Carson Municipal Code Part 9 Trespass By Motor Vehicle

As used in this Chapter, "private street" means a street over which private persons have an easement to travel, and does not include driveways, paths or other ways over which no one has a right to travel except by license.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)

A person shall not operate any type of motor vehicle upon the private property of another within six hundred (600) feet of any building or structure designed for or used for residential or commercial purposes, except a highway or private street, without first obtaining the written permission of the person in lawful possession of the property or, if the property is unoccupied, of the owner.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)

A person shall not operate any type of motor vehicle upon any public property within six hundred (600) feet of any building or structure designed for or used for residential or commercial purposes, except a highway or private street, without first obtaining the written permission of the public entity which is in possession of such property or, if the property is unoccupied, of the public entity which owns such property.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)

Every person who operates any type of motor vehicle upon the private property of another or upon any public property and within six hundred (600) feet of any building or structure designed for or used for residential or commercial purposes, except a highway or private street, at all times while so operating shall maintain in his possession the written permission required by this Part, except that if the same document grants such permission to two (2) or more persons, a person named in such document need not have such document in his possession while another person named in the same document, riding in the same group, and not more than three hundred (300) feet from such person, has such document in his possession.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)

This Part does not prohibit the use of such property by:

(a) Emergency vehicles;

(b) Vehicles of commerce in the course of the conduct of normal business;

(c) Vehicles being operated on property devoted to commercial or industrial purposes where such operation is in conjunction with commercial or industrial use and where such operation is expressly or implicitly given by the person in possession of the property;

(d) Vehicles operating on property actually used for residential purposes and where such vehicles are there at the express or implied invitation of the owner or occupant;

(e) Vehicles being operated on public or private parking lots where permission to so operate is expressly or implicitly given by the person in possession of the lot.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)

This Part does not prohibit any act, either expressly authorized or expressly prohibited by either Section 602 of the Penal Code, or Section 21 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, or by any other State law.

(Ord. 92-969 § 1; Ord. 05-1334 § 1)