The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing
or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times
herein specified, 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.
(Prior code § 617-A1)
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 Vehicle Code or the ordinances
of this city prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles
in specified places or at specified times.
(Prior code § 617-A1.1)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway
paralleled by curbs or any parkway designated by the city traffic
engineer as an area for no standing, stopping or parking and posted
accordingly.
(Prior code § 617-A2)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal
purpose of washing, waxing, wiping, greasing, or repairing such vehicle
except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(Prior code § 617-A4; Ord. 1941 § 2, 2017)
(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may
be stopped or parked within eighteen inches of the left-hand 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 any such roadway, no person
shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way
roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.
(c) The city traffic engineer 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 left-hand
side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate
roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.
(d) The requirement of parallel parking shall not apply in the event
any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading
or unloading freight or goods, in which case that vehicle may be backed
up to the curb; provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond
the centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby.
(Prior code §§ 617-A5—617-A5.3)
(a) The city traffic engineer shall determine upon what streets angle
parking shall be permitted and shall mark and sign such streets. Such
angle parking shall not be permitted on any state highway or upon
any other street or roadway that is not of sufficient width to permit
and not interfere with the free movement of traffic.
(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 the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or
markings.
(Prior code §§ 617-A6—617-A6.1)
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating
no parking upon 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 either
side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall
park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(Prior code §§ 617-A7—617-A7.1)
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to 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.
(Prior code §§ 617-A8—617-A8.1)
(a) Whenever the city traffic engineer, chief of police, or their designated
representatives, determine 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 city traffic engineer,
chief of police, or their designated representatives, 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 city traffic engineer, chief of
police, or their designated representatives, 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 person
causing their placement 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.
(Prior code §§ 617-A9.8—617-A9.81)
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 semi-trailer
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 to the rear of such disabled vehicle by the
driver thereof. The continuous flashing of at least four approved
type Class A-Type 1 turn signal lamps, at least two toward the front
and at least two to-ward the rear of the vehicle, shall be considered
to meet the requirements of this section until the devices mentioned
above can be placed in the required locations. The warning signals
herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during the time mentioned
in Section 618, while such vehicles remain disabled upon such street
or highway.
(Prior code § 617-A9.82)
(a) No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle on private
property or business premises without the express or implied consent
of the owner, authorized agent of the owner, person in lawful possession
of such premises or property, or other person in charge thereof.
(b) No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle on private
property or business premises at a time, or at a place thereon, or
for a period of time, or in any manner otherwise, which is unauthorized
by the owner, authorized agent of the owner, person in lawful possession
of such premises or property, or other person in charge thereof.
(c) The following acts of stopping, parking or leaving standing a vehicle shall be included within those which shall be deemed in violation of subsection
(a) or
(b) whichever is applicable, but other acts not mentioned may also violate either subsection. (The use of the term "parking" in the following examples shall be deemed also to include collectively acts of "stopping" and "leaving standing"):
(1) Parking on any vacant lot or unimproved property unless affirmatively
so permitted by posted sign(s) or by the authorized person in charge;
(2) Parking off-street on any improved private property not held open
to use by the general public, unless such parking is by invitation
of the occupant(s) or for bona fide business purposes upon the property;
(3) Parking in any off-street parking area or lot or facility of an apartment
building, hotel or business enterprise which is indicated by sign(s)
or other marking(s) to be reserved for use by tenants, residents or
employees or others not including the person so parking;
(4) Parking in the off-street parking area or lot or facility of an individual
parking stall or any area which is indicated by a sign or other marking(s)
to be reserved for the exclusive use of a person or persons other
than the person so parking;
(5) Parking in a shopping center or business parking area or facility
for a purpose other than doing business with one or more of the stores
or offices at the site, or for a purpose not related to such business
operation, or remaining parked for longer than reasonably appropriate
to do such business or acts related to such business operations;
(6) Utilizing a space or stall which is indicated by sign(s) or other
marking(s) to be reserved for use in connection with a particular
store, office or business, and parking in the same for a purpose other
than that for which it is so reserved;
(7) Parking in any stall or space which is indicated by sign(s), blue
painted curbing or other marking(s), to be designated for the exclusive
use by physically handicapped persons, of a vehicle not displaying
one of the distinguishing license plates or placards issued pursuant
to California Vehicle Code Section 22511.5 or Section 9105;
(8) Parking at any spot where such parking is prohibited, as indicated
by sign(s), markings, striping, lettering on pavement, red-painted
curbing, or by any other means, including (but not limited to) areas
and locations within areas reserved for or designated as traffic lanes
for movement of vehicles or pedestrians, clear areas at or near building
entrances or exits, fire lanes, sidewalks or pedestrian or bicycle
lanes, clear areas at or near ramps or other facilities used by or
intended for use of handicapped persons, unimproved areas, dangerous
areas, areas to be utilized by larger vehicles such as trucks, buses,
emergency vehicles or other service vehicles, or areas designated
for any other business or special use;
(9) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or by
reasons of vehicle disablement or bona fide emergency, parking, standing
or waiting at a location within a traffic lane or otherwise, which
substantially interferes with the normal movement of vehicular or
pedestrian traffic at such location;
(10) Parking in violation of the restrictions stated on any other sign
or marking(s) not mentioned in the foregoing subsections, which has
or have been placed on private property or business premises by the
owner, authorized agent of the owner, person in lawful possession
of such premises or property, or other person in charge thereof;
(11) Failure or refusal to remove or move a parked or standing or stopped vehicle from private property or business premises, in compliance with a direction to do so by the owner, person in lawful possession of such premises or property, or other person in charge thereof; or violation of a direction by such person not to park, stop or stand a vehicle upon, or at a particular location upon, such premises or property; provided, that this section shall not apply to an act or failure or refusal to leave private property or to noncompliance with a direction to keep off such property, in any of those instances listed in Section
11.64.040 of this code; or
(12) Parking on a private street in violation of a prohibition or restriction
stated on any sign or marking(s) or notification giving notice thereof,
placed or given by or pursuant to authority of the association or
person or other entity owning or in charge of such private street.
(d) Nothing in this section affects or limits the rights or remedies
any person may have pursuant to any other provision of law, such as
Section 22658 of the California Vehicle Code, to remove or cause removal
of a vehicle parking upon private property.
(e) It shall be the policy of the city council to encourage the posting
of signs on shopping center parking facilities similar to the signs
mentioned in Section 21107.8 of the California Vehicle Code, to give
notice to the public that the parking regulations applicable on the
private parking facility are subject to official enforcement by citations
and fines and otherwise. This does not, however, authorize signs posted
in nonconformance with the city's sign control ordinance or other
applicable regulations; and the posting of such signs shall not be
deemed a requirement or condition precedent to enforcement of this
section.
(f) Sections 41102 et seq. of the California Vehicle Code are referred
to and incorporated in this section by this reference and shall be
applicable in connection with any prosecution for violation of this
section, in the same manner and to the same extent as said sections
are applicable to prosecutions for parking violations occurring on
the public streets.
(Prior code § 617-A9.83; Ord. 1080 § 1, 1978)
No person shall park and leave a vehicle on a public street,
alley or public parking facility unless the ignition has been locked,
provided, however, that if the driver or passenger remains inside
the vehicle after and while it is parked, the ignition need not be
locked.
(Prior code § 617-A9.9)
Whenever a vehicle is illegally parked on a street or highway
in violation of any provision of this chapter or of this code, any
regularly employed and salaried police officer of the city or deputy
of the sheriff's office of Riverside County, or member of the California
Highway Patrol, may cause such vehicle to be impounded, driven or
towed away and stored, so long as signs are posted giving notice of
the removal. Any reasonable costs resulting from such impounding,
towing or storage shall be charged to the owner of the vehicle and
to the driver who committed the parking violation.
(Prior code § 617-A9.91; Ord. 914 § 4(C), 1971)