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CALIFORNIA
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
TEL (760) 777-7100
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2
ORDER CLOSING AND PROHIBITING USE OF CHILD PLAY
EQUIPMENT AT CITY -OWNED PARKS
EFFECTIVE MARCH 19, 2020 AT 12:00 a.m.
Date of Executive Order: March 18, 2020
Pursuant to Chapter 2.20 of the La Quinta Municipal Code and City Council
Resolution No. EM 2020-001, the City Manager for the City of La Quinta
hereby ORDERS the following:
1. All child play equipment located on or at parks and recreational
areas owned by the City of La Quinta are hereby closed and to
be sealed off from public use until subsequent order from the
City Manager.
2. No person, child or adult, may touch or use the child play
equipment at parks and recreation areas owned by the City of
La Quinta for whatever purpose, whether that use is for the
purpose for which the child play equipment was installed or
otherwise.
3. The Assistant to the City Manager is hereby directed to
coordinate, deploy, and monitor the sealing off of child play
equipment subject to this Executive Order with emergency tape,
notices to the public, and any other reasonable means to notify
and prevent the touching or use of such child play equipment.
This Executive Order is issued because a Local Emergency, as defined in
Section 2.20.020 of the La Quinta Municipal Code, has been proclaimed by
the City Council of the City of La Quinta to exist due to the threat of the
existence and spread of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in and
throughout the city. All of the findings set forth in the recitals to Resolution
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No. EM 2020-001 adopted by the City Council are hereby incorporated by
reference into this Executive Order.
This Executive Order is issued, pursuant to Sections 3, 5, and 8 of
Resolution No. EM 2020-001 and Section 2.20.100, Subsections (A) and (B),
of the La Quinta Municipal Code, under which the City Manager has the
authority and power to issue executive orders for any matters related to the
Local Emergency.
This Executive Order is issued in furtherance of the authority and power to
address the Local Emergency as provided in the California Emergency
Services Act, Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Title 2 of the
Government Code, and implemented by Chapter 2.20 of the La Quinta
Municipal Code. Any violation of this Executive Order may be determined to
be a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both,
pursuant to Section 8665 of the Government Code, Section 2.20.140 of the
La Quinta Municipal Code, and any other state or city law as may be
applicable.
EXECUTED BY:
Ion McMillen, City Manager
City of La Quinta, California
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