South Pasadena Municipal Code Art. V Pedestrians

• For state law as to pedestrians, see Veh. C. A., §§ 560 to 566.

As to trees interfering with pedestrians, see § 34.4 of this Code.

The city manager shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows:

(a) Crosswalks may be established and maintained at intersections and at other places where the city manager determines that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway, subject to the limitations contained in paragraph (b) of this section.

(b) Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than four hundred feet in length. Elsewhere, not more than one additional crosswalk shall be established in any one block and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at mid-block. (Ord. No. 1106, § 8.01.)

• For state law as to power of local authorities to establish crosswalks, see Veh. C. A., § 459.2.

No pedestrians shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any business district. (Ord. No. 1106, § 8.02.)

No pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb, except in a marked crosswalk. (Ord. No. 1106, § 8.03.)

No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone. This provision shall not apply to any public officer or employee, or employee of a public utility, or other workmen, when necessary upon a street in the line of duty. (Ord. No. 1106, § 8.04.)

• For state law as to standing in roadways for purpose of soliciting rides, see Veh. C. A., § 564.1.

ARTICLE VI.. OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS

Unless it is apparent from the context that another meaning is intended, the following words and phrases, when used herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to them by this section:

(a) Off-street parking lot shall mean any lot, lots or parcel of land owned or leased by the city, and hereinafter in this article described, which is improved, marked or posted for use by the public generally for the off-street parking of vehicles.

(b) Park or parking shall mean the stopping or standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not upon an off-street parking lot.

(c) Person shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.

(d) Vehicle shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a public way. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)

The lots and parcels of real property hereinafter described shall constitute off-street parking lots, in vehicle parking district No. 1: The east 43 feet of Lots 1 and 2, Block 6, Division #1 of the Raymond Improvement Company tract; the westerly 44.5 feet of the easterly 87.5 feet in such block, division and tract; the east 43.75 feet of the west 92.5 feet of such lots, block and tract; the east 43.75 feet of the west 48.75 feet of such lots, block and tract (except the south 30.50 feet of the east 43.75 feet of the west 48.75 feet of lot 2); the southerly 30.5 feet of the westerly 48.75 feet of lot 2 in such block and tract—all of the above in the city as per may be recorded in Book 24, page 3 of miscellaneous records of such county. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)

The city engineer is hereby authorized and directed to mark off individual parking spaces in the off-street parking lots described hereinabove. Such parking space shall be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the surface of such lots. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)

No person shall at any time park any vehicle upon any off street parking lot other than entirely within one parking space designated as hereinbefore provided. No person shall at any time park a vehicle upon or across any line or marking designating a parking place. No person shall operate a vehicle backward in entering a parking space. Vehicles shall enter a space only by being driven forward. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)

Between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on all days including Saturdays, except Sundays and holidays, no person shall park any vehicle upon any off-street parking lot for a period in excess of two hours during any one day, if a sign indicating such restrictive parking is conspicuously posted on such off-street parking lot. The city engineer is hereby directed to post such signs. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)

No person shall cause, allow permit any vehicle registered in his name or operated by him to be parked on any off-street parking lot contrary to any of the foregoing provisions. (Ord. No. 1347, § 1.)