(Added by Ord. No. 183,475, Eff. 4/19/15.)
No person or entity other than the City of Los Angeles and any of its departments or designees shall have the authority to sell, lease, reserve or facilitate the reserving of any street, way, alley, highway, road, parkway, parking space or other public space in the City of Los Angeles without written authorization from the City. For purposes of this section, a parking space is an area not exceeding 22 feet in length that accommodates parking for one vehicle. Each attempt to sell, lease, reserve or facilitate the reserving of a parking space, or the completion of the transaction, on any street, section of a street or other public ways set forth in this section shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of this section.
(a) Penalties. Any person violating this section shall be subject to the following penalties:
1. First violation. A first violation of this section shall be an infraction punishable by a fine in the amount of $250.
2. Second and subsequent violations. A second violation and all subsequent violations shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11.00 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, including prosecution as an infraction punishable by a fine in the amount of $500, or prosecution as a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both a fine and imprisonment.
3. Violations. The following constitutes a violation for purposes of this section: a conviction for violation of this section, a conviction under Penal Code Section 853.7 for failure to appear in court to contest a citation for violations of this section, or a forfeiture of bail.
4. Each person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of this section is committed, continued or permitted by that person, and shall be punishable accordingly.
(b) Severability. If any subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this section is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this section, and each and every subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof not declared invalid or unconstitutional, without regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.