HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0700ORDINANCE N0. 700
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD REGULATING
TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS AND REPEALING
ORDINANCES NUMBERED 493, 604, 605, 661, ANv
673 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1. Definitions of Words and Phrases. (a) Whenever
any words or phrases used in this ord.inance are not defined herein,
but are now defined in the Vehicle Cod.e, such definitions are incor-
porated herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases
used herein as though fully set forth herein.
(b) The following words and phrases when used in this
ordinance shall £or the purpose of this ordinance have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them in this article.
Section 2. Alley. Any unnamed streets of 25 feet or less
in width between property lines.
Section 3. Holidays. Within the meaning of this ordinance,
holidays are the first day o£ January, the twelfth day of February,
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 November, the twenty-
fifth day of December, and Thanksgiving Day. If the first day of
January, the twelfth d.ay o£ February, the twenty-second day of February,
the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the ninth day of
September, the twelfth day of October, the eleventh day of November or
the twenty-fifth day of December falls upon a Sunday, the Monday follow-
ing is a holiday.
Section 5. Official Time Standard. Whenever certain hours
are named herein, they shall mean standard time or d.aylight saving time
as may be in current use in this city.
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Section 6. 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,
Section 7. Parkway
That portion of a street other than
a roadway or a sidewalk.
Section 8. Passenger Loading Zone. The space adjacent
to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the load-
ing or unloading of passengers.
Section 9. Ped.estrian. Any person afoot.
Section 10. Person. Every natural person, firm, co-
partnership, association or corporation.
Section 11. Police Officer
Every officer of the police
department of this city, or any officer authorized to direct or regu-
late traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Section 12. (a) Stop. When required, means complete
cessation of movement.
(b) Stop or Stand. When prohibited, means any stopping m
standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direc-
tion of a police officer or official traffic control device.
ARTICLE II
TRAFFIC ADMINISTR~TION
Section 30. Police Administration
There is hereby estab-
lished in the police d.epartment of this city a traffic d.ivision to be
und.er the control of an officer of police appointed. by and d.irectly
responsible to the chief of police.
Section 31. 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 tra£fic in this city, to make arrests for traffic violatim s,
to investigate traffic accidents and to cooperate with the city traffic
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engineer and other officers of the city in the administration of the
traffic laws and. in developing ways and means to improve traffic con-
ditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon said.
division by this ordinance and the traffic ord.inances of this city.
Section 32. Traffic Accident Studies. Whenever the
accidents at any partiCular location become numerous, the traffic
division shall cooperate with the city traffie engineer in conducting
stud.ies of such accidents and determining remedial measures.
Section 33. Traffic Accident Reports. The traffic divi-
sion shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident
reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed
alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be available for the
use and information of the city traffic engineer.
Section 34. Traffic Division to Submit Annual Traffic
Safety Report. The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic
report which shall be filed. with the City Council. Such a report
shall contain information on traffic matters in this city as £ollows:
1. The number of traffic accidents, the number of
persons killed, the number of persons in~ured, and other
pertinent traffic accident data;
2. The number of traffic accidents investigated and.
other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;
3. The plans and recommendations of the division for
future traffic safety activities.
Section 35• City Traf£ic Engineer. The office o£ city
traffic engineer is hereby established. The City Engineer shall
serve as City Traffic Engineer in ad.dition to his other functions,
and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as
provid.ed in this ordinance,
Section 36. Duties of City Traffic Engineer. It shall be
the general duty o£ the City Traffic Engineer to determine the installa-
tion and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control d.evices and
signals, to conduct engineering analyses of tra£fic accid.ents and to
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devise remed.ial measures, to conduct engineering and traffic investi-
gations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials
in the d.evelopment of ways and means to improve traffic cond.itions,
and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances
of this city.
ARTICLE III
ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE
TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Section 50. Authority of Police and Fire Department
Officials. (a) It shall be the d.uty of the officers of the police
department or such of£icers as are assigned by the chief of police
to enforce all street traffic laws of this city and all of the State
vehi~le 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 emergency or to
expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police
d.epartment may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstand-
ing the provisions of the traffic laws.
(c) Officers of the fire d.epartment, 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.
Section 51. Required Obedience to Traffic Ord.inance. It
is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbid.den or fail to
perform any act required in this ordinance.
Section 52. Obed3ence 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 official when
directing traf£ic.
Section 53. Traffic Regulations Apply to Persons Riding
Bicycles or Animals. Every person riding a bicycle or riding or
driving an animal upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights
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and shall'be subject to all of the duties applicable to the d.river
of a vehicle by this ord.inance, except those provisions which by
their very nature can have no application.
Section 54. Persons Other than Officials Shall not Direct
Traffic. No person other than an of£icer of the police department
or a person d.eputized. by the chief of police or person authorized by
law shall direct or attempt to direct traf£ic by voice, hand or other
signal, except that persons may operate when and as herein provided.
any mechanical pushbutton signal erected by ord.er of the City Traffic
Engineer.
Section 55. Public Employees to Obey Traffic Regulations.
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the driver o£ any
vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Govern-
ment, this State, any county or city and it shall be unlawful for
any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance
except as otherwise permitted in this ordinance or by the Vehicle
Code.
Section 56. Exemptions to Certain Vehicles. (a) The
provisions of this ordinance 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, which public utility vehicle or private
ambulance has qualified as an authorized. emergency vehicle, when any
vehicle mentioned in this section is operated. in the manner specified.
in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
(b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, however, protect
the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his wilful
disregard of the safety of others,
(c) The provisions of this ordinance 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 de]_ivery of United States mail.
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Section 57. Report o£ Damage to Certain Property. (a) The
driver of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved
in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned
or owned by a public utility, includ3ng but not limited. to any fire
hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or
power pole, or resulting in damage to any ornamental shad.e tree,
tra£fic control device or other property of a like nature located in
or along any street, alley, park, or public place, 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 and the place
where the aceident took place, the name 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 accident.
(c) A driver involved in an accident shall not be sub~ect
to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during the
time such driver is physically incapable of making a report, but in
such event said driver shall make a report as requ:_red in subdivision
(a) within twenty-four (24) hours after regaining ability to make such
report.
ARTICLE IV
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
Section 60. Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices.
(a) The City Traffic Engineer shall have the power and duty to place
and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained. official traffic
control d.evices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of
this city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances.
(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code requires for the effective-
ness of any provision thereof that traffic control devices be installed
to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to install or cause to be
installed the necessary devices sub,ject to any limibations or restric-
tions set forth 3n the law applicable thereto.
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(c) The City Traffic Engineer may also place and maintain
or cause to be placed anc 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 o£ traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations
and in accordance with such standards, limitations and. rules as may
be set £orth in the trafic ordinances of this city or as may be
determined by ordinance or resolution of the City Counc-l.
Section 61. When Tra£fic Control Devices Required.for
Enforcement. No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this ord.inance
for which signs are required. shall be enforced against an alleged
violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently
legible to be seen by an ord.inarily observant person, giving notice
of such provisions of the traffic laws.
Section 62. Obedience to Traffic Control Devices. The
driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions o£ any official
traffic control d.evice applicable thereto placed in accord.ance with
the traffic ordinances of this city unless otherwise directed by a
police officer sub~ect to the exceptions granted the driver of an
authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
Section 63. Installation of Traffic Signals. (a) The
City Traffic Engineer is hereby directed to install and maintain
official traffic signals at those intersections and other places
where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow o£
traffic be alternately interrupted and released. in ord.er to prevent
or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from
exceptional hazard.
(b) The City Traffic Engineer shall ascertain and determine
the locations where such signals are required by resort to field.
observation, traffic counts and other traffic information as may be
pertinent and his determinations therefrom shall be made in accordance
with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions
set £orth in the Planning Manual of Instructions, Part 8, "Tnaffic,"
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issued. by'the Division of Highways of the State Department of Pub3ic
Works.
(c) Whenever the City Traffic Engineer installs and main-
tains an official tra£fic signal at any intersection, he shall like-
wise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible
to the principal flow o£ traffic unless such street name signs have
previously been placed and are maintained at any said intersection.
Section 64. Lane Marking. The City Traffic Engineer
is hereby authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the
sur£ace of the roadway to ind.icate the course to be traveled by
vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used
by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center
line of the highway.
Section 65. Distinctive Roadway Markings. The City Traffic
Engineer is authorized to place and. maintain distinctive roadway
markings as described in the Vehicle Cod.e on those streets or parts
of streets where the volume of traffic or the vertical or other curva-
ture of the roadway renders it hazardous to d.rive on the left sid.e
of such markings or si~ns and. markings. Such marking or signs and.
marking shall have the same effect as similar markings placed by the
State Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle
Code.
Section 67. Traffic Control Devices--Hours of Operation.
The City Traffic Engineer Bhall determine the hours and d.ays during
which any trafic control device shall be in operation or be in effect,
except in those cases where such hours or d.ays are specified in this
ordinance.
ARTICLE V
TURNING MOVEMENTS
Section 70. Authority to Place and Obedience to Turning
Markers. Intersections. Multiple Lanes. (a) The City Traffic
Engineer is authorized. to place markers, buttons, or signs within
or ad.~acent to intersections ind.icating the course to be traveled by
vehicles turning at such intersections, and the City Traffic Engineer
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is aut'horized to allocate and indicate more than one lane o£ 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 ord.inance.
(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.
Section 71. Authority to Place Restricted Turn Signs. The
City Traffic Engineer is hereby a~thorized to d.etermine those inter-
sections 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 ind.icated. on the signs or they may be removed when such
turns are permitted.
Section 72. Obedience to No-Turn Signs. Whenever authorized
signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U turn is per-
mitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direction of any such
sign.
Section 73. Authority to Prohibit Right Turns Against
Traffic Stop Signal. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized
to determine those intersections within any business or residence
district at which d.rivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn
against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving noti ~
of such prohibition. No driver o£ a vehicle shall disobey the d.irec-
tions of any such sign.
ARTICLE VI
ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
Section 80. The City Traffic Engineer to Sign One-Way
Streets and Alleys. Whenever any ord.inance or resolution of this
city d.esignates any one-way street or alley, the City Traffic Engineer
shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such
regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place, Signs
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ind.icating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed.
at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite
direction is prohibited.
Section 81. Obedience to One-Way Signs. When signs are
erected on any one-way street or alley giving notice thereof, no
person shall drive any vehicle in a direction contrary thereto.
ARTICLE VII
SPECIAL STOP SIGNS REQUIRED
Section 90. The City Traffic Engineer to Erect Stop Signs.
Whenever any ord.inance or resolution of this city d.esignates and des-
cribes any street or portion thereo£ 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, the City Traffic 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 deaignated 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 Sections 21351
to 21355, inclusive, of the Vehicle Cod.e.
(a)
Section gl. Stop at Through Street or Stop Sign./ Those
streets and parts of streets referred to in Section 188 hereof are
hereby declared. to be through streets for the purpose o£ this section.
(b) The provisions of this section shall also apply at one
or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and. inter-
sections are referred to in Section 189 hereo£.
(c) The provisions of this section shall apply at those
highway railway grade crossings as described in Section 190.
Section 92, Emerging from Al1ey, Driveway or Build.ing. The
driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, d.riveway or building
shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sid.ewalk
or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley way.
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ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Section 100. Driving Through Funeral Processions. No
driver of a vehicle shall d.rive between vehicles comprising a funeral
procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such
processions are conspicuously so designated,
Section 101. Clinging to Moving Vehicles. Any person
riding 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.
Section 102. Vehicles Shall Not be Driven on the Sidewalk.
The d.river of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area or
any parkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
Section 103, New Pavement. No person shall rid.e or drive
any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or
freshly painted marking 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,
Section 104. Restricted Access. No person shall drive a
vehicle onto or from any limited access road.way except at such
entrances and exits as are established. by public authority.
Section 105. Miscellaneous Regulations Relating to the Use
of Streets. It shall be unlawful for any person, without first
obtaining a permit from the City Council of the City of Lynwood to
engage in any game, dance, public meeting, parade, or exhibition upon
any street or alley.
Section 106. Closing Streets Temporarily. The Chief o£
Police shall have the right, authority and power at any time to close
any street or any portion thereof temporarily to vehicular, pedestrian
or other tra£fic when in the opinion of such Chie£ of Police the
public peace, health or safety requires such temporary closing; pro-
vided, however, that in all such cases, suitable signs shall be con-
spicuously posted giving notice of the fact that such street or porti m
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thereof is closed, or a police officer or person designated by the
Chief of Police is present thereat £or the purpose of giving such
notice. No person shall, in case any such street or portion thereof
is so closed, enter into or upon such closed portion or drive any
vehicle into or upon the same contrary to any such notice or notices
or the order or orders of any such police officer or person so desig-
nated. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving the
City Council and/or City Engineer of said. City from concurrent power
to likewise temporarily close any street or portion thereof within
said City, but the delegation of power to the Chief of Police herein
made shall be construed as in addition thereto.
Section 107. Merchandise on Street Prohibited.
Sub~ect to
the provisions o£ Section 23 of City Ordinance No. 678, no person
shall leave or permit to remain in or upon any street, alley, side-
walk or in or upon any parkway in any street within said city, any
merchandise, fruit or fruits, melon or melons, vegetable or vegetables,
meat or meats or any baggage or any other article of personal property.
ARTICLE IX
PEDESTRIANS
Section 110. The City Traffic Engineer to Establish
Crosswalks. (a) The City Traffic Engineer shall establish, desig-
nate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and. other places by
appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface o£ the roadway,
as follows:
Crosswalks shall be established and. maintained. at all
intersections and other places where the City Traffic Engineer deter-
mines that there is a particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the
roadway subject to the limitation contained in (b) of this section.
(b) Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk
shall be established in any block which is less than four hundred (400)
feet in length. Elsewhere not more than one ad.d.itional crosswalk
shall be established in any one block and such crosswalk shall be
located as nearly as practicable at mid-block.
(c) The City Traffic Engineer may place signs at or adjacent
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to an''intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that ped,es-
trians shall not cross in the crosswalk so indicated.
Section 111. When Pedestrians Must Use Crosswalks. No
pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any
business district.
Section 112. Crossing at Right Angles. No pedestrian
shall cross a roadway at any place 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.
Section 113. Standing in Roadways. 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 of£icer or employee, or employee of a
public utility when necessarily upon a street in line of d.uty.
ARTICLE X
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
Section 120. Application of Regulations. (a) The provi-
sions o£ this ordinance prohibiting the stopping, standing or park-
ing o£ 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 d.irections of
a police officer or official traffic control device.
(b) The provisions of this ordinance imposing a time limit
on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to
observe other and. more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Cod.e or
the ord.inances of this city, prohibiting or limiting the standing or
parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
Section 121. St and.ing in Parkways Prohibited.. No person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
Section 122. Use of Streets for Storage of Vehicles Pro-
hibited. (a) No person who owns or has possession, custody or con-
trol of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley
for more than a consecutive period of 120 hours.
(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon
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a street in excess of a consecutive period. of 120 hours, any memb'er
of the police department authorized. by the Chief of Police may remove
said vehicle £rom the street in the manner and subject to the require-
ments of the Vehicle Cod.e.
Section 123. Parking for Certain Purposes Prohibited. No
person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose
of :
l. Displaying such vehicle for sale.
2. Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except
repairs necessitated by an emergency.
Section 124. Parking Parallel with Curb. (a) Sub,ject to
other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or
parked within 18 inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction
of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in place
prohibiting such stopping or standing.
(b) In the event a highway includes two or more separate
roadways and traffic is restricted to one direetion upon any such
road.way, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand
side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting
such standing or parking.
(c) The City Traffic Engineer is authorized. to determine
when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand sid.e
of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted
upon the left-hand. side of any one-way roadway of a highway having
two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice
thereof.
(d) The requirement of parallel parking shall not apply
in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process
of load.ing or unloading freight or good.s, in which case that vehicle
may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not ex-
tend beyond. the center line of the street and does not block traffic
thereby.
Section 125. Signs or Markings Indicating Angle Parking.
(a) Whenever any ordinanee of this city designates and describes any
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street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted,
the City Traffic Engineer shall mark or sign such street indicating
the angle at which vehicles shall be parked.
(b) 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 roadway indicated
by such signs or markings.
(c) Angle parking shall be permitted upon those streets
and parts of streets described in Section 191 hereof.
Section 126. Parking Adjacent to Schools, (a) The City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no
parking upon that side of any street ad.jacent to any school property
i^tien such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or
create a hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected indicating no parking
upon that side of a street ad.~acent to gny school property, no person
shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
Section 127. Parking Prohibited on Narrow Streets. (a)
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to place signs or markings
indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway
d.oes not exceed 30 feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated
by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not
exceed 40 feet.
(b) When official signs or markings prohibiting parking
are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall
park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign or
marking.
Section 128. Stopping or Parking Prohibited--Signs Required.
The City Traffic Engineer shall appropriately sign or mark the follow-
ing places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand
or park a vehicle in any of said. places.
1, At any place within 15 feet of a point on the curb
immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone,
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z. At any place within 15 feet of an intersection in
any business district except that a bus may stop at a
d.esignated bus stop.
3. Within 15 feet of the approach to any traffic
signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing
device.
4. At any place where the traffic engineer determines
that is is necessary in order to eliminate unusual traffic
hazard.
Section 130. Unlawful Parking--Peddlers, Vendors. (a)
Except as otherwise provided in this section and in Section 23 of
city Ordinance No. 678, no person shall stand or park any vehicle,
wagon or push-cart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits,
vegetables or food stuPfs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered.
for sale or bartered or exchanged or any lunch wagon or eating car
or vehicle, on any portion of any street within this city, except
that such vehicles, wagons or push-carts may stand or park only at
the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to
exceed ten (10) minutes at any one place. The provisions of this sub-
section shall not apply to persons delivered such articles upon ord.er
of, or by agreement with a customer from a store or other fixed place
of business or distribution.
(b) No person shall park or stand on any street any lunch
wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or push-cart from which tamales, peanuts,
popcorn, candy or other articles of food are sold or offered for sale
without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the Chief of
Police which shall designate the specified location in which such
cart shall stand.
(c) No person shall park or stand. any vehicle or wagon used
or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on
any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon without
first obtaining a written permit so to do from the Chief of Police
which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.
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(d) Whenever any permit is granted und.er the provisions
of this section and a particular location to park or stand is speci-
fied therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, or
push-cart on any location cther than as designated in such permit. In
the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any
court o£ competent ~urisdiction for violating any of the provisions
of this section, such permit shall be £orthwith revoked by the Chief
of Police upon the filing of the record of such conviction with the
Chief of Police, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such
person until six (6) months have elapsed. from the date of such
revocation.
Section 131. Emergency Parking Signs. (a) Whenever the
City Traffic Engineer shall determine that an emergency traffic con-
gestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private
assemblages, gatherines, or functions, or for other reasons, the City
Traffic Engineer 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
the City Tra£fic Engineer shall direct during the time such temporary
signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the
existence of such emergency and the city Traffic Engineer shall cause
such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.
(b) When signs authorized. by the provisions o£ this section
are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or
stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisi.ons of such
signs.
ARTICLE XI
STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
Section 140. Authority to Establish Loading Zones. (a)
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and to
mark 1oad.ing zones and passenger loading zones as follows:
1. At 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
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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
stenciled with black letters "LOADING ONLY," upon the top of all curbs
within such zones.
(d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by a white
line stenciled with black letters "PASSENGER LOADING ONLY," upon the
top of all curbs in said zones.
Section 141. Curb Markings to Indicate No Stopping and.
Parking Regulations. (a) The City Traffic Engineer is hereby
authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this ordin-
ance, 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:
l. Red shall mean 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.
2. Yellow shall mean no stoppin$, standing or parking
at any time between 7:00 a.m, and 6:00 p.m. of any day
except Sundays and. holid.ays for any purpose other than the
loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided.
that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not con-
sume more than three (3) minutes nor the load.ing or unload-
ing o£ 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 res-
trictions shall apply between 7•00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m, of
any day except Sundays and holidays and except as follows:
(1) When such zone is in front of a mail box the
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~ restrictions shall apply at all times. ~
(2) When such zone is in front of a theater the
restrictions shall apply at all times except when such
theater is closed.
~. 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 Traffic Engineer as authorized und.er
this ordinance has caused such markings to be placed, no person shall
stop, stand or park a vehiele ad~acent to any such legible curb
marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section.
Section 142. Effect of Permission to Load or Unload. (a)
Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of
loadin~ or unloading o£ materials shall apply only to cemmercial
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 pick-up of express and
parcel post packages and United States mail.
(c) Permission herein granted to stop or park for purposes
of load.ing or unloading passengers shall include the loading or unload-
ing of personal baggage but shall not extend beyond the time necessary
therefor and in no event for more than three (3) minutes.
(d) Within the total time limits above specified the pro-
visions of this section shall be enforced so as to accommodate neces-
sary and reasonable loading or unloading but without permitting abuse
of the privileges hereby granted.
Section 143. Stand.ing for Loading or Unloading Only. No
person shall stop, stand. or park a vehicle in any yellow loading zone
for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or material
for such time as is permitted in Section 142.
Section 144. Standing in Passenger Loading Zone. No person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any passenger loading zone for
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any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers for
such time as is specified in Section 142.
Section 145. Standing in Any Al1ey. No person shall stop,
stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or
unloading of persons or materials in any alley.
Section 146. Bus Zones to be Established. (a) The City
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to establish bus zones opposite
curb space for the loading and unloading of buses or common carriers
of passengers and to determine the location thereof 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) No bus zone shall exceed 60 feet in length, except
that when satisfactory evidence has been presented to the City
Traffic Engineer showing the necessity therefor, the City Traffic
Engineer may extend. bus zones not to exceed a total length o£ 100 feet.
(d) Bus zones shall normally be established on the £ar
side of an intersection.
(e) No bus zone shall be established opposite and to the
right of a safety zone.
(f) The City Traffic Engineer shall paint a red. line
stencil with white letters "NO STANDING,'~ together with the words
"BUS ZONE" upon the top or side of all curbs and places specified as
a bus zone.
(g) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except
a bus in a bus zone, except that the Traffic Engineer is hereby auth-
orized to determine and mark: "LAY OVER" points at any place in the
City of Lynwood where, in the opinion of the Traffic Engineer said lay
over points are necessary or proper, where persons authorized to trans
port passengers by bus or hire in said city over fixed routes, shall
be permitted to park or leave not more than one (1) bus at a time for
a period not to exceed twenty (20) minutes. "Bus" as used in this
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subsection (g) shall mean motor bus, motor coach or passenger stage
used as a common carrier of passengers where the owner or operator
of said motor bus, motor coach or passenger stage is required to
travel over fixed routes.
ARTICLE XII
STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING
RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED ON
CERTAIN STREETS,
Section 150. Parking Time Limited in Business District.
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle on any of the streets enumerated
in Section 192(a) hereof between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer
than one hour.
Section 151. Parking Time Limited on Certain Enumerated
Streets. When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof
no person shall stop, stand., or park any vehicle on any of the streets
enumerated in Section 192 (b) hereof for a period of time longer than
two (2) hours at any time between the hours of 7:00 a.m, and 6:00
p.m. of any d.ays except Sundays and holidays.
Section 152. Parking Prohibited at All Times on Certain
Streets. When signs are erected giving notice thereof no person shall
park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof
described in Section 193 of this ordinance.
Section 153. All Night Parking Prohibited Except Where
Certificate of Necessity Granted. (a) No person shall stop, stand
or park a vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than two
(2) hours between the hours o£ 1;00 a.m, and 6;00 a.m. of any day
except in accordance with the Certi£icate of Necessity issued by the
Chief of Police, as hereinafter provided.
(b) Said Certificate of Necessity, or a decal or other
reasonable facsimile thereof furnished by the Chief of Police shall
be attached to each vehicle to which the Chief of Police has, in
writing, made the Certificate applicable, as hereinafter provided..
(c) It is the intention o£ the City Council in enacting
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Section 153 of this ord.inance to cause, insofar as practical, a
single investigation to be made of the question as to whether or not
there exists sufficient necessitous circumstances affecting the occu-
pancy of a particular dwelling or of a group of dwellings and their
appurtenances upon a particular lot or parcel of land. in the city,
to warrant the issuance by the Chief of Police of a Certificate of
Necessity to an occupant and/or occupants of said dwelling or dwellings,
and to provide a single investigative fee, as hereinafter provided,
to cover an entire lot and/or parcel of land and all of the dwellings
located thereon, as a whole. Therefore, in accordance with the fore-
going preamble, be it ordained that any occupant of a dwelling, located
in said city who, for reasons of hardship or necessity believes that
there should be issued to him or her a Certificate of Necessity which
would exempt him or her from the provisions of Subsection (a) of
Section 153 of this ordinance may file an application for a Certificate
of Necessity for each motor vehicle to which he or she d.esires a
Certi£icate of Necessity to apply, that said application shall meet
the £ollowing requirement:
1. It shall be in writing on a form furnished by
the Chief of Police;
2. It shall set forth;
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) The name and address of the owner of the real
property where the applicant resides, or agent of the
owner, if said property is being managed by an agent;
(3) The number of separate dwellings on a parti-
cular lot or parcel o£ land a£fected by the application;
(4) The number of vehicles insofar as known by the
applicant, possessed by the occupants of said lot and./or
parcel of land;
(5) T1'ie license number and motor number or serial
number of the vehicle or vehicles to which applicant
desires the Certificate of Necessity to apply;
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(6) The make, model, and type of each vehicle
to which the applicant d.esires the Certificate of
Necessity to apply;
(7) The necessity for the Certificate requested,
and,
(8) Such other pertinent information as the Chief
of Police shall require.
(d) The application first to be filed. affecting a particul~
lot and/or parcel of land shall be designated for the purposes of
this ordinance as the "original" application.
(e) The applicant first to file such an application shall
accompany such application with an investi~ative fee of Two Dollars
($2.00), which shall be paid to the City Clerk of said City.
(f) Upon the filing of each such original application, the
Chief of Police shall cause to be made such investigation as he may
deem proper to ascertain whether or not there exists su£ficient
necessitous circumstances affecting the particular lot and/or parcel
of land and the dwellings located. thereon, described in the application
to warrant the issuance by him of a Certificate of Necessity to the
applicant. If, after such investigation, the Chief of Police determines
that there is not adequate off-street parking space reasonably obtain-
able by the applicant at the place o£ his residence or within 600 feet
thereof, for the parking of the vehicle or vehicles described in the
application, a Certificate of Necessity shall be granted to the appli-
cant for each motor vehicle for which applicant has made application
and to which the Chief of Police, in his discretion, determines that
the Certificate of Necessity should apply. The Certificate of Necessity
shall be for a term of one year from the date said Certificate is
issued by the Chief of Police, unless terminated as hereinafter pro-
vided. Should said Certificate of Necessity be denied, the investiga-
tive fee shall not be refunded.
(g) The Chief of Police shall cause a permanent file to be
made o£ all "ori~inal" applications, and all of the investigative
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written datia made and compiled in connection with each investigation,
with the intent and purpose that said file and the information therein
contained shall constitute the foundation for the processing of all
subsequent applications affecting the same lot and/or pancel of land
described. in the original application.
(h) All applications for Certificates of Necessity filed
subsequent to the filing of the "original" application shall be referred
to for the purposes of this ordinance as "SUbsequent" applications.
For each subsequent application filed, a fee of ~1.00 shall accompany
said application and shall be paid to the City Clerk of said city.
Should said Certificate of Necessity be denied, the fee of $1.00 shall
not be refunded.
(i) If, at the expiration of the term provided £or in the
Certificate of Necessity, irrespective of whether such Certif3cate was
issued under an "original" or "subsequent'~ application, the holder of
the Certificate is d.esirous of renewing his certificate, the same
procedure shall be followed as provided herein in the case of a
"subsequent'~ application, except as follows: if the holder of the
certi£icate shall file application for renewal of a certificate with
the Chief of Police at least ten days before the expiration of the
term thereof, the fee of $1.00 shall be waived.
(j) 1. If the particular motor vehicle upon which a
Certificate of Necessity has been granted shall pass from the owner-
ship or possession of applicant during the term of said Certificate
of Necessity, said Certificate of Necessity shall ipso facto terminate
and. be of no further force or effeet.
2. An applicant to whom a Certificate of Necessity has
been granted and. who, either because the motor vehicle to which it
applies has passed out of his ownership or possession d.uring the term
of the Certificate o£ Necessity, or for reasons of his own, desires
to cause the Certificate o£ Necessity to be transferred to another
motor vehicle which he owns or to which he has the right of legal
possession, may apply to the Chief of Police for a Certificate of
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Necessity ~pon said. substituted motor vehicle, and if the Chief of
Police is satisfied that conditions have not materially changed since
the issuance of the Certificate of Necessity as to the original
vehicle, he shall grant the Certificate upon said substituted vehicle
for the unexpired term of said Certificate of Necessity, upon the
payment by applicant to the City Clerk of a fee of $1.00.
Section 154. Parking Space Markings. The City Traf£ic
Engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings
to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized
parking is permitted.
When such parking space markings are placed in the highway,
subject to other and. more restrictive limitations, 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.
ARTICLE XIII
RESTRICTED USE OF CEftTAIN STREETS
5ection 163. Truck Routes. (a) Whenever any ordinance,
of this city designates and. describes any street or portion thereof
as a street, the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding
a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the City Traffic Engineer
is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by appropria'(r
signs as °Truck Traffic Routes° for the movement of vehicles exceeding
a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(b) When any such truck traffic route or routes are estab-
lished and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any
vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall
drive on such route or routes and none other except that nothing in
this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceed.ing a
maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a"Truck Traffic Route"
having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted
streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries
of goods, wares and merchand3se from or~to any building or structure
located on such restricted streets or for the purpose o£ delivering
materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration,
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remod~ling.or construction of any build.ing or structure upon such
restricted stneets for which a building permit has previoualy been
obtained there£or.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1)
passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Com-
mission, or to (2) any vehicle owned by a public utility while neces-
sarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any
public utility.
(d) Those streets and parts of streets described in
Section 194 hereof are hereby declared to be truck traf£ic routes
for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of
three tons.
Section 164. Commercial Vehicles Prohibited from Us
Certain Streets
(a) Whenever any ordinance of this city designates
and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of
which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the City Traffic
Engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets
affected by such ordinance.
(b) Those streets and parts of streets described in Section
195 hereof are hereby declared. to be streets the use of which is pro-
hibited by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section
shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public
Utilities Commission.
ARTICLE XN
TRAINS
Section 170. Trains Not to Block Crossings. It shall be
unlawful for any person to cause or permit any railway train or rail-
way 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 purposes 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 obstructing a crossing because
o£ an accident which requires the operator of the train, car or similar
vehicle on rails to stop at or near the scene o£ the accident.
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• ARTICLE XV
VARYING PERMISSIBLE SPEEDS
BY MECHANICAL MEANS.
Section 180. Regulation o£ Speed by Traffic Signals, The
City Traffic Engineer is authorized to regulate the timing of traffic
signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and
safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise
applicable within the district or at intersections, and. shall erect
appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
ARTICLE XVI
SCHEDULES OF DESIGNATED
STREETS REFERRED TO IN
ORDINANCE,
Section 187. One-Way Streets. In accordance with Section
80 and when properly sign-~aosted., tra£fic shall move only in the
direction indicated upon those streets or parts of streets designated
by ordinance or resolution o£ the City Council.
Section 188. Through Streets. In accord.ance with the pro-
visions of Section 91(a) and when signs are erected giving notice
thereof, drivers of vehicles shall stop at the entrance or entrances
to those intersections designated by ordinance or resolution of the
City Council.
Section 189. Stop Intersections. In accordance with the
provisions of Section 91(b) and when signs are erected giving notice
thereof,drivers o£ vehicles shall stop at the entrance or entrances
to those intersections designated by ord.inance or resolution of the
City Council.
Section 190. Railroad Stops. In accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 91(c) and when signs are erected giving notice
thereof,drivers of vehicles shall stop before crossing the railroad
tracks at those highway railway grade crossings designated by ordinance
or resolution of the City Council.
Section 191. Angle Parking on Certain Streets. In accor-
dance with Section 125 and when signs or markings are in place giving
notice thereof,drivers of vehicles may stand. or park a vehicle only
as indicated. by such marks or signs on those streets or parts of
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streets designated. by ord.inance or resolution of the City Council.
Section 192. Parking Time Limited on Certain Emumerated
Streets. (a) In ~~ccord,=u~~e with Section 152, parking is limi_ted to
one (1) liour betvr-:,n the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 ~~.rn. o£ an~~ day
except Sundays and holidays upon any of those streets or parts of
streets designated by ordinance or resolution of the City Council.
(b) In accordance with Section 152, parking is limited to
two (2) hours between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any
days except Sund.ays and. holidays upon any of those streets or parts
of streets designated by ord3nance or resolution of the City Council.
Section 193. Parking Prohibited at Al1 Times on Certain
Streets. In accordance with Section 154 and when signs are erected
giving notice thereof, no person shall at any time park a vehicle
upon any o£ those streets or parts of streets designated by ordinance
or resolution of the City Council.
Section 194
Truck Routes
In accordance with Section 163
and when signs are erected giving notice thereof, those streets or
portions of streets designated by ordinance or resolution of the City
Council are hreby declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement
of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons.
Section 195. Commercial Vehicles Prohibited. In accordance
with Section 164, those streets and parts of streets designated by
ord.inance or resolution of the City Council are hereby declared to be
streets the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle.
ARTICLE XV3I
PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS
Section 205. What Off-street Parking Lots are Included.
Public off-street parking lots shall include all public off-street
parking lots established by the City Council, including but not res-
tricted to public off-street parking in Vehicle Parking District No. 1
and Vehicle Parking District No. 2, as provided. by City Ordinances
numbered 642, 659, 679, and 683, respectively.
Section 206. Publ;c Off-street Parking Lots - Method o£
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Regulation. Subject to the power of the Board o£ Commissioners of
Vehicles Parking Districts 1 and 2, and all other Boards of Commis-
sioners of all other parking districts herea£ter formed, to operate,
manage and control the parking places and make and enforce all neces-
sary regulations for their use as provided by Section 31780 of the
Streets and Highways Code, the method of regulation and control of
parking or standing of vehicles in public off-street parking lots
shall be determined by the City Council.
Section 207. Overtime Parking. (a) The limit of parking
times and the days and hours during which parking limits shall apply
on public off-street parking lots shall be established by resolution
of the City Council, except that no such resolution by the City
Council shall become effective or valid unless and until the Board of
Commissioners of Vehicle Parking District No. 1 and Vehicle Parking
District No. 2, and. all other public parking districts hereafter
formed shall have duly enacted. and passed a resolution in all respects
the same as that enacted and passed by the City Council.
(b) When appropriate signs or markers designating such
parking time limits are in place giving notice thereof, it shall be
unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand, or park said
vehicle on any public off-street parking lot for longer than the per-
mitted time.
Section 208. Parking within Parking Spaces. When parking
spaces on public off-street parking lots are designated by lines or
other appropriate marking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of ar~
vehicle to stop, stand., or park said vehicle other than in a regularly
designated parking or loading space, across any such line or marking,
or in such a position that such vehicle shall not be entirely within
the area so designated as a parking space. No vehicle shall be parked,
stopped, nor shall stand either wholly or partially in any driveway
of any public off-street parking 1ot or in any manner which shall
obstruct or interfere with the free movement of vehicles in such drive-
way or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or inter-
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to .
fere with ingress/or egress from any regularly designated. parking.
space.
Section 209. Use of Entrance and Fxit. It shall be unlawful
for any person to enter any public off-street parking lot over any
area or driveway or the portion between any curb returns which is
not marked. with the word "entrance" or otherwise indicated by arrows,
signs, or words that it is a driveway or place for the entering of
such parking lot.
It shall be unlawful for any person to move any vehicle from
any such parking 1ot into any public way over any area except an area
marked with the word "exit" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs,
or words that it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking
lot.
Section 210. Use of Aisles
It shall be unlawful for any
person to travel in the direction opposite to that designated. in one-
way aisles. It shall be unlawful for any person to travel on the
left side of an aisle designated for two-way tra££ic movement.
Section 211. Length of yehicles. It shall be unlawful for
any person to stop, stand or park any vehicle having an over-all
length in excess of 21 feet in any public off-street parking lot.
Section 212. Trailers. It shall be unlawful for any person
to stop, stand, or park any house or truck trailer in any public off-
street parking lot.
Section 213. Speed of Vehicles. It shall be unlawful for
any person to move any vehicle on any public off-street parking lot
at any speed exceed.ing ten (10) miles per hour.
Section 214. Removal of Vehicles. The Police Department
of the City of Lynwood is hereby empowered to remove, or cause to have
removed to the neanest garage or place of safety, or to a garage des-
ignated or maintained by the City of Lynwood, any vehicle that is
stopped, standing, or parked on any publ3c off-street parking lot in
violation of Sections 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, and 213
of this ordinance, or which is left on such public off-street parking
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lot for a period exceeding thirty (30) hours. The provisions of
Sections 22650 to 22655, inclusive, of the Vehicle Code of the State ~
of California pertaining to notice to owner and garage keeperts lien,
shall apply in the event of such removal.
Section 215. Prima ~acie Presumption. In any prosecution
charging a violation of any of the provisions o£ this ordinance
governing the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle in any public
off-street park;ng lot, proof that the particular vehicle described
in the complaint was stopped, standing, or parking in violation of
any provision o£ this ordinance, together with proof that defendant
named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing,
or parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in
evid.ence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such
motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing, or parking
such motor vehiele at the point where and for the time during which
such violation occurred.
ARTICLE XVIII
PENALTIES AND EFFECT OF` ORDINANCE
Section 310. Penalties. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the
city ,jail or in the county ,jail for not exeeed.ing three months, or by
a fine of not to exceed three hundred dollars, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Secti.on 311. Effect of Ordinance.
If any section, sub-
section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any
reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the
valid.ity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The legislative
body hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and
each section, subsection, sentence, clause and. phrase thereof, irres-
pective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sen-
tences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
Section 312. Repeal. Ordinances Numbers 493, 604, 605,
661, and 673 and all ordinances or parts of ordinance in con£lict
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with or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are ~. ,
hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent
the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or
committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed. prior to
the taking effect of this ordinance.
Section 313. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in
the Lynwood Press, a newsp8per of general circulation printed and
circulated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the lst day of March, 1960, and finally adopted.
and. ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held on
the 15th day of March, 1960, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen English, Finch, Pender, Rowe,
and Summens
Noes: Councilmen None_
Absent: Councilmen None.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES: ss.
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the
City of Lynwood, and. ex-officio clerk of the Council
of said City, do hereby certify that the above is
a true and correct copy of ordinance No. 700
adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood
and that same was passed on the date and by the vote
therein stated.
Dated this 16th day of March , 1960
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