Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 10.38 Miscellaneous Driving Rules

No driver of a vehicle shall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such procession are conspicuously so designated.

(Prior code § 3410.55)

No operator of any motorized scooter shall drive the same upon any bike path adjacent to a City marina.

(ORD-25-0006 § 2, 2025; Ord. C-7924 § 1, 2004; prior code § 3410.57)

No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street where a barrier or sign is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street, or any portion thereof, is closed.

(Prior code § 3410.58)

No person shall drive or operate any commercial vehicle in, over, upon or across that portion of Ravenna Drive between a line forty-five feet (45') north of the north line of Rivo Alto Canal and a line forty-five feet (45') south of the south line of the canal, said portion constituting the Ravenna Drive Bridge over the Rivo Alto Canal and the approaches to the bridge. For the purpose of this Section, a "commercial vehicle" is defined to be a motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

(Prior code § 3410.59)

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.

(Prior code § 3410.60)

Those portions of the Long Beach and Terminal Island Freeways within the City shall be deemed to be freeways. Where any such freeway is a State highway, this Title shall be inapplicable, unless the ordinance or resolution affecting the State highway has been presented to and approved in writing by the Department of Public Works.

(Prior code § 3410.61)

No person shall drive or operate any bicycle, motor driven cycle or any vehicle which is not drawn by a motor vehicle upon any street established as a freeway, as defined by State law and this Chapter, nor shall any pedestrian walk across, or along any such street so designated and described except in space set aside for the use of pedestrians, provided official signs are in place giving notice of such restrictions.

(Prior code § 3410.62)

No operator of any motor vehicle, except a sightseeing tram operating in such public streets or ways pursuant to a permit or franchise granted by the City therefor, shall drive, stand or park such vehicle within or upon the public streets, ways or portions thereof, specified under this Section, between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight of each day; provided, however, that the crossing of such portions of such public streets or ways at regular intersections thereof, between such hours, shall not be deemed to be a violation of this Section:

A. Seaside Way, between the easterly line of Chestnut Place and the westerly line of Cedar Walk;

B. The Walk of a Thousand Lights;

C. Cedar Walk.

(Ord. C-5436 § 1, 1978; Ord. C-5280 § 1, 1977; prior code § 3410.63)

A. No operator of any motor vehicle, except a sightseeing tram operating in such portion of Seaside Boulevard pursuant to a permit or franchise granted by the City therefor, shall drive, stand, or park such vehicle within or upon that portion of Seaside Boulevard between the westerly line of Magnolia Avenue and the easterly line of the Los Angeles River flood control channel.

B. Maple Way, between Olive Avenue and Alamitos Avenue, is closed to vehicular traffic. No person shall operate any such vehicle upon such thoroughfare.

C. California Avenue, between Bixby Road and Armando Drive, is closed to vehicular traffic Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

D. Repealed.

E. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on First Street between Pacific Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., except for the following: (1) buses may use this portion of First Street at all times; (2) commercial vehicles specifically serving the businesses located along the south side of First Street between Pine Avenue and the Promenade North may traverse that portion of First Street between Pine Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard between the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; and (3) any vehicle may drive upon the portion of First Street between Pacific Avenue and Pine Avenue when to do so is necessary to gain access to any private property vehicularly accessible only from that portion of First Street.

F. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on the Promenade North and the Promenade South between Seaside Way and Third Street, with the following exceptions:

1. Vehicles of three (3) axles or less may traverse and stop upon such right-of-way between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. for the purpose of undertaking commercial loading or unloading activities.

2. Passenger carrying tram vehicles operated by the Long Beach Public Transportation Company may operate upon such right-of-way at any time.

G. First Street and Second Street between Cherry Avenue and Junipero Avenue is closed to through vehicular traffic between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.

(ORD-07-0059 § 1, 2007; Ord. C-7816 § 1, 2002; Ord. C-6636 § 1, 1989; Ord. C-6592 § 1, 1989; Ord. C-6543 § 1, 1988; Ord. C-6372 § 1, 1987; Ord. C-6337 § 1, 1987; Ord. C-6190 § 1, 1985; Ord. C-6074 § 1, 1984; Ord. C-5942 § 1, 1983; Ord. C-5809 § 1, 1982; Ord. C-5782 § 2, 1981; prior code § 3410.64)

A. It is found and determined that the public safety and general welfare require the closing to vehicular traffic of those portions of the public streets in the City enumerated in this Section, and such portions of said public streets are ordered closed each day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. during Easter vacation week and the periods between June 15 and September 15 of each year. The portions of the streets in the City which are so required to be closed to vehicular traffic as aforesaid are described as follows:

1. Bay Shore Avenue, between a line one hundred ten feet (110') south of the south line of Second Street and southwest line of Fifty-Fourth Place;

2. Fifty-Fourth Place, between the east line of Bay Shore Avenue and the prolongation of the north line east of the first alley north of Ocean Boulevard;

3. Division Street, between the west line of Bay Shore Avenue and a line eighty feet (80') west of said west line;

4. First Street, between the west line of Bay Shore Avenue and a line eighty feet (80') west of said west line.

B. No person, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day during Easter week and between June 15th and September 15th of each year, shall drive, park or stand any motor vehicle in or upon those portions of the public streets enumerated in Subsection A of this Section.

C. The Chief of Police is authorized, and, as to those signs or barricades required under this Section it shall be his duty, to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, necessary signs and barricades to close the streets set forth in this Section.

(Prior code § 3410.65)

No commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of ten thousand (10,000) pounds shall park on any residential street which has been designated as a truck route when appropriate signs have been erected by the City Traffic Engineer giving notice thereof. The provisions of this Section shall have no application to a State highway or while such commercial vehicle is making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure on such restricted streets.

(Ord. C-6433 § 1, 1987; Ord. C-6246 § 1, 1986: prior code § 3410.66)

No commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of ten thousand (10,000) pounds shall park on any State highway abutted by residential land uses and which has been designated as a truck route when appropriate signs giving notice thereof and the hours of applicability of such prohibition have been erected by the City Traffic Engineer. The provisions of this Section shall have no application while such commercial vehicle is making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such State highways, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure on such State highways. If the California Department of Transportation withdraws its approval of this Section by written notice, this Section shall be inoperative six (6) months after receipt of that notice by the City Council.

(Ord. C-6722 § 1, 1990)

Editor's note— ORD-26-0022 § 3, adopted Aug. 18, 2026, repealed § 10.38.120, entitled "Use of Queen's Way Bridge restricted," which derived from Prior code § 3410.67.

No person shall operate a motor vehicle, other than a bus, within the areas and during the times specified by this Section, provided that signs or other official traffic-control devices are placed and maintained giving notice thereof; except that other vehicles may be operated in such areas while lawfully executing right turn movements therein or for the purpose of entering or leaving lawfully established parking spaces or loading zones therein:

A. The right-hand lane for southbound traffic on Long Beach Boulevard between First Street and Seventh Street, at all times;

B. The right-hand lane for northbound traffic on Pine Avenue between First Street and a point two hundred fifty feet (250') south of the south curb of Sixth Street, at all times.

(Ord. C-5782 § 1, 1981; prior code § 3410.68)

A driver of a vehicle displaying veteran's license plates, as defined in Subsection 10.28.010.G, may park free of charge at any lot owned or operated by the City, subject to restrictions imposed by the State of California.

(ORD-07-0003 § 3, 2007)