§ 38-26. Motor vehicle traffic prohibited.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand, park or operate any motor vehicle upon the ocean beaches or the banks and dunes adjacent thereto within the limits of the town. Nothing in this section shall prevent official motor vehicles of a government agency from traversing such beaches, banks or dunes in the performance of official governmental duties.

(b)

In any prosecution charging a violation of a provision of this section or other ordinance governing the stopping, standing, parking or operating of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked or operated in violation of any such ordinance or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such parking or operating the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who stopped, stood, parked or operated such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.

(c)

A person found to be in violation of the terms of this section shall be subject to the provisions of section 1-15.

(Code 1978, § 8-1)

State law reference

Vehicles on beaches, F.S. § 161.58.

Cross reference

Traffic and vehicles, ch. 30; marine facilities, structures and places, ch. 52; parking regulations regarding zoning, § 66-416 et seq.