HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 229-1943 0RDI~NC~ NO. 229
AN ORDINANCE RE~U~tNG T~E USE OF TRAILERS OR C~P CARS
IN THE CITY OF SOUTH S~J~ FHANCtSCO.
The City Council of the City of South San Francisco do ordain as foll,.vs:
Section 1: It shall b e unlawful to pe~uit any trailer or camp car, with
the w~eels thereof either at~ac~ed or detached, to stand upon any public street,
avenue' highway, lane, alley, court or public place within the City of South
San F~ancisco for a period of more than one (1) hour in any one day.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful to permit any trailer or camp car, with
the wheels thereof either attached or detached, to stand upon any lot or parcel
of land in said City, except in a garage, wherein the business of storing automobiles
for hire is carried on, or in a trailer court duly licensed by said City of South
San Francis co, except as hereinafter provided.
Section 3. It shall b e unlawful 'to store any trailer or camp car, with
the Wheels thereof either attached or detacl~ed, when not in use, in any other
place in said city than in a garage, wherein the business of storing automo-
biles for hire is carried on, or in some other gara. ge, consisting of a building
enclosed on four sides, but in which the business of storing automobiles for
hire is not carried on.
Section 4: It shall b e unlawlk%l to use any trailer or camp car, with
the wheels thereof either attac~ed or detached, within t~e Ci~ of South San
Francisco as a place wherein to prepare food for auy purpose or in which human
beings may eat food, unless such trailer shall have first located upon some
licensed auto trailer cottrt o.r camp in said city.
Section 5: It shall5 e unlawful to use a trailer or camp car, with the
wheels thereof either attached or detached, within the City of South San Francisco
for the purposes of a3eeping quarters, unless such trailer or camp 'car shall first
have been located upon a duly licensed auto trailer court or camp in said city.
Sectio~n 6. It .shall b e unlawful to engage in or conduct the bushiness of
selling or bartering any kind of merchandise or commodity in, from or at any
trailer or camp car, with the wheels 'there6f either attacl~ed or detached, in
Section 7. In the event 'that any trailer or camp'c~r shall be
or located or allowed to stand in any place in. said city in 'violation of the pro-
visions of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the health and police o2ficers
of said city to seize such trailer 'or camp ca~ and to ~cause the same to be taken
to some garaEe in said city, w~eretn automobiles 'may be stored for hire, or to
some other location which may be provided by said city. The expenses of towing such
trailer to suciu garage, or to suc'n o't~er place, and of sto~ing of the ss~e, as
herein provided, shall be discharged by the person or pea, sons owning or operating
such trailer or camp car. In the event that any t~-ailer or camp shall be seized
and stored in any such garage or ot~er place, pursuant to the provdsions of this
section, SUCh trailer or camo car shall be kept in any sucl~ garage or ether place
for a'period of five (5) days. If, at the end of such period of five (5) days,
the costs and expenses of taking such trailer or camp car to such garage or other
place and expenses of storing the same in such garage or other place for said
period of five (5) days shall not have bean paid, the chief of police of said
city shall cause such trailer or camp car to be sold at public auction, after
giving notice in the manner and for the time prescribed by law for the sale of
motor vehicles to satisfy t~e claims of persons who have performed repair work
upon such mot~or vehicle s.
Section 8: Th~ expression "trailer or camp car", as used herein, shall
be construed to include any ~hicle, not self-propelled, but constructed and
equipped for t~e purposes of transporting human beings or for housing or sleep-
ing quarters for human beings, or a place wherein human beings may eat, and
every self-propelled vehicle constructed and equipped for the purposes of hous-
ing and sleeping quarters for human beings, and st~all also include every type
of motor vehicle, which is incapable of being self-propelled, and every car,
street car, omnibus, motor bus~ bus no longer used as a means of conveyance or
transporatlon of human beings and incapable of self-locomotion, excep~ as in
this section otherwise provided. Said expression so_all not include any car or
coach in use for any purpose by any steam or electric railroad, or any buggy,
cart or wagon desi~aed and intended to be propelled by horsepower.
Section 9. It snail be unlawful to use any of the vehicles included in
term "trailer p p rp
section S hereof under the or c~m car" for th~ u oses of human
habitation, notwitstanding that suot~ vehicles have been altered in such manner
as to render them no longer usable as means for the transportation of human beings.
Eeotio~ 10, Any person, persons, firm or corporation, who a~all violate
any of the provisions of this erdinance, or s~all contribute in any way to the
violation thereof, shall be dee~ed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($28.00)
and not exceeding three hundred dollars ($~00.00), or by imprisonment for a
period not exceeding t~ee (8) months~ or by both sucn fine and imprisonment.
Eac~ day's violation of this ordinance shall constitute a seaprate offense here-
u~der.
ordinance shall, for any reason, be held to be unconstitutional, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the rematnin~ portions of this ordinance.
The city council hereby declares t~at it would have passed this. ordinance and
each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, subesctions, sentences, clauses or
phrases may be declared unconstitutional~
Section ~. This ordinance Shall be published once in"The Ent~erprise'',
a weekly newspaper of general circulation published in said City of South San
Francisco, and shall take effect and be in force on the expiration of thirty
(~) days from and after its passage.
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Introduced this 8th day of July,
Passed and adopted as an ordinance of the City of South San :~rancisco at
a regula~ meeting of the city council of t~e City of South San Francisco, this
19th day of July, 194&, by the following vote:
Ayes, Councilmen V. Boido, Geo. W. Holston, D. W. R~tto, Reese Lloyd
M. Minuc ci ani
Noes, Councilmen None
Absent, Councilmen None
Seal Approved D. W. Ratto
Mayor of t~e City of 'South San
Francis co
Attest:
Daniel McSweeney
City Clerk