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:
1. 
Necessitated by the physical disability of such person;
2. 
Such person is viewing a legally conducted parade;
3. 
Such person is seated on a bench lawfully installed for such purpose; or
4. 
The prohibition against such activity is exempted from enforcement by the provisions of Section 8.36.040 of this code.
(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)