CHAPTER 3
OFF-STREET PARKING
ARTICLE 3. PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES FOR VIOLATIONS
SECTION:
§7382: Prima Facie Presumption
§7380 CITATIONS
For any violation of any provisions of this chapter, the Police Department is hereby empowered to issue notices to appear or citations in the usual form and manner as provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California. (Ord. 496, §18, adopted 1955)
§7381 REMOVAL OF VEHICLES
The Police Department is hereby empowered to remove, or cause to have removed to the nearest garage, vehicle storage facility, or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the City, any vehicle that is stopped, standing or parked on any municipal off-street parking lot in violation of Sections 7263, 7318, 7352, 7361 or 7366 of this code or which is left for a period exceeding thirty (30) hours. The provisions of Chapter 10 of Division 11 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California pertaining to notice to owner and garage keeper’s lien, shall apply in the event of such removal. (Ord. 496, §19, adopted 1955; Ord. 1197, §2, adopted 2020)
§7382 PRIMA FACIE PRESUMPTION
In any prosecution charging a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter governing the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle in any Municipal off-street parking lot, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was stopped, standing or parked in violation of any provision of this Chapter, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing or parking, the registered owner of such vehicle shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing or parked such motor vehicle at the point where and for the time during which such violation occurred. (Ord. 496, §20, adopted 1955)
§7383 PENALTY
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provisions or to fail to comply with any requirements of this Chapter, including any resolutions adopted by the City Council as authorized by this Chapter. Any such violation shall constitute an infraction. Any such violation coming within the terms of Vehicle Code section 40200, as amended, (violations of regulations governing the parking or standing of vehicles where the prescribed penalty is not a misdemeanor) shall be subject to the civil penalties provided in article 3 of chapter 1 of division 17 of the Vehicle Code. (Ord. 496, §22, adopted 1955; Ord. 968, §1, adopted 1996)