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PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE*
Title 3 RESERVED
Title 4 BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS*
Title 5 HEALTH AND SANITATION*
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 RESERVED
Title 8 TREES AND VEGETATION
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND SAFETY*
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC*
Chapter 10.04 DEFINITIONS
10.04.010 Definitions generally.
10.04.020 Alley.
10.04.030 Bicycle parking zone.
10.04.040 Business district.
10.04.045 Community service officer.
10.04.050 Holidays.
10.04.060 Loading zone.
10.04.070 Official time standard.
10.04.080 Park.
10.04.085 Parking enforcement officer.
10.04.086 Parking enforcement contractor.
10.04.090 Parkway.
10.04.100 Passenger loading zone.
10.04.110 Pedestrian.
10.04.120 Police officer.
10.04.125 Public parking facility.
10.04.128 Shared-use path.
10.04.130 Stop.
10.04.140 Stop or stand.
10.04.150 Taxi stand.
10.04.160 Traffic.
10.04.170 Traffic control devices.
10.04.180 Traffic lane.
10.04.185 Transportation network company.
10.04.190 Vehicle Code definitions.
Chapter 10.08 ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS*
Chapter 10.10 TEMPORARY STREET CLOSURES*
Chapter 10.12 TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES*
Chapter 10.16 TURNING MOVEMENTS*
Chapter 10.20 ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS*
Chapter 10.24 SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
Chapter 10.28 MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Chapter 10.32 PEDESTRIANS*
Chapter 10.34 ABANDONED, WRECKED, DISMANTLED OR INOPERATIVE VEHICLES*
Chapter 10.36 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - GENERALLY
Chapter 10.40 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - LOADING AND UNLOADING
Chapter 10.44 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED
Chapter 10.45 VALET PARKING
Chapter 10.46 COLLEGE TERRACE RESIDENTIAL PARKINGPERMIT PROGRAM (RPPP)
Chapter 10.47 LARGE VEHICLE PARKING
Chapter 10.48 TRUCKS AND TRUCK ROUTES
Chapter 10.50 RESIDENTIAL PREFERENTIAL PARKING DISTRICTS
Chapter 10.51 CRESCENT PARK NO OVERNIGHT PARKING PROGRAM
Chapter 10.52 TRAINS
Chapter 10.56 SPECIAL SPEED ZONES*
Chapter 10.60 PARKING VIOLATIONS*
Chapter 10.62 IDLING OF VEHICLES
Chapter 10.64 BICYCLES, ROLLER SKATES AND COASTERS*
Chapter 10.70 RESERVED*
Title 11 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PROCEDURE
Title 12 PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
Title 13 IMPROVEMENT PROCEDURE*
Title 14 RESERVED
Title 15 FIRE PREVENTION*
Title 16 BUILDING REGULATIONS*
Title 17 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS STORAGE*
Title 18 ZONING*
Title 19 MASTER PLAN*
Title 20 PRECISE PLANS*
Title 21 SUBDIVISIONS AND OTHER DIVISIONS OF LAND*
Title 22 PARKS*
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
10.04.020   Alley.
   "Alley" means a public or private vehicular way less than twenty-five feet in width affording a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property.
(Ord. 4558 § 2 (part), 1999)
10.04.030   Bicycle parking zone.
   "Bicycle parking zone" means that space reserved exclusively for the parking of bicycles.
(Ord. 4558 § 2 (part), 1999)
10.04.040   Business district.
   "Business district" means all portions of the city of Palo Alto which are commercially zoned as provided in Title 18 of this code.
(Ord. 4558 § 2 (part), 1999)
10.04.045   Community service officer.
   "Community service officer" means a special police officer of the city authorized to direct traffic and to enforce all laws of the city and of the state applicable to the parking or towing of vehicles and all laws of the city and of the state applicable to bicycles and bicyclists and to enforce all traffic laws of the city and of the state applicable to traffic within bicycle lanes and bicycle paths.
(Ord. 4558 § 2 (part), 1999)
10.04.050   Holidays.
   For the purpose of this title holidays and other special days shall be in accordance with Chapter 2.08 of this code.
(Ord. 4558 § 2 (part), 1999)

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