Corona Municipal Code Ch. 10.20 Stopping, Standing and Parking – Designated Places or Purposes

(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 title 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 placed or at specified times.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.010.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended within any parkway.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.020.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

The City Traffic Engineer 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 title. When the curb markings or authorized 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.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.030.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No operator of any vehicle shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, 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, other authorized officer or official traffic-control device:

(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 City Traffic Engineer determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or properly, 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 surface;

(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 area 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 are erected or placed at least 24 hours prior to the effective time of such no parking;

(H) At any place within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection or 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;

(I) Within 20 feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device;

(J) In any area marked "Council Member Parking Only" when such area has been designated with appropriate signs.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.040.) (Ord. 1995 § 1, 1990; Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley within the city for more than a consecutive period of 72 hours.

(B) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of a consecutive period of 72 hours, any member of the Police Department authorized by the Chief of Police may remove the vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of the Vehicle Code.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.050.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair or cause to be repaired, grease or lubricate or cause to be greased or lubricated, dismantle or cause to be dismantled any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street within the city. Temporary emergency repairs may be made upon a public street.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.060.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall wash or cause to be washed, polish or cause to be polished any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street within the city when a charge is made for such service.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.070.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruit, vegetables or food stuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating cart or vehicle on any portion of any street within this city except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed ten minutes at any one place. The provisions of this division shall not apply to persons delivering such articles upon order of or by agreement with a customer from a store or other fixed place of business or distribution.

(B) No person shall park or stand on any street any lunch wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or pushcart from which articles of food are sold or offered for sale without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the City Traffic Engineer which shall designate the specific location in which such cart shall stand.

(C) No person shall park or stand any vehicle or wagon used or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the City Traffic Engineer which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.

(D) Whenever any permit is granted under the provisions of this section and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon or pushcart on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the older of any such permit is convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this section, such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the City Traffic Engineer upon the filing of the record of such conviction with such officer, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until six months have elapsed from the date of such revocation.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.080.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his or her opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.

(B) When official signs are erected prohibiting parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.090.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall park a vehicle at any time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on any day except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays within 50 feet on either side of pedestrian and school crosswalks located adjacent to or within 500 feet of the nearest property line of any property upon which a school building is located.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.100.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Peddling and soliciting near schools. No person shall solicit or peddle by placing, keeping, maintaining, stopping, parking, conducting or allowing to stand at any time within 300 feet of the nearest property line or any property upon which a school building is located during the hours that the school is being attended by students or within 30 minutes prior to the attendance hours of such school or within 30 minutes after the attendance hours of such school any lunch, meal or eating cart, stand, wagon or vehicle or any stand, cart, wagon or vehicle of any kind used in the selling, vending, soliciting or peddling of candy, ice cream, popcorn, peanuts, fruit, vegetables or any other edibles or merchandise; provided, however, that any such person who shall place, keep, maintain, stop, park, conduct or allow to stand or remain in or upon any street, alley, park of other public place beyond 300 feet of the nearest property line or any property upon which a school building is located, any such stand, cart, wagon or vehicle may do so for a reasonable period time, not to exceed ten minutes, but shall not make a second stop after moving from the last place of parking, stopping or standing within a distance of 100 feet from the last place of parking, stopping or standing; and provided, further, that this section shall not apply to persons engaged in delivering goods, wares and merchandise from or to any store, fixed place of business or residence; and provided further, that any person engaged in peddling and soliciting fruits, vegetables or other edibles and merchandise from house to house may stand a vehicle in front of any dwelling house only for the purpose of selling or soliciting the sale of such fruits, vegetables or other edibles or merchandise to the occupants of such dwelling house; and provided further, that nothing provided in this division shall prohibit the sale of newspapers.

(B) Prohibitions. It is unlawful for any person who is peddling or soliciting by wagon, cart, automotive vehicle or any other type of conveyance:

(1) To stop the conveyances anywhere within 25 feet of a street intersection when making a sale or attempting to make a sale;

(2) To drive or propel the conveyance backwards or make or attempt any sale;

(3) To sell to any person who is standing in a street or alley;

(4) To permit a person to hang on such conveyance or permit any person to ride in or on the conveyance except a bona fide assistant of such peddler or solicitor.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.110.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Whenever the City Traffic Engineer determines that periods of traffic congestion are likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons the City Traffic Engineer shall have power and authority to order temporary emergency parking signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the City Traffic Engineer shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. The signs shall remain in place so long as such periods of traffic congestion are likely to continue, and the City Traffic Engineer shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

(B) When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of the signs.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.120.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Every vehicle 80 inches or more in overall width, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight when operated upon any street or highway within the city during darkness, shall be equipped with and carry at least three red emergency reflectors of a type authorized by the Vehicle Code. When any vehicle mentioned in this section or any trailer or semi-trailer is disabled upon any roadway in the city, reflectors of the type indicated in this section shall be immediately placed as follows:

(1) One at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle, not more than ten feet to the front or rear thereof;

(2) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by such vehicle; and

(3) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the front of the disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by such vehicle.

(B) The warning signals mentioned in division (A) of this section shall be displayed continuously during darkness while such vehicle remains disabled upon such street or highway.

(C) Until the reflectors required by this section can be placed properly, the requirements of this section may be complied with temporarily by either placing lighted red fuses in the required locations or by the use of turn signal lamps, but only if front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously and rear turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.130.) (Ord. 1506 § (part), 1978.)

No person driving or in control of or charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended upon any private property within 150 feet of any public street, highway, alley, place or way without first effectively setting the and stopping the motor of the motor vehicle.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.140.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any alley for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials. The person shall be actually loading or unloading the vehicle during all times the vehicle is so parked, which amount of time shall not exceed 20 minutes.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.150.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person, except a public officer acting within the scope of his or her public duties, shall park, or permit to be parked, any vehicle upon any fire lane which has been marked, posted or designated as a fire lane.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.160.) (Ord. 1606 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within 18 inches of the left hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.

(B) In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.

(C) The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

(D) The requirement of parallel parking imposed by this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case such vehicle may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.170.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the Council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park the vehicle except:

(1) At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of the allotted space;

(2) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of the curb.

(B) The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight or goods, in which event the provisions applicable in Chapter 10.24 shall be complied with.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.180.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person driving, in control of or in charge of a motor vehicle shall park or leave standing such vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding 3% (within any business or residence district) without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.190.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall park a vehicle on any street, parking lot or other property for the purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale, hire or rental, unless the person is duly licensed and the property zoned for such activity, except as follows. Vehicles may display a "For Sale" sign not exceeding eight inches by ten inches on a side window or panel of the vehicle which does not obstruct the driver’s view, provided the vehicle is parked on a public street or parking lot no longer than four hours in any location. This section shall not prohibit the parking of a vehicle in a driveway on a residential lot which belongs to the vehicle owner or on a street immediately adjacent to such a residential lot.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.200.) (Ord. 1731 § 1, 1984; Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) No person shall park a vehicle in a private driveway or on private property without the direct or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of the driveway or property if there is displayed in plain view on the property a sign of the size and design specified in division (B) of this section prohibiting public parking and containing the telephone number of the local traffic law enforcement agency.

(B) The signs specified in division (A) of this section shall be rectangular in shape and a minimum of 18 inches in height and 24 inches in length. The lettering designating the parking prohibition shall be at least two inches in height and any other lettering shall be at least one inch in height. The lettering shall be in a contrasting color visible against the background.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.210.) (Ord. 1717 § 2, 1984; Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.220.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall park a vehicle upon any portion of the Corona Municipal Airport other than in driveways or parking places designated for the use of the vehicles; this chapter shall not apply to vehicles used for emergency or service work upon the airport where the drivers of such vehicles have obtained permission from the airport manager for such work. Such emergency or service work vehicles shall be properly marked.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.230.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

No person shall park or stand any motor vehicle, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle or motorized bicycle upon any portion of any public park, except those portions designated by cit regulation for the standing and parking of such vehicles.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.240.) (Ord. 1506 § 1 (part), 1978.)

(A) Oversized vehicles. No person shall park or leave standing upon any public street or highway any oversized vehicle at any time between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

(B) Nonmotorized vehicles. No person shall park or leave standing upon any public street or highway a nonmotorized vehicle, regardless of width, which has been detached from its motor vehicle except when such person is actually loading or unloading the same or making repairs of an emergency nature to either the vehicle itself or the adjacent properties. The maximum period allowed for loading, unloading or repairing a nonmotorized vehicle pursuant to this subsection shall be 24 hours.

(C) Exceptions. The provisions of divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall not apply to the following:

(1) Authorized emergency vehicles as defined in Vehicle Code § 165, as may be amended;

(2) Commercial vehicles making pick ups or deliveries of goods, wares or merchandise from or to any building or structure;

(3) Any vehicle displaying a valid permit issued pursuant to this section by the Chief of Police or his or her designee.

(D) Permits.

(1) The chief of police or his designee may issue a temporary permit for the overnight parking of an oversized vehicle if he makes any of the findings set forth in this section and in addition determines that the parking of such oversized vehicle will not create a safety hazard. Such permit shall be valid for the time period stated thereon and shall be issued only for the event of special circumstances, which shall include the following:

(a) The vehicle belongs to visitors or house guests temporarily residing in the city. The permit shall be valid for a maximum period of 14 days;

(b) The vehicle has been purchased by the applicant within the previous 90 days and suitable permanent parking or storage is being arranged. The permit shall be valid for a maximum period of 14 days from date of issuance or 90 days from date of purchase, whichever is less;

(c) The vehicle belongs to a person who has moved within the city limits in the previous 90 days and suitable permanent parking or storage is being arranged. The permit shall be valid for a maximum period of 14 days from date of issuance or 90 days from date of purchase, whichever is less;

(d) The vehicle is used on a daily basis in connection with the owner’s employment and the parking of the vehicle is not reasonably possible on the owner’s premises. The permit shall not be issued for vehicles in excess of 6,000 pounds. The permit shall be valid for a maximum period of six months and may be renewed for successive six months periods;

(e) A permit may be obtained for the purpose of loading and unloading the vehicle. The permit shall be valid for a maximum period of 72 hours.

(2) The Chief of Police shall not issue a permit if he or she determines that the parking of such oversized or nonmotorized vehicle will create a safety hazard such as interference of access of fire apparatus or other emergency vehicles. In making such determination, the Chief of Police shall consider the width of the subject street, the existence or nonexistence of sidewalks, the closeness of residences to the street and other relevant factors. The Chief of Police shall not issue a permit which would allow such a vehicle to be parked within 15 feet of a fire hydrant or within 100 feet of an intersection, as defined in the Vehicle Code.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.250.) (Ord. 2605 §§ 1 and 2, 2002; Ord. 2211 § 1, 1994; Ord. 2067 § 3, 1991.)

(A) Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in the front yard area of any residentially used lot or parcel of land, except in a paved driveway.

(B) Vehicle. As used in this section, “vehicle” shall mean a vehicle as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(C) Front yard area. As used in this section, “front yard area” shall mean any area that is not a paved driveway, that is between the front elevation of the residential building and the front property line of the lot or parcel and that extends the entire width of the lot or parcel.

(D) Paved driveway. As used in this section, “paved driveway” shall mean a paved strip of land which meets all applicable zoning and building regulations of the city, which provides access from the street to a garage, carport or parking space and which has a single access point. The paved driveway may have two access points only if the driveway is semi-circular in nature. This section shall not be construed to permit the paving of all or any portion of front yard areas without first complying with all applicable zoning and building codes and regulations of the city.

(E) Parking space. As used in this section, “parking space” shall mean a paved area within the front yard area which meets all applicable zoning and building regulations of the city and which is of sufficient size to be used for the express purpose of parking a vehicle.

(`78 Code, § 10.20.260.) (Ord. 2407 § 1, 1999.)