Posted on 02/08/2012 6:17:12 PM PST by Wayne07
LOS ANGELES (CBS) When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.
In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.
The updated rules now prohibit any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll any object other than a beach ball or volleyball upon or over any beach between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Exceptions allow for ball-throwing in predesignated areas, when a person obtains a permit, or playing water polo in or over the Pacific Ocean.
However, during the winter off-season, the new rules will be relaxed.
Officials warned that any activities that could potentially any person or property on or near the beach should not be allowed during the peak summer season.
Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production services only.
“Please...stay away...”
We will; we can’t imagine life without elevation changes.
Last year after driving Route 66 I took the family and puppy to Griffith Park on a tuesday morning about 9 oclock.
NO one within a half mile of us so I let the pup off the leash for about two minutes and all of a sudden this little park cop with an attitude came at full gallop in his shiney little cop car running at full speed to where we were he came to a sliding stop, jumped out and started writing a couple hundred dollar ticket for having a dog off the leash.
Glad I left Calif 35 years ago.
Why do they allow anyone on the beach at all?
Exposure to wind-blown sand may cause silicosis,
plus the sand may even contain a few parts
per billion of naturally occurring asbestos.
I don’t see a cop. Okay, throw it!
Yes. And those crimes committed by poor people are going to require public paid public defenders.
Easier just to shake down the middle class.
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