HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 019ORD 019ê79wS ×P ì ³ C~bS`I~paNCE NC
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BALDWI N PARK AMENDING THE BALDWI N PARK MtjhI CI PAL
CODE BY ADDING NEW SECTIONS T~ERMO TO BE KNGWN
AS SECTIONS 3300.1, 3305.1, 3326.1 AND 3348.13,
AND BY ANENIII NG CERTAI N SECTI ONS OF' ARTI CIE III
PUBLIC SAFETY, CHAPTER 3, TRAFFIC REGUZA'11 CNS,
AND REPEALING SECE.ONS 3324, 3328, 3331, 3335,
3336, 3339, 3340, 3341, 3342, 3343, 3345, 3346,
3347, 3348.10, 3348.11, 3348.12, 3351, 3352,
3355, 3356, 3357, 3358, 3359, AND 3360.
THE CITY CO UN CI L OF THE CI TY OF 13ALDV N PARK DCES ORDAI N AS FOLLOWS
Section l. Section 3300 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3300. Intersection" is
that area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines, or,
if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways, of two high-
ways which join one another at al-proximately right angles or the area
within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any
other angle may come in conflict„
Section 2. A new section is hereby added to the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code to read as follows: Section 3300.1. Alley" is any
unnamed street which is less than twenty-five feet in width between
the abutting property lines and for the convenience of the owner of
the property abutting thereon and of the persons dealing with them.
Section 3. Section 3301 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3301. Loading Zone"
Js tft space adjacent to a curb, or i£ no curb exists, then the property
line of the abutting property owner, which space is reserved for the
exclusive use of vehicles actually engaged in loading or unloading of
materials.
Section 4. Section 3302 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows. Section 3302. Official traffic
control signal" means any device, whether manLally, electrically or
mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to
stop and proceed and which is erected by the authority of a public body
or official having jurisdiction.
Section 5. Section 3303 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows. Official traffic control device"
means any signal, s ign, device or marking not inconsistent with the
Vehicle Code of the State of California, placed or erected by authority
of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of
regulating, warninL or guiding traffic.
Section 6. Secti or: 3304 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3304. Driver" is a person who drives
or is in actual physical control of a vehicle and shall include a person
who is an operator, a person who is a chauffeur, and the driver, rider or
leader of a horse, mule or donkey, and every person riding a bicycle or
who pushes, draws, propels, opera-~es or who is in charge of a vehicle.
Section 7. Section 3305 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3305. Park" is the stopping, standing,
or larking of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily
for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, the loading or unloading
of passengers or materials.
Section 6. A new section is hereby added to the Baldwin Park Municipal
Code is to read as follows: Section 3305.1 Temporarily" shall mean a
period of t- me not in excess of the period of time allowed for such purpose
in this chapter.
Section 9, Section 3307 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to react as follows: Section 3307. Passenger Loading Zone" is
that space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles
actually engaged in loading or unloading; of passengers or for the purpose
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of defosit`i-ng ma-1 in an adjacent mai loox.
Section 10. Section 3309 of the Baldw7.n Park Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3309. Roadway" is
that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for
vehicular travel.
Section 11. Section 3310 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3310. Right of Way," is the privilege
of the immediate use of the street or highway.
Section 12. Section 3312 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3312. Sidewalk" is that portion of
a highway other than the roadway, set apart for pedestrain travel.
Section 13. Section 3313 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3313. Stop" or Stop When Required"
or Stand" or Standing" or StoppinL when prohibited", shall mean any
cessation of movement of a vehicle whether occupied or not.
Section 14. Section 3314 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 337.1x.. Street or Highway" is a way or
place, of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Section 15. Section 3316 of the Daldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Traffic" shall mean and include pedestrains,
ridden animals, vehicles, street cars, and other conveyances either singly
or tobether, while using arty highway for purposes of travel.
Section 16. Section 3319 of the L'aldwin Park municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3319. Obedience to Law
Enforcement x-ency. The Chief of Police and his auly appointea police
officers are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by means of visual or
audible signals, and no person shall fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order, signal or direction of arty Police Officer of this City.
Section 17. Section 3320 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3320. Official Traffic Signals,
Vjhenever traffic is controlled by official traffic control signals exhibiting
the words Go," Caution," or Stop," or exhibiting different colored lights
successively, one at a time, or with.arrows, the following colors only
shall be used, and said terms and lights shall indicate and apply to drivers
of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
a) Green alone or go".
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall proceed straight through
or may turn right or left or make a semicircular or U-turn unless a sign
at such place prohibits any such turn. But vehicular traffic, including
vehicles turninL right or left, shall yield the right of way to other vehicles
and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk
at the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facinE the signal may proceed across the roadway within
any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
b) Yellow or caution" men shoum following the green or go" signals.
l. Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that.the red
or stop signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter and vehicular
traffic trill be required to stp when the red or stop signal is exhibited.
2. No pedestrian shall enter the roadway or cross any part of a roadway
or from or to a safety zone Loainst a yellow or Caution" signal.
c) Red alone or stop".
l. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop at a limit line, if
marked,.otherwise before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection, or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall
remain standing until green or go" is shown alone, except as provided in
the next succeeding paragraphs.
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2. The driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at
the entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none,
then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to a red or stop"
signal, may make a right turn but shall yield the right of way to pedestrians
and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at said intersection,
except that the driver of a vehicle shall remain standing until green or rrgon
is shown alone when the City Council by ordinance shall cause to be erected
a sign prohibiting any such right turn against a red or stop" signal.
d) Red with green arrow and green with red arrow.
1. Red with Green Arrow, Vehicular traffic facing such signal may
cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by
the green arrow but shall yield the right of way to other vehicles and to
pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at
the time such green arrow is exhibited.
2. Green with Red Arrow Prohibited. It is unlawful to operate a
traffic signal. which is equipped with a green light and a red arrow which
are shown simultaneously.
e) The motorman of any street car shall obey all official traffic
signals as applicable to vehicles except that the motorman of a streetcar
shall not make a right or left turn when facing a red alone or stop signal.
f) No person shall disobey the directions of this section except
when it is necessary for the purpose of avoiding a collision or in case of
other emergency or when otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic
officer, or as permitted under Section 3326 of the Bald-vin Park I'iunicipal
Code.
Section 18. Section 3321 of the aldwin Park Iunicipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3321. No provisions of this chapter
for which signs or markings are required, shall be enforced against an
alleged violation, if, at the time and place of the alleged violation,
an official sign or marking is not in place and sufficiently legible to
be seen by an ordinary, observant person.
Section 19. Section 3321. of the baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby repealed.
Section 20. Section 3326 of the Daldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3326. Exemptions to Authorized Emergency
Vehicles. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle shall be exempt from
those provisions of this code herein set forth under tha; following conditions:
a) Said exemptions shall apply whenever any said vehicle is being
driven in response to an emergency call or when used in the immediate pursuit
of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to but
not upon returning from a fire alarm.
b) Said exemptions shall apply only when the driver of said vesicle
sounds a siren as may be reasonably necessary and the vehicle displays a
lighted red lamp visible from the front as a warninL, to others. Under the
circumstances hereinablve stated, said driver shall not be required to
observe those regulations contained in Chapter 3 or in Chapters b to and
including Chapter 13 of Division 9 of the California Vehicle Code, or
Section 3326.1 of the Baldwin nark Municipal Code, but said exemptions shall
not relieve the driver of any said vehicle from the duty to drive with due
regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor shall the
provisions of this section protect any such driver from the consequences of
an arbitrary exercise of the privileges declared in this section.
Section 21. A new section is hereby added to the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code to read as follows: Section 3326.1. Stopping, standing or
Parking of Utility Vehicles. The foregoing restrictions in this Chapter
prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles shall not apply
to the driver or owner of any service vehicle owned or operated by or for or
operated under contract with a. utility or public utility, whether privately,
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municipally, or publicly owned, engaged in authorized work on the highway;
provided, that warnin_:devices are displayed as hereinafter specified
1. iJaring daylight such warning devices shall consist of
a) A warning flag or barricade striping on the front and rear of such
vehicle, or
b) A warning flag, sign or barrier on the highway not more than
fifty feet in advance of the vehicle and not more than fifty feet to the
rear thereof; provided, however;, that in zones where the maximum speed
limit is in excess of twenty-five miles per hour said 50-foot distance may
be increased up to five hundred feet from the vehicle as circumstances may
warrant.
2. During any time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour
before sunrise, and at any other time when there is not sufficient Light
to render clearly discernible any person or vehicle on the highway at a
distance of five hundred feet. Such warning devices shall consist of:
a) One or more lights or fusees on the vehicle giving warning to
approaching traffic from each direction, or
b) A warning light, flare, fusee or reflector on the highway not
more than fifty feet in advance of the vehicle and not more than fifty
feet to the rear thereof; provided, however, that in zones where the maximum
speed limit is in excess of twenty-five miles per hour said 50-foot
distance may be increased up to five hundred feet from the vehicle where
circumstances may warrant.
3. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not be deemed to prevent
the proper display of the warning; devices specified in a) and b) of each
of said paragraphs respectively.
4. During either daylight or tine time referred to in said paragraph
2 above, no other warning devices shall be necessary if the vehicle is an
authorized emergency vehicle and. is equipped with a flashing red light or
lights visible to approaching: traffic from each erection.
Section 22. Section 3327 of the llaldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3327. Pedestrians' Right to Use of
Roadway. No pedestrian shall cross a street or roadway other than by a
crosswalk in any business district between adjacent intersections controlled
by traffic signal devices or by police officers.
Section 23. Section 3328 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 24. Section 3331 of the baldian Park municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 25. Section 3332 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3332. Driving on Sidewalk or Curb.
No vehicle shall be driven on, along, or upon any sidewalk, parkway or
curb, other than on or over a regularly established driveway or roadway.
Section 26. Section 3334 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3334. No Parking on Parkway. No driver
shall park or leave standing a vehicle on a parkway when the parkway is
separated from the street by a regularly established curb.
Section 27. Section 3335 of the B ldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 28. Section 3336 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 29. Section 3339 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
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Section 30. Section 3340 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 31. Section 3341 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 32. Section 3342 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 33. Section 3343 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 34. Section 3;14,1 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3344.1. The enforcement of the rules,
regulations and laws of this chapter shall be by the Police Department of
the City of Bald-win Park, provided, however, that the enforcement of the rules,
regulations and laws of this city may be by the Califomia State Highway
Patrol or the Sheriffts Department of the County of Los Angeles.
Section 35. Section 3345 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 36. Section 3346 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 37. Section 3347 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 38. Section 3:.48 of the Baldwdn Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3348. Standing or Parking in Alleys.
No person shall park a vehicle in an alley, except t o unload materials or
passengers; commercial vehicles, not more than twenty consecutive minutes;
other vehicles, not more than three consecutive minutes.
Section 39. Section 3348.1 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3348.1. Commercial Parking. Every
commercial vehicle must be parked so that the right hand wheels are within
eighteen inches of. the curb. When no curbs or barriers bound the roadway,
parallel parking is required at the edge of the roadway.
Section 40. Section 3348.3 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3348.3. Parking Prohibited. No person
shall park a vehicle on public property for the purpose of displaying it
for sale or rent.
Section 41. Section 3348.4 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3348.4. Parking Prohibited. No
person shall park a vehicle other than a commercial vehicle in a loading
zone to load or unload materials for more than twenty consecutive minutes
between the hours of 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM, except on Sundays and holidays;
no person shall park any vehicle in a loading zone to load or unload
passengers for more than three consecutive minutes between the hours of
7:00 AM and b:00 PM, except on Sundays and holidays.
Section 42. Section 3348.6 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3348.6. Parking Prohibited.
No person shall park any vehicle in such a manner or position as to obstruct
the normal movement of traffic.
Section 43. Section 3348.7 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3348.7. Parking Prohibited. a)
No person shall park, stop, stand or leave standing any vehicle in a red
painted zone, whether the ve:lacle is attended or unattended, except that a
bus may stop in a red zone marked or signpou ted as a bus loading zone.
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b) No person shall park, stop, stand or leave standing any vehicle
in a yellow painted zone, except for the loading or unloading of passengers
and freight for such time as may be indicated in this chapter.
c) No person shall park, stop, stand or leave standing any vehicle
in a white painted zone, except for the loading or unloading; of passengers
for such time as may be indicated in this chapter, or for the purpose of
depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox.
d) No person shall park, stop, stand or leave standing any vehicle
in a green painted zone in excess of fifteen consecutive minutes.
Section 42. Section 3348.8 of the Baldwin Park Ivfunicipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3348.8. Vehicles Left Standing. No
person shall park or leave standing ariy vehicle on any street for one hundred
twenty or more consecutive hours. If such vehicle is determined to have been
standing or parked in violation of this section, the vehicle may be removed
from the street and impounded.
Section 44. Section 3348.10 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 45. Section 334.8.1.1 of the Baldwiri Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 46. Section 3348.12 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 47. A new section is hereby added to the Baldwin Park Municipal
Code to read as follows: Section 3348.13. Parking Prohibited. No person
shall park or stand any vehicle upon a highway or portion thereof when the
parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with the repair, construction,
or installation of underground utilities, or the use of the highway or any
portion thereof authorized by the City Council for a purpose other than the
normal flow of traffic or for the movement of equipment, articles, or
structures of unusual size. Any vehicle left standing or parked after
Temporary No Parking" signs have been erected for a period longer than twenty-
four hours shall be removed and impounded.
Section 48. Section 3349 of the Baldidn Park Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows: Section 3349. No person shall park or leave
standing a commercial vehicle on a street in a residential area for more than
five consecutive hours unless such commercial vehicle shall be actively and
continuously used in rendering services at a location in the immediate area.
Section 49. Section 3351 of.' the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 50. Section 3352 of the Baldtd n Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 51. Section 3355 of. the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 52. Section 3356 of the Bal dvu n Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 53. Section 3357 of the Bald-rAin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 54. Section 3358 of the Baldidn Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 55. Section 3359 of the Baldwin rark Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 56. Section 3360 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
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ordinance and shall cause the sane to be published or posted in the
manner required by law and this ordinance shall take effect thirty days after
its adoption.
PASSED AND APPROVED TBI S / day o£ 2a_,34 e 1956.
Mayor
ATTEST
City erk
CERTI FI CATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) ss.
QTY OF BAL±NET, PARK
I, Elmer Cook, being the duly elected and qualified Clerk of the
City of Baldwin Park, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was intro-
duced at the meeting o£ the City ouncil held on the J:Lg- day of 11 e~. T,
1956, and that the same was read in full and was duly adopted at the
regular meeting of the City Council held on the a!A day of e
1956, by the following vote
AYES: Councilmen
NCES: Councilmen
ABSENT: Councilmen
City Clerk
Seal)
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AFFIDAVIT O POSTING BY CITY CLERK
STLTE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OP LOS ANMIES ss
CITY OF BALDVIIN PARK
Elmer Cook, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That I am the duly elected and qualified City Clerk of the
City of Baldwin Park; that on the 12th day of June 1956 I
caused to be posted in three conspicuous places a copy of Ordinance
14o. 19 as required by law and the Baldwin Park Municipal Code.
Elmer Cook
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this day of
in anti for EIDER PUN
and State. id County Commission Expires March s, 1259
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