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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 292ORDINANCE NO. 292. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HERE1,711ITH. The City Council of the City of Azusa do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever in this ordinance the fol- lowing terms are used, they shall have the meanings res- pectively ascribed to them in this section. STREET: Every way set apart for public travel, including all.eyways. ALLEY: A public highway which does not exceed twenty feet between property lines VEHICLE: Every device or animal by which any person or property is or may be trans- ported or drawn upon the street, except devices moved by human power, or used ex- clusively on rails. OPERATOR: Any person who is in actual physical control. of a vehicle or street car. PARK: To stand a vehicle for a period of time greater than reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons or materials. SECTION 2.. PARKING TIME LIN.ITED IN SPECIFIED PLACE. The operator of a vehicle shall not park such vehicle for longer time than two hours on Foothill Boulevard between San Gabriel and Alameda Avenues in the City of Azusa between the hours of seven (7) o'clock A.M. and six (6) o'clock P.P.R. nor on Azusa Avenue in the City of Azusa between Sixth Street and Eighth Street between the hours of seven (7) o'clock A.Pv1. and six o'clock P.M. nor on any alley in the City of Azusa between Eighth Street on the North and Sixth Street on the South, and San Gabriel Avenue on the "'est and Alameda Avenue on the East. Signs shall be erected and maintained not more than one hundred and fifty (150) feet apart in each block designating the provisions of this section, otherwise this section shal-I not be effective. SECTION 3. STANDTNG OR PARKING CLOSE TO THE CURB. The operator of a vehicle shall not stop, stand or park such vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the curb and with the two right hand wheels of the vehicle within one (1) foot of the regularly established curb line, except that up -n those streets which shall have been marked for angle parking, as provided in this section, vehicle shall be parked at the angle to the curbs and between the lines indicated by such marks. -1- Ordinance nqV.92. Page 2. 0 SECTION 4. The City Council of the City of Azusa by resolution is hereby authorized to determi.n up^n what streets angle parking shall be permitted and to indicate such places by the painting of lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the proner angle for parking, provided that such lines shall not be placed upon, nor shall angle park- ing be permitted upon, any street where such parking would diminish the width of the roadwav available for travel to less than twenty (20) feet. Nor up^n any street which is a continuation of or part of a county trunk line high- way or a stage highway unless a clear r,•idth of thirty (30) feet is left for the movement of vehicles when angle park- ing is permitted. SECTION 5. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the provisions of the ordinance, or any rule or regulation made by the City Council by resolutions pursuant to this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and unon conviction thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not to exceed twenty-five (25) dollars or by imprisonment in the Citn jail for not more than ten (10) days; for a second and each additional violation .Vithin a period of one (1) year, by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment in the City jail for not more than twenty (20) days or by both fine and imprisonment. SECTION 6. REPEAL. All ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, and particularly ordinance no. 277, are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in one regular issue of the Azusa Herald, a weekly newspaper in the_City of Azusa. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly passed by the City Council of the City of Azusa, at a regular meeting held on the 1.7th day of November, 1930, by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: Mace, Johnson, Williams, Muehe, Meier. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. City Clerk of the City of Azusa. Approved this 17th day of November, 1930. Mayor or the City of zusa. -0-