No person shall wilfully or knowingly report to the chief of
police, city attorney, or the city council or to any assistant, deputy,
investigator or employee of the police department, the city attorney,
or the city council any false event, circumstance, fact or accusation,
calculated, designed or intended to furnish the basis for any investigation,
arrest or prosecution.
(Code 1957, § 4011)
(a)
No
person shall consume any alcoholic beverage or possess an open container
of any alcoholic beverage on any street, alley, highway, court, public
parking lot, any recreational area, or in any automobile in any public
place in this city. Beer and wine may be allowed in a public park
or recreational area pursuant to the provisions of section 18-102
of this code.
(b)
No
person shall drink any alcoholic beverage on posted premises, including,
but not limited to, a private parking lot, driveway or other property
which is open and accessible to the public, without the written permission
of the owner, occupant or other person in control of such property.
(c)
This
section shall not apply to any sales or use of alcoholic beverages
in connection with any restaurant or other establishment which:
(1)
Complies with the provisions of the downtown specific plan or successor
regulations governing uses in the downtown area;
(2)
Receives an encroachment permit for such use; and
(3)
Receives all required permits from the alcoholic beverage commission.
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Cross reference—Use and sale of alcoholic
beverages, § 18-102.
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(Code 1957, § 4023; Ord. No. 79-29, § 1, 8-15-79; Ord. No. 86-18, § 5, 2-19-86; Ord. No. 94-14, § 1, 5-18-94; Ord. No. 2003-02, § 2, 2-5-03)
No person shall make, build or light bonfires in any public
street in the city.
(Code 1957, § 4211)
(a)
For
the purpose of this section, "aircraft" shall mean any contrivance
or apparatus used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
This description shall include, but not be limited to, airplanes,
helicopters, balloons, hydroplanes, hang gliders and motor-powered
gliders.
(b)
Unless
authorized by the chief of police, no person shall land or take off
in an aircraft in the City of Escondido.
(c)
This
section shall not apply to aircraft operated by public safety agencies,
the military, accredited news media or medical personnel in the performance
of their duties.
(Ord. No. 81-34, § 1, 6-17-81; Ord. No. 83-40, § 1, 7-13-83)
(a)
It
is unlawful for any person to sit, lie, recline, kneel or otherwise
restrict or obstruct the free use of any public sidewalk, walkway,
passageway, or any public place, or for any number of persons to congregate
in such manner as to obstruct or interfere with the free movement
and passage of persons or vehicles in any public street or any other
public place within the city.
(b)
It
is unlawful for any person to engage in abusive solicitation, as defined
in section 18-107, on any public sidewalk, walkway or passageway in
any public street or any other public place within the city.
(c)
It is unlawful for any person to stop or remain in a painted or raised traffic island or median except to wait to cross the roadway at the next pedestrian signal or, in the absence of a pedestrian signal, when traffic has cleared or yielded. Subsection (c) shall not apply to those persons occupying a median while conducting activities related to maintenance, surveying, construction, landscape maintenance, landscape improvements, law enforcement, responding to an emergency, or as otherwise permitted by law.
(d)
A violation
of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
(Code 1957, § 4480; Ord. No. 2015-15, § 1, 8-5-15)
No person shall stand, sit or in any way use any crosswalk or
any public street or other property opened or dedicated to public
use or to which the public is invited, so as in any manner to obstruct
the entrance of any public building.
shall mean to reside in or use a recreational area, park,
or other public property for living accommodation purposes, as exemplified
by remaining for prolonged or repetitious periods of time not associated
with ordinary recreational use of a park with one's personal property
(including, but not limited to, clothing, sleeping bags, bedrolls,
blankets, sheets, tents, tarpaulins, luggage, backpacks, kitchen utensils,
cookware, and similar material), sleeping or making preparations to
sleep, regularly cooking or consuming meals, or living in a parked
vehicle. These activities constitute camping when it reasonably appears,
in light of all the circumstances, that the participants, in conducting
these activities, are in fact using the area as a living accommodation
regardless of the intent of the participants or the nature of any
other activities in which they may also be engaging.
(Ord. No. 2003-02, § 4, 2-5-03)
(a)
No
person shall camp or lodge in any public property, including, but
not limited to, a recreational area, public park or any public street
or public parking lot provided that nothing herein shall be construed
to prohibit camping in public campgrounds under a permit authorized
by other provisions of law or ordinance.
(Ord. No. 86-18, § 7, 2-19-86; Ord. No. 2003-02, § 5, 2-5-03)
No person shall camp or lodge in or on any private property
without written permission of the owner or lessee of such property.
(Ord. No. 86-18, § 8, 2-19-86; Ord. No. 2003-02, § 6, 2-5-03)
No person shall permit ashes or trash to accumulate, nor shall
any person erect or place any ashes, trash or combustible or flammable
material of any kind, upon any street or upon any public property
other than as authorized by Chapter 14 of this code without first
obtaining written permission from the council.
(Code 1957, § 4221)
No person shall dump or throw any refuse, rocks, rubbish, rubble,
waste or litter into any flood control channel located within the
corporate limits of the city.
(Code 1957, § 7142)
No person shall dump any rubbish, papers, sweepings or any other
refuse or waste on any of the public streets, sidewalks, parks or
other public places of the city, nor shall any person sweep any sweepings,
waste or other refuse into any streets or onto any sidewalks, parks
or other public places in the city.
(Code 1957, § 7141)
No person shall paint, place, post, nail or fasten any sign
or advertisement of any kind or nature whatever upon any of the sidewalks
or streets in the city, provided, however, that this section shall
not apply to the painting of building numbers on curbs in accordance
with section 23-38.
(Code 1957, § 8031; Ord. No. 79-54, § 1, 11-14-79)
No person in this city shall keep any bees, bee stand or bee
house where bees may accumulate or harbor to the annoyance or damage
of any of the inhabitants of this city, or prejudicial to their comfort.
(Code 1957, § 4041)
It shall be the duty of the chief of police, upon his or her
own information or the information of others of any bees kept or harbored
in this city, to notify, either by oral or written notice, the person
so keeping or harboring such bees to remove the same within five days
from the date of said notice from the city.
(Code 1957, § 4042)
In the incorporated territory of the city, any breeding place
of mosquitoes is a public nuisance.
(Code 1957, § 3600)
A nuisance described in section 17-16 may be abated by the county
health officer in any manner permitted by law, or by any proceeding
or remedy provided by law.
(Code 1957, § 3602)
The issuance of an order to abate a nuisance as authorized by
section 17-17 shall not be a prerequisite to, nor shall the fact that
such order of abatement has been issued preclude or stay, any prosecution
for creating a nuisance described in section 17-16.
(Code 1957, § 3603)
Chapter 1 of Division 4 of Title 6 of the San Diego County Code and such secondary codes as are incorporated in that primary code are hereby adopted by reference by the city, for the purpose of prescribing rules and regulations for the protection of the public safety and welfare regulations governing the duties of the county health officer in controlling nuisances. Not less than three copies of which have been and are now filed in the office of the city clerk.
(Ord. No. 83-19, § 3, 4-13-83; Ord. No. 84-58, § 3, 9-5-84)
It is unlawful for any person to willfully feed, touch without
permission, tease, taunt, torment, strike, kick, mutilate, disable,
or otherwise injure, or kill, or to interfere or meddle with any dog
or horse while such animal is being utilized by the police department,
or any officer, reserve officer, or any employee thereof, in the performance
of any function or duty of the department or of such officer, reserve
officer or employee.
(Ord. No. 84-52, § 1, 7-25-84)
It is an infraction for any person to urinate, or defecate in
any public place or private place open to public view, except at a
designated private or public restroom.
(Ord. No. 86-18, § 15, 2-19-86)
(a)
It
is unlawful to place or direct the placement of any sign in the public
right-of-way in the City of Escondido.
For the purposes of this article, the term "sign" shall mean
any device designed to inform or attract the attention of persons
who may reasonably be expected to observe the sign, except the following:
(1)
Devices not exceeding one square foot in area and bearing only property
number, post box numbers, names of occupants of premises, or other
identification of premises not indicating the nature of products,
accommodations, services or activities provided on the premises.
(2)
Flags and insignia of any government except when displayed for purposes
of commercial promotion.
(3)
Legal notices, identification, informational or directional devices
erected or required by governmental bodies.
(4)
Integral decorative or architectural features of buildings, except
letters, trademarks, moving parts or moving lights.
(b)
Real estate kiosk signs shall be exempt from subsection (a) of this section subject to the provisions stated in section 33-1396(c) of the Escondido Zoning Code and other applicable provisions of the laws of the City of Escondido.
(c)
Signs placed within the public right-of-way for which there is a valid encroachment-removal agreement shall be exempt from subsection (a) of this section, subject to the provisions stated in section 33-1396(j) of the Escondido Zoning Code and other applicable provisions of the laws of the City of Escondido.
(d)
A
violation of this section is an infraction which shall be punishable
by a fine not exceeding $250.
(e)
All
signs placed in violation of this section are declared to be a public
nuisance. The police chief or designee shall have the right to summarily
remove all signs placed contrary to the provisions of this section.
Any sign placed on private property without the consent of the private
property owner may be removed by the owner or representative of the
owner.
(f)
This
section is in addition to any other provisions of the laws of the
city regulating signs. In the event of any conflict between this section
and any other such law, the provisions of this section shall apply.
(Ord. No. 90-7, § 1, 2-7-90; Ord. No. 98-25, § 4, 12-9-98; Ord. No. 99-26, § 4, 12-1-99; Ord. No. 2018-22, § 5, 12-5-18)
No person shall store personal property or camping paraphernalia,
including, but not limited to, clothing, sleeping bags, bedrolls,
blankets, sheets, tents, tarpaulins, luggage, kitchen utensils, cookware,
and similar material, on any public property including any park or
recreational area, street, public parking lot or other public area.
(Ord. No. 2003-02, § 7, 2-5-03)
