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ORDINANCE NO.. 723 (1977 Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE ARTICLE III.V, TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS, CHAPTERS 1 - 17.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. Municipal Code Article III.V, Traffic Regulations, Chapters
1 through 17 are hereby amended to read as follows: See attached text.
SECTION 2. This ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, shall be
published once in full, at least three days prior to its final passage, in
the Telegram - Tribune, a newspaper published and circulated in said city, and
the same shall go into effect at the expiration of thirty days after its said
final passage.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT by the council of the City of San Luis
Obispo at a regular meeting thereof held on the 20th day of September , 1977,
on motion of Councilman Petterson
and on the following roll call vote:
, seconded by Councilman Jorgensen ,
AYES: Councilmen Petterson, Jorgensen, Gurnee and Mayor Schwartz
NOES: Councilman Dunin
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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Ci er J.H. itzpatrick
Approved as to form:
WENDT, MITCHELL, SINSHEIMER,
de la MOTTE & LILLEY
City Attorney
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By Allen Grimes
City Adminis ra.t -1 0 icer
City Eng,#eer
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Chief(,oY Police
Director of Public Services
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CHAPTER
3.
TRAFFIC- CONTROL DEVICES
Section
3203..
Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices
3203.1.
Traffic Control Signs Required for Enforce-
ment Purposes
3203.2.
Obedience to Traffic Control Devices
3203.3.
Installation of Traffic Signals
3203.4.
Lane Marking
3203.5.
Distinctive Roadway Markings
3203.6.
Authority to Remove, Relocate and Dis-
continue Traffic Control Devices
3203.7.
Traffic Control Devices: Hours of
Operation
3203.8.
Unauthorized Painting on Curbs
CHAPTER
4.
TURNING MOVEMENTS
Section
3204.
Authority to Place and Obedience to Turning
Markers. Intersections. Multiple Lanes
3204.1.
Authority to Place Restricted Turn Signs
3204.2.
Obedience to No -Turn Signs
3204.3.
Signal Controlled Intersections - Right Turns
CHAPTER
5.
ONE -WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
Section
3205.
City Traffic Engineer to Sign One -Way Streets
and Alleys
CHAPTER
6.
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
Section
3206.
Stop Signs
3206.1.
Emerging from Alley, Driveway or Building
CHAPTER
7.
MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Section
3207.
Driving Through Funeral Procession
3207.1.
Clinging to Moving Vehicle
3207.2.
Commercial Vehicles Using Private Driveways
0
Section
3207.3.
Riding or Driving on Sidewalk
3207.4.
New Pavement and Markings
3207.5.
Limited Access
3207.7.
Obedience to Barriers and Signs
3207.8.
No Entrance Into Intersection That Would
Obstruct Traffic
CHAPTER
8.
PEDESTRIAN REGULATIONS
Section
3208.
Traffic Engineer to Establish Marked
Crosswalks
CHAPTER
9..
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING FOR CERTAIN
PURPOSES OR IN CERTAIN PLACES
Section
3209.
Application of Regulations
3209.1.
Stopping or Standing in Parkways Prohibited
3209.2.
Traffic Engineer to Maintain No Stopping
Zones and No Parking Area
3209.3.
No Parking Areas
3209.4.
Use of Streets for Storage of Vehicles
Prohibited
3209.5.
Parking for Demonstration
3209.6.
Repairing or Greasing Vehicles on Public
Streets
3209.7.
Washing or Polishing Vehicles
3209.8.
Parking Adjacent to Schools
3209.9.
Parking Prohibited on Narrow Streets
3209.10.
Parking on Grades
3209.11.
Unlawful Parking -- Peddlers, Vendors
3209.12.
Emergency Parking Signs
3209.14.
Parking of Large Commercial Vehicles
Near Intersections
3209.15.
Nighttime Parking of Large Vehicles
Section
3212.3.
Truck Routes
3212.4.
Commercial Vehicles Prohibited from
Using Certain Streets
3212.5.
Maximum Gross Weight Limits of Vehicles
on Certain Streets
CHAPTER
13.
PARKING METERS
Section
3213.
Parking Meter Zones
3213.1.
Manner of Installation
3213.2.
Time of Operation of Parking Meters
3213.3.
Operational Procedure to be Followed
3213.4.
Unlawful to Park After Meter Time Has
Expired
3213.5
Unlawful.to Extend Time Beyond Limit
3213.6.
Improper Use of Meter
3213.7.
Parking Meters and Parking Meter Standards
Not to Be Used for Certain Purposes
3213.8.
Rule of Evidence
3213.10.
Application of Other Articles
3213.99.
Fines
CHAPTER
14.
TRAINS
Section
3214,
Railway Gates
CHAPTER
15.
SPECIAL SPEED ZONES
Section
3215.
Modifying the State Speed Limit on Certain
Streets or Portions Thereof
3215.1.
Regulation of Speed by Traffic Signals
CHAPTER
16.
OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY
Section
3216.
Obstructions to Visibility at Intersections
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Section 3209.16. Nighttime Parking of Vehicles with Operating Air
Conditioning or Refrigeration Units
3209.99.
Fines
CHAPTER
10.
STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING RESTRICTED
OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS
Section
3210.
Twelve, Fifteen, Twenty -Four, Thirty and
Thirty -Six Minute Parking
3210.1.
One Hour Parking
3210.2.
Two Hour Parking
3210.3.
Parking Parallel on One -Way Streets
3210.4.
Diagonal Parking
3210.5.
Parking Space Markings
3210.6.
No Stopping Zone
3210.7.
All Night Parking Prohibited
CHAPTER
11.
STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
Section
3211.
Authority to Establish Loading Zones
3211.1.
Curb Markings to Indicate No Stopping and
Parking Regulations
3211.2.
Effect of Permission to Load or Unload
3211.3.
Standing for Loading or Unloading Only
3211.4.
Standing in Passenger Loading Zone or
Taxicab Stand
3211.5.
Standing in Any Alley
3211.6.
Bus Zones to Be Established
3211.7.
Handicapped Parking
3211.99.
Fines
CHAPTER
12.
RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS
Section
3212.
Certain Vehicles Prohibited in Central
Traffic District
3212.1.
Advertising Vehicles
3212.2.
Animal Drawn Vehicles
CHAPTER 17. PARKING REVENUES, FINES AND FORFEITURES
Section 3217. Use of Money Deposited in Parking Meters
3217.1. Fines; Separate Offenses
3217.2. Parking Fines
3217.3. Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures
SECTION 3200.
ARTICLE III.V - TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 1
DEFINITIONS, WORDS AND PHRASES AND
TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES.
The following words and phrases when used in this article shall, for
the purposes of this article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them in this chapter.
Whenever any words or phrases used herein are not defined, but are
defined in the Vehicle Code of the State of California and amendments
thereto, such definitions shall apply.
Alley: An alley is that roadway defined in Section 110 of the Vehicle
Code.
Bicycle: A light vehicle as defined in the Vehicle Code.
Skateboard: A wheeled object as defined in Section 3220.14 of this
code.
Central traffic district: All streets and portions of streets within
the area described in Section 3220.14 of this code.
Curb: The lateral boundary of the roadway whether such curb be marked
by curbing construction, or not so marked, the word "curb" as herein used
shall not include the line dividing the roadway of a street from parking
strips in the center of a street, nor from the tracks or rights -of -way of
public utility companies..
Divisional island: A raised island located in the roadway and separating
opposing or conflicting streams of traffic.
Holidays: Within the meaning of this article, holidays are the first day
of January, the fourth day of July, the first Monday of September, the ninth
day of September, the twenty -fifth day of December. If any of the afore-
mentioned days falls on a Sunday, the Monday following is a holiday. Also,
the following are holidays and are observed on days established by the State
of California: Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day,
Veterans' Day and Columbus Day.
Loading zone: The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive
use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Official time standard: Whenever certain hours are named herein, they
shall mean standard time or daylight savings time as may be in current use
in this city.
Park: To stand or leave standing any vehicle, whether occupied or not,
otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually.engaged in
loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Parking meter: A mechanical device installed within or upon the curb
or sidewalk area immediately adjacent to a parking space, for the purpose
of controlling the period of time occupancy of such parking meter space by
any vehicle.
Parkway: That portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk.
Passenger loading zone: The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the
exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading or passengers.
Pedestrian: Any person afoot or who is using a means of conveyance
propelled by human power other than a bicycle.
Police department employee: Persons other than police officers who are
authorized and trained to enforce traffic regulations.
Police officer: Every officer of the police department of this city or
any employee authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for
violation of traffic regulations.
Stop: When required, means complete cessation of movement.
Stop or stand: When prohibited means any stopping or standing of a
vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict
with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer
or official traffic control device.
Vehicle Code: The Vehicle Code of the State of California.
SECTION 3201. CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER.
The office of city traffic engineer is hereby established. The city
traffic engineer shall be the city engineer until the city council shall
authorize the creation of a separate officer, and he shall exercise the
powers and duties as provided in this article and in the traffic regulations
of this city. Whenever the city traffic engineer is required or authorized
to place or maintain official traffic control devices or signals, he may
cause such devices or signals to be placed or maintained.
SECTION 3201.1. POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER, DELEGATION.
It shall be the general duty of the city traffic engineer to determine
the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices
and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to
devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investigations
of traffic conditions, to recommend traffic control devices for inclusion
in the capital improvement program and present plans for consideration by
the city council, and to cooperate with other city officials in the develop-
ment of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the
additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this city. Whenever,
by the provisions of this article, a power is granted to the city traffic
engineer or a duty imposed upon him, the power may be exercised or the duty
performed by him or by his deputy or by a person authorized in writing by him.
SECTION 3201.2. DUTIES OF PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
The physical maintenance of traffic control devices and markings shall
be handled by the public services department. The installation of devices,
signs or markings authorized by the city traffic engineer will be either by
contract or through the public services department.
SECTION 3201.3. TRAFFIC COMMITTEE.
There is hereby established an advisory traffic committee to serve without
compensation, consisting of the following members or their representatives:
the city traffic engineer, the chief of police, the chief of the fire depart-
ment, and representing the public,a traffic engineer from the Southern
California Auto Club and a traffic engineer from the California Department of
Transportation.
SECTION 3201.4. DUTIES OF TRAFFIC COMMITTEE.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Committee to consider public sug-
gestions having to do with traffic matters and recommend to the legislative
body of this city and to the city traffic engineer, the chief of police,
and other city officials, ways and means for improving traffic conditions
and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations. A report
of all actions considered by the committee shall be submitted to the city
council.
SECTION 3201.5. ANNUAL TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT.
The police department shall annually or as required prepare a traffic .
report which shall be filed with the city council. Such report shall contain
information on traffic matters in this city as follows:
1. Number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed,
the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic
accident data;
2. The number of traffic accidents investigated and other
pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;
3. The plans and recommendations of the police department for
future traffic safety activities.
CHAPTER 2
ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
SECTION 3202. AUTHORITY OF POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS.
Officers of the police department and such employees as are assigned by
the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice,
hand, audible or other signals in conformance with traffic laws, except that
in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safe-
guard pedestrians, officers and employees of the police department, or
members of the fire department, may direct traffic as conditions may require,
notwithstanding that provisions to the contrary are contained in this article
or the Vehicle Code.
SECTION 3202.1. PERSONS OTHER THAN OFFICIALS SHALL NOT DIRECT TRAFFIC.
No person other than an officer of the police department or members of
the fire department or a person authorized by the chief of police or a
person authorized by law shall direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice,
hand or other signal, except that persons may operate, when and as herein
provided, any mechanical pushbutton signal erected by order of the city
traffic engineer.
SECTION 3202.2. REQUIRED OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
It is a misdemeanor or infraction for any person driving any vehicle or
other conveyance upon any street, or any pedestrian, to do any act forbidden,
or fail to perform any act required as applicable to any such person under
this article.
SECTION 3202.3. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS APPLY TO PERSON RIDING BICYCLES
OR ANIMALS.
Every person riding a bicycle or riding or driving an animal upon a
highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of
the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this article, except
those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
SECTION 3202.4. OBSTRUCTION OR INTERFERENCE WITH POLICE OR AUTHORIZED
OFFICERS.
No person shall interfere with or obstruct -in any way any police officer
or other officer or employee of this city in their enforcement of the pro-
visions of this article. The removal, obliteration, or concealment of any
chalk mark or other distinguishing mark used by any police officer or other
employee or officer of this city in connection with the enforcement of the
parking regulations of this article shall, if done for the purpose of evading
the provisions of this article, constitute such interference or obstruction.
SECTION 3202.5. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
The provisions of this article shall apply to the operation of any
vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government,
this state, any county or city, and it shall be unlawful for any said
operator to violate any of the provisions of this article except as other-
wise permitted in this article or by the Vehicle Code.
SECTION 3202.6. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES.
(a) The provisions of this article regulating the operation, parking
and standing of vehicles shall not apply to vehicles operated by the
police or fire departments, any public ambulance or any public utility
vehicle or any private ambulance, which public utility vehicle or private
ambulance has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when any vehicle
mentioned in this section is operated in the manner specified by the Vehicle
Code in response to an emergency call.
(b) The foregoing exemption shall not, however, relieve the operator of
any such vehicle from obligation to exercise due care for the safety of others
or the consequences of his willful disregard to the safety of others.
(c) The provisions of this article regulating the parking or standing of
vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public
utility while necessarily in use for construction or repair work or any
vehicle owned or operated by the United States Postal Service while in use
for the collection, transportation or delivery of United States mail.
SECTION 3202.7. REPORT OF DAMAGE TO CERTAIN PROPERTY.
(a) The operator of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal
involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned
or owned by a public utility, including but not limited to any fire hydrant,
parking meter, lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole,
or resulting in damage to any tree, traffic control device or other property
of a like nature located in or along any street, shall within twenty -four
(24) hours after such accident make a written report of such accident to
the police department of this city.
(b) Every such report shall state the time when and the place where
the accident took place, the name and address of the person owning and
of the person operating or in charge of such vehicle or animal, the
license number of every such vehicle, and shall briefly describe the
property damage in such accident.
(c) The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident shall not be
subject to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during
the time he is physically incapable of making a report, but in such event
he shall make a report as required in subsection (a) within twenty -four
(24) hours after regaining ability to make such report.
SECTION 3202.8. WHEN VEHICLES MAY BE REMOVED FROM STREETS.
Any-regularly employed and salaried officer or designated employee of
the police department of this city may remove or cause to be removed:
(a) Any vehicle that has been parked or left standing upon a street
or highway for seventy -two (72) or more consecutive hours.
(b) Any vehicle which is parking or left standing upon a street or
highway when such parking or standing is prohibited by ordinance or resolution
of this city and signs are posted giving notice of such removal.
(c) Any vehicle which is parking or left standing upon a street or
highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is
necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway
or for the installation of underground utilities or where the use of the
street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized for a purpose other
than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street or highway
or any portion thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles
or structures of unusual size and the parking of such vehicles would prohibit
or interfere with such use of movement; provided that signs giving notice
that such vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty -four
(24) hours prior to the removal.
(d) Any vehicle which is blocking designated fire lanes or alleys where
parking is prohibited.
CHAPTER 3
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
SECTION 3203. AUTHORITY TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
(a) The city traffic engineer shall have the power and duty to place
or cause to be placed official traffic control devices when and as required
to make effective the provisions of this article.
(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness of any
provision thereof that traffic control devices be installed to give notice
to the public of the application of such law, the city traffic engineer is
hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices
subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable
thereto.
(c) The city traffic engineer may also place or cause to be placed such
additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary or proper to
regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he shall make such deter-
mination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic
investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules
as may be set forth in this article or as may be determined by ordinance or
resolution of the council.
SECTION 3203.1. TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNS REQUIRED FOR ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES.
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this article for which signs are
required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate
legible signs are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic
regulations.
SECTION 3203.2. OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic control device placed in accordance with this article unless
otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized person subject to
the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle when
responding to emergency calls.
SECTION 3203.3. INSTALLATION OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby directed to install official
traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic
conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately
interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion
or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard.
(b) The city traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations
where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts and
other traffic information as may be pertinent and his determinations therefrom
shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards
and instructions set forth in the Traffic Manual issued by the California
Department of Transportation.
(c) Whenever the city traffic engineer installs an official traffic
signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect at such intersection
street -name signs visible to the principle flow of traffic unless such
street -name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any
such intersection.
SECTION 3203.4. LANE MARKING.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to mark center lines and lane
lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled
by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by
traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of
the highway.
SECTION 3203.5. DISTINCTIVE ROADWAY MARKINGS.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place distinctive roadway
markings as described in the Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of
streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of
the roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of such marking
or signs and markings. Such markings or signs and markings shall have the
same effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Trans-
portation pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code.
SECTION 3203.6. AUTHORITY TO REMOVE, RELOCATE AND DISCONTINUE TRAFFIC
CONTROL DEVICES.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to remove, relocate or discon-
tinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required
by the Vehicle Code or this article whenever he shall determine in any
particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the instal-
lation no longer exist.
SECTION 3203.7. TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: HOURS OF OPERATION.
The city traffic engineer shall determine the hours and days during
which any traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect,
except in those cases where such hours or days specified in this article.
SECTION 3203.8. UNAUTHORIZED PAINTING ON CURBS.
No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint any street or
curb surface; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the
painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with
the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of this city pertaining thereto.
CHAPTER 4
TURNING MOVEMENTS
SECTION 3204. AUTHORITY TO PLACE AND OBEDIENCE TO TURNING MARKERS.
INTERSECTIONS. MULTIPLE LANES.
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons,
or other official traffic control signs within or adjacent to intersections
and indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such inter-
sections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to locate and indicate
more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right
or left hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform
to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.
(b) When authorized markers, buttons, or other indications are placed
within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles
turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of
such indications.
SECTION 3204.1. AUTHORITY TO PLACE RESTRICTED TURN SIGNS.
The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine those inter-
sections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U -turn,
and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns
may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other
hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they
may be removed when such turns are permitted.
SECTION 3204.2. OBEDIENCE TO NO -TURN SIGNS.
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left
or U -turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions
of any such sign.
SECTION 3204.3. SIGNAL CONTROLLED INTERSECTIONS - RIGHT TURNS.
(a) No driver of a vehicle shall make a right turn against a red or stop
signal at any intersection which is sign - posted giving notice of such re-
striction as hereinafter provided in this section.
(b) The city traffic engineer shall post appropriate signs giving effect
to this section where he determines that the making of right turns against
a traffic signal "stop" indication would seriously interfere with the safe
and orderly flow of traffic. "`,
CHAPTER 5
ONE -WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
SECTION 3205. CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO SIGN ONE -WAY STREETS AND
ALLEYS.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one -way
street or alley, the city traffic engineer shall place signs giving notice
thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are
in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall
be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite
direction is prohibited.
CHAPTER 6
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
SECTION 3206. STOP SIGNS.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect stop signs at those
locations where he deems such controls to be necessary or remove those
signs no longer warranted in order to protect the public safety. When
signs are erected giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles shall stop
at the entrance or entrances to such intersections.
SECTION 3206.1. EMERGING FROM ALLEY, DRIVE14AY OR BUILDING.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, or building
shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or
into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway.
CHAPTER 7
MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
SECTION 3207. DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL PROCESSION.
No operator of any vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising
a funeral procession or a parade, provided that such vehicles are con-
spicuously so designated. The directing of all vehicles and traffic on
any street over which such funeral procession or parade wishes to pass
shall be subject to the orders of the police department.
SECTION 3207.1. CLINGING TO MOVING VEHICLES.
No person shall attach himself with his hands, or to catch on, or hold
on to with his hands or by other means, to any moving vehicle or train for
the purposes of receiving motive power therefrom.
SECTION 3207.2. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES USING PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS.
No person shall operate or drive a commercial vehicle in, on or across
any private driveway approach or sidewalk area or the driveway itself without
the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, if a sign or markings
are in place indicating that the use of such driveway is prohibited.
For the purpose of this section, a commercial vehicle shall mean a
vehicle having a rated capacity in excess of one -half ton.
SECTION 3207.3. RIDING OR DRIVING ON SIDEWALK.
No person shall ride, drive, propel, or cause to be propelled any
vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk excepting over permanently
constructed driveways and excepting when it is necessary for any temporary
purpose to drive a loaded vehicle across a sidewalk; provided further,
that said sidewalk area be substantially protected by wooden planks two
inches thick, and written permission be previously obtained from the city
traffic engineer. Such wooden planks shall not be permitted to remain
upon such sidewalk area during the hours from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
SECTION 3207.4. NEW PAVEMENT AND MARKINGS.
No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across
any newly made pavement or freshly painted markings in any street when a
barrier, sign, cone - marker or other warning device is in place warning
persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when any
such device is in place indicating that the street or any portion thereof
is closed.
SECTION 3207.5. LIMITED ACCESS.
No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited _access roadway.
except at such entrances and exits as are lawfully established.
SECTION 3207.7. OBEDIENCE TO BARRIERS AND SIGNS.
No person, public utility or department in the city shall erect or place
any barrier or sign on any street unless of a type approved by the city
traffic engineer or disobey the instructions, remove, tamper with or destroy
any barrier or sign lawfully placed on any street by any person, public
utility or by any department of this city.
SECTION 3207.8. NO ENTRANCE INTO INTERSECTION THAT WOULD OBSTRUCT
TRAFFIC.
No operator of any vehicle shall enter an intersection or a marked
crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the inter-
section or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without
obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding
any traffic - control signal indication to proceed.
CHAPTER 8.
PEDESTRIAN REGULATIONS
SECTION 3208. TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO ESTABLISH MARKED CROSSWALKS.
(a) The city traffic engineer shall establish and designate crosswalks
at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines
upon the surface of the roadway as follows:
Crosswalks shall be established and maintained at all inter-
sections within the central traffic district and at such inter-
sections outside such district, and at other places within or
outside said district where the city traffic engineer determines
that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the road-
way subject to the limitations contained in (b) of this section.
(b) Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be
established in any block which is less than four hundred (400) feet in
length and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at
mid - block.
(c) The city traffic engineer may place signs at or adjacent to an
intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall
not cross in the crosswalk so indicated.
SECTION 3208.1. WHEN PEDESTRIANS MUST USE CROSSWALKS.
No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in the
central traffic district or in any business district.
CHAPTER 9
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES
OR IN CERTAIN PLACES
SECTION 3209. APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS.
(a) The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing
or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein
specified except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict
with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer
or official traffic control device.
(b) The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on standing or
parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more
restrictive provisions of the Vehicle .Code or the ordinances of this city
prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified
places or at specified times.
SECTION 3209.1. STOPPING OR STANDING IN PARKWAYS PROHIBITED.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
SECTION 3209.2. TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO MAINTAIN NO STOPPING ZONES AND
NO PARKING AREAS.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to maintain, by appropriate
signs or by paint upon the curb surface, all no stopping zones, no parking
areas, and restricted parking areas, as defined and described in this
chapter.
When said curb markings or signs are in place no operator of any
vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible
curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
SECTION 3209.3. NO PARKING AREAS.
No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park,or leave standing
such vehicle in any of the following places -, except when necessary to
avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of
a police officer or other authorized officer, or traffic sign or signal:
(a) Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated
with appropriate signs or markings.
(b) On either side of any street between the projected property lines of
any public walk, public steps, street, or thoroughfare terminating at such
street when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon
the curb surface.
(c) In any area where the city traffic engineer determines that the
parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would
endanger life or property, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs
or by red paint upon the curb surface.
(d) In any area established by resolution of the Council as a no parking
area, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon
the curb surface.
(e) Upon, along, or across any railway track in such manner as to hinder,
delay, or obstruct the movement of any car traveling upon such track.
(f) In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would con-
stitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property.
(g) On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway or
a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of
the street or highway or the installation of underground utilities or where
the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized for a
purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street
or highway or any portion thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment,
articles, or structures of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle
would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided that signs
giving notice of such no parking are erected or placed at least twenty -four
(24) hours prior to the effective time of such no parking.
(h) At any place within twenty (20) feet of a point on the curb immediately
opposite the mid -block end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by
appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.
(i) At any place within fifteen (15) feet of a crosswalk at an inter-
section when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint
upon the curb surface except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.
(j) Within fifteen (15) feet of the approach to any traffic signal,
boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device.
SECTION 3209.4. USE OF STREETS FOR STORAGE OF VEHICLES PROHIBITED.
No person who owns or has possession,.custody or control of any vehicle
shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive
period of seventy two (72) hours.
SECTION 3209.5. PARKING FOR DEMONSTRATION.
No operator of any vehicle shall park said vehicle upon any street in
this city for the principal purpose of advertising or displaying it for
sale, unless authorized by resolution of the council.
SECTION 3209.6. REPAIRING OR GREASING VEHICLES ON PUBLIC STREETS.
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair or cause
to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased any vehicle or any part
thereof upon any public street in this city. Temporary emergency repairs
may be made upon a public street.
SECTION. 3209.7. WASHING OR POLISHING VEHICLES.
No person shall wash or cause to be washed, polish or cause to be polished
any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street in this city, when a
charge is made for such service.
SECTION 3209.8. PARKING ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS.
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating no
parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when
such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a
hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected prohibiting parking upon that side
of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle
in any such designated place.
SECTION 3209.9. PARKING PROHIBITED ON NARROW STREETS.
.(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to place signs or markings
indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does
not exceed twenty (20) feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by
such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty
(30) feet.
(b) When official signs or markings prohibiting parking are erected upon
narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any
such street in violation of any such sign or marking.
SECTION 3209.10. PARKING ON GRADES.
No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a
highway when upon any grade exceeding 3% without blocking the wheels of
said vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.
SECTION 3209.11. UNLAWFUL PARKING -- PEDDLERS, VENDORS.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section no person shall stand
or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise,
fruits, vegetables, or food stuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered
for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any.lunch wagon or eating car or
vehicle, on any portion of any street within this city except that such
vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park only at the request of a
bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed ten (10) minutes at
any one place. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to non-
profit organizations who have obtained prior approval of the city council.
(b) No person shall park or stand on any street any lunch wagon, eating
cart or vehicle, or pushcart from which tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy or
other articles of food are sold or offered for sale.
SECTION 3209.12. EMERGENCY PARKING SIGNS.
(a) Whenever the chief of police shall determine that an emergency
traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or
private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the
chief of police shall have power and authority to order temporary signs
to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing
of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the chief of police
shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs
shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the
chief of police shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.
(b) When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place
giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle
contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
SECTION 3209.14. PARKING OF LARGE OR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES NEAR INTER-
SECTIONS.
No person shall park any vehicle, other than a passenger vehicle less
than eighty (80) inches in width, or any trailer, camper or boat within
fifty (50) feet of any intersection.
SECTION 3209.15. NIGHTTIME PARKING OF LARGE VEHICLES.
Between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., it shall be unlawful to
park or leave standing upon any public right -of -way within two hundred (200)
feet of any dwelling, any vehicle exceeding (1) twenty (20) feet in length,
or (2) 6,000 pounds unladen weight, except trailer coaches, house cars,
campers or motorhomes.
SECTION 3209.16. NIGHTTIME PARKING OF VEHICLES WITH OPERATING AIR
CONDITIONING OR REFRIGERATION UNITS.
Between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., no person shall park or
leave standing on any street or public right -of -way any vehicle, except a
passenger vehicle, with an operating refrigeration or other unit to cool,
heat, humidify, or otherwise air - condition the cargo area, except for
locations at least two hundred (200) feet distant from the nearest dwelling.
SECTION 3209.99. FINES.
Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter shall be punished by a fine for each separate offense as provided
in Section 3217.2.
CHAPTER 10
STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING RESTRICTED
OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS
SECTION 3210. TWELVE, FIFTEEN, TWENTY -FOUR, THIRTY, AND THIRTY -SIX
MINUTE PARKING.
Green curb marking shall mean no standing or parking for a period of
time longer than 12, 15, 24, 30 or 36 minutes as determined by the city
traffic engineer, at any time between 9:0.0 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day
except Sundays and holidays.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings have been
determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place
giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or
park said vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign or
parking meter in violation thereof.
SECTION 3210.1. ONE HOUR PARKING.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings have been deter-
mined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving
notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said
vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except
Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than one hour.
SECTION 3210.2. TWO-HOUR PARKING.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings have been deter-
mined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving
notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said
vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except
Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than two hours.
SECTION 3210.3. PARKING PARALLEL ON ONE -WAY STREETS.
(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may
be stopped or parking within eighteen (18) inches of the left -hand curb
facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one -way street unless
signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.
(b) In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and
traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person
shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left -hand side of such one -way
roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.
(c) The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine when standing
or parking shall be prohibited upon the left -hand side of any one -way roadway
or a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs
giving notice thereof.
(d) The requirements of parallel parking imposed by this section shall
not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the
process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case.such vehicle
may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend
beyond the center line of the street and does not block traffic thereby.
SECTION 3210.4. DIAGONAL PARKING.
On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution
of the council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings
are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it.shall be unlawful for
the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle except.:
(a) At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings
allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of said
allotted space:
(b) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six (6) inches of said
curb.
The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is
actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight
or goods, in which event the provisions applicable in Section 3210.3 of this
chapter shall be complied with.
SECTION 3210.5. PARKING SPACE MARKINGS.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking
space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where author-
ized parking is permitted.
When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, subject to
other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left
standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or
shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
SECTION 3210.6. NO STOPPING ZONE.
The city traffic engineer shall designate established no stopping zones
by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that stopping of
vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and days when stopping is
prohibited.
During the hours and one the days designated on the signs, it shall be
unlawful for the operator of any vehicle'to stop said vehicle on any of
the streets or parts of streets established by the city traffic engineer
as no stopping zones.
SECTION 3210.7. ALL NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITED.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street upon which
signs are posted in the central traffic district between the hours of 3:00
a.m. and 5:00 a.m, of any day or between the hours established by resolution
of the city council, provided that this section shall not apply to a vehicle
of any regularly licensed physician when actually engaged in making pro-
fessional calls, and provided that said physician's vehicle is plainly marked
and identifiable.
CHAPTER 11
STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
SECTION 3211., AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH LOADING ZONES.
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine and to mark
loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows:
(1) At any place in the central traffic district or any business
district.
(2) Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business
or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assembly.
(b) Loading zones shall be indicated by yellow paint upon the top of
all curbs in said zones.
(c) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by white paint upon the
top of all curbs in said zones.
SECTION 3211.1. CURB MARKINGS TO INDICATE NO STOPPING AND PARKING
REGULATIONS.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized, subject to the pro-
visions and limitations of this chapter, to place, and when required herein
shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing
regulations, and said curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set
forth.
(1) Red shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time
except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may
stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
(2) Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time
between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays
for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or
materials, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall
not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the loading or unloading
of materials more than thirty (30) minutes.
(3) White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any
purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the
purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which shall not
exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply between
7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays and
except as follows:
(a) When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a
mailbox the restrictions shall apply at all times.
(b) When such zone is in front of a theatre the restrictions
shall apply at all times except when such theatre is closed.
(4) When the city traffic engineer as authorized under this chapter
has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or
park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation
of any of the provisions of.this section.
SECTION 3211.2. EFFECT OF PERMISSION TO LOAD OR UNLOAD.
(a) Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for the purpose
of loading or unloading materials shall not extend beyond the time necessary
therefor, and in no event for more than thirty (30) minutes. Evidence that
there was no activity involving the loading or unloading of materials into
or from a vehicle during any continuous period of time of five minutes or
longer shall constitute prima facie evidence that said vehicle was parked
longer than the time necessary for loading or unloading.
(b) The loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to deliveries
by commercially registered vehicles, also the delivery or pickup of express
and parcel post packages and United States mail. Passenger vehicles may use
a loading zone in the same manner they are allowed to use a passenger loading
zone.
(c) Permission herein granted to stop or park for purposes of loading or
unloading passengers shall include the loading or unloading of personal bag-
gage but still not extend beyond the time necessary therefor and in no event
for more than three (3) minutes.
(d) Within the total time limits above specified the provisions of this
section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable load-
ing or unloading but without permitting abuse of the privileges hereby granted.
SECTION 3211.3. STANDING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any yellow loading
zone for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or material
for such time as is permitted in Section 3211.2.
SECTION 3211.4. STANDING IN PASSENGER LOADING ZONE OR TAXICAB STAND.
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in any passenger loading
zone or any vehicle other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand for any purpose
other than the loading or unloading of passengers for such time as is
specified in Section 3211.2.
SECTION 3211.5. STANDING IN ANY ALLEY.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other
than the loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley. Time
limits for loading shall be as established in Sections 3211.1, 3211.2 and
3211.3, except that these limitations shall apply twenty -four (24) hours
per day, seven (7) days a week including Sundays and holidays.
SECTION 3211.6. BUS ZONES TO BE ESTABLISHED.
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to establish bus zones for
the loading and unloading of buses and common carriers or passengers and to
determine the location thereof.
(b) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far side of an
intersection.
SECTION 3211.7. HANDICAPPED PARKING.
No person .other than a person described in Vehicle Code Section 22511.5
shall stop, stand or park in a parking space designated expressly for the
use of handicapped persons.
SECTION 3211.99. FINES.
Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter shall be punished by a fine for each separate offense as provided
in Section 3217.2.
CHAPTER 12
RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS
SECTION 3212. CERTAIN VEHICLES PROHIBITED IN CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT.
(a) No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the central
traffic district between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day:
(1) Any freight vehicle more than eight and one -half (8 1/2) feet
in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part
of its load extends more than twenty (20) feet to the front or rear
of said vehicle;
(2) Any vehicle in excess of one ton capacity carrying building
material that has not been loading, or is not to be unloaded, at some
point within the central traffic district;
(3) Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage or dirt.
(b) Provided that the chief of police may, by written permit, authorize
the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making necessary emer-
gency deliveries to or from points within the central traffic district.
SECTION 3212.1. ADVERTISING VEHICLES.
No person, without prior permission of the city council, shall operate
or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle
equipped with a sound - amplifying or loud- speaking device upon any street or
alley at any time within the central traffic district.
SECTION 3212.2. ANIMAL DRAWN VEHICLES.
No person shall drive any animal -drawn vehicle into or within the
central traffic district between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of
any day except by special permit of the chief of police.
SECTION 3212.3. TRUCK ROUTES.
(a) Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any
street or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is permitted by
any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the city
traffic engineer is authorized to designate such street or streets by
appropriate signs as "Truck Routes" for the movement of vehicles exceeding
a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(b) When any such truck route or routes are established and designated
by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum
gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and
none other except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator
of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from
a "Truck Route" having ingress and egress by direct route to and from
restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups and
deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or
structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of deliver-
ing materials to be used in the actual and bonafide repair, alteration,
remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted
streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) passenger
buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, (2) any
vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the con-
struction, installation or repair of any public utility, or (3) any vehicle
under contract to the city.
(d) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the
council are hereby declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles
exceed a maximum gross vehicle weight of three tons.
SECTION 3212.4. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES PROHIBITED FROM USING CERTAIN
STREETS.
(a) Whenever any resolution of this city designates and - describes any
street or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is prohibited by any
commercial vehicle, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appro-
priate signs on those streets affected by such designation.
(b) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of
the council are hereby declared to be streets, the use of which is pro-
hibited by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section shall
not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities
Commission or under contract to the city.
SECTION 3212.5. MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT LIMITS OF VEHICLES ON CERTAIN
STREETS.
No commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of 6,000
pounds shall use the following streets, except those vehicles which are
subject to the provisions of Sections 1031 to 1036, inclusive, of the
Public Utilities Code of the State of California, and as allowed in Section
3212.3(b) of this chapter.
Atascadero Street
Avalon Street
Balboa Street
Boronda Street
Cayucos Drive
Drake Circle
Galleon Way
Garcia Drive
Gulf Street
Huasna Drive
Lakeview Street
Lima Drive
Mariner's Cove
Newport Street
Oceanaire Court
Oceanaire Drive
Pereira Drive
Perfumo Street
Pico Court
Pinecove Drive
Royal. Way
Seaward Street
Sola Court
Vicente Drive
CHAPTER 13
PARKING METERS
SECTION 3213. PARKING METER ZONES.
The streets or portions of streets shown on the Parking Zone Map to be
included in Zone A or B are hereby defined and established as parking meter
zones within which the parking of vehicles may be controlled, regulated,
and inspected with the aid of parking meters, except that twelve, fifteen,
twenty -four, thirty and thirty -six minute spaces.may be established under
the provisions of Section 3210 within the following zones:
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SECTION 3213.1. MANNER OF INSTALLATION.
The city traffic engineer may cause parking meters to be installed and
maintained in all parking meter zones..
Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk area im-
mediately adjacent to each parking space. Each meter shall be placed in
such manner as to show or display by a sign or signal that the parking
space adjacent thereto is or is not legally in use.
Each parking meter shall be set to display, after the operational
procedure has been completed, a sign or signal indicating legal parking
for that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time for the
zone in which said parking meter is installed, and shall continue to
operate from the time of the completion of the operational procedure until
the expiration of the time fixed as the parking limit or a portion thereof
for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed. Each said
meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said legal
parking time, it will indicate by a mechanical operation and by proper
signal that the lawful parking period has expired.
SECTION 3213.2. TIME OF OPERATION OF PARKING METERS.
The provisions of this chapter relating to the operating of parking
meters shall be effective between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
on every day except Sundays and holidays.
SECTION 3213.3. OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED.
Immediately after occupancy of a parking meter space, the operator
of a vehicle shall deposit a coin of the United States in said parking
meter and if necessary turn a crank, knob, or handle in accordance with
the instructions posted on the face of the parking meter.
SECTION 3213.4. UNLAWFUL TO PARK AFTER METER TIME HAS EXPIRED.
No operator of any vehicle shall permit said vehicle to remain.parked
in any parking space during any time that the meter is showing a signal
indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time im-
mediately after the original occupancy as is necessary to operate the
meter to show legal parking.
SECTION 3213.5. UNLAWFUL TO EXTEND TIME BEYOND LIMIT.
No person shall follow the operational procedure or any part of the
operational procedure for the purpose of increasing or extending the
parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been
established for the parking space adjacent to which said parking meter is
placed.
SECTION 3213.6. IMPROPER USE OF METER.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter
any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic substitute for
a coin of the United States, or deface, injure, tamper with, open or wil-
fully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
SECTION 3213.7. PARKING METERS AND PARKING METER STANDARDS NOT
TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
No person shall attach any unauthorized thing to or allow a bicycle,
newsrack or any other article or thing to lean against a parking meter
or a parking meter standard.
SECTION 3213.8. RULE OF EVIDENCE.
The parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a parking space, at
which space the parking meter displays the sign or signal indicating
illegal parking, shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the
vehicle has been parked or allowed to stand in such space for a period
longer than permitted by this chapter.
SECTION 3213.10. APPLICATION OF OTHER ARTICLES.
No section of this article shall be construed as permitting any
parking in violation of any other provision of this code.
SECTION 3213.99. FINES.
Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be punished by a fine for each separate offense as
provided in Section 3217.2.
CHAPTER 14
TRAINS
SECTION 3214. RAILWAY GATES.
No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any crossing
gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or barrier is
closed or is being opened or closed.
CHAPTER 15
SPECIAL SPEED ZONES
SECTION 3215. MODIFYING THE STATE SPEED LIMIT ON CERTAIN STREETS
OR PORTIONS THEREOF.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation that the speed otherwise permitted by state law upon the
following streets does not fall within reasonable or safe limits under the
conditions found to exist upon such streets. It is hereby declared that
the prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those streets
or parts of streets herein designated when signs . are erected giving notice
thereof:
SPEED LIMIT
NAME OF STREET AND PORTION AFFECTED (MILES PER HOUR)
CALIFORNIA BOULEVARD between Phillips Lane and
Foothill Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
CHORRO STREET between Walnut Street and Foothill
Boulevard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ELKS LANE between Higuera Street and Prado Road. . . . . . . . . . 35
FOOTHILL BOULEVARD between Ferrinin Road and the
westerly city limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FOOTHILL BOULEVARD between Ferrini Road and
California Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
GARDEN ALLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10*
GRAND AVENUE between Slack Street and Monterey
. . 35
Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HATHWAY AVENUE between Longview Lane and Carpenter
. . 30
Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HIGH STREET between Higuera Street and Broad Street. . . . . .
. . 35
HIGUERA STREET between Nipomo Street and South Street. . . . .
. . 30
HIGUERA STREET between South Street and Elks Lane. . . . . . .
. . 135
HIGUERA STREET between Elks Lane and Prado Road. . . . . . . .
. . 40
HIGUERA STREET between Prado Road and Tank Farm
. 45
Road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
JOHNSON AVENUE between southerly city limits and a
point midway between Lizzie and Iris Streets . . . . . . .
. . 35
JOHNSON AVENUE between a point midway between Lizzie
and Iris Streets and San Luis Drive . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 30
KENTUCKY STREET between Taft Street and Hathway Avenue .
. . . 30
LAUREL LANE between Johnson Avenue and Southwood Drive . . .
. . . 30
LAUREL LANE between Southwood Drive and Orcutt Road...
40
LOS OSOS VALLEY ROAD between Madonna Road and northerly
. 45
city limits . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
MADONNA ROAD between Higuera Street and a point 200 feet
west of Calle Joaquin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 35
NAME OF STREET AND PORTION AFFECTED
SPEED LIMIT
MILES PER HOUR
MADONNA ROAD from a point 200 feet west of Calle
Joaquin to Los Osos Valley Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MARSH STREET between Higuera Street and Nipomo
Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
MARSH STREET between Nipomo Street and Johnson
Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
MONTEREY STREET between Highway 101 south and
Santa Rosa Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
OCEANAIRE DRIVE between Madonna Road and Los Osos
Valley Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ORCUTT ROAD between Broad Street and Johnson Avenue. . . . . . . . 40
OSOS STREET between Leff Street and Buchon Street. . . . . . . . . 30
PATRICIA DRIVE between Foothill Boulevard and
Clover Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
PISMO STREET between Broad Street and Higuera
Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
RAMONA DRIVE between Verde Drive and Broad Street. . . . . . . . . 25
SAN LUIS DRIVE between Johnson Avenue and California
Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SANTA BARBARA AVENUE between South Street and Osos
Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SOUTH STREET between Broad Street and Higuera Street . . . . . . . 45
ALL ROADS IN CITY PARKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15*
*Speed limits set by other than engineering speed studies.
SECTION 3215.1. REGULATION OF SPEED BY TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate the timing of
traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and
safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise appli-
cable within the district or at intersections, and may erect appropriate
signs giving notice thereof.
CHAPTER 16
OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY
SECTION 3216. OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY AT INTERSECTIONS.
(a) No person owning or in possession of real property located at any
corner formed by intersecting streets shall install, set out, maintain,
permit or allow the installation, setting out, maintenance or existence
of any hedge, shrubbery, natural growth, fence, or other obstruction to
view which exceeds three (3) feet in height above the adjacent curb level
within that triangular area between the curb lines adjacent to the corner
and a diagonal line joining points on the curb lines adjacent to the
corner and a diagonal line joining point on the'curb lines thirty -five (35)
feet from the point of their intersections, or in the case of rounded cor-
ners, the area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining
points on said tangent thirty -five (35) feet from their point of intersection,
when to do so would prevent or interfere with a driver of a vehicle approach-
ing the intersection on one street seeing a vehicle approaching the inter-
section on another street.
(b) Exceptions: The foregoing provision shall not apply to public
utility poles; trees trimmed (to the trunk) so that only the trunk ob-
structs the view; saplings or plant species of open growth habits and
not planted in the form of a hedge, which are so planted and trimmed as
to leave at all seasons a clear and unobstructed cross -view; and permanent
buildings.
(c) Enforcement: In addition to the remedy by prosecution for violation
of this chapter, any obstruction maintained in violation of this chapter
shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within four-
teen (14) days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the
nuisance, signed by the director of public services or his authorized
representative, the director of public services or his authorized repre-
sentative may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruc-
tion. In such event the cost to the city of the abatement of the nuisance
shall be a personal obligation against the owner of the premises upon which
the nuisance was maintained, recoverable by the city in an action before
any court of competent jurisdiction.
(d) Scope: No obstruction to cross - visibility shall be deemed to be
excepted from the application of this chapter because of its being in
existence at the time of the adoption hereof, unless expressly exempted
by the terms of this chapter.
CHAPTER 17
PARKING REVENUES, FINES AND FORFEITURES
SECTION 3217. USE OF MONEY DEPOSITED IN PARKING METERS.
All moneys collected from parking meters in this city shall be placed
in a special fund, and then distributed for the following purposes:
(a) For the purchasing, leasing, installing, repairing, maintaining,
operating, removing, regulating and policing of parking meters in this city
and for the payment of any and all expenses relating or incidental thereto.
.(b) For the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, improving, operating and
maintaining of off- street parking facilities in this city.
(c) For the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices
and signals.
(d) For the painting and marking of streets and curbs required for the
direction of traffic and parking of motor vehicles.
(e) For the proper regulation, control and inspection of parking and
traffic upon the public streets.
(f) To be pledged as security for the payment of principal of and
interest on off - street parking revenue bonds issued by this city, of any
parking district organized within this city.
SECTION 3217.1. FINES; SEPARATE OFFENSES.
Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of
this article shall be punished by a fine for each separate offense as
provided in Section 3217.2. For the purposes of this section:. (1) a
separate offense occurs when the initial citation is issued for a parking
violation; and (2) an additional separate offense occurs, and an additional
citation shall be issued, whenever, after the issuance of any citation, the
vehicle remains parked for a subsequent period of time equalling or exceeding
the parking limitation for the space or zone in which the vehicle is parked.
SECTION 3217.2. PARKING FINES.
The fines authorized for parking violations in other sections of this
code shall be as follows:
SECTION 3217.3. DISPOSITION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES.
All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the for-
feiture of bail or any person charges with a violation of any of the
provisions of this article, shall be paid into the city treasury and
Code Sections
Fine - Each Offense
3209
and
all
subsections
$5.00
3210
and
all
subsections
2.00
3211
and
all
subsections
5.00
3213
and
all
subsections
2.00
SECTION 3217.3. DISPOSITION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES.
All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the for-
feiture of bail or any person charges with a violation of any of the
provisions of this article, shall be paid into the city treasury and
deposited in a special fund to be known as the "Street Improvement Fund."
There may be appropriated out of said fund such moneys as from time to
time may be authorized by the council for the purchase and maintenance
of official traffic signs, signals, lights and paint necessary to designate
the provisions of this article, and the balance of such fund shall be used
exclusively in the construction, maintenance and improvement of public
streets within the city.
ORDINANCE NO. 723
FINALLY PASSED this 4th day of October. 19 77,
on motion of Councilman Jorgensen seconded by
Mayor Schwartz on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Jorgensen, Petterson and Mayor Schwartz
NOES: Councilman Dunin
ABSENT: None, one vacancy
ATTEST:
/r!'- CITY CLERK