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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*
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 10.36
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - GENERALLY
Sections:
   10.36.010   Application of regulations.
   10.36.020   Standing in parkways.
   10.36.030   Use of streets or public parking facilities for storage of vehicles.
   10.36.040   Parking for sale, advertisement, or repairprohibited.
   10.36.050   Parallel parking.
   10.36.060   Angle parking.
   10.36.070   Parking adjacent to schools.
   10.36.080   Stopping or parking prohibited - Signs required.
   10.36.090   Removal or defacement of markings.
   10.36.100   Removal or defacement of signs.
   *   For state law relating to the stopping, standing and parking of motor vehicles - See Veh. C.A. §§ 22500 - 22520.
10.36.010   Application of regulations.
   (a)   The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official traffic control device.
   (b)   The provisions of this title imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code or this title prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
   (c)   In addition to any other persons authorized by law, any employee of the city classified as a Community Service Officer or Parking Enforcement Officer is authorized to give the notice required by the Vehicle Code of the State of California of any violation of said code or of local regulations adopted pursuant thereto governing the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles.
   (d)   For purposes of this chapter, the term "public parking facility" shall mean any public parking lot or parking structure owned or leased by the city in which parking by the general public is permitted.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
10.36.020   Standing in parkways.
   No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway, except on a permanent or temporary driveway.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
10.36.030   Use of streets or public parking facilities for storage of vehicles.
   (a)   No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park or leave such vehicle standing upon any street or alley or public parking facility for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours or more. For the purposes of this section, a vehicle shall be considered to have been parked or left standing for seventy-two or more consecutive hours if it has remained inoperable or has not been moved at least five tenths of a mile or more during said seventy two hour period.
   (b)   In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street or alley or public parking facility in excess of a consecutive period of seventy-two hours, any member of the police department authorized by the chief of police may remove such vehicle from the street as authorized by the California Vehicle Code and subject to the provisions of this section.
   (c)   Prior to removing any vehicle, notice shall be affixed to the vehicle advising that the vehicle will be removed for violation of this section after seventy-two hours unless it is moved at least five tenths of a mile.
   (d)   Whenever a member of the police department removes a vehicle pursuant to this section and causes it to be stored as permitted by the California Vehicle Code, the chief of police or his designee shall comply with the requirements of Section 22852 of the California Vehicle Code relating to post-storage notice and hearing for registered owners and legal owners of record.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
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