Whenever any term is defined herein it shall be deemed and construed
to have the meaning ascribed to it herein. The definition of any term
used herein not otherwise herein defined shall be the same as such
term is defined and described in the
Vehicle Code of the State and
amendments thereto.
"Park" or "parking,"
when used herein, means the standing of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and
while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or merchandise.
"Vehicle"
as used herein means any device in, upon or by which any
person or property may be transported upon a street or highway, except
those operated upon rails or tracks.
(Prior code § 11-001)
The City Manager of the City is hereby authorized to install, maintain and remove meters in parking meter zones hereby established or hereafter created by the Council of the City, for the purpose of and in such numbers and at such places as may be necessary to the regulation, control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein and in accordance with the provisions of Section
10.48.070 hereof.
(Prior code § 11-002)
The City Manager shall have lines or markings painted or placed
upon the curbs, streets, or municipal off-street parking lots adjacent
to each parking meter designating the parking space for which said
meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent or next to any
parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established.
No person shall park any vehicle across any such line or markings
or park a vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely
within the space designated by such lines or markings.
(Prior code § 11-003)
All streets, any portion thereof, and all public off-street parking lots within any area described as a parking meter zone commencing with Section
10.44.050 and regulated by parking meters pursuant to Section
10.48.020.
(Prior code § 11-004)
Parking Meter Zone 1 is bounded by the north line of Park Street
from Madison Street to Aurora Street, the east line of Aurora Street
from Park Street to Sonora Street, the south line of Sonora Street
from Aurora Street to Madison Street, and the west line of Madison
Street from Sonora Street to Lafayette Street, the north line of Lafayette
Street from Madison Street to Lincoln Street, the west line of Lincoln
Street from Lafayette Street to Weber Avenue, the south line of Weber
Avenue from Lincoln Street to a point 516 feet west of Lincoln Street,
from said point to the Stockton Channel, Stockton Channel from 516
feet west of Lincoln Street to Madison Street, the west line of Madison
Street from Stockton Channel to Park Street and includes all the area
within said boundaries.
(Prior code § 11-004.1)
Parking Meter Zone 3 is bounded by the east and west lines of
Wilson Way between the south line of Channel Street and the north
line of Market Street and includes all the area within said boundaries.
(Prior code § 11-004.3)
A. The
City Manager is authorized to determine according to the provisions
hereinafter set forth in this section the maximum parking time to
be allowed in various parts of such parking meter zones which have
or will hereafter be designated by the City Council, and he or she
shall cause appropriate signs to be installed within the public off-street
parking lots and spaced at reasonable distances along the street curb,
advising the public of the parking limitations.
B. In
fixing the maximum time allowed for parking vehicles in the respective
designated spaces adjacent to parking meters within the parking meter
zones, said designated locations for parking spaces have been, and
the selection, changing or abandonment of such parking spaces and
maximum parking time therein by the City Manager shall hereafter be,
guided and governed by the location thereof, amount of traffic along
side thereof, the demand for parking space adjacent thereto, the congestion
of traffic thereat, the use of the streets on which said parking spaces
are situated, the position thereof with respect to business congestion
and all other traffic congestion existing.
C. Upon
selecting, changing or abandoning such parking spaces and maximum
parking times, the City Manager shall cause to be filed a record of
such selections, changes, or abandonments with the Traffic Engineer,
who shall keep a record of such selections, changes or abandonment
so as to indicate at all times the parking meter locations and the
maximum parking time permitted.
(Prior code § 11-005)
Where a maximum parking time is indicated by sign or signs attached
to parking meters, the leaving of a vehicle in a parking space so
restricted for a period in excess of such maximum time shall be a
separate and punishable violation for each and every maximum time
period or portion of said maximum time period which the vehicle is
left in the said parking space in excess of the initial period.
(Prior code § 11-006)
In the event that a police officer, officer, or parking enforcement
officer places on or under the tire of a vehicle a chalk mark or other
identifying mark or object for the purpose of identifying the vehicle
and its time of parking, no person shall erase or remove said chalk
mark or identifying mark or object except by moving the vehicle to
an entirely different parking stall.
(Prior code § 11-007; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
When signs are placed, giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle outside the parking meter zone between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sunday and holidays, for a period of time longer than specified on such sign authorized by the City Manager pursuant to Section
10.04.050.
(Prior code § 11-010)
A. Parking
meters, when equipped to accept United States coins in denominations
indicated, shall be so adjusted to show legal parking during said
periods and at such rates as may be established, from time to time,
by resolution of the City Council.
B. Parking
meters, when equipped to accept credit, debit, pre-paid cards, or
other electronic payment, shall have the parking fee adjusted, as
needed, to accept payment at such rate(s) as may be established, from
time to time, by resolution of the City Council.
(Prior code § 11-012; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space alongside of or
next to which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions
set forth herein, the operator of said vehicle upon so parking shall,
and it shall be a violation to fail to, immediately pay for parking
at such parking meter. If operator pays for such parking with United
States coins, operator must deposit coin and if the meter has an operating
knob, then turn the operating knob of said meter in a clockwise direction,
after the deposit of each coin, to the extent allowed by the proper
operation of the meter.
(Prior code § 11-013; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter, any slug, device, or metallic substitute for any coin of the
United States.
(Prior code § 11-014; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
The fees paid for parking at parking meters as provided herein
are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation
and control of traffic for alleviation of traffic problems upon the
public streets, for the creation of off-street parking and for studies
relating to provisions for off-street parking. The funds created shall
be devoted exclusively to these provisions.
(Prior code § 11-015; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
It is unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with,
open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter installed pursuant hereto.
(Prior code § 11-016)
No person shall cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle
registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or
her to be parked any day in any marked parking space upon any street
or in any public off-street parking lot within the parking meter zone
established as set forth herein, adjacent to a parking meter at any
time during which such meter is displaying a signal indicating that
the space is improperly in use, except during the time necessary to
set said meter to show proper parking during the hours posted, except
as follows:
Sunday and the following holidays:
January 1st
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
Lincoln's Birthday
Washington's Birthday
Last Monday in May
July 4th
First Monday in September
Columbus Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving Day
December 25th
(Prior code § 11-017; Ord. 2015-07-21-1201 C.S. § 4)
Upon discovering or observing any violation of this chapter, the enforcement officer, as authorized pursuant to Section
10.04.070 of this code, is empowered to issue an administrative citation as provided in Sections
1.24.020 and
1.24.030; notices to appear, or citations in the usual form and manner as provided in the
Vehicle Code of the State of California.
(Prior code § 11-018)
In the event any person is issued an administrative citation pursuant to Section
10.44.170, such person shall be assessed a civil penalty in accordance with Sections
1.24.010 through
1.28.020 of this code.
(Prior code § 11-019)
These provisions, so far as consistent therewith, shall be deemed
to be in addition and supplementary to, and not in conflict with nor
a repeal of prior or existing ordinances of this City, but shall be
additional provisions for the regulation of traffic and parking in
the parking meter zone provided for herein.
(Prior code § 11-020)