El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 10.36 Vehicular Cruising

California Vehicle Code Section 21100(k) is adopted herein in its entirety and incorporated by reference.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

It is unlawful for anyone to engage in cruising upon any of the following streets or highways in the City of El Monte:

A. Valley Mall between Santa Anita Avenue and Ramona Boulevard;

B. Valley Boulevard between Baldwin Avenue and Durfee Avenue;

C. Garvey Avenue between Durfee Avenue and Sastre Avenue;

D. Peck Road between Magnolia Avenue and Bryant Road;

E. Ramona Boulevard between Santa Anita Avenue and Cogswell Road.

The list of streets and highways as stated above hereinafter may be modified by resolution of the City Council.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

A person engages in cruising when, as the operator of a motor vehicle driven upon a portion of a street or highway subject to controls upon cruising, he or she drives past a traffic control point a second or subsequent time within any four (4) hour period after the vehicle that he or she is operating has at least once been driven past the traffic control point on the same street within the four (4) hour period.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

A traffic control point means a location utilized as an observation point in order to monitor traffic for potential violations of this chapter.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

A. The police officer on duty upon any of the streets designated in Section 10.36.020 which is adversely impacted by traffic congestion may, having determined that such street is so affected, establish in his or her discretion one or more traffic control points upon such impacted streets to regulate vehicular cruising.

B. Every traffic control point shall be evidenced by the placement of signs prohibiting cruising and briefly reciting the provisions of this chapter and California Vehicle Code § 21100(k) at the beginning and at the end of the street or highway or portion of street or highway subject to cruising controls. Any police officer on duty in the impacted area is authorized and empowered to post any signs required to implement the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

No operator of a motor vehicle shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this chapter unless a written warning notice was placed upon that vehicle or handed to the driver or any occupant thereof. The written notice will warn the driver and other occupants of the vehicle that driving that vehicle past a traffic control point within four (4) hours of its initial passage past the control point will be a violation of this chapter.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

Any person convicted of cruising as defined herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each successive time the vehicle is driven past the control point following receipt of the written notice described in Section 10.36.060 shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter, and no additional notice to the driver of such vehicle shall be required prior to the issuance of subsequent citations.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)

This chapter shall not apply to:

A. Any authorized emergency vehicle as defined in Section 165 of the California Vehicle Code;

B. Any publicly owned vehicle of any city, county, district, state or federal agency;

C. Any vehicle licensed for public transportation or commercial vehicles which are then being driven solely for business purposes; or

D. Any person operating a motor vehicle or passenger therein whose residence or place of employment is either located upon property immediately contiguous to or is directly accessed from any street or highway subject to cruising controls and such person displays satisfactory proof of such residence or place of employment at the traffic point.

(Ord. 2570 § 1 (part), 2002)