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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 438 �,► . ORDINANCE NO. 438 An Ordinance of the City of Azusa establishing a "TRAFFIC CODE," regulating traffic upon the public streets and repealing all ordinances inconsistent therewith. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordanl as follows: CHAPTER I Definitions Station 1.01. For the purpose of this ordinance, unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, certain terms used herein are defined as follows: LOADING ZONE: That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD: When certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in this city. OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES: All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this ordinance, heretofore or here- after placed or erected under this ordinance, as authorized by the vehicle code of the State of California or by the authority of the City Council. OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS: Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by wAch traffic is alternately directed to stop, turn or proceed and which is erected by authority of a public bocy or official having jurisdiction. PARKING: To stop or allow to stand, any vehicle whether occupied or not, otherwise than in obedience to official traffic control devices or by direction of a police officer. n 1 ti PARKWAY: That portion of a street other than a roadway -or sidewalk. PASSENGER LOADING ZONE: The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers. PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot. POLICE OFFICER: Every officer of the Police Department or any employee of the City of Azusa authorized by the Chief of Police to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of the traffic regulations. STOP: When required means complete cessation of movement. STOP OR STAND: When prohibited means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device. STREET CAR: A car other than a railroad train for transporting persons or property and operated upon rails (principally witha. municipality) . TAXI STAND: A public place alongside the curb of a street or elsewhere in the City of Azusa which has been designated by the City Council as reserved exclusively for the use of taxicabs. TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel. BUS LOADING ZONE: A public place alongside the curb of a street or elsewherein the City of Azusa which has been desibnated by the Chief ofPolice for the loading or unloading of passengers by a public carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers. 2 - SECTION 1.02. VEHICLE CODE DEFINITIONS. In addition to the definitions set forth above, all definitions of words and phrases set forth in the Vehicle Code of the State of California are hereby incorporated in this ordinance as though set forth in full herein. CHAPTER II ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. Section 2.01.- AUTHORITY OF POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS: (a) It shall be the duty of the officers of the Pplice Department or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police to enforce all street traffic laws of this city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this city. (b) Officers of the Police Department or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with traffic laws, provided that in event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the Police Depart- ment may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. (c) Officers of theFire Department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity. SECTION 2.02. - REQUIRED OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this ordinance. SECTION 2.03. - OBEDIENCE TO POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order of a police officer or a Fire Department official when directing traffic. :T3 - •SECTION 2.04 - PERSONS OTHER THAN OFFICIALS SHALL NOT DIRECT TRAF'F'IC. No person other than an officer of the Police Department or a person assigned by the Chief of Police or person authorized by law shall direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal except that a person may operate when and as herein provided any mechanical pushbutton signal erected by direction of the City Council. SECTION 2.05. - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS 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 of the provisions of this ordinance except as otherwise permitted in this ordinance or by state statutes. SECTION 2.06. - EXEMPTION 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 Hire 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 mentionedin 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 consequence of his willful 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 con- struction or. maintenance work upon the streets of this city or any vehicle used by the United States for the collection, transpor- tationor delivery of the United States mail. - 4 - SECTION 2.07 - REPORTS REQUIRED (a) The person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been • involved in an accident, shall SMMINA,xsaMaxIMIXSXxxxxammAgAila laxikkaikildbmixhatitsx notify the Police Department immediately after such vehicle is received. (b) Every person, firm or corporation, or officer, manager, agent or employee thereof who shall repossess in the City of Azusa any motor vehicle sold, exchanged or financed by such person, firm or corporation, shall immediately after such repossession, make out and file, either in person or by authorized agent, at the City of Azusa Police Department, a full and complete report of the re - possession of such vehicle or vehicles. Said report shall be written and shall contain the name and address of the person, firm or corporation from whom such repossession was made, the make, the state license, number, motor number, style and seating capacity of the motor vehicle repossessed. Such report shall not be required when a repossession is made with the knowledge of the person in charge of such vehicle. CHAPTER III TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES SECTION 3.01 - AUTHORITY TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to place and maintain official traffic control devices when and as required under the provisions of this ordinance. (b) Whenever the vehicle code of this state requires for the effectiveness of any provistn thereof that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto. - 5 - (c) The Chief of Police may also place and maintain such addi- , tional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, which determinationshall be upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and when same shall be authorized by the City Council. (d) Whenever the Chief of Police installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at any said intersection. (e) The Chief of Police shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours and days are specified in this ordinance. (f) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic control device not specifically required by statelaw 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. SECTION 3.02 - WHEN TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES REQUIRED FOR ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. No provisions of the vehicle code or of this ordinance for which signs are required whall 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 traffic laws. SECTION 3.03 - OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES The driver of any vehicle and the operator of any street car shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with traffic ordinances of this city unless otherwise directed by a police officer subject 6 - Silleallt to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized • emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls. SECTION 3.O - LANE MARKINGS. The Chiefof Police is hereby authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway. When authorized signs have been placed designating off-center traffic lanes, no person shall disobey the instructions given by such signs. CHAPTER IV TURNING MOVEMENTS SEC BION 4.01 - AUTHORITY TO PLACE AND OBEDIENCE TO TURNING MARKERS. (a) The Chief of Police is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within, adjacent to or between intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles tiwaning thereat, and the Chief of Police is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance. (b) When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection, or between intersections, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. SECTION 4.02 - AUTHORITY TO PLACE RESTRICTED TURN SIGNS The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn, andshall 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 - 7 - shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted. SECTION 4.04 - AUTHORITY TO PROHIBIT RIGHT TURNS AGAINST TRAFFIC STOP SIGNAL The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right turn against a red or stop signal and shall erect proper signs giving notice of such prohibition. No driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. CHAPTER V ONE-WAY STREETS AND AT,T.FYS SECTION 5.01. - THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO SIGN ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS . Whenever Section 13.01 of this ordinance designates any one-way street or alley, the Chief of Police shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indi- cating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited. CHAPTER VI SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED Section 6.01. - THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO ERECT STOP SIGNS. Whenever 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 required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which vehicles are required to stop, the Chief of Police shall erect and maintain stop signs as follows: (a) A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street intersecting such through street or portion thereof so designated - 8 - and at those entrances of other intersections where a stop is required and at every railroad grade crossing so designated. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in Section 471 of the vehicle code. SECTION 6.02 - STOP AT THROUGH STREET OR STOP SIGN. (a) Those streets and parts of streets described in Section 13.02 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 described in Section 13.03. hereof. (e) When stop signs are erected as herein provided at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by the vehicle code. SECTION 6.03. - EMERGING FROM ALLEY OR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. The driver of a vehicle emerging fro' n alley,driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any such drive or alleyway. CHAPTER VII::;_ MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES SECTION 7.01 - Driving Through Funeral Processions. No driver of a vehicle or motorman of a street car shall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such processions are conspicuously so designated. SECTION 7.02 - CLINGING TO MOVING VEHICLES Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, rollerskates or any toy vehicle shall notattach same or himself to any street car or moving vehicle upon any roadway. SECTION 7.05- VEHICLES SHALL NOT BE DRIVEN ON THE SIDEWALK The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk - 9 - area of any parkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway. SECTION 7.04. - NEW PAVEMENT AND STREET MARKING-S. No 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, sign, cone-marker orother warning device is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking. SECTION 7.05. - TRAFFIC BARRIERS. No person shall operate a vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of any barrier or sign erected: (a) pursuant to the provisions of any ordinance of the City of Azusa, or (b) by any public utility, or (c) by any department of the city of Azusa, or (d) by any person pursuant to law or contract with the city, nor shall any unauthorized person move or alter the position of any such barrier. SECTION 7.06 - TRAFFIC BARRIERS ERECTED BY AUTHORITY OF CITY DEPARTMENTS While the roadway of any street, or portion thereof is being improved, whether by the City of Azusa or by private contract, the Superintendent of Streets, may, when in his opinion, traffic thereon msuld injure such improvement, order the roadway of such street, or portion thereof, closed to traffic. When such order is made the Superintendent of Streets, or the contractor with the authorization of the Superintendent of Streets, shall cause to be placed suitable barriers bearing the sign, "Street Closed for Traffic", in such a way as to indicate plainly the portion of such street so closed to traffic. No other personthan the Chief of Police or the Superintendent of Streets, shall without their authority close any street within the City of Azusa. SECTION 7.07. - PROVIDING FOR MANNER OF HAULING, LEAVING OF VEHICLES LOADED WITH MANURE OR NOISOME SUBSTA?c CES No person, firm or corporation shall haul in any vehicle, other than a railway car, any manure or other noisome substances -10 - without having either a canvas, tarpaulin or some tightly con- structed cover over the same to prevent nauseous odors or sub- stances escaping therefrom and such vehicles shall be sufficiently high enough and constructed tightly enough to prevent the contents fromleaking or spilling therefrom. Vehicles used for street cleaning purposes or gathering garbage or rubbish that are loaded at various places need not be so covered during such loading, but such vehicles shall not be permitted to stand or remain or upon any public street or other public place or on private property ' longer than is necessary for loading and hauling such substances to its destination and after such loading shall be covered as aforementioned and such vehicles shall not be permitted to be in a filthy or offensive condition. CHAPTER VIII PEDESTRIANS SECTION 8.01 - THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO ESTABLISH CROSSWALKS. The Chief of Police shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections add other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows: (a) Crosswalks may be established and maintained at intersections and at other places where the Chief of Police determines that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway subject to the limitations contained in(b) of this section. (b) Other than crosswalks at intersections no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than fourhundred feet (400' ) in length. Elsewhere not more than one additional crosswalk shall be established in any one block and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at mid-block. • SECTION 8.02 - WHEN PEDESTRIANS MUST USE CROSSWALKS. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a cross- walk in any business district. - 10 . SECTION 8.03 - 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 cross walk. SECTION 8.04 - STANDING IN ROADWAYS . No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or space where street cars normally stop in the absence of a safety zone and then only for the immediate purpose of entering or leaving any streetcar. This provision shall not apply to any public officer or employee, or employee of a public utility, or other workman, when necessarily upon a street in line of duty. CHAPTER IX STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING SECTION 9.01 - APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS. (a) The provisions of this ordinance prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official 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 state vehicle code or this ordinance prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times. SECTION 9.02 - STANDING IN PARKWAYS PROHIBITED. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway. SECTION 9.03. - USE OF STREETS FOR STORAGE OF VEHICLES PROHIBITED (a) No person who owns or haspossession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle uponany street or aile-:r for more than a consecutive period of 120 hours. - - • (b) In the event a Vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of a consecutive period of 120 hours, any member of the police department authorized by the chief of Police may remove said vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirments of Section 585 and 585.1 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California. SECTION 9.04 - PARKI ^ FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED. No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the princi- pal purpose of: 1. Displaying such vehicle for sale. i 2. Washing, servicing, repairing, or otherwise working on such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency. . 3. Selling therefrom or therein any article, service or thing provided that any peddler or canvasser licensed under the provisionsof any ordinance of the City ofAzusa may take orders or deliver any commodity from a vehicle on that part of any street immediately adjace't to the Premises of any purchaser. SECTION 9.05. - PARKING PARALLEL WITH CURB Except as otnerwise provided in tnis ordinance every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be so stooped and parked win tne right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel wi6h and within lb inches of tne right-hand curb. WHERE t?O curbs or barriers bound any roadway, parallel parkints is required unless otherwise indicated. This section shall not apply to a commercial vehicle wnen loaciag or unloading merchanui_e or passengers. SECTION 9.0b. - PARKINU SPACE NIARaINGS. The Chief of rolice is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parked apaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted. - 13 - (b) , When such parking space markings are placed in tne hignway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle snail be stopped, left standing or parked otner than within a single space unless the size and shape of succi venicie makes compliance impossible. SECTION 9.07 - PA. ING ADJACENT TO SCiOOLS (a) The Chief of Police is hereby aui;horized to place signs and markingsindicating to parking upon that side of any street or por portion thereof adjacent to any scnool property wren sucn parking woula in nis opinion, interfere wish traffic or create a hazardous condition. (b) When official signs or markings are installed indicating no parting upon the side of a street orportion thereof adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place. SECTION 9.08 - PARKING PROHIBITED ON GRADE. No persoh snail park or lave standing any venicie unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding 3A wicnin any residential district without blocking tne wheels of said vehicle by turning them against tne cubo or by otner means . SECTION 9.09 - STOPPIN" On PARLLING PROHIBITED - SINS REQUIRED The Chief of Police shall appropriately sin 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 an intersection in a business district except tnat a bus may stop at a designated bus stop. 2. Within thirty (30'4; feet o the approach to any trarfic control device. 3. At any place wnere tne Chiefof Police determinestnat it is necessary in order to eliminate an unusual traffic .:azard. - 1 1 SECTION 9.10 - EMERGENCY PARKING SIGNS. -(a) Whenever the Chief of Police shall determine that an emer- • gency traffic congestionis .likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the Chief of Police 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 Chief of Police shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs snail remain in place only during tne existence of suon emergency and the Chief ofPolioe shall cause such signs to be removed promptly there- after. (b) When sucn signs authorized by the provisions of tnis section . arein place giving no4ice tnereof, no person snail operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs. SECTION 9.11 - AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH LOADING ZONES. (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine and to mark by signs or cubb markings loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows: 1. In front of tne entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for tne purpose of public assembly. 2. In no event snail more than one-third of the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes. 3. Whenever curb markings are used, loading znes shall be indicated by a yellow paint line stenciled with black letters, "LOADING ONLY," upon the top of all curbs within such zones. 4. Whenever curb markings are used, 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. - 15- SECTION 9.12 - SIGNS OR CURB MARKINGS TO INDICATE STOPPING AND PARKING REGULATIONS (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this ordinance, to place, and when required herein shall place signs or the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and said curb mark- ings shall have the meanings as herein set forth: 1. RED shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus stop. 2. YELLOW shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm of any day except Sundays for any purpose other than the loading or un- loading of passengers or materials, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the loading or unload- ing of materials more than twenty (20) minutes. The loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial deliveries. 3. WHITE shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers which shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restric- tions shall apply between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm of any day except Sundays and except as follows: When such zone is in front of a hotel, the restric- tions shall apply at all times. When such zone is in front of an auditorium or theater, the restrictions shall apply at all times except when the auditorium or the theater is closed. 4. GREEN shall mean standing or parking ror any period less than one (1) hour at any time between 6;00 am and 6:00 pm - 16 - of any day except Sundays. (b) When the Chief of Police As authorized under this ordinance has caused signs or curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible sign or curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter. SECTION 9.13 - BICYCLE PARKING SPACES. (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to designate and establish bicycle parking spaces for use at such places and during such times as he may deem suitable and necessary. The Chief of Police may also authorize the placing of bicycle parking racks in the spaces so designated. (b) When official signs or markings restricting parking to bicycles only are in place, it shall be unlawx'ul ror any person to park or stand any vehicle other than a bicycle or other two-wheeled vehicle in such space. SECTION 9.14 - STANDING IN ANY ALLEY. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of materials in any alley. Such parking shall not exceed twenty (20) minutes and in no event shall the driver of such vehicle leave less than ten (10' ) feet of unobstructed passage. SECTION 9.15 - TAXI STANDS TO BE ESTABLISHED. (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorizes to determine the location of and to mark taxi stands. (b) Such taxi stands shall be indicated by signs or white line stenciled with the words "FOrt TAXICABS ONLY," uponthe tops of all curbs and places specified for taxicabs only. (0) No driver of any taxicab shall park orstand the same upon any highway in the City of Azusa for any period of time longer than is necessary to discharge or receive passengers then occupying or then - 17 - 1 waiting for such taxicab; provided that a taxicab may be parked in a taxicab stand established pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section. (d) When official signs or markings designating such taxi stands are in place, no person other than the dtiver of a taxicab shall park or stand any vehicle in any taxi stand. SECTION 9.16 - BUS ZONES TO BE ESTABLISHED (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to establish bus tones 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. (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. (e) No bus zone shall exceed thirty (3v' ) feet in length, except that when satisfactory evidence has been presented to the Chief of Police showing the necessity therefor, the Chief of Police may extend bus zones not to exceed a total length of fifty (50' ) feet. (d) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far side of an intersection. (e) Such bus zones shall be indicated by signs or a red line stenciled with white letters "NO STANDING", together with the words "BUS ZONE" upon the top of all curbs within such zone. (f) No bus shall stand in any bus zone longer than necessary to load or unload passengers except that at a terminus such time shall not exceed fifteen (15) minutes. SECTION 9.17 - PARSING MAY BE LIMITED OR PROHIBITED (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to prohibit at any time or during certain hours or to limit parking during certain hours on any streets in the City of Azusa. - lei - (b) When authorized signs are in place giving notice of such prohibition or limitation, no person snail stop, stand or park any vehicle in violation of such sign. SECTION 9.18 - NIGHT PARKING (a) It shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of any vehicle to allow such vehicle to remain standing upon any street, or alley in the City of Azusa between the hours of 2:00 am and 6:00 am for a period longer than twenty (20) minutes, provided, however, that this section shall not apply to vehicles of any regularly licensed physician when actually engaged in making professional calls. (b) It snail be unlawful ror the owner or driver of any truck to allow such truck to remain standing upon any street or alley in the City of Azusa between the hours of 10:00 pm and b:Ou am ror a period or longer than twenty (20) minutes. SECTION 9.19 - ANGLE PARA:IATv (a) The City Council of the City of Azusa by resolution shall authorize upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted. The Chief of Police shall then indicate suen places by apinting lines on the surface of tne roadway to indicate tne proper angle ror park- ing, provided that such lines shall not be placed upon, nor shall angle parking be permitted upon, any street where such parking would diminish the width or tne roadway available for travel to less than twenty (20) feet. (b) When such signs or markings are in place indicating angle park- ing as herein provided, no person shall park or stand a venicie other than at the angle to the edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings. SECTION 9.20.- TWO (2) HOUR PARKING ON CERTAIN STREETS The operator of a vehicle snail not park such vehicle for a longer time than two (2) hours on Foothill Boulevard between San Gabriel - 19 - • Avenue and Alameda Avenue in the City of Azusa between the hours of 7:00 am and 6:00 pm, nor on Azusa Avenue in the City or Azusa between Sixth Street and Santa Fe Avenue between the hours of 7:00 am and 6:00 pm on any day except Sunday. CHAPTER X RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS SECTION 10.01 - 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 waiet or three tons, the City Council shall designate such street or streets that may be so used. The Chief of Police shall post appropriate 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 established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceed- ing a maximum gross weight limit of tnree tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other except when necessary to traverse another street or streets to a destination for the purpose of load- ing or unloading, but then only by such deviation from tree nearest truck route as is reasonably necessary. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission. (c) Those streets and parts or streets described in Section 15.04 hereof are hereby declared to be truck traffic routes for the move- ment or venicles exceeding a maximum gross weight or three (3) tons. CHAPTER XI TRAINS AND STREETCARS SECTION 11.01 - SAFETY ZoNES -ESTABLISHMENT. The Chief or Police is hereby authorized to establish safety zones - 20 I • of such kind and character consistent with the Vehicle Coae as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or pedestrians at places where street cars stop. SECTION 11.02 - BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FROM STREET CAR OR VEHICLE No person shall board or alight from any street car or vehicle while such street car or vetlicle is in motion. SECTION 11.03 - RAILWAY TRAINS AND STREET CARS NOT TO BLOCK STREET It shall be unlawful for the operator or any steam, interurban or street railway train or car to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than twenty (20) minutes. SECTION 11.04. - SY'D OF STREET CARS AND TRAINS. The operator or a streetcar or train upon a street shall operate the same at a careful and prudent speed subject to the limitations as prescribed in the Vehicle Code of the State of California Ammmed for viinicles. CHAPTER XII MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 12.01 - OBSTRUCTION OF STREETS, ALLEIS, SIDEWALKS OR CROSSWALKS It shall be unlawful for any person to stand or sit idly in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk in the City of Azusa, or to stand or sit in or upon such street, alley, sidewalk or cross- walk so as to in any manner to hinder or obstruct the tree passage or persons passing along the same or so in any manner to annoy or molest persons passing along the same, or to stand in or at the entrance of any church, hall, theater or place of public assembly so as to in any manner obstruct such entrance. - 21 - • SECTION 12.02 - DISPLAY OF GOODS ON SIDEWALKS AND OBSTRUCTION OF STREETS . )a) It shall be unlawful ror any person, firm or corporation to use or occupy any public siaex ,lk in theCity of Azusa ror the dis- play or goods, wares or merchandise, or to use the exterior walls or any building abutting upon any public sidewalk, street, alley or passageway, for the display of goods, wares or mercnanaise, or to leave any goods, wares, merchandise, boxes, barrels, trucks, or other articles upon any street or public sidewalk or a portion thereof in the City of Azusa. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to install, maintain or operate any oil or gasoline pump or other mechanical device used for the purpose of pumping oil or gasoline in, over. or upon any street, alley or public place. (c) It is hereby declared to be unlawful ror any person, firm, or corporation to occupy or obstruct any public street, alley or sidewalk, with or without any stand, box or other equipment,for the purpose of selling, soliciting, or advertising the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, or for the purpose of giving any demonstration or exhibition in connection with the sale or solici- tation or the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, provided, however, that no person shall be deemed to be occupying or obstruct- ing any street, alley or sidewalk within the meaning hereof, while traveling and in motion thereon, provided further, however, that patriotic, religious or charitable organizations shall secure a permit therefor from theChief of Police. Such organizations shall abide by and conform to such regulations issued by the Chief of Police governing such solicitation. SECTION 12.03 - BICYCLE RIDING RESTRICTED (a) It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk in front of any church or school while persons are entering or leaving or a place of public assembly while such assembly is in progress or in a designated business district upon the sidewalk in front of a place of business. - 22 - (b) In all other areas, the rider of a bicycle shall give the right of way to pedestrians. (c) The rider of a bicycle on the roadway shall ride as nearly as practicable within five (5' ) feet of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. SECTION 12.04 - CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED TO SELL COPIES OF THIS CODE The City Council of theCity of Azusa is hereby authorized to have this code printed, and to sell copies of the same at a price sufficient to cover the cost of printing and distribution, the aforesaid charges to be fixed by said Council. CHAPTER XIII SCHEDULES OF DESIGNATED STREETS REFERRED TO IN ORDINANCE SECTION 13.01 - ONE-WAY STREETS In accordance with Section 5.01 and wherjproperly signposted, traffic shall move only in the direction indicated upon the follow- ing streets: (ajar) Virginia Avenue between Paramount Street and First Street all traffic shall be in a northerly direction. (b) (In Santa Fe Avenue between Azusa Avenue and San Gabriel Avenue all traffic on the northerly portion thereof shall be in a westerly direction. (c) an Santa Fe Avenue between San Gabriel Avenue and Azusa Avenue all traffic on the southerly portion thereof shall be in an easterly direction. SECTION 13.02 - THROUGH STREETS In accordancd with the provisions of Section 6102 and when signs are erected giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles shall stop at the entrance or entrances of those streets described as follows: - 23 - (a) Azusa Avenue from the north city limits (Sierra Madre , Avenue) to the south city limits (Broadway or Gladstone as it is variously termed) . (b) Foothill Boulevard from the west city limits to the east city limits. (c) Fifth Street from Cerritos Avenue to Virginia Avenue. (d) Ninth Street from Pasadena Avenue to Angeleno Avenue. (e) San Gabriel Avenue from First Street to Eleventh Street (f) Virginia Avenue from Third Street to Foothill Boulevard. SECTION 13.03 - STOP INTERSECTIONS. In accordance with the provision or Section 6.02 (b) hereof and when signs are erected giving notice thereof drivers of vehicles shall stop at the entrance or entrances to those intersections described as follows: (a) San Gabriel Avenue at Paramount Street (b) Vernon Avenue at Eleventh Street (c) Angeleno Avenue at Eleventh Street (d) Angeleno Avenue at Fourth Street (e ) Fourth Street at Angeleno Avenue (f) Angeleno Avenue at Thira Street (g) Third Street at Angeleno, West bound traffic only (h) Virginia Avenue at Fifth Street (i ) Coney Avenue at Third Street ( j) Orange Avenue at Third Street (k) Azusa Avenue at Canyon Road (1) Sierra Madre Avenue at Canyon Road (m) Pasadena Avenue at First Street (n) Cerritos Avenue at First Street (o) Fifth Street at Angeleno Avenue - 24 - SECTION 13.04 - TRUCK ROUTES In accordance with Section 10.01 hereof and when signs are erected giving notice thereof, the following streets or portions or streets are hereby declared to be truck trafz'ic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons: (a) Foothill Boulevard from the west city limits to the east city limits. (b) Azusa Avenue from the north city limits to the south city limits. (c) First street from Azusa Avenue to prolongation of Coney Avenue. (d) Vernon Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to Eleventh Street (e) Eighth Street fromVernon Avenue to its westerly limits (f) Georgia Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to Eighth Street (g) Loren Avenue northerly from Foothill Boulevard to its end at Consolidated Rock Company property line. SECTION 13.05- DESIGNATED BUSINESS DISTRICT (a) Those portions of Foothill Boulevard extending from San Gabriel Avenue to Alameda Avenue and of Azusa Avenue from Sixth Street to Santa Fe Avenue inclusive shall be known as a business district. (b) Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the City Council of the City of Azusa other streets or portions of streets may be designated as a business district. (c) When such streets or portions of streets have been so designated by the City Council of the City of Azusa then the provisions of this ordinance applicable to a business district shall be in full force and effect. SECTION 13.01 - STREETS DESIGNATED FOR ANGLE PARKING In accordance with the provisions or Section 9.19 ana when lines are painted on the streets or signs erected giving notice - 25 - thereof, those portions of Alameda Avenue extending from Santa Fe Avenue to the north to Sixth Street on the South, both sides of the street inclusive and San Gabriel Avenue from Santa Fe Avenue on the north to Sixth Street on the South, both sides of the street inclusive shall be used for angle parking. Drivers of vehicles shall park within the lanes so painted on the street or in accordance with signs erected. QHAPTER XIV PENALTY AND EFFECT OFbRDINANCE SECTION 14.01 - PENALTY Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred (500.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the city and/or County Jail for a period of not more than six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 14.02 - SEVERABILITY If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance be for any reason held to be unconstitutional, void or invalid, the validity of the remaining portions thereof shall not be effected thereby, it being the intent of the City Council of the City of Azusa in enacting this ordinance that no portions or pro- visions thereof shall become inoperative by reason of the uncon- stitutionality or invalidity of any other portion or provision. SECTION 14.03 - REPEAL OF ORDINANCES Ordinance No. 137 Section 4 thereof only, Ordinance No. 23J, Ordinance 242, Ordinance No. 247, Ordinance No. 263, Ordinance No. 265, Ordinance No. 2`(3, Ordinance No. 279, Ordinance No. 292, Ordinance No. 297, Ordinance No. 344, OrdinanceFo. 3b5, Ordinance No. 406, Ordinance No. 412 are hereby repealed. - 2b - f r SECTION 14.04 - ORDINANCE NOT REPEALED • It is hereby stated tnat Ordinance No. 35b, adopted and approved February 5, 1941, is not repealed nor affected by tne passage of this ordinance, it being declared that Ordinance No. 55ti snail hereby have tne same- force and effect as whenpassed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa. The Mayor of the City of Azusa is hereby ordered to sign this ordinance and the City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage hereof, and to cause the same to be published once in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Azusa . This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after the passage hereof. Karl J. es/ Mayor of the City off Azusa. ATTEST: >27 !C ) M. A. Hy City Clerk of ti : City of Azusa - 27 - - 27 - STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS CITY OF AZUA ) I, M. A . Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly introduced at a regular _neet- ing of the City Council of the City of Azusa on the 21st day of May, 1951 and that said ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the City Council , signed and approved by the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, at a regular meeting; that the same we passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council : AYES : COUNCILMEN: Jackson, Seltzer, Memmesheimer, Jones . NOES : COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Ortuno I do hereby certify that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of 15 days after the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic , a news- paper of general circulation, printed, published and cir- culated in the City of Azusa, and the same was published in accordance with law. M. A. Hynes, City erk City of Azusa