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ORDINANCE NO. 3341
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING SECTION 10.36.030 OF THE PALO ALTO
MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR NOTICE AND HEARING
PRIOR TO AND AFTER REMOVAL OF A VEHICLE PARKED OR
LEFT ON THE STREET FOR SEVENTY-TWO OR MORE
CONSECUTIVE HOURS AND PROVIDING THAT A VEHICLE
SHALL BE CONS IUBRED TO BE P~KED OR LEFT FOR
SEVENTY-TWO OR MORE CONSECUTIVE HOURS IF IT HAS
NOT BEEN MOVED AT r~EAST ONE THOUSAND FEET WITH IN
SAID TIME
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 10.36.030 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code is
herf1by amended to read as follows:
•10.35.030 Use of streets for storage of
vehicles. (a) No person who owns or has posses
sion, custody or control of any vehicle shall park
or leave such vehicle standing upon any street or
alley for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours
Jr more. For the purposes of this section, a vehi
cle shall be considered to have be~n parked or left
standing for seventy-two or. more conseGu+:ive hou.rs
if it: has not been moved at least one thousand .teet
or more during said sev~nty~t:wo hour period.
~~(b) Ii1 the event a vehicle is parked or left
standing upon a street. in excess of a consecutive
period of seventy-two hours, any member of the
pel ic:e department authorized by the chief of pol i.ce
may remove such vehicle from the street as autho
rized by the California Vehicle Code and subject to
the provisions of this section.
" (c) Pr lor to removing any vehicle v not i.~A
shall be affixed to the vehicle advising that the
vehicle wi 11 be removP.d for vi0lation of this sec
tion within twenty~four hours unless it is moved at
least one thousand fee!t. The notice shall also
inform the owner that he or she has a right to a
hearing to contest the alleged vic·.·tation but that
failure to take ad'lantage of the hearing within
twenty-four hours or failure to move the vehicle
will result in the vehicle being removed.
"If a hearing is requestE:!d within saic time,
such hear. ing will be conducted by the pol i.~~ ::h ief
or his designee to determine whether this ::,..:::tion
has been .violated~ The hearing officer is empow
ered to determine whether this section has been
violated and whether removal is aut:-.ori zed under
this section and the Vehicle Cod<=~
"(d) Whenever a me1~ber of the pol ice depart·~
ment removeg a vehicle pursuant to this section and
causes it to be stored as permitted by the Califor
nia Vehicle Code, the chief of pol ice or his desig
nee shall comply witla the requirements of Section
22852 of the California Ve}dcle Code relating to
post-st.orage notice and hearing for registered
owners and legal owners of record."
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SECTION 2. Severability., If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase of this chapter is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining" portions of this chapter. The Council hereby declares that
it would have passed this chapter, and each section, subsection, sen
tence, clause and phrase thereof, irr~spective of the fact that any one
or more sect ions, subsec:t ions, sentences, clauses or phrases had been
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The Counci.t finds that this project will have no
s ign(f\cant --environmental impact~
SECTION 4. This ordinance Jhall become effective upon the com-
mencement. otthe thirty-first day after th~ day of its passage.
INTRODUCED: March 15, 1982
PP.SSED~ Ap1il 5, 1982
AYES: Bechtel, Cobb, Eyerly, Fazzino, Fletcher, Klein, R.enze1;
\~i t\1erspoon
NOES: None
ABSTENTIONS: i'l u n t~
ABSENT: Levy
.l\PPROVED AS 'I'O FORM:
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