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FOREWORD
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS AND ZONING
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CHAPTER II* LICENSES, PERMITS, BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER III PUBLIC HEALTH CODE
CHAPTER IV PUBLIC WELFARE
ARTICLE 1 DISORDERLY CONDUCT PLACES AND PUBLICATIONS
SEC. 41.14. INJURY TO PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SEC. 41.16. SNUFF - THROWING OF.
SEC. 41.17. LIBRARY BOOKS - RETENTION AFTER NOTICE.
SEC. 41.18. SITTING, LYING, OR SLEEPING OR STORING, USING, MAINTAINING, OR PLACING PERSONAL PROPERTY IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
SEC. 41.19. PUBLIC ASSEMBLAGES - OBSTRUCTING ENTRANCE.
SEC. 41.20. CLOSURE OF STREETS.
SEC. 41.20.1. SPECIAL EVENT APPLICATION PROCESS AND DEFINITIONS.
SEC. 41.21. CUTTING INTO GASOLINE LINES PROHIBITED.
SEC. 41.22. LOITERING - RIVER BED.
SEC. 41.23. TRESPASS ON HOUSING AUTHORITY PROPERTY.
SEC. 41.24. TRESPASS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
SEC. 41.27. INTOXICATION.
SEC. 41.29. HAND ORGANS ON STREETS.
SEC. 41.30. SPITE FENCES.
SEC. 41.31. TREES - INJURY TO.
SEC. 41.32. THEATRES - SOUND AMPLIFIERS.
SEC. 41.33. LANDLORDS - DISTURBING TENANTS.
SEC. 41.34. PESTICIDES - NOTICE TO TENANTS.
SEC. 41.38. USE OF CERTAIN SIGNS ON VEHICLES PROHIBITED.
SEC. 41.39. STOWAWAYS - ENTRY A MISDEMEANOR.
SEC. 41.40. NOISE DUE TO CONSTRUCTION, EXCAVATION WORK - WHEN PROHIBITED.
SEC. 41.41. EVADING PAYMENT OF ADMISSION FEE.
SEC. 41.42. MUSIC REPRODUCING DEVICES - HOURS OF OPERATION.
SEC. 41.43. SELLING GOODS NEAR PRIVATE PARKS.
SEC. 41.43.1. DOOR TO DOOR SELLING OR SOLICITING.
SEC. 41.44. MINIATURE GOLF COURSES AND DRIVING FAIRWAYS.
SEC. 41.45. UNAUTHORIZED REMOVAL, USE OR POSSESSION OF SHOPPING CARTS.
SEC. 41.46. SIDEWALKS - CLEANING OF.
SEC. 41.47. WATER CLOSETS - USE OF.
SEC. 41.47.1. RESTROOM FACILITIES.
SEC. 41.47.2. URINATING OR DEFECATING IN PUBLIC.
SEC. 41.48. RESTAURANTS - MINIMUM LIGHT INTENSITY.
SEC. 41.49. HOTEL REGISTERS AND ROOM RENTALS.
SEC. 41.50. SMOKING PROHIBITED IN DESIGNATED AREAS.
41.50.1. USE OF SMOKELESS TOBACCO PROHIBITED AT EVENT SITES FOR ORGANIZED SPORTING EVENTS.
SEC. 41.50.5. SIGNAGE REGULATIONS FOR PLACES SUBJECT TO REGULATION PURSUANT TO LABOR CODE SECTION 6404.5.
SEC. 41.51. SMOKING IN ELEVATORS PROHIBITED.
SEC. 41.52. SMOKING IN BUSES.
SEC. 41.53. PUBLIC BATH HOUSES.
SEC. 41.54. FISHING WITHIN ONE MILE OF PUBLIC SEWER OUTLET.
SEC. 41.55. OIL - DISCHARGE IN OCEAN AND BEACHES.
SEC. 41.56. UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES AT SPORTING EVENTS, THEATRICALS AND EXHIBITIONS.
SEC. 41.57. LOUD AND RAUCOUS NOISE PROHIBITED.
SEC. 41.58. LOUD PARTY SECOND RESPONSE FEE.
SEC. 41.58.1. LOUD OR UNRULY GATHERINGS.
SEC. 41.59. PROHIBITION AGAINST CERTAIN FORMS OF AGGRESSIVE SOLICITATION.
SEC. 41.60. HOSPITALS; PATIENT TRANSPORT.
SEC. 41.70. NUISANCE ABATEMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES USED IN THE COMMISSION OR ATTEMPTED COMMISSION OF AN ACT THAT VIOLATES CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE SECTION 266(h), OR 266(i), OR 374.3, OR 647(b).
SEC. 41.70.1. NUISANCE VEHICLES - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.
SEC. 41.70.2. NUISANCE VEHICLES - SPEED CONTESTS AND EXHIBITIONS OF SPEED.
SEC. 41.70.3. NUISANCE VEHICLES - ILLEGAL DUMPING.
SEC. 41.71. GANG-RELATED NUISANCE VEHICLE FORFEITURE.
SEC. 41.72. COUNTERFEIT GOODS NUISANCE ABATEMENT LAW.
ARTICLE 2 SOLICITING - SALES
ARTICLE 3 GAMBLING, FRAUD AND DECEIT*
ARTICLE 4 PHILANTHROPY
ARTICLE 4.5 BINGO
ARTICLE 5 MINORS
ARTICLE 5.1 MEDICAL MARIJUANA
ARTICLE 5.2 CANNABIS REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT
ARTICLE 5.2.5 RESTRICTIONS ON SIGNS ADVERTISING TOBACCO PRODUCTS
ARTICLE 5.2.6 RESTRICTIONS ON SIGNS ADVERTISING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
ARTICLE 5.3 TENANT ANTI-HARASSMENT ORDINANCE
ARTICLE 5.4 PROHIBITION AGAINST HARASSMENT AND RETALIATION IN HOUSING BASED ON IMMIGRATION OR CITIZENSHIP STATUS
ARTICLE 5.5 PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING BASED ON AGE
ARTICLE 5.6 PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION BASED ON STUDENT STATUS
ARTICLE 5.6.1 PROTECTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS USING RENTAL ASSISTANCE OR OTHER SOURCES OF INCOME AS PAYMENT
ARTICLE 5.7 PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION IN MOBILEHOME PARKS AGAINST OWNERS OF MOBILEHOMES BASED ON THE AGE OF THEIR MOBILEHOMES
ARTICLE 5.8 PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION BASED ON A PERSON SUFFERING FROM THE MEDICAL CONDITION AIDS, OR ANY MEDICAL SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS RELATED THERETO, OR ANY PERCEPTION THAT A PERSON IS SUFFERING FROM THE MEDICAL CONDITION AIDS WHETHER REAL OR IMAGINARY
ARTICLE 5.9 PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION BY CLUBS OR ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE NOT DISTINCTLY PRIVATE
ARTICLE 5.10 PROHIBITION AGAINST HARASSMENT OF BICYCLISTS
ARTICLE 6 PRESERVATION OF PROTECTED TREES
ARTICLE 6.4 RESTRICTIONS ON BUTANE SALES
ARTICLE 6.5 REGULATION OF OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS
ARTICLE 6.6 BATH SALTS - SALE AND USE PROHIBITED
ARTICLE 6.7 LARGE-CAPACITY MAGAZINES - POSSESSION PROHIBITED
ARTICLE 6.7.1 SUICIDE PREVENTION SIGNS
ARTICLE 6.8 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - WARNING SIGNS
ARTICLE 6.9 TOBACCO RETAILER’S PERMIT
ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLE 7.1 RESIDENTIAL HOTEL UNIT CONVERSION AND DEMOLITION
ARTICLE 7.2 MORTGAGE MODIFICATION CONSULTANTS
ARTICLE 8 MUNICIPAL LOBBYING
ARTICLE 9 STATEMENTS OF CITY RELATED BUSINESS
ARTICLE 9.5 MUNICIPAL ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
ARTICLE 9.7 CAMPAIGN FINANCING
ARTICLE 11 MUNICIPAL MASS MAILINGS
ARTICLE 12 DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
ARTICLE 13 PROHIBITION ON THE MANUFACTURE, SALE, AND
ARTICLE 14 GRAFFITI REMOVAL AND RECOVERY
ARTICLE 14.05 TEMPORARY PROTECTION OF OCCUPANTS OF SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ARTICLE 14.1 EVICTION OF TENANTS FROM FORECLOSED RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTIES
ARTICLE 14.5 TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF NO-FAULT EVICTIONS
ARTICLE 14.6 TEMPORARY PROTECTION OF TENANTS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ARTICLE 15 URGENT REPAIR PROGRAM
ARTICLE 16 CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
ARTICLE 17 PET OWNERSHIP IN PUBLICLY-FINANCED HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
ARTICLE 18 EVICTIONS BASED ON INTENT TO SUBSTANTIALLY REMODEL RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTIES
ARTICLE 19 REPLACEMENT OBLIGATIONS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTIONS REQUIRED FOR NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
ARTICLE 20 HOTEL DEVELOPMENT REPLACEMENT HOUSING
ARTICLE 21 VOLUNTARY HOUSING PROGRAM
CHAPTER V PUBLIC SAFETY AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER VI PUBLIC WORKS AND PROPERTY
CHAPTER VII TRANSPORTATION
CHAPTER VIII TRAFFIC
CHAPTER IX BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER X BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER XI NOISE REGULATION
CHAPTER XII THE WATER CONSERVATION PLAN OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
CHAPTER XIII THE EMERGENCY ENERGY CURTAILMENT PLAN OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
CHAPTER XV RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE
CHAPTER XVI HOUSING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER XVII RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE USE OF THE LOS ANGELES AIRPORTS
CHAPTER XVIII EMPLOYEE WAGES AND PROTECTIONS
CHAPTER XIX ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
CHAPTER XX COVID-19 PROTECTION AND RECOVERY*
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SEC. 41.03. LOOKOUTS FOR ILLEGAL ACTS.
 
   (a)   No person shall act as a guard or lookout for any building premises or establishment used for gambling, prostitution, or any other form of vice or illegal act, or where intoxicating liquors are illegally kept, sold or purchased, or for any person soliciting, offering or engaging in prostitution, gambling or any other form of vice, or illegal act, or any prostitute, or any street or sidewalk.
 
   (b)   No person shall give any signal, intended to, or calculated to warn, or give warning of the approach of any peace officer to any person in or about such building or premises or places mentioned in the preceding subsection.
 
   It is not necessary to show that the signal was given for any persons, it is sufficient if it is given to a person in the places mentioned.
   People v. Hayes, CR A 1658.
 
   but see:
   People v. Mulder, CR A 2356.
 
 
SEC. 41.14. INJURY TO PUBLIC PROPERTY.
 
   No person shall cut, break, destroy, remove, deface, tamper with, mar, injure, disfigure, interfere with, damage, tear, remove, change or alter any:
 
   (a)   part of any building belonging to this City;
 
   (b)   drinking fountain situated on any public street or sidewalk or any appliance used in or about such foundation;
 
   (c)   (1)   electric lamp erected or suspended on or over any street, sidewalk or park and used in the lighting thereof, or any wire or other apparatus immediately attached to such lamp;
 
   (2)   any lamp standard or lamp pole, nor attach thereto any banner, pennant, streamer, flag, sign, picture, wire, rope or other attachment of any kind for any purpose without first obtaining a permit to do so, as required by Sec. 62.132 of this Code;
 
   (d)   parts or appurtenances of the fire alarm, telegraph system or police signal system, lamp post, street sign post, fire alarm box, police signal box, post, standard, or pole or any fixture or apparatus used about or in connection with any such post, box, standard or pole;
 
   (e)   life buoy, life preserver, life boat, rope, gang or other materials, property or apparatus owned by this City and used or intended to be used for the purpose of saving life except when necessary for that purpose;
 
   (f)   public bridge or any portion thereof;
 
   (g)   water main, pipe, conduit, hydrant, reservoir or ditch, or to tap the same without permission of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners;
 
   (h)   water meter or any box containing any pipe, stop-cock or cut-off valve of the Department of Water and Power of this City or cover the same with earth, brick, stone, mortar, debris, or building material;
 
   (i)   tree, shrub, tree stake or guard in any public street, or affix or attach in any manner any other thing whatsoever, including any guy wire or rope, to any tree, shrub, tree stake or guard except for the purpose of protecting it or unless otherwise authorized by this Code;
 
   (j)   property owned by any public utility located on any street or sidewalk;
 
   (k)   other property owned or leased by this City, the County of Los Angeles, the State of California or the United States government or any political subdivision or department thereof, and not specifically enumerated in this section;
 
   (l)   public document, notice or advertisement or any private or legal document required to be posted or exhibited in the manner and place provided by law, or any copy of any ordinance posted in any public building or place, or on private property when such public notice or ordinance is required by law to be placed or posted thereon.
 
 
SEC. 41.16. SNUFF – THROWING OF.
 
   No person shall throw, blow or otherwise scatter on any street, sidewalk, restaurant, café, theatre, place of amusement or other public place any snuff, or any substance which injuriously affects the olfactory nerves or which causes sneezing or coughing or otherwise injuriously affects the person.
 
 
SEC. 41.17. LIBRARY BOOKS – RETENTION AFTER NOTICE.
 
   No person shall retain any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging in or to, or on deposit with the Public Library or any branch reading room, or deposit station thereof operated in connection therewith, for a period exceeding thirty days after notification by the first class mail to the borrower’s address on file with said library, given after article or other property may be kept, which notice so mailed shall bear on its face a copy of this section.
 
 
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