The City Traffic Engineer is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required in this chapter shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and the curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set forth:
(A) Red shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time, whether the vehicle is attended or unattended, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus loading zone;
(B) 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 freight, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes nor the loading or unloading of freight more than 20 minutes;
(C) 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 mailbox, which shall not exceed three minutes; 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:
(1) When the zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a mailbox, the restrictions shall apply at all times;
(2) When the zone is in front of a theater, the restrictions shall apply at all times when such theater is open;
(D) Blue shall mean parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons;
(E) When the City Traffic Engineer, as authorized under this title, 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.
(`78 Code, § 10.24.090.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)