Del Rey Oaks Municipal Code Ch. 10.04 Vehicles and Traffic Generally

Except as otherwise defined herein, the definition of any term used in this chapter is the definition of such term as it is defined and described in the Vehicle Code of the State of California and amendments thereto.

(Prior code § 9-101)

Officers of the police department or persons deputized by the chief of police, shall have the power of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and said officers are authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with traffic laws; provided that, in the event of fire or other emergency, police officers may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order, direction or signal of a police officer; and it is unlawful for any other persons than an officer of the police department or persons deputized to direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal.

(Prior code § 9-102)

The city council may by resolution determine and designate the location of through highway and intersection stops and parking time limit within any designated area within the city; and it is authorized and directed to place, paint, maintain and cause to be placed, painted, and maintained the necessary signals, markings, or painted curbing in accordance with the Vehicle Code of California and amendments thereto.

(Prior code § 9-103)

The chief of police is authorized, and he shall determine and designate the location of loading zones, bus loading zones and safety zones and/or the method of turning at intersections, and/or the location of mechanical signals; and he is authorized and directed to place, paint and maintain, or cause to be placed, painted or maintained, the necessary signs, markers or painted curbing in accordance with the Vehicle Code of California and amendments thereto.

(Prior code § 9-104)

A. It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle or any pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any signal, traffic sign or mark upon any street, placed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

B. It is unlawful for the driver or operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle in disregard of any traffic sign or mark upon the street or curb. No public utility or department in this city shall erect or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the chief of police.

C. It is unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved, as above provided, erected or placed by a public utility or by any department of this city.

(Prior code § 9-105)

A. It is unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display any device, other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected under competent authority, upon or in view of a street, which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles, an official warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the action of operators, and any such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance, and the chief of police may remove it, or cause it to be removed, without notice.

B. It is unlawful for any person willfully to deface, injure, move or interfere with any official warning or directions sign or signal.

(Prior code § 9-106)

A. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point other than an intersection or within a marked crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles moving upon the roadway.

B. It is unlawful for any person to stand in a roadway for the purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the operator of any private vehicle.

(Prior code § 9-107)

It is unlawful for any person to operate or stand or park any vehicle on any street in such manner as to obstruct the free use of such street.

(Prior code § 9-108)

Every driver of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle before entering or crossing any through-highway and before entering or crossing any intersection designated as a stop intersection at any entrance thereto designated as a stop entrance. All such stops shall be made at a prolongation of the property line of such through-highway or intersection or at such other place properly marked and designated as a stop location; provided, however, that no such stops need be made when traffic is signaled to proceed by any stop and go signal, or by a police officer.

(Prior code § 9-109)

It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, other than one on official business, to follow any fire apparatus travelling in response to a fire alarm, closer than three hundred feet, or to park, stop or stand any vehicle within the block where the fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. No vehicle shall be driven over unprotected hose of the fire department when laid down on any street, private driveway or other place, without the consent of the chief of the fire department, or assistant in command.

(Ord. 233 § 8, 1995: prior code § 9-110)

A. The operator of a vehicle shall not drive the same upon any sidewalk area, except at a regularly established driveway.

B. It is unlawful for the operator of any bicycle or motorcycle when upon a street to carry any other person upon the bar, handle or tank of any such vehicle or for any person so to ride upon any such vehicle.

C. It is unlawful for any person traveling upon any bicycle, motorcycle or any toy vehicle to cling to or attach himself or his vehicle to any other moving vehicle upon any roadway.

(Prior code § 9-111)

The provisions of the ordinance regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of any political subdivision of the State of California or of a public utility, while the driver of any such vehicle is engaged in the necessary performance of public emergency duties.

(Prior code § 9-113)

Repairing, rebuilding or constructing any vehicle on any public street, highway or alley within the city, except to the extent that may be reasonably necessary temporarily to repair such vehicle in order to remove it from such street, highway or alley, is prohibited. Open flares shall be used for the purpose of attracting attention to barriers or obstructions within the roadway.

(Prior code § 9-114)