Gilroy Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

The provisions of this article prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times specified in this Code, 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 other official traffic-control device.

(Ord. No. 480, § 41)

The provisions of this article 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 this Code, prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

(Ord. No. 480, § 41)

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

(Ord. No. 480, § 42)

(a) It is unlawful for any person to park a vehicle upon any street or the right-of-way of any street within the city in any area classified according to the Gilroy zoning ordinance with the zoning designations M1, M2 (Industrial), PO (Professional Office), C1 (Neighborhood Commercial), C2 (Central Commercial), C3 (Shopping Center Commercial) or CM (Commercial Industrial), or upon any arterial or expressway, or the right-of-way of any arterial or expressway, within the city as identified in the city general plan, for the purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to grease, maintain, or repair a vehicle while such vehicle is parked on any city street, except when such repair is necessitated by an emergency.

(c) The provisions of the California Vehicle Code governing removal of vehicles parking for the primary purpose of sale may be applied in enforcing this section.

(Ord. No. 480, § 44; Ord. No. 94-13, § 2, 7-18-1994; Ord. No. 99-19, § II, 9-20-1999; Ord. No. 99-19, §§ I, II, 9-20-1999; Ord. No. 99-20, §§ I, II, 10-4-1999)

In the event a highway includes two (2) 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.

**State law references—**Power of local authorities to permit left-hand parking on one-way roadways, Veh. C. A., § 225.03.

(Ord. No. 480, § 45)

(a) It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle, other than a motor vehicle in operating condition, or to place, locate or leave any other article or object on a public street, highway or alley in the city.

(b) Parking of trailers, semitrailers, auxiliary dollies, trailer coaches and other such vehicles shall be permitted only while such vehicle is attached to a motor vehicle suitable for drawing it upon the highway.

(Ord. No. 75-1, § 1, 3-3-1975; Ord. No. 90-1, § 1, 2-20-1990)

There shall be no angle parking of any vehicle upon any of the streets of the city, except as provided in section 15.57.

**State law references—**Authority to permit angle parking, Veh. C. A., § 22503.

(Ord. No. 480, § 46; Ord. No. 592, § 1; Ord. No. 623, § 1; Ord. No. 1028, § 1, 12-2-1974)

Parking of vehicles at an angle to the line of the curb may be established on any street of the city by resolution of the city council. When appropriate signs or markings are in place giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle other than entirely within a space so marked and designated.

(Ord. No. 480, § 46; Ord. No. 592, § 2; Ord. No. 623, § 2; Ord. No. 1028, § 1, 12-2-1974; Ord. No. 75-20, § 2, 11-3-1975; Ord. No. 78-11, § 1, 3-20-1978)

The city administrator is hereby authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street or alley when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty (20) 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 (30) feet.

**State law references—**Prohibition against parking in specified places, Veh. C. A., § 22500.

(Ord. No. 480, § 47)

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

(Ord. No. 480, § 47)

No person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares or foodstuffs are sold on any portion of any street within this city, except at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed ten (10) minutes at any one place or at a high school with a Chapter 16A permit.

(Ord. No. 480, § 49; Ord. No. 91-6, § 1, 3-4-1991)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park an oversized vehicle or special mobile equipment on any public or private street, public off-street parking lot, or any other public property, except for a maximum of forty-eight (48) consecutive hours for loading, unloading, cleaning, and routine maintenance and repair, or in conjunction with a permitted construction project. The forty-eight (48) hour exception period shall not occur more than once in any fourteen (14) day period.

(b) For the purpose of this section, the term “oversized vehicle” shall mean any vehicle or combination of vehicles that exceeds twenty-two (22) feet in length, or seven (7) feet in height (including any load or accessory thereon), or seven (7) feet in width, exclusive of any projecting lights or devices allowed by the provisions of the California Vehicle Code.

(c) For the purpose of this section, the term “special mobile equipment” shall include, but is not limited to, ditch-digging apparatus, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carryalls, scrapers, power shovels, draglines, self-propelled cranes and earthmoving vehicles.

(d) Oversized vehicles or special mobile equipment found in violation of this section may be cited by any sworn peace officer or any regularly employed and salaried city employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations. The provisions of the California Vehicle Code governing liability for vehicles cited shall be applicable in determining responsibility for such citation.

(Ord. No. 99-16, § II, 9-20-1999)

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

(Ord. No. 480, § 49; Ord. No. 82-18, § 1, 8-2-1982; Ord. No. 91-6, § 4, 3-4-1991)

Whenever any permit is granted under the provisions of section 15.63 and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle for hire on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any court of violating the provisions of section 15.63 such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the city administrator and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until six (6) months has elapsed from the date of such revocation.

(Ord. No. 480, § 49; Ord. No. 91-6, § 5, 3-4-1991)

Whenever the city administrator shall determine 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 city administrator shall have power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles if prohibited on such streets and alleys as the city administrator 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 city administrator shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

(Ord. No. 480, § 50)

When signs authorized by the provisions of the preceding 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. No. 480, § 50)

No person who owns or has possession, custody and control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a period of seventy-two (72) consecutive hours.

In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of seventy-two (72) consecutive hours, it may be considered abandoned and any member of the police department authorized by the chief of police may remove such vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. No. 480, §§ 43, 72; Ord. No. 543, §§ 1, 3; Ord. No. 580, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 620, § 1; Ord. No. 702, § 1; Ord. No. 1017, § 1, 6-17-1974; Ord. No. 90-1, § 2, 2-20-1990; Ord. No. 96-2, § 1, 2-20-1996)

The limit of parking time, the days and hours during which parking time limits shall apply and the days and hours during which parking shall be prohibited on public streets, highways and alleys in the city shall be established by resolution of the city council. When appropriate signs or curb 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 street, highway and alley in the city for longer than the permitted time or at a prohibited time.

(Ord. No. 480, §§ 59, 60; Ord. No. 507, § 1; Ord. No. 513, § 1; Ord. No. 524, § 1; Ord. No. 586, § 1; Ord. No. 670, § 1; Ord. No. 687, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 712, § 1; Ord. No. 718, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 983, § 1, 10-4-1971; Ord. No. 75-20, § 2, 11-3-1975)

The city administrator of the city is hereby directed to cause the signs described in section 15.69 to be placed and erected in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section.

(Ord. No. 480, § 60; Ord. No. 513, § 1; Ord. No. 624, § 1; Ord. No. 586, § 3)

(Repealed by Ord. No. 75-20, § 1, 11-3-1975)