Hidden Hills Municipal Code Ch. 5 Nontraffic Vehicle Regulations

A. Private Property: A person shall not operate any type of motor vehicle upon the private property of another within 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.

B. Public Property: A person shall not operate any type of motor vehicle upon any public property within 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 the property.

C. Carrying of Written Permission to Trespass: Every person who operates any type of motor vehicle upon the private property of another or upon any public property and within 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 Section; 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 feet (300') from such person, has such document in his possession.

D. Definition of Private Street: As used in this Section, "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.

E. Exclusions:

1. This Section does not prohibit any act, either expressly authorized or expressly prohibited by either Section 602 of the Penal Code or Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code of the State or by any other State law.

2. This Section 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 impliedly 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; and

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

(Ord. 78, 3-3-70)

A. Disturbance Prohibited: A person shall not operate any motor vehicle, including any motorcycle, trail bike, dune buggy, motor scooter or jeep, or the motor thereof on any vacant lot, parking lot, vacant property or acreage so as to disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person by noise, dust, smoke or fumes caused by such motor vehicle.

B. Exclusions: This Section does not apply to any act prohibited by Section 372 of the Penal Code or prohibited or expressly permitted by any State statute.

(Ord. 78, 3-3-70)

The violation of this Chapter by any person shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as set forth in Section 1-5-1 of this Code.

(Ord. 78, 3-3-70; 1994 Code)