(A) Generally. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.050 - 10.08.051)
(B) Curb parking; exception.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any two-way roadway, right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any two-way roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated.
(2) (a) The provisions of divisions (A) or (D) do not apply to a commercial vehicle if a variation from the requirements of divisions (A) or (D) is reasonably necessary to accomplish the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from, the vehicle and while anything connected with the loading, or unloading, is being executed.
(b) This division shall not be construed to permit any vehicle to stop or park upon a roadway in a direction opposite to that in which traffic normally moves upon that half of the roadway on which the vehicle is stopped or parked.
(3) This division does not apply to vehicles of a public utility when the vehicles are being used in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of facilities of the public utility or are being used in connection with providing public utility service.
(4) Upon a one-way roadway, vehicles maybe stopped or parked as provided in division (A) above or with the left-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, except that motorcycles, if parked on the left-hand side, shall have either one wheel or one fender touching the curb. Where no curb or barriers bound the one-way roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless otherwise indicated.
(5) The provisions of this division shall not apply upon the roadways of a divided highway.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.052)
(C) Disabled persons' and veterans' parking spaces; unauthorized parking or obstructing; off-street parking facilities.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in a stall or space designated for disabled persons and disabled veterans pursuant to Cal. Vehicle Code §§ 22511.7 or 22511.8, unless the vehicle displays either a special identification license plate issued pursuant to Cal. Vehicle Code § 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Cal. Vehicle Code §§ 22511.55 or 22511.59.
(2) It is unlawful for any person to obstruct, block or otherwise bar access to those parking stalls or spaces, except as provided in division (A) above.
(3) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, including a vehicle displaying a special identification license plate issued pursuant to Cal. Vehicle Code § 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Cal. Vehicle Code §§ 22511.55 or 22511.59 in either of the following places:
(a) On the lines marking the boundaries of a parking stall or space designated for disabled persons or disabled veterans; and
(b) In any area of the pavement within a parking lot or parking facility that is marked by crosshatched lines and is thereby designated for the loading and unloading of vehicles pursuant to any local ordinance.
(4) Divisions (A), (B) and (C) above apply to all off-street parking facilities owned or operated by the state, and to all off-street parking facilities owned or operated by a local authority. Divisions (A), (B) and (C) above also apply to any privately-owned and maintained off-street parking facility.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.053)
(D) Fire hydrants. No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, except as follows:
(1) If the vehicle is attended by a licensed driver who is seated in the front seat and who can immediately move the vehicle in case of necessity;
(2) Where the City Council, by an ordinance or resolution, has reduced that distance and arranged for the placement of appropriate signs. If the distance is less than ten feet total length when measured along the curb or edge of the street, the distance shall be indicated by signs or markings; and
(3) If the vehicle is owned or operated by a fire department and is clearly marked as a fire department vehicle.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.054)
(E) Unattended vehicles.
(1) No person driving, or in control of, or in charge of, a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand on any highway unattended without first effectively setting the brakes thereon and stopping the motor thereof.
(2) No person in control of, or in charge of, any vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, shall permit it to stand on any highway without first effectively setting the brakes thereon, or blocking the wheels thereof, to effectively prevent the movement of the vehicle.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.055)
(F) Director of Public Works to maintain no stopping zones and no parking areas.
(1) The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to maintain, by appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb surface, all no stopping zones, no parking areas and restricted parking areas as defined and described in this subchapter.
(2) When the curb markings or signs are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park the vehicle adjacent to the legible curb markings or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.056)
(G) Prohibited stopping, standing or parking. No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) Within an intersection, except adjacent to curbs as may be permitted by local ordinance;
(2) On a crosswalk, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier or a taxicab may stop in an unmarked crosswalk to load or unload passengers when authorized by the City Council by ordinance;
(3) Between a safety zone and the adjacent right-hand curb or within the area between the zone and the curb as may be indicated by a sign or red paint on the curb, which sign or paint was erected or placed by local authorities pursuant to ordinance;
(4) Within 15 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station. This division does not apply to any vehicle owned or operated by a fire department and clearly marked as a fire department vehicle;
(5) In front of a public or private driveway, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier, school bus or a taxicab may stop to load or unload passengers when authorized by local authorities pursuant to ordinance;
(6) On a sidewalk, except an electric carts operated by a disabled person or person 50 years of age or older who has received a permit and identification sticker to so operate the cart;
(7) Alongside or opposite any street or highway excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(8) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped, parked, or standing at the curb or edge of a highway, except for a schoolbus when stopped to load or unload pupils in a business or residence district where the speed limit is 25 miles per hour or less;
(9) Except as provided under Cal. Vehicle Code § 22500 of the alongside curb space authorized for the loading and unloading of passengers of a bus engaged as a common carrier in local transportation when indicated by a sign or red paint on the curb erected or painted by local authorities pursuant to ordinance;
(10) Within three feet of or in front of that portion of a curb which has been cut down, lowered or constructed to provide wheelchair accessibility to the sidewalk and which is designated for wheelchair access by either a sign or red paint on the curb pursuant to an ordinance of the local authority;
(11) Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings;
(12) On either side of any street between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, street or thoroughfare terminating at the street when the area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
(13) In any area where the Director of Public Works determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property when the area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
(14) In any area established by resolution of the Council as a no parking area for all or certain types or weights of vehicles, as specified in the resolution, when the area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
(15) Upon, along, within seven and one-half feet of the nearest rail of or across any railway track in the manner as to hinder, delay or obstruct the movement of any car traveling upon the track;
(16) In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;
(17) On any street or highway where the use of the street or highway, or any portion thereof, is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street or highway, or any portion thereof, is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size, and the parking of the vehicle would prohibit or interfere with the use or movement provided signs giving notice of no parking are erected or placed at least 24 hours prior to the effective time of no parking;
(18) At any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone when the place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
(19) At any place within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district when the place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface, except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop; and/or
(20) Within 20 feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.057)
(H) Fire lanes; parking violations; signs.
(1) No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device along the edge of any highway, at any curb, or in any location in a publicly- or privately-owned or operated off-street parking facility, designated as a fire lane by the fire department or fire district with jurisdiction over the area in which the place is located.
(2) The designation shall be indicated by a sign posted immediately adjacent to, and visible from, the designated place clearly stating in letters not less than one inch in height that the place is a fire lane, by outlining or painting the place in red and, in contrasting color, marking the place with the words "Fire Lane", which are clearly visible from a vehicle, or by a red curb or red paint on the edge of the roadway upon which is clearly marked the words "Fire Lane". Vehicles unlawfully parked in a fire lane designated and marked as indicated in this division whether on public or private property, shall be subject to removal pursuant to the procedures of Cal. Vehicle Code §§ 22650 et seq.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.058)
(I) Vehicle removal; location; private sale advertisement.
(1) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with § 830) of Cal. Penal Code Title 3 of Part 2, or any regularly employed and salaried employee, who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of the city, may remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act, when the vehicle is found upon a street or any public lands, if all of the following requirements are satisfied:
(a) Because of a sign or placard on the vehicle, it appears that the primary purpose of parking the vehicle at that location is to advertise to the public the private sale of that vehicle.
(b) Within the past 30 days, the vehicle is known to have been previously issued a notice of parking violation, under local ordinance, which was accompanied by a notice containing all of the following:
1. A warning that an additional parking violation may result in the impoundment of the vehicle;
2. A warning that the vehicle may be impounded pursuant to this subsection, even if moved to another street, so long as the signs or placards offering the vehicle for sale remain on the vehicle; and
3. A warning that the prohibition against parking to advertise for sale applied to all streets and public places in the city.
(c) The notice of parking violation was issued at least 24 hours prior to the removal of the vehicle.
(2) Cal. Vehicle Code § 22852 of the applies to the removal of any vehicle pursuant to this division.
(1994 Code, § 10.08.059) Penalty, see § 10.99