Los Altos Municipal Code Art. 3 Stopping, Standing, or Parking Restricted or Prohibited on Certain Streets

When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than as indicated by sign.

(Prior code § 3-2.1101)

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any street.

(Prior code § 3-2.1102)

A.

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day if notice thereof is posted in the block.

B.

No person shall stand or park any commercial vehicle having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or more on any residential street between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day, unless authorized in advance by the chief of police. This section not apply to any vehicle owned or operated by the city or any public utility, nor to an authorized emergency vehicle, nor to any vehicle making pickups or delivering goods, wares, or merchandise or delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure located upon such residential street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(Prior code § 3-2.1103)

The city engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted. When such parking space markings are placed in 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.

(Prior code § 3-2.1104)

It shall be unlawful, and an infraction, for any person to remove, obliterate, or obscure chalk marks or other indicia placed by city employees on any vehicle to enforce time-limited parking, or to park a vehicle more than once a day in any time-limited parking area or street during the time such time limits are in force, without moving the vehicle at least one thousand (1,000) feet prior to such parking.

(Prior code § 3-2.1105)

Whenever the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle has been prohibited, restricted, or limited as to time by this chapter or any resolution enacted pursuant to this chapter, the continued standing or parking of such vehicle after a citation for the violation of such provision has been issued shall constitute a separate and additional violation of the provision for which the citation was issued when such standing or parking continues for an additional period longer than the maximum permissible period of parking in such space or location, or, if no such period of time is designated, when such stopping, standing, or parking continues for an additional period longer than one hour.

(Prior code § 3-2.1106)

Any enforcement officer as defined in 8.04.020 may cause to be removed any vehicle which remains parked or standing longer than sixty (60) minutes after a citation has been issued in any area where parking is prohibited, provided signs are posted giving notice of such removal.

(Prior code § 3-2.1107)

(Ord. No. 2025-527, § 1(App. A), 4-8-2025)

When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle in a spot demarcated as an electric vehicle charging station except when using the electric vehicle chargers, as indicated by sign.

(Ord. No. 2013-393, § 2, 6-11-2013)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2013-393, § 1, adopted June 11, 2013, repealed Ord. No. 2013-392, adopted April 9, 2013 and enacted § 8.20.265 as set out herein.