Ordinance No. 767ORDINANCE NO. 767
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO
REGULATION OF THE PARKING OF VEHICLES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Cypress hereby finds and declares
as follows:
1. Section 22507 of the California Vehicle Code has been revised to allow local
authorities, by ordinance or resolution, to prohibit or restrict the parking or stand-
ing of vehicles which are six feet or more in height within 100 feet of any intersec-
tion, on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or certain hours
of the day, provided that signs or markings giving adequate notice of the prohibition
or restriction have been placed. Such regulation is desirable, for safety reasons,
to give motorists adequate protected sight - distance at non - signalized intersections.
Accordingly, the Cypress Municipal Code is amended as follows:
SECTION 2. Title 16 is hereby amended to add Section 16 -55.1 to read as follows:
"Section 16 -55.1: No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of
any vehicle which is six feet or more in height (including any load thereon) shall
park or leave standing any such vehicle on a street or highway within one hundred (100)
feet of any intersection,,at any location at which such prohibition is indicated by
appropriate signs giving notice thereof. Vehicles found in violation of this section
may be cited in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (e) of Section 16 -23."
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, subdivision; sentence, clause, phrase,
or portion of this Ordinance, or the apllication thereof to any person or place,
is for any reason held to be 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 or its application to other persons or places. 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, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. 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 the regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the
14th day of October 1986, and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting
held on the 27th day of October 1986.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF /CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA) SS
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the said City Council
held on the 27th day of October 1986, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Kanel, Partin, and Lacayo
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mullen
CITY CLERK •F THE OF CYPRESS