Ord 1443 - REGULATING TRAFFIC IN THE DOWNTOWN AREAORDINANCE NO. 1443
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
REGULATING TRAFFIC IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS.GATOS ORDAINS:
SECTION 1
Article X is added to Chapter 16 of the Los Gatos
Town Code to read:
Article X Cruisin
Section 16 -100 D efinitions
The .following definitions apply in this Article X:
(a) Central Business District means East Main
Street and the area bounded by and including Blossom
Hill Road from North Santa Cruz Avenue to State
Highway 17, State Highway 17 to South Santa Cruz
Avenue, South Santa Cruz Avenue to Broadway, Broadway
to Lingley, Lingley to West Main Street, West Main
Street to Bayview Avenue, Bayview Avenue to Bean
Avenue, Bean Avenue to Massol Avenue, Massol Avenue..
to Saratoga Avenue, Saratoga Avenue to San Benito
Avenue, San Benito Avenue to Mariposa Avenue, Mariposa
Avenue to North Santa Cruz Avenue, and North Santa
Cruz Avenue to Blossom Hill Road.
(b) Cruising in driving a motor vehicle on a
highway (1) for the sake of driving, without immediate
destination, (2) at random, but on the lookout for
possible developments, or (3) with the purposes of
(a) sightseeing repeatedly in the same area, and
(b) while driving with the purpose of socializing
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with other motorists or pedestrians. Driving
emergency vehicles on patrol, taxicabs for hire,
and other business vehicles for business purposes
is not cruising.
(c) Highway and motor vehicles are defined in
Section 360 and 415, respectively, of the Vehicle
Code.
Section 16 -105 Crui sing Prohib
Cruising is prohibited in the central business
district.
Section 16 -110 Penalty for Cr uising
The minimum penalty for a first conviction of
cruising is a $25.00 fine; for a second or subsequent
conviction within one year, a $50.00 fine.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance takes effect 30 days after the date it
is adopted. Within 15 days after this ordinance is adopted
the Town Clerk shall cause it to be published once in a
newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in
the Town.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of
the Town. Council of the Town of Los Gatos on Sept. 4,1979
and adopted by the following vote as an ordinance of the
Town of Los Gatos at a regulix meeting of the Town Council on
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September 1-7 , 1979.
AYES Ruth Cannon, Mardi Gualtieri, Peter W. Siemens,
and John. B. Lochner
NOES Thomas J. Ferrito
ABSTAIN None
ABSENT None
SIGNED:
mayor' "tliie town of Los - Gatos
ATTEST:
Clerk' of the Town of LOP,-Ilatos
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