Salinas Municipal Code § 21-53 Canned goods or bottled beverages prohibited at sporting events

(a) Public Places. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one years to have in his possession at any time any distilled malt, spirituous, vinous, fermented or alcoholic liquor, containing more than one-half of one percent by volume of alcohol, upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, or in or about any public place, in the city.

(b) Place Not Open to the Public. No person under the age of twenty-one years shall have in his or her possession or consume any alcoholic beverage at any place not open to the public.

(c) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. No. 652 (NCS), § 1.)

(Ord. No. 2513 (NCS), § 2, 2-1-2011)

Except as may specifically be authorized by a sidewalk cafe encroachment permit issued pursuant to Article V of Chapter 30 of this Code, no person shall drink any beer, wine or other intoxicating beverage on any public street, sidewalk, alley, highway, plaza parkway, parking lot, airport terminal, or bus or train depot in the city. This section is not intended to make punishable any acts which are prohibited by any law of the state.

(Ord. No. (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 1341 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2475 (NCS), § 3.)

It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of twenty-one years to have in his/her possession at any time any distilled malt, spirituous, vinous, fermented or alcoholic liquor containing more than one-half of one percent by volume of alcohol, in any city park or city recreational facility, except for the following:

(a) Salinas Rodeo Grounds, Salinas Municipal Stadium, Sherwood Hall and Sherwood Park, upon approval of the library and community services director.

(b) A city recreational building or facility if allowed by the operating permit or policies for the use of the building or facility.

(Ord. No. 2168 (NCS), § 1.)

(Ord. No. 2529 (NCS), § 18, 7-10-2012)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2513 (NCS), § 3, adopted Feb. 1, 2011, repealed § 21-2.5, which pertained to certain unlawful social gatherings and derived from Ord. No. 2141 (NCS), § 2.

No bootblack shall place or maintain his bootblack stand, or conduct any business as a bootblack, or shine or polish any boots or shoes, upon any sidewalk, street, park, parkway or alley.

(Ord. No. 1002, § 5.)

It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to sell, offer for sale, attempt to sell, exhibit, give away, keep in his possession with intent to sell or give away, or in any way furnish or attempt to furnish, to any child under the age of eighteen years, any crime comic book, horror comic book, or licentious book, as such terms are defined in this section.

The term "crime comic book" as prohibited herein shall mean and include any book, magazine, pamphlet, or other publication, commonly known and designated as a "crime comic book," or "crime comic," and in which the primary theme, story, or subject matter, is the depiction by illustrations or cartoons of the commission, or attempted commission, or conspiracy to commit, any crime, amounting to a felony, against the person or property of another, as such crimes are defined by the Penal Code of the state, in such manner, form, or style as would incite, encourage, suggest, or tend to incite, or suggest, the commission of similar or identical crime or criminal act by any minor under the age of eighteen years, into whose hands such crime comic book may fall.

The term "horror comic book" shall mean and include any book, magazine, pamphlet, or other publication in which there is prominently featured an account of, or the principal subject matter of which is, a violent death of a human being or an account of a violent physical assault upon or injury to a human being, or both, or an attempt at either, which account, or subject matter, is depicted by means of illustrations or cartoons which show real or fictional characters, human or inhuman, natural or supernatural, and which account, or subject matter, so pictorially depicted, is likely to produce terrifying and lasting fears, apprehensions, or anxieties, of a detrimental nature in or to the minds of children injurious to their welfare.

The term "licentious book" prohibited in this section shall mean and include any book, magazine, pamphlet, or other publication, which deals in substantial part with lewd, licentious, or indecent, subject matter, the manifest purpose of which is to incite lewd thoughts, excite the sexual passions, or corrupt the morals of minors.

This section shall not be construed to apply to those accounts of crime which are part of the ordinary and general dissemination of news, nor to such drawings and photographs as are used to illustrate such accounts.

(Ord. No. 792 (NCS), §§ 1—3.)

(a) Presence of Minors Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to be present in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, or other public grounds, public places and public buildings, or vacant lots between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a minor accompanied by his or her parent, guardian, or other adult person having the lawful care and custody of the minor, or where the minor is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his parent, guardian or other adult person having the lawful care and custody of the minor, or where the minor is returning directly home from a meeting, entertainment, recreational activity, or dance or where the minor is exercising rights protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

(b) Deleted.

(c) Penalty. Any minor violating the provisions of this section shall be dealt with in accordance with the Juvenile Court laws of the State of California.

(d) Deleted.

(Ord. No. 907 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 962 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 1812 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2082 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2318 (NCS), §§ 1—4.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to utter or use within the hearing of one or more persons any seditious language, words or epithets, or to address to another, or to utter in the presence of another, any words, language or expression, or seditious remarks, having a tendency to create a breach of the peace.

(Ord. No. 181 (NS), § 1.)

State Law reference— For state law as to disturbing the peace, see Pen. C., § 415.

No person shall fight, challenge to fight, or use any vulgar, profane or indecent language in any street, alley, highway or public place.

(Ord. No. 20 (NS), § 2.)

A person is guilty of disorderly conduct within the city limits if, with the purpose to cause public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance, and with intent and knowledge thereof, a person wilfully, by overt conduct, does any of the following:

(a) No person shall create a disturbance of the public order by an act of violence or by any act likely to produce violence.

(b) No person shall engage in fighting, or in violent, threatening or tumultuous behavior.

(c) No person shall address abusive language or threats to any other person to the extent that it creates a clear and present danger of violence.

(d) No person shall cause likelihood of harm or serious inconvenience by failing to obey a lawful order of dispersal by a police officer, where three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity.

(e) No person shall damage, befoul or disturb public property or property of another so as to create a hazard, unhealthy or physically offensive condition.

(f) No person shall sleep in any automobile parked on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public places within the corporate limits of the city.

(g) No person shall commit a trespass on private property or on public property. "Trespass" for the purpose of this section means:

(i) Entering upon, or refusing to leave, any property of another, either where such property has been posted with "No Trespassing" signs, or where immediately prior to such entry, or subsequent thereto, notice is given by the owner or occupant, orally or in writing, that such entry, or continued presence, is prohibited.

(ii) Entering upon, or refusing to leave, any public property in violation of regulations promulgated by the official charged with the security, care or maintenance of the property and approved by the governing body of the public agency owning the property, where such regulations have been conspicuously posted or where immediately prior to such entry, or subsequent thereto, such regulations are made known by the official charged with the security, care or maintenance of the property, his agent, or a police officer.

(h) No person shall commit or maintain a public nuisance as the same is defined in Section 3479 of the Civil Code of the state of California.

(Ord. No. 1515 (NCS), § 1.)

Any person, firm, association, or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating or causing the violation of any of the provisions of the preceding section of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such person, firm, association, or corporation, or agent or employee thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any such violation is committed or continued and shall be punishable as herein provided.

The city attorney of the city shall, upon order of the council, immediately commence action or proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment of any of the aforementioned prohibited acts or conduct which is of a continuing nature or duration, in any manner provided by law, and shall take such other steps and shall apply to such courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate, remove, restrain and enjoin any person, firm, association or corporation from committing or continuing any course of conduct which may amount to a continuing violation of any of such prohibited acts.

(Ord. No. 1515 (NCS), § 2.)

For the purpose of Sections 21-10 to 21-15 certain words and phrases are defined as follows:

Fence. Any structure, the primary purpose of which is to contain, circumscribe, bound, or otherwise delimit an area, lot, or premises, or to prevent access or visibility into or out of such area, lot, or premises.

Structure. Anything constructed, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground.

Building Code. The building code of the city as adopted and from time to time amended.

(Ord. No. 1063 (NCS), § 3.)

The building official may require the construction of a fence on any vacant property where the unsightly or unsafe condition of such property makes said fence necessary in the public interest.

(Ord. No. 1063 (NCS), § 4.)

It shall be unlawful to construct any fence or any part thereof in a manner or of materials not permitted for use in permanent exterior construction by the building code. Such prohibited materials shall include but shall not be limited to flattened tin cans, cardboard, tar paper, broken boards, or any broken, partially deteriorated, or otherwise unsightly material. Any fence constructed on or adjacent to a public right-of-way shall be constructed in accordance with the city specifications pertaining thereto.

(Ord. No. 1063 (NCS), § 5.)

It shall be unlawful to maintain any fence or any part thereof in an unsafe, unstable, or unsightly condition. Every fence shall have a uniform surface maintained in good repair. Any coating, paint, or veneer applied to the exterior face of a fence or any part thereof shall not be permitted to fall into a state of advanced deterioration or to reach a point where it has lost fifty percent or more of its original protective value. Where used materials are used for the exterior construction of any fence or any part thereof, they shall be painted or otherwise covered with a uniform protective coating or veneer.

(Ord. No. 1073 (NCS), § 6.)

The building official shall notify in writing the owner of any fence that is in violation of Sections 21-10 to 21-15 to repair or remove such fence or whatever part thereof is in violation of these sections, and upon failure of the owner to repair or remove such fence or part thereof within ten days after such notification, the building official is hereby authorized to issue a citation against such owner.

(Ord. No. 1063 (NCS), § 7.)

Any fence constructed or maintained in violation of any of the provisions of Sections 21-10 to 21-15 is declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance, and the city attorney, upon direction of the council, shall commence proceedings for the abatement, removal, and enjoinment thereof in the manner provided by law, and shall take such other steps, and shall apply to such courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief, as will abate and remove such fence or structure and enjoin any person, firm, or corporation from constructing, maintaining, or using any such fence or structure in violation of these provisions. The remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive.

(Ord. No. 1063 (NCS), § 9.)

* For authority of city to determine and abate nuisances, see Gov. C., § 38771.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed § 21-21, which pertained to registers to be kept by hotels, etc., and derived from Ord. No. 749 (NCS), § 2.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed § 21-22, which pertained to registering under a false name at hotels, etc., and derived from Ord. No. 749 (NCS), § 3.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed § 21-23, which pertained to rooms to be numbered at hotels, etc., and derived from Ord. No. 749 (NCS), § 5.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed § 21-24, which pertained to prohibited use of hotels, etc., for immoral purposes, and derived from Ord. No. 749 (NCS), § 4.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed § 21-25, which pertained to authority of police at hotels, etc., and derived from Ord. No. 749 (NCS), § 6.

No person shall urinate, stool or make any indecent exhibition of his person, or the private parts thereof, on any street, sidewalk or public place.

(Ord. No. 20 (NS), § 4.)

No inflammable liquid shall be delivered from dispensing devices except by the operators of such devices, their employees or authorized representatives. No pumps for such inflammable liquids and other facilities for the delivery of such inflammable liquids shall be left unlocked or without effective provision to prevent public access to supplies of such inflammable liquids.

For the purpose of this section "inflammable liquids" include all liquids with flash point below one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit as determined in a "Saybolt Electric Open Cup Tester" and all liquids which emit a flammable vapor and with flash point at or above one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit as determined in a "Saybolt Electric Open Cup Tester."

(Ord. No. 554 (NCS), §§ 1, 2.)

* As to fire prevention, see Ch. 13 of this Code.

It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter about any school or public place at or near which school children attend.

(Ord. No. 802 (NCS), § 1.)

* For state law as to trespassing or loitering near posted industrial property, see Pen. C., § 552 et seq.

It shall be unlawful for any person to haul, ship, bring or unload any manure, offal or other offensive or nauseous substance into the city; provided that it shall not be unlawful to ship, haul or transport manure or fertilizers through the city when the same is properly and securely enclosed in staunch or tight containers, or hauled in trucks or other vehicles or freight cars which have side and tail boards and canvas or other covering, which prevent the dropping or scattering of such manure or fertilizers in the course of transportation; provided further that it shall not be unlawful to unload fertilizers upon any lands within the city for the immediate use thereof as such fertilizers upon lands, and when such fertilizers are actually used for the conditioning of the soil upon which the same is unloaded within a period of ten days from the time of unloading. For the purposes of this section, lime, gypsum, and mineral substances commonly used in conditioning the soil, and which do not have an offensive or obnoxious odor, shall not be classified as either manure or fertilizer.

(Ord. No. 201 (NCS), § 1.)

No minor under the age of sixteen years shall jump on or off, or, in any manner, enter or leave any railway while the same is in motion; or shall enter or remain in any cattle guard over which trains pass; or shall loiter or play in or about any switch yard or railroad track.

(Ord. No. 20 (NS), § 5.)

No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line or public assembly, any length of lumber, wood, or wood lath unless that object is one-fourth inch or less in thickness and two inches or less in width, or if not generally rectangular in shape, such object shall not exceed three-quarters inch in its thickest dimension. All materials attached to any such wood object must be fastened in such manner that the pointed ends of any metal fastener do not remain exposed. Metal rods and pipes are prohibited from use and shall not be carried by any person during such demonstration, rally, picket line or public assembly.

(Ord. No. 1763 (NCS), § 1.)

(a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section the following definitions will apply:

(1) "Public place" is an area generally visible to public view and includes streets, sidewalks, bridges, alleys, plazas, parks, driveways, parking lots, automobiles (whether moving or not), and buildings open to the general public including those which serve food or drink, or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings and the ground enclosing them.

(2) "Known prostitute or panderer" means a person who, within one year previous to the date of arrest for violation of this section, has within the knowledge of the arresting officer been convicted in any court of the state of California of any offense relating to or involving prostitution as defined in the Penal Code of the state of California.

(3) "Commit prostitution" means to engage in sexual activity for hire, including homosexual or other deviate sexual relations.

(b) Loitering for the Purpose of Engaging in Prostitution. It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter in or near any public place in a manner and under circumstances which openly displays the purpose of inducing, enticing, soliciting, or procuring another to commit prostitution. No arrest shall be made for a violation of this subsection unless the arresting officer first affords such person an opportunity to explain such conduct, and no one shall be convicted of violating this subsection if it appears at trial that the explanation given was true and disclosed a lawful purpose.

Among the circumstances which may be considered in determining whether a person intends such prohibited conduct are that she or he:

(1) Repeatedly beckons to, stops or attempts to stop or engage passersby in conversation;

(2) Repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles by hailing, waving of arms, or any other bodily gesture; or

(3) Is a known prostitute or panderer; or

(4) Has previously been convicted of violating this section.

(Ord. No. 1806 (NCS), § 1.)

It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or wantonly to operate or cause to be operated, any machine, device, apparatus, or instrument of any kind whatsoever within the city, the operation of which shall cause reasonably preventable electrical interference with radio reception, within the city; provided, however, that X-Ray pictures, examinations, or treatments may be made at any time if the machines or apparatus used therefore are properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary or reasonably preventable interference with radio reception and are not negligently operated.

(Ord. No. 151 (NCS), § 1.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or go upon or pass over or remain upon any land of another where the owner of such property, or the person entitled to the possession thereof for the time being, or the authorized agent of either, has posted or caused to be posted upon the land printed notices that the land is private property and warning all persons from trespassing thereon.

(Ord. No. 890 (NCS), § 1.)

* For state law as to trespassing or loitering near posted industrial property, see Pen. C., § 552 et seq.

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or go upon or pass over or remain upon any land of another after being personally forbidden so to do by the owner of the property, or by the person entitled to the possession thereof for the time being, or the authorized agent of either.

(Ord. No. 890 (NCS), § 2.)

Where any such owner of property, or any person entitled to the possession thereof for the time being, or the authorized agent of either, shall have authorized the police department to act as his agent for the purpose of warning and forbidding persons from trespassing upon his land, each and every member of the police department shall thereby be constituted his authorized agent therefor.

(Ord. No. 890 (NCS), § 3.)

No person shall place, construct, or build any structure or obstruction, in whole or in part, within any natural watercourse within the city without first having obtained a permit therefor from the council.

It shall be the duty of the council, upon the filing of drawings and specifications, together with the information relative to the dimensions and position of the structure or obstruction for the erection or construction of which application for a permit is made, to examine, or cause to be examined, such drawings and specifications and such information, and, if necessary, to examine the premises upon which it is proposed to erect such structure or obstruction, and, if it shall appear that the said structure or obstruction can be safely erected or constructed at the place and in the manner proposed, to issue a permit therefor.

(Ord. No. 942 (NCS), § 2.)

No person, other than a peace officer, shall, without having a permit from the mayor for that purpose, wear or carry concealed about his person any gun, pistol, dirk or other dangerous weapon. The mayor may, when he deems necessary or proper, issue to any person applying therefor, a permit to carry concealed weapons. Such permit shall be in writing, shall be exhibited upon demand to any policeman, and may be revoked at any time.

(Ord. No. 20 (NS), § 6.)

* For state law as to concealed weapons generally, see Pen. C., §§ 12000 to 12077.

No person shall own, carry or have in his possession, any slingshot, sandbag, knuckles or other weapon of similar character.

(Ord. No. 20 (NS), § 7.)

No person, except in necessary self-defense, shall fire or discharge any shotgun, rifle, pistol, air-gun, air-pistol, slingshot, firearm, or gun; but this provision shall not apply to peace officers in the discharge of their official duty, or to persons firing at a target in a duly licensed shooting gallery, or to persons engaging in trap-shooting under a permit therefor granted by the council.

(Ord. No. 718 (NCS), § 1.)

No person, whether as principal, agent, or otherwise, shall sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, or loan, to another person, or cause or permit to be sold, offered for sale, exchanged, given, or loaned, to another person, any type of spring-blade or push-button knife, regardless of the length of the blade.

(Ord. No. 884 (NCS), § 1.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession, care, custody, or control, whether concealed upon his person or not, any type of spring-blade or push-button knife, regardless of the length of the blade.

(Ord. No. 884 (NCS), § 2.)

The term "dangerous or deadly weapon" includes, but is not limited to, any revolver, pistol, shotgun, rifle or firearm, which may be used for the explosion of cartridges, and any air gun, "B-B" gun, gas-operated gun, spring gun, slingshot, bow and arrow, dirk, dagger, bayonet or knife other than a pocket knife, and any razor with an unguarded blade, and any weapon or device designed to project a missile of any type with such force or velocity as to be unsafe or dangerous to any person or property, in the city, other than (a) one carried pursuant to valid permit issued by duly authorized governmental authority, or (b) any ordinary rifle or shotgun lawfully owned or possessed in a domicile, or while being conveyed to or from such domicile for the purpose of hunting or other legitimate use outside the city.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 1369 (NCS), § 1.)

It shall be unlawful for any person, except in self-defense, to fire, discharge, or cause to be emitted any projectile or missile from, any dangerous or deadly weapon in the city. This section does not apply to any police officer, or member of the armed forces of the United States in the discharge of his duty, or to the discharge of any authorized target rifle in a shooting gallery operated, conducted, and licensed, pursuant to the ordinances of the city, or to any bow or arrow used as a part of any authorized school or recreational program under supervision of duly authorized instructors.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 2.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to possess any dangerous or deadly weapon with the following specific exceptions:

(a) Inside the person's domicile;

(b) During the officially designated Salinas "Big Week" Rodeo parades as a lawful participant of the parade and as part of his or her costume;

(c) During Rodeo sanctioned performances inside the Rodeo grounds during the officially designated Salinas "Big Week," provided such weapons are limited to unloaded revolvers, shotguns or rifles approved for such parades and performances by the police chief;

(d) While being conveyed from the person's domicile for the purposes of participating in the "Big Week" Rodeo parades and performances, or for hunting or other legitimate use outside the city.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 3; Ord. No. 1369 (NCS), § 2; Ord. No. 2319 (NCS) § 1.)

It shall be unlawful for any person who has in his immediate physical possession any dangerous or deadly weapon, to engage in any fight or participate in any other rough or disorderly conduct in the city.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 4.)

It shall be unlawful for any person who has upon his person or in his possession any dangerous or deadly weapon, to loiter or be about any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or any other place of public resort.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 5.)

Any weapon used or possessed in violation of the provisions of Sections 21-44 to 21-49 is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and the same shall be taken from the person violating such sections and surrendered to the chief of police, and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of, as provided by the provisions of Section 12028 of the Penal Code of the state.

(Ord. No. 897 (NCS), § 6.)

It shall be unlawful for any person except persons wholly or partially blind, to carry or use on the streets or in the parks, square or other public places in the city any cane or walking stick which is white in color, or white with red end or bottom.

(Ord. No. 203 (NCS), § 1.)

The operator of a vehicle, or any pedestrian who is not wholly or partially blind, upon approaching a wholly or partially blind pedestrian carrying in plain view or using a cane or walking stick white in color, or white with red end or bottom, shall immediately come to a full stop and take such precautions before proceeding as may be necessary to avoid injury or accident to the person so carrying or using such cane or walking stick.

(Ord. No. 203 (NCS), § 2.)

* As to motor vehicles and traffic, see Ch. 20 of this Code.

No person shall bring into any public place wherein a regularly scheduled sporting event or exhibition is being held, any canned goods or bottled beverages, other than any vacuum bottle, canteen or other similar reusable container, except when such persons are the suppliers of, or the agents or servants of such suppliers, or the agents or servants of the person or corporation allowed by the department or agency in charge of said public facility to sell or otherwise make use of the aforesaid articles in said public facility.

(Ord. No. 1631 (NCS), § 1.)

(a) No person shall throw, kick or cause to be thrown or kicked or otherwise placed in motion any ice, liquid, paper, can, bottle, container or other object in any public place wherein a regularly scheduled sporting event or exhibition is being held.

(b) The prohibition of subsection (a) herein shall not apply to employees of the city, to employees of the public facility, and to employees of persons or corporation presenting said sporting event or exhibition, who are regularly engaged in the performance of their duties under direction of appropriate authority.

(Ord. No. 1631 (NCS), § 2.)

(a) No person riding upon roller blades or roller skates or riding in or by means of any coaster, skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device shall ride upon any public sidewalk adjoinng a street listed in subsection (b) or upon any sidewalk in any shopping center when appropriate signs giving notice of the prohibition have been painted on or posted along those sidewalks.

(b) The prohibition contained in subsection (a) shall apply to public sidewalks adjoining the following streets:

(1) In Oldtown Salinas, Monterey, Main and Salinas Streets from Market Street to the north to Winham/Clay Streets on the south, Monterey Street to the east and Salinas Street to the west.

(c) For the purposes of this section, the words "shopping center" shall mean a group of two or more commercial establishments, the perimeter of which is clearly definable, developed on a continuous area of land, planned and developed as a single unit and providing shared on-site parking, landscaping and signage.

(Ord. No. 1663 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2303 (NCS), § 1.)

(a) It is unlawful for any person to enter upon or in any city-owned or controlled building, site, park, recreational area or recreational building while having upon his or her person any cutting, stabbing or bludgeoning weapon, instrument or device capable of inflicting grievous bodily harm including, without limitation, any knife with a fixed blade or a blade longer than three inches, any knife with any springblade, switchblade or snap-blade, or other similar-type knife, icepick, straight-edge razor, bicycle chain, including chromed bicycle chain worn or used as a belt of similar weapon, instrument or device, whether or not attached to another object.

(b) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the carrying of ordinary tools or equipment, devices or instruments, carried for uses of work, trade, business or social purposes in connection with any event or activity held in such place.

(c) The chief of police may provide an area, readily available to persons attending any event or activity at any place described herein where such weapons, instruments and devices shall be checked in and out by persons desiring to attend any such event or activity. All such weapons, instruments and devices, otherwise lawful, shall be returned upon presentation of proper identification.

(Ord. No. 1800 (NCS), § 1(B).)

It is unlawful for any person to torture, tease, torment, beat, kick, strike, mutilate, injure, disable, or kill any dog used by the police department of the city or any officer thereof in the performance of the functions or duties of such department, whether or not the dog is being so utilized at the time, or interfere or meddle with any such dog while being used in the performance of any such functions or duties.

(Ord. No. 1780 (NCS), § 1.)

A person shall not maintain in any place of business to which the public is invited, the display for sale or the offer for sale of devices, contrivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the state, including roach clips and other paraphernalia designed and used for smoking the foregoing, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, unless displayed or offered within a separate room or enclosure to which minors not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are excluded. The contents located within such a room or enclosure shall not be visible to any member of the public unless such person is located within such a room or enclosure. Each entrance to such a room or enclosure shall be signposted in reasonably visible and legible words to the effect that narcotic paraphernalia are being offered for sale in such a room and that minors, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are excluded.

(Ord. No. 1819 (NCS), § 1.)

No owner, manager, proprietor or person in charge of any room within any place of business selling or displaying for the purpose of sale, any device, contrivance, instrument or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting or consuming marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, as well as roach clips and other paraphernalia designed for the smoking of the foregoing, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, shall allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen years to be in, remain in, enter or visit such room unless such minor person is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or by his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. No. 1819 (NCS), § 1.)

A person under the age of eighteen years shall not be in, remain in, enter or visit any room in any place of business used for the sale or displaying for sale of devices, contrivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, including roach clips and other paraphernalia designed and used for smoking the foregoing, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, unless such person is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or his or her legal guardian.

(Ord. No. 1819 (NCS), § 1.)

Any place of business from which minors are not excluded as set forth in this section, and where such business displays for sale or offers for sale, any device, contrivance, instrument or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, including roach clips and other paraphernalia designed and used for smoking the foregoing, other than prescription drugs and devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, is declared to be a public nuisance, and may be abated pursuant to the provisions of Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the state. This remedy is in addition to any other remedy provided by law.

(Ord. No. 1819 (NCS), § 1.)

Violation of Sections 21-60, 21-60.1 and 21-60.2 is an infraction and is punishable by a fine not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

(Ord. No. 1819 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 1912 (NCS), § 3; Ord. No. 2163 (NCS), § 2.)

No person shall picket, demonstrate or distribute printed material on any street, sidewalk or alley immediately in front of or adjacent to any residence or dwelling unit except:

(a) Between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day, excluding Sunday and holidays;

(b) When conducted peacefully by no more than two persons at any residence or dwelling unit, nor more than five persons on either side of any street a block in length, alley or cul-de-sac; and

(c) In a manner that allows safe and unobstructed ingress to and egress from any residence or dwelling unit.

This section shall not be deemed to permit, allow or authorize any activity which is otherwise prohibited by or contrary to the provisions of this Code.

(Ord. No. 1827 (NCS), § 2.)

(a) Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the following provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction: Sections 21-2, 21-3, 21-4, 21-6, 21-7, 21-9.1(f), 21-26, 21-28, 21-29, 21-30, 21-32, 21-33, 21-50, 21-51, 21-52.1, 21-52.2, 21-52.4, 21-52.5, 21-52.6, 21-52.9, 21-53, 21-54 and 21-55.

(b) Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the other provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor or infraction.

(Ord. No. 1704 (NCS), § 11; Ord. No. 1800 (NCS), § 1(A); Ord. No. 1806 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2163 (NCS), § 2.)

(Ord. No. 2518 (NCS), § 2, 8-16-2011; Ord. No. 2540 (NCS), § 2, 6-11-2013)