La Puente Municipal Code Ch. 6.56 Public Off-Street Parking Lots

Sections:

• 6.56.010 Established.

• 6.56.020 Method of regulation.

• 6.56.030 Parking time limits.

• 6.56.040 Parking within parking spaces.

• 6.56.050 Use of entrance and exit.

• 6.56.060 Use of aisles.

• 6.56.070 Length of vehicles.

• 6.56.080 Trailers prohibited.

• 6.56.090 Speed of vehicles in lot.

• 6.56.100 Violations—Citations.

• 6.56.110 Removal of vehicles.

• 6.56.120 Violations—Prima facie presumption.

Public off-street parking lots are hereby established in the City of La Puente and all of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable thereto. Such off-street parking lots are those areas so designated by resolution of the City Council of the City of La Puente.

(Ord. 1 § 3496, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.1, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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 of the City of La Puente.

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 said vehicle on any public off-street parking lot for longer than the permitted time.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.2, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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 said vehicle other than in a regularly designated parking or loading space, across any such line or marking, or in such position that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so designated as a parking space. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped, nor shall stand either 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. 1 3496.3, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any public off-street parking lot over any area or driveway 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.

It shall be unlawful for any person to move any vehicle from any such 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. 1 § 3496.4, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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. 1 § 3496.5, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any vehicle having an overall length in excess of twenty-one (21) feet in any public off-street parking lot.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.6, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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

(Ord. 1 § 3496.7, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

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

(Ord. 1 § 3496.8, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

For any violation of any provision of this chapter, the Police Department of the City of La Puente is hereby empowered to issue notices to appear or citations in the usual form and manner as provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.9, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

The Police Department of the City of La Puente is hereby empowered to remove, or cause to have removed, to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the City of La Puente, any vehicle that is stopped, standing or parked on any public off-street parking lot in violation of this chapter. The provisions of Section 585 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, pertaining to notice to owner and garage keeper’s lien, shall apply in the event of such removal.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.10, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)

In any prosecution charging a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter 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 chapter, 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.

(Ord. 1 § 3496.11, added by Ord. 81; March 18, 1958)