Fillmore Municipal Code Ch. 14.36 Stopping, Standing and Parking

(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 state Vehicle Code or the ordinances or resolutions of this city, prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 41, 1953)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 42, 1953)

(a) Except as provided in Section 14.56.020 no person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any motorized or non-motorized vehicle, boat, boat trailer and/or utility trailer shall park or store it upon any highway, street, alley, or public parking lot owned or possessed by the city for more than seventy-two hours.

(b) This section shall be considered violated if:

1. At the end of the seventy-two-hour period the vehicle is parked or left standing in the same place as it was in the beginning of such period and physical markings or other facts indicate that the vehicle has not been moved; or

2. At the end of the seventy-two-hour period the vehicle has not been moved more than two-tenths of a mile. The determination of whether more than two-tenths of a mile shall be based on physical markings, odometer readings or other facts.

(c) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway, street, alley, or public parking lot owned or possessed by the city in excess of a period of seventy-two consecutive hours, any member of the California Highway Patrol or any member of the sheriff's office authorized by the chief of police may remove the vehicle from such highway, street, alley, or public parking lot pursuant to Vehicle Code Chapter 10 Division 11 (beginning with § 22650).

(Ord. 345 § 1, 1965: Ord. 231 Art. IX § 43, 1953: Ord. 551 § 2, 1983)

(Ord. No. 785, § 1, 8-9-2005; Ord. No. 24-974, § 2, 8-27-2024)

No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:

(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale;

(2) Greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 44, 1953)

(Ord. No. 785, § 1, 8-9-2005)

(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen 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 chief of police is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or alley 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.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 45, 1953)

(a) Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the chief of police shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles shall be parked.

(b) When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking as provided in this section, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 46, 1953)

The chief of police is authorized to issue special permits to allow the backing of a vehicle to the curb or the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and authorized herein, and it is unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 47, 1953)

(a) The chief of police 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 opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.

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

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 48, 1953)

(a) The chief of police is authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.

(b) When official signs or markings prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized in this section, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign or marking.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 49, 1953)

No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding three percent within any business or residence district without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 50, 1953)

The chief of police shall appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of said places:

(1) At any place within twenty-five feet of an intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;

(2) Within twenty-five feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device;

(3) At any place where the chief of police determines that it is necessary in order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 51, 1953)

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any portion of any street, alley or public way, or of any parking lot or parcel owned, possessed or maintained by the city, except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park, for a period of time not to exceed ten minutes at any one place. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such vehicle, wagon or pushcart may stand or park within three hundred feet of any location where it has stood or parked within the preceding thirty minutes. The provisions of this subsection 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 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 permit from the city council, which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.

(c) 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 such vehicle or wagon on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted of a violation of any provision of this section, such permit shall be forthwith deemed revoked upon the filing of the record of such conviction with the city clerk, and no such permit shall thereafter be issued to such person before the lapse of six months after the date of such revocation.

(Ord. 564 § 1, 1984: Ord. 231 Art. IX § 52, 1953)

(a) Whenever the chief of police determines that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the chief of police shall have power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the chief of police shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the chief of police 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 such signs.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 53, 1953)

Every motor truck having an unladen weight of four thousand pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight when operated upon any street or highway during the time specified in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two red lanterns, or two warning lights or reflectors, which reflectors shall be of a type approved by the Department of California Highway Patrol. When any vehicle above mentioned or any trailer or semi-trailer is disabled upon streets or highways outside of any business or residence district within this city and upon which street or highway there is insufficient street lighting to reveal a vehicle at a distance of two hundred feet during any time mentioned in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code, a warning signal of the character indicated above shall be immediately placed at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of, and one hundred feet to the rear of such disabled vehicle, by the driver thereof. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during the times mentioned in Section 618 while such vehicle remains disabled upon such street or highway.

(Ord. 231 Art. IX § 54, 1953)

(a) It is unlawful to park or store a vehicle on any portion of private property visible from a public street unless said vehicle is operative.

(b) For the purposes of this section, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Private property" means all real property in the city which is not publicly owned.

(2) "Private property visible from a public street" means all private property which can be seen while standing in a public street and which is not behind a six-foot-high opaque fence.

(3) "Public street" means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to use of the public for the purposes of vehicular traffic.

(4) "Vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, street, alley, or road except as a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(5) "Vehicle, operative" means a vehicle which is currently registered and in condition to be legally operated upon a public street or highway within the state.

(Ord. 87-594 § 1, 1987)