Earlier editions: 2026-07
Title 13 — Vehicles and Traffic
Placentia Municipal Code Ch. 13.20 Driving Regulations
Placentia Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Placentia
Cite as: Placentia Municipal Code Chapter 13.20 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 13.20.010. Application of traffic regulations to persons riding bicycles or animals.¶
Every person riding a bicycle or riding or driving an animal upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
(Prior code § 17-6)
§ 13.20.020. Emerging from alley, driveway or building.¶
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across an alleyway shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians thereon.
(Prior code § 17-7)
§ 13.20.030. Driving through funeral procession.¶
No driver of a vehicle shall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such processions are conspicuously so designated.
(Prior code § 17-8)
§ 13.20.040. Clinging to moving vehicles.¶
Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.
(Prior code § 17-9)
§ 13.20.050. Driving or riding on sidewalks.¶
No person shall ride, drive, propel or cause to be propelled any vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk or any parkway, except at a permanent or temporary driveway, to include all commercial areas.
Bicycles, as defined in subsection (1) of Section 13.76.020 shall be excepted from the above as follows:
(1) Bicycles shall be allowed on sidewalks designated as city bike routes and bike paths.
(2) Bicycles shall be allowed on the sidewalk adjacent to Kraemer Boulevard between Madison Avenue and Fairway Lane.
(3) Bicycles shall be allowed on sidewalks in residential areas only when ridden by persons enrolled below the seventh (7th) grade or under the age of 12 years.
| Any person riding a bicycle on sidewalks shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians at all times. |
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(Prior code § 17-10; Ord. 71-O-151 § 1, 1971; Ord. 79-O-101 § 2, 1979; Ord. 90-O-105, 1990)
§ 13.20.060. Driving over streets or portions barricaded or closed.¶
No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street when a barrier or sign is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street, or any portion thereof, is closed.
(Prior code § 17-11)
§ 13.20.070. Driving onto or from limited access roadways.¶
No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway, except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.
(Prior code § 17-12)
§ 13.20.080. Use of parkways by vehicles prohibited.¶
No person shall drive, stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
(Prior code § 17-13)
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