La Quinta Municipal Code Ch. 12.32 Parking

When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, specifying certain parking prohibitions or time limits, the prohibitions or time limits to be established by the city council or by the city traffic engineer pursuant to authority vested in him or her by this chapter, or by the Vehicle Code, no person shall stop, stand, park or leave standing any vehicle in violation of any such prohibition or time limit so specified in the signs.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to cause to be installed and maintained parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

Each vehicle placed in any parking space shall be parked within the lines and markings so established by the city traffic engineer, and no person shall park or leave standing any vehicle so that it extends across any such line or markings, or is in such position that it is not entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

Pursuant to authority vested in him or her by other provisions of this chapter, or by the Vehicle Code, the city traffic engineer is authorized to prescribe shorter time limits than those specified by resolution of the city council, or to prescribe parking prohibitions, within a particular limited-parking zone so specified by the city council; provided, that the stricter parking limitations or prohibitions are properly indicated by appropriate signs or markings in accordance with this chapter or other provisions of law. The city traffic engineer shall obtain the consent of at least sixty-seven percent (67%) of the affected property owners and businesses prior to implementing any change in parking related time limits. The sixty-seven percent (67%) provision does not apply to the city council.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

A. The city manager or designee shall from time to time examine and survey all city-owned parking lots, parking areas and other properties, and all property under the city's direct control, with respect to vehicle driving and parking uses, and the need for regulations applicable thereto, in order to assure proper and appropriate use of such public properties and to prevent interferences with the orderly and efficient conduct of the city's business.

B. Based thereon, the city manager shall promulgate such conditions, rules and regulations governing driving, stopping, parking or leaving standing of vehicles on the particular properties involved, as shall, in his/her judgment, be necessary and appropriate to advance the public purposes mentioned in subsection A of this section.

C. A written statement or other graphic depiction of such special conditions, rules and regulations shall, upon promulgation, be filed in the office of the city clerk, and the city council shall be promptly notified of such filing. Any council member may then cause the matter to be submitted, in whole or in part, for a formal review by the city council. If no council member takes such action within thirty (30) days from the date the matter was filed with the city clerk, then the special conditions, rules and regulations shall be deemed adopted and imposed by the city council within the meaning of Vehicle Code Section 21113.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

A. Pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 21113, a written statement or other graphic depiction of all special conditions, rules and regulations adopted per Section 12.32.050 shall, at all times while the same remain effective, be kept on file and available at the office of the city clerk, for examination by all interested persons.

B. The city manager or designee shall cause to be installed placed and maintained, appropriate signs and markings at each city-owned or city-controlled parking lot, parking area and other property, giving notice of all special conditions, rules and regulations applicable thereto, adopted per Section 12.32.050 and imposed under Vehicle Code Section 21113.

C. Any vehicle operation, parking, stopping or leaving standing not complying with the special conditions, rules and regulations, will constitute a violation of Vehicle Code Section 21113, except that subsection (a) of Vehicle Code Section 22507.8 shall apply with respect to unauthorized parking in stalls or spaces designated for physically handicapped persons.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

Conditions and regulations concerning parking or driving on property and grounds of schools or other public agencies are imposed by the appropriate governing boards or officers and are enforced pursuant to and under the conditions of Vehicle Code Section 21113.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to cause to be maintained, by appropriate signs, markings or by paint upon the curb surface, certain no-stopping zones, no-parking areas, and restricted-parking areas, as defined and described in this section. No person shall stop, stand, park or leave standing any vehicle in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or other authorized officer or traffic sign or signal:

A. Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate sign or signal;

B. On either side of any street between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, street or thoroughfare terminating at such street, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

C. In any area where the city traffic engineer determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

D. In any area established by resolution of the council as a no-parking area, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

E. In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;

F. On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway or the installation of underground utilities or where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided, that signs giving notice of such no-parking are erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the effective time of such no-parking;

G. At any place within twenty (20) feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the midblock end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

H. At any place within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;

I. In any area of approach to any traffic signal, left-turn lane, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device when such area is determined by the city traffic engineer to be valuable in the interest of promoting traffic safety or convenience, and the area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

The city traffic engineer is authorized and directed to cause signs regulating or prohibiting parking to be installed in the zones now or hereafter provided by the city council or at such places as the city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate parking, standing or stopping pursuant to other provisions of this chapter or of law. Signs giving notice of a parking time limitation shall be in compliance with the specifications of the Vehicle Code of the state. Such signs shall be spaced at a maximum interval of two hundred (200) feet, and provided that there shall be a minimum of four (4) signs in one (1) block on each side of the street.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

A. The city traffic engineer is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required in this title shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and the curb markings shall have the meanings as set forth in this section:

1. Red means no stopping or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.

2. Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes.

3. White means no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox, which shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day and except as follows:

a. When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a mailbox the restrictions shall apply at all times.

b. When such zone is in front of a theater or restaurant the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater or restaurant is closed.

c. Taxicabs shall comply with this subdivision unless authorized to maintain a taxicab stand adjacent to the white curb marking, and provided the area for the taxicab stand is sign-posted at either end indicating TAXICAB ZONE ONLY.

4. Green means no standing or parking for longer than twenty (20) minutes at any time between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day.

5. Blue means parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons.

B. When the city traffic engineer, as authorized under this title, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the parking, standing or stopping regulations so indicated.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

Unless excepted pursuant to Section 12.32.120, no commercial or construction vehicle, or towed commercial or construction equipment, shall be parked on private property or on public rights-of-way unless the vehicle or equipment is screened from public view and adjacent properties. The term commercial or construction vehicle and/or equipment includes, but is not necessarily limited to, utility body trucks, farming and construction tractors, construction vehicles and towed equipment, semi-truck tractors, semi-truck trailers, dump trucks, step van delivery trucks or any parts or apparatus of any of the above.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 87 § 1, 1986; Ord. 72 § 1, 1985; Ord. 65 § 1, 1984)

The following commercial vehicles are exempted from the prohibition contained in Section 12.32.110:

A. Pickup trucks and utility vans, each of which do not exceed eight (8) feet in height or twenty (20) feet in combined total length;

B. All vehicles while being used in actual construction work on a permit-approved construction site;

C. All vehicles in the process of making a pickup or delivery; and

D. Governmental and utility emergency service vehicles.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 369, 2002; Ord. 87 § 1, 1986; Ord. 72 § 1, 1985; Ord. 65 § 1, 1984)

Any person violating any provision of Section 12.32.110 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in accordance with Section 1.01.230(A).

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2017; Ord. 87 § 2, 1986)