CC - Item 3C - Ordinance No. 801 - Regulating Student Loading & Unloading staff eport
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR
AND MEMBERS
ROSEMEAD CITY COUNCIL
FROM: FRANK G. TRIPEPI, CITY MANAGER :47�
DATE: November 9, 1999
RE: ORDINANCE NO. 801 REGULATING STUDENT LOADING&UNLOADING
At your meeting last month,you instructed staff to redouble efforts to improve traffic and student
safety enforcement near school sites. Sheriff's Department personnel continue to focus on traffic
violations while supplementing city parking control teams with parking enforcement. Some of the
most troublesome examples of unsafe practices being reported by Sheriff, city and school site
personnel are the loading and unloading of pupils from private vehicles.
Children crossing streets unattended without a crosswalk or signal, and darting out from behind
parked or double-parked vehicles is of particular concern.Other cities report similar unsafe practices.
Efforts to address this unsafe condition are hampered by lack of a specific vehicle code reference
against which to cite. The Sheriffs Department took the initiative to find a solution. They reported
that the City of West Covina took action to address this perceived gap. West Covina adopted an
amendment to its municipal code regulating the loading and unloading of children in school zones,
thereby allowing traffic officers to more aggressively enforce this unsafe practice.
At my request, the City Attorney has prepared an ordinance regulating loading and unloading of
students for the City Council's consideration.The proposed ordinance,modeled after West Covina's,
will assist in promoting improved student and traffic safety, and provide the Sheriff's Department
specific enforcement authority to cite violators who endanger students and other motorists.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City CounciLarle Ordinance No. 801, adding a new section to the
Municipal Code establishing regulations for the loading and unloading of student passengers.
COUNCIL AGENDA
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ITEM No.
ORDINANCE NO. 801
AN ORDNANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ROSEMEAD ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS
FOR THE LOADING AND UNLOADING OF STUDENT
PASSENGERS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. New section 10.04.060 is hereby added to the Rosemead Municipal Code to
read as follows:
10.04.060. Loading and unloading of student passengers.
(a) No operator of a motor vehicle shall stop or park to load or unload
students where such loading or unloading is in a location which would cause the
student to cross the street unattended without a crosswalk or signal:
(1) Where there is no crosswalk or signal within one hundred (100)feet;
(2) Where such loading or unloading is prohibited by signage; or
(3) In an intersection, private driveway, or traffic lane.
(b) Section(a)hereof shall not apply when the operator is directed to stop or
park and unload passengers at the direction of a peace officer.
(c) As used in this section "student" means children twelve (12) years of age or
younger.
SECTION ,. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the
same to processed in accordance with state law.
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 23rd day of November, 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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