Santa Ana Municipal Code § 36-414 Issuance—Initially; legend

Any person doing any building, construction, alteration, repair or addition to the structural detail or part of any building, or rendering any maintenance or janitor service to buildings on a contract basis in any parking meter zone and any public utility operating maintenance or service vehicles in such zone in the city may apply to the downtown development manager for a permit to use a parking meter hood. Such application shall state the name of the person, organization, or if a partnership, the names of the partners, the business address of the applicant, the nature of the business carried on by him, the fact that it is necessary to use a truck or other vehicle because of the equipment thereon, or the materials or machinery transported thereby, in said parking meter zones. Upon approval of said application, the downtown development manager shall issue the permit with specified valid term.

(Code 1952, § 3311; Ord. No. NS-127, § 1, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-1996, § 6, 2-6-89; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 1, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 7, 4-21-03)

Upon receipt of an application for a hood permit approved as hereinabove provided for and payment of the required charges, the executive director of the community development agency or designee shall issue a permit which shall be numbered and each of which permits shall be accompanied by a hood and on both sides shall carry the legend in boldface type "PERMIT PARKING ONLY." The permit shall further recite the date of issuance, the date upon which it expires and the name and address of the permittee. No permit shall be issued to any applicant who does not hold a paid-up business license in the city, if such license is required.

(Code 1952, § 3311.1; Ord. No. NS-127, § 1, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 2, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 8, 4-21-03)

When the executive director of the community development agency or designee finds that any person holding a permit under the provisions of chapter 36, division 2 has violated the provisions of this division, the permittee shall immediately deliver the same to the executive director of the community development agency or designee upon receipt of notice of revocation by mail. Said permittee may appeal to the council pursuant to the provisions of chapter 3 of this Code. Unless the council after hearing shall waive the revocation, no permittee shall be issued a new permit or hood within thirty (30) days of such revocation. The council at any hearing held, or if there is no hearing requested the downtown development manager, may extend the period during which no new permit or hood shall be issued up to, but not exceeding, one hundred eighty (180) days.

(Code 1952, § 3311.6; Ord. No. NS-127, § 2, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-1235, § 15, 12-9-74; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 3, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 9, 4-21-03)

The minimum charge for any hood permit so issued shall be six dollars ($6.00) per day of any part thereof. The minimum charge for additional permits for the same meter space so issued shall be three dollars ($3.00). A permit may be issued for a maximum period of six (6) months. All permittees shall, prior to the issuance or renewal of any permit, make a deposit of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for each hood issued, which deposit shall be returned upon the surrender of the hood in good condition to the office of the director of finance through the downtown development office.

(Code 1952, § 3311.2; Ord. No. NS-127, § 1, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 4, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 10, 4-21-03)

The loss of any permit or hood shall be reported to the downtown development manager not later than noon on the next succeeding business day following the loss, and the permittee shall pay to the city thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for each hood lost. The permittee shall pay to the city thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for any hood in his possession that becomes damaged beyond repair. In the event repair is possible, said permittee shall pay the cost of such repair, which in no case shall exceed thirty-five dollars ($35.00). The provisions for payment in case of damage hereinabove set out shall not apply to damage or deterioration from normal usage or to damage by vandalism or malicious mischief committed by persons other than the permittee, his agents or employees.

If the permittee fails to return the hood and fails to renew his permit granted hereunder by paying the charges hereinabove fixed therefore within seven (7) days of the expiration of said permit, he shall pay to the city for such unlawful withholding of such hood, the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35.00). No new permit or hood shall be issued to any permittee when any payment provided for this section has become due and has not been paid. The determination of the cause of damage to any hood shall be made by the downtown development manager.

(Code 1952, § 3311.3; Ord. No. NS-127, § 1, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 5, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 11, 4-21-03)

The downtown development manager shall revoke any permit issued hereunder and immediately take up the hood accompanying the same, for any of the following reasons:

(1) When the permittee has failed to pay any charge or fee provided for in this article.

(2) When the circumstances or needs under which the permit was granted no longer exist.

(3) When the permittee ceases to carry a business license in the city or fails to pay the current business license fee due thereunder if such license if required.

(4) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter without the display of a current unrevoked permit in the transparent window of said hood.

(5) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter for any purpose other than the business purposes permitted by this article.

(6) When the hood is not removed from the parking meter immediately upon the completion of work for which this article permits the hood to be used.

(7) When any person other than the permittee or his regular employee or agent is allowed to use the hood.

(8) When the hood is used to cover any parking meter adjacent to and regulating a stall where parking is limited to twenty-four (24) minutes or less.

(Code 1952, § 3311.4; Ord. No. NS-127, § 1, 8-15-55; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 6, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 12, 4-21-03)

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-2525, § 13, adopted April 21, 2003, repealed § 36-419 in its entirety, which pertained to special U.S. recruiter bonds and derived from the Code of 1952, § 3311.7; Ord. No. NS-535, § 1, adopted August 21, 1961; Ord. No. NS-2028, § 7, adopted September 18, 1989.

Any organization conducting a funeral in any building in a parking meter zone may apply to the downtown development manager for a permit to use parking meter hoods in front of or near such building during such funeral and shall furnish such information on the application as the downtown development manager may require. The downtown development manager shall determine the number of hoods which shall be issued, the area in which they may be used and the time during which they may be used. Upon payment of the meter hood charges as specified in section 36-416, the downtown development manager shall issue a permit accompanied by a hood and on both sides shall carry the legend in boldface type "FUNERAL PARKING ONLY."

(Ord. No. NS-2028, § 8, 9-18-89; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 14, 4-21-03)

(a) Wherever the language of any section, subsection, provision, or clause contained in Chapter 36 of this Code shall mention the finance and management services agency, such section, subsection, provision, or clause shall mean the community development agency.

(b) Wherever the language of any section, subsection, provision, or clause contained in Chapter 36 of this Code shall mention the executive director of the finance and management services agency, such section, subsection, provision, or clause shall mean the executive director of the community development agency.

(c) Wherever the language of any section, subsection, provision, or clause contained in Chapter 36 of this Code shall mention the treasury and customer services manager, such section, subsection, provision, or clause shall mean the executive director of the community development agency or his or her designee.

(Ord. No. NS-2880, § 7, 9-1-15; Ord. No. NS-2990, § 4, 5-19-20)