Morro Bay Municipal Code Ch. 10.44 Stopping, Standing or Parking Restricted or Prohibited in Certain Areas

When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle for a period of time longer than the designated length of time, hours and days posted by sign, parking meter or curb marking. Green curb markings shall mean time limit parking specified by local ordinance or resolution. All other time designations shall be from one hour up to ten hours. Vehicle must move a minimum of one hundred fifty meters once designated time at occupied space has elapsed.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. Subject to other more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.

B. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.

C. The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway or a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

D. The requirements of parallel parking imposed by this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case such vehicle may be backed up to the curb; provided, that such vehicle does not extend beyond the centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park the vehicle except:

1. At the angle to the curb indicated by sign or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of the allotted space;

2. With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of the curb.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight or goods, in which event the provisions applicable in Section 10.40.040 shall be complied with.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. The city traffic engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings on city streets and in municipal parking lots where authorized parking is permitted.

B. When such parking space markings are placed on the highway or in a municipal parking lot, 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.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. The city traffic engineer shall designate established no stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and days when stopping is prohibited.

B. During the hours and on the days designated on the signs, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop said vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets established by the city traffic engineer as no stopping zones.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street upon which signs are posted in the central business district between the hours of two a.m. and five a.m. of any day or between the hours established by resolution of the council.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. Failure to Pay Established Fee. No person shall park any vehicle in a municipally owned and/or operated parking lot or parking space, except as otherwise permitted in this chapter, without paying the parking fee, if any, as established by resolution of the city council and posted for use of said municipal parking lot or parking space. The fee shall be due upon occupying the parking space with a reasonable time provided to travel to the parking pay station and pay the fee.

B. Speed Limit. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to exceed a speed limit of five miles per hour in a municipally owned parking lot.

C. Breaking, Destroying, Tampering With, etc., Parking Devices Prohibited. No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any paid parking device, except by authority of the city manager or city council.

D. Parking Exceptions. Vehicles owned or operated by the city or state or federal agencies may park in municipal parking lots or parking spaces without paying established fees when such vehicles are being used in line of duty.

E. Display of Receipt. When posted parking fees produce a receipt for payment of said fees, the receipt shall be placed in the vehicle on the dashboard on the driver's side and shall be clearly visible to city personnel and the public.

(Ord. No. 555, 4-26-10)