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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
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*
10.32.010 Establishment of crosswalks authorized.
10.32.020 Use of crosswalks required.
10.32.030 Limited right to use of roadway.
10.32.040 Pedestrians prohibited - Certain overpass.
10.32.050 Pedestrians prohibited - Foothill Expressway.
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
Chapter 10.32
PEDESTRIANS*
Sections:
   10.32.010   Establishment of crosswalks authorized.
   10.32.020   Use of crosswalks required.
   10.32.030   Limited right to use of roadway.
   10.32.040   Pedestrians prohibited - Certain overpass.
   10.32.050   Pedestrians prohibited - Foothill Expressway.
   *   For state law authorizing local authorities to prohibit pedestrians from crossing roadways at other than crosswalks - See Veh. C.A., § 21961.
10.32.010   Establishment of crosswalks authorized.
   (a)   The city manager is hereby authorized to establish and maintain crosswalks and to designate them by appropriate devices or painted signs upon the surface of the roadway.
   (b)   The city manager may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in the crosswalk so indicated.
(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.81)
10.32.020   Use of crosswalks required.
   (a)   No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any business district.
   (b)   In all other districts, no pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a marked crosswalk.
(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.82)
10.32.030   Limited right to use of roadway.
   No person shall cross the roadway of any portion of a grade separation except at a pedestrian crosswalk.
(Ord 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.83)

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