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SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE
PREFACE
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (Reserved)
Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 (Reserved)
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.04 DEFINITIONS
Chapter 10.08 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 10.12 TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
Chapter 10.16 ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
Chapter 10.20 THROUGH AND STOP STREETS
Chapter 10.24 GENERAL DRIVING RULES
Chapter 10.28 STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING
Chapter 10.30 OVERSIZED VEHICLES, TRAILERS AND CAMPERS
Chapter 10.32 LOADING AND UNLOADING
Chapter 10.34 PARKING ADJUDICATION PROGRAM
Chapter 10.36 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AND TRUCK ROUTES
Chapter 10.38 INTERSTATE TRUCKS
Chapter 10.40 SPEED LIMITS
Chapter 10.44 OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY
Chapter 10.46 ABANDONED, INOPERABLE AND UNSIGHTLY VEHICLES*
Chapter 10.48 PEDESTRIANS
Chapter 10.52 BICYCLES
Chapter 10.56 SKATEBOARDS, SCOOTERS, IN-LINE SKATES AND ROLLER SKATES*
Chapter 10.60 PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS
Title 11 (Reserved)
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Title 14 (Reserved)
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 OIL AND GAS CODE*
Title 17 TRAILER PARKS
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS*
Title 19 (Reserved)
Title 20 ZONING
Title 21 PUBLIC DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT FEES TO BE PAID BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRIOR CODE CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
Chapter 10.28
STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING
Sections:
   10.28.010   Application of provisions.
   10.28.020   Stopping or standing in parkways prohibited.
   10.28.030   No-parking areas--Signposting--Obedience required.
   10.28.040   No-parking areas--Designated.
   10.28.050   Seventy-two-hour limit.
   10.28.060   Displaying for sale prohibited.
   10.28.070   Repairs or dismantling prohibited.
   10.28.080   Washing or polishing prohibited.
   10.28.090   Adjacent to schools.
   10.28.100   Narrow streets.
   10.28.110   Grades--Blocking wheels required.
   10.28.120   Reserved.
   10.28.130   Temporary emergency signs.
   10.28.140   Warning signals for disabled commercial vehicles.
   10.28.150   Authority to prohibit or restrict parking.
   10.28.160   Green curb marking.
   10.28.170   One-hour parking.
   10.28.180   Two-hour parking.
   10.28.190   Parallel parking on one-way streets.
   10.28.200   Diagonal parking.
   10.28.210   Space markings.
   10.28.220   No-stopping zones.
   10.28.230   Trailers or semitrailers--Parking requirements.
   10.28.240   Preferential parking.
   10.28.250   Parking restricted for large commercial vehicles.
10.28.010   Application of provisions.
   A.   The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times specified in this chapter, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device.
   B.   The provisions of this chapter 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 the ordinances of this city prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
(Prior code § 11.32.010 (Ord. 581 § 10, 1965))
10.28.020   Stopping or standing in parkways prohibited.
   No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within any parkway.
(Prior code § 11.32.020 (Ord. 581 § 10.1, 1965))
10.28.030   No-parking areas--Signposting--Obedience required.
   A.   The public works director is 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 chapter.
   B.   When said curb markings or signs are in place no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this title.
(Prior code § 11.32.030 (Ord. 581 § 10.2, 1965))
10.28.040   No-parking areas--Designated.
   No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park, or leave standing such vehicle in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or other authorized officer, or traffic sign or signal:
   A.   Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings;
   B.   On either side of any street between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, street, or thoroughfare terminating at such street, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
   C.   In any area where the public works director determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
   D.   In any area established by resolution of the council as a no-parking area, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb;
   E.   Upon, along, or across any railway track in such manner as to hinder, delay, or obstruct the movement of any car traveling upon such track;
   F.   In any way where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;
   G.   On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair, or construction of the street or highway or the installation of underground utilities or 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 such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided that signs giving notice of such no-parking area are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the effective time of such no parking;
   H.   At any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the midblock end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
   I.   At any place within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district when such 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;
   J.   Within twenty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device.
(Prior code § 11.32.040 (Ord. 581 § 10.3, 1965))
10.28.050   Seventy-two-hour limit.
   No person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two hours.
(Prior code § 11.32.050 (Ord. 581 § 10.4, 1965))
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