Yuba City Municipal Code Art. 8 Stopping, Standing or Parking Restrictions

The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council on the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, to prohibit, regulate, or limit stopping, standing, parking of vehicles and shall place and maintain official traffic control devices indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this article and the California Vehicle Code are applicable.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council to determine the location of "No Stopping" zones and "No Parking" areas and shall place and maintain appropriate signs or markings indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this chapter and the California Vehicle Code are applicable.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:

(a) Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings.

(b) In any area where the Public Works Director determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property or would cause unusual delay to traffic, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.

(c) In any area established by resolution of the City Council as a "No Parking" area, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.

(d) Within any parkway.

(e) On a public sidewalk or overhanging a public sidewalk.

(f) 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 the installation of underground utilities or where the use of the street or highway on 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 that signs giving notice of such no parking are erected or placed at least 24 hours prior to the effective time of such no parking.

(g) On a crosswalk, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier or a taxicab may stop in an unmarked crosswalk to load and unload passengers.

(h) Between a safety zone and the adjacent right-hand curb as may be indicated by a sign or red paint on the curb.

(i) Within a designated bicycle lane, when such lane is indicated by appropriate signs or markings.

(j) Along the edge of any highway, at any curb, or in any location in a publicly or privately owned or operated off-street parking facility, designated as a fire lane by the fire department with jurisdiction over the area in which the place is located.

The designation shall be indicated:

(1) By a sign posted immediately adjacent to, and visible from, the designated place clearly stating in letters not less than one in. in height that the place is a fire lane;

(2) By outlining or painting the place in red and, in contrasting color, marking the place with the words "FIRE LANE," which are clearly visible from a vehicle; or

(3) By a red curb or red paint on the edge of the roadway upon which is clearly marked the words "FIRE LANE."

(k) In front of a public or private driveway, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier, school bus, or a taxicab may stop or load and unload passengers.

(l) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped, parked, or standing at the curb or edge of a highway, except for a school bus when stopped to load or unload pupils in a business or residence district where the speed limit is 25 miles per hour or less.

(m) In front of that portion of a curb which has been cut down, lowered, or constructed to provide wheelchair accessibility to the sidewalk and which is designated for wheelchair access by either a sign or red paint on the curb.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

(a) Unregistered vehicles. No person shall leave standing upon a street, highway or off-street public parking facility, any vehicle as defined in Vehicle Code div. 1 requiring registration, unless it is registered, in compliance with California Vehicle Code regulations.

(b) Display of month/year tabs. No person shall leave standing upon a street, highway or off-street public parking facility any vehicle defined in Vehicle Code div. 1 requiring registration, without proper display of the current month and year tabs specified in Vehicle Code § 5204.

(Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995; § 1; Ord. 010-10, eff. September 16, 2010)

No person shall leave standing upon a City street or public parking facility any vehicle defined in Vehicle Code div. 1 requiring registration, without proper display of license plates, as defined in Vehicle Code § 5200.

(Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle within 15 ft. of a fire hydrant except as follows:

(a) If the vehicle is attended by a licensed driver who is seated in the front seat and who can immediately move such vehicle in case of necessity.

(b) If the vehicle is owned or operated by a Fire Department and is clearly marked as a Fire Department vehicle.

(Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall park any vehicle upon a street in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten ft. of the width of the travel lane for free movement of vehicular traffic.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten ft. of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

Time limit parking zones, including but not limited to times such as 20 minutes, one hour, 90 minutes, two hours, and three hours, etc., shall be indicated by appropriate curb markings and/or signs. No person shall park a vehicle for a period of time in excess of the posted limit.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995; § 2; Ord. 010-10, eff. September 16, 2010)

No person shall park a vehicle on certain streets or portions thereof, when such streets are designated by appropriate signs for period of time longer than 20 minutes between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., except on Sundays and holidays. The subject streets or portions thereof, are as follows:

(a) Plumas Street from Colusa Avenue to Bridge Street;

(b) Bridge Street from Plumas Street to Second Street;

(c) Center Street from Plumas Street to Shasta Street;

(d) Teegarden Street from Plumas Street to Rockholt Way;

(e) Church Street from Plumas Street to Walnut Street;

(f) Forbes Avenue from Plumas Street to Walnut Street;

(g) Scott Street from Plumas Street to 517 Scott Street;

(h) Second Street from Bridge Street to C Street;

(i) Shasta Street (west side) between the north property line of 666 Shasta Street and Bridge Street.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or highway for the principal purpose of:

(a) Displaying such vehicle for sale.

(b) Repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency for a period not exceeding 24 hours.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995; § 3; Ord. 010-10, eff. September 16, 2010)

The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council to place appropriate signs and markings indicating no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his or her opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

No person shall drive any vehicle, nor shall any person stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or the ground of any public school unless consistent with the provisions and requirements as outlined in Vehicle Code § 21113.

(Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 ft., or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 ft. when such action is necessary to maintain an orderly flow of traffic.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 19, 1995; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

In the event a street includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking. The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council to determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1995; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 5, Title 8, Article 53 Special Provisions for Mobile and Open Air Vending Operations, no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise or food are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 004-10, eff. May 17, 2010; § 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

The Public Works Director is authorized by the City Council to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces where required. Such markings shall be in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

(a) Whenever the Chief of Police, with the approval of the Public Works Director, determines that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private processions or assemblages, he or she is authorized by the City Council to place temporary signs indicating that the operation, parking, or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets or alleys. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and shall be removed immediately thereafter.

(b) Whenever the Public Works Director determines that parking should be prohibited to facilitate construction or maintenance operations on public streets or utilities, he or she is authorized to place such temporary signs as needed to prohibit the parking or standing of vehicles. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such operations and the Public Works Director shall remove such signs thereafter.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

The Public Works Director or the Chief of Police are authorized by the City Council to cause the towing away of parked vehicles in any of the following cases:

(a) When in the way of emergency public construction activities;

(b) When necessary for emergency utility repairs;

(c) Other emergency activities.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

If a vehicle is towed away from an area appropriately marked with emergency "NO PARKING" signs, the City's action is legal with towing charges and impounding fees to be paid by the owner of the subject vehicle.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

(a) Parking time limit. It shall be unlawful for any person to allow or permit any automobile, truck, motorcycle, bicycle or other vehicle to remain standing or parked on any public street or alley within the City for a period in excess of 120 consecutive hours.

(b) Procedure for removal. Whenever any person has violated the provisions of this article and such is made to appear either by the written or oral complaint filed with the Police Department by any resident or property owner within the City or by reason of any observation made by the Police Department that such a violation exists and it appears following investigation that such person has violated said provisions, the Police Department may proceed to remove the vehicle from the public street or alley all in accordance with Vehicle Code div. 11, ch. 10:

(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any street, roadway, or alley in such a position as to constitute an obstruction to the normal movement of traffic or in such a condition as to create a hazard to other traffic upon the street, roadway, or alley, the Police Department may proceed to remove such vehicle pursuant to the authority embodied in Vehicle Code § 22651 to the nearest garage or other place of safety or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department of which the officer is a member, where the vehicle shall be placed in storage all as set forth in Vehicle Code § 22850.

(2) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street or alley within the City, he or she shall follow the procedure set forth in Vehicle Code § 22651 dealing with procedure to remove and store vehicles, giving appropriate notice in writing or orally of such storage to both the vehicle's legal and registered owner within 48 hours thereof, excluding weekends and holidays, said notice to be mailed or personally delivered and to contain all of the information mandated by Vehicle Code § 22852.

(3) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a roadway or alley as set forth in this section, he or she shall make every effort to ascertain the name of the registered and legal owner and in the event he or she does not know or is not able to ascertain the name of said owners or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as provided in Vehicle Code § 22852, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of 120 hours, the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the Department of Justice of Sacramento all in accordance with Vehicle Code § 22853.

(c) Authority of Police Department. As provided by Vehicle Code § 22651, the Police Department may remove any automobile, truck, motorcycle, bicycle or other vehicle which has been left parked or standing upon any street, highway, or alley for 120 or more consecutive hours. When vehicles are removed from the streets, highways or alleys within the City, in accordance with the provisions of this article, two considerations shall be given each vehicle removed so as not to create a hardship on the owner.

First, within 48 hours after removal of the vehicle, excluding weekends, the Police Department will mail written notice to both the legal and registered owner in compliance with Vehicle Code § 22852. Secondly, the registered or legal owner of the vehicle will, in the written notice from the Police Department, be advised that they have a right to a post storage hearing as outlined in Vehicle Code § 22852.

(d) Post storage hearing. Pursuant to Vehicle Code § 22852 and following notice of such storage to the registered and legal owner of the vehicle, which notice shall specify that said owners are entitled to receive a post storage hearing in the event that request for hearing is made within ten days of the date appearing on said notice, and in implementation of the post storage hearing requirements, save and except for the Chief of Police, the Traffic Committee is hereby designated and appointed as the hearing officer authorized to conduct said post storage hearings, excluding weekends and holidays, whose function shall be to determine whether or not probable cause for the storage is established. In all other respects, the hearing shall be conducted giving either the registered or legal owner or their agents an opportunity to present such evidence as they deem appropriate on the issue of probable cause for the storage, likewise giving an opportunity to the officer causing the storage to present such evidence on that issue as he or she deems appropriate. Failure of either the registered, legal owner or their agent to request or to attend the scheduled hearing shall satisfy the post storage validity hearing requirements of Vehicle Code § 22852. Following the conclusion and the completion of the hearing, the Traffic Committee as the duly designated hearing officer shall determine the validity of the storage, i.e., whether or not probable cause for the storage has been established.

(e) Inapplicability of article. The provisions of this article shall not apply to the removal of vehicles abated under the abandoned vehicle abatement program and any ordinance of the City enacted pursuant to Vehicle Code §§ 22660 through and including 22668 inclusive and Vehicle Code § 22710 or to vehicles that have been impounded for investigation pursuant to Vehicle Code § 22655 or to vehicles removed from private property pursuant to any City ordinance enacted under the authority of Vehicle Code § 22658.

(§ 1, Ord. 911, eff. October 7, 1982; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

An owner or person in lawful possession of any private property may subsequent to notifying by telephone, or if impractical, by the most expeditious means available, the City police authorities, cause the removal of a vehicle parking on the private property nearest public garage if:

(a) There is displayed in plain view at all entrances to the property a sign not less than 17 in. by 22 in. in size with lettering not less than one in. in height prohibiting public parking thereon and indicating that vehicles will be removed at the owner's expense and containing the telephone number of the local traffic law enforcement agency.

(b) Where a vehicle is parked on a lot or parcel which is improved with a single-family dwelling, the owner or person in lawful possession of said property may, subsequent to notification by telephone, or if impractical, by the most expeditious means available, the City police authorities, cause the removal of a vehicle parked on said property to the nearest public garage.

The person causing the removal of any vehicle on private property as aforesaid shall comply with the notice provisions provided by Vehicle Code § 22658(b) and/or the requirements of Vehicle Code § 22853(c).

Nothing in this section shall limit or effect any right or remedy which the owner or person in lawful possession of private property may have by virtue of other provisions of law authorizing the removal of a vehicle parked upon private property.

No person shall cause the removal of any vehicle from a privately owned and operated fee paid parking facility unit at least 12 hours after the expiration of the period for which the fee is paid for the vehicle. Such, however, shall not apply to any parking space or stall rented to a person and reserved or otherwise clearly marked or designated for the use of that person.

Any owner or person in lawful possession of any private property causing the removal of a vehicle parked on that property shall be liable as provided for by Vehicle Code § 22658(e) for any storage or towing charges whenever there has been failure to post a sign if and as required by the provisions of this section.

(§ 1, Ord. 948, eff. May 2, 1984; Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995)

(a) Any violation of a regulation that is not a misdemeanor governing the standing or parking of a vehicle under the Vehicle Code, under any Federal statute or regulation, or under any provision of the Yuba City Municipal Code is subject to a civil penalty. A person shall not be subject to both a notice of parking violation and a notice to appear for the same violation.

(b) If a vehicle is unattended during the time of a parking, equipment or registration violation, the person authorized to enforce parking laws and regulations shall securely attach to a vehicle a notice of parking violation setting forth the violation.

(c) If a notice of parking violation is issued for a California Vehicle Code parking, equipment or registration violation, including but not limited to unregistered vehicles, current registration tags not properly displayed, and license plate not properly displayed, the penalty shall be in an amount established for that violation by the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedule adopted by the Judicial Council, as that Schedule is amended from time to time.

(d) If a notice of parking violation is issued for violation of a provision of the Yuba City Municipal Code, the penalty shall be in the amount established by resolution of the City Council.

(Ord. 09-95, eff. October 19, 1995; § 4, Ord. 010-10, eff. September 16, 2010)

The Chief of Police shall have the authority to appoint trained civilian volunteers to enforce by the issuance of notices of parking violation parking restrictions of the Yuba City Municipal Code.

(§ 5, Ord. 010-10, eff. September 16, 2010)