CHAPTER 14 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC.*
Article IV. Miscellaneous Driving Rules.
Sec. 14-4-3. Application of certain vehicle code sections to privately owned off-street parking facilities.
(a) By resolution the city council, pursuant to Vehicle Code Section
21107.8, as it may be amended from time to time, may find and declare that
certain privately owned and maintained off-street parking facilities as
described in such resolution are within the city and are generally held open for
use of the public for purposes of vehicular parking.
(b) Upon enactment of
the resolution, Sections 22350, 23103, 23109, 22507.8 and 22511.8 of the
California Vehicle Code including, but not limited to, regulations pertaining to
speed, speed contest, and reckless driving shall apply to any such privately
owned and maintained off-street parking facilities described therein; except,
that:
(1) A resolution shall not be enacted pursuant to this section without
a public hearing thereon and ten days' prior written notice to the owner and
operator of the privately owned and maintained off-street parking facility
involved.
(2) An enacted resolution shall not apply to any offstreet parking
facility described therein unless the owner or operator has caused to be posted
in a conspicuous place at each entrance to such off-street parking facility a
notice not less than seventeen by twenty-two inches in size with lettering not
less than one inch in height, to the effect that such off-street parking
facility is subject to public traffic regulations and control.
(3) An
enacted resolution shall give the police department the authority to provide,
but shall not require, patrol or enforcement of Vehicle Code Sections 22350,
23103, 23109, 22507.8 and 22511.8 on any privately owned and maintained
off-street parking facility unless required other than by action under this
section.
(c) Resolutions enacted pursuant to this section shall be filed
with the city clerk and shall be made available to the public upon request.
(Ord. No. 974, § 1; Ord. No. 938, § 1.)
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