Poway Municipal Code Ch. 12.26 Automobile Deliveries

A. For purposes of this chapter, “automobile” means any vehicle commonly known as an automobile, car, or pickup truck.

B. For purposes of this chapter, “general manager” means a person, regardless of the job title or description, who has discretionary powers to organize, direct, carry on, or control the operations of the automobile dealership, including, but not limited to, the loading and unloading of automobiles of the dealership.

(Ord. 624 § 2, 2005)

A. No general manager of an automobile dealership shall allow, permit, or authorize the receipt onto the automobile dealership’s premises of an automobile which has been unloaded in the right-of-way of a public or private street from a truck which has the capacity to transport more than one such automobile.

B. No general manager of an automobile dealership shall allow or authorize the shipment from the automobile dealership’s premises of an automobile that will be loaded in the right-of-way of a public or private street onto a truck which has the capacity to transport more than one such automobile.

(Ord. 624 § 2, 2005)

Nothing in PMC § 12.26.020 shall prohibit the loading or unloading of automobiles wholly within the boundaries of the privately owned premises of an automobile dealership or wholly within the boundaries of an automobile storage lot approved by the City for such purpose.

(Ord. 624 § 2, 2005)

Within 30 days of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, the owner of each automobile dealership located within the City limits of the City of Poway shall file with the Code Compliance Officer of the City the name of the general manager of the dealership, and shall, within 30 days of the employment of a different general manager thereafter, file with the Code Compliance Officer of the City the name of that general manager.

(Ord. 624 § 2, 2005)

A violation of PMC § 12.26.020 shall not require that the general manager have actual knowledge of the circumstances of the loading or unloading of any particular automobile. A violation of any provision of this chapter or a failure to comply with any mandatory requirement of this chapter is subject to prosecution in accordance with Chapters 1.08 and 1.10 PMC and may be enforced through injunctive relief against the owner or general manager of the dealership.

(Ord. 624 § 2, 2005)