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Chapter 10.40 — UNIFORM TRAFFIC ORDINANCE

Portola Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · Portola

10.40.010 - Definition of words and phrases.

10.40.011 - City traffic engineer—Established.

10.40.012 - Powers and duties of city traffic engineer—Delegation.

10.40.013 - Traffic accident studies.

10.40.014 - Emergency and experimental regulations.

10.40.015 - Traffic committee.

10.40.016 - Duties of traffic committee.

10.40.017 - Authority of sheriff and fire department officials.

10.40.018 - Required obedience to Traffic Ordinance.

10.40.019 - Unauthorized persons shall not direct traffic.

10.40.020 - Traffic regulations apply to persons pushing carts.

10.40.021 - Obstruction or interference with sheriff or authorized officers.

10.40.022 - Authority to install traffic-control devices.

10.40.023 - Official traffic-control devices required for enforcement purposes.

10.40.024 - Installation of traffic signals.

10.40.025 - Authority to establish play streets.

10.40.026 - Play streets—Regulations.

10.40.027 - City traffic engineer to designate and establish safety zones.

10.40.028 - Traffic lanes.

10.40.029 - Distinctive roadway markings.

10.40.030 - Authority to remove, relocate and discontinue traffic-control devices.

10.40.031 - Traffic-control devices—Hours of operation.

10.40.032 - Unauthorized painting of curbs.

10.40.033 - State speed laws applicable.

10.40.034 - Authority of city traffic engineer.

10.40.035 - Regulation of speed by traffic signals.

10.40.036 - Authority to place devices altering normal course of turns.

10.40.037 - Authority to place restricted-turn signs.

10.40.038 - Limitations on turning around.

10.40.039 - Signal-controlled intersections—Right turns.

10.40.040 - Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys.

10.40.041 - Authority to restrict direction of movement on streets during certain periods.

10.40.042 - Authority for stop signs and yield signs.

10.40.043 - Stop when traffic obstructed.

10.40.044 - Driving through funeral or other processions.

10.40.045 - Drivers in a procession.

10.40.046 - Funeral processions to be identified.

10.40.047 - When permits required for parades and processions.

10.40.048 - Boarding or alighting streetcars or vehicles.

10.40.049 - Unlawful riding.

10.40.050 - Crossing at right angles.

10.40.051 - Prohibited crossing.

10.40.052 - City traffic engineer to establish crosswalks.

10.40.053 - Signs or markings indicating angle parking.

10.40.054 - Permits for loading or unloading at an angle to the curb.

10.40.055 - City traffic engineer to designate no-stopping zones and no-parking areas.

10.40.056 - Prohibited stopping, standing or parking.

10.40.057 - Parking not to obstruct traffic.

10.40.058 - Removal of abandoned vehicles.

10.40.059 - All-night parking prohibited.

10.40.060 - Parking for certain purposes prohibited.

10.40.061 - Parking adjacent to schools.

10.40.062 - Parking prohibited on narrow streets.

10.40.063 - Standing or parking on one-way streets.

10.40.064 - Standing or parking on one-way roadways.

10.40.065 - Parking on grades.

10.40.066 - Unlawful parking—Peddlers and vendors.

10.40.067 - Emergency parking signs.

10.40.068 - City traffic engineer to designate loading zones and passenger loading zones.

10.40.069 - Effect of permission to load or unload.

10.40.070 - Standing in any alley.

10.40.071 - City traffic engineer to designate public carrier stops and stands.

10.40.072 - Stopping, standing and parking of buses and taxicabs regulated.

10.40.073 - Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands.

10.40.074 - Authority of city traffic engineer—Stopping, standing and parking.

10.40.075 - Time-limit parking zones.

10.40.076 - Parking space markings.

10.40.077 - Gross weight limits.

10.40.078 - Truck restrictions.

10.40.079 - Size restrictions.

10.40.080 - Excluding specified traffic.

10.40.081 - Use of blue-curb spaces.

10.40.082 - On-street parking.

10.40.083 - Off-street/publicly owned facilities.

10.40.084 - Off-street/privately financed facilities.

10.40.085 - Identification of parking facilities.

10.40.086 - Oversize vehicles.

10.40.087 - Permitted parking areas for oversize vehicles.

10.40.088 - Prohibited oversize vehicle parking.

10.40.089 - Nonmotorized vehicle parking.

10.40.090 - Snow removal—Blocking unlawful.

10.40.091 - Snow removal—Vehicle removal.

10.40.092 - Standards for signs, signals, markings.

10.40.093 - Violation—Penalties.

10.40.094 - Constitutionality.

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