Hercules Municipal Code Art. 11 Stopping, Standing Or Parking Restricted Or Prohibited On Certain Streets

The City Council by resolution may establish time limit parking zones. The Director of Public Works shall place and maintain appropriate signs or curb markings to designate time limit parking zones, and when such signs or curb markings are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle in excess of the period of time designated. In twenty-four (24) minute parking zones the face and top of the curb shall be painted green. Unless otherwise specifically provided, time limit parking shall be in effect between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on all days except Sundays and holidays.

(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen (18) 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) When the City Council has determined that standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or that 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, the Director of Public Works shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

(d) The requirement of parallel parking imposed by this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods in which case such vehicle may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the center line of the street and does not block traffic thereby.

Unless otherwise posted, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when it is practicable to stop, park or leave the vehicle off such portion of the street, but in every event an unobstructed width of the street opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of the stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon the street. The provisions of this section shall not apply upon a street where the roadway is bounded by adjacent curbs.

On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the Council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle except:

(a) At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of said allotted space.

(b) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six (6) inches of said curb.

The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight or goods, in which event the provisions applicable in Section 3-4.1102(d) of this Chapter shall be complied with.

The Director of Public Works is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted.

When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.

The City Council by resolution may establish no stopping zones. The Director of Public Works shall designate no stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs or curb markings indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and days when stopping is prohibited. During the hours and days designated on the signs, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop said vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets so designated.