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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1954-503 ORDINANCE NO. 503 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TIlE USE, SALE AND POSSESSION 01<' FIREARMS, REGULATING TIlE USE OF AND PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION OF BICYCLES, FIXING TIlE HOURS OF CURFEW FOR MINORS, REGULATING Pl.ffiLIC POOL AND BILLIARD RomfS AND TIlE REGULATION OF TEEN AGE DANCES AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NO. 107, 323, 356, 339, 29, 70 AND 49 OF' TIlE ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CllULA VISTA THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIlE CITY OF CllULA VISTA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: FIREARMS - Sale to Minors. No person shall sell, exchange, give or loan to any person under the age of 18 years any spring back knife, gun, revolver, pistol or firearm of any description or any spring or airgun or other device designed or intended to discharge any pellets, or other deadly or danger- ous missile, or any ammunition, cartridge, shell or other device, whether containing any explosive substance or not, designed and intended for use in any weapons enumerated herein. SECTION 2: FIREARMS -~finors Possession of. No person under the age of eighteen years shall have in his possession, care, custody or control any article or thing set forth in the preceding section. SECTION 3: FIREARMS - Shooting in City Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot or discharge any gun or firearm, when the same is loaded with any shot or bullet, which will be by such discharge, discharged therefrom, within the cor- porate limits of the City of Chula Vista. SECTION 4: CURFEW. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to be upon any public street or at any public place in the City of Chula Vista between the hours of 10:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock A.M., unless said minor is accompanied by one of his or her parents, or by his or her guardian, or by a person or persons legally having the care, custod~r or con- -1- trol of such minor. It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or other person or persons lawfully entitled to the care, custody or con- trol of any minor under the age of eighteen years, to knowingly al- low, suffer or permit such minor to be upon the streets or other public place within the City 1. imits of Chula Vi.sta unless accom- panied by the persons indicated. SECTION 5: BICYCLES - Regulation and Registration of. It shall be unlawful to ride any bicycle, motor scooter, or motor- cycle on any of the sidewalks in the City of Chula Vista. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets, alleys or public highways of the City of Chula Vista without first Obtaining from the Police Department a license therefor. The City of Chula Vista shall provide metallic license plates and seals together with registration cards and said license plates having numbers stamped thereon in numerical order beginning with the number one, and the letters CVBL stamped thereon, and such metallic license plates shall be suitable for attachment to the frames of bicycles. The Chief of Police of the City of Chula Vista is hereby authorized and directed to issue upon written ap- plication, a bicycle license which shall be effective during the period of time such licensee retains title to such bicycle, which license when issued shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle upon the streets, alleys and pUblic highways in the City of Chula Vista in accordance with traffic regulations therefor. This license shall be attached to the frame of each bicycle by the Police Department and a corresponding registration card issued to the licensee upon payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such metallic license plate shall remain attached during the exist- I..). ( t::;D " C L), ,) -2- ence of such license. The Police Department shall also keep a rec- ord of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued and the number thereof. This license shall remain valid for the life of the bicycle or until said bicycle is sold or transferred to a new owner, and the new owner must obtain a new license for said bicycle and a new registration card be issued. After a bike has been li- censed for a period of ten years the Police Department may clear the files of that record, assuming that the bike has either been sold or the registration has changed hands and should be re-regis- teredo It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle to report such sale or transfer by return- ing to the Police Department the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof, together 1;1 th the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle was sold or transferred. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or ma- liciously remove, destroy, alter or mutilate the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this ordinance. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, alter or mutilate any license plate, seal or registration pursuant to this ordinance. Provided however, that nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bi- cycles on which no serial number can be found or on which said number may be illegible or insufficient for identification purposes. The license fee to be paid for each bicycle shall be Fifty Cents ($0.50) and shall be paid in advance. All license fees collected under this ordinance shall be paid into the gen- eral fund of the City of Chula Vista. The Chula Vista Police Department may retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance and retain possession of same until the license provided for herein is obtained by the owner of said bicycle. D () j;,) C) ~~;\ -3- All persons engaged in the business of buying second hand shall make daily report to the police Department giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicycle is pur- "chased, the description of each bicycle purchased, the frame num- bel' thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate found thereon, if any. All persons engaged in the business of selling new or hand bicycles shall make a daily report to the Police De- partment, giving a list of all sales made by such dealers, which list shall contain the name and address of each person to whom the kind of bicycle sold, together with description and number thereof, and the number of the metallic license attached thereto, if any. SECTION 6: PUBLIC POOL AND BILLIARD ROOMS. It shall be and is hereby made unlawful for the proprietor, manager or other person in charge of such pool at' billiard room to permit any under the age of eighteen years to engage in or play bill- iards or pool or any other game, in such licensed premises unless accompanied by, or having the written permission of his parent or guardian. It shall be and is hereby made unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen years to be or remain 1.n any such licen- sed pool or bill1.ard room to witness any game of pool or billiard or other game played therein unless accompanied by or having written permission of his parent or guardian. SECTION 7: TEEN-AGE DANCES - REGULATION OF. A. DEFINITIONS: For the purpose of this article the following - words and phrases are defined and shall be construed as here- inafter set out unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have a different meaning. a. "Adult Sponsoring Group" shall mean a non-profit organ1.- zation whose pr1.mary object is to sponsor, regulate and control youth activities and which assUmes full and com- [) () G-O -,~ -4- ;' -: plete responsibility for the direction of a teen-age dance, the receipts or contributions from which are to be expended only for future dances or the promotion of other youth activities. b. "Board" shall mean the City Recreation Commission duly appointed by the City Council. c. "Teen-ager" shall mean any person of the age of 16-20 years.,* ,sldeF. ~t!/",:",\,..' .. -,' d. "Jay teener" shall mean any person under the age of 16 ye ar s. 3. "'l'een-age dance" or "Jay teener dance" shall mean a non- profit dance held or conducted exclusively for teen-agers or Jay teeners. The sections herein in this ordinance contained relating to the 1'een Age or Jay Teener dances shall mean those dances conducted by an adult sponsoring group or held upon City owned recreation property. B. PARKING - LImITING. All off street parking facilities,made available for the participants shall be adequately lighted and supervised. At all teen-age dances and Jay teener dances an off-duty Policeman or some adult person first approved by the Chief of Police shall be hired to be present at all times. C. ATTENDANCE. No Teen-ager or Jay teener admitted to a dance shall be permitted to leave and thereafter reenter the danc- ing premises during the course of the evening and the Jay teener's parents shall be notified by the person in charge of the dance if the Jay teener leaves prior to the dance ending. D. USE OF' ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PIWIIIBI'l'ED. No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, consumed or be available on the premises in or about which any Jay teener or Teen-age dance is held. Admission to a teen-age or jay teener dance shall be denied to any person ()" ( I~'- . )') () -5- showing evidence of drinking any alcoholic beverage or who has any alcoholic beverage on his or her person. E. CONDUCT _ Dress of Person. All dancing shall be of an accept- able social standard and the dress of the participants must be in conformity with accepted standards. Sufficient adult supervision shall be provided at all Teen-age and Jay teener dances to insure that accepted standards of social conduct are followed. Ii'. TIME LDfIT FOl~ DANCES. No dancing at any teen-age dance shall be permitted after the hour of 11:30 P.M. and no dance for Jay teeners shall be permitted after the hour of 9:30 P.M. unless permission for dancing to a later hour is f,Tanted by the Board. G. LOITERING. Any person who loiters around or about the premises of which a teen-age or j~y teener dance is being conducted is b~ilty of a misdemeanor. H. RULES AND REGULATIONS. The board is hereby authorized and em- powered to adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem nec- essary to carry out the purpose of this action. SECTION 8: THEATRES - Hours of Attendance. No person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a moving pic- ture exhibition shall permit or allow any person under the age of eighteen years to be admitted as a spectator to any such moving picture after the hour of 9:00 P.M. unless accompanied by a par- ent, guardian or such other adult person acting in that capacity. SECTION 9: Every person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be d~emed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be puniShable by a fine of not more than Three IIundred ($300.00) Dollars, or by imprison- ment in the City Jail for a period of not more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and i.mprisonment. In addition to the penalty hereinabove set forth, the Police Department of the City Dot;D -6- of Chula Vista or any of the members thereof, may impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated. in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, and retain possession of the same until the license provided for herein is obtained by the owner of said bicycle. SECTION 10: That Ordinances No. 107, 323, 35G, 339, 27, 70 and 49 be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 11: This Ordinance shall be effective and be in force thirty-one (31) days after the final passage thereof, and shall, within fifteen (15) days after its final passage, be pub- lished in the Chula Vista Star, a newspaper of general circula- tion, printed and published in the City of Chu1a Vista. 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