Chapter 40.48
USE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY
Sections:
40.48.040 Obstruction of public property.
40.48.050 Use of house cars, campers and trailer coaches for home habitation prohibited.
40.48.010 Camping, lodging.
A. Between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, it is unlawful for any person to camp, lodge, or sleep in any public park or on any public beach.
B. It is unlawful for any person to camp, lodge, or sleep on any public median, street, or right-of-way.
C. Between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, it is unlawful for any person to remain on a median of any public street or highway, except:
1. So long as traffic does not allow the person to complete the crossing of the street or highway; or
2. As required by an emergency threatening public safety or health. (Ord. 2048 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1898)
40.48.012 Barricades, tents.
A. Between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, it is unlawful for any person to place, erect, maintain, or use a barricade, canopy, or tent on any public park or public beach.
B. Between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. of the same day, it is unlawful for any person to leave unattended, in any public park, a barricade, canopy, or tent which the person placed, erected, or maintained.
C. Except between 5:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the day of the Independence Day Parade, it is unlawful for any person to place, erect, maintain, or use a barricade, canopy, chair, or tent on any public median, street, or right-of-way. (Ord. 2048 § 2, 2015; Ord. 2046 § 2, 2014; Ord. 1898)
40.48.020 Private property.
No person shall camp, lodge, or sleep on any private property without first obtaining the permission of the owner or lessee of such property. (Ord. 1898)
40.48.030 Automobiles.
No person shall sleep or recline in any automobile parked upon any public street or highway within the City for any period greater than two hours continuously.
40.48.040 Obstruction of public property.
No person shall stand or sit on any crosswalk, sidewalk or any other public street, highway, public park or public beach or arcade, shopping center or other property opened or dedicated to public use or to which the public is invited, so as in any manner to obstruct the free use thereof by the public or passage therein or thereon by pedestrians, or to hinder, molest or annoy any person or persons in passing along the same, or to obstruct the entrance of any public building, public beach or public park.
40.48.050 Use of house cars, campers and trailer coaches for home habitation prohibited.
No person shall use or occupy or permit the use of occupancy of any house car, camper or trailer coach for human habitation, or for sleeping, either singly or in groups, on any public right-of-way, public parking area, street, park, beach, square, avenue, or alley within the City limits between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., except as otherwise provided in this code.
40.48.055 Curfews.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or remain upon any public property which is closed by a curfew established by this section, unless authorized by a permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this code.
B. The following curfews are established:
1. The beach area west of the Naval Radio Station Coronado extending north from the city of Imperial Beach to the southernmost portion of the Silver Strand State Park is closed from the hours of 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
2. Coronado City parks are closed from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
3. North Beach is designated by signs and generally described as between a point 15 feet seaward of the southwest curb line of Ocean Boulevard and tidal west sand, and between a line which is a southwesterly prolongation of the southeast curb line of Ocean Drive, across the sandy beach, and the fence at the Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), including that adjoining portion of NASNI beach currently maintained by the City of Coronado, and is closed from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. (Ord. 2048 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1983 § 1, 2007; Ord. 1966 § 2, 2004)
40.48.060 Special event.
A. By Council action, the City Council may suspend or modify one or more of the regulations in this chapter as part of a special event or other activity approved by the City Council or City Manager.
B. Specified use of public streets and rights-of-way or public property contrary to the provisions of the chapter will be allowed when a permit has been issued by the City Manager in accordance with this code. (Ord. 1898)