Ordinance Number 962ORDINANCE NO. 962
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
4-6.325 OF THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO OVERSIZED VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS.
The City Council of the City of San .Juan Capistrano, California, DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 4-6.325 of the San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4-6.325. Oversized vehicle parking restrictions.
(a) No person shall park and leave standing upon any public street or highway
within the City of San Juan Capistrano any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles in
excess of twenty-five (25) feet in length, or having a width in excess of ninety (90)
inches as measured at the widest portion of the body, not including mirrors or other
extensions, or a weight in excess of ten thousand pounds.
(b) Prohibited vehicles may be parked on public streets or highway when such
vehicle is parked in connection with, or in aid of the performance of a service to or on a
property in the block in which such vehicle is parked; or to perform repairs of an
emergency nature on the motor vehicle itself, for a maximum of twelve (12) hours.
(c) Prohibited vehicles may be parked on public streets, or highway while
loading or unloading persons and/or property. Loading or unloading as used in this
section shall mean active loading or unloading, including the performance of those
activities required to prepare the vehicle for either travel or storage, and shall not
exceed a period of two (2) hours during which the vehicle cannot reasonably be taken
on the road or moved to a place of otherwise lawful storage.
(d) Recreational Vehicles (RV), as defined by Section 18010 of the Health and
Safety Code, may be issued an RV Temporary Parking Permit allowing up to forty-eight
(48) hours of parking within three hundred (300) feet of the address at which the RV
Temporary Parking Permit was issued. A maximum of twelve (12) round-trip Temporary
RV Parking Permits may be issued per residential address per calendar year. For the
purposes of this subsection, a round-trip RV Temporary Parking Permit shall mean one
forty-eight (48) hour permit for loading of the RV and one forty-eight (48) hour permit for
unloading of the RV. An RV Temporary Parking Permit may be obtained free of charge
by contacting the Orange County Sheriffs Department at the San Juan Capistrano
Police Services Office by providing the following information: the date and time of the
on -street parking for the purposes of loading will begin; the date and time of the on -
street parking for the purposes of unloading will begin; the name and address of the
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person requesting the RV Temporary Parking Permit; a description of the RV. An RV
Temporary Parking Permit may be revoked upon violation of any other section of the
California Vehicle Code or San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to Commercial Vehicles as defined by Section 260 of the
California Vehicle Code.
SECTION 2. Effective Date. The regulations adopted by this ordinance shall not apply
to construction for which a valid permit has been issued as of the effective date of this
ordinance.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance or any part thereof is for any reason held to be invalid, unconstitutional or
unenforceable by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portion of the Ordinance. The City Council
declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence,
clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase would be declared invalid, unconstitutional or
unenforceable.
SECTION 4. Certification. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance
and cause the same to be posted at the duly designated posting places within the City
and published once within fifteen (15) days after passage and adoption as required by
law; or, in the alternative, the City Clerk may cause to be published a summary of this
Ordinance and a certified copy of the text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office
of the City Clerk five (5) days prior to the date of adoption of this Ordinance; and, within
fifteen (15) days after adoption, the City Clerk shall cause to be published the
aforementioned summary and shall post a certified copy of this Ordinance, together with
the vote for and against the same, in the Office of the City Clerk.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 15S py of December, 2009.
ATTEST:
MARIA MORRIS, CIT CLE ,k
DR. LQNDRES USb—, MkkYOR
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE )Ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO }
I, MARIA MORRIS, appointed City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 962 which was
regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at the Regular Meeting of the City
Council on the 17th day of November 2009 and that thereafter, said Ordinance was duly
adopted and passed at the Regular Meeting of the City Council on the 15t day of
December 2009 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Alievato, Hribar, Nielsen, Freese, and Mayor Uso
NOES COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
MARIA MORR S%- ity Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE j ss AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO }
I, MARIA MORRIS, declare as follows: That I am the duly appointed and qualified City
Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano; That in compliance with State laws,
Government Code section 36933(1) of the State of California, on the 18th day of
November 2009, at least 5 days prior to December 1, 2009, the date of adoption of the
ordinance, I caused to be posted, in the City Clerk's Office a certified copy of the
proposed Ordinance entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
4-6.325 OF THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO OVERSIZED VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS
MARIA'MORRIS`CITY CLERK
San Juan Capistrano, California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO j
I, MARIA MORRIS, declare as follows: That I am the duly appointed and qualified
Acting City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano, That in compliance with State
laws, Government Code section 36933(1) of the State of California. On the 3`d day of
December 2009 l caused to be posted, in the City Clerk's office, a certified copy of
Ordinance No. 962, adopted by the City Council on December 1, 2009 entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL. OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
4-6.325 OF THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO OVERSIZED VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS
MARIA MORRIS, GITY CLERK
San Juan Capistrano, California
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