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Ord 0359-REGULATING OFF-STREET PARKING ON PARKING LOT OPERATEDORDINANCE NO. Zj- f AN ORDINANCE REGULATING OFF-STFL ET PARKING ON PARKING LOT OPERATED BY THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. For the purpose of this Ordinance:. (a) The word "vehicle" shall mean any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be trans- ported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks. (b) The word "person" shall mean and include any individual, firm, co-partnership, or corporation. Section 2. The Town of Los Gatos is operating a parking lot upon a portion of that certain real property located in the Town of Los Gatos., County of Santa Clara, State of California, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 in Block 10 and also the south 25 feet of Lot 4 of Block 1, and part of Lot 10, Block 1 in the Lyndon Subdivision, which said portion is not set aside for more restrict- ive use by persons other than the general public. Section 3. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance for any person to cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or operated or controlled by him to be parked in any parking stall upon said parking lot for a period of time longer than two (2) hours between the hours of 9:002 A.M. and 6:00, P.M., except Sundays and Holidays. Section 4. The Chief of Police shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon said parking lot for the purpose of designating the parking space for each vehicle, and said vehicle shall park within the lines or markings so established. -1- It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park any ve- hicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines or markings. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance to park in or obstruct the driveways or parking lanes reserved for travel of motor vehicles, in and through and out of said parking lot. Section 5. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance to travel in, on, or through said parking lot described Section 2, at a rate of speed in excess of five (5) miles per hour. Section 6. The Chief of Police is hereby instructed to install and maintain appropriate signs giving notice to the pub- lie restricting the stopping, standing, or parking in accordance with this Ordinance. Section 7. This Ordinance, so far as consistent there- with, shall be deemed to be in addition and.supplementary to, and not in conflict with nor a repeal of prior or existing Ordinances of this town? but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of off-street parking. Section S. Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of Santa Clara, for a periof not exceeding six (6) months, or by bath such fine and imprisonment„ Section 9. This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an urgency measure and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety and shall take effect and be in force forthwith from and after its final passage. The following is a statement of the facts constituting such urgency: The Town Council finds that it is necessary to releave -2- heavy traffic congestion on the streets of the Town of Los Gatos in the vicinity of said perking lot, especially during the coming holiday season. This Ordinance shall be published once with the names of the members voting for and against the same, in the Los Gatos Daily Times, a newspaper published in the Town of Los Gatos. INTRODUCED AT A REGULAR MEETING OF the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos held on the .Z day of December, 1953. PASSED AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS G~TOS, CALIFORNIA, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL THEREOF, held on the /~day of December, 1953, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN it OgO2 NOES: COUNCILMiEN ABSENT: COUNCILMEN ATTEST: TOWN CL OF THE TOWN OF LOS G TOS 3- APPROVED: