SECTIONS 11600-11603 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 11600-11603

11600. Following the adoption of the resolution provided for in
Section 11311, and as soon as moneys have been fully provided for the
payment of all claims, if any, allowed pursuant to Section 11310 and
for the payment of all damages and compensation, if any, awarded in
any action or actions brought pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing at
Section 11400) hereof, the legislative body may adopt an ordinance
establishing the pedestrian mall. Such ordinance shall contain:
(a) A general description of the pedestrian mall and a declaration
and determination that the same is finally established. The mall as
finally established shall be substantially the same as that described
in the resolution of intention.
(b) Rules and regulations prohibiting vehicular traffic on such
pedestrian mall subject to such exceptions as the ordinance may
provide. Such rules and regulations and such exceptions shall be
substantially in accordance with the statements made in the
resolution of intention.
(c) Such additional rules and regulations as the legislative body
may determine pertaining to the interpretation, operation and
enforcement of the rules and regulations referred to in subdivision
(b) above, and otherwise pertaining to the use, operation,
maintenance and control of the pedestrian mall.
(d) Such provisions as the legislative body may determine
pertaining to the operative date or dates of any of such rules or
regulations.

11601. Such ordinance shall be adopted and published in the manner,
and shall take effect, as provided by law or charter for other
ordinances of the city.

11602. Such ordinance shall be subject to referendum in the same
manner as other ordinances of the city. No payment of allowed claims
or damages or compensation awarded by any court shall be made until
such ordinance is in effect but all such allowed claims, damages and
compensation shall be paid before the rules and regulations provided
in such ordinance become operative.

11603. Proceedings under this part and the adoption of such
ordinance notwithstanding, the city and its legislative body shall
retain its police powers and other rights and powers relating to the
city streets constituting a part of the pedestrian mall. No action
taken pursuant to this part shall be interpreted or construed to be a
vacation or abandonment, in whole or in part, of any city street or
any right therein, it being intended that the establishment of a
pedestrian mall pursuant to this part be a matter of regulation only.
Nothing in this part shall be interpreted or construed to prevent
the city and its legislative body at any time subsequent to the
adoption of the ordinance provided for in this chapter, from
abandoning the operation of the pedestrian mall, from changing the
extent of the pedestrian mall, or from changing or repealing any of
the rules and regulations pertaining to the pedestrian mall but
Section 11304 shall not operate as a bar to any claim of damages
resulting solely from changes made subsequent to the adoption of the
ordinance provided for in this chapter.