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This part may be cited as the Pedestrian Mall Law of 1960.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.

"City" includes every county, city, and city and county within this State. "The city" means the particular county, city, or city and county, acting pursuant to this part.

"Legislative body" means the legislative body of "the city."

"Street" as used in the definitions of the terms "city streets," "mall intersection" and "intersecting streets" hereinafter defined means any public street, road, highway, alley, lane, court, way or place of any nature open to the use of the public.

"City street," as used with regard to streets located within a city or city and county, means any "street" located within the city or city and county, except a "freeway," "state highway," or "county highway" as defined in Sections 23.5, 24, and 25. "City street," as used with regard to streets located within a county, means any "street" located within the county, except a "freeway" or "state highway," as defined in Sections 23.5 and 24.

"Pedestrian mall" means one or more "city streets," or portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is or is to be restricted in whole or in part and which is or is to be used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel.

"Mall intersection" means any intersection of a "city street" constituting a part of a "pedestrian mall" with any "street," which intersection is itself part of the "pedestrian mall."

"Intersecting street" means any "street" which meets or crosses a "pedestrian mall" at a "mall intersection" but includes only those portions thereof on either side of a "mall intersection" which lie between the "mall intersection" and the first intersection of the "intersecting street" with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic. If any portion of a "pedestrian mall" terminates on a "street" at a place thereon other than a place of intersection with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic, "intersecting street" also includes that portion of any "street" which lies between such place of termination and the first intersection of such "street" with a public street or highway open to vehicular traffic. "Intersecting street" shall also include any other "street" or portion thereof which the legislative body, in its resolution adopted pursuant to Section 11200, declares to be such.

"Assessment roll" means the assessment roll or rolls used by the city for purposes of city ad valorem taxes on real property of the city.

If "the city" is a charter city, "similar special assessment law" shall include a procedural assessment ordinance of such city.

"Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943" means the Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943, Part 1 (commencing with Section 31500) of Division 18 of the Streets and Highways Code, as that statute existed on December 31, 1973.