Yuba City Municipal Code Art. 20 Restricting Travel on Levees within the Corporate Limits of the City of…

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate, stop, park or leave standing any vehicle upon any levee which is a unit of any flood control project within the corporate limits of the City of Yuba City except as hereinafter specifically permitted under Section 4-9.2005 and Section 4-9.2006.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

Driving and operating a vehicle shall be permitted in certain restricted areas on and over levee crown roadways and ramps where said ramps and roadways are specifically posted with signs indicating the areas over which said driving may take place. Provided, however, that driving over such levee crown roadways and ramps shall be done in such a manner as not to cause any damage to the levee or its structure, and in any case, at a speed not to exceed 15 miles per hour unless a higher speed is posted.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

It is hereby made the duty of the responsible levee district, reclamation district or Department of Water Resources of the State of California having jurisdiction over the particular levee involved to immediately provide signs reflecting said maximum speed limit and designating and posting the areas over which vehicles may be operated under the provisions of this chapter reflecting that it is unlawful to operate vehicles except within the designated areas.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

For the purposes of this chapter, vehicle is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway excepting a device moved by human power.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

This chapter shall not apply to levee maintenance vehicles and equipment operated by or under the supervision of the various levee districts, reclamation districts, County of Sutter, City of Yuba City, or State of California.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

This chapter shall not apply to levees on which there exists State, County or City highways.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

Where levees are closed to the public, each responsible levee district, reclamation district or Department of Water Resources shall specifically authorize and designate property owners adjacent to levees who must have necessary access over those adjacent levees to service adjacent pumping plants or to pass to and from adjacent properties which are not served by public highways and when so designated said adjacent property owners are hereby authorized to pass over these closed levees. Such authorized use shall be done in such a manner as not to cause any damage to the levee or its structure and in any case at a speed not to exceed 15 miles per hour unless a higher speed is posted.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

Any violation of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding 20 days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)

If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this article which is reasonably separable from the remaining portion of this chapter, if for any reason held to be) invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this article being herein expressly declared that this article and each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause and phrase thereof would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

(Ord. 874, eff. June 17, 1981)