Chapter 10.36 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING - GENERALLY

• For state law relating to the stopping, standing and parking of motor vehicles - See Veh. C.A. §§ 22500 - 22520.

(a) The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official traffic control device.

(b) The provisions of this title imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code or this title prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

(c) In addition to any other persons authorized by law, any employee of the city classified as a Community Service Officer or Parking Enforcement Officer is authorized to give the notice required by the Vehicle Code of the State of California of any violation of said code or of local regulations adopted pursuant thereto governing the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles.

(d) For purposes of this chapter, the term "public parking facility" shall mean any public parking lot or parking structure owned or leased by the city in which parking by the general public is permitted.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway, except on a permanent or temporary driveway.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park or leave such vehicle standing upon any street or alley or public parking facility for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours or more. For the purposes of this section, a vehicle shall be considered to have been parked or left standing for seventy-two or more consecutive hours if it has remained inoperable or has not been moved at least five tenths of a mile or more during said seventy two hour period.

(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street or alley or public parking facility in excess of a consecutive period of seventy- two hours, any member of the police department authorized by the chief of police may remove such vehicle from the street as authorized by the California Vehicle Code and subject to the provisions of this section.

(c) Prior to removing any vehicle, notice shall be affixed to the vehicle advising that the vehicle will be removed for violation of this section after seventy-two hours unless it is moved at least five tenths of a mile.

(d) Whenever a member of the police department removes a vehicle pursuant to this section and causes it to be stored as permitted by the California Vehicle Code, the chief of police or his designee shall comply with the requirements of Section 22852 of the California Vehicle Code relating to post-storage notice and hearing for registered owners and legal owners of record.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or alley or public parking facility for the purpose of:

(1) Advertisement to the public the private sale of that vehicle;

(2) Advertisement of any event or function on private property or on public property hired for a private event or function to which the public is invited.

(b) No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or alley or public parking facility for the purpose of servicing, repairing or otherwise working on such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) Subject to other and 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 the city manager has caused signs to be erected 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 the city manager has caused signs to be erected permitting such standing or parking.

(c) The city manager is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or alley or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

(d) The requirement of parallel parking in this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of actively loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case that vehicle may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the center line of the street and does not block traffic thereby; however, pursuant to Section 10.40.040 commercial vehicles may not stop, park, or stand in business districts between the hours of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. unless they are legally parallel parked or are legally parked in any angle parking space.

(Ord. 5531 § 4, 2021: Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates and describes any street or public parking facility or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the city manager shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles shall be parked.

(b) When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking, as herein provided, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) The city manager is authorized to place signs and to place markings on curbs, pavement, and similar areas to provide adequate control for vehicle parking and loading upon any street or portion thereof adjacent to any school property in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in policies and warrants for traffic control devices near schools, adopted by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this city.

(b) When official signs or markings are installed indicating no parking upon a street or portion thereof adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

(a) The city manager is authorized to appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand

or park a vehicle in any of said places:

(1) At any place within thirty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;

(2) Within fifty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device;

(3) At any place where the city manager determines that it is necessary or desirable.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

It is unlawful for any person to remove, erase, deface, obliterate, or render unusable for the purpose of enforcement of this title any chalk mark, marker or other device placed on a vehicle by the city for the purpose of measuring the passage of time or the movement of a vehicle stopped, standing or parked on any street, or in any public parking facility.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)

It is unlawful for any person to remove, erase, deface, obliterate, or render unusable for the purpose of enforcement of this title any sign, marking, or device placed by the city for the purpose of indicating prohibitions or restrictions on stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on any street, alley, or public parking facility.

(Ord. 4558 § 3 (part), 1999)