Chapter MH-5 — PARKING

Sections:

MH-10-2500 - PARKING PROHIBITED OR TIME LIMITED ON CERTAIN STREETS.

When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, specifying certain parking prohibitions or time limits, the prohibitions or time limits to be established by resolution, or by the District Traffic Engineer pursuant to authority vested by this chapter, or by the Vehicle Code, no person shall stop, stand, park or leave standing any vehicle in violation of any such prohibition or time limit so specified in the signs.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2501 - PARKING SPACE MARKINGS—INSTALLATION.

The District Traffic Engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2502 - PARKING SPACE MARKINGS—PARKING WITHIN REQUIRED.

Each vehicle placed in any parking space shall be parked within the lines and markings so established by the District Traffic Engineer, and no person shall park or leave standing any vehicle so that it extends across any such line or markings, or is in such position that it is not entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2503 - STRICTER PARKING REGULATIONS WITHIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS ESTABLISHED LIMITED PARKING ZONES.

Pursuant to authority vested by other provisions of this chapter, or by the Vehicle Code, the District Traffic Engineer is authorized to prescribe shorter time limits than those specified by resolution of the Board of Directors, or to prescribe parking prohibitions, within a particular limited parking zone so specified by the Board of Directors; provided, that the stricter parking limitations or prohibitions are properly indicated by appropriate signs or markings in accordance with this title or other provisions of law.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2504 - PARKING AND DRIVING ON DISTRICT PROPERTY.

(a)

The General Manager shall from time to time examine and survey all District-owned parking lots, parking areas and other properties, and all property under the District's direct control, with respect to vehicle driving and parking uses, and the need for regulations applicable thereto, in order to assure proper and appropriate use of such public properties and to prevent interference with the orderly and efficient conduct of the District's business.

(b)

Based upon the recommendation of the General Manager, the Board of Directors may promulgate such conditions, rules and regulations governing driving, stopping, parking or leaving standing of vehicles on the particular properties involved, as shall, in its judgment, be necessary and appropriate to advance the public purposes mentioned in Subsection (a).

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2505 - ENFORCEMENT OF PARKING AND DRIVING REGULATIONS APPLICABLE ON DISTRICT PROPERTY.

(a)

Pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 21113, a written statement or other graphic depiction of all special conditions, rules and regulations adopted per Section MH-10-2504 shall, at all times while the same remain effective, be kept on file and available at the office of the District Secretary, for examination by all interested persons.

(b)

The General Manager shall erect, place and maintain appropriate signs and markings at each District-owned or District-controlled parking lot, parking area and other property, giving notice of all special conditions, rules and regulations applicable thereto, adopted per Section MH-10-2504 and imposed under Vehicle Code Section 21113.

(c)

Any vehicle operation, parking, stopping or leaving standing not complying with the special conditions, rules and regulations, will constitute a violation of Vehicle Code Section 21113, except that Subsection (a) of Vehicle Code Section 22507.8 shall apply with respect to unauthorized parking in stalls or spaces designated for physically handicapped persons.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2506 - PARKING OR DRIVING REGULATIONS APPLICABLE ON PROPERTY OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES.

Conditions and regulations concerning parking or driving on property and grounds of schools or other public agencies are imposed by the appropriate governing boards or officers and are enforced pursuant to and under the conditions of Vehicle Code Section 21113.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2507 - INSTALLATION, DESIGN AND SPACING OF SIGNS.

The District Traffic Engineer is authorized and directed to cause signs regulating or prohibiting parking to be installed in the zones now or hereafter provided by resolution of the Board of Directors or at such places as the District Traffic Engineer is authorized to regulate parking, standing or stopping pursuant to other provisions of this chapter or of law. Signs giving notice of a parking time limitation shall be the size and color specified in the Uniform Manual of Traffic Control Devices or the Vehicle Code specifying the particular parking time limitation applicable. Such signs shall be spaced at a maximum interval of two hundred (200) feet, and provided that there shall be a minimum of four (4) signs in one (1) block on each side of the street.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)

MH-10-2508 - CURB MARKINGS TO INDICATE NO STOPPING AND PARKING REGULATIONS.

(a)

The District Traffic Engineer is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required in this title shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and the curb markings shall have the meanings as set forth in this section:

(1)

Red means no stopping or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone and that United States Postal Service vehicles may stop in a red zone for the purpose of delivering mail to boxes adjacent to the red zone.

(2)

Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. of any day for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes.

(3)

White means no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox, which shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. of any day and except as follows:

(A)

When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a mailbox the restrictions shall apply at all times.

(B)

When such zone is in front of a theater or restaurant the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater or restaurant is closed.

(C)

Taxicabs shall comply with this subdivision unless authorized to maintain a taxicab stand adjacent to the white curb marking, and provided the area for the taxicab stand is sign-posted at either end indicating "TAXICAB ZONE ONLY."

(4)

Green means no standing or parking for longer than twenty (20) minutes at any time between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. of any day.

(5)

Blue means parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons.

(b)

When the District Traffic Engineer, as authorized under this title, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the parking, standing or stopping regulations so indicated.

(Ord. 4250 § 2 (part), 2005)