SECTIONS 11000-11011 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 11000-11011

11000. This part may be cited as the Pedestrian Mall Law of 1960.

11001. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions
contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.

11002. "City" includes every county, city, and city and county
within this State. "The city" means the particular county, city, or
city and county, acting pursuant to this part.

11003. "Legislative body" means the legislative body of "the city."

11004. "Street" as used in the definitions of the terms "city
streets," "mall intersection" and "intersecting streets" hereinafter
defined means any public street, road, highway, alley, lane, court,
way or place of any nature open to the use of the public.

11005. "City street," as used with regard to streets located within
a city or city and county, means any "street" located within the
city or city and county, except a "freeway," "state highway," or
"county highway" as defined in Sections 23.5, 24, and 25. "City
street," as used with regard to streets located within a county,
means any "street" located within the county, except a "freeway" or
"state highway," as defined in Sections 23.5 and 24.

11006. "Pedestrian mall" means one or more "city streets," or
portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is or is to be
restricted in whole or in part and which is or is to be used
exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel.

11007. "Mall intersection" means any intersection of a "city street"
constituting a part of a "pedestrian mall" with any "street," which
intersection is itself part of the "pedestrian mall."

11008. "Intersecting street" means any "street" which meets or
crosses a "pedestrian mall" at a "mall intersection" but includes
only those portions thereof on either side of a "mall intersection"
which lie between the "mall intersection" and the first intersection
of the "intersecting street" with a public street or highway open to
vehicular traffic. If any portion of a "pedestrian mall" terminates
on a "street" at a place thereon other than a place of intersection
with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic,
"intersecting street" also includes that portion of any "street"
which lies between such place of termination and the first
intersection of such "street" with a public street or highway open to
vehicular traffic. "Intersecting street" shall also include any
other "street" or portion thereof which the legislative body, in its
resolution adopted pursuant to Section 11200, declares to be such.

11009. "Assessment roll" means the assessment roll or rolls used by
the city for purposes of city ad valorem taxes on real property of
the city.

11010. If "the city" is a charter city, "similar special assessment
law" shall include a procedural assessment ordinance of such city.

11011. "Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943" means the Vehicle
Parking District Law of 1943, Part 1 (commencing with Section 31500)
of Division 18 of the Streets and Highways Code, as that statute
existed on December 31, 1973.