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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 36ORDINAHC9 NO. 36 AV ORDINAit-C. OF TUE CITY rOUNC14 Or 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. EORDINANCE NDED Page 1. AMENDED i...L..••..•••••.• BY ORDINANCE #... '�L ••-•.••.•• t-•'=j 7G••••••••••" DATED: .... 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. Page 2. 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 Page 3. 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 Page 4. 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 Page 5. 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. Page 6. (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. Page 7. 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 Page 6. 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. Page 9. 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 Page 10. 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. Pager 11. 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 Page 12. 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. Page 13. (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- Page 14. 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 Page 15. 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 Sage 16. 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 Page 17. of any vehicle shall stop, the tours of 900 a.M, and Sundays and holidays) for Roars. 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, page Is. 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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' 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. Page 21. 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. Page 22. 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: Page 23. 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 Page 24. 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 Page 25. 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. Page 26. 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 Page 27.