A.
It
is the intention of the city to provide reasonable traffic and parking
rules, regulations and laws. All intersections, safety zones, crosswalks,
roadway or curb parking, loading and standing regulation markings,
stop signs, boulevard stop signs, speed limit signs, slow signs, danger
signs, caution signs, warning signs, traffic signals, and all other
traffic-control signs and devices, parking limit signs and roadway
markings relative to traffic direction and control, and also relative
to parking, now painted or marked or posted or in place or designated
or authorized by existing county ordinances, or by the county road
commission, or by the county sheriff or by the State Highway Patrol,
or by other agencies to whom such authority was delegated by the state
or county shall so continue as if found, established or designated
by the city council, and shall be enforced pursuant to this title
as part of the traffic regulations of the city of Pico Rivera until
the city council adopts rules or regulations or laws to the contrary.
No person shall drive, stand or park a vehicle in violation thereof.
B.
The
foregoing shall remain enforceable as long as they conform with the
provisions of the Vehicle Code of the state, or until changed by the
city council. Hereafter, future designations relative to the foregoing
shall be done pursuant to authorization given or granted by the city
council to any person, agency or organization.
(Prior code § 3344)
A.
The
provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking and standing
of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of the sheriff, State Highway
Patrol or fire department, any public ambulance, or any public utility
vehicle, or any private ambulance which has qualified as an authorized
emergency vehicle, when any vehicle mentioned in this section is operated
in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency
call.
B.
The
foregoing exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver of any
such vehicle from the consequences of his or her wilful disregard
of the safety of others.
C.
The
provisions of this title regulating the parking or standing of vehicles
shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public utility
while necessarily in use for construction or repair work, or to any
vehicle owned by the United States while in use for the collection,
transportation or delivery of United States Mail.
(Prior code § 3326)
Pursuant to Section 21101.2 of the Vehicle Code of the state,
if the Los Angeles County sheriff, or any of his or her duly appointed
deputies, determines that the traffic load on a particular street
or highway, or any portion thereof, within the incorporated city of
Pico Rivera, is such that little or no vehicular flow is occurring
and, additionally, if the sheriff or any of his or her duly appointed
deputies finds that a significant number of vehicles are not promptly
moving when the opportunity arises to do so, the sheriff or any of
his or her duly appointed deputies may divert vehicles, excepting
public safety or emergency vehicles, from that street or highway,
or portion thereof, subject to traffic congestion until such time
as reasonably flowing traffic is restored.
(Prior code § 3329.2; Ord. 721 § 1, 1986)
The purpose of this title is to supplement the general law,
or to impose regulations where the state has not by general laws already
legislated on the same subject matter, so as to have occupied the
field of enactment by the city. In the event any section of this title
should so conflict with the general laws as now or hereafter enacted,
such general law shall control.
(Prior code § 3300)
A.
It
is unlawful for any person to drive or operate a vehicle in, out of
or upon any street, highway or alley which has been posted as a closed
street by resolution of the city council.
B.
All
streets, highways or alleys to be temporarily closed shall be closed
by resolution of the city council setting forth the days and times
of closure.
C.
This
section shall not apply to the drivers or operators of the following
vehicles:
D.
Any
person violating the provisions of this section shall, on conviction
thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than six months or by a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 766 § 1, 1989)
