Transit facilities within the city should be readily accessible
and available to residents and the public for their intended purposes.
This chapter aims to maintain transit facilities within the city in
a clean, sanitary, safe, attractive, and accessible condition and
to protect the community's health, safety, environment, and general
welfare. In addition, the use of transit facilities for camping, sleeping,
and storing of personal property and bulky items interferes with the
rights of others to use and enjoy those areas as they are intended.
(Ord. 1303, 1/23/2024)
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are defined
as follows:
means any item that is too large, or a group of items that
cumulatively are too large, to fit into one sixty-gallon trash container
with the lid closed, including, but not limited to, a mattress, couch,
chair, or other furniture or appliance.
has the same meaning given in Section 8.40.020 of this code.
have the same meaning given in Section 8.40.020 of this code.
means a law enforcement officer, a city code enforcement
officer, or any other person authorized by the city to enforce this
code.
has the same meaning given in Section 8.40.020 of this code.
has the same meaning given in Section 8.40.020 of this code.
means a highway other than a state highway, a railroad, a
public mass transit facility, a taxi stand, a bus stop, a bus shelter,
a bus station, a bus bench, spaces that are required for boarding
and alighting activity for transit passengers, infrastructure needed
for bus vehicles to service the waiting areas, a place providing access
to or egress from transit services, including, but not limited to,
interchanges on a highway used by one or more transit providers, train
stations, shuttle terminals or stops, and reserved travel lanes for
exclusive transit operation.
means a train, bus, car, van, shuttle, or other form of transportation
used to carry people.
(Ord. 1303, 1/23/2024)
Transit facilities on city property, in the city right-of-way,
or owned by the city are closed to the public except between the following
hours: thirty minutes before the first transit vehicle of the day
is scheduled to arrive at the transit facility until thirty minutes
after the last transit vehicle of the day is scheduled to arrive at
the transit facility. It is unlawful to occupy any such transit facility
during hours when the transit facility is closed.
(Ord. 1303, 1/23/2024)
The following actions are prohibited at, on, or in any transit
facility, unless the transit facility is owned by a public agency
other than the city and the public agency authorized the activity:
A.
Camping;
B.
Storing personal property;
C.
Interfering with or obstructing another person's ability to
use the transit facility or a transit vehicle for its intended use,
including but not limited to any of the following:
1.
Lying down on, or otherwise taking up more space than that required
by one seated person on, any bench or in any seating area, including,
but not limited to, placing or storing a bulky item in a transit facility,
2.
Taking any action that impedes passage required by the Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended from time to time,
3.
Interfering with, or obstructing with one's person or any
item, any person's ability to enter or exit a transit facility
or transit vehicle, or to access any portion of or amenity at or on
a transit facility or transit vehicle,
4.
Creating an environment that a reasonable transit rider would
consider intimidating, threatening, or unsafe,
5.
Placing trash or waste anywhere other than a designated trash
receptacle; or
D.
Attaching any item to a transit facility.
(Ord. 1303, 1/23/2024)
A.
Personal property that is unlawfully stored in a transit facility
or is creating an obstruction in a transit facility shall be immediately
removed by its owner from the transit facility upon the request of
an enforcement officer.
B.
Any unattended item of personal property that is unlawfully stored
in a transit facility or that is creating an obstruction in a transit
facility may be immediately removed from the transit facility by an
enforcement officer and placed outside of the transit facility.
C.
Personal property placed or stored in a transit facility in violation of this chapter is also subject to removal in accordance with the procedures in Section 8.40.070 of this code.
D.
Anything unlawfully attached to a transit facility may be immediately
detached from the transit facility by an enforcement officer.
(Ord. 1303, 1/23/2024)
