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The City of Ontario desires to impose safety precautions in furtherance of the compelling interest of protecting children from registered sex offenders by restricting where sex offenders’ may reside. The City Council finds that sex offenders pose a clear threat to the children residing in or visiting the community. It is the intent of these restrictions to reduce the threat that sex offenders pose to these children by limiting the ability of sex offenders to be in contact with these children. This chapter is not intended to conflict with, but to supplement, state law by imposing more stringent restrictions on the locations where sex offenders may reside. (§ 1, Ord. 2941, eff. November 18, 2011, § 2, Ord. 3003, eff. January 1, 2015)

For the purposes of this chapter, the City Council established and defined locations prohibited from registered sex offenders as those that are primarily dedicated to providing programs to children. The following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning: (a) “Child” or “children”. Any person under the age of eighteen (18) years of age. (b) “Day care center”. Any licensed child day care facility including infant centers, preschools, extended day care facilities, and school-age child care centers. It does not include a family day care home as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 1596.78. (c) “Park or Playground”. Means one of the following: (1) Any land, including improvements to the land that is administered, operated or managed by the City of Ontario and/or any private home owners group for use by the public as a recreational area. (2) City recreational areas include, but are not limited to, conservation area, jogging trail, hiking trail, bicycle trail, recreational center, water park, swimming pool, soccer field or baseball field. (3) Any areas owned, leased, controlled, maintained, or managed by a public entity which are open to the public where children regularly gather and which provide recreational, cultural, and/or community service activities, including but not limited to public parks, playgrounds, playfields, athletic courts or fields, and amusement centers. (d) “Permanent residence”. A place where the person abides, lodges or resides for fourteen (14) or more consecutive days. (e) “Registered sex offender”. An individual who is required by law to register with a governmental entity as a sex offender as a result of a conviction, or placed on deferred adjudication, of any specified sex offense outlined in California Penal Code 290. (1) It shall be prima facie evidence that this chapter applies to such a person if that person’s recordappears in/on the Department of Justice Sex Offender Tracking Program Database.

(f) “School”. The buildings and grounds of any public or private school used for purposes of the education of children in kindergarten or any grades one (1) to twelve (12), inclusive. (g) “Temporary Residence”. A place where a person abides, lodges or resides for a period of fourteen (14) or more days in the aggregate, during any calendar year which is not the person’s permanent address; or a place where the person routinely abides, lodges or resides for a period of four (4) or more consecutive or nonconsecutive days in any month and which is not the person’s permanent residence. (§ 1, Ord. 2941, eff. November 18, 2011, § 2, Ord. 3003, eff. January 1, 2015)

(a) Any registered sex offender is prohibited from residing within two thousand (2,000) feet of any school, park or day care center. The two thousand (2,000) feet residence prohibition shall not apply to a registered sex offender who is registered with a governmental agency as residing at an address within two thousand (2,000) feet from a school, park or day care center prior to initial operation of the child care center, park or school and/ or on the initial effective date of this Chapter (i.e., November 18, 2011). (b) Any registered sex offender is prohibited from living in single family dwellings, multi-family dwellings, duplex dwelling, multi-unit residential dwellings, or hotel/motel/inns where another sex offender already resides. This prohibition does not apply under the following condition(s): (1) State Parole has mandated placement of said registered sex offender in a state housing facility that houses multiple sex offenders at one time to include any prison or mental health facility. (2) Registered sex offenders reside together as they are related by blood, marriage or adoption. (c) Sex offenders may not rent or otherwise occupy a single-family dwelling or any unit in a multi-family dwelling as a temporary resident. This prohibition does not apply under the following condition: (1) State Parole has mandated placement of said registered sex offender in a state housing/boarding facility on a temporary housing status. (d) A registered sex offender shall not, on October 31st (or any other date set by the City of Ontario for trick-or- treaters) between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m., leave an exterior porch light, which faces the street, on or otherwise invite trick-or-treaters to solicit the premises in which the sex registrant resides. (e) For the purposes of this Chapter, distances shall be measured from the edge of the parcel or contiguous parcels where the identified use is located. (§ 1, Ord. 2941, eff. November 18, 2011, § 2, Ord. 3003, eff. January 1, 2015)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, the penalty shall be a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Other penalties set forth in the California Penal Code and/or Municipal Code may also be applicable. (§ 1, Ord. 2941, eff. November 18, 2011, § 2, Ord. 3003, eff. January 1, 2015)

CHAPTER 24: UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A CATALYTIC CONVERTER PROHIBITED

CHAPTER 24: UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A

CATALYTIC CONVERTER PROHIBITED

4-24.01 Unlawful possession of a catalytic converter prohibited 4-24.02 Definitions 4-24.03 Violations; misdemeanor