Oxnard Municipal Code Art. VIII Offenses

(A) Consumption of alcoholic beverages on streets and public places. No person shall consume beer, wine or other alcoholic beverage, as defined by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act of the State of California:

(1) While upon any publicly owned property in the city, improved or unimproved, including, but not limited to, any of the following: public alleyways; public parking lots; public passageways; public streets; public rights-of-way; publicly owned, maintained or operated parks; publicly owned, maintained or operated landscaped areas or greenbelts; publicly owned, maintained or operated open spaces, including, but not limited to, those adjacent to city hall or other public facilities or buildings of any kind; public sidewalks, curbs and gutters; public educational institutions; or other government-owned, -maintained or -operated properties located within the city.

(2) Upon any private street, building or private property within the city without the consent of the person or entity in possession or control thereof.

(B) Possession of alcoholic beverages on streets or other public places.

(1) No person shall possess any can, bottle, or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage that has been opened, or a seal broken, or contents of which have been partially removed while upon any publicly owned property in the city, improved or unimproved, including, but not limited to, any of the following: public alleyways; public parking lots; public passageways; public streets; public rights-of-way; publicly owned, maintained or operated parks; publicly owned, maintained or operated landscaped areas or greenbelts; publicly owned, maintained or operated open spaces, including, but not limited to, those adjacent to city hall or other public facilities or buildings of any kind; public sidewalks, curbs and gutters; public educational institutions; or other government owned, maintained or operated properties located within the city.

(2) This section does not apply when an individual is in the possession of an alcoholic beverage container for the purpose of recycling or other related activity.

(3) This section does not apply to possession and transport of a corked bottle of wine removed from a bona fide eating place pursuant to Cal. Business and Professions Code, Section 23396.5.

(4) This section is enacted pursuant to Cal. Business and Professions Code Section 25620.

(C) Possession of alcoholic beverages adjacent to a licensed retail establishment. No person who has in his/her possession any can, bottle, or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage that has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, shall enter, be, or remain on the posted premises of, including the posted parking lot immediately adjacent to, any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage licensee licensed pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 23000) of the California Business and Professions Code.

(D) Penalty; misdemeanor or infraction.

(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of section 7-125(A) shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $1,000, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or shall receive both such fine and imprisonment.

(2) The city may issue a civil citation to any person who violates section 7-125(B) or (C), or prosecute such violation as an infraction.

(E) This section shall not be deemed to make punishable any act prohibited or expressly permitted by any law of the State of California; provided further that the provisions of this section shall not prohibit the holding, exercise of dominion over, or consumption of such beverages upon any premises licensed for the consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-1) (Ord. No. 2452; 2774; 2944)

Notwithstanding section 7-125, at any duly permitted event where the person conducting the event has obtained a license from the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, alcoholic beverages may be dispensed and consumed in areas at the event specifically permitted by the police chief.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-2) (Ord. No. 2452)

Terminal sale is a one-time sale of a total inventory of goods or the sale of the stock of goods of a business advertising or holding itself out to be terminating commercial operations at a fixed place of business. The term is synonymous with an “insurance,” “bankruptcy,” “damaged goods,” “insolvency,” “assignee's,” “executor's,” “administrator's,” “receiver's,” “trustee's,” “creditor's,” “forced re-removal,” “closing out,” “lost lease,” “we quit” and other sales similarly designated.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-3) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) No person shall conduct a terminal sale without first obtaining a permit issued by the license collector.

(B) Application for such permit shall be completed on forms provided by the license collector.

(C) The fee for such permit shall be established by resolution of the city council.

(D) The permit requirements of this section shall not apply to:

(1) A sale conducted under court order;

(2) A sale conducted by a governmental entity; or

(3) A sale conducted by any person or business terminating commercial operations at a fixed place of business that is the subject of eminent domain proceedings or is within a defined governmental redevelopment area.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-4) (Ord. No. 2452)

No person or business shall advertise or conduct a terminal sale:

(A) For a continuous period greater than 90 days;

(B) With inducement, advertising or representations that do not state the true facts concerning the terminal sale; and

(C) For any inventory of merchandise to which goods have been added or additional stock included while the terminal sale is in progress.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-5) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) No person shall possess a golf club in a public park, except in a public park that is held open for the purpose of playing or practicing golf.

(B) No person shall use any object to strike a ball resting on the ground or on a supporting structure that is on or in the ground in a public park, except in areas of a public park held open for the purpose of playing or practicing golf.

(C) For purposes of this section, "golf club" means an implement composed of a shaft at least 18 inches long and a head no larger than six inches in any dimension, fixed so that the implement is one unit.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-6) (Ord. No. 2452, 2658)

No person shall signal to or act as a lookout for other persons engaged in unlawful activity to warn of the approach of law enforcement officers nor shall any person solicit, encourage, employ, or offer payment to others to do the same.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-7) (Ord. No. 2452, 2522)

(A) No person shall sit or lie down in or upon any public street, sidewalk or crosswalk in the city in any manner so as to hinder or obstruct the free passage of pedestrians thereon, or to annoy or molest such pedestrians.

(B) The prohibitions of subsection (A) shall not apply to any person who:

(1) Is sitting or lying down on a public way due to a medical emergency;

(2) As the result of a disability, utilizes a wheelchair, walker, or similar device to move about the public way; or

(3) Is operating or patronizing a commercial establishment conducted on the public way pursuant to a permit duly issued by the city or who is participating in or attending a parade, festival, performance, rally, demonstration, meeting, or similar event conducted on a public way pursuant to a permit duly issued by the city.

(C) No person shall be prosecuted for a violation of subsection (A) unless the person engages in conduct prohibited by this section after having been notified by a law enforcement officer that the conduct violates this chapter.

(D) Except for an on-duty peace officer, as defined in Cal. Penal Code, Section 830, no person 12 years of age or older shall ride a bicycle on a public sidewalk in the city.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-8) (Ord. No. 2452, 2711)

No person shall, in any place of business where food or drink is sold and consumed, beg, solicit or importune any patron or customer of or visitor in such establishment to purchase any article of food or drink for the one begging, soliciting or importuning, or for any frequenter, habitue, vagrant or idle person in or about such place.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-13) (Ord. No. 2452)

No person who owns, manages or otherwise controls any business where food or drink is sold and consumed shall permit or allow another person to beg, solicit or importune patrons, customers or visitors thereof in the manner and for the purposes specified in section 7-133.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-14) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) No person or organized group of persons shall march or parade on any street, alley, sidewalk, public thoroughfare, park or place without first obtaining a permit therefor from the city manager. Application for such a permit may be oral or written.

(B) The city manager shall issue a permit subject to reasonable conditions to protect the public health, safety or welfare.

(C) Any person aggrieved by the determination of the city manager under this section may within two weeks thereof appeal the matter to the city council. The city council's decision shall be final and shall exhaust all administrative remedies.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-15) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) Except when different hours shall be established by the city manager, any public park and/or recreation area owned or operated by the city shall be closed everyday to the public from dusk to 7:00 a.m.

(B) Any person who enters or is on the premises of a public park or recreation area owned or operated by the city at a time when the park or facility is closed, shall be guilty of a violation of section 1-10 of this code.

(C) This section shall not apply to events, programs and activities sponsored or permitted by the city.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-16) (Ord. No. 2452)

Any person, wishing to be in or otherwise use a public park or recreation area, owned or operated by the city, between dusk and 7:00 a.m. shall obtain a permit to do so. The application for the permit shall be on a form approved by the city manager.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-17) (Ord. No. 2452)

No person in the city shall give away, sell or offer to sell any confection, candy, liquid or other refreshment in wax or paraffin containers, or other containers which when discarded upon a sidewalk or street will create a waxy, oily or greasy condition. This section shall not be construed to prohibit merchandising of products in paper or cardboard containers which are coated with paraffin or wax.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-18) (Ord. No. 2452)

No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained or for any reason to own or control any real property on which there is maintained or permitted to be maintained any uncapped or unguarded well, cistern, oil sump or other earthen sump, excavation or hole likely to produce bodily injury to persons as a result of a fall therein.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-19) (Ord. No. 2452)

The existence of any condition described in section 7-139 is hereby declared to be and is made a public nuisance. All such nuisances reported to or discovered by the city shall be abated in the manner provided by law.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-20) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) No person shall willfully interfere with any police service dog while such dog is being utilized by any peace officer or employee of the city in the performance of any functions of the city.

(B) Interfere, as used in this section, shall include teasing, taunting, striking, shooting at or near, distracting, restraining, injuring, directing or urging any other animal to attack, or in any other manner hindering such dog or delaying or preventing it from performing its functions.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-22) (Ord. No. 2452)

No person shall urinate or defecate upon any street, sidewalk, parkway, alley or other place exposed to public view within the city.

(`64 Code, Sec. 20-23) (Ord. No. 2452)

(A) The following regulations shall apply to skateboarding, bicycling, roller skating, inline skating, or razor scooting in public parking lots:

(1) No person shall ride, propel or in any manner operate a skateboard, bicycle, roller skates, inline skates, or inline scooter on or over any public parking lot upon which the city has posted signs informing such person that such uses are prohibited.

(2) The prohibitions set forth in this section shall not apply unless and until the city complies with the following:

(a) Provide notice in and about the area where the activity is prohibited, in conspicuously placed locations and in sufficient numbers to adequately notify a person engaging in the prohibited activity;

(b) The notice shall identify in capital letters at least two inches high the activities that are prohibited and shall identify this section of the code.

(B) The following regulations shall apply to skateboarding, bicycling, roller skating, inline skating, or razor scooting on private property:

(1) No person shall ride, propel or in any manner operate a skateboard, bicycle, roller skates, inline skates, or inline scooter on or over any privately owned property upon which the owner, manager, or other person in charge of such private property has posted signs informing such person that such uses are prohibited.

(2) The prohibitions set forth in this section shall not apply unless and until the owner, manager, or person in charge of such private property complies with the following:

(a) Provide notice in and about the area where the activity is prohibited, in conspicuously placed locations and in sufficient numbers to adequately notify a person engaging in the prohibited activity;

(b) The notice shall identify in capital letters at least two inches high the activities that are prohibited and shall identify this section of the code.

(Ord. No. 2767)

(A) Except as set forth in subsections (A)(1) - (A)(5) of this section, no person shall park a motor vehicle in any off-street parking area in a commercial zone.

(1) A customer may park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area while doing business with one of the commercial enterprises served by such off-street parking.

(2) An employee may park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area during the employee's normal working hours with one of the commercial enterprises served by such off-street parking.

(3) A person doing business with a commercial enterprise may park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area during the time the person is doing business with a commercial enterprise served by such off-street parking.

(4) A person may park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area if the use is in accordance with a valid temporary use permit for such off-street parking area.

(5) A person may park a motor vehicle in an off-street parking area owned by the city if the use is in accordance with and authorized by a written license agreement with the city.

(B) This section shall only apply during the hours that any commercial enterprise served by such off-street parking is open for business.

(Ord. No. 2609, 2636)

(A) No person shall trespass on the River Ridge Golf Course.

(B) For purposes of this section, "trespass" means to enter the golf playing area (except the driving range or the practice area) of the River Ridge Golf Course without a receipt issued for that purpose on the same day in the pro shop of the River Ridge Golf Course; or to enter the golf playing area of the River Ridge Golf Course at any time that the golf playing area is closed.

(C) For purposes of this section, the golf playing area of the River Ridge Golf Course is the area outlined on the map on file with the city clerk.

(Ord. No. 2659)

(A) For purposes of this section, a YARD SALE shall be defined as the public sale of items from a garage, carport, patio, driveway, front yard, side yard, or back yard of a residence.

(B) Yard sales shall be limited to no more than three per residence during a calendar year. No yard sale shall occur within 30 days from the last day of any previous yard sale held at the same residence.

(C) Each yard sale shall not exceed three consecutive days and shall be held only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. or sunrise, whichever is later, and 6:00 p.m. or sunset, whichever is earlier.

(D) Yard sale items shall not be displayed on or obstruct public streets, alleys, or sidewalks.

(E) Yard sale items shall be removed from public visibility at the end of each day said yard sale is held.

(F) Yard sale items shall be the personal property of the resident and shall have been used in the home of said resident. Items that were purchased, solicited, or made for the purpose of resale shall not be sold or displayed at any yard sale.

(G) The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales of personal property made under court order.

(Ord. No. 2825)