Santa Ana Municipal Code § 36-436 Parking lot at northeast corner of Flower Street and Santa Ana Boulevard

The council may, by resolution, declare the necessity for the use of parking meters on any municipally owned or operated parking lot, may fix and determine traffic patterns for the movement of traffic on such municipally owned or operated parking lot and governing the ingress and egress thereto and therefrom, and when the council regularly passes and adopts any resolution for any of said purposes the same shall control the use of the area affected thereby, and said regulations may be applied to lots open to public use or to lots restricted to certain classes of vehicles and to certain hours and days.

(Code 1952, § 3312; Ord. No. NS-708, § 2, 1-6-64; Ord. No. NS-1996, § 7, 2-6-89)

No person, on any public parking lot which is municipally owned or operated, shall commit any of the following violations:

(1) Enter said parking lot over any area or driveway or the portion between any curb returns which is not marked with the word "entrance" painted thereon or in some manner clearly designated for use as an entrance.

(2) Park, place or rank any vehicle on any portion of such lot in such a manner as to interfere with or restrict the freedom of traffic movement between the areas indicated for parking, or to interfere with the free ingress or egress to and from said lot.

(3) Move any vehicle from any such parking lot into any public way over any area except an area marked with the word "exit" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs or words that it is a driveway, or place for the leaving of such parking lot.

(4) Park any vehicle with a trailer or any other thing attached thereto which extends into the areas commonly used for traffic movement.

(5) Park, place or rank any vehicle or thing on any portion of said property which has been marked in red or by pavement stripes or words or signs to indicate that no parking is permitted.

(6) Park any vehicle or thing in any manner except entirely within the area indicated for vehicular parking by parallel lines painted upon the paved surface or in any manner so that any portion of said vehicle or thing extends over or across any line painted on the paved portion of said property.

(7) Move any vehicle on any such lot at any speed exceeding ten (10) miles per hour.

(8) Fail to place the name and address of the driver, the name and address of the registered owner and the registration number of any vehicle that has collided with any other vehicle or thing on such parking lot on the vehicle or thing collided with if the same is unattended, or to give such information to the person in charge of the other vehicle or thing if the same is attended.

(9) Permit any vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond any period of time declared by resolution of the council to be the maximum time for parking on such lot.

(10) Deposit any coin, slug or thing in any parking meter on such lot other than a coin of the United States of America, of the size or value indicated for use in such parking meter.

(11) Leave any vehicle or thing in any parking space adjacent to or in front of any parking meter regulating parking in such space at any time when metered parking restrictions are in effect, while or after said meter shows a signal indicating unlawful parking.

(12) Park or place any truck exceeding two (2) tons in gross weight upon any portion of any parking lot.

(13) Drink any alcoholic beverage on said parking lot at any time of day or night.

(14) Move any vehicle onto or move any vehicle off of any municipally owned or operated parking lot in any manner so as to drive over the curb, curbline or sidewalk, except in a driveway area or between curb returns.

(15) Park or place any vehicle in any area designated exclusively for vehicles of physically handicapped persons, unless said vehicle displays either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.1 of the California Vehicle Code, or to disabled veterans as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Code 1952, §§ 3312.1—3312.13; Ord. No. NS-708, § 3, 1-6-64; Ord. No. NS-1302, § 3, 4-5-76; Ord. No. NS-1996, § 8, 2-6-89)

The police department is empowered to issue citations in the usual form and manner for any violation of this article.

(Code 1952, § 3313)

The police department is authorized and directed to remove and place in storage, at a regular storage garage, any vehicle which is parked on any such parking lot in violation of this article or any vehicle left on any such parking lot for a period exceeding thirty (30) hours, unless special permission has been granted by the chief of police or the executive director of the community development agency for such extended parking privileges.

(Code 1952, § 3314; Ord. No. NS-2525, § 15, 4-21-03)

Whenever the city has entered into a joint powers agreement with any other public entity, sections 36-432, 36-433 and 36-434 of this Code shall apply to any parking facility located within Santa Ana, owned or operated jointly by the parties to said agreement in the same manner and to the same extent as if the facility were exclusively owned by the city, providing the governing body of said joint authority has first requested such application.

(Ord. No. NS-1194, § 3, 2-25-74)

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-2525, § 16, adopted April 21, 2003, repealed § 36-435 in its entirety, which pertained to the parking lot on Third, north side between Birch and Ross and derived from the Code of 1951, § 3315 and Ord. No. NS-153, § 1, adopted January 3, 1956.

Parking of vehicles in the city-leased lot at the northeast corner of the intersection of Flower Street and Santa Ana Boulevard is restricted to:

(a) Official vehicles of the City of Santa Ana, State of California or the County of Orange, and

(b) Private vehicles for which a permit has been issued by the director of transportation of the City of Santa Ana.

No person shall park any vehicle other than such vehicles as described in this section in the abovedescribed lot.

(Ord. No. NS-1653, § 1, 11-1-82)