City of Long Beach - File #: 23-0734

• File #: 23-0734
• Version: 3
• Name: Harbor - Consolidation of existing Ords
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/30/2023
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 8/1/2023
• Final action: 8/1/2023
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance conferring upon and delegating to the Board of Harbor Commissioners the authority to enforce statutes and ordinances, to arrest and to prepare, issue, and deliver written notices to appear inside the City of Long Beach Harbor District, including at the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle-Pedestrian Path, at the Port Administration Building and the associated underground parking structure, and at other specific premises outside the Harbor District, read and adopted as read.
• Sponsors: Harbor

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/1/2023	3	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
7/18/2023	2	City Council	withdrawn
7/18/2023	1	City Council	approve recommendation	Pass
7/11/2023	1	City Council

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance conferring upon and delegating to the Board of Harbor Commissioners the authority to enforce statutes and ordinances, to arrest and to prepare, issue, and deliver written notices to appear inside the City of Long Beach Harbor District, including at the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle-Pedestrian Path, at the Port Administration Building and the associated underground parking structure, and at other specific premises outside the Harbor District, read and adopted as read.

DISCUSSION
The Harbor Department Security Division provides security and patrol services to the Harbor Department throughout the Harbor District, within the Port Administration Building (located at 415 W. Ocean Boulevard), and within the underground parking structure associated with the Port Administration Building. On February 27, 2023, the Board of Harbor Commissioners adopted Resolution No. HD-3123 requesting an ordinance from the Long Beach City Council to delegate authority to the Board of Harbor Commissioners to amend and restate existing ordinances, enforce specific statutes, make arrests, and prepare, issue, and deliver written notices within the Harbor District, the Port Administration, the underground parking structure, and on the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle and Pedestrian Path.

The Board of Harbor Commissioners had previously adopted Ordinance No. HD-1903, amending and restating the authority of the Harbor Department Director of Security, the Chief Port Security Officer, and Harbor Patrol Officers to enforce statutes and ordinances, to arrest and to prepare, issue and deliver written Notices to Appear within the Harbor District of the City of Long Beach, and Ordinance No. HD-2305, which conveys certain authorities outside of the Harbor District at the Port Administration Building. Ordinance No. HD-2397 added authorities and authorized additional jurisdiction to include the parking garage below the Port Administration Building. The attached ordinan...