HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2044 ORDINANCE NO. 2044
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
BY AMENDING SECTIONS 10 .40 .050, 10. 48,050 AND
10 . 52 .010 PERTAINING TO PARKING AREAS FOR VEHICLES
OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows :
SECTION 1 . The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by amending Sections 10 .40 . 050 and 10 .48. 050 and 10 . 52 . 010
thereof to read as follows:
10 . 40 . 050 No parking areas . No operator of any vehicle
shall stop, stand, park or leave standing such vehicle in
any of the following places , except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direc-
tion of a police officer or other authorized officer, or
traffic sign or signal:
(a) On either side of any street between the projec-
ted property lines of any public walk, public steps, street
or thoroughfare terminating at such street, when such area
is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the
curb surface ;
(b ) Within any divisional island unless authorized and
clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings;
(c) In any area where the Director of Public Works
or Director of Building and Community Development determines
that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a
traffic hazard or would endanger life or property when such
area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon
the curb surface;
(d) In any area established by resolution of the Council
as a no parking area, when such area is indicated by appro-
priate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
(e) Upon, along or across any railway track in such
manner as to hinder, delay or obstruct the movement of any
car traveling upon such track;
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(f) In any area where the parking or stopping of any
vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger
life or property;
(g) On any street or highway where the use of such
street or highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the
cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway
or the installation of underground utilities or where the
use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is au-
thorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic
or where the use of the street or highway or any portion
thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles
or structure of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle
would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided
that signs giving notice of such no parking are erected or placed
at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the effective time of
such no parking;
(h) At any place within twenty (20) feet of a point on
the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone,
when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint
upon the curb surface;
(i) At the place within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at
In intersection when such place is indicated by appropriate
signs or by red paint upon the curb surface except that a bus
may stop at a designated bus stop;
(j ) Within twenty (20) feet of the approach of any traffic
signal, stop sign or official electric flashing device, when
such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint
upon the curb surface .
(k) In any area where the Director of Public Works or
the Director of Building and Community Development or any
person in lawful possession of an off-street parking area
has designated stalls or spaces in an off-street parking faci-
lity for the exclusive use of physically handicapped persons
whose vehicles display either one of the distinguishing
license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section
22511. 5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans
as specifed in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code and
where such space is clearly marked by the painting of a blue
curb or by posting immediately adjacent to, and visible from,
each stall or space , a sign consisting of a profile view of a
wheelchair with occupant in white on a blue background or by
both such blue curb and sign.
10 . 48. 050 Curb markings placement . The Director of Public '
Works is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations
of this chapter, to place, and when required herein shall place,
the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing
regulations and said curb markings shall have the meanings as
herein set forth:
(a) Red means no stopping, standing or parking at any
time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that
a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone .
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(b ) Yellow means no stopping, - standing or parking at
any time between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. of any day except Sundays
and holidays 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 loadiing or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes .
(c) White means 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 mailbox, which
shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall
apply between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. of any day including Saturdays ,
Sundays and holidays , and except as follows :
(1) When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front
of a mailbox, the restrictions shall apply at all times .
(2) When such zone is in front of a theater or church,
the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater
or church is closed.
(d) When the Director of Public Works, as authorized under
this chapter, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person
shall stop, stand or parking a vehicle adjacent to any such
legible curb markings in violation of any of the provisions
of this section.
(e) Blue means no stopping, standing or parking at any
time except for physically handicapped persons whose vehicles
display either one of the distinguishing license plates issued
to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California
Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans as specified in Section 9105
of the California Vehicle Code .
10. 52 . 010 Regulations . The following regulations shall
apply to city-owned parking lots other than city-owned beach
parking lots .
(a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall be permitted to
park within designated spaces only .
(b ) No person shall obstruct the flow of traffic in
any parking lot.
(c) No person driving, in control of, or in charge of,
a motor vehicle shall obstruct any entrance or any right-of-
way in any parking lot .
(d) When signs or curb markings regulating parking have
been determined by the Director of Public Works to be neces-
sary and are in place giving notice thereof, no operator of
any vehicle shall stop, stand, or parking said vehicle in
violation thereof.
(e ) The City Administrator shall have the authority to
designate reserved parking areas in city-owned parking lots .
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(f) No unauthorized vehicle shall park in a reserved
parking area where signs are posted giving notice of such
reserved parking.
(g) No unauthorized vehicle shall park in a stall or
space designated for exclusive use by physically handicapped
persons whose vehicles display either one of the distinguishing
license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section
22511. 5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans ,
as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code.
Such stalls or spaces are designated by a blue painted curb and/or
by a sign consisting of a profile view of a wheelchair with occu-
pant in white on a blue background posted immediately adjacent
to, or visible from, each stall or space.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the pas-
age of this ordinance and cause same to be published within
fifteen days after adoption in the Huntington Beach News , a
weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published
in Huntington Beach, California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 5th
day of April, 1976.
ATTEST: Mayor
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City Clerk _ .. .__.........
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Administrator City At orne M•T
APPROVED BY INITIATING DEPARTMENT:
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Ord. No. 2044
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
adiourned meeting thereof held on the 22nd day of March
1976 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 5th day of April 1976 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Bartlett, Wieder, Coen, Matney, Duke, Shipley, Gibbs
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
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