(a) No person shall drive a vehicle on any park road or other way, or travel in any public park at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent, having due regard for the traffic on and the surface and width of the road or way, and in no event at a speed in excess of 25 miles per hour; provided, however, that the maximum speed limit on Riverside Drive from Los Feliz Boulevard northerly on Riverside Drive to the junction of the City limits of the City of Los Angeles and the City of Glendale shall be 45 miles per hour; and provided, further, that the maximum speed limit established herein shall not apply to those streets in and through park lands which are opened, established and maintained by virtue of permission given by the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners, approved by the City Council by ordinance.
(b) The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners is authorized and directed to erect and maintain sign posts indicating the speed limits herein established at each entrance into any park of each such roadway or street, except those roadways hereinabove expressly excepted. The Board may erect and maintain such signposts at other appropriate places along the roadways or streets within any park.
(c) No person shall drive a vehicle in any parking area owned by or under the management and control of the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent, having due regard for the traffic on, and the surface and width of the roadway, and in no event at a speed in excess of ten miles per hour.
(d) The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners is authorized and directed to erect and maintain sign posts indicating the speed limits herein established at each entrance into any such parking area. The Board may erect and maintain such sign posts at other appropriate places within the parking area in any park or recreation area.
(e) No person shall drive any vehicle upon property owned by or under the management and control of the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.
(f) No person shall engage in any motor vehicle speed contest, drag race, or exhibition of speed upon property owned by or under the management and control of the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners. No person shall aid or abet in any such motor vehicle speed contest, drag race, or exhibition of speed upon property owned by or under the management and control of said Board.
(g) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to any activity sponsored, directed, or approved by the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners and the City Council. (Added by Ord. No. 107,937, Eff. 10/11/56.)
Roadways within parks are not general arteries of travel and regulation of traffic thereon is a municipal affair and therefore regulations established by City Ordinance will prevail over State law.
People v. Jackman, (1938) CR A 1502.