Modesto Municipal Code Art. 12 Stopping, Standing or Parking Restricted or Prohibited on Certain Streets

Any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, the Director of Public Works may authorize, restrict or prohibit the parking of motor vehicles in designated streets, or portions thereof, in the City if the general welfare and safety of the citizens so require it, which regulations shall become effective when appropriate signs or markings are in place giving notice of said regulations to the public.

(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 are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon any street during the days and hours indicated on such signs for a period of time longer than so designated by said sign. Each period of over parking for more than the period stated on the time limit sign shall constitute a separate offense.

(Added by Ord. 234-C.S., amended by Ord. 1670-C.S., § 1, effective 12-21-77)

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

When authorized signs are placed in each block giving notice of parking being prohibited, no person shall stop, stand or parked a vehicle between the hours of any day upon any paved street or part of a paved street as designated by said sign.

(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)

The Director of Public Works 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 street subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicles shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space.

(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 are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle which is six (6) feet or more in height (including any load thereon) on any street in the City within one hundred (100) feet of an intersection as that term is defined by the California Vehicle Code.

(Added by Ord. 2490-C.S., § 1, effective 5-14-87)

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

No person shall stop, park, or let stand a commercial or passenger vehicle in the center-turn lane or in the middle of any public road or on any public street located within the city limits.

(Added by Ord. No. 3689-C.S., § 1, effective 11-1-18)

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