HomeMy WebLinkAbout2177Ordinance No. 2177
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 14 OF THE BUTTE
COUNTY CODE BY ADDING SECTION $0 THERETO
RELATIVE TO PARKING FOR HA,ND~ICAPPED PERSONS
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte, State
o€ -California; DO ORDAIN as follows : -_ _..
Section 1. That §14-SO is hereby added to the Butte
County Code to read as follows:
§14-$0. (a) The Director of Public fdorks shall selec
a minimum of three (3) parking spaces adjacent to or near each
county building throughout the County, and place a sign thereon
indicating that parking is restricted to the handicapped, pursuant
to the provisions of Streets and Highways Code and the Vehicle
Code. Any person parking in such a space and whose car does not
display a distinguishing license plate which shall be issued for
a vehicle registered to the disabled person by the State of
California Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to regulations
adopted by that department, shall be guilty of an infraction and
subject to a fine in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Dollars
($1a0.0o).
(b) The sites so selected by the Director of Public
Works shall be so located as to give handicapped persons the
maximum and easiest availability to the public buildings in
question considering such factors as location of curbs, sidewalks,
steps, entrance to buildings, condition of pavement, and any
other factors that would affect the ability of the handicapped to
gain access to the public buildings.
(c} Each owner or operator of a shopping center or
other area. in which the general public is invited to drive their
cars and park for shopping or other purposes shall establish at
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least one (1) parking space for use of the handicapped. The
parking spaces shall-be identified--by sign and painting on the
pavement designating use for handicapped persons, and anyone
parking a vehicle in such a space where the vehicle is not
registered to the disabled person and having the distinguishing
license plate issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicl
pursuant to regulations adopted by that department, shall be
guilty of an infraction and subject to a fine in an amount not to
exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00}.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be and it is hereby
declared to be in full force and effect from and after thirty (30)
days after the date of its passage, and before the expiration. of
fifteen (15) days after its passage, this ordinance shall be
published once with the names of the members of the Board of Super-
', visors voting for and against it in the Chico Enterprise Record,
a newspaper published in the County of Butte, State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Super-
1 visors this 6~h day of January 19$1, by the following
vote:
AYES: Supervisors Do~.an, Lemke, Saraceni, Wheeler and Cha
NOES: None Mos
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None r ~ "~
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~BERT~HA MOS.E~EY , . C airman o e
Board of Supervisors
II ATTEST
CLARK A. NELSON, County Clerk/Recorder
and ex-off' o erk of the Board
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