Alhambra Municipal Code Ch. 12.28 Parking Lot Regulations

(A) The City Council shall set by resolution the time limits for all municipal parking lots, or portions thereof.

(B) It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle for more than the time limit so established pursuant to division (A) above in a designated space on the respective municipal parking lot.

(C) The City Council reserves the right to designate any parking spaces within the municipal parking lots for unlimited parking, if so posted, for lease on a monthly basis at a rate to be determined by the City Council.

('86 Code, § 12.28.010) (Ord. 3911, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 3919, passed - - )

Unmetered municipal parking lots shall be operated 24 hours each day, seven days per week. Sundays and holidays included, except where other hours are established by City Council resolution.

('86 Code, § 12.28.055) (Ord. 3604, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 4769, passed 1-27-20)

There are hereby established the following rules and regulations governing the use of the public parking lots owned and established by the city:

(A) No motor vehicle having an overall length of more than 20 feet, or an overall width of more than 7½ feet, shall be parked in any such parking lot. Such overall length and width shall include the length and width of any load carried by such motor vehicle.

(B) No motor vehicle having a gross weight of more than 6,000 pounds shall be parked in any such parking lot.

(C) Motor vehicles shall be parked in such parking lots within the places designated by markers and as nearly in the center of the designated stalls as possible and no vehicle shall be parked by backing into the stall.

(D) No person shall drive in such parking lots on any other than the designated roadways, and then drive in the direction only as designated by signs or pavement markings.

(E) No person shall drive on any roadway in such parking lots at a greater speed than five miles per hour.

(F) No motor vehicle shall be parked and left unattended on any roadway in any such parking lot.

(G) No person shall use any portion of such parking lots in a manner so as to endanger the person or property of another.

(H) No person shall use any such parking lot as a place for the buying and selling of merchandise of any kind whatsoever.

(I) No person shall distribute literature or throw handbills in such parking lots or into any car while parking in such parking lots.

(J) Such parking lots shall not be used as a place for all-night parking.

(K) When authorized signs are in place on any such parking lot giving notice of parking limitations, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle on any such parking lot for a period of time longer than indicated by such signs. On any calendar day, successive acts of parking within a distance of 300 feet on any such parking lot shall be deemed a single act of parking within the meaning of this chapter, subject to the longest parking limitation applicable to the portion of such parking lot lying between the parking places so used.

(L) No person shall sleep in the elevators or obstruct the lawful use of the elevators.

(M) No person shall sleep or store personal belongings in any area of such parking lots, including in designated parking stalls, under the stairs, or on the roof.

(N) No person shall be allowed in such parking lots except during the hours when such parking lots are open for parking vehicles.

(O) No person shall loiter in such parking lots except that any person may walk to and from a car that is legally parked in such parking lots.

('86 Code, § 12.28.060) (Ord. 3206, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 3641, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 4769, passed 1-27-20) Penalty, see § 12.08.035

(A) In order to provide parking for physically handicapped persons, the City Manager, or his authorized representative, is hereby authorized to designate spaces in city-owned public parking lots for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate or placard issued pursuant to Cal. Veh. Code § 22511.5 or to disabled veterans as specified in Cal. Veh. Code § 9105.

(B) Such designation shall be made by posting immediately adjacent to, and visible from, each space a sign consisting of a profile view of a wheelchair with occupant in white on a blue background.

(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle which does not display the distinguishing license plate or placard specified in this section in any space designated for physically handicapped persons in any city-owned public parking lot.

(D) The Chief of Police, or his authorized representative, may cause the removal from any space in a city-owned public parking lot which has been designated for physically handicapped persons to the nearest public garage, of any vehicle not displaying one of the distinguishing placards or license plates specified in this section; provided, there is posted immediately adjacent to, and visible from, such space, or in a conspicuous place at each entrance to any such parking lot, a sign, not less than 17 by 22 inches in size with lettering not less than one inch in height which clearly and conspicuously states the following:

“Unauthorized vehicles not displaying dis-tinguishing placards or license plates issued for physically handicapped persons will be towed away at owner's expense. Towed vehicles may be reclaimed at (address) or by telephoning the Alhambra Police Department at (number).”

('86 Code, § 12.28.062) (Ord. 3733, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 12.08.035

The Director of Public Works, subject to the approval of the Chief of Police, is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in this title and in such other zones as may hereafter be established. Such parking spaces shall be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street or surface of off-street parking lots. At each space so marked off it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.

('86 Code, § 12.12.010) (Ord. 3206, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 12.08.035