94 ORDINANCE NO. 94
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF GRAND TERRACE, CALIFORNIA,
ADOPTING AND ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR THE USE OF CITY PARK AND RECREATION FACILITIES
WHEREAS, the City of Grand Terrace and the Colton Unified
School District entered into an agreement for the joint use of
facilities and establishing priorities for the recreational
activity uses of these facilities; and
WHEREAS, from time to time conflicts will occur in the
usage of recreational facilities and a need has been determined
to exist to establish priorities for said uses and regulate the
use of the City's park and recreation facilities:
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Grand
Terrace does hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. That all users of City athletic facilities,
including athletic fields and baseball diamonds, are hereby
required to receive approval in advance from the City's
Community Services Director, or his delegate, for the use of
said athletic facilities.
Section 2. That the Community Service Director shall
establish rules, regulations and procedures for the issuance of
approvals for the use of said athletic facilities, including
procedures for making application for the use of said
facilities.
Section 3. Any person(s) using said athletic
facilities must yield the use of said facility to those persons
who exhibit evidence reserving the use of said facility to that
person for that time. That person(s) having an approved
reservation for the use of the facility shall have the
exclusive use of the facility during the time period for which
the reservation has been approved.
Section 4. Any activity or use of a City athletic
facility or any adjoining City park or recreation facility by
persons who do not have approved reservation therefore, must
cease the activity or use of the facility if such activity or
use interferes in any way with the use or activity of persons
holding approved reservations for that facility or adjoining
facilities.
Section 5. In the event that two or more persons hold
approved reservations for an athletic facility during the same
time period or overlapping time periods, then the use or
activity by that person or persons having the highest priority
shall prevail and any lower priority uses or activities shall
yield the use of that athletic facility to those persons
holding higher priority. The priorities shall be as follows:
(1) Official and organized school activities;
(2) City sponsored activities;
(3) Those activities which do not fall within either (1)
or (2);
(4) As to those activities falling within (3), those
persons holding an approved reservation with the
earliest date of approval shall hold a higher
priority for the use of the athletic facility.
Section 6. Violation of this Ordinance shall be an
infraction. Every violation of this Ordinance shall be an
infraction and is punishable as follows:
(a) A fine of $50.00 for a first violation;
(b) A fine of $100.00 for a second violation of this
Ordinance within a one year period; and
(c) A fine of $200.00 for each additional violation of
the Ordinance within a one year period.
Section 7. Urgency Ordinance. This Ordinance is hereby
declared to be an Urgency Measure to protect the public peace,
health, safety and welfare of the community. The facts
constituting this urgency are that children and other members
of the community are being endangered through uncontrolled use
of park and recreational facilities.
Section 8. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in full
force and effect upon its adoption.
Section 9. Posting. The City Clerk shall cause this
Ordinance to be posted in three (3) public place within fifteen
days (15) days after its passage, as designated for such
purpose by the City Council.
Section 10. First read and approved at a special meeting of
the City Council of said City held on the 19th day of September,
1985.
ATTEST:
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City Council thereof. Council tIAre of.
I, ILENE DUGHMAN, City Clerk of the City of Grand Terrace
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a
special meeting of the City Council of the City of Grand
Terrace held of the 19th day of September, 1985 by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Matteson, Petta, Pfennighausen, Evans;
Mayor Grant
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
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City Attorney