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41.03 Lookouts for Illegal Acts.
41.14 Injury to Public Property.
41.16 Snuff – Throwing of.
41.17 Library Books – Retention After Notice.
41.18 Sitting, Lying, or Sleeping or Storing, Using, Maintaining, or Placing Personal Property in the Public Right-of-Way.
41.19 Public Assemblages – Obstructing Entrance.
41.20 Closure of Streets.
41.20.1 Special Event Application Process and Definitions.
41.21 Cutting into Gasoline Lines Prohibited.
41.22 Loitering – River Bed.
41.23 Trespass on Housing Authority Property.
41.24 Trespass on Private Property.
41.27 Intoxication.
41.29 Hand Organs on Streets.
41.30 Spite Fences.
41.31 Trees – Injury to.
41.32 Theatres – Sound Amplifiers.
41.33 Landlords – Disturbing Tenants.
41.34 Pesticides – Notice to Tenants.
41.38 Use of Certain Signs on Vehicles Prohibited.
41.39 Stowaways – Entry a Misdemeanor.
41.40 Noise Due to Construction, Excavation Work – When Prohibited.
41.41 Evading Payment of Admission Fee.
41.42 Music Reproducing Devices – Hours of Operation.
41.43.1 Door to Door Selling or Soliciting.
41.44 Miniature Golf Courses and Driving Fairways.
41.45 Unauthorized Removal, Use or Possession of Shopping Carts.
41.46 Sidewalks – Cleaning of.
41.47 Water Closets – Use of.
41.47.1 Restroom Facilities.
41.47.2 Urinating or Defecating in Public.
41.48 Restaurants – Minimum Light Intensity.
41.49 Hotel Registers and Room Rentals.
41.50 Smoking Prohibited in Designated Areas.
41.50.1 Use of Smokeless Tobacco Prohibited at Event Sites for Organized Sporting Events.
41.51 Smoking in Elevators Prohibited.
41.52 Smoking in Buses.
41.53 Public Bath Houses.
41.54 Fishing Within One Mile of Public Sewer Outlet.
41.55 Oil – Discharge in Ocean and Beaches.
41.56 Unlawful Activities at Sporting Events, Theatricals and Exhibitions.
41.57 Loud and Raucous Noise Prohibited.
41.58 Loud Party Second Response Fee.
41.58.1 Loud or Unruly Gatherings.
41.59 Prohibition Against Certain Forms of Aggressive Solicitation.
41.60 Hospitals; Patient Transport.
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).
41.70.1 Nuisance Vehicles – Controlled Substances.
41.70.2 Nuisance Vehicles – Speed Contests and Exhibitions of Speed.
41.70.3 Nuisance Vehicles – Illegal Dumping.
41.71 Gang-Related Nuisance Vehicle Forfeiture.
41.72 Counterfeit Goods Nuisance Abatement Law.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
(Title and Section amended by Ord. No. 187,127, Eff. 9/3/21.)
(a) No person shall obstruct a street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way:
(1) by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, in a manner that impedes passage, as provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Pub. L, No. 101-336, 104 Stat. 328 (1990), as amended from time to time;
(2) by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, within ten feet of any operational or utilizable driveway or loading dock;
(3) by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, within five feet of any operational or utilizable building entrance or exit;
(4) by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, within two feet of any fire hydrant, fire plug, or other fire department connection;
(5) by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, within the public right-of-way in a manner that obstructs or unreasonably interferes with the use of the right-of-way for any activity for which the City has issued a permit.
(b) No person shall obstruct any portion of any street or other public right-of-way open to use by motor vehicles, or any portion of a bike lane, bike path, or other public right-of-way open to use by bicycles, by sitting, lying, or sleeping, or by storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, anywhere within the street, bike lane, bike path, or other public right-of-way, as specified.
(c) Except as limited by Subsection (d), no person shall:
(1) sit, lie, sleep, or store, use, maintain, or place personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within the distance stated on the posted signage (up to a maximum of 500 feet) of a property designated as a sensitive use. For a property to be designated as a “sensitive use”, the property must be a Public Park, or Public Library, as those terms are defined in Section 105.01 of this Code; (Amended by Ord. No. 187,586, Eff. 9/18/22.)
(2) sit, lie, sleep, or store, use, maintain, or place personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within the distance stated on the posted signage (up to a maximum of 500 feet) of a designated overpass, underpass, freeway ramp, tunnel, bridge, pedestrian bridge, subway, wash, spreading ground, or active railway, where the City Council determines, in the designating resolution, that the public health, safety, or welfare is served by the prohibition, including, without limitation, by finding that sleeping or lodging within the stated proximity to the designated area is unhealthy, unsafe, or incompatible with safe passage;
(3) sit, lie, sleep, or store, use, maintain, or place personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way, within the distance stated on the posted signage (up to a maximum of 1,000 feet) of a designated facility, opened after January 1, 2018, that provides shelter, safe sleeping, or safe parking to homeless persons, or that serves as a homeless services navigation center;
(4) sit, lie, sleep, or store, use, maintain, or place personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way that has been posted with signage prohibiting sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property. In order to designate a section of street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way as prohibited under this subdivision, the City Council shall determine, in a designating resolution and based on specific documentation, that the circumstances of continued sitting, sleeping, lying, storing personal property, or otherwise obstructing the public right-of-way at that location poses a particular and ongoing threat to public health or safety. Such circumstances may include, but are not limited to: (i) the death or serious bodily injury of any person at the location due to a hazardous condition; (ii) repeated serious or violent crimes, including human trafficking, at the location; or (iii) the occurrence of fires that resulted in a fire department response to the location. For each such location, a prohibition pursuant to this subdivision shall be effective for a period of time specified in the resolution, but not to exceed one year.
(d) No person shall be found to be in violation of any prohibition set forth in Subsection (c), unless and until: (i) the City Council has taken action, by resolution, to designate a specified area or areas for enforcement against sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, or otherwise obstructing the public right- of-way; (ii) the City has posted signage at the designated area or areas set forth in the resolution, with such signage including reference to any required findings adopted in the resolution, and giving notice of the date after which no sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, or otherwise obstructing the public right-of-way will be allowed; and (iii) at least 14 calendar days have passed from the date on which the signage is posted at the designated area or areas.
(e) No person shall sit, lie, sleep, or store, use, maintain, or place personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a School or Day Care Center as those terms are defined in Section 105.01 of this Code. A violation of this subsection is governed by Section 41.18(f) of this Code. (Added by Ord. No. 187,586, Eff. 9/18/22.)
(f) Violations of this section involving a person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs a City employee from enforcing this section or who willfully refuses to comply after being requested to do so by an authorized City employee shall be subject to the penalties set forth in Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) Section 11.00. All other violations of this section shall be enforceable only as infractions pursuant to LAMC 11.00(m) or issuance of a citation pursuant to City’s Administrative Citation Enforcement Program pursuant to LAMC Section 11.2.01 et seq.
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