Modesto Municipal Code Art. 11 Stopping for Loading or Unloading Only

(a) The Director or Public Works is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, to place and when required herein shall cause to be placed, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and said curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set forth:

(1) Red shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code of the State of California and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.

(2) Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any such times of any day as are designated, for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided that the 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 shall mean 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 at such times as are designated.

(4) Green shall mean no standing or parking for longer than twenty-four (24) minutes and such restrictions shall apply at all times unless otherwise specifically designated.

(5) Blue shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time, except that vehicles which display a disabled person's license plate or placard, or a disabled veteran's license plate or placard, as provided by the Vehicle Code of the State of California may stop, stand or park in the spaces so designated.

(b) When the Director of Public Works, as authorized under this chapter, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb markings in violation of any of the provisions of this section.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., amended by Ord. 1936-C.S., Ord. 3127-C.S., § 1, and Ord. 3363-C.S., § 1, effective 12-9-04)

(Ord. No. 3716-C.S., effective 3-12-20)

No person other than the Director of Public Works shall be authorized to cause to be painted any curb surface unless granted permission to do so by the City.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., § 1, amended by Ord. 3127-C.S., § 1, and Ord. 3363-C.S., § 1, effective 12-9-04)

(Ord. No. 3716-C.S., effective 3-12-20)

The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to determine and establish zones and time limits for the loading and unloading of motor vehicles in designated streets, or portions thereof, in the City, which regulations shall become effective with curb markings or when appropriate signs are placed giving notice of said regulations to the public. The zones authorized by this section shall include any or all of the following: loading zone, bus loading zone, freight loading zone and passenger loading zone.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., amended by Ord. 3127-C.S., § 1, and Ord. 3363-C.S., § 1, effective 12-9-04)

(Ord. No. 3716-C.S., effective 3-12-20)

When authorized signs or markings as prescribed by Section 3-2.1101 of this article are utilized giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in a loading zone for a purpose or for a period of time longer than three (3) minutes for loading or unloading passengers and twenty (20) minutes for loading and unloading materials, unless otherwise indicated by posted signs.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., amended by Ord. 648-C.S., effective 5-6-64)

(Ord. No. 3716-C.S., effective 3-12-20)

No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the main-traveled portion of the street when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such part or portion of said 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. This section shall not apply upon a street where the roadway is bounded by adjacent curbs.

This section shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled in such manner and such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle on the main-traveled portion of a street.

(Added by Ord. 319-C.S., effective 7-30-59)

(Ord. No. 3716-C.S., effective 3-12-20)