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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952-12-02; City Council; 3005; Public streets traffic regulatedThe City Council of the City of Carlsbad does ordain as follows: SECTIOE 1. - DEFIEJIT IONS OF TJORDS AN13 PHBASFS ------------ (a) 'The following words and phrases when used in this Ordinance shall for the purpose of this Ordinance have the meanings respectively . ascribed to them herein. (b) FB-tenever any words or phrases used in this Ordinance are not defined herein, but are now defined in the -Vehicle Code of this State, such definitions are incorporated herein and shall be deemed to ap!ply to such words and phrases used! herein as - SRCTIOU 2. HOLIDAYS, Vi,thin th are the first day of Jmuary, the twe h set forth herein in full, - second day of Pebrunry, the thirtieth day of Hay, the fourth day of July, the first Xonday in Septea$er, the ninth day of September, the twelfth day of October, the eleventh day of Hovember, the twenty-fifth day of Decexber, and Thanksgiving Day. SECTIOX 3. LOrZnIFG ZOKE, The space adjacent to a, curb reserved dor the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. SXCYION 4. OPFICLAL TIICE STAXIARD. Thenever certain hours are I named herein, they shall. mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in this City. markings and devices not inconsistent with this Ordinance placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction . *- .m e for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic. SECTION& OYFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. Any device, whether manually, \ electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and proceed and which is erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction. SECTLOH 7. PARK. To stand or leave standing any vehicle, whether occupied or not, othervise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading of passengers or materials. - SXCTIOX 8, PARKWAY, That portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk. S2CTIOl~ PASXEFGTR LOXDIKG ZOKT, The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers. -- SZCTIOE 10. PEDXSTRIAF, Any pelrson afoot. SECTION 11, P3RSON. Every natkral person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation. s.cCTIOhf %--I 12. POLICE OFFICER, Every officer of the Police Department of this City. 82CTION 17, (a) STOP, %:/hen required means complete cessation of movement. (b) STOP OR STAXD. Then prohibited means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid .conflict with other traffic or ir! compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device. YECTIOF 14. TR,XFBIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars and other conveyances either singly or together -2- .A - . I SECTION 15’. POL?C:X DNIWTSTRATIQN. There is hereby established in the Police Department 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. SECTION 16. DITTY CB TRePIC DIVISIOX. 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 in this City, and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate traffic accidents and to cooperate Tith the city traffic 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 Ordinance and the traffic ordinances of this City. SECTION 17. TRMFXC ACCIDXXT STUDIES. Whenever the accidents at any particulax location become numerous, the traffic division shall cooperate vith the city traffic engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures. SECTION 18. TRAJBIC ACCIDENT PaPORTS. The traffic division shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. re3orts or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. of the city traffic engineer. Accident Such reports shall be available for the use ind information SECTIOXA TRAPFTC DIVfSIOM TO SUBlEIT Al.T”UA.L TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT. -------- The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the City Council. matlon on traffic matters in this City as follows:. Such a report shall contain infor- . ?* L. *r .= 1. The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and- other pertinent traffic accident data; The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent 2. d.ata on the safety activities of the police; 3. The plans and recomvnendations of the division for future traffic safe+,y activities. SECTION 20. CITY TRAFFIC EMGIHTZR. The office of city traffic en- - gineer is hereby established. city traffic engineer in addition to his other functions, and. shall exer- cise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided irr this Ordinance . The Public Yor'xs Director shall serve as SXCTfOhT 21. DUTISS OB CITY TRAFFIC ENGIXEEX. It shall be the general dtaty of the city traffic engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise reme- dial xneasures, to condtzct engineering investigation of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other city officials in the development of wags and neans to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the add-itional ~ powers and duties imposed by ordinaaces of tEnis City, SECTIOV 22. (a) AUTHORITY OF POLICE AX0 FIR3 DBPART;?BEET OPPICIALS, -I-- --- It shall be the du€y of the officers of the Police DepartmenC or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of 2olice to enforce all street traffic: laws of this City and all of the state vehicle laws applli- cable to street traffic in this City. (b) Officers of the Police Department or such officers a5 are assigned by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, 'nand or signal in conformance with traffic laws, pro- vided thaf ia the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the Police Department -4- u 4 .* a '. may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. (c) Officers of the Fire Departaent, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic, thereat or in the immediate vicinity, SECTIQE 23, REQUIRED OBEDIXXCETg TRAFFIC ORDINAN!E. It is a I_- misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in t%is Ordinance. SECTION 24. OBTDIXRCE TO POLICE AHD FIRE DEPfL9TIEiXT OFI?lCI-ALS* -- PJo person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lav&ul order of a police officer or fire department official when directing traffic. SECTION 2F. PXRSONS OTDR T9AX OFFICIALS SNALL NOT DIRECT TRAFBIC, 30 person other than an officer of the Police Tepartment or a person deputized by the Chief of Police or person authorized by law shall direcr 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 traffic engineer. SECTIOE 26 , PUBLIC ELPLOYEES TO OBEY-';RAPFIC REGULATIOKS a The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Government, this state, any county or city and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any or" the provisions of this Ordinance except as otherwise permit€ed in this Ordinance or by state statute. SECTIOIT 27. EXEPXPTIOWS TO CERTAIN WRTCLES, - (a) The provisions of this Ordinance regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apvly to any vehicle of the Police Department 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, -5- * .- *.. ..I 'when any vehicle rslentioned in this Section is operated in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call. (%I The foregoing exem-gtions shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his wilful disre- gard of the safety of others, (e] The provisions' of this Ordinance regula,ting the parking or standing of vehicles sk3a11 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 7.vhile in use for the co?lection, transportation or delivery of United States mail. SECTION 28. REPORT OF DABAGE TO CXRTAIFcT PROPZRTY. (a) The driver of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved in any accident resulting in damage to any proper€y 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 ia or along any street, shall within twenty-four (24) hours after such accident make a mitten repor€ of such accident to the Police Department of this City. (b) Every such report shall state the €ime when and the place where the accident 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 dmaged in such accident, (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 physically incapable of making a report, but in such event said driver shall make a report as required in Subdivision (a) hereof withia twenty-f our (24) hours after regaining ability to make such report, SECT10T-T 29. AUTHORITY TO INSTALL TRAFFIC COBTROL DEVICES. (a) The city traffic engineer shall have the exclusive poiPier and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and- maintained official traffic control devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances. (b) Whenever the Vehicle Code of this state requires for the effectiveness 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 the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions setdoorth in the law applicable thereto. (c) The city traffic engineer may also place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but 122 shall make such determina- tion only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and- traffic investieations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and mles as may be set forth in the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of this City. -1-1 SECTION 30 VEEXi TEIIltPlC CORTROL DEVICES RE3,UfRXZ) FOR E3PORGB3EET PURPOSES. No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this Ordinance 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 ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traf Tic lams . SECTION 31. OBEDIEWCX TO TRAFFIC ----- CONTROL DEVICES, The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device appricable thereto ?laced in aceordance with the traffic ordinances of this City unless otherwise d-irected by a police officer subject to t- the exemptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls. SECTfOW '32. INSTALLATION OF TRAF'FIC SIGNALS, fa) 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 of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic conqestion or to protect life or property from excep- tional hazard, (b) . The city traffic engineer shall ascertain and determine the locations where such signals are reauired 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 forth in the Cali- fornia Uaintenance Xanual issued by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Vorks. (cf Whenever the city traffic engineer installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection stree€ name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any SECTIO'ES & LAXI3 NA3KIBGS, said intersection. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to mark center lfnes 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 particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway. SECTIOE 34. DfSTfNCTJVE ROADVAY MARKING& Ykenever the State Department of Public Works determines by resolution and designates a dis- tinctive roadway marking which shall indicate no driving over such marking, the city traffic engineer is authorized to designate by such marking 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 marking or signs and marking shall have the sane effect as similar markings placed by the State Department of Public Works pursuant to provisions of the Vehicle Code, SECTION 35. AIJTHO3IITY TO RER<OVE, YELOCATE OR ---I___- DISClOBTIKUB TRAFFIC ..--- CONT3OL DEVI CES. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by state law or this Ordinance whenever he shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain, SSCTIOE 36. TRAFFIC -- COXTROI, DEVICES - ROURS OF OPERATIOX. The city traffic engineer shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect, ex- cept in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this Ordinance. . SECTIOIT 17 , AfJTKORfTY TELACX OBFDIENCE TO TIJ2lllrING 1J.LLSKERS --- , - IN-TTRSECTIQNS. ULTLTIPLB Z-WNES, (a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons, r)r signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be tvraveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the city traffic engineer is authorized to allocate and indicate more t%an one lane of traffic from vhich drivers of vehicles mag make right or left hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conforn to or Be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance, (b) '$hen 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 d.irections of such indications . -9- SECTIOX '38, ATJTHOXTTY TO PLACE RESTRICTED TTJRN SIGNS, !Re city --- traffic 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 sign-s 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 sane shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted, SXCTION 39. OBXDZENCE TO BO-TURX SIGNS. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no riqht or left or U turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign, SECTION 40. AUTEORI'471 TO PROHTBIT RIGET TURNS AGAIMST TRDFIC STOP Iu__- SIGMAL, those intersections within any businegg or residence district at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall ere& proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. Bo driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine ALXXV& Yhenever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates any one-way street oralley, the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice tkereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. of lawful traffic movexent shall be placed a€ every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited, Signs indicating the direction SECTION 42. When ever any ordinance or resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or any intersection at which vehicles are reauired to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, e ., I P t the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows: A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersect- ing such through street or portion tbereof so designated and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at any railroad grade crossing so designated. Xvery such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in Section 471 of the Vehicle Code . - SECTIOX 43* (a) Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 83 I STOP AT TYTFOUGH STRXET OR STOP SIGX. hereof are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this Section. (b) The provisions of this Section shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersec- tions are described in Section 83 hereof. SECTION 44. E1,'IERGING PROld A3LXY OR PRIVATE DRTVXIYAY. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building, shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley wag, SECTION 45. DRIVIMG TZEROUGH E'll'BTBAT, PROCSSSIOXS, No driver of a - vehicle ahall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such processions are eonspi cuously so designated. SECTION 46, CLfRGIESG TO M0761EGBHICLZS. Any person riding upon any bicycle, n.otorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself to any moving vehic1.e upon any roadway. - 11 - -, “1 **. I. .I SZCTION 47. WHICLES SZALI, NOT BE DRIVXNOM TI?E SIDEWALK, The ’driver of a vehicle, including bicycles, shall not drive within any sidewalk area or any parkway except Bt a permanent or temporary drive- way. SXCTION 48, NEW PAVEKEBT, Ro person shall ride 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 d-rive 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 49, RESTRICTED ACCZSL No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public au€hority. .. SECTLOR 50. RESTRICTTOYS OB US3 OB Ei3Zh”AYS- No person shall drive or operate any bicycle, motor driven cycle, or any vehicle which is not Crawn by a motor vehicle upon any street established as a freeway, as defined by See, 604.5 of the Vehicle Code, nor shall any pedestrian walk across or along any such street so designated and described except in space se2 aside for the use of pedestrians, provided official signs are in place giving notice of such restrictions. SECTION 51- CITY TRJWFTC EBGI” TO XSTA€3€3TSH CROSSWALKS. ------ -I- (a) The‘ city traffic engineer shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows: Crosswalks shall be established and maintained where the city traffic engineer determines that there is particula,r hazard to pedes- trians croising the roadway subject to the limitation contained in (b) of this Section. - 12 - / (b) Other than crossWalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be established in any block wr?ich is less than four hundred (400) feet in length, except that the city trsffic engineer may establish a crosswalk on Grand Avenue between State and Roosevelt Streets. Else- where not more than one additional crosswalk shall be established in any one block and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practi- cable at mid-block. shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any business district. SECTION 53. CROSSIKG AT RIGRT LTGLES. IT0 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. SECT1035 --___I 54. STAIVIING ----_ Ih’RC1ADWAYS, No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk if such action interferes viith the lawful moven!ent of tra.ffic. apply to any public officer or employee, or employee of a public utility when necessarily upon a street in line of duty. This section shall not SECTION5 APPLICATXCB OF R3GULATIOFS . (8) The provisions of this Ordinance prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, except w5en it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direc- tions of a police officer or official traffic control device. (b) The pr isions of this Ordinance imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any psrson from the duty to ob- serve other and- more restrictive 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. - 13 - .. , 0 SECTION 56. USE OB STRFETS TOR STORAGX 0.3’ ‘IHICZ;ES PROHIBITEDL - I--- (a) No person who oms 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 standing upon a e street in excess of a consecutive period- of 120 hours, any member of the Police Department authorized by the Ghief of Police may remove said vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of Sections 585 and 5’85.1 of the Vehicle Code. SXCTIOR 57. PARKING - E’OR_CERTAIN WRPOSES PROHIBITED. PI_- Do person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of: 1. \Then loading or unloading from any commerci91 vehicle any merchandise or goods, except in Etuthorized loading zones as provided in Section 68 hereof. 2. Displaving such vehicle for sale. 3. Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an eraergency. SECTION 58. PKWIWG PARALLEL VITfT CURB. Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehi c 1 e may be stopped or parked within 18 inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic moverrent upon any oneway street unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing. (%) In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one clirection upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one- way roadway unless signs zre in place pemitting such standing or parking. (c) me city traffic engiceer is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand oneway street or when standing or parking may be permitted hand side of any oneway roadmay of a hicbmay having two or sid-e of any upon the left- more separate roadmys and shall erect sfgns giving notice thereof. SECTIOM 59. SIGITS OR %TmIUTGS INDICATIPTG ANGLE PAFKIMG. (a) p-_II-uI_------ Vhenever any ordinance of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof uGon vhich angle parking shall be permit- ted, the city traffic engineer shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at vhich vehicles shall be parked. (b) Then sicns or markings are in place indicating angle Parkina 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 865’ hereof, SXCTIOES 60. PER1tIT FOR LQKDING OR UNLOADIXG $T AN ANGLE TO_=* CURS. The city traffic engineer is authorized to issue special Fermits to allow the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and. conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehjcle and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and authorized herein, and it shall be unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit”. SECTTOE 61, (a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs PARKIXG ADJACEBT TO -I-_u---- SCHOOLS. ----I indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere TFith traffic or create a hazardous situation. (b) Vhen official signs are erected indicating no parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such d-esignated place. (a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street vhen the width of the roadway d-oes not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of a street as indica- ted by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does no€ exwed 30 feet. (b) official sips 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, SECTIOM 63. PARKING OX RILLS. Wo person shall park or leave stand.irq any vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceed- i2F: three per cent (3%) within any business or residence district aithout blocking tke wheels of said vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means. SECTIOX 64, STO?PING 1_1_------1-- OR PARKING PROHIBITTD - SIGES R??UIR3D, a --I-- The city traffic engineer shall appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a, vehicle in any of said places. 1. At any place within twenty (20) feet of a point on the curb iixinediately oppos.ite the mid-block end of a safety zone, 2, At any place within twenty-five (25) feet of an intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop, 3. T!!ithin twenty-five (25) feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard, stop sign, or official electric flashing device, 4. At any place Where the city traffic engineer determines tha€ it is necessary ia order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards. 1" a SEC TI ON- (&) Except UELAVFUL - PPKING - P4DDLF3l VENDORS 0 as othervise provided in this Section no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or push-cart from which goods, ivares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or food stuffs are sold, disglaued, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eatinp car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within this City, except that such vehicles, wagons or push-carts mag stand or ?ark 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 subsection shall not apply to persons delivering such articles upon order 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 mhich 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 lesislative bod-y which shall designate the sTecific 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 vhile avaiting patronage - for such vehicle or wagon without first obtaining a mitten permit to do so from the legislative body which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand. (d) Whenever any pemit is granted under the provisions of this Section and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, or push-cart on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such perrnit is convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this Section, 'such permit shall be forghwith revoked by the legislative body upon the e .iv @ i. 1 filing of the record of such conviction with the legislative body, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until six (6) months have elapsed from the date of such revocation. SSCTXON 66. EP~IRGXNCY PARKING SIGNS -- (a) menever the city traffic engineer shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings 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 opera- tion, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the city traffic engineer shall direct during the time such tem- porary 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 of this Section are in place giving notice tlflereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of sueh signs. SECTIOR 67. 3aSL3D. Every motor truck having an unladen weight of 4,QOO pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight when operated upon any stree€ or highway during the tine specified in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two red lanterns, or two warning lights or reflectors, which reflec€ors 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 resi- dence district within this City and upon which street or highway there is insufficient street lighting to reveal a vehicle at a: distance of - 18 - I. . i e a. 200 feet during any time-ientioned in Section 61.8 a warning signal of the character indicated above placed- at a distance of approximately 100 feet in feet to the rear of such disabled vehicle, by the of the Vehicle Code, shall be immediately advance of, and 100 driver thereof , The warning signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously dur- ing the times mentioned in Section 618 while such vehicle remains dis- abled upon such street or highway. YECTIOW 68. AUTHORITY TO SSTABLISH _u_ LOADIEG ZONES. (3) me city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine and to mark loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows: 1. At any place in any business district. 2, 31sevhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public asseably. (b) In no event shall more than one-half of the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone &rposea. t (c) Loading zones shall be indicated by a yellow paint line stenciled with black letters, ttLODIWG OxTLYtc, upon the top of all curbs within such zones, I (d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by a white line stenciled with black letters, TPASSETTGJiR LOM3fP.TG OHLY", upon the top of a11 curbs in said zones. RXGULATZGFS {a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this Ordinance to place, and when. required herein shalf place, the foilowing curb markings to indiaake parking or standing regulations, and said curb markings shall have the meanings as - 19 - "> '*4 AI '. herein set forth, - 1. Xed shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus nay 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:OO a.m. and 6:OO p.m. of any day except Sunday (s and holid-ays) for any purpose other than the loading or unload- ing of passengers or materials, providing that the loading or un- loading of passengers shall not consuMie more than three (3) minutes nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) -'minutes . 3. Yhite shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers which shall rjot exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply 'between 7zOO a.m. and 6:oo p.m. of any day except Sunday (s and holidays) and except as follows: (a) Then such zone is in front of a hotel &the re- strictions shall apply at all times, (b) ?$'hen 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:OO a.m. and 6:OO p.m. of any day except Sunday (s and holidays). (b) men the city traffic engineer as authorized under this Ordi- nance has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this Section, SECTIOE 70. EFFXCT OF PE~ISSIOB TO LOAD OR UNLOAD, (a) Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for pur- poses of loading or unloa.ding of materials shall awply only to commercial - 20 - ehicles and shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and. in no event for more than twenty (20) minutes. (b) The load-ing or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial deliveries, also tke delivery of Fickup 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 unloading of personal baggage but shall not extend beyond the time necessa.ry therefor and in no event for more than three (3) minutes. (d) Vithin the total time limits above specified the provisions of this Section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable load-ing or unload-inq but without permitting abuse of the privileges hereby granted. 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 70. SECTTOM- 7’2. STU?IITG~~_PASSXXG~ LC2,4DIXG ZOhZ. Bo person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any passenger loading zone for any pur- pose other th.an the loading or unloading of passengers for such time as is specified in Section 70. SECTIOR 71. STARDING 133’ aETy ALLEY, Bo person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley. (a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to establish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading and unloading of busses of common carriers of passengers and to determine the location thereof subject to the directives and limitations set forth herein. - 21. - (b) The word flS~str as used ,n .is section shall mean any motor bus, notor coach, trackless trolley coach, or passenger stage used as a common carrler of passengers. (e) No bus zone shall exceed 80 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 of 125 feet, (d) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far 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 STANDINGt1, together with the words "BUS ZONE?' ugon the top or side of all curbs and places specified as a bus zone. (g) in a bus zone. No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except a. bus SECTION 75, PARKING TIHE LIPWI!ED IN BUSINZSS DISTRICTS. Vhen authorized signs aye in place giving notice thereof no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle within a business district between the hours of 7:OO a,m. and 6:oo p.m, of my day except Sunday (s and holi- days) for a period of time longer tharn two (2) hours. SECTION 76, PARKING PROHIBITED AT ALL TIPIES ON CERTAXN STBEETS, laen signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any streets hereafter named by Ordinance. SECTION 77. PARKING SPACE T/l$ZKINGS, The city traffic engineer is mthorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indi- cate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted, When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject - 22 - to other md more restrictive limitations, n’o vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than vithin a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle rcakes compliance impossible. SECTION 78. CERTAIN VXHICLZS ..- PROHIRITED .I__----- IN BUSIhTESS DISTRICT, (a) Xo person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the business district between the hours of ~POO a.m, and 6m p.m. of any day. 1. Any freight vehicle more than eight and one- half (8-112) feet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its loa0 extends more than twenty (20) feet to the front or rear of said vehicle, (b) Provided that the Chief of Police may by written permit auth- orize the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making neces- sary emergency deliveries to or from points within the busir?ess district. SECTTOIT ‘79. TRAINS NOT TO ELOgK STRTZTS, No person shall operate any train or train of cars, or permit the same to remain standing, so as to block the movement of traffic upon any street for a persod of time Ionper than five (5) minutes. SZCTIOR 80. DBCREASE OF STATE LAW ~dilBX1~~~ SPX€D, It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law outside of business and resid-ence districts as applicable upon the following street is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist ~pon such street and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on that street or parts thereof when signs are erected gj-ving notice thereof: All’of Ocean Avenue shall have the declared prima facie speed limit of fifteen (15) miles Fer hour. - 23 - traffic enaineer is authorized to Segulate the tining of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly a% variance from the speeds otherwise apslicable vi thin the district or at intersections, -and- s'mll erect appropriate signs giving, notice thereof \ SXCTIOX 82. OKE-WAY I --- STR-mTS. In accordance vith Section 41: and when properly signposted, all traffic shall proceed only in a Xortherly direction on the most IYortherly 100 feet of State Street. SYCTIOF 87. tr'EZ0UC;I; STRS'ZTS, In accordance with th.e provlsions of Sectton 43(a3 and when sipns are erected giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles shall stop: I (a) There the follovrinp: described streets intersect U.S. HiFhwav 101: -==-The XortE., end of State Street :fountain Yiew Drive Cypress Avenue 13 e e ch Avenue Cedar Avenue Grand Avenue Eln Aver,ue Lincoln Street Oak -"ivenue Ocean Street Pine -4.rlsem.e Ydnut Avenue Sycamore Avenue Chestnut Avenue Xaple Avenue Acacia A4venue Cherry Aveme .Tun ip er Avenue FIemlock Avenue Re d.w o o d Avenue Tanarack Avenue Sequoia Avenue ---a Ponder o sa Dr i ve -4Larch Prive. (b) 'VPhere t%e fol loving described streets intersect Grand Avenue: State Street Roosevelt Street Kadison Street Jefferson Street - 24 0 ... c .. - -- .- 0 I, A b (e) Theye the follovving described dtreets intersect Tamarack Jefferson Street Garfield. Street Adams Street. (d) Yhere the folloving described streets intersect Highland Drive : Hoover Street qillside Drive Chinquapin Avenue Tavarsck Avenue Xagn o 1 ia Av en u-e Chestnut Avenue B~SSVJOO~. Avenue Pine Avenue Oak Aveme Elmwood Street Ruena, Vista, Avenue. {e) %here tke followinrr described streets intersect Jefferson Street: Las Flores Trive Buena Vista Avenue Enolles Avenue Laguna Drive . (f) %%ere the following described street intersects Chestnut Avenue: \darns Street. (g) Vhere the followiEp 'described street intersects EAagnolia Avenue: (h) VhePe the follotving described street intersects El Camino Real: I Chestnut Am" S3CTION 84; ANGLE P,rL9'1(I'ETG OX CERTAIN STRRETS. In accordance with Section 59 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 the foll.o~.vinq streets or portions thereof: (a) On both sides of State Street conwencj.ng at the intersection of State St,reet and Grand &venue and extending Yorthvrard 325 feet. (b) On both sides of State Street between the intersection of Elm and Grand Avenues. (c) dn both sides of Elm Avenue between Roosevelt and State Streets, Id-) On the South side of Elm Avenue commencing at the intersection of Roosevelt Street and Eln Avenue and extending Eastward 200 feet. (e) On the Vest side of Roosevelt Street between the intersection of Elm Avenue and Grand Avenue. (f) On both sides of Grand Avenue between Roosevelt Street and State Stree.t. SECTION 85*, PENALTIES. by person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misd-emeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail provided by the City for not exceeding three months, or by a fine of not to exceed Three Hundred ($3OO,OO) Dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTIOR 86. EFFXCT OF ODIEfiTCB. If any section, subsection, sen- tence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of %5s Ordinance. The legislative body hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. - SECTXOR 82?, This Ordinance is hereby declared to be urgent and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall. take effect and be in force forthwith from and after its passage and approval, of such urgency: The following is a statement There is no ordinance in the City of Carlsbad regulating traffic and the provisions of the Vehicle Code of the State of California do not - 26 - relate to the. matters herein contained, and therefore tpis Ordinance is immediately requ.ired in order to provide for the protection and preserva- tion of the public peace, health and safety. I SECTIQEJ 88. The City Clerk of the City of Carlsbad is hereby ~ -. directed to cause this Ordinance to be published once in the Carlsbad JonrnalS a newspaper published and of general circulation in the said City of Carlsbad. PASSED, ADOPTED ARD APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, this 2nd day of December, 1952, by the following vot.e, to-wit:: AXFISt ma yo^ .McClellan, Councilman Castorma, Ede, Sutton and Grober, RAYS : None &SmTTt None Mayor of the City of Carlsbad, Chlifornia ATTEST :