ORD 372 ORDINANCE NO. 372
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
ESTABLISHING NEW REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO MOBILE
VENDORS WHO PARK ON CITY STREETS AND AMENDING THE
RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, mobile vendors parking on City streets can have an adverse
impact on adjacent uses and City residents when these vendors park for long
time periods at the same location; and
WHEREAS, if not properly regulated, mobile vendors can leave trash and
debris within the city, which is detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare;
and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that the regulations adopted
previously by the City of Rancho Palos Verdes ("City") are more lenient than
those adopted by neighboring cities, which has caused an adverse impact upon
businesses and residences located in the City and has adversely affected the
public health, safety and welfare; and
WHEREAS, to reduce these adverse impacts upon the public health,
safety and welfare, the following amendment to the Municipal Code is being
adopted so that mobile vendors doing business in the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes will be subject to the same time, location and operating requirements that
are present in other jurisdictions;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 10.04.060 of Chapter 10.04of Title 10 of the Rancho
Palos Verdes Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"10.04.060 Parking by itinerant vendors--Restrictions.
A. No person shall stand or park any motorized vehicle from which food,
foodstuffs, goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables, beverages,
are sold, offered for sale, bartered, or hawked on any portion of any
public street, alley, sidewalk or right-of-way within the city for a period
of time in excess of ten minutes at any one location. Upon the elapse
of that period of time, any motorized vehicle that continues to be used
to sell such items must be parked at a location more than five hundred
(500) feet, as measured in a straight line, from the location where the
vehicle was parked at the beginning of the ten minute period. This
paragraph A shall not apply to persons delivering such goods from a
store or other fixed place of business or distribution upon the order or
request of, or by agreement with, a customer.
B. Prior to leaving any location, the operator of the motor vehicle shall
collect and properly dispose of all trash or refuse that contained or was
part of any item that was dispensed or distributed from the motor
vehicle. No person shall park or stand a motorized vehicle for the
purposes set forth in this section without first obtaining a business
license from the city. No person shall park or stand such a vehicle in a
manner that causes a hazard to vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and no
person shall distribute any item from such a motor vehicle in a manner
that causes any person to stand in that portion of the street that is
between the vehicle and the center of the street.
Section 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or
unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining portions of this
Ordinance shall nonetheless remain in full force and effect. The City Council of
the City of Rancho Palos Verdes hereby declares that it would have adopted
each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions of this Ordinance be declared invalid or
unenforceable.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 12th of January,2002.
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City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, Jo Purcell, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is five, that
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the foregoing Ordinance No. 372 passed first reading on December 18,
2001, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a
regular meeting thereof held on January 12, 2002 and that the same was
passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Gardiner, Clark, Stern, Ferraro and Mayor McTaggart
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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City Clerk
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES)
The undersigned, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
That at all times herein mentioned, she was and now is the appointed City Clerk of the
City of Rancho Palos Verdes;
That on January 23, 2002 , she caused to be posted the following document
entitled: ORDINANCE NO. 372
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
ESTABLISHING NEW REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO MOBILE VENDORS
WHO PARK ON CITY STREETS AND AMENDING THE RANCHO PALOS
VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE
a copy of which is attached hereto, in the following locations:
City Hall Ladera Linda Community Center
30940 Hawthorne Blvd. 32201 Forrestal Drive
Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Palos Verdes
Ryan Park Hesse Park
30359 Hawthorne Blvd. 29301 Hawthorne Blvd.
Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Palos Verdes
I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is a true and correct affadavit of posting.
City Clerk
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