Whenever in this chapter the words or phrases hereinafter in
this chapter defined are used, they shall have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them in this chapter unless the context indicates to the
contrary.
Words defined in Vehicle Code. Whenever any words or phrases
used in this chapter are not defined, but are in the California Vehicle
Code of this state, such definitions as now existing are incorporated
herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases as used
in this chapter as though set forth in full.
means any highway, as defined in this chapter, unnamed, and
having a width of less than twenty-five feet, and not provided with
a sidewalk or sidewalks.
means the space adjacent to the curb or edge of a roadway
reserved for the exclusive use of buses during the loading or unloading
of passengers.
means that space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive
use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers and
materials marked and designated as hereinafter provided in this chapter.
means the Director of Public Works of the City of West Hollywood.
means any parking space designated for the exclusive use
of a vehicle displaying a special identification license plate or
distinguishing placard subject to the provisions stated in Section
22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code. Disabled parking spaces shall
be marked in accordance with Section 22511.7 of the California Vehicle
Code.
means the West Hollywood Department of Public Works.
means every way set apart for public travel.
means any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle
or streetcar.
means to stop or to allow to stand any vehicle, whether occupied
or not, otherwise than in obedience to official traffic-control devices
or by direction or a police officer.
means the budget, management, staff, resources and policies
administered under the authority of the Department of Public Works.
means any mechanical or electronic meter that registers payment
for an on-street or off-street parking space and is erected for the
regulation of parking.
means any electronic parking meter or pay station that accepts
and registers payment for one or more parking spaces.
means the breach or intrusion of a vehicle required to comply with any general parking legislation enforced under the provisions of West Hollywood Municipal Code Chapter 10.07 and/or the California Vehicle Code that warrants the issuance of a parking citation penalty to the vehicle's registered owner.
means that the portion of a highway other than a roadway
or a sidewalk.
means any bus over twenty feet long and carrying more than
fifteen persons, or exceeding six thousand pounds in gross weight.
means that space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive
use of vehicles during loading and unloading of passengers, marked
and designated as with white paint.
means any person afoot.
means and includes every person, firm and corporation.
means that portion of a highway between the regularly established
curb lines or, when no curb exists, that portion improved, designated,
and ordinarily used for vehicular travel and parking.
means that portion of a roadway reserved for the exclusive
use of pedestrians, marked and designated as hereinafter provided
in this section.
means a section of the ordinance codified in the West Hollywood
Municipal Code unless some other ordinance or statute is specifically
mentioned.
means that portion of a highway between the curb lines or
traversable roadway and the adjacent property lines.
means and includes the portion of any public street, road,
highway, freeway, lane, alley, sidewalk, parkway or public place which
now exists or which may hereafter exist within the City of West Hollywood.
means any passenger vehicle for hire for the directed transportation
of not more than eight passengers, excluding the driver, at rates
based on the distance, duration or number of trips, or waiting time,
or on any combination of such rates.
means and includes the portion of the street area designated
for the standing or stopping of taxicabs while awaiting employment.
means every device by which any person or property is or
may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 08-781 §§ 1, 2, 2008; Ord. 10-859 § 1, 2010; Ord. 21-1150 § 2, 2021)
The Department of Public Works may install and maintain parking
space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to any curb where
parking is permitted. When such parking space markings are placed
in the right-of-way, no vehicle shall be stopped or left standing
other than within the markings of a single space.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 2, 2010)
No person shall fail or refuse to obey or comply with any sign,
marking or device erected, made or placed to indicate and carry out
the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Whenever DPW finds that any portion of the highway or of a private
street or any parking lot maintained or operated for the public, the
city may post signs indicating a maximum time limit. If a vehicle
has been parked in an area restricting parking to a specific time
interval, such vehicle shall not be re-parked within a distance of
five hundred feet of the place initially parked within a period of
four hours thereafter. Vehicles used for vending or peddling purposes
shall also comply with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 3, 2010)
No person shall park, or cause to be parked, any vehicle within
any parking facility or lot except between the lines indicating where
vehicles shall be parked, and no person so park any vehicle so as
to use or occupy more than one such marked parking space.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Wherever any parking area or portion of a parking area is assigned
for the exclusive use of the occupants of a facility or the occupants
of a portion of a facility and at, in or near such parking area or
portion of a parking area there is a legible sign stating either that
such parking area or portion of a parking area is exclusively assigned
or that parking is prohibited, or both, a person, other than an occupant
of the facility or an occupant of the portion of the facility to which
such parking area or portion of a parking area is assigned, shall
not park any vehicle in such parking area or portion of a parking
area. A property owner or manager or designee responsible for overseeing
the parking area may request that a parking violation be issued provided
that a signed copy of a letter is on file with West Hollywood Parking
Enforcement indicating contact information which will be confirmed
in the event enforcement on private property is requested.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
A person shall not operate a motor vehicle in the bicycle lane
except to cross at a permanent or temporary driveway, or for the purpose
of parking a vehicle where parking is permitted or where the vehicle
is disabled.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
An operator shall not stop for any purpose other than loading
or unloading between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day
except Sunday, or at such other times as designated by the Director
of Public Works, in any place marked as a commercial loading zone
pursuant to the criteria established by administrative regulation.
Such stop shall not exceed ten minutes for a passenger vehicle and
shall not exceed twenty minutes for a commercial vehicle. The Director
of Public Works shall place signs or curb markings to designate areas
as commercial loading zones. Commercial loading zones shall be a minimum
of thirty feet not to exceed forty-eight feet in length, and may be
established in a parking meter location, in which event parking meters
shall be enforced during posted hours when the loading zone is not
in effect.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 4, 2010)
An operator shall not stop or park for any purpose other than
a stop not to exceed a period of time reasonably necessary for the
deposit of mail in an adjacent mail box.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
a.
No
person shall park or leave standing upon any portion of a city street
or highway within a residential zone, as shown on the official zoning
map of the city as may be amended from time to time, any vehicle having
either of the following:
b.
The
following vehicles are hereby exempt from the provisions of this section:
1.
Any vehicle properly displaying a large vehicle permit. Large vehicle permits shall be issued to residents for their use and the use of their guests. Notwithstanding the above, large vehicle permits shall not be used under any circumstances on any of the following vehicles: tour buses, movie, television or photographic production vehicles, limousines, or mobile billboards in accordance with Chapter 19.80 of this code. No more than five one-day large vehicle permits may be issued to each residential unit within a three-month period;
2.
Any
authorized emergency vehicle, any authorized highway work vehicle
or any vehicle used in the construction, installation, or repair of
a utility or a public utility in accordance with Sections 22512 and
35704 of the California Vehicle Code;
3.
Any
vehicle engaged in loading or unloading;
4.
Any
vehicle making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise;
and
5.
Any
vehicle picking up or delivering materials used in the actual and
bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building
or structure for which an encroachment permit or a building permit
has been obtained.
c.
Pursuant
to Section 40200 et seq., of the California Vehicle Code, any violation of this section shall be punishable as a civil penalty in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 10.12 of the West Hollywood Municipal Code. Any vehicle parked or left standing in violation of this section may be removed in accordance with the provisions of Section 22650 et seq. of the California
Vehicle Code.
d.
Large vehicle parking permits shall be issued by the Director of Public Works who shall establish policies and procedures for the issuance of such permits. Such policies shall be consistent with the provisions of Sections 10.08.010 through 10.08.120 of the West Hollywood Municipal Code, to the greatest extent possible as determined by the Director.
e.
The
fee for a large vehicle parking permit shall be established by resolution
of the City Council.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 5, 2010)
A person shall not park any trailer or semi-trailer upon any
highway, street, alley, public way or place unless the trailer or
semi-trailer is at all times while so parked attached to a vehicle
capable of moving the trailer or semi-trailer in the normal manner
upon the highway, street, alley, public way or public place.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
An operator shall not park or stop any vehicle except a bus
in any place marked by the Director as a bus loading zone as provided
in this section. No bus shall stop in any such bus loading zone longer
than necessary to load or unload passengers, except at a terminus.
Appropriate signs or curb markings, or both shall indicate such bus
loading zones. The Director shall place signs or red curb markings
or both at such locations where traffic conditions are such that he/she
deems it necessary to establish such bus loading zone. Unless otherwise
specified by the Director, such loading zone shall not exceed eighty
feet in length.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
(a)
An operator shall not park or stop for any purpose other than a stop
of not to exceed three minutes, or for such other amount of time as
may be indicated on the posted sign, to load and unload passengers
at any time in any of the following places:
(b)
DPW may place curb paint markings at other locations at which it
finds that traffic conditions are such as to make passenger loading
zones feasible.
(c)
Valet Loading Zones. In any valet parking loading
zone established by the Director of Public Works, a licensed valet
parking service may only operate during the hours specified in its
valet parking business license, if applicable, and according to any
other terms and conditions indicated on the license.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 08-781 § 3, 2008; Ord. 10-859 § 6, 2010; Ord. 20-1123 § 1, 2020)
An operator shall not park or stop in any alley for any other
purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials,
or both. Such operator shall not stop for the loading or unloading
of passengers for more than three minutes for the loading or unloading
of materials for more than twenty minutes at any time in any alley.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
(a)
Residential Zoned Districts. Whenever the DPW finds
that traffic congestion, or the disruption of the normal flow of traffic
is likely to result from the operation, stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles during the holding of public or private special events,
assemblages, gatherings or functions, during the construction, alteration,
repair, sweeping, for filming or other reasons, the Director may place
or cause to be placed temporary signs prohibiting the operation, stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles at least seventy-two hours prior to
and during the period such condition exists on all affected streets.
In the event of an emergency, the Director may act under this section
without providing the seventy-two-hour notice required herein.
(b)
Commercial Zoned Districts. Whenever the DPW finds
that traffic congestion, or the disruption of the normal flow of traffic
is likely to result from the operation, stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles during the holding of public or private special events,
assemblages, gatherings or functions, during the construction, alteration,
repair, sweeping, for filming or other reasons, the Director may place
or cause to be placed temporary signs prohibiting the operation, stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles at least twenty-four hours prior to
and during the period such condition exists on all affected streets.
In the event of an emergency, the Director may act under this section
without providing the twenty-four hour notice required herein.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 7, 2010)
An operator shall not stop, park or otherwise leave standing
any vehicle whether attended or unattended except in compliance with
a traffic sign or signal or direction of a police officer, between
a safety zone and the adjacent right hand curb or within the area
between the zone and the curb as may be indicated by a sign or red
paint on the curb, which sign or paint was erected.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Any vehicle observed parked or left standing longer than seventy-two
consecutive hours in the same location may be cited and removed from
the public right-of-way.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Every operator who parks a motor vehicle upon any highway shall
first lock the ignition, remove the key and take such key with him,
unless a licensed operator remains in such motor vehicle.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Whenever the Director of the Department of Public Works has
placed or caused to be placed appropriate signs, an operator shall
not park a vehicle upon any grade of seven and one half percent or
more within any business or residential district without turning the
wheels of the vehicle toward the curb while parked facing downhill
and turning the wheels of the vehicle away from the curb while the
vehicle is parked facing an uphill grade.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 8, 2010; Ord. 18-1026 § 1, 2018)
Whenever the width of a highway and traffic conditions are such
that the parking of vehicles at an angle to the curb instead of parallel
to the curb will not impede traffic, and that there is need for the
additional parking space which parking at an angle will provide, the
DPW shall indicate at what angle traffic conditions vehicles should
be parked by placing parallel white lines on the surface of the roadway.
An operator shall not stop, stand or park any vehicle except between,
at the angle indicated by, and parallel to both such adjacent white
lines, with the nearest wheel not more than one foot from the curb.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 9, 2010)
An operator shall not park any vehicle on the roadway side of
another vehicle that is stopped, parked or standing at the curb or
edge of the public right-of-way, whether attended or unattended. Authorized
emergency vehicles exempt from this section may display flashing or
revolving amber warning lights when engaged in the enforcement of
parking and traffic laws.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Whenever the parking of vehicles at all or certain hours of
the day upon any portion of a highway or of a private street which
is open to the public constitutes a traffic hazard or impedes the
free flow of traffic, or both, the city shall erect signs stating
that private street parking is prohibited at all or certain hours
of the day.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
A.
A person
shall not park any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any
private driveway or upon any public or private property and/or parking
facility without the express or implied consent of the owner or person
in lawful possession of such driveway, property or parking facility.
B.
This
section does not prohibit any act, either expressly authorized or
expressly prohibited by either Section 602 of the Penal Code, or Section
21113 of the Vehicle Code of the state of California, or by any other
state law.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
A person shall not park any vehicle, whether attended or unattended,
regardless of loading or unloading in the public right-of-way in such
a manner where the vehicle is parked in the direction of opposing
traffic.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
A person shall not park any vehicle, whether attended or unattended,
upon any highway where the roadway is bordered by adjacent curbs or
upon any private street which is open to the public, whether bordered
by curbs or not, unless not less than eight feet of the width of the
paved or improved or main traveled portion of such highway or such
private street opposite such parked vehicle is left clear and unobstructed
for the free passage of other vehicles.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
An operator may park within an intersection adjacent to the
curb if the board finds, pursuant to Section 22500 of the California
Vehicle Code, that the width of the highway and traffic conditions
are such that such parking will not constitute a traffic hazard or
impede the free flow of traffic.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
At any place for a distance not to exceed one hundred feet where
the DPW finds that parking would unduly hamper the free flow of traffic,
result in special traffic hazard, or endanger public health or safety,
the DPW shall place appropriate signs or markings prohibiting such
parking.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 10, 2010)
An operator shall not park within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant
along any unmarked curb or in front of or adjacent to a fire hydrant
indicated by signs or curb markings. This section does not prohibit
any action prohibited by Section 22514 of the Vehicle Code or by any
other state law.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Whenever any vehicle parking space is assigned for the exclusive
use of the occupant of any building, whether residential, commercial
or industrial, which parking space is within such building or elsewhere,
and at, in or near such parking space there is a legible sign stating
either that such space is exclusively assigned, or that parking is
prohibited, or both, a person, other than the person to whom such
parking space is assigned, shall not park any vehicle in such parking
space except with the permission of the person to whom such parking
space is assigned.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
The use of any official city taxicab stand or stands shall be limited exclusively to vehicles that display a taxicab vehicle permit issued by the city of West Hollywood pursuant to Chapter 5.08 and attended by a driver in possession of a valid driver's permit issued by the city. No person shall park, stop or stand any attended or unattended vehicle in an official city taxicab stand except as provided in this section.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 09-831 § 1, 2009)
(a)
Deposit of Fees Required. A person shall be required
to deposit the proper fee for occupying a parking metered space at
a charge set in the city's fee resolution during the hours and days
of operation posted.
(b)
Parking Lot Requirements when Parking Meters or Parking Payment
Devices Are Installed. A person shall not park any vehicle
on any parking lot or public right-of-way maintained or operated by
the city on which a parking meter or parking payment device is installed
at any time without depositing the proper fee.
(c)
Fraudulent Payment Prohibited. No person shall deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter or parking payment device
any foreign coin, token, slug, altered coin, object, substance, device,
or substitute for lawful money of the United States or any other unauthorized
payment device, or to otherwise fraudulently attempt to obtain time
on a parking meter or parking payment device or otherwise avoid making
the required payment.
(d)
Tampering. No person shall remove, open, deface,
vandalize, tamper with, injure, break, disable or willfully impair
the usefulness of any parking meter, parking payment device, or other
parking equipment by any means.
(Ord. 21-1150 § 3, 2021; Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
No vehicular parking shall be permitted at specific locations
during posted hours to allow for routine street cleaning and maintenance.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
No vehicular parking shall be permitted on any portion of a
sidewalk, nor shall no portion of a vehicle be parked in such a manner
to overhang or encroach onto any portion of the sidewalk or parkway.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Whenever DPW finds that parking adjacent to any school property
would unduly hamper the free flow of traffic or otherwise constitute
a traffic hazard, the city shall place appropriate signs or markings
prohibiting such parking.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 11, 2010)
Whenever DPW finds that traffic congestion is such that the
movement or flow of traffic may be improved by the elimination of
parking during certain peak travel times, signs prohibiting the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles shall be posted. It shall be illegal
for any operator to park or leave standing a vehicle where signs indicating
a peak hour traffic zone have been posted. Vehicles in violation shall
be cited and/or towed whenever the parking of vehicles constitutes
a traffic hazard or impedes the free flow of traffic, or both.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007; Ord. 10-859 § 12, 2010)
Whenever the Director finds that the parking of vehicles, with
a height of six feet or more, within one hundred feet of an intersection,
creates a visibility limitation resulting in a potential traffic hazard,
the Director shall erect signs or markings stating that the parking
of vehicles with a height of six feet or more is prohibited within
one hundred feet of an intersection.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
Unless exempted by the provisions of this part, no person shall
park a motor vehicle in violation of any parking restrictions established
pursuant to this part. Except as provided in paragraph (c), a violation
of this section shall constitute an infraction, which shall be punishable
by a fine as referenced in the city's Schedule of Fees and
Services in effect at the time of the violation.
(Ord. 07-753 § 5, 2007)
The Director temporarily may waive existing or establish new
parking regulations in order to accommodate or to mitigate the impacts
of construction projects in the vicinity.
(Ord. 08-781 § 4, 2008)
