No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
(Ord. 52 § 10.1, 1975)
The city traffic engineer shall have the power and duty to place
and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic-control
devices when and as required to make effective the provisions of this
chapter.
(Ord. 52 § 10.2, 1975; Ord. 899 § 5, 2005)
No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park, or leave
standing such vehicle in any of the following places, except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
the direction of a police officer or other authorized officer, of
traffic sign or signal:
A. Within
any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with
appropriate signs or markings;
B. On
either side of any street between the projected property lines of
any public walk, public steps, street, or thoroughfare terminating
at such street, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or
by red paint upon the curb surface;
C. In
any area where the city 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;
D. In
any areas 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;
E. 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 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 that signs giving notice of such no parking
are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the effective
time of such no parking;
F. At
any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite
the midblock end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by
appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
G. At
any place within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in
any business district when such place is indicated by appropriate
signs or by red paint upon the curb surface except that a bus may
stop at a designated bus stop;
H. Within
twenty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop
sign, or official electric flashing device, when such place is indicated
by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.
(Ord. 52 § 10.3, 1975; Ord. 100 § 69, 1976; Ord. 992 § 3, 2010)
Parking citations or notices of violations, related to charging
violations of local or
Vehicle Code regulations governing the parking
or standing of vehicles, may be issued by any peace officer, by any
other employee or agent of the police department or of the city who
is duly authorized by the chief of police to do so, by any other person
specifically so authorized by some other provision of law, and by
any other person specially authorized by the chief of police in writing
to do so. Whenever the chief of police delegates such authority to
persons other than peace officers, he shall endeavor to see that each
such person is adequately instructed regarding the provisions of the
parking regulations to be enforced, and the evidentiary prerequisites
to proper prosecution for violations thereof. He shall further provide
such persons with the same forms of citations or notices of violations
as are utilized for the purpose by officers of the police department.
Any such persons shall be appropriately instructed to deposit executed
citations or notices with the police department for filing with the
court, after review for legal sufficiency.
(Ord. 437 § 1, 1989)
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 consecutive period of seventy-two hours.
(Ord. 52 § 10.4, 1975)
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair
or cause to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased, dismantle
or cause to be dismantled any vehicle or any part thereof upon any
public street in the city. Temporary emergency repairs may be made
upon a public street.
(Ord. 52 § 10.6, 1975)
No person shall wash or cause to be washed, polish or cause
to be polished any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street
in the city, when a charge is made for such service.
(Ord. 52 § 10.7, 1975)
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 such
vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.
(Ord. 52 § 10.10, 1975)
A. Except
as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall stand or park
any vehicle, wagon, or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise,
fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs 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 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. This exception shall not apply within
a one-thousand-foot radius of any school, both public and private.
Standing or parking, as described herein, is prohibited within one
thousand feet of any such school. Further, 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,
ice cream or other articles of food are sold or offered for sale without
first obtaining a written permit to do so from the city traffic engineer
which shall designate the specific location in which such cart shall
stand.
C. No
person shall park or stand any vehicle or wagon used or intended to
be used in the transportation or 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 city traffic engineer 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 city traffic engineer upon the filing
of the record of such conviction with such officer and no permit shall
thereafter be issued to such person until six months have elapsed
from the date of such revocation.
(Ord. 52, § 10.11, 1975; Ord. 496 § 1, 1991)
No commercial vehicle exceeding seven feet in height and/or
eighteen feet of combined total length and/or towed commercial equipment,
may be parked overnight in a residential zone, unless the vehicle
is screened from public view and adjacent properties. If the commercial
vehicle is less than the prescribed height and length or greater than
the dimension screened, no more than one of such vehicles may be parked
in any residential zone. This prohibition shall not apply to construction
sites during the construction process or to vehicles in the process
of making deliveries or pickups.
(Ord. 957 § 4, 2007)
No commercial vehicle exceeding seven feet in height and/or
eighteen feet in combined total length, or towed commercial equipment,
shall park on public or private rights-of-way within any residential
zone except as necessary to load or unload cargo.
(Ord. 957, §4, 2007)