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Ord 1403 - URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS REGULATING THE PRESENCE OF PERSONS IN ROADWAYSORDINANCE NO. 1403 URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS REGULATING THE PRESENCE OF PERSONS IN ROADWAYS THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 16-83 of the Los Gatos Town Code is amended to read: No person shall stand in a roadway, or allow any part of his body to extend into a roadway, in a way that interferes with the lawful movement of traffic or creates an unsafe traffic condition. Persons lawfully crossing the roadway or lawfully doing work in the roadway are exempt from the provisions of this section. Section 2. This ordinance is an urgency ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos, and becomes effective immediately on its adoption. The facts justifying its adoption as an urgency ordinance are that the streets in the central part of Los Gatos are narrower than modern specifications would require, and are subjected to unusually heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Recently it has become the practice of many persons not only to walk and stand in the roadway but to sit in or upon automobiles parked in the roadway with parts of their bodies extending into the traffic lanes. This practice endangers such persons and interferes with traffic, creating a safety hazard not only to the persons themselves and to motorists, but also aggravating traffic jam situations which have necessitated street closures and have made street access for emergency vehicles impossible. Section 3. The Town Clerk of the Town of Los Gatos shall cause this ordinance to be published once within 15 days after its adoption in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the Town. Adopted as an ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos, adjourned California, at a /regular meeting of the Town Council, held on August 8th , 1978, by the following vote: AYES : COUNCIL MEMBERS Ruth Cannon, Thomas J. Fer r i to, John B. Lochner, Peter W. Si emens and Mardi Gualtieri NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS None MAYOR F THE TOWN OF OS GATOS ATTEST:. 1�a� CLERK OF �HE T) OF LOS GATOS