A. No operator of any vehicle shall stop, park, or leave such vehicle at any time 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 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;
3. 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;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;
7. 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; where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized, for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic; 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 hours prior to the effective time of such no parking;
8. At any place within 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;
9. At any place within 20 feet of a crosswalk or curb return at an intersection 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;
10. Within 20 feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device.
B. 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;
C. No operator of any motor vehicle shall stop, park or leave such vehicle at any time in any of those places which the City Council may, from time to time, establish by resolution pursuant to the provisions of Vehicle Code Sections 22507 and 22507.5. A current list of all locations so specified as prohibited parking areas shall be maintained by the City Clerk's office and the Gridley Police Department.
D. City Council may, from time to time, establish restricted parking zones by resolution, pursuant to the provisions of Vehicle Code Sections 22507 and 22507.5. Curb areas delineating restricted parking (no parking at the times indicated by signs) shall be marked with signs indicating the times during which no parking is permitted. A current list of all locations specified as restricted parking zones shall be maintained by the City Clerk's office and the Gridley Police Department.
E. Any provision of this section which regulates traffic or delegates the regulation of traffic upon state highways in any way, or which approval of the State Department of Public Works is required by state law, shall cease to be operative six months after receipt by the city council of written notice of withdrawal of approval of the State Department of Public Works. Whenever this section delegates authority to the director of public works by the city council to regulate traffic upon a state highway in any way which by state law requires the prior approval of the State Department of Public Works, the director of public works shall not exercise such authority with respect to any state Department of Public Works when and to the extent required by the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 643, 1995; Ord. 551, 1989: Ord. 530(part), 1988).