(a) 
The city transportation services manager is hereby authorized to determine and to mark loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows:
(1) 
At any place in any business district.
(2) 
Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assembly.
(b) 
In no event shall more than one-half of the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.
(c) 
Loading zones shall be indicated by yellow paint upon all curbs within such zones.
(d) 
Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by white paint upon all curbs in said zones.
(Code 1960, § 3412.0; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
The transportation services manager is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required herein shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, which curb markings shall have the following meanings:
(a) 
Red shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the vehicle code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
(b) 
Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays 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 minutes nor the loading or unloading of materials more than 20 minutes.
(c) 
White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox, which shall not exceed three minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays and except as follows:
(1) 
When such zone is in front of a theater, restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater is closed.
(2) 
When such zone is in front of a church, hotel or mailbox, the restrictions shall apply at all times.
(d) 
When the transportation services manager as authorized under this title has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section.
(Code 1960, § 3412.1; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
(a) 
Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial vehicles and shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and in no event for more than 20 minutes.
(b) 
The loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial deliveries, also the delivery or pickup of express and parcel post packages and United States mail.
(c) 
Permission herein granted to stop or park for purposes of loading or unloading passengers shall include the loading or unloading of personal baggage but shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor and in no event for more than three minutes.
(d) 
Within the total time limits above specified, the provisions of this section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading or unloading but without permitting abuse of the privileges hereby granted.
(Code 1960, § 3412.2; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any yellow loading zone for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or material for such time as is permitted in section 10-227.
(Code 1960, § 3412.3; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any passenger loading zone for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers for such time as is specified in section 10-227.
(Code 1960, § 3412.4; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley.
(Code 1960, § 3412.5; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
The transportation services manager is hereby authorized to establish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading and unloading of buses or common carriers of passengers, to determine the location thereof, and to paint the curb red at said bus zone curb space.
(Code 1960, § 3412.6; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 87-26, § 2, 12-7-87; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
All buses, except those specifically exempted in section 10-235, transporting minor children under 18 years of age either gratuitously or for compensation, shall, while operating within the city, carry in addition to the driver an adult person 18 years of age or over.
(Code 1960, § 3412.7; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
At all stops made on city streets by buses for the purpose of discharging minor children from the buses, the accompanying nondriver adult shall precede the minor children from the bus, and shall then accompany them across any street that such minor children must cross.
(Code 1960, § 3412.8; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
(Code 1960, § 3412.9; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; repealed by Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
The provisions of sections 10-232 and 10-233, inclusive, shall not apply to the following buses transporting minor children within the city:
(a) 
Any school bus, either public or private, regulated by the State of California.
(b) 
Any commercial carrier buses regulated by the State of California.
(Code 1960, § 3412.10; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)