Turlock Municipal Code Art. 10 Stopping, Standing, And Parking For Certain Purposes Or In Certain Places

(a) The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times specified in this chapter, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device.

(b) The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code or the laws of the City prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to maintain by appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb surface all no stopping zones, no parking areas, and restricted parking areas as defined and described in this chapter.

When such curb markings or signs are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.

No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park, or leave standing such vehicle in any of the following places:

(a) In any area where the Traffic Engineer determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

(b) In any area established by resolution of the Council as a no parking area when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;

(c) In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property; and

(d) On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway, or a portion thereof, is necessary for the cleaning, repair, or construction of the street or highway or for the installation of underground utilities, or when the use of the street or highway, or any portion thereof, is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic, or where the use of the street or highway, or any portion thereof, is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles, or structures of unusual size and the parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided, however, signs giving notice of such no parking shall be erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the effective time of such parking prohibition.

(e) The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

No person who owns or has the possession, custody, or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a period of seventy-two (72) consecutive hours. The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

(a) The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property where such parking, in his opinion, would interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.

(b) When official signs are erected prohibiting parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street where the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty (20') feet or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings where the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty (30') feet.

Whenever the Traffic Engineer determines that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or for other reasons, the Traffic Engineer 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 as the Traffic Engineer shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency, and the Traffic Engineer shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

No person shall park or leave standing any commercial vehicle, as defined in the Vehicle Code of the State, upon any street or real property within any residential district of the City, as residential is defined by the City in this section below, if such vehicle has a manufacturer's gross weight rating of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or more, for any purpose other than making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located adjacent to the restricted streets or highways 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 adjacent to the restricted streets or highways for which a building permit has previously been obtained. For the purposes of this section, a residential district of the City is defined as a Low Density Residential District (R-L), Medium Density Residential District (R-M), High Density Residential District (R-H), Public and Semi-Public District (P-S), or any other residential district that is hereafter created or defined by the City, as shown on the Zoning Map heretofore or hereafter adopted by the City and any Commercial Office (C-O) or Planned Community Development which is vacant or has one (1) or more dwelling units. The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(718-CS, Amended, 11/27/1990; 820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 932-CS, Amended, 03/26/1998; 957-CS, Amended, 09/21/2000; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

(a) No person shall park or leave standing upon any street within the City within twenty-five (25') feet of any driveway or within fifty (50') feet of any intersection any truck, trailer, van, motor home, mini-motor home, boat and trailer, truck with camper, or other vehicle which obstructs the vision of any person attempting to enter such street from a driveway or intersecting street.

(b) No person shall stop, park or leave standing within one hundred (100') feet of any intersection upon the following streets, any vehicle at any hour during the day:

(1) Geer Road between Golden State Boulevard and Taylor Road.

(2) Monte Vista Avenue between Walnut Road and North Berkeley Avenue.

(c) The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(718-CS, Amended, 11/27/1990; 820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

(a) Any vehicle parked or left standing in any parking place shall be parked or left standing with the hood of such vehicle facing the curb or structure immediately adjacent to the parking space or, if in a double head-on parking space, the hood of the vehicle shall face the white line separating the two (2) head-on parking spaces.

(b) No vehicle shall be backed into any diagonal or angle parking space or placed into any diagonal or angle parking space so that the vehicle is facing the opposite direction of the general traffic pattern for the street or parking lot or is facing the travel portion of the street, alley, or lot providing access to the parking space.

(c) Any vehicle shall be parked or left standing within the lines marked on the street or curb for such parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stand any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park such vehicle in any manner whatsoever that the vehicle shall not be within the area so designated by such lines or markings.

(d) The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

Pursuant to Sections 22507.8 and 22511.7 of the Vehicle Code, the City Engineer shall designate parking spaces for the exclusive use of disabled persons on public streets and on all off-street parking lots owned or operated by the City and shall cause such spaces to be marked and signed as required by the Vehicle Code and located and designed as required by State and Federal laws.

Pursuant to Section 21107.8 of the Vehicle Code, the Council finds and declares that there are privately owned and maintained off-street parking facilities for commercial, industrial, educational, social, and other purposes which are generally held open for use by the public for parking purposes. The City Engineer shall designate parking spaces for the exclusive use of disabled persons in such privately owned and maintained parking facilities, after a notice and hearing as required by Section 21107.8 of the Vehicle Code, and shall cause such spaces to be marked and signed as required by the Vehicle Code and located and designed as required by State and Federal laws.

The provisions of Section 22350 (basic speed law), Section 23103 (reckless driving), Section 23109 (speed contests and exhibitions of speed), and Division 16.5, commencing with Section 38000 (off highway vehicles), of the Vehicle Code shall apply to all privately owned and maintained off-street parking facilities within the City when the signs and notices required by section 21107.8 of the Vehicle Code have been posted.

(a) A bus engaged as a common carrier or a taxicab may stop in an unmarked crosswalk to load or unload passengers.

(b) A bus engaged as a common carrier, a school bus, or a taxicab may stop to load or unload passengers in front of a public or private driveway.

No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle in a fire safety lane on private or public property when such lane has been required by the City and has been designated by appropriate signs or markings. The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)

No person shall park a vehicle on private property without the direct or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of such property. The civil penalty for violation of this section shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

(820-CS, Amended, 06/22/1993; 1120-CS, Amended, 07/23/09)