Gilroy Municipal Code Div. 2 Public Off-Street Parking Lots

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For state law authorizing the regulation of off-street parking by local authorities, see Veh. C., § 22519.

Public off-street parking lots are hereby established in the city. Such off-street parking lots are those areas so designated by resolution of the city council.

(Ord. No. 562, § 1)

The method of regulation and control of parking or standing of vehicles in public off-street parking lots shall be determined by the city council and may be by meters, attendants, traffic officers, police officers or any other appropriate means.

(Ord. No. 562, § 2)

Rates to be charged for parking in public off-street parking lots and the hours during which the rates will be effective shall be established by resolution of the city council and shall be designated by appropriate markings and signs. Until the rates to be charged, if any, are determined by the city council, no charge shall be made for parking in public off-street parking lots, but this section shall not affect or apply to penalties for the violation of this division or of any regulation prescribed by the city council for the use or control of off-street parking lots.

(Ord. No. 562, § 3)

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For state law as to closing hours, fees, etc., see Veh. C., § 22950.

The limit of parking time and the days and hours during which parking time limits shall apply on public off-street parking lots shall be established by resolution of the city council. When appropriate signs or markings designating such parking time limits are in place giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle on any public off-street parking lot for longer than the permitted time.

(Ord. No. 562, § 4)

Parking spaces on public off-street parking lots shall be designated by lines or other appropriate markings. When parking spaces are so designated, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle other than in a regularly designated parking or loading space, across any such line or marking or in such position that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the space so designated as a parking space. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped nor shall stand neither wholly or partially in any driveway of any public off-street parking lot or in any manner which shall obstruct or interfere with the free movement of vehicles in such driveway or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or interfere with ingress to or egress from any regularly designated parking space.

(Ord. No. 562, § 5)

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any public off-street parking lot over any area or drive-way or the portion between any curb returns which is not marked with the word “entrance” or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs or words that it is a driveway or place for the entering of such parking lot.

(Ord. No. 562, § 6)

It shall be unlawful for any person to move any vehicle from any parking lot into any public way over any area except an area marked with the word “exit” or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs or words that it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking lot.

(Ord. No. 562, § 6)

It shall be unlawful for any person to travel in the direction opposite to that designated in one-way aisles. It shall be unlawful for any person to travel on the left side of an aisle designated for two-way traffic movement.

(Ord. No. 562, § 7)

Editor’s note: Ord. No. 99-16, § III, adopted Sept. 20, 1999, repealed former section 15.80 in its entirety which pertained to maximum length of vehicles and derived from Ord. No. 562, § 8.

It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any house or truck trailer in any public off-street parking lot or to drive such trailer upon such lot.

(Ord. No. 562, § 9)

It shall be unlawful for any person to move any vehicle on any public off-street parking lot at a speed exceeding ten (10) miles per hour.

(Ord. No. 562, § 10)

For any violation of any provision of this division, the city police department is hereby empowered to issue notices to appear or citations in the usual form and manner as provided in the state Vehicle Code.

(Ord. No. 562, § 11)

Subject to the provisions of Division 11, Chapter 10, commencing with section 22650, of the Vehicle Code, the city police department is hereby empowered to move or cause to be removed to the nearest garage or other place of safety or to a garage designated or maintained by the city:

(1) Any vehicle that is stopped, standing or parked on any public off-street parking lot in violation of section 15.76 to 15.79 or which is left on such public off-street parking lot continuously for a period exceeding twenty-four hours.

(2) Any vehicle left standing or parked in a tow-away zone and signs giving notice thereof have been posted.

(Ord. No. 562, § 12; Ord. No. 90-1, § 3, 2-20-1990)

In any prosecution charging a violation of any of the provisions of this division governing the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle in any public off-street parking lot, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was stopped, standing or parked in violation of any provision of this division, together with proof that defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing or parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing or parked such motor vehicle at the point where and for the time during which such violation occurred.

**State law references—**Prima facie presumptions against registered owners of illegally parked cars, Veh. C.A., § 41102.

(Ord. No. 562, § 13)