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THE CITY OF PALM DESFuT, CALIFORNIA,
ADOPTINC Td2AFr1C I:EGV! ATIONS FOR
SAID CITY.
The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California,
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows:
ARTICI•E I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1. Definitions of Words and Phrases.
The following words and phrases when used in this
ordinance shall for the purpose of this ordinance have the
meanings respectively ascribed to thew in this article.
Section 1.1. Motor Vehicle Code Definitions to be Used.
Whenever any words or phrases used herein are nct
defined, but are defined in the '?ehicle Code of the State of
California and amendments thereto, such definitions shall
apply.
Section 1.2. Central Traffic District.
All streets and portions of streets within the area
described as follows: All that area bounded by Rancho Road
and Deep Canyon Road, and South side of E1 Paseo and the
North side of a line extended along the right-of-way of
Allesardro Drive to intersect with Deep Canyon and Ste. Rte.
74. Also, the North side of Ste. Rte. 74 fron E1 Paseo to
Parkview Drive.
Section 1.3. Coach.
Any motor bus, motor coach, trackless trolley, or
passenger stage used as a common carrier of passengers.
Section 1.4. Council.
The Council cf the City of Palm Desert.
Section I.S. Curb.
The lateral houndary of the roadway whether such curb
be marked by curbing construction, or not so marked: the
word "curb" as herein used shall not include the line dividing
the roadway of a street from parking strips in the center of
a street, nor from tracks or riy,.ts of way of public utility
companies.
Section 1.6. Division Island.
A raised island located in the roadway and separating
opposing or conflicting streams of traffic.
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Bec•_ion 1.7. Holidays.
Within the meaning of this ordinance, holidays aro the
first day of January, the tmelfth day of February, the
twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth of May, the
fourth day of July, the first Monday in September, the ninth
day of September, the twelfth day of October, the eleventh
day of November, the twenty-fifth day of December, and
Thanksgiving Day. If the first day of January, twelfth day
of February, twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth
day of May, the fourth day of July, the ninth day of Cepternber,
the twelfth day of October, the eleventh day of November or
the twenty-fifth day of December falls upon a Sunday, the
Monday following is a holiday.
Section I.B. Loading Zone.
The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive
use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers
or materials.
Section 1.9. Official Time Standard.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall
mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in
current use in this city.
Section 1.10. Parkway.
That portion of a street other than a roadway or a
sidewalk.
Section 1.11. Parking Meter.
A mechanical device installed within or upon the curb
or sidewalk area, immediately adjacent to a parking space,
for the purpose of controlling the period of time occupancy
of such parking meter space by any vehicle.
Section 1.12. Passenger Loading Zone.
The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive
use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Section 1.13. Pedestrian.
Any person afoot.
Section 1.14. Police Officer.
Every officer of the Police Department of this city or
any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to
make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Section 1.15. S_E.
' When required, means complete cessation of movement.
Section 1.16. Vehicle Code.
The Vehicle Code of the State of California.
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MTICI.E II
sr TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
Section 2. rolice Aftinistration.
There is hcre'ay established in the police department of
this city a traffic division to be under the control of an
officer of police appointed by and directly resor-isible to
the chief of police.
Section 2.1. Duty of Traffic Division.
It shall be the duty of the traffic division with such
aid as may be rendered by other members of the police depart-
ment to enforce the street traffic regulations of this city
and all of the: state vehicle laws applicable to street
traffic in this city, to make arrests for traffic violations,
to investigate traffic accidents and to cooperate with the
�eii __traffic er.Rineer and other officers of the city in the
aaniii.istrotion of t e traffic laws and in developing ways
and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out
those duties specially imposed upon said division by this
ordinance and the traffic ordinances of this city.
Section 2.2. Traffic Accident Studies.
Whenever the accidents at any particular location
become numbeous, the traffic division shall cooperate with
the city traffic engineer in conducting studies of such
accidents and determing remedial measures.
Section 2.3. Traffic Accident Reports.
The traffic division shall maintain a suitable system
of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or
cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by
location. Such reports shall be available for the use and
information of the city traffic engineer.
Section 2.4. Traffic Division to Submit Annual
Traffic Sa ety Report.
The traffic division shall annually prepare a •.affic
report which shall be filed with the City Council. :uch a
report shall contain information on traffic matte.s in this
city as follows:
1. The number of traffic accidents, the number of
persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other
pertinent traffic accident data]
2. The number of traffic accidents investigated and
other pertinent data on the safety activities of the polices
- 3. The plans and recommendations of the division for
future traffic safety activities.
Section 2.5. City Traffic Engineer.
The office of citX traffic engineer is hereby established.
The city traffic ens neer shall be apo`inted by City Manager
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and he shall exercise the pavers arid duties as provided in
this ordinance and in the traffic ordinances of this city.
Whenever the city traffic cn ineer is r,quired or authorized
to place or VX ntai" n oLlicial t.ra fic constrol devices or
signals, he may cause such devices or signals to be placed
or maintained.
Section 2.6. Powers and Duties of City Traffic
_ngincer - Delegation.'
It shall bo the general duty of the city traffic engineer
to determine the installation and proper diming ana muintenance
of traffic control devices and Signals, to conduct engineering
analyses of traffic accidents and to davise remedial measures,
to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic
conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the
develorment of ways and means to improve traffic conditions,
and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by
ordinances of this city. Whenever, by the provisions of
this ordinance a power is granted to the city traffic engineer
or a duty imposed upon him, the power maybe exercised or
the duty performed by his deputy or by a person authorized
in writing by him.
Section 2.7. Traffic Committee.
There is hereby established an advisory traffic committee
to serve without compensation, consisting of the city traffic
engineer, the chief of police or in his discretion as his
representative the chief of the traffic division, a member
of the city council and one representative each from the
city engineer's office and the city attorney's office and
such number of other city officers and representatives of
unofficial bodies as may be determined and appointed by the
mayor. The chairman of the committee shall be appointed by
the mayor and may be removed by him.
Section 2.8. Duties of Traffic Committee.
It shall be the duty of the traffic committee to suggest
-the most practicable means for coordinating the activities
of all officers and agencies of this city having authority
with respect to the administration of enforcement of traffic
regulationsi to stimulate and assist in the preparation and
publicati:n of traffic reports; to receive c--plaints having
to do w'.:h traffic matters; and to recommend to tiie l%gislative
body -._ this city and to the citX traffic engineer, the
chief of the traffic division and other city o i;:als ways
and means for improving traffic co:,.:: '.1.,,.o aua the adminis-
tration and enforcement of Traffic regulations.
ARTICLE III
ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
Section 3. Authority of Police and Fire De rtment
Ufficials.
Officers of the Police Department and such officers as
are assigned by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to
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direct all traffic by voice, hand, audible or other signal
in conformance with traffic laws, except that in the event
of a fire or ether emergency or to expedite traffic or to
safeguard pedestrians, officers of the Police Drpartment or
stembers of the Fire Department may direct traffic as con-
ditions nay require, notwithstanding the provisions to the
contrary contained in this ordinance or the Vehicle Code.
Section 3.1. Persons Other Than Officials Shall Not
Direct Traffic.
No person other than an officer of the Police Department
or members of the Fire Department or a person authorized by
the Chief of Police or a person authorized by law shall
direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other
signal, except that persons may operate, when and as herein
provided, any mechanical pushbotton signal erected by order
of the city traffic engineer.
Section 3.2. Obedience to Police or Authorized Officers.
No person shall fail or refuse to comply with or to
perform any act forbidden by any lawful order, signal, or
direction of a traffic or police officer, or a member fo the
Fire Deparment, or a person authorized by the Chief of
Police of by law.
Section 3.3. Traffic Regulations Apply to Persons
Riding Bicycles or An rals.
Every person riding a bicycle or riding or driving an
anima]. upon an highway has all of the rights and shall be
subject to all fo the duties applicable to the driver of a
vehicle by this ordinance, except those provisions which by
their very nature can have no application.
Section 3.4. Obstruction or interference with Police
or Au orize6 Officers.
No person shall interfere with or obstruct in any way
any police officer or other officer or employee of this city
in their enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance.
The removal, obliteration or concealment of any chalk mark
or other distinguishing mark used by any police officer or
other employee or officer of this city in connection with
the enforcement of the parking regQ_,tions of this ordinance
shall, if done for the purpose of evading the provisions of
this ordinance, constitute such interference or obstruction.
Section 3.5. Public Employees to Obey Traffic Regulations
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the
operator of any vehicle owned Ly or used in the service of
the United States Government, this state, any county or
city, and it shall be unlawful for any said operator to
violate any of the provisions of this ordinance except as
otherwise permitted in this ordinance or by the Vehicle
Code.
Section 3.6. Exemption of Certain Vehicles.*
(a) The provisions of this ordinance regulating the
operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply
to vehicles operated by the Police or Fire Department, any
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public ambulance or any public utility vehicle or any private
ambulance, which public utility vehicle or private ambulance
has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when any
vehicle mentioned in this section is operated in the manner
specified 4y the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency
call.
(b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, however,
relieve the operator of any such vehicle from obligation to
exercise due care for the safety of others or the consequences
of his willful disregard of the safety of others.
(e) The provisions of this ordinance regulating the
parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any
vehicle of a city depaaatent of 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, transporatation or delivery
of United States mail.
Section 3.7. Report of Damage to Certain Property.
(a) The operator of a vehicle or the person in charge
of any animal involved in Any accident resulting in damage
to any property publicly owned or owned by a public utility,
including but not limited to any fire hydrant, parking
meter, lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or
power pole, or resulting in damage to any tree, traffic
control device or other property of a like nature located in
or along any street, shall within twenty-four (24) hours
after such accident make a written report of such accident
to the Police Department of this city.
(b) Every such report shall state the time when and
the place where the accident took place, the name and address
of the person owning and of the person operating or in
charge of such vehicle or animal, the license number of
every such vehicle, and shall briefly describe the property
damage in such accident.
(c) The operator of any vehicle involved in an accient
shall not be subject to the requirements or penalties of
this section if and during the time he is physically incapable
of making a report, but in such event he shall make a report
as required in subdivision (a) within 24 hours after regaining
ability to make such report.
Section 3.8. When Vehicles May Be Removed From Streets.
Any regularly employed and salaried officer of the
Police Department of this city may remove or cause to be
removed:
(a) Any vehicle that has been parked or left standing
upon a street or highway for 72 or more consecutive hours.
(b) Any vehicle which is parked or left standing upon
a street or highway between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00
p.m. when such parking or standing is prohibited by ordinance
or resolution of this city and signs are posted giving
notice of such removal.
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(c) Any vehicle which is parked or left standing upon
a 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 for the Installation
of underground utilities or where th 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 ary portion there of 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 movements provided that signs
giving notice that such vehicle may be removed are erected
or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the
removal.
ARTICLE IV
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
Section 4. Authority to Install Traffic Control
Devices.
(a) The citytraffic engineer shall have the power and
duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained
official traffic conitrol devices when and as required to
make effective the provisions of this ordinance.
(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effectiveness
of any provision teereof that traffic control devices be
Installed to give notice to the public of the application of
such law the city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to
install or cause to be installed the necessary devices
subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the
law applicable thereto.
(c) The city traffic engineer may also place and
maintain or cause to place anT-m—al-n-tin such additional
traffic control devices as he may deem necessary or proper
to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he
shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic
engineering principles and traffic investigations and in
accordance with such standards, limitations, and rules as
may be set forth in this ordinance or as may be determined
by ordinance or resolution of the Council.
Section 4.1. Traffic Control Signs Required for
n orcement Purposes.
No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this ordinance
for which signs are required shall be enforced against an
alleged violator unless appropriate legible signs are in
place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws.
Section 4.2. Obedience to Traffic Control Devices.
The operator of any vehicle or train shall obey the
instructions of any official traffic control device placed
in accordance with this ordinance unless otherwise directed
by a police officer or other authorized person subject to
the exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency
vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
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Section 4.3. installation of Traffic Signals.
(a) The city traffic encrinrer is hereby directed to
install rnd Main!Mn official traffic signals at those
intersections and other places where traffic conditions are
such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately
interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve
traffic congestion or to protect life or property from
exceptional hazard.
(b) The city traffic engineer shall ascertain and
determine theTo—cations where such signals are required by
field investigation, traffic courts and other traffic in-
formation as may be pertinent and his determinations there-
from shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering
and safety standards and instructions set forth in the
California Maintenance Manual issued by the Division of
Highways of the State Department of Public Works.
(c) Whenever the city traffic engineer installs and
maintains an official tra�Iyna at any intersection, he
shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street
name signs clearly visible to traffic approaching from all
directions unless such street name signs have previously
been placed and are maintained at any said intersection.
Section 4.4. Lane Marking.
The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to mark
center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway
to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may
place signs temporarily designating lanes to be use by
traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the
center line of the highway.
Section 4.5. Distinctive Roadway Markings.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place and
maintain distinctive roadway markings as described in the
Vehicle Code on those streets or parts of streets where the
volume of traffic or the vertical or other curvature of the
roadway renders it hazardous to drive on the left side of
such markings or signs and markings. Such markings or signs
and marking shall have the same effect as similar markings
placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to
provisions of the Vehicle Code.
Section 4.6. Authori to Remove, Relocate and
D scont nue Traffic Control Devices.
The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to
remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic
control device not specifically required by the Vehicle Code
or this ordinance whenever he shall determine in any particular
case that the conditions which warranted or required the
installation no longer exist or obtain.
Section 4.7. Traffic Control Devices:
Hours of Operation.
The city traffic engineer shall determine the hours and
days during which any traffic control device shall be in
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operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such
hours or days aro specified in this ordinance.
Section 4.9. Unauthorized Painting -of -Curbs.
No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint
any street or curb surfaces provided, however, that this
section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb
surface by any perron who has complied with the provisions
of any resolution or ordinance of this city pertaining
thereto.
ARTICLE V
TURNING MOVEMENTS
Section S. Authorit to Place Turning Meters.
Intersections. Multiple Lanes.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to place official
traffic control evices within or adjacent to intersections
and indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning
at such intersections, and.the city traffic engineer is
t authorized to locate and indicate more - than one lane of
traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or
left hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated
may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or
ordinance.
Section 5.1. Authority to Place Restricted Turn Sicns.
The cc�itX�► traffic engineer is hereby authorized to
determine�ose intersections at which drivers at vehicles
shall not make a right, left, or U turn, and shall place
proper signs at such intersections. The making of such
turns may he prohibited between certain hours of any day and
permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be P
plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when
such turns are permitted.
Section 5.2. Signal Controlled Intersections
Right Turns.
(a) No driver of a vehicle shall make a right turn
against a red or stop signal at any intersection which is
sign -posted giving notice of such restriction as hereinafter
provided in this section.
(b) The city traffic engineer shall post appropriate
signs giving effect to this section where he determines that
the Raking of rights turns against traffic signal "stop"
indicates would seriously interfere with the safe and orderly
flow of traffic.
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ARTICLE VI
ONE -NAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
Section 6. Tire CitX Traffic Engineer to Sian
Ono -Way Streets and Alleys.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city
designates any one-way street or alley, the cit traffic
engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice
thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless
such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of
lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection
where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is
prohibited.
ARTICLE VII
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
Section 7. The City Traffic Engineer to Erect
stop Signs.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city
designates and describes any street or portion thereof as
through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are
required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any
railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to
stop, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain
stop signs as o ows.
A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street
intersecting each through street or portion thereof so
designated and at those entrances to other intersections
where a stop is required and at any railroad grade
crossing so designatedi provided, however, stop signs
shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to
an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an
official traffic control signal. Every such sign shall
conform With, and shall be placed as provided in, the
Vehicle Code.
Section 7.1. Stop at Through Street or St22 Sign.
(a) Those streets and parts of streets established by
resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be through
streets for the purpose of this section.
(b) The provisions of this section shall also apply at
one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances
and intersections are established by revolution of the
Council.
- (c) The provisions of this section shall apply at
those highway railway grade crossings as established by
resolution of the Council.
Section 7.2. Emerging from Alley, Driveway or Building.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway
or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to
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driving onto a sida&lk or into the sidewalk area extending
across any alley way or driveway.
ARTICLE Vill
MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Section S. Driving Through Funeral Procession.
No operator of any vehicle shall drive between the
vehicles comprising a funeral procession or a parade, pro-
vided that such vehicles are conspicuously so designated.
The directing of all vehicles and traffic on any street over
which such funeral procession or parade wishes to pass shall
be subject to the orders of the Police Department.
Section 8.1. Clinging to Moving Vehicle.
No person shall attach himself with his hands, or to
catch on, or hold on to with his hands or by other means, to
any moving vehicle or train for the purpose of receiving
motive power therefrom.
Section 8.2. Commercial Vehicles Using Private
Driveways.
No person shall operate or drive a commercial vehicle
in, on or across any private driveway approach or sidewalk
area or the driveway itself without the consent of the owner
or occupant of the property, if a sign or markings are in
place indicating that the use of such driveway is prohibited.
For the purpose of this section a commercial vehicle
shall mean a vehicle having a rated capacity in excess of
one-half ton.
Section 8.3. Riding or Driving on Sidewalk.
No person shall ride, drive. propel, or cause to be
propelled any vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk
excepting over permanently constructed driveways and except-
ing when it is necessary for any temporary purpose to drive
a loaded vehicle across a sidewalk; provided further, that
said sidewalk area be substantially protected by wooden
planks two inches thick, and written permission be pre-
viously obtained from the city traffic engineer. Such
wooden planks shall not be permitted to remain upon such
sidewalk area during the hours from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Section 8.4. New Pavement and Markings.
No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle
over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted
markings in any street when a barrier sign, cone marker or
other warning device is in place warning persons not to
drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when any
such device is in place indicating that the street or any
portion thereof is closed.
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Section 4.9. Obedience to Barriers and signs.
No person, public utility or department in the City
shall orect or place any barrier or sign on any street
unless of a type approved by the city traffic engineer or
disobey the instructions, remove,tamper with or a Cory bny
barrier or sign lawfully placed on any street by any parson,
public utility or by any department of this city.
Section 9.6. No Entrance Into Intersection That
WOM13 obstruct Tr -a c.
No operator of any vehicle shall enter any intersection
or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on
the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accomo-
date the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the
peesage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding
any traffic -control signal indication to proceed.
Section B.T. Limited Access.
No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited
access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are
lawfully established.
Section B.B. Restrictions on Use of Freeways.
No person shall drive or operate any bicycle, motor
driven cycle, or any vehicle which is not drawn by a motor
vehicle upon any street established as a freeway, as defined
by State law, nor shall any pedestrian walk across or along
any such street so designated and described except in space
set aside for the use of pedestrians, provided official
signs are in place giving notice of such restrictions.
ARTICLE IX
PEDESTRIANS REGULATIONS
Section 9. Traffic Engineer to Establish Marked
Crosswalks.
(a) The city traffic engineer shall establish, desig-
nate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other
places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the
surface of the roadway as follows:
Crosswalks shall be established and maintained at all
intersections within the central traffic district and
at such intersections outisde such district, and at
other places within or outside said district where the
city traffic engineer determines that thero is par-
ticular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway
subject to the limitation contained in (b) of this
section.
(b) other than crosswalks at intersections, no cross-
walks shall be established in any block which is less than
lour hundred (400) feet in length and such crosswalk shall
to located as nearly as practicable at mid -block.
(a) The city traffic engineer may place signs at or
adjacent to an intersection -in respect to any crosswalk
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diraeting that pedestrians shall not cross in the crosswalk
so indicated.
Section 9.1. When Pedestrians Must Use Crosswalks.
No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a
crosswalk in the central traffic district or in any business
district.
ARTICLE X
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING FOR CERTAIN
•.PURPOSES OR IN CERTAIN PLACES
Section 10. Application of Regulations.
(a) The provisions of this ordinance prohibiting the
stoppoing, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at
all times or at thoso 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 this ordinance imposing a time
limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person
from the duty to observe other and more restrictive pro-
visions of the Vehicle -Code or the ordinances of this city
prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles
in specified places or at specified times.
Section 10.1. Stopeing or Standing in Parkways
Prohibited.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within
any parkway.
Section 10.2. Traf f ic Engineer to Maintain No
Stopping Zones and No ParkinS Areas.
The city traffic_ engineer is hereby authorized to
maintain, y -appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb
surface, all no stopping signs, no parking areas, and re-
stricted parking areas, as defined and described in this
ordinance.
When said curb markings or signs are in place no oper-
ator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle
adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in vio-
lation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 10.3. No Parking Areas.
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, of traffic sign or signal.
(a) Within any divisional island unless authorized and
clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings.
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(b) On either side of any street between the projected
property lines of any public walk, public steps, street, or
thoroughfare terminat!nq 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 citX traffic enetincer deter-
mines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle woulif con-
stitute 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 resolutic:s of the
Council as a no parking area, when such area is indicated by
appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.
(a) 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 author-
ized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or
where the use of the street or highway or any portion there-
of is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or
structures or unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle
would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement;
provided that signs giving notice of such no parking are
erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to
the effective time or such no parking.
(h) At any place within twenty (20) 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 (20) feet of a cross-
walk at an intersection (in the central traffic district or)
in any business district when such place is indicated by
appropraite signs or by red paint upon the curb surface
except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.
(j) Within twenty (20) feet of the approach to any
traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric
flashing device.
Section 10.4. Use of Streets for Storage of Vehicles
Prohibited.
'NO person who owns or has possession, custody or con-
trol of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street
or alley for more than a consecutive period of 72 hours.
Section 10.5. Parking -for Demonstration.
No operator of any vehicle shall park said vehicle upon
any street in this city for the principle purpose of adver-
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timing or displaying it for sale, unless authorized by
resolution of the council.
Section 10.6. Reptiring or Greasigg, Vehicien on
Public streets.
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed,
repair or cause to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased,
dismantle or cause to be dismantled any vehicle or any part
thereof upon any public street in this city. Temporary
emergency repairs may be made upon a public street.
Section 10.7. Washing or Pr.ashina Vehicles.
No person shall wash or cause to be washed, polish or
cause to be polished any vehicle or any part thereof upon
any public street in this city, when a charge is made for
such service.
Section 10.8. Parking Adjacent to Schools.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby aut-horized to
erect signs indicat ng no parking uon that side of any
street adjacent to any school property when such parking
Mould, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a
hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected prohibiting park-
ing upon that side of a street adjacent to any school pro-
perty, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated
place.
Section 10.9. Parking Prohibited on Narrow Streets.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to
place signs or ma;Ring indicating no parking upon any
street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20
feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such
signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not
exceed 30 feet.
(b) When official signs or markings prohibiting park-
ing are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no
person shall park, a vehicle upon any such street in vio-
lation of any such sign or marking.
Section 10.10. Parking on Grades.
No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle
unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding 3%
(within any business or residence district) without blocking
the wheels of said vehicle by turning them against the curb
or by other means.
Section 10.11. Unlawful Parkina Peddlers. Vendors.
is) Except as otherwise provided in this section no
person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or pushcart
from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or
food stuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for
sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating
car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within this
city except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may
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stand or perk only at the request of a bons fide purchaser
for a period of time not to exceed ten (10) minutes at any
one place. The provisions of this subsection shall not
apply to persons delivering such articles upon order of, or
tip agreement with a customer from a store or other fixed
puce of business •,a distribution.
(b) No person shall park or stand on any street any
lunch wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or pushcart fror. Which
tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy, ica cream or other arti-
cles of food are sold or offered for sale without first
obtaining a written permit to do so from the city traffic
engineer which shall designate the specific locat o3 n in
whU such cart shall stand.
(e) No person shall park or stand any vehicle or wagon
used or intended to be used in the transporation of property
for hire on any street while awaiting patronage for such
vehicle or wagon without first obtaining a written permit to
do so from the citz traffic engineer which shall designate
the specific location where such vehicle may stand.
(d) Whenever any permit is granted under the pro-
visions of this section and a particular location to park or
stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand
any vehicle, wagon, or pushcart on any location other than
as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder
of any such permit is convicted in any court of competent
jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this
section, such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the
city traffic engineer upon the filing of the record of such
conviction with such officer and no permit shall thereafter
be issued to such person until six (60) months have elapsed
from the date of such revocation.
Section 10.12. Emergency Parking Signs.
(a) Whenever the city traffic engineer shall determine
that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result
from the holding of public or private assemblages, gather-
ings, or functions, or for other reasons, the city -traffic
engineer shall have power and authority to order temporary
s gns 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 shall direct during
the time such temporary are in place. Such signs
shall remain in place only during the existence of such
emergency and the citX trafficengineer 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.
Section 10.13. Display of Warning Devices When
Commercial e c e s Ie
Every motor truck having an unladen weight of 4,000
pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of
weight operated upon any street or highway during darkness
shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two
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red lanterns or two warning lights or reflectors, which
reflectors shall be of a type approved by the Department of
California Highway Patrol. When any vehicle above mentioned
or any trailer or semi -trailer is disabled upon streets or
highways outside of any business or residence district
within this city and upon which street or highway there is
Insufficient street lighting to reveal a vehicle at a dis-
tance of 200 feet immediately placed at a distance of ap-
proximately 100 feet in advance of, and 100 feet to the rear
of, such disabled vehicle by the driver thereof. The con-
tinuous flashing of at least four approved class A -Type I
turn signal lamps, at least two toward the front and at
least two toward the rear of the vehicle, shall be con-
sidered to meet the requirements of this section until the
devices mentioned above can be placed in the required lo-
cations. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be
displayed continuously during darkness while such vehicle
remains disabled upon such street or highway.
ARTICLE XI
STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING RESTRICTED
OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS
Section 11. Twenty Four Minute Parking.
Green curb marking shall mean no standing or parking
for a period of time longer than 24 minutes at any time
between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays
and holdidays).
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings
have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be
necessary and are in place giving notice t eroo no operator
of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle adjacent
to any such legible curb marking or sign or parking meter in
violation thereof.
Section 11.1. Forty Minute Parking.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings
have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be
necessary and are in place giving not cethereof, no operator
of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle
between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day
except Sunday(s and holidays) for a period of time longer
than 40 minutes.
Section 11.2. One Hour Parking.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings
have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be
necessary and are in place giving notice iereo , no operator
of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehiclo between
the hours of 900 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except
Sundays (and holidays) for a period of time longer than one
hour.
Section 11.3. Two Hour Parking.
When authorized signs, parking meters or curb markings
have been determined by the city traffic engineer to be
necessary and are in place giving notice therms; no operator
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of any vehicle shall stop,
the tours of 900 a.M, and
Sundays and holidays) for
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stand or park said vehirle between
6e00 p.n. of any day except
a period of time longer than two
Section 11.4. Parking parallel on OneWay Streets.
(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations,
a vehicle may be stopped or parked within 18 inches of the
lefthand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement
upon any oneway 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 lefthand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are
in place permitting such standing or parking.
(c) The city traffic engineer is authorized to deter-
mine 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, provided that such vehicle does
not extend beyond the center line of the street and does not
block traffic thereby.
Section. 11.5. Diagonal Parking.
On any of the streets or portions of streets established
by resolution of the Council as diagonal parking zones, when
signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such
diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of
any vehicle to park said 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 said alloted spaces
(b) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six
(6) inches of said 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 11.4 of this ordinance
shall be complied with.
Section 11.6. Parking Space Markings.
The cit 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,
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to 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.
section 11.7. No Stopping zones.
The eit traffic engineer shall designate established
no stopping z� placing and maintaining appropriate
signs indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and
Indicating the hours and day when stopping is prohibited.
During the hours and on the days designated on the
signs, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
to stop said vehicle on any of the streets or parts of
streets established by resolution of the Council as no
stopping zones.
Section 11.8. All Night Parking Prohibited.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any
street for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes
between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. of any day,
provided that this section shall not apply to a vehicle of
any regularly licensed physician when actually engaged in
making professional calls.
ARTICLE XII
STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
section 12. Authority to Establish Loadirg zones.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby auu%orized to
determine and to mare loading zones and passenger loading
zones as follows:
1. At any place in the central traffic district or any
business district.
2. Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of
business or in front of any hall or place used for the
purpose of public assembly.
(b) In no event shall more than one-half of the total
curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.
(c) Loading zones shall be indicated by yellow paint
upon the top of all curbs within such zones.
(d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by
white paint upon the top of all curbs in said zones.
Section 12.1 Curb Markings to Indicate No
Stopping and Farkin-F-Re-g—ura—tions.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized,
subject to the provisions and limitations of this ordinance,
to place, and when required herein shall place, the following
curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations,
and said curb marking shall have the meanings as herein set
forth.
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unloading passengers or material for such time as is permitted
in section 12.2. '
Section 12.4. Standing in Passenger Loadinq Zone.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any ;
passenger loading zone for any purpose other than the loading
or unloading of passengers for such time as is specified in
Section 12.2.
Section 12.5. Standing in Any Alley.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any
purpose other -than the loading or unloading of persons or
materials in any alley.
Section 12A. Coach Zones to be Established.
(a) The city traffic en ineer is hereby authorized to
establish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading and
unloading of buses or common carriers of passengers and to
determine the location thereof.
(b) Coach zones shall normally be established on the
far side of an intersection.
ARTICLE XIII
RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS
Section 13. Certain Vehicles Prohibited
n Central Traffic District.
(a) No person shall operate any of the following
vehicles in the central traffic district between the hours i
of 7000 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day:
1. Any freight vehicle more than eight and onehalf (8
1/2) feet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so
loaded that any part of its load extends more than twenty
(20) feet to the front or rear of said vehicle)
2. Any vehicle carrying building material that has not
been loaded, or is not to be unloaded, at some point within
the central traffic district;
3. Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage or
dirt.
(b) Provided that the city traffic -engineer may by
written permit authorize the operation of any such vehicle ;
for the purpose of making necessary emergency deliveries to
or from points within the central traffic district.
Section 13.1 Advertising Vehicles.
No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for
advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle equipped
with a sound -amplifying or loudspeaking devise upon any
street or alley at any time within the central traffic
district.
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Section 13.2 horse -Drawn Vehicles.
no person shall drive any animal -drawn vehicle into or
within the central traffic district between the hours of
4%30 p.m. and S OO p.m. of any day.
Section 13.3 Truck Routes.
(a) Whenever any resolution of this city designates
and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the
use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum
gross weight limit of three tons, the city traffic engineer
is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by
appropriate signs as "Truck Routes" for the movement of
vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three
tons.
(b) When any such truck route or routes are established
and designated by appropriate signs the operator of any
vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons
shall drive on such route or routes and none other except
that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of
any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons
coming from a "Truck Route" having ingress and egress by
direct route to ani from restricted streets when necessary
for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods,
wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure
located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of
delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide
repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building
or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building
permit has previously been obtained therefor.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to
(1) passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public
Utilities Commission, or to (2) any vehicle owned by a
public utility while necessarily in use in the construction
installation or repair of any public utility.
(d) Those streets and parts of streets established by
resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be truck
routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum
gross weight of three tons.
Section 13.4 Commerical Vehicles Prohibited
From Using Certain Streets.
(a) Whenever any resolution of this city designates
and described any street or portion thereof as a street the
use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the
city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate
s gns on t ose streets affected by such ordinance.
(b) Those streets and parts of streets established by
resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be streets,
the gse of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger
buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission.
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ARTICLE XXV
PARKING METERS
Section 14. Parking Meter Zones.
The streets or portions of streets hereinafter described
in Sections numbered 14 and followed by a letter are hereby
defined and established as parking meter zones within which
the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated and
inspected with the aid of parking meters.
Section 14a. (see note on Page of the Detailed
Explanation under arking Meters,
Sections 14 14.12)
Section 14.1 Manner of Installation.
The city traffic engineer shall cause parking meters to
be installed and maimtalned In all parking meter zones.
Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or
sidewalk area immediately adjacent to each parking space.
Each meter shall be placed in such manner as to show or
display by a sign or signal that the parking space adjacent
thereto is or is not legally in -use.
Each parking meter shall be set to display, after the
operational procedure has been completed, a sign or signal
indicating legal parkings for that period of time conforming
to the limit of parking time as indicated on the meter. Each
parking meter shall indicate the limit of parking time in
the parking space adjacent to the parking meter, and shall
continue to operate from the time of the completion of the
operational procedure until the expiration of the time fixed
as the parking limit or a portion thereof for the part of
the street upon which said meter is placed. Each said meter
shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said
legal parking time it will indicate by a mechanical operation
and by proper signal that the lawful parking period has
expired.
Section 14:2 Time of Operation of Parking Meters.
The provisions of this ordinance relating to the operation
of parking meters shall be effective between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on every day except Sundays and
holidays).
Section 14.3 Operational Procedure to be Followed.
Immediately after oecupancp �.Z a parking meter space,
the operator of a vehicle shall deposit a coin of the United
States in said parking meter and if necessary turn a crank,
knob, or handle in accordance with the instructions posted
on the face of the parking meter.
Section 14.4 Parking Meter Fees.
The parking meter fees for the parking meter zones
herein established shall be as follows:
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A. Where a parking meter indicates a limit of
parking time in the parking space adjacent
thereto to be 24 minutes or less, one hour or
two hours, the parking meter fee shall be one
cent for each 12 minutes of parking time.
d. Whom a parking meter indicates a limit of
parking time in the parking space adjacent
thereto to be forty minutes, the parking meter
fee shall be one cent for each 8 minutes of
parking time.
Section..14.5 Unlawful to Park After Meter
Time Has Expired.
No operator of any vehicle shall permit said vehicle to
remain parked in any parking space during any time that the
meter is showing a signal indicating that such space is
illegally in use other than such time immediately after the
original occupancy as is necessary to operate the meter to
show legal parking.
Section 14.6 Unlawful to Extend Time Beyond Limit.
No person shall follow the operational procedure or any
part of the operational procedure for the purpose of increasing
or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the
legal parking time which has been established for the parking
space adjacent to which said parking meter is placed.
Section 14.7 Improper Use of Meter.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in
any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug,
devise or metallic substitute for a co:.n of the United
States, or deface, innjure, tamper with, open or wilfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter.
Section 14.8 Deposit of Coins in Meter by
Unauthorized Person.
No person, other than the owner or operator of a vehicle,
shall deposit any coin in any parking meter without the
knowledge or consent of said owner or operator of the vehicle
using the parking space immediately adjacent to said meter.
Section 14.9 Parking Meters and Parking Meter
Stan ar s Not To Be Used For
Certain Purposes.
No person shall attach anything to or allow a bicycle,
newsrack or any other article or thing to lean against a
parking meter or a parking meter standard.
' Section 14.10 Rule of Evidence.
Theo parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a
parking space, at which space the parking meter displays the
sign or signal indicating illegal parking, shall constitute
a prima facie presumption that the vehicle has been parked
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or allowed to stand in such space for a period longer than
permitted by this ordinance.
.section 14.11 use of Money Deposited in
aorKinQ M e� tens.
All monies collected from parking meters in this city
shall be placed in a special fund, which fund shall be
devoted exclusively to the following purposes:
(a) For the purchasing, leasing, installing, repairing,
maintaining, operating, removing, regulating and policing of
parking meters in this city and for the payment of any and
all expenses relating or incidental thereto.
(b) For the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, improving,
operating, and maintaining of off-street parking facilities
in this city.
(c) For the installation and maintenance of traffic
control devices and signals.
(d) For the painting and marking of streets and curbs
required for the direction of traffic and parking of motor
vehicles.
(e) For the proper regulation, control and inspection
of parking and traffic upon the public streets.
(f) To be pledged as security for the payment of
principal of and interest on off-street parking revenue
bonds issued by this city, or any parking district organized
within this city.
Section 14.12 Application of Other Articles.
No section of this Article shall be construed as permitting
any parking in violation of any other provision of this
ordinance.
ARTICLE XV
SPECIAL SPEED ZONES
Section 15. Increasing State Speed Limit
Certa n zones.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engi-
neering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted
by state law upon the following streets is less than is
necessary for safe operation of vehicles thereon by reason
of the designation and sign -posting of said streets as
through highways and (or) by reason of widely spaced inter-
sections, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie
speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those
streets or parts of streets herein designated when signs are
erected giving notice thereof:
Name of Street Declared Prima
Portion Affected Facie Speed Limit
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Section 13.1 Decrease of state Law Maximum Speed.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engi-
nearing and traffic investigation that the speed permitted
by state law outside of business and residence distric�- +�
applicable upon the following streets is greater than i_
reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon
such streets, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie
speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those streets or
parte of streets herein designated when signs are erected
giving notice thereof:
Name of Street or Declared Prima
Portion..Affeeted Facie Speed Limit
Section 15.2 Decrease of State Law Speed
Between Districts.
Reference is hereby made to the following portions of
streets where the state speed law of 65 miles per hour is
applicable for a distance of not exceeding 2000 feet in
length between districts, either business or residence, and
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law
upon the following described portions of said streets which
are not state highways is greater than is reasonable or safe
under the conditions found to exist upon the described
portions of such streets, and it is hereby declared that the
prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth or.
those portions of streets herein designated when signs are
erected giving notice thereof:
Portion of Street Declared Prima
Affected Not Exceeding Facie Speed Limit
2000 Feet Between
Districts
Section 15.3 Regulation of Speed by Traffic
Signals.
The city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate the
timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movemer.t of
traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly at
variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within the
district or at intersections, and shall erect appropriate
signs giving notice thereof.
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ARTICLE XVI
Section 16. The City Clerk of the City of Palm Desert,
California, is hereby directed to cause this ordinance to be
posted in three public places, in accordance with Resolution
No. 73-4 and Section 36933 of the Government Code of the
State of California.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 27th day of
June , 1974, by the fo ow nq vote:
AYES: Aston; Benson; Brush; McPherson; Clark
NoLs: None
Assmat None
U �
ayor
City of Pa�kDesert, California
ATTEST:
HMVEX 1 DAC` , y C.Lerx
City of Palm Desert, California
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