San Anselmo Municipal Code Art. 12 Stopping, Standing, or Parking Restricted or Prohibited on Certain Streets

The Traffic Safety Committee may regulate the parking of vehicles in the Town and may limit the parking time on any street, or portion thereof, and on public parking lots, regardless of district or zone, for such periods of time as shall be deemed appropriate.

(§ 82, Ord. 452, as amended by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981, § 1, Ord. 1022, eff. February 21, 2002)

(§ 83, Ord. 452; repealed by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981)

(§ 84, Ord. 452; repealed by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981)

(§ 85, Ord. 452; repealed by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981)

(§ 86, Ord. 452; repealed by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981)

(§ 87, Ord. 452; repealed by § 1, Ord. 802, eff. June 11, 1981)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day, unless a valid current overnight street parking permit has been issued and is affixed to the vehicle. A permit shall be issued under subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section upon an application and fee payment provided no other law would be violated by parking so permitted.

(a) Guest parking. The Chief of Police shall issue a permit for overnight guest parking, for not to exceed seven (7) days, upon an application by a resident showing the name of the guest, the vehicle description and license number, and the address of the applicant.

(b) Disabled vehicles. The Chief of Police shall issue a permit, for one night only, upon an application by a resident showing the vehicle description and license number, the address near which the vehicle is parked, and the reason why the vehicle cannot be driven.

(c) Hardships. The Chief of Police or his/her designee shall issue a permit for overnight street parking, for a period of one or more months, not to exceed twelve (12) months, upon the verification of an application by a resident showing:

(1) The vehicle description and license number;

(2) The address of the applicant;

(3) That the vehicle is needed regularly and the need cannot be met by other means of transport or by parking the vehicle remotely;

(4) That no off-street parking space is available for the vehicle on the premises occupied by the resident;

(5) That garage or other parking space has not been converted to or placed in other use without Town permission; and

(6) That another vehicle regularly parked on the premises cannot be displaced without equivalent hardship.

(7) That the vehicle is a passenger vehicle and not an all-terrain vehicle, auxiliary dolly, camp trailer, camper, carry-all, commercial vehicle or modular, factory-built housing, fifth-wheel travel trailer, house car, any limousine, logging dolly or vehicle, manufactured home, mobile billboard advertising display, mobilehome, paratransit vehicle, park trailer, passenger transportation vehicle, pole or pipe dolly, recreational off-highway vehicle, recreational vehicle, utility-terrain vehicle, school bus, semitrailer, shade trailer, slide-in camper, snowmobile, special construction or mobile equipment, special purpose commercial modular, tour bus, tow truck, tow dolly, trailer, trailer coach, trailer bus, utility trailer, water tender vehicle or youth bus (as these vehicles are defined in the California Vehicle and Health and Safety Codes).

(d) Permit fees. Overnight street parking fees shall be determined by the Council by resolution.

(§ 88, Ord. 452, as amended by Ord. 834, eff. January 13, 1983, and Ord. 1018, eff. February 22, 2001; Ord. 1106, § 1, May 10, 2016)

The 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 in the highway, subject to other and more restricted 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.

(§ 89, Ord. 452)

Parking meter zones on Town and publicly owned property within the Town shall be established by Council resolution.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

The Town Engineer is authorized and directed to install meters in all parking meter zones established or rated by the Town Council, for the purpose of, and in such numbers, and at such places, and for such time limits as set forth in Council resolution to provide for the efficient control and regulation of the parking of vehicles therein.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

The Town Engineer is authorized to install parking meters in the parking meter zone with the following maximum time limits: twelve (12) minutes, twenty-four (24) minutes, one (1) hour, two (2) hours, three (3) hours, four (4) hours, five (5) hours, ten (10) hours, and twelve (12) hours. The maximum time limit, days and hours of operation, parking rate, and coin denomination accepted for each parking meter shall be indicated on said meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1062, eff. February 8, 2008)

The Town Engineer shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb or street adjacent to each parking meter designating the parking space for which the meter is to be used. Each vehicle parked adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. It is unlawful to park a vehicle of such size or in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

It is unlawful for any person between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day to cause or permit any vehicle registered in his/her name or operated by him/her to be parked continuously in any parking meter space within a parking meter zone for more than the maximum period of time indicated on said parking meter, or any time during which the meter is displaying a signal indicating that that space is illegally in use, except during the time necessary to set the meter to show legal parking, and except also during the time from 6:00 p.m. to seven 7:00 a.m., and on Sundays and holidays.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

Temporary utilization of a parking meter space without the deposit of a coin or for a period of time longer than the maximum time limit of said parking meter may be granted by the town upon application for such permission. The application shall be submitted in writing to the Police Department and shall provide substantial need for temporarily closing off the meter(s) involved to public use for a stated duration of time. Upon payment to the Town Treasurer of a daily fee established by Council resolution, official bags shall be issued to the applicant for placement on said meter. This provision shall not permit anyone to occupy a parking meter space during a posted no-parking period.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

The parking meter rate for all parking meters in the parking meter zone shall be established by Council resolution.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

When any vehicle is parked in any expired metered parking space as provided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the operator of the vehicle upon so parking shall, and it is unlawful to fail to, deposit immediately one or more United States coins in such parking meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

It is unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substitute for United States coins, or to deface, injure, tamper with, open, or willfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed pursuant to this chapter.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

It shall be the duty of each police officer or employee of the Police Department as designated by the Chief of Police, and any other Town employee assigned to the enforcement of parking laws and regulations, to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is unlawfully parked as provided in this chapter, the time and date of such violation, the license number of such vehicle, and the color and make of such vehicle, and to issue and attach to the vehicle a parking citation, in the form approved by the Town Administrator, which sets forth the foregoing and such other information as required by law.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

Parking meter violations and overtime parking violations are infractions, and any person or persons who enter a plea of nolo contendere or guilty, or is found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall pay a fine of not more than Fifty and no/100ths ($50.00) Dollars as established by the Judicial Council of the Superior Court of the Central Judicial District, County of Marin, upon request by the Town Council in the form of a duly passed resolution.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)

The depositing of coins in parking meters as provided in this title, is levied and assessed as fees for the purposes provided in this section. All receipts accruing to the Town from the operation of parking meters shall be expended for the acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of parking meters, parking meter collection and enforcement and expenses incidental thereto. Excess revenue not expended for the foregoing purposes shall be deposited in the Town's General Fund or expended for any lawful purpose.

(§ 1, Ord. 1039 (part), eff. November 12, 2004)