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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-560ORDINANCE NO. NS-560 AMENDING CHAPTER 2 OF ARTICLE III OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Chapter 2 of Article III of the Santa Ana Municipal Code be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER 2 - TRAFFIC REGULATIONS Part 1 - Definitions SECTION 3210. Definition of Words and Phrases. The definitions contained in this Part shall govern the construction of thisChapter. Whenever any words or phrases used in this Chapter are not defined herein, but are now defined in the Vehicle Code, State of California, such defi- nitions areincorporated herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases as though set forth herein in full. SECTION 3210.1. Same. Central Parkinq Districts. Central Parking Districts "A" and "B" as hereinafter referred to are those traffic districts which are now or may hereafter be specified by Resolution of the City Council as Central Parking District "A" and Central Parking District "B" respectively. ~SECTION 3210.2. Same. Alleys. The word "Alley" is defined as any way or place open to public vehicular traffic which has a usable width of 20 feet or less. SECTION 3210.3. Same. Holidays. For the purposes of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, holidays are as follows: Sundays and any other days adopted by Resolution of the City Council. SECTION 3210.4. Same. Loadinq Zone. The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of a vehicle during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. SECTION 3210.5. Same. Official Time Standards. Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving tame as may be in current use in the City. SECTION 3210.6. Same. Bicycle. A light vehicle without a motor, having two wheels, handle bars and a seat or seats, and propelled by the operator. -1- SECTION 3210.7. Same. Parkway. That portion of the street other than the roadway or the sidewalk. SECTION 3210.8. Same. Curb. The lateral boundary 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 fro~ parking strips in the center of a street, nor from tracks or rights of way of public utility companies. SECTION 3210.9. Same. Pedestrian. A person afoot. SECTION 3210.10. ~ame. Director of Public Works. That person duly appointed as provided by the Charter. SECTION 3210.11. Same. 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 3210.12. Same. Vehicle code. The Vehicle Code of the State of California. Part 2 - Enforcement and Obedience To Traffic Regulations. SECTION 3220. Responsibility of Police Officers. It shall be the duty of the officers of the Police Department, or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police, to enforce all traffic laws of this City, and all of the Vehicle Code Sections applicable in this City. SECTION 3220.1. S.ame. Emerqency Authority of Police Officers. Officers of the Police Department, or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police, are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, signals or other devices in con- formance with traffic laws, provided that An the event of fire or other emergency, officers of the Police Department may direct traffic as conditions require, notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. SECTION 3220.2. Same. Authority of Fire Department Officials. Officers of the Fire Department, while they are at the scene of a fire, in the course of their duties, protecting personnel or equilanent of the Fire Department, may direct or assist the Police in directing traffic. -2- SECTION 3220.3. Same. Authority of Flaqmen to Direct Traffic. A person designated as a flagman by a contractor working on the City streets under a permit issued by the City, or a City employee designated as a flagman by the Director of Public Works or his representative, during construction or repair of, or in, streets, may direct traffic by use of hand signals or warning flags if the operation of special highway construction equipment, trucks, concrete mixers, mobile cranes or other construction equipment might interfere with the safe movement of traffic. SECTION 3221. Persons Other Than Officials Shall Not Direct Traffic. No persons other than Officers of the Police Department, or a person deputized by the Chief of Police, or persons authorized by law, shall direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal, except in an emergency until an officer arrives and except that a person may operate, when and/or as herein provided, a push-button signal erected by the provisions of this ChaPter.'~. SECTION 3222. Obstruction or Interference with Police or Authorized 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 Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code. 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 regulations contained in said Chapters shall, if done for the purpose of evading the provisions of said Chapters, constitute such inter- ference or obstruction. SECTION 3222.1. Same. Obedience to Directions at School Crossinqs. No person shall refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of any person appointed by the Chief of Police to control traffic at school crossings, provided that such persons giving any order, signal or directions at such school crossings shall at the time be wearing some insignia, indicating such appointment. It shall be unlawful for any minor to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized to do so by order of the Chief of Police. SECTION 3223. Stoppinq at School Crossinqs. No person driving, Operating or propelling any vehicle or thing shall fail or refuse to stop within 50 feet of the nearest side of a school crosswalk and before passing the point where any signal device, flagman or other person is stationed, giving warning that children are about to cross or are crossing the street; and it is further declared unlawful to proceed until such time as signal has stopped, been raised, or been removed, or the flagman or person stationed at such pedestrian lane has given a signal to go, or has left the locality. -3- SECTION 3224. Persons Riding Bicycles or Animals Shall Obey Traffic Requlations. Every person riding a bi.cycle or riding or driving an animal upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle as provided for by this Code, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. SECTION 3225. Public Employees Shall Obey Traffic Requlations. The provisions of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Government, any State, County, or City, and it shall be unlawful for any such driver to violate any of the provisions of said Chapters, except as otherwise permitted herein or by State statute. SECTION 3226. Exemptions to Certain Vehicles. The provisions of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code, regulating the parking and standing of vehicles, shall not apply to any vehicle of the Police or Fire Departments, any public or private ambulance or any public utility vehicle which is qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle when such vehicle mentioned in this Section operates in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to emergency calls. Said provisions regulating parking or standing vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle belonging to the City government or a public utility or its agent while necessarily in use on con- struction or repair work on or in the public right of way. The foregoing exemption shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his willful disregard of safety of others. SECTION 3227. Notice of Accident. The driver of a vehicle involved in any accident resulting in damage to property shall, within twenty-four hours after the accident, make, or cause to be made, a written report of the accident to the Police Department. SECTION 3227.1. Same. When Driver Unable to Report. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident report as required in Section 3227, any occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident shall make the report or cause it to be made. Part 3 - Traffic Control Devices and Turning Movements. SECTION 3230. Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices. The Director of Public Works has the power and duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices when they are required or authorized by State Law, or Ordinances or Resolutions of this City. NO provisions of the Vehicle Code or this Chapter, for which signs or markings are required, shall be enforced against alleged violators unless appropriate signs or markings are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws. -4- SECTION 3231. Obedience to Traffic Control Devices. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto if placed in accordance with the Vehicle Code and this Code, unless other- wise directed by a Police Officer, subject to the exemptions granted the driver of any emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls. SECTION 3232. Traffic Siqnals. The Director of Public Works is authorized to install and maintain official traffic control signals at those intersections and at 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 in accordance with engineering studies. SECTION 3232.1. Same. Roadway Markinqs. The Director of Public Works 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. SECTION 3232.2. Same. Lane Lines. The Director of Public Works is 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 indicating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway. SECTION 3232.3. Same. Discontinuance of Operation. The Director of Public Works is authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device or curb marking not specifically authorized by State Law, Or this Code or resolutions, whenever engineering studies show that the conditions whichwarrant or require such control no longer exist or where such device is in conflict with the provisions of this Code. SECTION 3232.4. Same. Traffic Control Devices - Hours of Operation. The Director of Public Works shall determine the hours in which any traffic control device shall be in Operation or be in effect, except in cases where such hours or days are specified by this Code or resolution. SECTION 3233. Temporary Siqns. The Chief of Police and his authorized officers are hereby authorized to erect and maintain t~nporary signs or signals regulating traffic and movement of vehicles upon the streets in the City, so as to prohibit travel or turning of vehicles upon said streets as in their opinion the occasion may require. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of the signs. -5- SECTION 3294 - Turning Markers at Intersections Designating Multiple Lanes. The Director of Public Works is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which the driver of vehicles may make right and/or left hand turns, and the course to he traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed b~ Statute or Ordinance. The Director of Public Works shall place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections, indicating the course to be traveled hy vehicles turning at such intersections. SECTION 3235 - Obedience to Turning Markers. When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are so placed within or adjacent to an intersection, indicating the course to be traveled hy vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. SECTION 3236 - Restricting Right, Left or U Turns. The Director of Public Works is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U turn. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours. The Director of Public Works shall place proper signs at such intersections to indicate the restrictions in force. The signs shall plainly indicate the restrictions in force and the hours in which they are in force, or the signs may he removed when such turns are permitted. SECTION 3237 - Obedience to Restrictive Turn Signs. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right, left or U turn is permitted or is prohibited during certain hours, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey such signs. SECTION 3238 - Restricting Turns at Red Signal. The Director of Public Works is authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right or left turn against a "Stop# or #Red# signal, and shall erect proper signs giving notice of the prohibition. Same. SECTION 32~8,1/Designation of Through Streets and #Stop" Intersections. The Director of Public Works is authorized to designate certain streets in the City to he "Through" streets and certain intersections to be #Stop" intersections, and any railway grade crossing to he a "Stop" intersection. The Director of Public Works shall erect and maintain #Stop" signs as provided in the Vehicle Code, whenever he designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a #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. -6- SECTION 3238.2. Same. "Yield Riqht ~ Wa¥"Siqns. The Director of Public Works is authorized to designate any intersection to be controlled by "Yield Right of Way" signs. The Director of Public Works shall erect and maintain "Yield Right of Way" signs, as described in the Vehicle Code, whenever he designates such intersections to be controlled by "Yield Right of Way" signs. Part 4 - Miscellaneous Driving Rules SECTION 3240. Drivinq Movements and Acts Prohibited. No person shall: (a) Drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral procession while it is in motion and when such vehicles are identified as part of such procession by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a pennant or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be determined and designated by the Chief of Police. This provision shall not apply at .:intersections~wheretraffic is contrOlledbytrafficecontrol signals or police officers. (b) While riding any bicy.cle, motorcycle, coaster, roller-skates, or any toys or toy vehicles, attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway, and no person driving any vehicle shall permit the same to be done. (e) Drive within or over any sidewalk area or any parkway except at a driveway. (d) Drive over or across any new pavement or freshly painted marking, when any street barrier, sign or marking is in place, warning persons not to drive over or across the same, or when a sign is in place stating that the street, or any portion thereof, is closed. (e) Drive or operate a vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of any barrier or sign erected pursuant to the provisions of any ordinance of the City, or by any Public Utilities, or by any Department of the City, or by any other person pursuant to law or contract with the City, and no unauthorized person shall move or alter the position of any such barrier or sign. (f) Drive a vehicle onto or from any Freeway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority. (g) Park any vehicle within three hundred (300) feet of any fire apparatus which is stopped in answer to a fire alarm. (h) Ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a business district. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian. (l) Drive a vehicle into an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians in such intersection or crosswalk, notwith- standing any official traffic control device or signal indication to proceed. -7- SECTION 3~41 - Buses May Stop in Front of Driveway. A bus engaged as a cammon carrier may stop to load or unload passengers in front of a driveway. At no time shall the bus so stop for a period longer than is necessary to load or unload passengers. Part 5 - Pedestrians and Crosswalks. SECTION 3250 - Crosswalks at Intersections. The Director of Public Works is authorized to establish and matntaln crosswalks at intersections and to designate them by appropriate devices or painted marks or signs upon the surface of the roadway. SECTION 3251 - Crosswalks between Intersections. The Director of Public Works shall maintain such crosswalks between intersections as may be established by resolution of the City Council and tO designate them by appropriate devices or painted marks or signs upon the surface of the roadway. SECTION 3252 - Prohibiting Pedestrians in Crosswalks. The Director of Public Works may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection directing pedestrians not to cross in the unmarked cross- walk so indicated. SECTION 3253 - When Pedestrians Must Use Crosswalk. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk in the Central Parking District SECTION 3254 - Standing in Roadway. No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk if such action interferes with the lawful movement of traffic. This Section shall not apply to any public officer, construction worker or employee of a public utility or its agent when necessarily upon a street in line of duty. Part 6 - Parking Regulations. SECTION 3260 - Parking Signs and Curb Markings. The Director of Public Works is authorized, subjec~ to the provisions and limitations of this Chapter, to place and maintain and, when required herein, shall place, the following curb markings or signs to indicate parking, standing or stopping regulations and said curb markings or signs shall have the meanings as herein set forth as follows~ (a) Red curb marking shall mean "No stopping, standing or parking" at any time of any day except as permitted by Vehicle Code. (b) Yellow curb marking shall mean "No stopping, standing or parking" between 7~00 A.M. and 6~00 P.M. of any day for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not Consume more than three (3) minutes nor the unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes, and such loading or unloading shall be actively carried on during all of said time. -8- (c) White curb marking shall mean "No stopping, standing or parking' at any time of any day for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers and shall not exceed three (3) minutes. (d) C~een curb marking shall mean 'No stopping, standing or parking' for a period of time longer than twelve (12) or twenty-four (24) minutes, as designated by signs at any time between 7000 A.U. and 6tO0 P.U. of any day except holidays. SECTION 3~61 - Application of Parking Regulations. The provisions of this part imposing regulations on stopping or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty of other or more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code, or the Ordinances of this City regulating the standing or parking of vehicles at specified places or at specified times. SECTION 3261.1 - Same. No Parking Zones. The Council may, by resolution, prohibit stopping, standing or parking on any street within the City, or may prohibit stopping, standing or parking during certain hours of the day on any street within the City. When signs authorized by provisions of this part are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs. The Chief of Police is authorized to remove such vehicle from the roadway when such vehicle is parked in violation of this Section. SECTION 3261.2 - Same. Parking on Narrow Streets and at Special Places. The Director of Public Works is authorized to place signs and markings indicating 'No Parking' upon any two-way roadway when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of a two-way roadway, when the width of the roadway does not exceed 30 feet. When signs authorized hy provisions of this part are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs. The Chief of Police is autherized to remove such vehicle from the roadway when such vehicle is parked in violation of this Section. The Director of Public Works may appropriately sign or mark the following places and, when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of the said placest (a) At any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite a midhlock end of a safety zone. (b) At any place within 20 feet of any crosswalk. (c) Within 20 feet of the approach ~ any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device. (d) At any place where traffic and engineering studies have been made and the Director of Public Works determines What it is necessary in order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards or to provide for the orderly movement of traffic. -9- SECTION 3261.3. Same. Emerqenc¥ Parkinq Siqns. Whenever the Director of Public Works or the Chief of Police shall determine that, in a special situation, traffic congestion is likely to result on any street or alley from holding public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, street construction, maintenance or repair work, or for any other reason, they shall have the power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such special situation, and the Director of Public Works or the Chief of Police shall cause such signs to be moved promptly thereafter. When signs authorized by provisions of this Part are in place, giving notice of the provisions thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs. The Chief of Police is authorized to remove such vehicle from the roadway when such vehicle is parked in violation of this Section. SECTION 3261.4. Same. Alleys and Parkways. (a) No person shall park any vehicle in any alley in the City of Santa Aha except while actively engaged in loading or unloading passengers, freight or merchandise. (b) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway. SECTION 3261.5. Same. Parking at Certain Places and for Certain Purposes Prohibited. (a) No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of displaying such vehicle "for sale". No person shall park, stop or leave standing any vehicle for a period of time longer than twelve hours on any public street or highway in the City unless such vehicle is in a condition to be lawfully operated upon the public highways; and no person shall repair, dismantle, overhaul or do any mechanical work upon any vehicle on any part of any public street or highway in the City except to change rims, to replace flat tires or to make other emergency repairs to enable such vehicle to be moved to the proper place for mechanicalwork. (b) No person who owns or has custody or control of any vehicle shall park or store such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of 120 hours. The Chief of Police is authorized to remove any vehicle from the roadway if such vehicle is parked or stored in violation of this Subsection (b). (c) Food Vending Vehicle. No person shall park, stop or stand any wagon, cart or vehicle upon any part of any street of the City and leave the same stopped, parked or standing in any one location for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes for the purpose of selling or delivering any food or drink from such wagon, cart or vehicle, and no operator or person shall make a second stop after moving from the last place of parking, stopping or standing within a distance of fifty (50) feet of the last place of parking, stopping or standing. -10- The City Council hereby expresses its intent to permit the traditional delivery or vending of beverages and foods from Wagons, carts or vehicles from house to house through the residential areas of the City, but declares its intention to prohibit any such conveyance being used as a store of stationary location for the sale of such wares upon the streets of the City, said streets being for the primary purpose of providing traffic ways for moving vehicles. (d) In the event the highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon such roadway, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway. SECTION 3262. Left Side Parkinq On One-way Streets. Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, facing in the direction of the traffic movement upon any one-way street, unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing. SECTION 3263. Parkinq Spaces, Bus Zones and Loadinq Zones. (a) The Director of Public Works is authorized to install parking space markings to indicate the parking spaces adjacent to curb where authorized parking is permitted. No person shall stand or park any vehicle on any public street in the City where the surface of said street has been marked with painted lines designating parking spaces or stalls so that vehicle is across or upon any such line or in such a position that said vehicle is not entirely within the area designated by such lines as a parking space or stall. (b) The Director of Public Works is authorized to estab- lish bus zones for the loading and unloading of buses, common carriers of passengers, and to determine the location and length thereof. (c) The Director of Public Works is authorized to establish loading zones, and no person shall park and leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any loading zone for a period of time longer than is permitted for such loading zone. SECTION 3264. Anqle Parkinq. No operator shall park or stand any vehicle in any manner except diagonal to the curb, entirely between the parallel lines painted on the pavement delineating a parking stall, on those portions of the streets next hereinbelow set out: (a) North side of Washington, between Main and Sycamore. (b) South side of Eighth, between Ross and Riverine. (c) North side of Sixth, between Ross and Riverine. (d) East side of Ross, between Sixth and Eighth. (e) South side of Walnut, between Patton and Ross. (f) East side of Poinsettia, from Santiago Way South to dead end, the South 92 feet. (g) South side of St. Gertrude Place, between Towner and Flower. (h) North side of Anahurst Place, between Towner and Flower. -11- (i) South side of Tenth, between Artesia and Townsend. (j) South side of Ninth, between Artesia and a point 110 feet, West of the Western property lane of Artesia. (k) West side of College, between Seventeenth and Nineteenth, the North 72 feet of the South 125 feet. (1) Both sides of Tenth, between Main and Bush. (m) Van Ness cul-de-sac. SECTION 3264.1. Sa~e. Anqle Parkinq Markinq. Whenever any ordinance of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the Director of Public Works shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles may be parked. SECTION 3264.2. Same. Obedience to Anqle Parkinq. When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking as herein provided, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the road- way indicated by such signs or markings, and entirely between the parking stall pavement lines. SECTION 3265. Parking Time Limits, Central Parking Districts "A" and "B". (a) No operator shall park any vehicle and leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, on any public street in Central Parking District "A" for a period of time longer than one (1) hour between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week; and from 9:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. on Monday and Friday of each week, except that such parking limitations shall not be operative on any holiday as defined in this Chapter. (b) No operator shall stop any vehicle and leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, in any portion of any public street in Central Parking District "B" for a period of time longer than two (2) hours, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week; and from 9:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. on Monday and Friday of each week, except that such parking limitations shall not be operative on any holiday as defined in this Chapter. SECTION 3265.1. Same. Limited Time Parkinq. The Director of Public Works is authorized to restrict or prohibit parking in excess of twelve (12) minutes, twenty- four (24) minutes, one (1) hour or two (2) hours, between 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day, on any day, on any streets of the City, outside the Central Parking Districts #A" and "B", and when signs have been posted to give notice of such restriction or prohibition, no person shall park any vehicle and leave the same parked, whether attended or unattended, for a period of time longer than set out on said signs. -12- SECTION 3266. Continuinq Violations, Additional Offenses. Every person violating the provisions of Sections 3265, 3265.1, and 3268.2 is guilty of a separate and further violation for each period of time that the vehicle is left so parked, equal to the maximum legal parking time for the particular time zone or parking space as designated in said Sections, or by ordinance adopted setting the maximum legal time. SECTION 3267. Cu.~b Parkinq Riqht-of-Way. For the purpose of this Section a curb parking space shall be an area open for lawful parking alongside or adjacent to a curb, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two or more vehicles to freely move for parking therein at the same time. Any person seeking to park his vehicle in a curb parking space, whose vehicle arrives at said parking space prior to any vehicle other than his, and who proceeds beyond said space a distance not to exceed ten feet, measured at the rear bumper, for the purpose of backing his vehicle therein, shall have the right of way over any person driving, or attempting to drive, any other vehicle directly into such curb parking space, or who, in any manner, obstructs such curb parking space; and driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right of way to the driver first arrived at said parking space. SECTION 3268. Ail Niqht Parkinq Prohibited on Certain Streets. No person shall park and leave standing any vehicle for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 2:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. of any day upon any portion of Main Street, Broadway, First Street, Seventeenth Street, Flower Street, Edinger Avenue, Warner Ave~ue...Bristol Street, Bighth Street or Fourth Street, or upon any portion of any public highway in the City where parking meters have been installed along the curb, or at any place upon any such highway between any two parking meters along the curb. SECTION 3268.1. Same. Commercial Vehicles and Trailer Parkinq Prohibited. No person shall park and leave standing, any truck, tractor, trailer, bus or any other commercial vehicle, or any vehicle with a manufacturer's rated capacity greater than three quarter (3/4) ton, or any item of farm machinery or special purpose machine, or any house trailer, for a period of time longer than two (2) hours of any day upon any public street or highway in the City, except while loading or unloading property, or when such vehicle is parked in connection with, and in aid of, the performance of a service to or on a property in the block in which such vehicle is parked. SECTION 3268J2. Same. Parkinq on City Property. Whenever the Director of Public Works shall determine that parking or standing of vehicles on City property be prohibited, limited or restricted, the Director of Public Works shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted. When signs authorized -13- by the provisions of this Section are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall park or stand a vehicle contrary to the directions of such signs, and any vehicle parked in violation of such signs shall be towed to a public storage garage. SECTION 3269. Unauthorized Paintinq 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 person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of this City pertaining thereto. Part 7 - Truck Routes - One-Way Streets. SECTION 3270. Truck Routes. The City Council hereby designates certain streets or portions thereof as streets, the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons; these streets shall be known as truck routes, and are described as follows: (a) Seventeenth Street (Westminster), all portions within the City. (b) Fourth Street, all portions within the City from Grand Avenue, Easterly. (c) First Street (Bolsa), all portions within the City. (d) Walnut Street, between First Street on the West to Evergreen Street on the East. (e) Edinger Avenue, all portions in the City. (f) Warner Avenue, all portions in the City. (g) Talbert Avenue, all portions in the City. (h) Dyer Road, all portions in the City. (l) Bristol Street, all portions in the City. (j) Main Street, all portions in the City. (k) Standard Avenue, between Warner Avenue and First Street. (1) Grand Avenue, all portions in the City. (m) Harbor Boulevard, all portions in the City. (n) Euclid Street, all portions in the City. (o) Fairview Street, all portions in the City. (p) Tustin Avenue, all portions in the City.' (q) Memory Lane, all portions in the City from Bristol, Westerly. The Director of Public Works is authorized to designate the above street or streets by appropriate signs as "Truck Routes" for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons, where, in his opinion, such designation is required. SECTION 3271. Commercial Vehicles Prohibited from Using Certain Streets. The City Council hereby designates all streets in the City, except those enumerated in Section 3270, as streets on which any commercial vehicle of gross weight over three (3) tons is prohibited. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight of three (3) tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets, when -14- 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 been previously obtained. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to a passenger bus under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, or owned by a bus company licensed by the City, or to any vehicle owned by a Public Utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility, or any vehicle owned by the City while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of a City utility or street. The Director of Public Works may erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by this Section where he deems the same to be necessary. SECTION 3272. One-Way Streets. The City Council does establish a system of one-way streets within the City, as follows: (a) Third Street, between French and Flower - Westbound (b) Fifth Street, between French and Flower - Eastbound (c) Bush Street, between First and Seventeenth - Southbound (d) Cypress Street, between First and Bishop - Southbound (e) Seventh Street, between Main and Sycamore - Westbound (f) Tenth Street, between Bush and Main Streets - Westbound SECTION 3272.1. Same. One-Way Siqns to be Placed. The Director of Public Works shall place and maintain appropriate signs giving notice of the one-way street system, and no such regulations shall be effective until such signs are in place. SECTION 3272.2. ~me. One-Way Travel Only. No person shall operate a vehicle in violation of the signs designating one-way streets, as herein provided. SECTION 3273. One-Way Alleys. No person shall operate any vehicle in a Southerly or in an Easterly direction in any alley connecting two or more streets in, or terminating in, Central Parking Districts "A" or "B". Part 8 - Special Speed Zones SECTION 3280. Speed Zones Declared. It is hereby determined, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that the speed permitted by the Vehicle Code upon the following streets is not in conformance with the safe and efficient operation of vehicles thereon, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limits shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets,or parts of streets, herein designated when signs are erected giving notice thereof: -15- (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (1) (m) (n) Speed Limits Miles Per }{our Bristol Street - Memory Lane to 1200' South of Memory Lane 1200' South of Memory Lane to Warner Avenue Warner Avenue to 1200' South of Warner Avenue 45 35 40 Flower Street - Santa Ana Freeway to Memory Lane 35 Broadway - Santa Ana Freeway to Seventeenth 35 Lincoln Avenue - 142' North of Grovemont Street to 150' South of Catalina Avenue 35 standard Avenue- Chestnut Avenue to Edinger Avenue Edinger Avenue to Warner Avenue 35 40 Grand Avenue - Santa Clara Avenue to 500' South of Chestnut Avenue 35 Lyon Street - First Street to chestnut Avenue 35 Berrydale Street-Trask Avenue to Westminster Avenue. 4O Sullivan Street- First Street to McFadden Avenue 40 King Street - Seventeenth Street to Fifth Street 35 Harbor Boulevard-Westminster Avenue to 500' South of Bolsa Avenue -500' South of Bolsa Avenue to South City Limits 660' North of Edinger Avenue 35 45 Newhope Street - Westminster Avenue,~to Fifth Street 35 Verano (Euclid)- Street Westminster Avenue to Hazard Avenue 40 Hazard Avenue to Bolsa Avenue 35 Bolsa Avenue to the South City Limits 180' North of Edinger Avenue 40 Westminster - Verano (Euclid) Street to Avenue 2640' West of Berrydale Street 40 Seventeenth Street - Wright Street to 1320' (Westminster Avenue) West of Berrydale Street 35 - Wright Street to Tustin Avenue 45 -16- (o) Fifth Street - (p) Fourth Street - (q) Bolsa Avenue - First Street - (Bolsa Avenue) (r) McFadden Avenue- (s) Edinger Avenue - (t) Warner Avenue (u) Dyer Road Verano (Euclid) Hawley Street Street to speed Limits Miles Per HOUr 35 Artesia Street to Flower Street Mortimer Street to Santa Aha Freeway Harbor Boulevard to the West City Limits 130' West of Cooper Street 35 35 45 Harbor Boulevard to Townsend Street French Street to East City Limits near Tustin Avenue 35 35 Sullivan Street to Bristol Street 35 Ealladay Street to Grand Avenue 35 Grand Avenue to Lyon Street 45 500' West of Sullivan Street to the West City Limits at the Santa Aha River 45 Bristol Street to 500' West of Sullivan Street 35 Fairview Street to West City Limits at Harbor Boulevard 45 Fairview Street to East City Limits 500' West of Grand Avenue 35 - Main Street to East City Limits Near Southern Pacific Railroad 35 SECTION 3281. Requlation of Speed by Traffic Siqnals. The Director of Public Works is authorized to regulate the time of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner, at speeds at variance fro~ the speeds otherwise applicable within the district or at intersections, and may erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. Part 9 - Trains - Vision Zones. SECTION 3290. Railway Gates. No person shall drive any vehicle around, or under, any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such a gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. SECTION 3291. Trains Not to Block Crossinqs. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any railway train or railway cars, or similar vehicle on rails, to operate or to be operated in such a manner as to prevent the -17- use of any street for the purpose of travel for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to railway trains, cars or similar vehicles on rails while blocking or obstructing a crossing because of an accident which requires the operator of a train, car or similar vehicle on rails to stop at or near the scene of the accident. SECTION 3292. Obstructions to Vision Prohibited at Corners. On property on any corner formed by intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful to install, set out, maintain or allow the installation, setting out or maintenance of any sign, fence, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other obstruction to the eye, higher than 2½ feet above the top of the sidewalk, or, where no sidewalks exist, higher than three (3) feet above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, within the triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines twenty-five (25) feet from the point of their intersection; or, in the case of rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining the points on said tangent twenty-five (25) feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the corners. SECTION 3292.1. Same. E~emptions. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to permanent structures or buildings complying with the Zoning Ordinance or in existence at the time this Part is adopted, poles and standards for public service utilities, trees trimmed to the trunk to a lane at least seven (7) feet above the top of the sidewalk, or where there are no sidewalks, eight (8) feet above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings existing on the date this Part became effective, official traffic control devices, places where the contour of the ground is cut so there can be no cross visibility at the intersection, or signs mounted ten (10) feet or more above the ground whose supports do not exceed a maximum dimension of ten (10) inches, measured parallel to the ground surface. SECTION 3292.2. Same. Enforcement. The enforcement of Sections 3292 and 3292.1 shall be under the direction of the Director of Public Works. He shall investigate violations of said Sections, give such notices as may be required to carry out said Sections, and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of said Sections as may be required. Any obstruction maintained in violation of this Part shall be deemed a public nuisance upon failure to obey the provisions of this Part within twenty (20) days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance, signed by the Director of Public Works. The same may be abated in the same manner as any other public nuisance, which shall be in addition to any criminal action against the person maintaining the obstruction to vision. SECTION3293. Powers of the Council. The Council may exercise any rights, powers or authority granted to it by the provisions of the Vehicle code by either resolution or ordinance. -18- SECTION 3293.1. Same. Resolution Effect. Any and all Resolutions passed and adopted by the Council pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, and pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle Code, affecting subjects covered by this Chapter, shall be deemed to be a part of this Chapter, and any violations of any of the provisions of any such Resolution shall be deemed to be a violation of this Chapter, to the same effect as if said Resolution were fully set out herein. SECTION 3294. Effect of Requlations Upon State Hiqhways. Any provision of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3, of this Code which regulates traffic or delegates the regulation of traffic upon State Highways in any way for which the approval of the State of California Department Of Public Works is required by State law, shall cease to be operative six (6) months after receipt by the City Council of written notice of withdrawal of approval of the Department of Public Works of the State of California. Whenever said Chapters 2 and 3 delegate authority to a City officer, or authorize action by the City Council to regulate traffic upon a State Highway in any ~y which, by State law, requires the prior approval of the State Department of Public Works, no such officer shall exercise such authority nor shall such action by the City Council be effective with respect to any state Highway without the prior approval in writing of the State Department of Public Works when and to the extent required. SECTION 3295. Notice to Council of Traffic Control Chanqes. The City Manager shall submit to the Council a summary of traffic control changes performed in accordance with Sections 3232.3, 3238.1, 3238.2, 3261.2, 3263 (a) and (b), 3265.1 and 3268.2 of this Code. Said s~nmary shall be submitted prior to each regular Council meeting and shall specify the nature and location of traffic control changes made subsequent to the previous report. SECTION 3296. Previous Resolutions. Any resolutions passed prior to the adoption 6f this Chapter affecting Sections dealing with curb markings, parking restrictions, stop signs, or crosswalks, shall remain in effect notwithstanding the repeal or amendment of any Section of this Code by this amendment of Chapter 2. SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the 15%h day of Janua/7 , 1962. ATTEST: dL~RK OF THE COUNCIL -19- STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF SANTA ANA ) I, MARION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 2nd day of January , 1962, and was again considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 15th day of .......... January , 1962, and at said meeting was regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit: AYES, NOES, ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: COUNCILMEN: COUNCILMEN: Royal ~. Hubbard, Henry H. Schlueter, Bob Brewer, A. A. Hall None Dale H. Heinly CLERK OF THE COUNCIL -20-