San Benito County Municipal Code Ch. 17.02 Stopping, Standing, and Parking

(A) (1) The County Engineer is hereby authorized to prohibit stopping, standing or parking, and is directed to place and maintain appropriate signs and curb markings giving notice of this regulation at any place when such prohibition, as indicated by a traffic engineering investigation, will alleviate dangerous hazardous traffic conditions or facilitate the full use of the roadway. The County Engineer is directed further to place and maintain appropriate signs or curb markings giving notice that vehicles in violation of this prohibition are subject to removal.

(2) It is unlawful to stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any place so marked or signed.

(B) When the County Engineer, upon the basis of an engineering investigation, finds that the conditions no longer exist to prohibit stopping, standing or parking as authorized in § 17.02.001(A), the County Engineer may remove such signs and such curb markings from such portion of such street or highway.

(Ord. 1,019, § 2)

No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any of the following places at any time, and the County Engineer is directed to place and maintain appropriate signs or curb markings giving notice of this regulation, and that vehicles in violation of such regulations are subject to removal:

(A) In any place that obstructs or encroaches upon the triangular area required to be kept clear for visibility, as set forth in San Benito County Code § 25.29.013 "Unobstructed Sight Distance, Fences, Walls and Plantings;" and

(B) In any manner which will obstruct the view of drivers in vehicles approaching an intersection of two roads or the intersection of a road and a driveway

(Ord. 1,019, § 2)

No person shall park any vehicle upon any county road or highway for 72 or more consecutive hours. Any of the officers or employees who are authorized by Chapter 10 of Division 11 of the Vehicle Code to remove a vehicle from a road or highway is authorized to remove any such parked vehicle from such road in the manner prescribed by the applicable provisions of said Chapter 10.

(Ord. 1,019, § 2)

The San Benito County Sheriffs Office may remove or cause to be removed:

(A) Any vehicle that has been parked or left standing upon a street or road or highway for 72 or more consecutive hours; or

(B) Any vehicle found to be in violation of §§ 17.02.001, 17.02.002, or 17.02.003.

(Ord. 1,019, § 2)