HomeMy WebLinkAbout425 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 425
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING PUBLIC ENTRY AND
OCCUPANCY OF POSTED CITY PROPERTY
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga does
hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Title 9 of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code is hereby
amended by the addition of a new Chapter 9.20 to read, in words and figures as
fol 1 ows:
"Chapter 9.20
"ENTRY AND OCCUPANCY OF POSTED CITY PROPERTY
"Section 9.20,010 - No person other than a peace officer, City
employee acting within the course and scope of employment, or other
person having express permission of a duly authorized City employee,
shall enter or remain upon, or fail or refuse to leave upon a City
employee's request, any City-owned property not open to the public,
provided such property has been posted with a sign or sings in plain
sight at entrances to such property. Such signs shall be readable
from not less than twenty-five (25) feet and shall state: 'CLOSED TO
PUBLIC -- VIOLATORS SUBJECT TO ARREST'.
"Section 9.20.020 - It shall be unlawful for any person to
violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the require-
ments of this Chapter. Any person violating any provision of this
Chapter or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding One-Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or
by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment. Each person shall be deemed guilty of a separate
offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any
violation of the provisions of this Chapter is committed, and shall
be deemed punishable therefor as provided in this Chapter."
SECTION 2: The City Council declares that should any provision,
section, paragraph, sentence or words of this Ordinance be rendered or
declared i nval i d by any final court acti on i n a court of competent
jurisdiction, or by reason of any preemptive legislation, the remaining
provisions, sections, paragraphs, sentences, and words of this Ordinance shall
remai n i n ful 1 force and effect.
SECTION 3: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk
shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15) days after its
passage at least once in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, a newspaper of
general circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and
circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Ordinance No. 425
Page 2
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 5th day of September, 1990.
AYES: Alexander, Buquet, Brown, Wright
NOES: None
ABSENT: Stout
Deborah N. Brown,'Mayor Pro-Tem
ATTEST:
Debra J. Adam, C~ty Clerk
I, DEBRA j. ADAMS, CITY CLERK of the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a
regular meeting of the Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the
15th day of August, 1990, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 5th day of September,
1990.
Executed this 6th day of September, 1990 at Rancho Cucamonga,
Cal i forni a.
Debra J. A~ms, City Clerk