A. 
The provisions of Chapters 10.04 through 10.32 prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device.
B. 
The provisions of Chapters 10.04 through 10.32 imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the State Vehicle Code or the ordinances of the city prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
The provisions of Chapters 10.04 through 10.32 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 any vehicle owned or operated by the United States Post Office Department while in use for the collection, transportation or delivery of United States mail.
(Prior code § 17-64)
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, or 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 area established by resolution of the city council as a no-parking area, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
E. 
Upon, along or across any railway track in such manner as to hinder, delay, or obstruct the movement of any car traveling upon such track;
F. 
In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;
G. 
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 noparking are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the effective time of such no parking;
H. 
At any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
I. 
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;
J. 
Within twenty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device;
K. 
In any space set aside for the exclusive use of any emergency vehicle of the police department, sheriff's office, or fire department;
L. 
So that vehicle faces the opposite direction of traffic flow on one-way streets.
(Prior code § 17-65)
It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to stop, stand or park any vehicle in any alley for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
The loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes, or the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty minutes.
(Prior code § 17-67; Ord. 2897 § 2, 1975; Ord. 2910 § 1, 1975; Ord. 4219 § 1, 1990)
A. 
Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.
B. 
In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.
C. 
The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.
D. 
The requirement of parallel parking imposed by this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case such vehicle may be backed up to the curb in other than a business district or on a secondary roadway, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the centerline of the street and does not block traffic.
(Prior code § 17-68)
A. 
No person shall store or cause to be stored any vehicle upon any street. A vehicle shall be considered stored when it has been left standing on a street without having been moved more than one-tenth of a mile within a seventy-two consecutive hour period.
B. 
No person shall leave standing or cause or allow to be left standing any inoperable vehicle on any street for more than four consecutive hours. A vehicle is considered to be inoperable when it is wrecked, burned, dismantled, or lacks a motor, transmission or wheel or wheels, or is on blocks, or is otherwise incapable of being driven upon the highways in conformity with the requirements of the California Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 17-69; Ord. 4134 § 1, 1988)
A. 
No person shall park any commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of more than ten thousand pounds, or any commercial trailer or semitrailer (whether or not attached to a motorized vehicle), upon any highway, street, alley, public way or public place in the city of El Cajon except where in compliance with Section 10.28.080, and:
1. 
If registered to an El Cajon address (not including post office box) and the owner is in possession of a valid city permit;
2. 
While in the process of loading or unloading property;
3. 
When such vehicle or trailer is parked in connection with, and in aid of, the performance of a service to or on the property in the block in which such vehicle is parked; or
4. 
When such vehicle or trailer is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily parking such vehicle or trailer.
B. 
No person shall park any motorized recreational vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer (whether or not attached to a motorized vehicle), boat or boat trailer (whether or not attached to a motorized vehicle) upon any highway, street, alley, public way or public place in the city of El Cajon except:
1. 
If registered to an El Cajon address (not including post office box) and the owner is in possession of a valid city permit;
2. 
While in the process of loading or unloading property; or
3. 
When such vehicle or trailer is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily parking such vehicle or trailer.
C. 
For the purpose of this section, vehicles, trailers or semi-trailers falling within the definitions of "motorized vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer," include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. 
Camp trailers (California Vehicle Code Section 242);
2. 
Fifth-wheel travel trailers (California Vehicle Code Section 324);
3. 
House cars (California Vehicle Code Section 362);
4. 
Trailer coaches (California Vehicle Code Section 635);
5. 
Mobilehomes (California Vehicle Code Section 396);
6. 
Boats and/or trailers;
7. 
Trailers used for the transport of equipment, vehicles, or animals;
8. 
Recreation vehicles (California Health & Safety Code Section 18010);
9. 
Folding camper trailers; and
10. 
Semi-trailers (California Vehicle Code Section 550).
D. 
Permits for the temporary parking of motorized vehicles, trailers or semitrailers shall be issued under the following conditions:
1. 
Permits will be issued free of charge and will be available at such city facilities designated by the city manager, or may be available through the city's website, if determined feasible by the city manager;
2. 
Permits will be issued only to residents of the city of El Cajon, where the vehicle is registered to an El Cajon address (not including post office box);
3. 
Each permit will be issued for a maximum period of twenty-four consecutive hours;
4. 
A permit holder may obtain no more than three permits to apply over any seventy-two hour period; and
5. 
A permit holder may obtain up to fifty-two permits every calendar year.
E. 
1. 
Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of an infraction and, upon conviction therefor, shall be punished as prescribed in Chapter 1.24 of the El Cajon Municipal Code (Sections 1.24.010 through 1.24.080).
2. 
As an alternative to enforcement of this section in accordance with paragraph 1 of this subsection E, any person violating any provision of this chapter may be issued an administrative citation for each and every violation, as prescribed in Chapter 1.14 of the El Cajon Municipal Code (Sections 1.14.010 through 1.14.050).
(Ord. 4916 § 2, 2008)
No person shall park any commercial vehicle of a rated capacity of more than ten thousand pounds on any street or alley for more than one hour of total elapsed time, between the hours of nine p.m. and six a.m. of the next succeeding day, whether the place of parking is the same or is changed, and whether the time of parking is continuous or interrupted.
(Prior code § 17-69.2; Ord. 3052 § 1, 1977)
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair or cause to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased, any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street in the city. Temporary emergency repairs may be made upon a public street.
(Prior code § 17-71)
A. 
The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
B. 
When official signs are erected prohibiting parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
(Prior code § 17-73)
A. 
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.
B. 
When official signs or markings prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign or marking.
(Prior code § 17-74)
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 the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.
(Prior code § 17-75)
A. 
No person shall stand or park any vehicle or structure wholly or partly in any city street for the purpose of selling the same, or for the purpose of soliciting, selling, bartering or exchanging therefrom or therein any article or thing, except as provided in subsection B of this section.
B. 
Any lunch wagon, eating car or pushcart may stand or park at the request of a bona fide purchaser only, for a period of time not to exceed ten minutes in any one place. However, no lunch wagon, eating car or pushcart shall stand or park in any street for the purpose of soliciting, selling, bartering or exchanging therefrom or therein any article or thing upon any street within two hundred feet of public school property.
(Prior code § 17-76; Ord. 3498 § 1, 1980)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to maintain, by appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb surface, all no-stopping zones, no-parking areas, and restricted parking areas, as defined and described in this chapter.
When such curb markings or signs are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of Chapters 10.04 through 10.32.
(Prior code § 17-77)
The city traffic engineer shall designate established no-stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and days when stopping is prohibited.
During the hours and on the days designated on the signs, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop any vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets established by resolution of the city council as no-stopping zones.
(Prior code § 17-78)
The city traffic engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.
When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
(Prior code § 17-79)
A. 
Whenever the city traffic engineer or the chief of police shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the city traffic engineer or the chief of police shall have power and authority 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 as the city traffic engineer or the chief of police shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the city traffic engineer or the chief of police shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.
B. 
When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
(Prior code § 17-80)
When authorized signs have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle during the hours and on the days designated on the signs. Specific location and time restrictions shall be designated by city council resolution, as may be amended from time to time and kept on file in the office of the city clerk.
(Ord. 4404, 1993)
When authorized signs or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the designated hours of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than twenty-four minutes.
(Prior code § 17-8 1)
When authorized signs or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the designated hours of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than forty minutes.
(Prior code § 17-82)
When authorized signs or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the designated hours of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than one hour.
(Prior code § 17-83)
When authorized signs or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the designated hours of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than two hours.
(Ord. 4850 § 2, 2006)
When authorized signs or curb markings have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle between the designated hours of any day for a period of time longer than two hours.
(Ord. 4850 § 3, 2006)
No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle on East Main Street between South Anza Street and First Street at any time, on any day, for a period of time longer than two hours. This restriction shall be enforceable only when signs or curb markings authorized and determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary to give notice thereof are in place.
(Ord. 4839 § 1, 2006)
No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle along the east and west curblines of Jamacha Road between Granite Hills Drive and Washington Avenue at any time, on any day, for a period of time longer than two hours. This restriction shall be enforceable only when signs or curb markings authorized and determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary to give notice thereof are in place.
(Ord. 4844 § 1, 2006)
No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park any vehicle along the entire south segment of Bradley Avenue between Pioneer Way and the easterly city limit located 1167 feet east of the easterly extended curbline of Pioneer Way at any time, on any day, for a period of time longer than two hours. This restriction shall be enforceable only when signs or curb markings authorized and determined by the city traffic engineer to be necessary to give notice thereof are in place.
(Ord. 4848 § 1, 2006)
On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the city council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park such vehicle except:
A. 
At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of the allotted space;
B. 
With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of the curb.
The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight or goods, in which event the provisions applicable in Section 10.28.050 shall be complied with.
(Prior code § 17-85)
A. 
Upon determining that the orderly, efficient conduct of the city's business requires that parking, standing or movement of vehicles on city property or city-controlled property, including, but not limited to, the city-county parking lot, be prohibited, limited or restricted, the city manager is authorized to order signs of such prohibition, limitation or restriction to be posted .
B. 
No person shall park, stand or operate any vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of signs posted in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(Prior code § 17-86; Ord. 3469 § 1, 1980; Ord. 4433, 1993)
A. 
For the purpose of this section, a "limited curb parking space" means an area open for lawful parking along side of, and 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.
B. 
Any person seeking to park his vehicle in a limited curb parking space, whose vehicle arrives at the parking space prior to any other vehicle, and who proceeds beyond the space a distance not to exceed ten feet 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 limited curb parking space or who in any manner obstructs such limited curb parking space, and the driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the driver who first arrived at the parking space.
(Prior code § 17-87)
The owner, lessee, or renter of a vehicle who violates any section of this chapter, or any of the following sections of the Vehicle Code shall be issued a citation pursuant to Section 40203 of the Vehicle Code which includes the amount of the penalty, the address of the person authorized to receive payment, and a statement in bold print that payments of parking penalty for the parking violation may be sent through the mail.
The payment may be made in person or by mailing said sum, within ten days of the date of issuance of the citation, to the City of El Cajon, (Attention: Finance Dept.), 200 East Main Street, El Cajon, CA, 92020.
Upon the failure of the owner, lessee, or renter to pay said sum within ten days, a notice of delinquent parking violation shall be served or mailed to the registered owner pursuant to the procedure set out in the Vehicle Code Section 40200 et seq.
All penalties not paid within twenty days of the mailing of the notice of delinquent parking violation shall be increased in accordance with the schedule of parking penalties for parking violations.
The current schedule of parking penalties shall be on file with the city clerk and shall be in such amounts as the city council may set from time to time by resolution.
(Ord. 3417 § 1, 1980; Ord. 3584 § 1, 1981; Ord. 3685 § 1, 1983; Ord. 3913 § 1, 1985; Ord. 4182 § 1, 1989; Ord. 4308 § 1, 1991; Ord. 4433, 1993)
A. 
Initial Review. A person receiving a parking citation may contest such citation within 21 days of the date of issuance of the citation. A person receiving a notice of delinquency of parking penalty may contest such notice within ten days after mailing of the notice. The police department shall investigate the circumstances of the citation or notice with respect to a contestant's written explanation of reasons for contesting the parking violation and shall mail the results of the investigation to the person who contested the citation or the notice within 5 days of receipt of such written explanation.
B. 
Administrative Review. All administrative reviews shall be conducted by the city's designated examiner in accordance with the city's established written procedure. Within fifteen days of the mailing of the results of the initial review, the person contesting the citation or notice may request an administrative review. Except as may otherwise be provided by the written procedure, and prior to such review, contestant must deposit the amount of the parking penalty together with administrative costs, as established by resolution and kept on file in the office of the city clerk. Such review may be by mail or by personal conference as indicated by the contestant. The examiner's final decision may be delivered personally to the contestant or by first-class mail.
C. 
Judicial appeal. Within twenty days after the mailing or personal delivery of the final decision, contestant may seek judicial review.
(Ord. 4433, 1993)