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(Title Amended by Ord, No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
(a) The Department of Transportation is authorized, subject to approval by resolution of the City Council to designate the preferential use of traffic lanes in streets and highways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation within the City of Los Angeles and to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such appropriate signs, signals, barriers, stanchions or other traffic control devices as may be authorized under the State Vehicle Code or as may be necessary properly to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this section or to warn or guide traffic. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
Such preferential use of street lanes shall be based upon competent traffic engineering and surveys and estimates developed or supported by continuing comprehensive transportation planning processes of the city. Such lanes shall be subject to such geometric design standards, scheduling reservations, restrictions, and conditions as the department deems necessary or desirable for increasing the effectiveness of the street system for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods, for the adequate protection for the safety of operation of all motor vehicle traffic, and to protect the adequacy of the facilities to meet traffic needs.
(b) It is the intent of the Council in enacting this section to stimulate and encourage the development of ways and means of relieving traffic congestion on the streets of Los Angeles and to encourage the use of buses, jitneys, taxicabs, car pools and other high occupancy vehicles. (Amended by Ord. No. 147,067, Eff. 5/16/75.)
(c) (Amended by Ord. No. 147,067, Eff. 5/16/75.) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
“Jitney” shall be defined as any motor vehicle owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons, for compensation, over any public street in the City of Los Angeles, and into which passengers are received and from which passengers are discharged along a fixed route traversed by such vehicle.
“Carpool” shall mean a vehicle containing two or more persons.
“Preferential use of traffic lanes” shall mean the setting aside of one traffic lane for either the priority or exclusive use of buses, jitneys, taxicabs and car pools.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any vehicle of the Police or Fire Department, 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 paragraph is operated in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
Nor shall such apply to any vehicle of the Transportation Department while used by a Traffic Officer in the performance of such person’s official duties. (Added by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to contra flow traffic lanes.
(Added by Ord. No. 157,010, Eff. 8/17/82.)
A. Whenever the City Council determines by order or resolution that it is necessary to regulate or prohibit the assemblage or procession of vehicles on a highway, street, or public way, or any portion thereof in order to prevent traffic congestion, injury to persons or property or to otherwise preserve the public peace, health or safety, it may in that action also authorize and direct the Department and/or the Police Department to close any highway, street, or public way, or any portion thereof for the time and distance necessary for that purpose; provided, however, that unless directed otherwise by the City Council, the highway, street, public way or portion thereof closed by such order or resolution, the Department and/or the Police Department, may cause it to remain available for use by public transportation vehicles, emergency vehicles, and/or other vehicles which the Department and/or the Police Department determine are not a part of, or intended to be a part of, such assemblage or procession. Where a closure is directed pursuant to this section, the Department and/or the Police Department shall cause signs, stanchions, barriers, vehicles, or other device to be placed at a location or locations which will give notice to the public indicating that such highway, street or public way or portion thereof is closed to vehicular traffic.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle upon a highway, street, or public way or portion thereof closed pursuant to an order or resolution adopted under Subsection A above, except as otherwise provided in that subsection.
(Amended by Ord. No. 171,574, 5/1/97.)
(a) The ranking peace officer on duty within any area affected by traffic congestion may, having determined that such area is so affected, establish one or more traffic control points at or near such area to regulate cruising. Cruising is defined to mean the driving of a motor vehicle two or more times within a six-hour period, in a particular direction, past a traffic control point so established on a portion of any street identified as subject to cruising controls by signs posted at the beginning and end of the controlled roadway that briefly and clearly state the appropriate provisions of this section and Section 21100(k) of the Vehicle Code, and after the operator of the vehicle, either as the operator or passenger therein, has been given the notice specified in this section. The ranking peace officer on duty within, or near, the area affected by traffic congestion, or the ranking peace officer’s designee, shall be empowered to post the signs required by this section.
(b) Any person, who, as the operator of, or a passenger in, a motor vehicle driven bin a particular direction, past any traffic control point established by the ranking peace officer on duty within the affected area, on a portion of any street identified as subject to cruising controls as specified in Subsection (a), may be given written notice that further driving past the control point, in violation of Subsection (c), hereof, will be a violation of this section.
(c) No person, having driven a motor vehicle, or, having been a passenger in a motor vehicle driven, past a traffic control point established pursuant to this section and having received written notice that further driving past the traffic control point will constitute a violation of this section, shall drive past the control point within the period while cruising controls are in effect. Each successive trip past the traffic control point shall constitute a separate violation of this section, and no additional notice shall be required prior to issuance of a second or subsequent citation, or arrest.
(d) This section shall not apply to:
(1) Any authorized vehicle as defined in Section 165 of the California Vehicle Code.
(2) Any publicly owned vehicle of any city, county, district, state or federal agency.
(3) Any vehicle licensed for public transportation or vehicles which are normally used for business purposes and are engaged in such business use.
(e) It shall be an infraction for any person to violate this section and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as follows:
1. For the first offense by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100),
2. For a second offense occurring within one year of a prior violation of this section which resulted in a conviction, by a fine of two hundred dollars ($200),
3. For a third or any subsequent offense occurring within one year of two or more prior violations which resulted in convictions, by a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(Added by Ord. No. 186,561, Eff. 4/15/20.)
(a) Tour Buses Restricted on City Streets. It shall be unlawful for a Tour Bus to operate or travel on a City street, segment of a street, or route, which the Department of Transportation has determined is unsafe for a Tour Bus to operate or travel on, either at any time, or for certain hours of the day. The Department shall establish rules, policies, and procedures to identify streets, street segments, or routes which for safety reasons shall be restricted or limited from use by a Tour Bus. No prohibition shall be effective on a street, street segment, or route until the City Council, by resolution, has approved the prohibition, and until the Department has installed signs providing notice of such Tour Bus restrictions. (Amended by Ord. No. 187,078, Eff. 7/25/21.)
(b) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) Operator means any person or corporation who conducts a business or enterprise that operates one or more Tour Buses, including through Operator’s use of a lessee, agent, independent contractor, or other person engaged by the Operator to conduct Operator’s business or enterprise on Operator’s behalf.
(2) Tour Bus means a privately-owned bus or passenger vehicle for hire, which is operated by or for a charter-party carrier of passengers or a passenger state corporation, as set forth in California Vehicle Code Section 612, Subsection (a), and as defined in California Public Utilities Code Sections 226 and 5359(b); and, as set forth in California Vehicle Code Section 612(b), includes a bus that has had its roof substantially structurally modified or removed. A Tour Bus includes any for-hire vehicle that is used primarily for the conveyance of passengers over the public streets for the purpose of visiting or viewing places of interest.
(c) Criminal Penalties.
(1) It shall be unlawful for an Operator to conduct its Tour Bus operations by travel of one or more of its Tour Buses on a street, segment of a street, or route within the City of Los Angeles which the Department has determined is unsafe for use by a Tour Bus and where the Department has posted signs providing notice of the restriction.
First violation. A first violation of this section by an Operator shall constitute an infraction pursuant to California Vehicle Code Sections 40000.1, and 42001, and punishable upon conviction by a fine of $100.
Second violation. For a second infraction occurring within one year of a prior infraction that resulted in a conviction, a fine not exceeding $200.
Third violation. For a third infraction occurring within one year of two prior infractions that resulted in a conviction, a fine not exceeding $250.
Fourth and subsequent violations within a one-year period. A penalty for a fourth and subsequent violation by an Operator shall be a misdemeanor if the Operator has been convicted of three or more violations within the 12-month period immediately preceding the commission of the offense, and such prior convictions are admitted by the Operator or alleged in the accusatory pleading. For this purpose, a bail forfeiture shall be deemed to be a conviction of the offense charged.
(d) Civil Penalties.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any Operator to stop, stand, or park a Tour Bus on a street, segment of a street, or route within the City of Los Angeles which the Department has determined is unsafe for use by a Tour Bus and where the Department has posted signs providing notice of this restriction.
First Violation. A first violation of this subsection by an Operator shall constitute a civil penalty in the amount of $300.
Second Violation. A second violation of this subsection occurring within 12 months of the first violation by an Operator shall constitute a civil penalty in the amount of $600.
Third and Subsequent Penalty. A third and any subsequent violation of this subsection occurring within 12 months of the first violation by an Operator shall constitute a civil penalty in the amount of $900.
(e) The Operator shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during which any violation of this section is committed, continued, or permitted by the Operator.
(f) Severability. If any subsection, subdivision, clause, sentence, phrase or portion of this section is held unconstitutional or invalid or unenforceable by any court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction, the remaining subsections, subdivisions, clauses, sentences, phrases or portions of this section shall remain in full force and effect, and to this end the provisions of this section are severable.
The Department is hereby authorized to determine those intersections or other places at which exceptional hazard exists to pedestrians crossing the roadway. When such determination has been made in any case, the Department shall install crosswalks at such intersections or other places, by appropriate markings or other devices. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,523. Eff. 7/17/67.)
(a) To Comply With Traffic Laws. Every person pushing, propelling, moving or drawing any hand cart or hand truck used for the transportation of persons or property upon any roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the Vehicle Code of this State and ordinances of this city, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
(b) To Conform to Traffic Flow. No person shall push, propel, move or draw any hand cart or hand truck used for the transportation of persons or property on a roadway in a direction opposed to the flow of traffic thereon.
(c) Cross Roadway at Right Angles to Curb. No person, while so pushing, propelling, moving or drawing any hand cart or hand truck, shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route which is at right angles to the curb, or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(d) Exemption. This section shall not apply to any employee of this City who is required to push, propel, move or draw a hand cart or hand truck upon any roadway as part of the employee’s official duties.
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