A.
The
provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking
of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times specified
in this chapter, 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 this chapter 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 Vehicle Code, this code or city ordinances,
prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified
places or at specified times.
(Prior code § 72.110)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any median
strip between roadways or within any traffic island or other area
designed to separate or guide the movement of traffic.
(Prior code § 72.111)
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 or adjacent to the left-hand side of
such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing
or parking.
C.
The
road commissioner 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 or adjacent to 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.
No
person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon either side of a one-way
street so that such vehicle is facing opposite to the direction of
traffic movement upon such one-way street.
(Prior code § 72.112)
A.
The
road commissioner is authorized to place signs or markings indicating
no parking upon any highway when the width of the roadway and shoulders
of such highway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a
highway as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the
roadway and shoulders of such highway does not exceed thirty feet.
B.
When
signs or marking prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets
as authorized in this section, no persons shall park a vehicle upon
any such street in violation of any such sign or marking.
(Prior code § 72.113)
A.
The
road commissioner 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 or her opinion, interfere with traffic
or create a hazardous situation.
B.
When
official signs are erected indicating no 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 § 72.114)
When the road commissioner determines that it is necessary to
prohibit stopping, standing or parking at any of the following places
in order to eliminate a dangerous traffic hazard, the road commissioner
shall appropriately sign or mark such places and, when so signed or
marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of said
places, except that this section does not prohibit buses from stopping
to receive or discharge passengers at such places when appropriately
signed or marked as bus loading zones:
A.
At
any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb edge of the roadway
immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone;
B.
At
any place within twenty-five feet of an intersection;
C.
Within
twenty-five feet of the approach to any traffic signal, stop sign,
or official electric flashing device;
D.
Adjacent
to either side of a crosswalk or driveway entrance for a distance
not to exceed twenty feet from either side of such crosswalk or driveway;
E.
At
any other place where the road commissioner determines that it is
necessary in order to eliminate a dangerous traffic hazard;
F.
Within
one hundred feet of any intersection of any vehicle which is six feet
or more in height.
(Prior code § 72.115; Ord. 110, 1985)
The road commissioner may appropriately sign or mark the following
places and, when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand
or park a vehicle in any of said places:
A.
For
a distance of fifty feet along the curb or edge of the roadway at
the entrance to any hospital;
B.
For
a distance of fifty feet along the curb or edge of the roadway immediately
in front of the main entrance to any substation office of the sheriff;
C.
For
a distance of fifty feet along the curb or edge of the roadway immediately
in front of the main entrance to any fire station housing motor vehicle
firefighting equipment;
D.
Adjacent
to any fire hydrant when it has been determined by the road commissioner
that stopping, standing or parking of any vehicle, whether attended
or unattended, would present some special hazard or would prevent
ready access to the fire hydrant.
(Prior code § 72.116)
When the council determines by resolution that it is necessary
to prohibit stopping, standing or parking on certain highways, or
portions thereof, at all or certain hours of the day, in order to
facilitate the movement of traffic or to eliminate a hazardous condition,
the road commissioner shall appropriately sign or mark such highways,
or portions thereof, and when so signed or marked, no person shall
stop, stand or park a vehicle on any such highway or portion thereof,
in violation of the restrictions stated on or indicated by such signs
or markings; except, that this section does not prohibit buses from
stopping to receive and discharge passengers at places appropriately
signed or marked as bus loading zones.
(Prior code § 72.117)
It is unlawful for any person to stop, park, or leave standing
any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon any highway within
any business or residence district, unless not less than eight feet
of the width of the paved or improved or main traveled portion of
the highway opposite such stopped, parked or standing vehicle is left
clear and unobstructed for free passage of other vehicles.
(Prior code § 72.118)
A.
Whenever
the road commissioner determines that traffic congestion or traffic
hazard of an emergency nature is likely to result from the operation,
stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles during the holding of public
or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or during the construction,
alteration, repair or improvement of any highway, or for any other
reason, he or she may place or cause to be placed temporary signs
prohibiting the operation, stopping, standing, or stopping of vehicles
during the existence of such emergency.
B.
When
signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving
notice thereof, no person shall operate, stop, stand or park any vehicle
contrary to the directions of such signs.
(Prior code § 72.119)
If a person parks any vehicle contrary to the provisions of Section 10.28.100 and the presence of such vehicle prevents or interferes with the construction, alteration, repair or improvement of the highway, the sheriff shall move such vehicle to the nearest place on the highway where:
A.
The
presence of such vehicle will not prevent or interfere with the construction,
alteration, repair or improvement of the highway; and
(Prior code § 72.120)
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 or her, 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 such key with him or her.
(Prior code § 72.121)
A.
No
person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle
shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive
period of seventy-two hours.
B.
In
the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess
of a consecutive period of seventy-two hours, the sheriff or any member
of the Highway Patrol of the state may remove said vehicle from the
street in the manner and subject to the requirements of Sections 22651
and 22652 of the Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 72.122)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal
purpose of:
A.
Displaying
such vehicle for sale;
B.
Washing,
greasing, or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by
an emergency.
(Prior code § 72.123)
When the council determines by resolution that it is necessary
to restrict parking on certain highways, or portions thereof, to emergency
vehicles as defined in Vehicle Code Section 165, or to one or more
of the types of emergency vehicles as defined therein, the city engineer
shall appropriately sign or mark such highways or portions thereof,
and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a
vehicle on any such highway or portion thereof, in violation of the
restrictions stated on or indicated by such signs or markings.
(Prior code § 72.124)
A.
When
the council determines by resolution that it is necessary to establish
no-parking/tow-away zones on certain highways or portions thereof,
the city engineer shall appropriately sign or mark such highways or
portions thereof, and, when so signed or marked, no person shall stop,
stand or park a vehicle on any such highway, or portion thereof, in
violation of the restriction stated on or indicated by such signs
or markings.
(Prior code § 72.125)
A.
The
parking or standing on streets in residential areas of commercial
vehicles having a manufacturer's gross weight rating of ten thousand
pounds or more is prohibited.
B.
This
section shall not apply under the following conditions:
1.
When
such vehicle is loading or unloading property;
2.
When
such vehicle is parked in connection with and in aid of the performance
of a service to or on a property within the residential area;
3.
When
such vehicle is engaged in the construction, installation, repair
or maintenance of a publicly or privately owned utility facility located
within the residential area;
4.
When
the area contains property used for commercial or industrial purposes
and such vehicle is parked on the property or on the highway contiguous
to the property;
5.
When
the city council has determined by resolution that the parking of
such vehicles on certain residential streets, or portions thereof,
shall be permitted and the road commissioner has appropriately signed
or marked such streets, or portions thereof.
C.
For
the purposes of this section, "residential area" means that portion
of a highway and the property contiguous thereto upon both sides of
which highway, collectively within a distance of a quarter mile, the
contiguous property fronting thereon is occupied by eight or more
separate dwelling units. A residential area may be longer than one-quarter
of a mile if the above ratio of dwelling units to the length of highway
exists.
(Prior code § 72.126)
It is unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand
or park such vehicle in violation of the restrictions stated on signs
posted and maintained by the road commissioner as provided in this
chapter.
(Prior code § 72.140)
The road commissioner shall erect and maintain adequate signs
along the portions of highways designated in this chapter specifying
that parking is limited as specified in this chapter.
(Prior code § 72.141)
A.
Within
those portions of those highways designated in this chapter, the road
commissioner shall indicate at what angle vehicles should be parked
by placing parallel white lines on the surface of the road-way.
B.
On
such portions of such highways a person 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 or edge of the roadway.
(Prior code § 72.150)
Angle parking (thirty degrees) is established in the city on
the west side of Main Street, from a point fifty feet south of the
south line of Broadway southerly for a distance of eighty-eight feet
and from a point one hundred eighty feet south of the south line of
Broadway southerly for a distance of fifty-four feet and from a point
ten feet north of the north line of Broadway northerly for a distance
of six hundred seventy feet.
(Prior code § 72.157)
Angle parking (ninety degrees) is established in the city on
the southerly portion of Cinderella Way, from a point fifty feet south
of Cinderella Place, for a distance of two hundred forty feet following
the curb line of the cul-de-sac. Said angle parking shall be designated
by and between signs posted by the city.
(Ord. 66 § 1, 1980)
Perpendicular parking (ninety degrees) is established in the
city on the west side of Skyline Drive, from a point three hundred
fifty-five feet south of Lincoln Street southerly for a distance of
one hundred sixty feet (approx.).
(Ord. 90, 1982)
