Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 16.54 Shoreline Park Recreational Vehicle Area

The purpose of this Chapter is to set forth provisions of general applicability pertaining to the use and occupancy of the Shoreline Park recreational vehicle area which is held, administered and operated by the City as a tideland asset in accordance with the tideland trust established, created and defined by the legislative grants from the State in Chapter 676, Statutes of 1911, Chapter 102, Statutes of 1925, Chapter 158, Statutes of 1935, and the provisions of Chapter 29, Statutes of 1956, first extraordinary session, and Chapter 138, Statutes of 1964, first extraordinary session.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1, 1983)

As used in this Chapter:

A. "City Manager" is the City Manager of the City of Long Beach.

B. "Manager" is the Manager of the Marine Bureau of the City of Long Beach.

C. "Park" means the Shoreline Park recreational vehicle area located at 200 West Shoreline Drive and situated on those portions of the tidelands area at the western end of Shoreline Park bounded by Shoreline Drive on the north, Shoreline Drive access road on the east, Queens Way Bay on the south, and Queens Way Bridge and Magnolia Avenue on the west.

D. "Permit" is the written permission to use a recreational vehicle site or parking space within the Shoreline Park recreational vehicle area.

E. "Person" means and includes any individual, partnership, corporation, organization, association, federal, State and local governmental entity or political subdivision or agency thereof.

F. "Recreational vehicle" means and includes camp trailers, campers, trailers, and trailer coaches as defined in Sections 242, 243, 630 and 635 respectively of the California Vehicle Code, and any other vehicle which has been modified, altered or converted to accommodate human habitation or human occupancy.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1 (part), 1983)

The Manager shall supervise, manage and administer the operations of the park and issue all permits for the use and occupancy of recreational vehicle sites and parking spaces therein.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1 (part), 1983)

No person shall use, park or occupy any recreational vehicle site or parking space within the park without first having obtained a permit from the Manager and paying the prescribed fee therefor.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1 (part), 1983)

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9.22.010, persons over the age of twenty-one (21) years using, parking at or occupying a recreational vehicle site or parking space within the park under a permit issued by the Manager may transport into the park and drink or consume alcoholic beverages at the assigned recreational vehicle site.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1 (part), 1983)

The City Council may adopt, repeal, amend and modify regulations establishing the rates, fees and charges imposed by this Chapter and regulating the activities and operations within the park. Upon adoption, repeal, amendment or modification of the regulations by the City Council, the regulations shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk and posted in a conspicuous place or places within the park. Any person who violates any provision of this Chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant to this Section shall be subject to the penalties provided for in Section 1.32.010. As to any person who is a permittee under the provisions of this Chapter, any violation of any such regulation, in addition to the penalties applicable to persons generally, shall be cause for revocation and cancellation of the person's permit.

(Ord. C-5948 § 1 (part), 1983)