Salinas Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

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

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

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within any bridge, viaduct, overpass, subway, underpass, or tunnel, or within the approach to any bridge, viaduct, overpass, subway, underpass, or tunnel.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

State Law reference— For state law as to parking in specified places, see CVC, § 22500.

No persons shall park, or fail to remove, a vehicle upon any street or a portion thereof if the use of the street is necessary for the cleaning, repair, or the construction of the street, or for the installation of underground utilities, if signs are posted giving notice thereof. Vehicles in violation may be removed at the owner's expense if the signs are placed or erected at least forty-eight hours prior to the scheduled street work.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) No person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two hours.

(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street 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 in the manner and subject to the requirements of the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway or on any property owned by the city including city parks and other city property that is open to the public for the principal purpose of:

(a) Displaying such vehicle for sale, lease or rent when the person so engaged is in the business of selling, leasing or renting vehicles;

(b) Greasing or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency;

(c) Washing such vehicle when the person so engaged is in the business of washing vehicles.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle displaying a sign indicating the vehicle is for sale on any public street, alley, parking lot or other public property.

(b) Pursuant to the authority granted by Vehicle Code Section 22651.9, the city may remove any vehicle found upon any public street or public lands in the City of Salinas if because of a sign or placard on the vehicle, it appears that the primary purpose of parking the vehicle at that location is to advertise to the public the private sale of that vehicle and all of the following:

(1) A notice of parking violation was issued within no less than twenty-four hours and no more than thirty days pursuant to subsection (a) accompanied by a notice containing all of the following:

(A) A warning that an additional parking violation may result in the impoundment of the vehicle;

(B) A warning that the vehicle may be impounded pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 2651.9, even if moved to another street, so long as the signs or placards offering the vehicle for sale remain on the vehicle.

(C) A statement that all streets in the city are subject to prohibitions of this section;

(2) The vehicle is parked on a public street or land marked with signs that notify the public that parking a vehicle for sale at that location is prohibited and that such vehicles may be removed.

(c) Vehicle Code Section 22852 shall apply to the removal of any vehicle pursuant to this section.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

The following words and phrases, as used in the chapter, shall have the same definition and meanings as defined by Section 322 of the California Vehicles Code: Farm Labor Vehicle and Farm-worker.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

All farm labor vehicles are prohibited from parking, stopping, or standing at any time for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers on public rights-of-way within the city, except in an area designated as a "Farm Labor Parking" lot.

Nothing in this section shall prohibit farm labor vehicles from loading, unloading or parking on private property where such activity is compatible with existing zoning regulations and any other relevant law, rule or regulation.

Nothing in this section shall prohibit farm labor vehicles from loading or unloading passengers at any existing Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) established bus stop.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) Subject to other and more restricted 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) Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the city determines that standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street, or when standing or parking shall be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway or highway having two or more separate roadways, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof.

(d) The requirement of parallel parking shall not apply in the event any vehicle is actually engaged in the process of 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 centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) Whenever any provision of this chapter or other ordinance determines and designates any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the city traffic engineer 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.

(c) Angle parking shall be permitted upon those streets and parts of streets described in Section 20-06.11.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

In accordance with Section 20-06.10 and when signs and markings are in place giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles may stand or park a vehicle only as indicated by such markings or signs on the following streets or portions thereof:

(a) Happ Place, east side, between West Market Street and the northerly terminus of Happ Place.

(b) Lang Street, north side, between South Capitol Street and the easterly terminus of Lang Street.

(c) Station Place, both sides, between West Market Street and the Southern Pacific Railway Company right-of-way.

(d) Plaza Circle, north and east side at the easterly terminus of Plaza Circle.

(e) California Street, east and west side, between Market Way and Lake Street.

(f) Lincoln Avenue, west side, between Gabilan Street and Howard Street.

(g) Market Way, south side, between California Street and Soledad Street.

(h) Church Street, west side, between West Alisal Street and West Gabilan Street.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within any parkway.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) Whenever any ordinance or resolution determines that there shall be no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof.

(b) When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) Whenever any ordinance or resolution determines that there shall be no parking, stopping, or standing upon any designated street, side of any street, or any other location, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs or markings giving notice thereof.

(b) Whenever any ordinance or resolution determines that there shall be no parking or standing of any vehicle, including vehicles which are six feet or more in height (including any load thereon) within one hundred feet of any intersection on certain streets or highways or portions thereof, during all or certain hours of the day, the city transportation engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof. Any such ordinance or resolution may include a designation of certain streets upon which preferential parking privileges are given to residents or merchants adjacent to such streets, pursuant to a permit issued by the city transportation engineer, where such streets may be used for their use and the use of their guests.

(c) When official signs or markings are in place as herein provided, no person shall park, stop, or stand a vehicle in any such location.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) Whenever the chief of police shall deter-mine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or for other reasons, the chief of police is hereby authorized and directed to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking, or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the chief of police shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency, and the chief of police shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

(b) When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park, or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

Every motor truck having an unladen weight of four thousand pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight, when operated upon any street or highway during the time specified in Section 280 of the Vehicle Code, shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two red lanterns, or two warning lights or reflectors, which reflectors shall be of a type approved by the department of highway patrol. When any vehicle above mentioned or any trailer or semi-trailer is disabled upon streets or highways outside of any business or residential district within the city, and upon which street or highway there is insufficient lighting to reveal a vehicle at a distance of two hundred feet during any time mentioned in Section 280 of the Vehicle Code, a warning signal of the character indicated above shall be immediately placed at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of, and one hundred feet to the rear of, such disabled vehicle by the driver. The continuous flashing of at least four approved type Class A — Type 1 turn signal lamps, at least two toward the front and at least two toward the rear of the vehicle, shall be considered to meet the requirements of this section until the devices mentioned above can be placed at the required locations. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during the times mentioned in Section 280 of the Vehicle Code while such vehicle remains disabled upon such street or highway.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) When lines upon the surface of the roadway or pavement are in place designating parking spaces, including the angle of parking, no person shall park a vehicle except entirely within any such parking space, subject to the provisions of subsection (b).

(b) When the parking of a vehicle is required to be within a parallel parking space, the vehicle or a combination of connected vehicles exceeding the dimensions of such a space may also occupy one or more adjoining parallel spaces; provided that all other provisions of this chapter applicable to such space shall be observed.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)