Ordinance No. 902X47
ORDINANCE NO. 902
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA,
ADDING SECTION 17 -69, "SKATEBOARDING
PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN DESIGNATED
AREAS ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
PROPERTY," TO THE CODE OF THE CITY
OF CYPRESS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Section 17 -69 is hereby added to the Code
of the City of Cypress to read as follows:
"Sec. 17 -69. Skateboarding Prohibited In
Certain Designated Areas on Public And Private
Property.
(A) For purposes of this section, the following words
shall have the meanings ascribed below:
(1) 'Private Property' shall mean any property held by
private interests which is used primarily for business,
commercial, or recreational purposes.
(2) 'Public Property' shall mean any property owned or
maintained by the City of Cypress or any property owned
or maintained by a public entity other than the City.
(3) 'Skateboard' shall mean a board of any material,
which has wheels attached to it and which if propelled or
moved by human, gravitational, or mechanical power, and
to which there is not fixed any device or mechanism to
turn or control the wheels.
(B) It shall be unlawful and subject to punishment in
accordance with subsection (E) of this section, for any person
utilizing or riding upon skateboards to ride or move about in or on
any public or private property when the same has been posted as a
no skateboard area.
(C) Prior to the enforcement of the prohibition on
skateboarding, the property owner of the area so designated shall
cause to be posted a sign which provides substantially as follows:
'Skateboarding is prohibited by Section 17 -69
of th. Codc of the City of Cypress. Any
violation is punishable by a fine of twenty -
five dollars ($25.00)'
Such prohibition shall apply to the property so
designated once posted in plain view at all entrances to the
property, and on a sign which is not less than seventeen inches by
twenty -one inches (17" X 21 ") in size with lettering not less than
one inch (1 ") in height.
(D) The provisions of this section shall not be
construed to prohibit persons from engaging in organized special
events conducted and scheduled by the property owner, nor to
prohibit the property owner from conducting such special events.
(E) Any violation of this section is deemed an
infraction, and punishable by a fine of twenty -five dollars
($25.00).
SECTION II. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance, is for any
reason to be held invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of
any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance,
and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one
or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses,
phrases or portions thereof be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION III. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to certify as to the passage of this Ordinance and to give
notice thereof by causing copies of this Ordinance to be posted in
three public places throughout the City.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 27thday of September 1993
and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting held on
the 1 ?th day of October , 1993.
MAYOR OF THE CITY (6CYPRESS
ATTEST:
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CITY LERK
OF- THE C OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF CYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk
California DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
adopted at a regular meeting of the
Cypress, held on the 12th day of
following roll call vote:
AYES: 4
NOES: 1
ABSTAINED: 0
ABSENT: 0
of the City of Cypress,
foregoing Ordinance was duly
City Council of the City of
October , 1993, by the
COUNCILMEMBERS: Age,Bowman, Nicholson and Partin
COUNCILMEMBERS: Kerry
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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CITY CLERK F THE CITY OF CYPRESS