Chapter 11.80

OFF-ROAD VEHICLES

Sections:

• 11.80.030 Operation - Prohibited on public property.

• 11.80.040 Operation on private property - Permit required.

• 11.80.050 Operation on private property - Display of authorization to peace officer.

This chapter is designed to regulate the operation of registered and unregistered motor vehicles by all persons, whether they possess a valid California motor vehicle operator's license or not, upon unimproved property and upon all public property except highways in the city.

(Prior code § 3800; Ord. 20961.)

As used in this chapter, the following words have the significance attached to them herein defined:

• A. "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle which is self-propelled, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  1. Any motorcycle or motor-driven cycle;

  2. Any motor vehicle commonly referred to as a sand buggy, dune buggy, or allterrain vehicle;

  3. Any motor vehicle commonly referred to as a jeep, pickup truck, or four-wheeldrive vehicle;

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VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

§ 11.88.010

4. Any motor vehicle when such motor vehicle is operated on land to which this chapter applies.

• B. "Highway" means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes street.

• C. "Unimproved property" means any parcel of land which either contains no structures or which is not surfaced with cement, concrete, asphaltic concrete, or other similar material, or which does not have a hard surface made of a mixture of rock, sand or gravel bound together with a chemical or mineral substance other than natural soil.

(Prior code § 3801; Ord. 20961.)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle, other than a publicly owned motor vehicle, upon any public sidewalk, walkway, parkway, or in any public park or recreational area or upon any other publicly owned property, except highways, within the city. This shall not be construed to prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle having a valid California vehicle registration by any person possessing a valid California operator's license upon the public highways in the city.

(Prior code § 3802; Ord. 20961.)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle, other than a publicly owned motor vehicle, upon any unimproved parcel of real property within the city without first obtaining and having in his immediate possession an authorization for such operation, in writing, from the present owner of the unimproved private property, such authorization identifying the operator by name and being signed by the owner in the presence of not less than two witnesses. The authorization shall contain the printed or typewritten name of the owner or his agent, the address and phone number of the owner or his agent, a descrip-

tion of the property upon which such operation is authorized, and the type of motor vehicle authorized to be operated thereon.

(Prior code § 3803; Ord. 20961.)

Every person operating a motor vehicle upon any unimproved parcel of real estate within the city shall present the written authorization by the property owner for examination upon demand of a peace officer enforcing the provisions of this chapter.

(Prior code § 3804; Ord. 20961.)