Ordinance - 1537ORDINANCE NO. 1537
AN ORDINANCE :OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING SECTION
22-188 RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF PARKING
IN FIRE'LANES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
• The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
as follows:
SECTION,l. The West Covina Municipal Code, Chapter 22
entitled "Traffic Regulations" is hereby amended by adding
Section 22-188 to read as.follows:
Section 22-188 - PARKING IN FIRE LANES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY
A. Each parcel or lot used for apartments, condo-
miniums, a hospital, or institutional commercial or
industrial purposes shall provide and maintain
thereon vehicular access for emergency fire vehicles.
Such lanes shall be unobstructed and not less than
twenty-five feet in width.
Variance from the requirements of this subsection,
may be approved by the traffic authority only upon
a determination that safety and access has been
provided which is substantially similar to that
available were the required lanes provided.
B. Lanes for emergency fire vehicles within insti-
tutional commercial and industrial uses shall be
posted as follows:
1. A metal sign, sixteen inches by sixteen inches
in size, shall be mounted atop a six-foot metal
post. Said sign shall be the following legend in
red lettering on a white background:
"FIRE LANE
NO PARKING
SECTION 22-188
WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE"
2. All of the curb faces fronting the lanes shall
be painted red. The words "Fire Lane" shall be
painted thereon in three-inch white letters,
every twenty linear feet.
3. Where there.is no curbing adjacent to the
lane, the twenty-five foot access shall be marked
by a painted chrome -yellow line, two inches wide
on each of the lanes.
4. The surface of every -lane shall bear the words
"No Parking - Fire Lane" in chrome -yellow paint
printed in letters at least twelve inches high
with a two-inch stroke. The wording shall be
spaced to cover the entire width of the lanes and
each wording group shall not be located further
than seventy-five linear feet apart.
Deviations from these posting requirements may be
permitted by the traffic authority only upon
showing that:
a. Special circumstances make compliance imprac-
tical; and
b. An alternative method of posting will provide
substantially similar notice to the public.
Posting requirements for apartments, condo-
miniums and hospitals can be as set forth
• in subsection b.
The posting requirements set forth in subsection
Bl, 2 and 3 of this section shall apply to fire
lanes, established prior to the adoption of this
section as well as those established subsequent
thereto.
C. Parking or the maintenance of any obstruction within
any portion of a posted fire lane is prohibited. Any
vehicle parked in violation of this section shall be
subject to being towed away and impounded.
D. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall
be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of
not less than twenty-five dollars.
E. The registered owner of any vehicle parked in violation
of this section shall be responsible for all expenses
incurred in connection with the towing and impounding
of such vehicle.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required
by law.
• PASSED AND APPROVED this. 22nd day of _February 1982.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) - SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
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I, HELENE MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West
Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No.
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 8th
day of February , 1982. That thereafter said ordinance was
• duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 22nd day of FPhru, 1982, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Bacon, Tennant, Tice, Shearer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Chappell
City Clerk
APPROED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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C E R T I F I C A T I O N
1 State of California. )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City of west Covina. )
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
West Covina., Sta.te of California., do hereby certify
that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance
was published, pursuant to law, in the west Covina.
Tribune, a. newspaper of general circula.tion published
and circulated in' the City of west Covina.
Ja.net B ; • Deputy Cit Clerk
City of
ry st Covina, Cali ornia
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