A. General:
1. Prohibited Parking: The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles shall apply at all times or at those times set forth in this chapter, 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.
2. Limited Parking: 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 California Vehicle Code or the laws of the district prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
B. Parking Zones:
1. Maintenance: The general manager, or his designated representative, is hereby authorized to maintain, by appropriate signs or by paint upon curb surfaces, all no stopping zones, no parking areas, and restricted parking areas as defined and described in this chapter.
2. Obedience: When 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.
C. No Parking Zones: 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:
1. Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings.
2. On either side of any road between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, road or thoroughfare terminating at such road when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.
3. In any area where the general manager 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.
4. In any area established as a "no parking" area when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.
5. In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property.
6. 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 road or highway, or any portion thereof, is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic, or where the use of the road 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 uses or movement; provided, however, signs giving notice of such no parking shall be erected or placed at least twenty four (24) hours prior to the effective time of such no parking.
7. At any place within twenty feet (20') 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 except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.
D. Parking For Certain Purposes:
1. No operator of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any road in the district for the principal purpose of advertising or displaying it for sale.
2. No person shall construct, or cause to be constructed, repair, or cause to be repaired, grease, or cause to be greased, or dismantle, or cause to be dismantled, any vehicle, or any part thereof, upon any public road in the district. Temporary emergency repairs may be made upon a public road.
3. No person shall wash, or cause to be washed, or polish, or cause to be polished, any vehicle, or any part thereof, upon any public road in the district when a charge is made for such service.
E. Parking By Peddlers And Vendors Prohibited: No person shall park or stand on any road, any lunch wagon, eating cart or vehicle or pushcart from which any articles of food are sold or offered for sale.
F. Parking Commercially Owned Vehicles:
1. A person shall not park any commercially owned vehicle weighing more than ten thousand (10,000) pounds unladen on any highway, alley or parcel of public property at any time in any residential zone, except for:
a. Necessary loading and unloading.
b. Vehicles engaged in performing a service activity on the adjacent lot or parcel of land.
c. Vehicles used in conjunction with a lawful commercial use on the adjacent lot or parcel of land.
d. Vehicles used during the construction of buildings or structures on the adjacent lot or parcel of land. Such vehicles shall not be allowed to park or stand longer than reasonable to complete the task at hand and in no way shall they be allowed to remain on any highway, alley or parcel of public property overnight.
2. A person shall not park any trailer or semitrailer, regardless of weight, upon any highway, street, alley, public way or public place unless the trailer or semitrailer is at all times while so parked attached to a vehicle capable of moving the trailer or semitrailer in a normal manner upon the highway, street, alley, or public way or public place.
This subsection F shall not apply to trailers or semitrailers in the process of being loaded or unloaded.
G. Penalty: Any violation of any regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle under the California Vehicle Code, under any federal statute or regulation, or under any district ordinance is subject to a civil penalty. The enforcement of those civil penalties shall be governed by the civil administrative procedures as set forth in section 22500 et seq., of the California Vehicle Code. The schedule of parking penalties for parking violations, late payment penalties, administrative fees, and other related charges for parking violations shall be established by resolution duly adopted by the district board of directors. (Ord. 09-230, 1-8-2009)