HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 113ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € ORDINANCE NO. 113
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK AMEND-
ING THE TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
The City Council of the City of Baldwin Park does
ordain as follows:
Section 1. That Chapter 3, Article III, of the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code, entitled TRAFFIC REGULATIONS"
and consisting of Sections 300 to 3354, inclusive, is re-
pealed.
Section 2. That a new Chapter 3 is added to said
Article III of said Municipal Code, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 3 TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Part 1 DEFINITIONS
3300. Definitions in State Vehicle Code. Whenever
any words or phrases use in is chap er are not defined
herein, but are now defined in the State Vehicle Code,
such definitions are incorporated herein and shall be
deemed to apply to such words and phrases as though set
forth herein in full.
3301. Other Definitions. The following words and
phrases, when use n s chapter, shall have the mean-
ings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
a) Holidays. The first day of January, the
twelfth ay o ebruary, the twenty-second day of
February, the thirtieth day 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 Novembe the twenty-fifth day of
December, and Thanksgiving Day. If the first day of
January, twelfth day of February, twenty-second day
of February, thirtieth day of May, fourth day of
July, ninth day of September, twelfth day of October,
eleventh day of November, or twenty-fifth day of
December falls upon a Sunday, the Monday following
is a holiday.
b) Loading Zone. The space adjacent to a curb
reserved or the exclusive use of vehicles during
the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
c) Official Time Standard. Whenever certain
hours are named herein trey shall mean standard time
or daylight saving time, depending upon which is in
use in this city.
d) Park. To stand or leave standing any vehicle,
whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily,
for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € e) Parkway. That portion of a street other than
a roadway or a sidewalk.
f) Passenger Loading Zone. The space adjacent
to a curb reserved or the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of passengers.
g) Pedestrian. Any person afoot.
h) 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.
i) Stop. When required, means complete cessa-
tion of movement.
j) Stop or Stand. When prohibited, means any
stopping or standof a vehicle, whether occupied
or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the direction of
a police officer or official traffic control device.
Part 2 TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
3302. Police Administration. There is hereby estab-
lished in the police depar men of this city a traffic
division to be under the control of an officer of police
appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of
Police.
3303. 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 department, to
enforce the street traffic regulations of this city and
all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traf-
fic in this city, to make arrests for traffic violations,
to investigate traffic accidents, and to cooperate with
the City Engineer and other officers of the city in the
administration of the 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
chapter and other traffic regulations of this city.
3304. Traffic Accident Studies. Whenever the acci-
dents at any particular oca ion become numerous, the
traffic division shall cooperate with the City Engineer
in conducting studies of such accidents and determining
remedial measures.
3305. Traffic Accident Reports. The traffic division
shall maintain a suitable system o filing traffic acci-
dent 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 Engineer.
3.306. Traffic Division to Submit Annual Traffic Safety
Reports. The traffic ivision shall annual y prepare a
ra
Such a report shall contain information on traffic matters
in this city as follows:
1. The number of traffic accidents, the number
of persons killed, the number of persons in-
jured, and other pertinent traffic accident
data;
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 2. The number of traffic accidents investi-
gated and other pertinent data on the
safety activities of the police;
3. The plans and recommendations of the divi-
sion for the future traffic safety activi-
ties.
3307. Duties of City Engineer; Designation as City
Traffic Engineer. t shall e the genera duty of the
City Engineer to determine the installation and proper
timing and maintenance of traffic control devices and
signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic acci-
dents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engin-
eering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions
and to cooperate with other city officials in the develop-
ment of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and
to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by
ordinances of this city. The City Engineer may use the
title of City Traffic Engineer in performing such duties.
3308. Shrubber Obstructing Visibility of Intersec-
tions. Whenever e City Traffic ng neer n s t a any
hedge, shrubbery or tree growing in a parkway obstructs
the view of any intersection, or any traffic upon the
streets approaching such intersection, he shall cause the
hedge, shrubbery or tree to be immediately removed or
reduced in height.
Part 3 ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
3-309. Authority of Police and Fire Department
Officials.
a) 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 street traffic
laws of this city and all of the state vehicle laws
applicable to street traffic in this city.
b) 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,
hand or other signal in conformance with traffic laws,
provided that in the event of a fire or other emer-
gency or to expedite traffic, or to safeguard pedes-
trians, officers of the police department may direct
traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding
the provisions of the traffic laws.
c) Officers of the fire department, when at the
scene of a fire or when in the course of their duties
they are protecting the personnel or equipment of the
fire department, may direct or assist the police in
directing traffic.
3310. Required Obedience to Traffic Regulations. It
is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act for den
or fail to perform any act required. in this chapter.
3311. Obedience to Police and Fire Department Officials.
No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order of a police officer or fire department offi-
cial when directing traffic.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 3312. Traffic Regulations Apply to Persons Riding
Bic cles or Animals. Every person rid n a bicyc e or
riding or r wing 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 by this chapter, ex-
cept those provisions which by their very nature can have
no application.
3313. Persons Other Than Officials Shall Not Direct
Traffic, No person o her an an o cer o e police
department or a person deputized by the Chief of Police
or 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 pushbutton signal erected by order of the
City Engineer.
331.4. Public Em to ees to Obey Traffic Regulations.
The provisions o th s chapter shall apply o e river
of any vehicle owned.by or used in the service of the
United States Government, this state, any county or city,
including the City of Baldwin Park, and it shall be un-
lawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions
of this chapter except as otherwise permitted. herein or by
the State Vehicle Code.
3315. Exemptions to Certain Vehicles.
a) The provisions of this chapter regulating the
operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not
apply to any vehicle of the police or fire department,
any public ambulance, or any public utility vehicle
or any private ambulance that has qualified as an
authorized. emergency vehicle, when any such vehicle
is operated in the manner specified in the State
Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, however,
protect the driver of any such vehicle from the con-
sequences of his wilful disregard of the safety of
others.
c) The provisions of this chapter regulating the
parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any
vehicle of a city department or public utility while
necessarily in use for construction or repair work,
or any vehicle owned by the United States while in
use for the collection, transportation or delivery of
United States mail.
3316, Report of Damage to Certain Property,
a) The driver of a vehicle or the person in
charge of any animal involved in any accident result-
ing in damage to any property publicly owned or owned.
by a public utility, including but not limited to any
fire hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pole,
electric light or power pole, or resulting in damage
to any ornamental shade 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
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € and address of the person owning and of the person
driving or in charge of such vehicle or animal, the
license number of every such vehicle, and shall
briefly describe the property damaged in such acci-
dent.
c) A driver involved in an accident shall not
be subject to the requirements or penalties of this
section if and during the time such driver is physi-
cally incapable of making a report, but in such event
said driver shall make a report as required in sub-
section a) within 24 hours after regaining the
ability to-make such report.
Part 4 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
3317. Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices.
a) The City Engineer, with the approval of the
City Council, shall have the power and duty to place
and maintain or cause to be placed, and maintained
official traffic control devices when and as required
under the traffic regulations of this city to make
such regulations effective.
b) Whenever the State Vehicle Code requires for
the effectiveness of any provisions thereof that
traffic control devices be installed to give notice
to the public of the application of such law, the
City 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 Engineer may also place and maintain
or cause to be placed and maintained such additional
traffic control devices as he may deem necessary 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 investiga-
tions and in accordance with such standards, limita-
tions and rules as may be set forth in the traffic
regulations of this city or as may be determined by
City Council.
3318. When Traffic Control Devices Re uired for
Enforcement Purposes. o provision o e a e e icle
Co e or o this chapter for which signs are required shall
be enforced against an alleged violator unless appro-
priate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be
seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of
such provisions of the traffic laws.
3319. Obedience to Traffic Control Devices. The
driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic control device applicable thereto placed
in accordance with the traffic regulations of this city
unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject to
the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emer-
Zency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
3320. Installation of Traffic Signals.
a) The City Engineer, with the approval of the
City Council, is hereby directed to install and main-
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € tain 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 Engineer shall ascertain and deter-
mine the locations where such signals are required by
resort to field observation, traffic counts and other
traffic information as may be pertinent, and his de-
terminations therefrom shall be made in accordance
with those traffic engineering and safety standards
and instructions set forth in the Planning Manual of
Instructions, Part 8, Traffic", issued by the Division
of Highways of the State Department of Public Works.
w c) Whenever the City Engineer installs and main-
tains an official traffic signal at any intersection
as herein provided, he shall likewise erect and main-
tain at such intersection street name signs visible
to the principal flow of traffic unless such street
name signs have previously been placed and are main-
tained at such intersection.
3,321. Traffic Barriers. No person shall operate a
vehicle contrary o the directions or provisions of any
barrier or sign erected:
a) Pursuant to the provisions of any ordinance
of this City; or
b) By any public utility; or
c) By any department of this City; or
d) By any other person pursuant to law or contract
with the City, nor, shall any unauthorized person move
or alter the position of any such barrier or sign.
3322. Lane Markin s. The City 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 used by traffic moving in a particu-
lar direction, regardless of the center line of the highway.
3323. Distinctive Roadwa Markin s. The City Engineer
is authorized to p ace and maintain distinctive roadway
markings as described in the State 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 marking 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 provi-
sions of the State Vehicle Code.
3324. Authority to Remove Relocate or Discontinue
Traffic Control Devices. The City Engineer, upon approval
of the City Council., s hereby authorized to remove, re-
locate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control
device not specifically required by state law or this
chapter whenever he shall determine in any particular case
that the conditions which warranted or required the instal-
lation no longer exist or obtain.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 3325. Traffic Control Devices Hours of Operation.
The City Engineer shall determine he hours and days dur-
ing which any traffic control device shall be in operation
or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or
days are specified in this chapter.
Part 5 TURNING MOVEMENTS
3326. Authority to Place and Obedience to Turning
Markers. intersections. MulMple lanes.
a) The City Engineer is authorized to place mar-
kers, buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections
indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning
at such intersections, and the City Engineer is authorized
to allocate 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 ordi-
nance.
b) When authorized markers, buttons, or other
indications are placed within an intersection indicating
the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat,
no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of
such indications.
33.27. Authority to Place Restricted Turn Signs. The
City Engineer is hereby authorized to determine those
intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make
a right, left or U turn, and shall place proper signs at
such intersections. The making of such turns may be
prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted
at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly
indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such
turns are permitted.
3328. Authority to Prohibit Right Turns Against
Traffic Stop Signal, The City Engineer is hereby author-
ized o determine those intersections within any business
or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall
not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and
shall erect proper signs Zriving notice of such prohibition.
No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any
such signs.
Part 6 ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
3329. The City Traffic Engineer to Sign One Wa
Streets and Al e s. Whenever any ordinance or re so ution
of this city esignates any one-way streets or allen the
City 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 inter-
section where movement of traffic in the opposite direction
is prohibited.
Part 7 SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
3330. The City Engineer to Erect Stop Signs. When-
ever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 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 crossings at which vehicles are required to stop,
the City Engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as
follows:
A stop sign shall be erected on each and every
street intersecting such through street or portion
thereof so designated and at those entrances of
other intersections where a stop is required and
at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Every
such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as
provided in Section 471.5 of the State Vehicle Code.
3331. Obedience to Stop Signs. When stop signs are
erected at the entrance to any intersection as provided
in Section 3130, every driver of a vehicle shall stop as
required by the State Vehicle Code.
3332. Emer in from Alle Driveway or Build.in
The driver o a vehicle emerging From an alley,-7'riveway
or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to
driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extend-
ing across any alley way.
Part 8 MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
3.333. Driving Through Funeral Processions. No
d.river of a vehicle shall drive between vehicles com-
prising a funeral procession while they are in motion
and when the vehicles in such processions are conspicu-
ously so designated.
3334. Clin in to Moving Vehicles. Any person rid-
ing upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates
or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself
to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.
3335. Vehicles shall Not be Driven on the Sidewalk.
The driver o a vehicle shall no drive within any s e-
walk area or any parkway except at a permanent or tem-
porary driveway.
3.336. New Pavement. 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 or sign is in place warning persons not to
drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when
a sign is in place stating that the street or any portion
thereof is closed.
3-437. Restricted Access. No person shall drive a
vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except
at such entrances and exits as are established by pub-
lic authority.
3338. Restrictions on Use of Freeways. No person
shall drive or operate any bicycle, mo or 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 pedestMans, provided
official signs are in place giving notice of such re-
strictions.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 3339• Intoxicated Persons in or About Vehicles. It
shall be unlawful or any person who is under t e nfluence
of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs to be in or about
any vehicle to which he has right of access or control
while such vehicle is in or upon any street or any other
public place in the City unless the same is under the im-
mediate control or operation. of a person not under the
influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs.
Part 9 PEDESTRIANS
3340. The City Engineer to Recommend Establishment
of Cross-Wa s.
a) The City Engineer shall recommend to the City
walks and shall designate them by appropriate devices
or painted signs upon the surface of the roadway after
they are established.
b) The City Engineer may place signs at or ad-
jacent to an intersection in respect to any cross-
walk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in
the crosswalk so indicated.
3.341. When Pedestrians Must Use Crosswalks. No
pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than y a cross-
walk in an7 business district.
3342. Crossing, at Right Angles. No pedestrian shall
cross a roadway at any pace other than by a route at
right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the
opposite curb except in a marked crosswalk.
3343. Pedestrians Standing on Sidewalks. No pedes-
trian shall stop or stand on a sidewalk except as near
as is physically possible to the building line or the
curb line at any place in any business district.
3344. Standing in Roadways. No person shall stand
in any roadway other thhan In a crosswalk if such action
interferes with the lawful movement of traffic. This
section shall not apply to any public officer or employee,
or employee of a public utility when necessarily upon a
street in line of duty.
Part 10 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
3345. Application of Regulations.
a) The provisions of this part prohibiting the
stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall
apply at all times or at those 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 part imposing a time
limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any
person from the duty to observe other and more restric-
tive provisions of the State Vehicle Code or the
ordinances of this city, prohibiting or limiting; the
standing or parking of vehicles in specified places
or at specified times.
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3346. Authority to Establish Stoppin Standing and
Parking Restrictions an Pro ibZtions.
a) Whenever, with reference to any street or por-
tion thereof, after study and recommendation by the
City Engineer, the City Council determines that be-
cause of proximity to a business district or center
of employment, or because of unusual concentration of
population, or because of any other factor or condi-
tion, the unrestricted parking of vehicles has caused,
or would necessarily cause, traffic congestion or
hazard, or has deprived the public of the economical
distribution of the use of available curb space, the
City Council is authorized to establish by resolution
such parking, or stopping, standing and parking re-
strictions and prohibitions as may be necessary.
b) The City Engineer shall install, at such
street or portion thereof, appropriate signs or mark-
ings giving effect to such parking, or stopping,
standing and parking, restrictions or prohibitions.
c) When appropriate signs or markings have been
installed or placed as authorized in this section,
no person shall stop, stand or park, any vehicle for
a period of time in excess of the parking time limit
indicated, by such sign. Successive acts of parking
in the same block between intersections on any street
shall on any calendar day be presumed to be a single
act of parking within the meaning of this section
when the vehicle is moved merely for the purpose of
avoiding the parking limitations prescribed by this
code. When the parking places covered by a single
act of parking are subject to different time limita-
tions, the legality of parking shall be determined
by the longest time limitation.
3.347. Standing in Parkways Prohibited. No person
shall stop, stand or park a vehic e wi hin any parkway.
3348. Use of Streets for Storage of Vehicle Prohibited.
a) No person who owns or has possession, custody
or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon
any street or alley for more than a consecutive period
of 120 hours.
b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left stand-
ing upon a street in excess of a consecutive period
of 120 hours, any member of the police department
authorized by the Chief of Police may remove said
vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to
the requirements of the State Vehicle Code.
3349. Parking for Certain Purposes Prohibited. No
person shal par a vehicle upon any roadway or the prin-
cipal purpose of:
1. Displaying such vehicle for sale.
2. Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle
except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
3.350. Curb Parking Right o- f Way.
a) Definition Limited Curb Parking S ace. For
the purpose of this section, a smite curb parking
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € space" shall mean an area open for lawful parking
alongside of and adjacent to a curb, which area is
not of sufficient len'-th to permit two or more ve-
hicles to freely move for parking therein at the
same time.
b) Parkin at Curb Right of Way. Any person
seeking o par his vehicle n a limited curb park-
ing space, whose vehicle arrives at said parking
space prior to any other vehicle, and who proceeds
beyond said space a distance not to exceed ten feet
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 limited curb parking space or who in any
manner obstructs such limited curb parking space and
the driver of such other vehicle shall yield the
right of way to the driver who first arrived at said
parking space.
3351• Parking Parallel With Curb.
a) Subject to other and more restrictive lim-
itations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within
18 inches of the lefthand curb facing in the direc-
tion of traffic movement upon any one-way street
unless sins are in place prohibiting such stopping
or standing.
b) In the event s, 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 per-
mitting such standing or parking.
c) The City Engineer shall recommend to the
City Council when standing or parking shall be pro-
hibited upon the lefthand side of any one-way street
or when standing or parking may be permitted upon
the lefthand side of any one-way roadway of a high-
way having two or more separate roadways, and if
such recommendation is adopted by the City Council,
he shall erect signs giving notice thereof.
d.) The requirement of parallel parking shall
not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is
actually engaged in the process of loading or un-
loading freight or goods, in which case that 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.
3352. Parking Adjacent to Schools.
a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized., with
the approval of the City Council, to erect signs in-
dicating no parking upon that side of any street
adjacent to any school property when such parking
would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or
create a hazardous situation.
b) When official signs or markings prohibiting
parking are erected upon narrow streets as author-
ized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any
such street in violation of any such sign or marking.
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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 con-
victed in any court of competent jurisdiction for
violating any of the provisions of this section, such
permit shall be forthwith revoked by the City Council
and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such per-
son until six 6) months have elapsed from the date
of such revocation.
3356. Emergency Parking; Signs.
a) Whenever the City Engineer shall determine that
an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result
from the holdiniL of public or private assemblages,
gatherings, or functions, or for other reasons, he
shall have 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 as he shall direct during the time
such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall
remain. in place only during the existence of such emer-
ency and the City Engineer shall cause such signs to
be removed promptly thereafter.
b) When suns authorized by the provisions of
this section are in place giving notice thereof, no
persons shall operate, park or stand any vehicle
contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
3357. Display of Warning Devices When Commercial
Vehicle Disabled.. Every motor truck having an unTaden
weight o 000 pounds or more and every truck tractor,
irrespective of weight when operated upon any street or
highway during the term specified in Section 618 of the
State Vehicle Code, shall be equipped with and. carry at
least two flares or two 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 light-
ing to reveal a vehicle at a distance of 200 feet during
any time mentioned in Section 618 of the State Vehicle
Code, a warning signal of the character indicated above
shall be immediately placed at a distance of approximately
100 feet in advance of, and 100 feet to the rear of, such
disabled vehicle by the driver thereof. The continuous
flashing of at least four approved type 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
locations. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be
displayed continuously during the times mentioned in said
Section 618 while such vehicle remains disabled upon such
street or highway.
3358. Parkin Time Limited in Business Districts.
When authorized signs are n place giving not 3e hereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle within a
business district between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m. of any day except Sunda s and holidays for a
period of time longer than two 2~ hours.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 3359. All Night Parkin Prohibited. No person shall
stop, stand or par 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.
3360. Parking Certain Vehicles in Residential
Districts. No person shall park any vehicle exceeding
two tons unladen capacity more than five hours in any
residential district except a) while loading or unload-
ing property and time in addition to such five-hour period
is necessary to complete such work, or b) when such ve-
hicle parked in connection with, and in aid of, the per-
formance of a service to or on a property in the block in
which such vehicle is parked and time in addition to such
five-hour period is reasonably necessary to complete such
service.
3361. Parking on Private Propert Prohibited. No
person shall park a vehicle in a private driveway or on
private property without the direct or implied consent of
the owner or person in lawful possession of such driveway
or property.
3362. Parking on City Pro2erty.
a) Whenever the Chief Administrative Officer
shall determine that the orderly, efficient conduct of
the City's business requires that parking or standing of
vehicles on city property be prohibited, limited or re-
stricted, he 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.
b) When signs authorized by the provisions of
this section are in place, giving notice thereof, no per-
son shall park or stand any vehicle contrary to the direc-
tions or provisions of such signs.
3353. No Parking Zones to Prevent Floodin In order
to prevent flooding o adjacent property, the City Engin-
eer shall designate established no parking zones by plac-
ing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating the hours
and days when parking is prohibited.
During the hours and on the days designated on
the signs, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any
vehicle to park said vehicle on any of the streets or
parts of streets established by resolution of the City
Council as such no parking zones.
3364 Bicycle Parking Zones. When the City Engineer
shall determine that the estshment of a bicycle park-
ing zone is reasonably necessary or desirable for the
regulation of traffic or to provide facilities for the
temporary parking of bicycles being operated upon the
public streets, or to safeguard life or property, he is
hereby authorized to set aside a space on the street not
more than thirty-six 36) feet in length for the parking
of bicycles during such hours of such days as are found by
him to be best suited for the accomplishment of the pur-
poses set forth in this section. When a bicycle parking
zone is so established, the City Engineer shall cause
appropriate signs to be posted thereat during such hours,
giving notice that parking of other vehicles is prohibited.
No person shall stop, stand or park any other vehicle in
front of such zone while such signs are in place.
3365. Funeral Zones. It shall be unlawful for the
operator of any vehicle to stop, stand or park said ve-
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € hicle for any period of time longer than is necessary for
the loadin or unloading of passengers and not to exceed
three 3) minutes at any place between limit markers or
si=ns placed within the protected real property boundaries
of arn.y undertakin- establishment, private residence, or
any public or private place at any time during or within
forty 40) minutes prior to the becinninff of any funeral
or funeral service, unless the operator of said vehicle
is directed by or has received permission from the direc-
tor or other person in charge of such funeral or funeral
service to park such vehicle in such place, provided that
such director or person in charge shall have placed and
maintained prior to and during the time limit herein
specified two 2) approved portable signs, one at each
extremity of such place, upon the sidewalk or pavement
area and within ty,wo 2) feet of the curb.
3366. Taxicab Stands.
a) The City Council shall, by resolution, estab-
lish taxicab stands and determine the locations
thereof.
b) The curb surface within each taxicab stand
shall.be painted white and marked TAXICAB STAND"
in red lettering, or shall be designated by signs of
a type and size approved by the City Engineer.
c) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any
vehicle, other than a taxicab or automobile for hire,
to park said vehicle in such taxicab stand.
3367. Parkin Space Markings. The City Engineer is
authorized o instal and.ma n win parking space markings
to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where
authorized parking is permitted.
When such parking space markings are placed in
the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limita-
tions, no 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.
Part 1-1- STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
3368. Authority to Establish Loading Zones.
a) The City Engineer shall recommend and the City
Council may approve the marking of loading zones and
passenger loading zones as follows:
1. Any place in 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 a yellow
paint line stencilled with black letters, LOADING
ONLY" upon the top of all curbs within such zones.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by
a white line stencilled with black letters, PASSENGER
LOADING ONLY" upon the top of all curbs in said zones.
3369. Curb Markings to Indicate No Stopping and Park-
ing Regulations.
a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized, subject
to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, to
place, and when required herein shall place, the fol-
lowing curb markings to indicate parking or standing
regulations, and said curb markings shall have the
meanings as herein set forth;
1. Red" shall mean no stopping, standing or
parking at any time except as permitted by the State
Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may stop in a
red zone, marked or signed as a bus zone.
2. Yellow" shall mean no stopping, standing
or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00
p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for any
purpose other than the loading or unloading of pas-
sengers or materials, provided that the loading or
unloading of passengers shall not consume more than
three 3l minutes nor the loading or unloading of
materials more than twenty 20) minutes.
3. White" shall mean no stopping, standing
or parking for any purpose other than loading or
unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of
depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which
shall not exceed three 3) minutes and such re-
strictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00
p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays and
except as follows:
i) When such zone is in front of a hotel
or in front of a mail box, the restrictions
shall apply at all times.
ii) When such zone is in front of a
theater, the restrictions shall apply at all
times except when such theater is closed.
4. Green" shall mean no standing or parking
for longer than twenty 20) minutes at any time
between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except
Sundays and holidays.
b) When the City Engineer, as authorized under
this chapter, has caused curb markings to be placed,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent
to any such legible curb markings in violation of any
of the provisions of this section.
3370. Effect of Permission to Load or Unload.
a) Permission herein granted to stop or stand a
vehicle for purposes of loading or unloading of mater-
ials shall apply only to commercial vehicles and shall
not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and in
no event for more than twenty 20) minutes.
b) The loading or unloading of materials shall
apply only to commercial deliveries, also the delivery
or pickup of express and parcel post packages and
United States mail.
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € c) Permission herein granted to stop or park for
purposes of loading or unloading passengers shall in-
clude the loading or unloading of personal baggage
but shall not extend beyond the time necessary there-
for and in no event for more than three 3) minutes.
d) Within the total time limits above specified,
the provisions of this section shall be enforced so
as to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading
or unloading but without permitting abuse of the
privileges hereby granted.
3371. Standing for Loading or Unloading Only. No
person shall stop, stand or par a ve c e n an
loading zone for any purpose other than loading oryunload-
ing passengers or material for such time as is permitted
in Section 3370.
3372. Standing in Passenger Loading Zone. No person
shall stop, stand or par a vehicle n any passenger load-
ing zone for any purpose other than the loading or unloading
of passengers for such time as is specified in Section 3370.
3373. Standing in Any Alley. No person shall stop,
stand or par a vehicle or any purpose other than the
loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley.
3374. Bus Zones to be Established.
a) The City Engineer shall recommend and the
City Council may approve the establishment of bus
zones opposite curb space for the loading and un-
loading of buses or common carriers of passengers
and to determine the location thereof subject to
the directives and limitations set forth herein.
b) The word bus" as used in this section shall
mean any motor bus, motor coach, trackless trolley
coach, or passenger stage used as a common carrier
of passengers.
c) Bus zones shall normally be established on
the far side of an intersection.
d) The City Engineer shall paint a red line
stencil with white letters NO STANDING", together
with the words BUS ZONE11 upon the top or side of
all curbs and places specified as a bus zone.
e) No person shall stop, stand or park any
vehicle except a bus in a bus zone.
Part 12 RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN
STREETS
3375. Advertising Vehicles. No person shall oper-
ate or drive any vehicle use or advertising purposes
or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound-ampli-
fying or loud-speaking device upon any street or alley
within any business district, except as provided under
Section 4249 of this Code.
3376. Truck Routes.
a) Whenever any ordinance of this City desig-
nates and describes any street or portion thereof
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € as a street, the use of which is permitted by any
vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of
five 5) tons, the City Engineer is hereby authorized
to designate such street or streets by appropriate
signs as Truck Traffic Routes" for the movement of
vehicles exceeding a. maximum gross weight limit of
five 5) tons.
b) When any such truck traffic route or routes
are established and designated by appropriate signs,
the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum
gross weight limit of five 5) 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
five 5) tons coming from a Truck Traffic Route"
having ingress and egress by direct route to and
from restricted streets when necessary for the pur-
pose of making pick-ups 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, remodel-
ing 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 jurisdic-
tion of the California Public Utilities Commis-
sion; 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) When signs are erected giving notice thereof,
the following streets or portions of streets are
hereby declared to be truck traffic routes for the
movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight
of five 5) tons:
3377. Commercial Vehicles Prohibited from Using
Certain Streets.
a) Whenever any ordinance of this City desig-
nates and describes any street or portion thereof
as a street the use of which is prohibited by any
commercial vehicle, the City Engineer shall erect
and maintain appropriate signs on those streets
affected by such ordinance. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to passenger buses under the
jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities
Commission.
b) Commercial Vehicles Prohibited. The fol-
lowing streets an parts o streets are hereby
declared to be streets the use of which is prohibited
by any commercial vehicle:
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € Part 13 TRAINS
3378. Railway Gates. No person shall drive any
vehicle through, arou- nT, 6_r under any crossing gate or
barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or
barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
3379. Trains Not to Block Crossings, 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 use of any street for the purpose of travel for a
period of time longer than ten 10) minutes, except that
this provision shall not apply to railway trains, cars
or similar vehicles on rails while blocking or obstruct-
ing a crossing because of an accident which requires the
operator of the train, car or similar vehicle on rails to
stop at or near the scene of the accident.
Part 14 SPECIAL SPEED ONES
3380. Increasing State Seed Limit in Certain Zones.
It is hereby determined upon the basis o an engineering
and traffic investigation that 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 intersec-
tions, 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 arected giving notice thereof:
Name of Street or Declared Prima
Portion Affected Facia Speed Limit
3381. Decrease of State Law Maximum Speed. It is
hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state
law outside of business and residence districts as applic-
able upon the following streets is greater than is reason-
able or safe under the conditions found to exist ucon
smch streets, and it, is hereby declared that the prima
facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those
streets or parts of streets herein designated when signs
are erected giving notice thereof:
Name of Street or Declared Prima
Portion Affected Facie Speed Limit
ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € 3882. Regulation of Speed b Traffic Signals. The
City Engineer 1s authorized to reZv ate the timin-- of
traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic
in. an. orderly and safe manner at speedsslic~htly at var-
iance from the speeds ther:rise applicable within the
district or at intersections and shall erect appropriate
si_ns viving notice thereof.
Section 3. That Chapter 8, Article I of said
Municipal Code, entitled TRAFFIC AND SAFETY COMMISSION" and
consisting of Sections 2800 to 2808, inclusive, is repealed.
Section 4-. The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this ordinance and cause the same to be pub-
lished or posted in the manner required by law. This or-
dinance shall take effect thirty days after the date of
its adoption.
PASSED and ADOPTED this Ist day of
June 1959.
/JLynn H. Cole, Mayor
ATTEST:
The ma L. Ba kus, City C_ erlk
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ORD 113ê79wV ×P ç € STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES: SS.
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I, THELMA L, BALKUS, City Clerk of the City of
Baldwin Park, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordi-
nance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Baldwin Park at its regular
meeting held on the Ist day of June
1959, by the followinS, vote:
AYES: Councilmen HOLMES, BISHOP, LITTLEJOHN, WILSON AND MAYOR COLE
NOES: Councilmen NONE
ABSENT: Councilmen NONE
T eelma L. Balkus, CIty Clerk
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CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I hereby CERTIFY that I am the duly elected and qualified
City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park; that on the 3rd day
of June 1959, I caused to be posted in three conspicu-
ous places a copy of Ordinance No. 113 as required by law and the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code.
THELMA L. BALKUS
City Clerk
and sm c r7 to before me fly
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for Wo S-4YYty w W$ yi1Pi, State of Califoai
EVA ELDER PUGH
Ii1y Commission Expires March 6, 1963
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLISHING
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES I SS
CITY OF BALDNIN PARK
I hereby CERTIFY that I am the duly elected and qualified
City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park; that on the Ilth day of
June 1959, 1 caused to be published in the Baldwin Park
Bulletin a copy of Ordinance No. 113 as required by law and the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code.
THELMA L. BALKUS
City Clerk
SEAL)
Subscribed and sworn to before- me this x 41
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b and for th. County of L.,,Miais, Swill of Callfordb
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