Thousand Oaks Municipal Code Art. 8 Regulation of Vehicles on Public and Private Property

* Article 8 entitled “Regulation of Motor Vehicles on Private Property,” consisting of Sections 4-3.801 through 4-3.804, as added by Ordinance No. 150-NS, eff. May 14, 1970, repealed by Section 1, Ordinance No. 709-NS, effective May 3, 1979.

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle upon any land in the City, except upon a City, County, or State highway; a specifically designated parking area; a well-defined private roadway or driveway; or on private property where express permission from a person in lawful possession has been obtained.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979)

This article shall not apply to publicly-owned or operated vehicles while engaged in official business nor to vehicles engaged in an emergency where the preservation or protection of life or property is involved.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979)

(a) This article shall not apply to trails or areas which may be designated as open to use by vehicles by resolution of the Council.

(b) Whenever a trail or area is designated by resolution of the Council as open to the use of vehicles, the trail shall be so posted. No person operating a vehicle upon a trail or area open to the use of vehicles shall cause the vehicle to proceed cross country, use short cuts on switchbacks or other turns of any trail, or depart in any other way from the traveled portion of any trail or area.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979)

(a) No person shall operate any vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine on private property within the City without a United States Forestry Service or State-approved spark arrestor or a noise-muffling device approved by the State.

(b) No person shall operate any vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine on private property within three hundred (300) feet of the exterior boundaries of any residential property, except where reasonably necessary upon his own property or property of others over which a lawful easement right is owned for purposes of ingress or egress.

(c) No person shall operate within the City any vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine beyond three hundred (300) feet of the exterior boundary of any residential property (whether on his own property or that of others) with equipment on such vehicle (or in such a manner) that the volume of the exhaust, sound, or motor noise is audible to the extent that such noise volume is so loud, raucous, or jarring as to be disturbing or a nuisance to the peace or quiet of any adjacent neighborhood or a person residing in an adjacent neighborhood or conducting a lawful business therein. There shall be a rebuttable presumption of compliance with the equipment requirements of this subsection if the vehicle is determined to be in compliance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979)

For the purposes of this article, “Vehicle” shall mean any device so defined by the Vehicle Code of the State.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979)

Any person violating any provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation of this Code pursuant to Section 1-2.01 of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of this Code.

(§ 2, Ord. 709-NS, eff. May 3, 1979, as amended by § VII, Ord. 770-NS, eff. February 26, 1981)