The Director is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title to place and maintain and, when required herein, shall place, the following curb markings or signs to indicate parking, standing or stopping regulations, and the curb markings or signs shall have the meanings as herein set forth.
1. 
Red curb marking means no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any day except as permitted by Vehicle Code;
2. 
Yellow curb marking means no stopping, standing or parking between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except holidays and Sundays 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 one minute, nor the unloading of materials more than 20 minutes and such loading or unloading shall be actively carried on during all of that time;
3. 
White curb marking means no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any day for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers and baggage, and shall not exceed five minutes;
4. 
Green curb marking means no stopping, standing or parking for a period of time longer than 12 or 24 minutes, as designated by signs at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except holidays and Sundays.
5. 
Blue curb marking means parking limited exclusively to public agency-owned vehicles specifically used for transportation of physically handicapped persons and for vehicles of physically handicapped persons which vehicle bears an appropriate identification identifying the vehicle as that of a physically handicapped person.
(Ord. 703 § 58, 1960; Ord. 970 § 1, 1968; SCC 400 § 1, 1979)
The provisions of this title imposing regulations on stopping or parking shall not relieve any person from the compliance with other or more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code, or the ordinances of this County regulating the standing or parking of vehicles at specified places or at specified times.
(Ord. 703 § 59, 1960)
a. 
The Director is authorized to prohibit stopping, standing or parking on any highway or may prohibit stopping, standing or parking during certain hours of the day on any highway.
b. 
When signs authorized by provisions of this section are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand/or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
(Ord. 703 § 60, 1960)
a. 
The Director is authorized to place signs and marking indicating no parking upon any two-way roadway, when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.
b. 
The Director is authorized to sign or mark the following places and, when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand/or park a vehicle in any of the places:
1. 
At any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite a midblock end of a safety zone;
2. 
At any place within 20 feet of any crosswalk;
3. 
Within 20 feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device;
4. 
At any place where traffic and engineering studies have been made and the Director determines that it is necessary in order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards or to provide for the orderly movement of traffic.
c. 
When signs authorized by provisions of this section are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand/or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
(Ord. 703 § 61, 1960)
a. 
Whenever the Director shall determine that, in a special situation, traffic congestion is likely to result on any highway or alley from holding public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, street construction, maintenance or repair work, or for any other reason, he is authorized 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. The signs shall remain in place only during the existence of the special situation, and the Director shall cause the signs to be moved promptly thereafter.
b. 
When signs authorized by provisions of this section are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand/or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
(Ord. 703 § 62, 1960)
a. 
No person shall park any vehicle in any alley in the County except while actively engaged in loading or unloading passengers, freight or merchandise.
b. 
No person shall stop, stand/or park a vehicle within any parkway.
(Ord. 703 § 63, 1960)
a. 
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale.
b. 
No person who owns or has custody or control of any vehicle shall park or store such vehicle upon any highway or alley for more than a consecutive period of 72 hours, or move and repark such vehicle on any highway within 300 feet of the original parking site, unless such vehicle is maintained in an operable condition and driven within the 72 consecutive hours mentioned above.
c. 
In the event the highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon each roadway, no person shall stop, stand/or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadways.
d. 
It is unlawful for any person to have, erect, place, stand/or park, wholly or partly within the right-of-way of any County road or highway, any vehicle, motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, wagon, pushcart, stand, structure, or building for the purpose of selling the same or of selling, vending, displaying for sale, or offering for sale, therefrom or therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise, fruit, vegetables, produce, or any other article or thing of value.
e. 
Any such vehicle, motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, wagon, pushcart, stand, structure, or building so had, erected, placed, stood or parked for any such purpose or purposes is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the removal thereof forthwith from within the right-of-way of any such road or highway by the Director, his engineers or employees is hereby authorized.
f. 
This title does not prohibit a seller from taking orders or delivering any commodity from any vehicle from that County road or highway immediately adjacent to the premises of the purchaser.
g. 
It is unlawful for any person to park, stop or abandon any vehicle within 1,000 feet of any authorized emergency vehicle when such authorized emergency vehicle is actively engaged at the scene of any bombing, act of sabotage, accident, explosion, flood, riot, earthquake, fire or any emergency.
h. 
No person shall park any motor truck (excepting therefrom any truck commonly known as and referred to as a "pickup truck"), truck tractor or commercial vehicle for more than one hour on any highway in a residential district or move and repark such vehicle on any highway in a residential district within three hundred feet (300) of the original parking site within any 24 hour period except while loading or unloading property or in connection with and in the aid of the performance of a service to or on a property adjacent to the block in which such vehicle is parked and only for such time in addition to one hour that is reasonably necessary to complete such loading, unloading or service.
i. 
No person shall park any motor home, trailer coach, or truck and camper for more than 72 hours on any highway in a residential district or move and repark such vehicle on any highway in a residential district within three hundred feet (300) of the original parking site within any 72 hour period.
j. 
No person shall park any trailer or semi-trailer upon any public street or alley 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 a normal manner upon the street or alley. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any vehicle or trailer owned by the county or a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessary for use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility.
(Ord. 703 § 64, 1960; Ord. 746 § 1, 1961; Ord. 825 § 2, 1963; Ord. 838 § 1, 1964; SCC 383 § 1, 1979; SCC 1045 § 1, 1996; SCC 1118 § 1, 1998; SCC 1362 § 1, 2007)
Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked parallel to and within eighteen inches of the left-hand curb, facing in the direction of the traffic movement upon any one-way street, unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.
(Ord. 703 § 65, 1960)
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See also Chapter 10.44.
a. 
The Director is authorized to establish bus zones, opposite red curb space, for the loading and unloading of buses, common carriers of passengers and to determine the location and length thereof.
b. 
The Director is authorized to establish loading zones.
c. 
The Director is authorized to establish taxi stands.
d. 
No person shall park and leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended in any loading zone for a period of time longer than is permitted for such loading zone except as otherwise provided in this title or in a taxi stand except the operator of the taxi.
(Ord. 703 § 66, 1960)
a. 
The Director is authorized to restrict or prohibit parking in excess of 12 minutes, 24 minutes, one hour or two hours, between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day on any highway.
b. 
When signs have been posted to give notice of such restriction or prohibition, no person shall park any vehicle and leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, for a period of time longer than set out on the signs.
(Ord. 703 § 67, 1960; Ord. 725 § 2, 1961)
Every person violating the provisions of Section 10.24.090, is guilty of a separate and further violation for each period of time that the vehicle is left so parked, equal to the maximum legal parking time for the particular time zone or parking space as designated in Section 10.24.090, or by ordinance adopted setting the maximum legal time.
(Ord. 703 § 68, 1960)
For the purpose of this section a curb parking space shall be an area open for lawful parking alongside or adjacent to a curb, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two or more vehicles to freely move for parking therein at the same time. Any person seeking to park his vehicle in a curb space, whose vehicle arrives at the parking space prior to any vehicle, other than his, and who proceeds beyond the space a distance not to exceed 10 feet, measured at the rear bumper, for the purpose of backing his vehicle therein, shall have the right-of-way over any person driving, or attempting to drive, any other vehicle directly into such curb parking space, or who, in any manner, obstructs such curb parking space; and driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the driver first arrived at the parking space.
(Ord. 703 § 69, 1960)
A person may park a vehicle adjacent to the curb within an intersection if the Director marks the roadway with appropriate signs, markers or buttons as described in Section 10.16.050.
(Ord. 703 § 70, 1960)
At no time shall any person park a vehicle on a highway at an angle to the roadway except to comply with the directions of a traffic officer.
(Ord. 703 § 71, 1960)
If any person parks a vehicle contrary to the provisions of Sections 10.24.030 through 10.24.070, 10.24.100 and 10.24.120, the vehicle is determined to be an obstruction to the normal flow of traffic as defined in the Vehicle Code Section 22651(b) and may be removed from the highway as provided in Chapter 10 of the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 703 § 72, 1960; SCC 37 § 1, 1971)
Every person who parks a motor vehicle upon any highway shall first lock the ignition, remove the key therefrom and take such key with him unless a licensed operator remains in such motor vehicle, in which case such licensed operator, before leaving the vehicle, shall first lock the ignition, remove the key therefrom, and take the key with him.
(Ord. 703 § 73, 1960)
a. 
Whenever the Director determines that parking or standing of vehicles on County property is prohibited, limited or restricted, the Director shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted.
b. 
When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand a vehicle contrary to the directions of the signs, and any vehicle parked in violation of the signs may be towed to the public storage garage, at the expense of the owner of the vehicle as provided in Division 11, Chapter 10 of the Vehicle code.
(Ord. 703 § 74, 1960; SCC 240 § 2, 1975)
Notwithstanding any other provision in this code, whenever the Director, Department of General Services determines that parking or standing of vehicles in County parking areas under his jurisdiction is prohibited, limited or restricted, the Director shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted.
When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand a vehicle contrary to the directions of the signs, and any vehicle parked in violation of the signs may be towed to the public storage garage, at the expense of the owner of the vehicle as provided in Division 11, Chapter 10 of the Vehicle Code, and/or, the Director, Department of General Services or those County employees may designate, or a peace officer, may issue a citation for illegal parking. The Director, Department of General Services, his designee or a peace officer, shall record on the citation the location the offense was committed, the nature of the violation, the state vehicle license number of the vehicle, the make and year of the vehicle and the time and date of such violation. He shall then issue in writing a citation for illegal parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided for by the laws of the state applicable to the traffic violations within the County.
(SCC 240 § 1, 1975)
It is unlawful for any person to drive upon or across, to leave standing or cause to be left standing any vehicle upon any privately owned property within the unincorporated area of the County without the implied or express consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of the property.
(Ord. 703 § 75, 1960)