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A. The city manager shall designate special "blue curb" parking spaces for the purpose of providing on-street parking for exclusive use of disabled persons.
B. The city manager shall designate parking stalls or spaces in publicly owned, leased, or controlled off-street parking facilities for exclusive use by disabled persons.
C. The city declares that there are privately owned and operated parking facilities which should reserve parking spaces for exclusive use of disabled persons.
D. Designation of parking spaces for disabled persons shall be made by posting immediately adjacent to and visible from same a sign consisting of the international symbol of access; on-street spaces shall be designated by blue paint on the curb or edge of the paved portion of the street adjacent to the spaces:
This facility is subject to public traffic regulations and control. Unauthorized vehicles not displaying distinguishing license plates or placards issued for physically handicapped persons will be issued citations and towed away at owner's expense.
This sign shall also display the international symbol of access, and shall be posted at the entrance to the parking facility or immediately adjacent to and visible from the reserved space(s).
E. No person shall park or stand any vehicle in a disabled persons parking space designated as required in subsection D of this section, unless said vehicle bears a special license or displays a special placard issued under the provisions of Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code.
F. Blue curb on-street parking spaces shall be operative twenty-four hours a day, Sundays and holidays included; off-street disabled persons parking spaces shall be operational at all times the parking facilities in which they are located are open.
G. Parking zones for disabled persons are subject to any temporary parking prohibitions established by the city, including daily prohibitions necessary for traffic control, construction and street maintenance.
H. Fines for violation of this subsection shall be as set out in Vehicle Code Section 42001(A). (Ord. 90-19 § 2(M), 1990; prior code § 10.08.055)
10.08.090 Enforcement of Section 10.08.070.
Pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22507, the provisions of Section 10.08.070 shall not be effective until signs or markings giving adequate notice of the parking prohibition have been placed within the city as prescribed by law. (Prior code § 10.08.060)
Pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22651, any police officer of the city police department may remove a vehicle from a street, highway, city parking lot or public area (whether improved or unimproved):
A. When a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street, highway, city parking lot or public area for seventy-two or more consecutive hours in violation of Section 10.08.070;
B. When a vehicle is illegally parked on a street, highway, city parking lot or public area in violation of a city ordinance forbidding standing or parking and the use of a highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street, highway, city parking lot or public area, or for the installation of underground utilities, and signs giving notice that such vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the removal;
C. Where the use of the street, highway, city parking lot or public area, or any portion thereof, is authorized by the council for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic; or for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size; and the parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided, that signs giving notice that such vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the removal;
D. Where any vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street, highway, city parking lot or public area where the same has been prohibited by ordinance or resolution and signs have been posted giving notice of such removal. (Ord. 94-05 § 4, 1994: Ord. 92-07 § 4 (part), 1992: prior code § 10.08.070)
Whenever any police officer of the city removes a vehicle from a street or highway within the city pursuant to this chapter, said vehicle shall be removed and stored pursuant to the provisions of California Vehicle Code Section 22850, et seq. (Prior code § 10.08.080)
A. The owner or operator of any motor vehicle exercising the privilege of parking a vehicle on any street or portion thereof where regulations are in effect restricting the length of time vehicles may be parked on a street or portion thereof does so on the condition that the police officers or parking control officers of the city may place chalk or other removable marks on the tire of the vehicle for the purpose of enforcing such parking regulations.
B. It is unlawful for any person to erase, rub out, conceal or otherwise remove, any chalk or other mark so placed by a police officer or parking control officer while the marked vehicle remains parked on the street or portion thereof. For the purpose of this section, the movement of a previously marked vehicle in such a manner as to cause the tire marking to be concealed or removed, and without leaving the parking space or the block where such vehicle was parked when its tires were previously marked shall be deemed to be an erasure or removal of such chalk or other marking. (Ord. 92-20 § 2, 1992)
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