Ontario Municipal Code Art. 11 Stopping, Standing, and Parking Restricted or Prohibited

Green curb markings shall mean no standing or parking for a period of time longer than twenty four (24) minutes at any time between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays.

When authorized signs, parking meters, or curb makings 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 such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb making or sign or parking meter in violation thereof.

(§ 11, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

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 such vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than forty (40) minutes.

(§ 11.1, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

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 such vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than one (1) hour.

(§ 11.2, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

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 such vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than two (2) hours.

(§ 11.3, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen (18) 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 (2) 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 hereby authorized to determine, and shall erect signs giving notice thereof, when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two (2) or more separate roadways.

(d) The requirement of parallel parking imposed by the provisions of 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 such event such vehicle may be backed up to the curb; provided, the vehicle does not extend beyond the center line of the street and does not block traffic thereby.

(§ 11.4, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the Council as diagonal parking zones and when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park such vehicle except as follows:

(a) At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of such allotted space; and

(b) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six (6) inches of such curb.

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 such event the provisions of § 4-6.1105 of this article shall be complied with.

(§ 11.5, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbing where authorized parking is permitted.

When such parking space markings are placed on 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.

(§ 11.6, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

The City Traffic Engineer shall designate established no stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that the stopping of vehicles is prohibited and the hours and days when stopping is prohibited.

During the hours and on the days designated on such signs, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop such vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets established by resolution of the Council as no stopping zones.

(§ 11.7, Ord. 1651, eff. July 20, 1967)

(a) Vision safety parking zones, not in excess of one hundred (100) feet from the point of intersection of curb lines extended, may be established by the City Traffic Engineer.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any vehicle, except passenger vehicles (including station wagons) less than six (6) feet in height with windows on all four (4) sides that are transparent and unobstructed, to park in an area designated as a vision safety parking zone.

(c) The City Traffic Engineer shall provide for the placement of signs marking vision safety parking zones and which give notice that: "Passenger vehicles (including station wagons) less than six (6) feet in height with windows on all sides that are transparent and unobstructed may park in the signed area. All other vehicles are prohibited."

(§ 1, Ord. 2069, eff. February 1, 1980)