A. 
Whenever in this code or in any ordinance of the city, or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him or it, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or an infraction, or the doing of any act is required, or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or an infraction, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions of this code or any ordinance of the city, or any such rule, regulation or order shall be a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the city attorney or the district attorney.
B. 
Every day any violation of this code or any ordinance of the city or any such rule, regulation or order continues, constitutes a separate offense.
C. 
Whenever in this code any act or omission is made unlawful, it includes causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, suffering or concealing such act or omission.
(Prior code § 1-7; Ord. 922 § 1, 1990)
Every misdemeanor offense shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Prior code § 1-8; Ord. 922 § 1, 1990)
A. 
Every offense in this code prosecuted as an infraction shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars for the second offense of the same provision within one year and a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for each additional offense of the same provision within one year.
B. 
As used in this section, "year" means any consecutive twelve-month period.
C. 
As used in this section, "offense" includes any violation of the code which is cited or charged and which does not result in:
1. 
An acquittal;
2. 
A finding of "not guilty";
3. 
A dismissal of charge by the city or the court.
D. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, when a person under the age of eighteen years is charged with a violation of this code, and a peace officer issues a notice to appear in superior court to that minor, the charge shall be deemed an infraction unless the minor requests that a petition be filed under Section 601 or 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The amount of fine imposed shall be set by the court.
(Ord. 922 § 1, 1990; Ord. 1026 § 1, 1995)
A. 
The director of community development and the director's designees shall have the duty and the authority to enforce the provisions of this code.
B. 
In addition, the city manager shall designate specific city employees to be code enforcement officers of the community development department. These code enforcement officers shall have the duty and authority to enforce the provisions of this code. The designated code enforcement officers are authorized by the city council, pursuant to Sections 832, 836.5 and 19(d) of the California Penal Code, subject to the training provisions of subdivision (2) of this subsection to arrest a person without warrant whenever the code enforcement officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has violated a provision contained in this code in the officer's presence.
1. 
In any case in which a person is arrested by a code enforcement officer pursuant to the authority granted in this section, the code enforcement officer shall issue a notice to appear and shall release such person on his or her written promise to appear in court, pursuant to Sections 836.5, 853.3 and 853.6 of the California Penal Code. Under no circumstances may the code enforcement officer take the person to be arrested into custody. In the event that the person to be arrested demands to be taken before a magistrate or refuses to provide his or her written promise to appear in court, the code enforcement officer shall either (1) summon a police officer and request that the officer arrest the person and take that person into custody, or (2) process the alleged violation as a misdemeanor offense by referring the matter to the prosecuting attorney and request that a complaint be prepared and filed against that person.
2. 
Each code enforcement officer shall complete a course of training which shall include, at minimum, training in (1) the evidentiary prerequisites to criminal prosecution, and (2) procedures for prudently exercising the officer's arrest and citation authority.
3. 
The city manager shall designate specific city employees to issue parking citations for violations of this code. The city council, pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 40202 and 41102, authorizes these designated employees to issue parking citations for violations of this code that pertain to the parking or standing of vehicles. If the vehicle is unattended during the time of the violation, the employee authorized to issue parking citations shall securely attach to the vehicle a notice of parking violation setting forth the following: (i) a reference to the section of this code violated; (ii) the approximate time of the violation; (iii) the location where the violation occurred; (iv) the vehicle license number; (v) the registration expiration date; (vi) the color of the vehicle; and if possible, (vii) the make of the vehicle. The notice of parking violation shall be attached to the vehicle either under the windshield wiper or in another conspicuous place upon the vehicle so as to be easily observed by the person in charge of the vehicle upon return of that person. Once the notice of parking violation has been attached to the vehicle as provided in this subsection, the notice of parking violation shall be filed with the city's processing agency. Thenceforth, these citations shall be dealt with in the same manner as are the parking citations issued by the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.
C. 
As used in this section, "parking" means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading and unloading merchandise or passengers.
D. 
As used in this section, "vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Ord. 922 § 1, 1990)
Upon discovery of an apparent violation of the standards of this code, the director of community development may cause an investigation to be carried out, using such instruments as may be necessary. If such investigation indicates that a violation exists, the violator may be cited by the city employees granted citation authority in this code or may be charged by the district attorney. Additionally, the violation may be dealt with by civil action such as restraining orders, injunctions, abatement proceedings, or the like. No person shall interfere with, oppose or resist any authorized person charged with the enforcement of this code while such person is engaged in the performance of his duty.
(Ord. 922 § 1, 1990)
In addition to the penalties provided in Section 1.12.010 any condition caused or permitted to exist or any act or activity done or caused or permitted to be done in violation of the provisions of this code or any ordinance of the city or any rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto, is a public nuisance and may be abated by civil proceedings such as restraining orders, civil injunctions, abatement proceedings or the like.
(Ord. 922 § 1, 1990; Ord. 1191 § 1, 2009)