The purpose of this chapter is to promote, ensure, and maintain
the use of City owned or City operated parking structures for their
intended purpose of providing spaces for the parking of motor vehicles
and/or bicycles by City residents, commuters, business patrons, students,
people that work in the City, and people that are visiting the City.
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A.
"Parking
structure" is a building with the primary function of which is the
provision and allocation of spaces for the parking of motor vehicles
and/or bicycles.
B.
Parking
structures owned or operated by the City shall only be used by members
of the public for one or more of the following purposes:
1.
Parking
and retrieving motor vehicles as the driver or as a passenger. This
shall include waiting for a tow truck or other means of removing the
vehicle from the parking structure in the event of a break-down, including
changing a flat tire, provided that, vehicles may not be fixed, washed,
or worked on within the parking structure.
2.
Parking
and retrieving bicycles as the bicyclist, provided the parking structure
has bicycle parking available. Bicycles may be ridden to and from
such bicycle parking.
3.
Retrieving
or placing personal property within a vehicle or bicycle parked within
the parking structure and, thereafter, promptly exiting the parking
structure.
4.
Walking
uninterrupted from one sidewalk to another or walking uninterrupted
to buildings that border the parking structure.
5.
Using
restroom facilities located within the parking structure, if any,
and, thereafter promptly exiting from the parking structure.
6.
Making
deliveries to, and/or patronizing, a commercial business operating
within and/or adjacent to the parking structure.
7.
Performing
City business or maintenance of the parking structure pursuant to
official duties as a City or agent.
8.
Engaging
in a use expressly authorized by the City Council, the City Manager,
or the Police Chief.
C.
No person
shall remain within a city parking structure for more than the reasonable
amount of time necessary to accomplish one of the expressly authorized
and intended uses of such parking structure.
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Violations of this chapter shall be an infraction. This chapter shall be enforceable by any City employee granted authority to issue written administrative citations pursuant to Claremont Municipal Code Chapters 1.12 and 1.14. Pursuant to California Government Code Sections 36900 and 53069.4, the amount of the fine for a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be as follows:
A.
$100.00
for the first violation;
B.
$200.00
for a second violation committed within one year of the first violation;
and
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