Santa Ana Municipal Code § 36-148 Unauthorized painting of curbs

The provisions of this article imposing regulations on stopping or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty of other or more restrictive provisions of the vehicle code, or the ordinances of this city regulating the standing or parking of vehicles at specified places or at specified times.

(Code 1952, § 3261; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

The director is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, to place and maintain and, when required herein, shall place the following curb markings or signs to indicate parking, standing or stopping regulations, and said curb markings and signs shall have the meanings as herein set forth as follows:

(1) Red curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any day except as permitted by the vehicle code.

(2) Yellow curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day or, if a sign specifying a different time period has been posted adjacent to the yellow marked curb, during the time period specified in such sign, for any purpose other than the 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 unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes, and such loading or unloading shall be actively carried on during all of the said time.

(3) White curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any day or, if a sign specifying a time period has been posted adjacent to the white marked curb, during the time period specified in such sign, for any purpose other than stopping for three (3) minutes or less for the purpose of loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox.

(4) Green curb markings shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for a period of time longer than twelve (12) or twenty-four (24) minutes at all times or during certain hours of the day as designated by signs. Such restrictions may be limited so as not to apply on specified days and, if so limited, such limitation shall also be designated on said signs.

(5) Blue curb markings or a sign consisting of a profile view of a wheelchair with occupant in white on a blue background posted immediately adjacent to and visible from each parking space, indicates parking for the exclusive use of physically handicapped persons whose vehicles display either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Code 1952, § 3260; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-1302, § 1, 4-5-76; Ord. No. NS-1782, § 1, 7-1-85; Ord. No. NS-2141, § 7, 8-19-91)

The director of public works is authorized to place signs or markings prohibiting stopping, standing, or parking at all times or during certain hours of the day on any portion of any street within the city where the council so directs by resolution, or where engineering studies have been made and the director of public works determines that such signs or markings are necessary to facilitate the safe and orderly movement of traffic. Such restrictions may be limited so as not to apply on specified days.

When a sign or marking giving notice of such a restriction is in place, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in violation of such sign or marking.

Police officers are authorized to remove a vehicle from the roadway when such vehicle is stopped, standing or parked in violation of this section, provided that a sign giving notice that the vehicle may be removed has been posted.

(Code 1952, § 3261.1; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-1546, § 2, 10-6-80)

(a) No operator of any motor vehicle, and no person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle upon any street in the city that is designated as to days and times for street sweeping during the time period parking is prohibited for street sweeping.

(b) The director is hereby authorized to determine the locations of and to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, signs designating the hours during which, and day or days of the month on which, parking is prohibited in order to permit city equipment to sweep the streets.

(Ord. No. NS-1782, § 3, 7-1-85; Ord. No. NS-2141, § 8, 8-19-91)

Whenever the director of public works or the chief of police shall determine that, in a special situation, traffic congestion is likely to result on any street or alley from holding public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, street construction, maintenance or repair work, or for any other reason, they shall have the power and authority 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. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such special situation, and the director of public works or the chief of police shall cause such signs to be moved promptly thereafter. When signs authorized by provisions of this article are in place giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.

The chief of police is authorized to remove such vehicle from the roadway when such vehicle is parked in violation of this section.

(Code 1952, § 3261.3; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

(a) No person shall park any vehicle in any alley in the city except while actively engaged in loading or unloading passengers, freight or merchandise.

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

(c) Police officers are authorized to remove a vehicle from the alley or parkway when such vehicle is stopped, standing or parked in violation of this section, provided that a sign giving notice that the vehicle may be removed has been posted.

(Code 1952, § 3261.4; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2146, § 1, 11-4-91)

(a) Parking for sale, etc., when inoperative. No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale. No person shall park, stop or leave standing any vehicle for a period of time longer than twelve (12) hours on any public street or highway in the city unless such vehicle is in a condition to be lawfully operated upon the public highways; and no person shall repair, dismantle, overhaul or do any mechanical work upon any vehicle on any part of any public street or highway in the city except to change rims, to replace flat tires or to make other emergency repairs to enable such vehicle to be moved to the proper place for mechanical work.

(b) Parking over seventy-two hours. No person who owns or has custody or control of any vehicle shall park or store such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours. The chief of police is authorized to remove any vehicle from the roadway if such vehicle is parked or stored in violation of this subsection (b).

(c) Parking on left of one-way roadway. In the event the highway way includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one (1) direction upon such roadway, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such a one-way roadway.

(Code 1952, § 3261.5; Ord. No. NS-560, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-878, § 1, 11-20-67; Ord. No. NS-1587, § 1, 7-6-81; Ord. No. NS-1660, § 2, 3-21-83; Ord. No. NS-2241, § 3, 10-5-94)

Cross reference— Pedestrian food vendors, § 26-100 et seq.

Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked parallel to and within eighteen (18) inches of the left-hand curb, facing in the direction of the traffic movement upon any one-way street, unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.

(Code 1952, § 3262; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

(a) The director of public works is authorized to install parking space markings to indicate the parking spaces adjacent to curb where authorized parking is permitted. No person shall stand or park any vehicle on any public street in the city where the surface of said street has been marked with painted lines designating parking spaces or stalls so that said vehicle is across or upon any such line or in such a position that said vehicle is not entirely within the area designated by such lines as a parking space or stall.

(b) The director of public works is authorized to establish bus zones for the loading and unloading of buses and common carriers of passengers, and to determine the location and length thereof.

(c) The director of public works is authorized to establish loading zones, and no person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any loading zone for a period of time longer than is permitted for such loading zone.

(d) The director of public works is authorized to establish and maintain parking zones limited exclusively for vehicles of physically handicapped persons displaying either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Code 1952, § 3263; Ord. No. NS-547, 11-20-61; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62, Ord. No. NS-1302, § 2, 4-5-76)

No operator shall park or stand any vehicle in any manner except diagonal to the curb, entirely between the parallel lines painted on the pavement delineating a parking stall on those portions of the streets described as follows:

(a) The east side of Ross Street, between Santa Ana Boulevard and Civic Center Drive;

(b) Both sides of Fourth Street, between Ross Street and French Street;

(c) The south side of Walnut Street, between Parton Street and Ross Street, and the north side of Walnut Street, between Parton Street and Flower Street;

(d) The south side of St. Gertrude Place, between Towner Street and Flower Street;

(e) The north side of Anahurst Place, between Towner Street and Flower Street;

(f) The south side of Tenth Street, between Raitt Street and Townsend Street;

(g) The south side of Ninth Street, between Raitt Street and a point 110 feet west of the west property line of Raitt Street;

(h) The Van Ness Avenue cul-de-sac north of Fifteenth Street;

(i) The east side of Center Street between Monte Vista Avenue and McFadden Avenue.

(Code 1952, § 3264; Ord. No. NS-560, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-643, § 1, 4-1-63; Ord. No. NS-797, § 1, 4-19-65; Ord. No. NS-968, § 1, 5-19-69; Ord. No. NS-973, § 3, 7-22-69; Ord. No. NS-1552, § 1, 11-17-80; Ord. No. NS-1681, § 1, 5-16-83)

Whenever any ordinance of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the director of public works shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles may be parked.

(Code 1952, § 3264.1; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

Editor's note— Section 36-141, relative to parking time limits in central traffic districts "A" and "B," was repealed by Ord. No. NS-1546, § 1, adopted Oct. 6, 1980. Said section was derived from Code 1952, § 3265, and Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, enacted Jan. 15, 1962.

The executive director of the public services agency is authorized to place signs or markings prohibiting parking in excess of twelve (12) minutes, twenty-four (24) minutes, one (1) hour, or two (2) hours on any portion of any street within the city, for any time period up to and including twenty-four (24) hours per day, where the council so directs by resolution, or where the executive director of the public services agency determines that such restriction is necessary to accommodate the public demand for short-term parking. Such restrictions may be limited so as not to apply on specified days.

When a sign or marking giving notice of such a restriction is in place, no person shall park any vehicle or leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, for a period of time longer than set out on said sign or marking.

(Code 1942, § 3265.1; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-1546, § 3, 10-6-80; Ord. No. NS-1782, § 2, 7-1-85)

Every person violating a sign or marking placed in accordance with the provisions of sections 36-138, 36-142, 36-147, or 36-147.1 which prohibits parking for longer than a specified period of time is guilty of a separate and further violation for each period of time that the vehicle is left so parked, equal to the maximum legal parking time specified by such sign marking.

(Code 1952, § 3266; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-1546, § 4, 10-6-80)

(a) No person shall park and leave standing any vehicle for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of two o'clock (2:00) a.m. and six o'clock (6:00) a.m. of any day upon any portion of Main Street, Broadway, First Street, Seventeenth Street, Flower Street, Edinger Avenue, Warner Avenue, Bristol Street, Eighth Street or Fourth Street, or upon any portion of any public highway in the city where parking meters have been installed along the curb, or at any place on any such highway between any two (2) parking meters along the curb.

(b) Exception. Notwithstanding subsection (a), parking is allowed in designated parking meters on Fourth Street between Ross Street and Mortimer Street every night until four o'clock (4:00) a.m.

(Code 1952, § 3268; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2880, § 8, 9-1-15)

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-2880, § 8, adopted September 1, 2015, amended § 36-144 in its entirety. Previously § 36-114 was titled "Same—All night parking prohibited on certain streets."

No person shall park and/or leave standing on any street, or portion thereof, in any residential district located within the city any commercial vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or more for a period of time longer than two (2) hours. Such restriction shall not apply to any commercial vehicle which is making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the residential street, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure upon the residential street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(Code 1952, § 3268.1; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2419, § 1, 2-22-00)

The executive director of public works may designate certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, for which during all or certain hours of the day, the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles that are six (6) feet or more in height (including any load thereon) shall be prohibited within one hundred (100) feet of any intersection. With the exception of alleys, any such prohibition shall not apply until signs or markings giving adequate notice thereof have been placed.

(Ord. No. NS-2457, § 3, 1-2-01)

For the purpose of this section a curb parking space shall be an area open for lawful parking alongside or adjacent to a curb, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two (2) or more vehicles to freely move for parking therein at the same time. Any person seeking to park his vehicle in a curb parking space, whose vehicle arrives at said parking space prior to any vehicle other than his, and who proceeds beyond said space a distance not to exceed ten feet (10') measured at the rear bumper, for the purpose of backing his vehicle therein, shall have the right-of-way over any person driving, or attempting to drive, any other vehicle directly into such curb parking space, or who, in any manner, obstructs such curb parking space; and driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the driver first arrived at said parking space.

(Code 1952, § 3267; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

Whenever the executive director of the public services agency shall determine that parking or standing of vehicles on city property be prohibited, limited or restricted in any manner, including the issuing of permits for overnight parking, the executive director of the public services agency shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted. When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand a vehicle contrary to the directions of such signs, and any vehicle parked in violation of such signs may be towed to a public storage garage at the expense of the owner of such vehicle; or the police department may, and it is granted authority to, issue a citation in the usual form and manner for any violation of the prohibition, limitation or restriction indicated by such signs or for any violation of the provisions of this article. Any parking, movement or ranking of any vehicle on any city-owned parking lot, whether open to the public or restricted to certain classes of vehicles, which is in violation of the language of subsections (1) through (9), (12) and (13) of section 36-142 is declared to be in violation of this article and shall be treated as though the language of said sections were set forth in full hereinafter.

(Code 1952, § 3268.2; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-708, § 1, 1-6-64; Ord. No. NS-1782, § 4, 7-1-85)

(a) Whenever the city has entered into a joint powers agreement with any other public entity, section 36-147 of this Code shall apply to any parking facility located within Santa Ana, owned or operated jointly by the parties to said agreement in the same manner and to the same extent as if the facility were exclusively owned by the city, providing the governing body of said joint authority has first requested such application.

(b) Section 36-147, of this Code shall apply to any parking facility or area owned by the community redevelopment agency of the City of Santa Ana in the same manner and to the same extent as if the facility were exclusively owned by the city providing the executive director of the community redevelopment agency has first requested such application.

(Ord. No. NS-1194, § 2, 2-25-74; Ord. No. NS-1782, § 5, 7-1-85)

No person, unless authorized by contract with this city, shall paint any public street or curb surfaces.

(Code 1952, § 3269; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2440, § 2, 9-5-00)

Except as provided in section 36-150 or otherwise expressly provided to the contrary herein, or unless such parking or standing is authorized by the City Manager and appropriate signs permitting such parking or standing are posted:

(a) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing upon any public street, park road, or parking lot, any oversized vehicle, non-motorized vehicle, or recreational vehicle between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing within fifty (50) feet of any intersection of public streets, a public street and park road, a public street and alley, or a park road and alley, as measured from the prolongation of the curb lines or the edge of the pavement of the cross street or alley, any oversized vehicle, non-motorized vehicle, or recreational vehicle at any time.

(Ord. No. NS-2976, § 2A, 10-15-19)

(a) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to any oversized commercial vehicle on a public street while actively engaged in loading or unloading goods, wares, or merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the residential street, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure upon the residential street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(b) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to any oversized vehicle on a public street when such oversized vehicle is parked or left standing in connection with, and in aid of, the performance of a service to or on a property in the block in which such oversized vehicle is parked or left standing.

(c) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to any vehicle on a public street belonging to federal, state, or local authorities, or a public utility.

(d) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to any school bus on a public street involved in the transportation of student, or to any bus on a public street used for the transportation of youths or disabled persons during the course of the activity for which they were transported.

(e) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to loading zones.

(f) Section 36-149(a) does not apply to any vehicle displaying a valid permit issued pursuant to section 36-153.

(Ord. No. NS-2976, § 2B, 10-15-19)

(a) The prohibitions and restrictions contained in section 36-149 shall be effective upon the posting of signs providing notice.

(b) The City Manager shall post and maintain appropriate signs providing notice of the prohibition contained in section 36-149.

(Ord. No. NS-2976, § 2C, 10-15-19)

Every violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable as provided for in section 1-8 of this Code. Each day any violation of any said provision of this chapter shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. Alternatively, violations may be addressed through the use of an administrative citation as set forth in sections 1-21.1 through 1-21.9. Use of criminal enforcement and/or administrative citations shall not prevent or preclude the city from seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties in court for violations of this division.

(Ord. No. NS-2976, § 2D, 10-15-19)

(a) The City Manager has the authority to adopt procedural rules and regulations governing the permit process, and to issue a parking permit for the parking of a recreational vehicle on a public street to any resident of the City or a bona fide guest of such resident, if:

(1) A written application is made to the City Manager including the address of the resident; and

(2) The appropriate fees as described in section 34-153(g) are paid.

(b) The permit shall state the address of the resident and the permit shall only be valid within the same block as the resident's address, on either side of the street.

(c) The duration of the permit shall not exceed 24 hours.

(d) Permits may be issued, but not exceed, three consecutive 24-hour periods.

(e) No more than 72 permits shall be issued relating to any one address in any one calendar year period.

(f) Proof of residency and proof of recreational vehicle ownership or recreational vehicle use and control shall be demonstrated in a manner determined by the City Manager.

(g) The fee for obtaining a permit shall be established by resolution of the Council based upon the recommendation of the City Manager. A copy of the fee schedule shall be filed in the rate book of City fees and charges on file in the Office of the City Clerk.

(h) The recreational vehicle shall not be used for overnight camping, lodging or for accommodation purposes while parked on the public street.

(Ord. No. NS-2976, § 2E, 10-15-19)