It is a misdemeanor for any person to release or fly or cause to be released or flown, within the city, any moored balloon, kite, unmanned rocket or unmanned free balloon which might be ingested by an aircraft engine or might cause a pilot's view of the airport and zone approach to be obstructed, or which could be used to suspend an object capable of endangering airborne aircraft or impairing a pilot's vision.
(Prior code § 3400.01)
When a large party or gathering occurs at a premises and a public safety personnel at the scene determines that there is a threat to the public peace, health, safety or general welfare, the person in charge of the premises and the person responsible for the event, or if either of those persons is a minor, then the parents or guardians of that minor, will be held jointly and severally liable for the cost of providing public safety personnel on special security assignment over and above the services normally provided by the department. The public safety personnel utilized during a second response after the first warning to control the threat to the public peace, health, safety or general welfare, shall be deemed to be on special security assignment over and above the services normally provided. The costs of such special security assignment may include minor damages to city property and/or injuries to city personnel.
(Prior code § 3410; Ord. 1840 § 2, 2009)
It is unlawful for any reason to hit a golf ball within the confines of any public park Upland Unified School District school property, or any other public property in the city, except at such place as shall be especially set apart for that purpose.
(Prior code § 3430)
No person shall make to the police department any false, fraudulent, misleading or unfounded report or statement, or wilfully misrepresent any fact for the purpose of interfering with the orderly operation of the police department or with the intention of misleading any police officer or employee engaged in an official capacity.
(Prior code § 3440.1)
No person or persons shall telephone the police department with the intent to annoy the police department or to interfere with the orderly operation of the police department. These telephone calls include but shall not be limited to those calls in violation of Section 653m of the California Penal Code.
(Prior code § 3440.3)
A. 
The persons responsible for making the report, statement or telephone calls or if the person responsible is a minor, then the parent or legal guardian of that minor, will be held liable for all costs incurred by the police department to respond and investigate the activity which is the subject of Sections 8.44.040 and 8.44.050. The costs to the police department may include damage to city property and/or injury to city personnel. The department shall itemize the cost to the department of responding to the reports and calls set forth above and present the billing for such costs to the person responsible for the response. The person causing the response and/or if it was a minor, his or her parents, shall pay the costs upon the presented bill within 10 days after the department mails the same to the party causing the response. In the event the party causing the response does not pay the bill within the 10-day period, he or she shall pay an additional charge to be set by council resolution from time to time.
B. 
The charge above-mentioned is in addition to any criminal penalties which the city may deem appropriate under the circumstances.
(Prior code § 3440.5)
A. 
Duties. In addition to the performance of their ordinary duties, it shall be the duty and within the scope of the employment of all police officers and firefighters, at all times and under all circumstances, to render such aid as lies within their power to all persons or animals in distress or danger.
B. 
Injury in Rendering Service. In case any police officer or firefighter shall be injured or come to his or her death while rendering such services as aforesaid, he or she shall be deemed to be injured or to have come to his or her death in the course of his or her employment and shall be entitled to workmen's compensation therefor, or any other kind or character of compensation to which he or she may be entitled under general law or otherwise; and, in this regard, it is further provided for the purposes of this section that any firefighter or police officer who pursues any of his or her ordinary or any of such additional duties beyond the actual confines of the territorial limits of the city shall, nevertheless, be deemed and taken as acting within the scope of his or her employment and within his or her duties.
(Prior code §§ 3450.1, 3450.2)
A. 
Definition. "Unclaimed property" means any property found by the police of this city upon the public streets or ways of the city, or elsewhere, or any property brought to the police department by others, where the owner of the same is unknown; provided, however, that property held as evidence, dangerous weapons or deadly weapons, narcotics or poison drugs, explosives, or any property of any kind whatsoever, the possession of which is prohibited by law as the same are defined in the Penal Code of the state of California shall not constitute unclaimed property as herein defined.
B. 
Care and Restitution. All unclaimed property as defined in subsection A of this section shall be kept by the police department, using ordinary care to keep the same safe and to protect the same from the weather. If an owner appears prior to three months from the date the property came into the possession of the police department and offers reasonable proof of ownership, and offers to reimburse the city for any storage charges incurred, the property shall be delivered to the owner upon his or her payment of the storage charges, if any.
C. 
Period to Be Held. All unclaimed property shall be held by the police department for a period of at least three months, unless restitution has been made as aforesaid prior to sale or destruction.
D. 
Notice—Sale or Destruction. All unclaimed property held for a period of three months may be sold at public auction, transferred to the central services department of the city for sale, or designated by the city for public use. In the event that the item is to be sold at auction by the police department, the item shall be sold at said public auction to the highest bidder provided that notice of such sale shall be given by the chief of police at least five days before the time fixed therefor by publication and published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of San Bernardino. All proceeds which are received from the sale of the unclaimed property by either the central services department or the police department shall be deposited with the city's treasurer. In the event that the property has no value, it shall be destroyed and disposed of in an appropriate disposal area.
(Prior code §§ 3460.1—3460.4)
A. 
Castor Bean Oil Plant (Ricinus Communis) Declared Public Nuisance. It is found and declared that the existence of castor bean oil plants (Ricinus Communis) on public and private property within the city is a public nuisance and dangerous to the public health and safety of the inhabitants of the city. The castor bean oil plant produces castor beans poisonous in nature which will produce death if eaten or otherwise swallowed; that castor beans are peculiarly attractive to small children.
B. 
Possession Prohibited—Penalties. From and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, every person who shall hold title in any capacity to, or have possession of, or be responsible for the management or upkeep of, any land or lot of ground within the city, who refuses or neglects for a period of 48 hours, after receiving notice from the department of public works of the city to remove any castor bean oil plant (Ricinus Communis) hereinbefore declared to be a nuisance from such premises, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Prior code §§ 3470.1, 3470.2; Ord. 1812 § 1(B), 2006)
A. 
No person shall operate a motor vehicle, including automobile, motorcycle, or motor-driven cycle as defined in the California Vehicle Code, except upon public streets and highways. The operation of such motor vehicles on property other than public streets and highways is expressly forbidden, unless the operator thereof shall have the prior written consent of the owner of such property, or his or her authorized agent, and unless such consent is in the possession of the operator at all times while operating such motor vehicle on such property. Failure of an operator to have such permission in his or her possession while operating a motor vehicle, except on public streets and highways or upon his or her own property, is a violation of this section.
B. 
Exceptions. This section shall not prohibit the operation of motor vehicles upon the property of another when such motor vehicles are:
1. 
Authorized emergency vehicles as defined in California Vehicle Code Section 165; or
2. 
Operated upon parking lots or structures open to the public or private parking lots or structures and operated solely for ingress to and egress from the parking area and parking; or
3. 
Operated upon property primarily used for motorcycle or motor-driven cycle retail or wholesale sales, service or repair, manufacture, or distribution, but operated in a manner not to be offensive and which shall not disturb the peace and quiet of the general neighborhood; or
4. 
Generally used in conjunction with commercial, industrial, or office uses and used solely in conjunction with the uses and upon property of another and in a manner not to be offensive and which shall not disturb the peace and quiet of the general neighborhood; or
5. 
Operated upon private roadways or easements necessary for ingress to and egress from property used for those purposes designated in subsections (B)(2), (3) and (4) of this section, and for no other purposes; or
6. 
Operated on property actually used for residential purposes, where such motor vehicles are on such property at the express or implied invitation of the owner or occupant, and when such use is solely for ingress to or egress from the residential property.
(Prior code § 3480)
A. 
It is unlawful to possess any catalytic converter that is not attached to a vehicle, unless the possessor has valid documentation or other proof to verify that they are in lawful possession of the catalytic converter.
B. 
It is unlawful for any person to falsify or cause to be falsified any information in any documentation or other proof intended to show valid proof of ownership or possession of a catalytic converter.
C. 
For purposes of this section, "lawful possession" includes: (1) being the lawful owner of the catalytic converter; or (2) in possession of the catalytic converter with the lawful owner's written consent. It is not required to prove the catalytic converter was stolen to establish the possession is not a "lawful possession."
D. 
For purposes of this section, "documentation or other proof" means written document(s) that clearly identify the vehicle from which the catalytic converter originated based on the totality of the circumstances, and includes, but is not limited to, the following types of documents:
1. 
Bill of sale from the original owner with the signature of the vehicle owner authorizing removal of the catalytic converter, as well as the name, address, and telephone number of the vehicle owner.
2. 
Documentation from an auto-body shop or similar business proving that the owner relinquished the catalytic converter to the auto-body shop or similar business.
3. 
Verifiable electronic communication from the previous owner to the possessor relinquishing ownership of the catalytic converter.
4. 
Photographs of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter originated clearly showing the license plate number and vehicle identification number (VIN) of the car from which the catalytic converter was removed.
E. 
Each and every violation of this section shall constitute a separate violation and shall be subject to all remedies and enforcement measures authorized by the Upland Municipal Code. Each and every catalytic converter unlawfully possessed is a separate violation of this section.
F. 
It is unlawful and a misdemeanor subject to punishment in accordance with Chapter 1.16 of Title 1 of this code, for any person to violate any provision of this section.
G. 
The remedies provided herein are not to be construed as exclusive remedies. The city is authorized to pursue any proceedings or remedies provided by law.
(Ord. 1977 § 2, 2023)