Yreka Municipal Code Ch. 10.32 Stopping, Standing and Parking

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* For statutory provisions which authorize the regulation of parking by local authorities, see Veh. C.A. §§ 22506 and 22507.

(a) The provisions of this title 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 title 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 State Vehicle Code or the ordinances of the city which prohibit or limit the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

(Ord. 302 § 120, 1956).

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

(Ord. 302 § 121, 1956).

(a) No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a period of seventy-two consecutive hours, nor shall any person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle park such vehicle in or upon any public parking lot of the city for more than a period of twenty-four consecutive hours.

(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of a period of seventy-two consecutive hours, or in or upon any public parking lot maintained by the city in excess of a period of twenty-four consecutive hours, any member of the police department authorized by the chief of police may remove the vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of Section 22651 of the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 302 § 122, 1956).

(Ord. No. 815, § 1, 4-2-2009)

(a) No person shall park a vehicle upon any public street, alley or public parking lot for the principal purpose of:

(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale;

(2) Servicing or repairing such vehicle, except when necessitated by an emergency.

(b) No person shall park a vehicle within seventy-five feet of a public street for the purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale except where the vehicle is parked on property owned or occupied by a business holding a valid business license and engaged in the retail sale of new and/or used automobiles, or where the vehicle is parked on property containing a dwelling unit used by the vehicle's owner as his or her residence.

(Ord. 725 § 1, 1996: Ord. 302 § 123, 1956).

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

(b) In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the lefthand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.

(c) The chief of police is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the lefthand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways, and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

(Ord. 302 § 124, 1956).

(a) Whenever any ordinance of the city or resolution of the city council 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 shall be parked.

(b) When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking as herein provided, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

(c) Angle parking shall be permitted upon those streets and parts of streets described in Section 10.32.150.

(Ord. 302 § 125, 1956).

The chief of police is authorized to issue special permits to allow the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and authorized herein, and it is unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit. No such permit shall be issued without prior approval of the city council.

(Ord. 302 § 126, 1956).

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

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

(Ord. 302 § 127, 1956).

(a) The chief of police, upon resolution of the city council, shall place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.

(b) When official signs or markings prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign or marking.

(Ord. 302 § 128, 1956).

No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding three percent within any business or residence district without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.

(Ord. 302 § 129, 1956).

The chief of police shall appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of these places:

(1) At any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone;

(2) At any place within twenty-five feet of any intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;

(3) Within twenty-five feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device;

(4) At any place where the chief of police determines that it is necessary in order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards.

(Ord. 302 § 130, 1956)

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall stand or park any vehicles, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or food stuffs are sold, displayed, solicited, offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within this city, except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed ten minutes at any one place. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons delivering such articles upon order of, or by agreement with, a customer from a store or other fixed place of business or distribution.

(b) No person shall park or stand on any street, any lunch wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or pushcart from which tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy or other articles of food are sold or offered for sale.

(c) No person shall park or stand any vehicle, or wagon used or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon, without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the legislative body which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.

(d) Whenever any permit is granted under the provisions of this section and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, or pushcart on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this section, such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the legislative body upon the filing of the record of such conviction with the legislative body, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until six months have elapsed from the date of such revocation.

(Ord. 302 § 131, 1956).

(Ord. No. 832, § 3(B), 12-6-2012)

(a) Whenever the chief of police shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblies, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the chief of police shall have 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 chief of police 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 chief of police shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

(b) When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.

(Ord. 302 § 132, 1956).

Every motor truck having an unladen weight of four thousand pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight when operated upon any street or highway during the time specified in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code, shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two red lanterns, or two warning lights or reflectors, which reflectors shall be of a type approved by the Department of California Highway Patrol. When any vehicle above mentioned or any trailer or semitrailer is disabled upon streets or highways outside of any business or residence district within this city, and upon which street or highway there is insufficient street lighting to reveal a vehicle at a distance of two hundred feet during any time mentioned in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code, a warning signal of the character indicated above shall be immediately placed at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of, and one hundred feet in the rear of such disabled vehicle, by the driver thereof. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during the times mentioned in Section 618 while such vehicle remains disabled upon such street or highway.

(Ord. 302 § 133, 1956).

In accordance with Section 10.32.060 and when signs or markings are in place giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles may stand or park a vehicle only as indicated by such marks or signs on the following streets or portions thereof: those streets and parts of streets designated by resolution of the council, whether under this Title or any ordinance repealed by the ordinance codified in this title.

(Ord. 302 § 194, 1956)

(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a commercial vehicle having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more on the following streets or portions thereof: those streets and parts of streets designated by resolution of the council,

(b) This section shall not apply to any commercial vehicle making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on any such designated streets 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 designated streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(Ord. 524 (part), 1976)

(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a commercial vehicle having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more on the following streets or portions thereof: those streets and parts of streets designated by resolution of the council.

(b) This section shall not apply to any commercial vehicle wherein variation from the requirements of subsection (a) of this section is reasonably necessary to accomplish the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on or from such vehicle, and while anything connected with such loading or unloading is being executed.

(Ord. 541, 1978)