No person shall intentionally deface, tear down, obliterate
or destroy any copy, transcript or extract of or from any ordinance
of the city which shall be posted in, on or along any highway or other
public place, or any proclamation, advertisement or notice set up
or posted at any place by authority of any ordinance or law before
the expiration of the time in which such proclamation, advertisement
or notice was to remain set up or posted.
(Prior code § 4101)
No person shall carry any aerosol can of paint less than six
ounces net weight of contents into or upon any city-owned building,
grounds, park or other facility without the permission of the city
officer in charge, unless such aerosol can is sealed or completely
enclosed in a sealed container. For the purposes of this section,
a public street is not a city-owned facility.
(Prior code § 4102)
A.
No person
shall sit, lie or sleep in or upon any public highway, green belt,
median island, alley, sidewalk, crosswalk or other public place or
way open for pedestrian or vehicular travel or appurtenant thereto.
B.
The
provisions of this section do not prohibit a person from sitting,
lying, or sleeping on public property if:
(Prior code § 4104; Ord. 492 § 3, 2021)
No person shall loiter, stand or sit in or at the entrance to
any church, hall, theater, motion picture theater or place of public
assemblage, or any establishment, retail store, restaurant; office
building or other place into which the public is invited, in a manner
which obstructs such entrance.
(Prior code § 4105)
No person shall leave or permit to remain on any public highway,
alley, sidewalk, crosswalk or other public way open for pedestrian
travel any merchandise, baggage or other article of personal property
except trash collection receptacles placed in accordance with law,
nor shall any person allow trees, shrubs, or any other form of vegetation
to encroach from private property onto or above any public highway,
street, alley, sidewalk, crosswalk, or any other public way open for
pedestrian or vehicular travel so as to interfere or impede with pedestrian
or vehicular travel, or to obstruct from view traffic signs in the
public way, or reduce traffic visibility.
(Prior code § 4106)
No person, shall deposit, turn, drain or divert, or permit by
seepage, overflow or otherwise, any mud, rotary mud, sand, water,
oil or liquid of petroleum content into or upon any public street,
drainage ditch, storm drain, or flood control channel owned or operated
by any public agency.
(Prior code § 4107)
No person shall construct or maintain any gate or any fence
which opens outward or remains opened outward over any portion of
any public street or sidewalk.
(Prior code § 4108; Ord. 325 § 6, 2008)
No person shall deposit or throw any paper or other litter or
trash on any public highway or sidewalk or on any private property
without the consent of the owner or person in lawful possession thereof.
(Prior code § 4110)
No person shall camp, lodge, or sleep overnight in any public
park, public beach or public street (including in a vehicle parked
on a public street) provided that nothing herein shall be construed
to prohibit camping in public campgrounds under a permit authorized
by other provisions of law or ordinance.
"Camp" shall mean residing in or using any park, public street,
or public beach for living accommodation purposes, as exemplified
by remaining for prolonged or repetitious periods of time associated
with ordinary recreational use of a park or public beach or ordinary
use of public street, with one's personal possessions (including,
but not limited to, clothing, sleeping bags, bed rolls, blankets,
sheets, luggage, backpacks, kitchen utensils, cookware, and similar
materials) sleeping or making preparations to sleep, storing personal
belongings as above defined, 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
a person is using a park as a living accommodation regardless of his
or her intent or the nature of any other activities in which he or
she might also be engaged in.
Unless this final paragraph of this section is subsequently repealed, no person who does not have access to adequate temporary shelter shall be arrested or subjected to imprisonment solely for sitting, lying, or sleeping on public property if the prohibition against such activity is exempted from enforcement by the provisions of Section 8.36.050 of this code.
(Prior code § 4111.5; Ord. 233 § 1, 2001; Ord. 492 § 4, 2021)
In addition to any criminal, civil or other legal remedy established by law that may be pursued to address violations of the municipal code, violations of the provisions of this chapter are subject to the administrative penalty provisions of Chapter 1.10.
(Ord. 325 § 7, 2008)
