HomeMy WebLinkAbout1625 - Public NudityORDINANCE NO. 1625
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH ADDING
• CHAPTER 10.54 TO THE NEWPORT BEACH MUNICIPAL
CODE DEALING WITH PUBLIC NUDITY
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach DOES
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 10.54 is hereby added to the Newport
Beach Municipal Code to read as follows:
CHAPTER 10.54
PUBLIC NUDITY
10.54.010 Intent and Purpose
10.54.020 Prohibition
10.54.030 Exemptions
Section 10.54.010. Intent and Purpose. The intent and
purpose of this Chapter is to guarantee that the parks,
playgrounds and beaches owned, operated and maintained by
the City of Newport Beach are operated and maintained for
• the use, benefit, recreation and enjoyment of all citizens
and residents of this City. The City Council finds that it
is in the public interest and necessary to protect and
promote public health, safety and welfare, that said parks,
playgrounds and beaches be utilized and enjoyed by as many
persons as possible; that maximum utilization and enjoyment
of said parks, playgrounds and beaches can only be obtained
through imposition of regulations regarding activities
thereon; the appearance of some persons utilizing said parks,
playgrounds and beaches by appearing thereon without clothing
and with the private parts of their bodies exposed,
unreasonably interferes with the right of all persons to use
and enjoy said parks, playgrounds and beaches by causing
many persons to leave and others not to come to said parks,
playgrounds and beaches; that such conduct and behavior imposes
an extraordinary and unusual burden on City employees charged
with the maintenance of said parks, playgrounds and beaches
and public safety personnel who are diverted from fulfilling
their primary obligation to protect the health, safety
and welfare of the public at large; that the presence of
• persons who are unclothed and exposed to public view in or
on public rights of way, parks, playgrounds, and beaches, or
on any private property open to public view from public
parks, playgrounds, beaches or other public ways tends
to discourage the use and enjoyment of said public parks,
playgrounds, beaches and public ways of the City, and creates
a nuisance and is offensive to members of the public who
wish to use and enjoy said public parks, playgrounds, beaches
and places, and who are unwillingly exposed to such conduct;
are based on the foregoing findings, this Chapter will
protect the public health safety and welfare.
Section 10.54.020 Prohibition. No person shall appear,
bathe, sunbathe, walk or be on any public park, playground,
beach or the water adjacent to, or on any other public land,
• or in any private property opened to public view from any
public beach, playground, park, public place or public right
of way in such a manner that the genitals, pubic hair,
buttocks, anus, anal regions, natal cleft, perineum, or
pubic hair region of any person, or any portion of the breast
at or below the upper edge of the areola thereof of any
female person, is exposed to public view or is not covered
by an opaque covering.
Section 10.54.030. Exemptions This Chapter shall not
apply to:
A. Children under the age of ten years.
B. Live theatrical performances performed in a theater,
concert hall, or other similar establishment located on
public land.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be effective
thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption.
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This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting
• of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the
23rd day of S1uLe , 1975, and was adopted on the 1Rth
day of July 1975 by the following vote, to wit:
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ATTEST:
CERTIFIED AS THE CRi'GN AL AND
CERTIFIED AS TO 1= UX1- -i% 10 %I
DA t,Y A? 7 S
F 61TY CLERK O 4'PORT EACH
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AYES, COUNCILMEN- MC T„r,; g , Dostal ,
Barrett, Kuehn, Rogers, Ryckoff, Store
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT COUNCILMEN: None
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HRC:yz
6/17/75