HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1992-2493 ORDINANCE NO. 2493
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA ADDING, AS AN
URGENCY MEASURE, SECTION 2.66.043 TO THE CHULA VISTA
MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT THE CONSUMPTION AND
POSSESSION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN PUBLIC PARKS
BETWEEN DUSK AND 7:00 A.M.
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION I: That Section 2.66.043 is hereby added to the Chula Vista
Municipal Code to read as follows:
Sec. 2.66.043 Alcoholic beverage consumption and possession
restrictions on public park properties.
It is unlawful for any person to consume or possess any alcoholic
beverage (as defined in the California Business and Professional
Code, Section 23004), in Hilltop Park between the hours of 9:00 p.m.
to 7:00 a.m. during the months of April through October, or during
the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. during the months of November
through March.
SECTION II: Urgency Findings.
The City Council does hereby declare that this ordinance is necessary
as an emergency measure in order to preserve the public peace, health, safety and
general welfare. The reasons for such urgency is as follows: There is and has
been an increase in criminal activity occurring at Hilltop Park that increases
the risk of injury to persons of the residents and users of said park, and to
their property, and to such persons' peace and general welfare. Said risk is
significantly enhanced by the unrestricted entitlement of persons inclined to
conduct such criminal activity to gather after ten thirty p.m. at Hilltop Park
both as a staging area and as a situs for such activity, and thereat to engage
in the consumption of alcohol beverages. Prohibiting such entitlement to alcohol
beverages after the hour of close will immediately provide the law enforcement
officials with the authority to require park users to immediate terminate the
consumption of alcohol beverages and may operate to restrain the consumption of
such alcohol beverages after the hour of close, thereby lessening the risk of
injury to the neighbors and other victims of the criminal activity.
SECTION III. Effective Date.
Pursuant to the provisions of Charter Section 311 (d) and 312(d)(4), this
ordinance shall take effect and be in full force immediately upon the
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introduction and adoption hereof, which occurred at a single meeting of the City
Council upon the passage hereof by at least four affirmative votes.
Presented by Approved as ti fTr~ by '/'
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula
Vista, California, this 11th day of February, 1992, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Grasser Horton, Malcolm, Moore, Nader
Rindone
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: None
~'~ Tim Nader, Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Beverly A. Authelet, City Clerk of the City of Chula Vista, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2493 was approved as an urgency
measure on the 11th day of February, 1992.
Executed this 11th day of February, 1992.
Beverly~A. ~uthe~t, City Clerk