Fresno Municipal Code Art. 27 Crimes Against Private Property

(a) No person shall keep or maintain, or cause or permit to be kept or maintained, upon any premises, any dog which by habitual and continual barking, howling or whining shall disturb the peace and comfort of any neighborhood or interfere with the reasonable and comfortable enjoyment of life or property by any person.

(b) No person shall keep or maintain, or cause or permit to be kept or maintained, any dog owned by him or in his possession or under his control which habitually commits a nuisance upon the property of any other person.

(c) No person shall keep or maintain, or cause to be kept or maintained, any unconfined dog which habitually attacks, or barks at passing pedestrians, vehicles or other users of the public sidewalks, streets and highways.

(d) Violation of this section is an infraction. (Orig. Ord. 4329 and 4413; Am. Ord. 75-44, § 2, eff. 6-2-75).

No person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of, any premises shall keep or maintain such premises in a manner so at variance with the maintenance standards of properties in the neighborhood in which such premises are located as to cause substantial diminution in the enjoyment, use or property value of such properties. (Added Ord. 6649, 1965).

(a) It is unlawful for any person, other than a Core Recycler as defined in California Business and Professions Code section 21610, to possess any catalytic converter that is not attached to a vehicle unless the person has valid proof of ownership of the catalytic converter.

(b) This section does not apply to a detached catalytic converter that has been tested, certified, and labeled or otherwise approved for reuse, and being bought or sold for purposes of reuse in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq.) and regulations under the Clean Air Act, as they may, from time to time, be amended.

(c) For purposes of this section, "valid proof of ownership" means written document(s) that clearly identify the vehicle from which the catalytic converter originated based on the totality of the circumstances, and includes, but is not limited to, the following types of documents:

1. Bill of sale from the original owner with photographs or similar visual representation.

2. Documentation from an auto-body shop proving that the owner relinquished the catalytic converter to the auto-body shop.

3. Verifiable electronic communication from the previous owner to the possessor relinquishing ownership of the catalytic converter.

4. Photographs or similar visual representation of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter originated.

(d) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly falsify or cause to be falsified any information in a record intended to show valid proof of ownership.

(e) Each violation of this section constitutes a separate violation, including but not limited to: possession of multiple catalytic converters during a single contact by law enforcement, or the locating of catalytic converter(s) at other locations discovered as a result of the initial contact by law enforcement, or any other circumstance connecting the potential violator to the unlawful possession of catalytic converter(s), and is subject to all remedies and enforcement measures authorized by the Fresno Municipal Code.

(f) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 12 months, or both.

(g) If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

(h) Compliance with Business & Professions Code § 21610 and Vehicle Code § 10852.5 is legally required.

(i) A core recycler, as defined in Business and Professions Code § 21610, operating under a permit granted by the City of Fresno who is found to be in violation of any applicable law shall have revocation proceedings initiated in accordance with Section 15-5016, Revocation of Permits.

(Added Ord. 2023-003, § 1, eff. 3-31-23)