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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
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10.36.070   Parking adjacent to schools.
   (a)   The city manager is authorized to place signs and to place markings on curbs, pavement, and similar areas to provide adequate control for vehicle parking and loading upon any street or portion thereof adjacent to any school property in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in policies and warrants for traffic control devices near schools, adopted by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this city.
   (b)   When official signs or markings are installed indicating no parking upon a street or portion thereof adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
10.36.080   Stopping or parking prohibited - Signs required.
   (a)   The city manager is authorized to appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of said places:
   (1)   At any place within thirty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;
   (2)   Within fifty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device;
   (3)   At any place where the city manager determines that it is necessary or desirable.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
10.36.090   Removal or defacement of markings.
   It is unlawful for any person to remove, erase, deface, obliterate, or render unusable for the purpose of enforcement of this title any chalk mark, marker or other device placed on a vehicle by the city for the purpose of measuring the passage of time or the movement of a vehicle stopped, standing or parked on any street, or in any public parking facility.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)
10.36.100   Removal or defacement of signs.
   It is unlawful for any person to remove, erase, deface, obliterate, or render unusable for the purpose of enforcement of this title any sign, marking, or device placed by the city for the purpose of indicating prohibitions or restrictions on stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on any street, alley, or public parking facility.
(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)