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La Cañada Flintridge Municipal Code Ch. 5.20 Violations of the Peace, Health or Safety
La Cañada Flintridge Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · La Cañada Flintridge
Cite as: La Cañada Flintridge Municipal Code Chapter 5.20 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 5.20.020. Removing or defacing official notices prohibited—Exception.¶
No persons shall intentionally deface, tear down, obliterate or destroy any copy, transcript or extract of or from any ordinance of the city which shall be posted in, on or along any highway or other public place, or any proclamation, advertisement or notice set up at any place by authority of any federal, state or local law or regulation before the expiration of the time in which such proclamation, advertisement or notice was to remain set up.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.030. Smoking at polling places and while canvassing votes prohibited.¶
It is unlawful for any person to smoke any cigar, cigarette, pipe or any tobacco, in any form or by any means whatever, in any polling place at any time during an election or during the canvassing in any polling place of the votes cast at an election.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.050. Permitting certain substances to flow onto highways or into drainage…¶
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit, turn, drain or divert into or upon any public highway, drainage ditch, storm drain or flood control channel owned or controlled by any public agency within the city any mud, rotary mud, sand, water, oil or liquid of petroleum content, or in any manner permit by seepage, overflow or otherwise, any such mud, rotary mud, sand, water, oil or liquid of petroleum content to escape from any property owned, leased or controlled by such person, firm or corporation and to flow into or upon any such public highway, drainage ditch, storm drain or flood control channel within the city.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.060. Throwing objects on highways or at vehicles prohibited.¶
It is unlawful for any person to throw upon, along or across any public highway in the city any snowball or missile capable of causing personal injury or damage to personal property, or to throw any such snowball or missile at or toward or in the vicinity of any vehicle standing or moving along, upon or across any such highway.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.070. Gates opening outward over highways—Construction and maintenance prohibited.¶
A. It is unlawful to construct or maintain any gate in any fence in such manner that such gate may be opened outward over any portion of any public highway open for either pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
B. It is unlawful to cause or permit any gate in any fence to be or remain opened outward over any portion of any public highway open for either pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.080. Sale of knives to minors prohibited—Exceptions.¶
It is unlawful for any person to sell to any minor any dirk or dagger, or any knife with a blade three inches or more in length, or any snap-blade or spring-blade knife, regardless of the length of the blade, unless such minor is accompanied by an adult person and unless the person selling such dagger or knife keeps a full and complete record of the name and address of the purchaser.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.090. Drinking in public deemed misdemeanor—Exceptions.¶
Every person who consumes any beer, wine or other intoxicating beverage on any public street, sidewalk, alley, highway or parking lot open to the public is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not be deemed to proscribe any act which is positively permitted or prohibited by any law of the state of California.
(Ord. 141 § 1, 1986)
§ 5.20.110. Juvenile loitering.¶
It is unlawful for any minor under the age of 18 years to loiter, idle, wander, stroll or aimlessly drive or ride about in or upon any public street, avenue, highway, road, curb area, alley, park, playground or other public ground, public place or public building, place of amusement or eating place, vacant lot or unsupervised place, between the hours of ten p.m. on any day and sunrise of the immediately following day; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply when:
A. The minor is accompanied by his or her parent or parents, legal guardian or other adult person having the legal care or custody of the minor, or by his or her spouse 18 years of age or older;
B. The minor is upon an errand directed by his or her parent or parents or legal guardian or other adult person having the legal care or custody of the minor, or by his or her spouse 18 years of age or older;
C. The minor is returning directly home from a public meeting or a place of public entertainment such as a movie, play, sporting event, dance or school activity;
D. The presence of such minor in said place or places is connected with or required with respect to a business, trade, profession or occupation in which said minor is lawfully engaged.
(Ord. 167 § 1, 1989)
§ 5.20.120. Demonstration equipment prohibited.¶
A. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line or other such public assembly, any length of lumber, wood, wood lath or other wood product, unless the other dimensions of such object do not exceed a thickness of one-fourth inch and a width of two inches, or if not generally rectangular in shape, such object shall not exceed three-quarters inch in its thickest dimension; and such object is blunt and unsharpened at its end and edge.
B. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line or other such public assembly, any bar, shaft, rod, cable, wire, chain or other such length of hard metal, hard plastic or other hard synthetic material.
C. Violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the County Jail for not to exceed six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 54 §§ 1, 2, 1979)
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