
this Municipal Code and state law."
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or 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 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 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 publish notice of adoption in
the manner required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1st day of July, 2015.
Janice S. Parvin, Mayor
ATTEST:
Maureen Benson, City Clerk
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