Contra Costa County Municipal Code Ch. 46-4 Miscellaneous Provisions

(a) No person driving, in control of, or in charge of any vehicle shall stand or park if on any street or highway where the grade exceeds three percent, in any business or residential district as defined by the California Vehicle Code, without setting the brakes and blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.

(b) Any person violating this section shall be punished as provided in Vehicle Code Section 42001.

(Ord. 79-53 § 1: prior code § 3410: Ord. 1167: See C.V.C. § 22509).

(a) Prohibition. No person driving or in control or charge of any commercial vehicle, having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more, shall stand or park it on any county street or highway, or portion thereof, located in any residence district as defined by the California Vehicle Code.

(b) Exemptions. This section is not effective with any commercial vehicle making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted streets or highways or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure on the restricted streets or highways for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(c) Punishment. Any person violating this section shall be punished as provided in Vehicle Code Section 42001.

(Ord. 79-88: C.V.C. §§ 515, 22507.5).

Any vehicle parked or left standing on a county road for seventy-two or more consecutive hours may be removed as provided in the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 71-7 § 1, 1971: Ord. 1800: Ord. 1498: prior code § 3411).

The public works director may cause county roads to be marked with white lines designating parking spaces. Where parking spaces have been so designated, no vehicle shall be parked except within such marked spaces.

(Ord. 1774: prior code § 3412).

The road commissioner may have signs placed giving notice that vehicles may be removed from any county road, and twenty-four hours thereafter may have the vehicle removed in accordance with the provisions of this code and the Vehicle Code, when:

(1) The use of any county road, or a portion thereof, is either:

(a) Necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the road or for the installation of underground utilities, or

(b) Authorized by permit 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 any vehicle would prevent or interfere with any such use; or

(2) A vehicle is illegally on a county road in violation of a county traffic ordinance or resolution forbidding standing or parking.

(Ord. 71-7 § 2, 1971: Ord. 1886: Ord. 1774: prior code § 3413).

(a) Pursuant to the authority contained in Vehicle Code Section 35700, trucks and vehicle combinations transporting garbage, rubbish and/or swill shall be deemed in compliance with Vehicle Code Sections 35550 and 35551 if the maximum gross weight imposed on the county highways in subsection (b) by the wheels on any one axle is not over twenty-three thousand pounds and the gross weight upon the wheel(s) supporting one end of an axle and resting on the roadway is not over twelve thousand five hundred pounds.

(b) The county highways in the North Richmond area referred to in subsection (a) are:

(1) That portion of Parr Boulevard contiguous to the city of Richmond lying westerly of the Southern Pacific right-of-way;

(2) That portion of Third Street contiguous to the city of Richmond and lying between Gertrude Avenue and Parr Boulevard;

(3) All of Garden Tract Road adjacent to Parr Boulevard;

(4) Portion of Market Street between Third Street and First Street;

(5) Central Street, between Pittsburg Avenue and Brookside Drive;

(6) Portion of Brookside Drive between Third Street and Central Street; and

(7) All of Pittsburg Avenue.

(Ords. 77-108, 67-75, 67-69: prior code § 3414).