Fullerton Municipal Code Ch. 8.48 Parking Facilities

The purpose of this chapter is to establish regulations to promote, ensure and maintain the use of city owned or city operated parking facilities for their intended purpose of providing spaces for the parking of motor vehicles and/or bicycles by members of the public.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

(A) Parking regulations. Pursuant to the authority of Cal. Vehicle Code § 22519, the City Council shall, by resolution, regulate the parking, standing and stopping of vehicles on parking facilities which it owns or operates.

(B) Hours of operation. The City Council shall, by resolution, establish reasonable regulations providing for days and hours during which fees shall be charged and collected for parking in parking facilities.

(C) Rates or fees. The City Council shall establish, by resolution, the rates or fees to be charged for parking in said parking facilities and shall provide reasonable rules and regulations for the operation and supervision of said parking facilities.

(D) Violations. Violation of the regulations established by the City Council pursuant to this section shall constitute a violation of this chapter.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

No person shall park or leave parked any vehicle on any public parking facility except between the side lines designating parking spaces for vehicles.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

No person shall park, cause or permit to be parked any vehicle upon any private property or private parking facility without the consent of the owner thereof, or, if such private property or private parking facility is leased or rented, without the consent of the tenant thereof.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

(A) Parking facilities owned or operated by the city shall only be used by members of the public for one or more of the following express purposes:

(1) Parking and retrieving motor vehicles as the driver or as a passenger. This shall include waiting for a tow truck or other means of removing the vehicle from the parking facility in the event of a breakdown, including changing a flat tire. Vehicles may not be fixed, washed or worked on within the parking facility;

(2) Parking and retrieving bicycles as the bicyclist, provided the parking facility has bicycle parking available. Bicycles may be ridden to and from such bicycle parking;

(3) Retrieving or placing personal property within a vehicle or bicycle parked within the parking facility and, thereafter, promptly exiting from the parking facility;

(4) Walking uninterrupted from one sidewalk to another or walking uninterrupted to buildings that border the parking facility;

(5) Making deliveries to, and/or patroniz- ing, a commercial business operating within the parking facility pursuant to a city lease or license agreement with the express or implied consent of the owner or operator of the business;

(6) Performing city business or maintenance of the parking facility pursuant to official duties as a city employee or agent;

(7) Engaging in a use authorized by a permit issued in a manner provided for by this code; and/or

(8) Engaging in a use expressly authorized by the City Council, the City Manager or the Police Chief.

(B) No person shall ride a bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, coaster, tricycle, toy vehicle or similar device within any city owned or operated parking facility.

(C) No person shall remain within a city parking facility for more than the reasonable amount of time necessary to accomplish one of the expressly authorized and intended uses of such parking facility.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

No person shall park, cause or permit to be parked any vehicle operated or controlled by that person in any parking facility owned or operated by the city for which a fee is charged for parking unless he or she has paid the required parking fee and, if applicable, displayed the receipt reflecting payment upon on the vehicle in the location specified by the city.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

All police officers, parking control officers and others as designated by the Chief of Police shall be and are authorized to give citations to any and all persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter. Violations of this chapter are civil parking penalties owed to the city subject to the provisions of Cal. Vehicle Code §§ 40200 et seq.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)

All police officers and parking control officers of the city are authorized and empowered to remove or cause to be removed all vehicles parked or left parked upon any parking facility or area contrary to the provisions of this chapter or illegally parked and to store such vehicles. The owner or operator of any such vehicle shall be liable for towing and storage charges.

(Ord. 3274, passed - -2019)