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ORDINANCE 313C(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 hereof or of law prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at I- specified times. SECTION 2. STOPPING OR STANDING PROHIBITED -- NO SIGNS REQUIRED. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in any of the following places: 1. Within any tunnel or upon any bridge, viaduct or approach thereto. 2. Within any parkway. 3. Within any intersection. SECTION 3. THE TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO ERECT SIGNS. The Traffic Authority may appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle or any portion thereof, in any of said places: 1. At any place so signed or marked between a safety zone and the nearest curb and any place within twenty (20) feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of safety zone. 2. At any place so signed or marked within thirty (30) feet of an intersection except that a bus may stop at a desig. nated bus stop. 3. At any place so signed or marked adjacent to, C in front of or opposite any fire station, police station, C theatre, school ground or public assembly hall, bus or passenger station, or other gathering place. 4. At any place so signed or marked adjacent to and within thirty -five (35) feet of any street oar tracks, inter- urban car tracks or railroad tracks within said City. 0 A V -? (d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by a white line stencilled with black letters at least three inches in height, "PASSENGER LOADING ONLY," upon the tops of all curbs in said zones. SECTION 2. EFFECT OF PERMISSION TO LOAD OR UNLOAD. (a) Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of loading or unloading of materials shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and in no event for more than twenty (20) minutes. (b) The loading or unloading of material shall apply only to commercial deliveries, also the delivery or pickup of express and parcel post packages and United States mail. (c) Permission herein granted to stop or park for purposes of loading or unloading passengers shall include the loading or unloading of personal baggage but shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and in no event for more than three ( 3) minutes. (d) Within the total time limits above specified the provisions of this section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading or unloading, but without permitting abuse of the privileges hereby granted. SECTION 3. STANDING IN NARROW OR CONGESTED STREETS or IN ANY ALLEY. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley within said City, or when the Traffic Authority shall have placed appropriate signs or markings thereon to that effect on any narrow or congested street, or any part or parts thereof, within said City, and authority to place such appropriate signs and markings on such narrow or congested streets is hereby granted to said Traffic Authority; provided, however, that no alley may be blocked at any time. 34- SECTION 4. STAND FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY. When authorized signs or marks are in place giving notice thereof no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengersor materials for such time as is permitted herein, in any of the following places: 1. In any yellow loading zone. 2. Within fifty (50) feet of any entrance to any school, or any other building used for the transaction of governmental business. SECTION 5. STANDING IN PASSENGER LOADING ZONE. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any passenger loading zone for any purpose, other than the loading or un- loading of passengers for such time as is specified in Section 2 of Article XIII of this Ordinance. SECTION 6. THE TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE ADDITIONAL LOADING OR UNLOADING PLACES. Whenever the Traffic Authority has determined that parking shall be limited and authorized signs or marks are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or materials in any of the following places. 1. At any curb where the grade of the street exceeds twelve (12) feet. 2. On any part of a roadway having a width of not more than twenty —five (25) feet. 3. In front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assemblage. 4. In front of the entrance to any place in use for business outside of any business district. 5. At any other place where the parking of vehicles would result in traffic congestion or particular hazard. 36- SECTION 7. BUS ZONES TO BE ESTABLISHED. (a) The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to establish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading and unloading of buses of common carriers of passengers engaged in local transportation, and to determine the location thereof. (b) No bus zone shall exceed fifty (50) feet in length except that when satisfactory evidence has been presented to said Tr4tffic.Authority showing the necessity therefor, said Traffic Authority may extend bus zones in such places not to exceed one - hundred twenty -five (125) feet in length. (c) No bus zone shall be established opposite and to the right of a safety zone. (d) The Traffic Authority shall paint a red line stencilled with white letters "NO STANDING," together with the words, "BUS ZONE," upon the tops of all curbs and places specified as a bus zone. ARTICLE XI V PARKING LIMITS SECTION 1. When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle on any of the streets enumerated in this section for a period of time longer than is specified herein for said respective streets or portions thereof at any time between the hours of 5:00 a. m. and 6:00 po m_ of any day except Sunday. (a) Two hours on Richmond Street between E1 Segundo Boulevard and Holly Avenue within said City; (b) One hour on Grand Avenue between Concord Street and Main Street within said City; (c) Two hours on Concord Street between Franklin Avenue and E1 Segundo Boulevard within said City; 36- (d) Two hours on Virginia Street between Franklin Avenue and E1 Segundo Boulevard within said City; (e) Two hours on the northerly side of El Segundo Boulevard between Concord Street and Virginia Street within said City; (f) For any period of time whatsoever on E1 Segundo Boulevard between Richmond Street and Sepulveda Boulevard, within said City; (g) Five minutes on the southerly side of E1 Segundo Boulevard between Virginia Street and Richmond Street within said City; (h) For any period of time whatsoever on Franklin Avenue between Richmond Street and the first alley westerly of said Richmond Street within said City, excepting only vehicles of the City of E1 Segundo, California; (i) For any period of time whatsoever on Coast Boulevard between the southerly boundary line and the northerly boundary line of said City within said City; (j) For any period of time whatsoever on the southerly side of Imperial Highway between Sepulveda Boulevard and Aviation Boulevard within said City; (k) For any period of time whatsoever on Lapham Street between Imperial Highway and a point 362 feet southerly therefrom; (1) For any period of time whatsoever on Douglas Street between Imperial Highway and its terminus south- erly therefrom, except that two hour parking shall be permitted along the westerly side of said street between Imperial Highway and a point 100 feet southerly therefrom between the hours of 8:00 a* m. and 5:00 p. m. only of any day; 37- t?. *aCZ (m) For any period of time whatsoever in that first alley westerly of Richmond Street between Franklin Avenue and Grand Avenue within said City. SECTION 2. Except as otherwise provided in this ordinance, it is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to park or stand any motorcycle, automobile, trailer, camp car, or any other motor or other type of equipment owned, operated, or controlled by such person, firm, or corporation, in or upon any public street, court, drive, alley or other public place in the City of El Segundo for more than forty -eight (48) consecutive hours within any period of seven days. SECTION 3. UNLAWFUL PARKING -- PEDDLERS, VENDORS. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section no person shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or push, cart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables, or food stuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within said City, - except that such vehicles, wagons or push -carts may stand or park only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not to exceed ten (10) minutes at any one place. The provisions of this sub - section shall not apply to persons 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 which tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy or other articles of food or refreshment are sold or offered for sale without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the City Council which shall designate the specific section in which such cart shall stand. 38- c74f .03 .f :'. (c) No person shall park or stand any vehicle, or wagon, used-or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon, without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the City Couneil,whieh shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand. (d) No person shall deposit, leave, place or park in any street any cement or concrete miner, wheelbarrow, push -cart, hand..drawn or hand. - propelled vehicle or other object, thing, or property (other than those referred to under subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this Section 5 of this Article XIV of this Ordinance) in such a manner or for such a time as to interfere with traffic, either vehicular or pedestrian, in or upon such street or in such manner to constitute a hazard to the safety of traffic or of any person or persons or pro. perty in and upon such street, or fail to immediately remove the same upon order of any police or traffic officer of said City; provided, however, that the Traffic Authority shall have the right and power to authorize, in writing, for limited periods of time, the placing or parking of any such vebiole, object and/or thing on any street in such manner as will not constitute the same a nuisance or a hazard to life or property or unreasonably interfere with traffic in or upon such street. (e) No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any street for the purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale by sign or otherwise. (f) whenever any permit is granted under the pro. visions of this Section and a particular location to park or stand is specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, push -cart, object, or thing on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any court of 39- competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this section, such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the City Council upon the filing of the record of such conviction with the said City Council, and no permit shall thereafter be Issued to such persons until six (6) months have elapsed from the date of such revocation. SECTION 4. SIGNS OR MARKING TO INDICA•rE LIMITED PARKING. That in addition to the streets and portions thereof hereinabove designated for limited parking the Traffic Authority may appropriately sign or mark such other and additional streets, places, or portions thereof, as in the opinion of the Traffic Authority may require such marking for limited parking, and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof, in any of such respective places for a longer period of time than that designated in the sign or signs, or marking or markings, for such place or location. SECTION 5. WASHING OR REPAIRING VEHICLES IN STREET. No person shall repair, dust, wipe, wash or otherwise clean, use or employ any method of dusting, repairing, wiping, washing or otherwise gleaning any vehicle or portion thereof, while in or upon any street, when any charge or gratuity is directly or indirectly made or received therefor, except in case of actual emergency and then only at the place where such emergency occurred. SECTION 6. EMERGENCY PARKINGS SIGNS. (a) Whenever the Traffic Authority 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 Traffic Authority shall have the power and authority to order temporary signs to be ffsm T G F, ?� erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the Traffic Authority shall direct, during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the Traffic Authority shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter. (b) When signs authorized by the provisions of this Section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs. ARTICLE Xy SECTION 1. BICYCLES AND ANIMALS. Every person riding a bicycle or driving an animal upon a highway is subject to the provisions of this Ordinance applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. ARTICLE XVI SECTION 1. TAMPERING WITH TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, MARKINGS OR CONTROL DEVICES. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to tamper with, or deface, or remove, or cause to be removed, without authority of the Traffic Authority so to do, any sign or signs, marking or markings, or traffic control devices, erected under or pursuant to the provisions of this Ordinance. ARTICLE XVII SECTION 1. TRAFFIC AUTHORITY ONLY TO PLACE SIGNS AND MARKINGS. It shall be unlawful for any person other than the Traffic Authority, or person acting under his author- ity, to paint markings upon the curbs or place any traffic signs within said City. 41- ARTICLE XVIII PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREETS. SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five miles per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of Grand Avenue between the Alley westerly of Concord Street and Loma Vista Street, within the said city, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said portion of said Grand Avenue, and that said Council does hereby determine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is twenty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon said highway. SECTION 2. That the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does hereby determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation duly ordered and made, that the prima facie speed limit of fifty -five miles per hour presently obtaining on that certain portion of Main Street between Palm Avenue and Grand Avenue, within the said city, is more than is reasonable and safe upon said portion of said Main Street, and that said Council does hereby determine and declare that the reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit thereon is twenty -five miles per hour, which said declared prima facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon said highway. SECTION 3. That the Chief of Police of said city is hereby authorized and instructed to cause appropriate signs, giving notice of said prima facie speed limit of twenty - five miles per hour, to be posted upon said portions of said highways. 42- E -`'1 L SECTION 4. That said prima facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour, hereinabove determined and established in Section 1 of this ordinance is so established as authorized in said Vehicle Code, and the speed of any vehicle upon said portion of said Grand Avenue in excess of said prima facie limit of twenty -five miles per hour is prima facie unlawful unless the defendant established, by competent evidence, that any said speed in excess of said limit did not constitute a violation of the basic rule de. clared in Section 510 of said Vehicle Code at the time, place, and under the conditions then existing. SECTION 5. That said prima. facie speed limit of twenty -five miles per hour, hereinabove determined and es- tablished in Section 2 of this ordinance Is so established as authorized in said Vehicle Code, and the speed of any vehicle upon said portion of said Main Street in excess of said prima facie limit of twenty -five miles per hour is prima facie unlawful unless the defendant establishes, by competent evidence, that any said speed in excess of said limit did not constitute a violation of the basis rule de- clared in Section 510 of said Vehicle Code at the time, place, and under the conditions then existing. SECTION 6. Any person driving a vehicle upon said portion of said Grand Avenue, or upon said portion of said Main Street, in excess of said limit of twenty -.five miles per hour, hereinabove specified, shall be subject to arrest, prosecution, fine and imprisonment in the manner, according to the procedure, and to the extent as provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California relating to such violations. 43- ARTICLE XIX PERMITS UNDER SECTION 710 OF CALIFORNIA VEHICLE GQDE SECTION 1. That subject to the limitations and the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Traffic Authority (Chief of Police) of the City of El Segundo shall have the right and is hereby delegated the right and authority, in his discretion, to melee and issue permits, in writing, under the provisions of Section 710 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California authorizing the operation or moving of vehicles, or combinations of vehicles, or special mobile equipment, of size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in said Vehicle Code, or to use corrugations on the periphery of the movable tracks on a traction engine or tractor, the propulsive power of which is not exerted through wheels resting upon the roadway, but by means of a flexible band or chain, or, under emergency conditions, to operate or move a type of vehicle otherwise prohibited under said Code, upon any highway within the City of El Segundo, California, and for the maintenance of which said City of E1 Segundo is responsible. SECTION 2. That the authority hereby granted to said Traffic Authority shall be subject to the following limitations, terms and conditions: 1. The filing of a written application for such permit as contemplated under the provisions of said Section 710 of said Vehicle Code. 2. The making by the applicant of a cash deposit in the sum of $200.00, or the furnishing of a surety bond approved by the City Attorney as to form in a like sum of $200.00, which deposit or bond shall guarantee or insure that any street, road, alley or highway damaged in any manner by the equipment or operation permitted will, to the 44- `x`393 i�4� L extent of such deposit or bond, be immediately repaired at the sole cost and expense of the permittee, and restored to the same condition in which the same existed immediately prior to any such damage or injury, so far. as such restoration can reasonably be made; 3. That the making of such deposit or the furnish- ing of such bond shall not be construed to exonerate or relieve the permittee from liability to said City for any damage which may be suffered or sustained by any such said road, alley, or highway, or public property, in excess of said deposit or bond amount of $200.00; 4. That for any such permit so issued, there shall be charged and the permittee shall pay a fee of 01.50 for each and every single operation or moving of a vehicle, or combination of vehicles,made under the provisions of such permit; 5. That whenever the Traffic Authority shall deem a Police escort necessary or advisable in conneo. tion with any operation under such permit, the permittee shall pay for any such escort so required. The charge to be made for such escort and to be paid by such permittee shall be the sum of $1.50 per hour for each hour or fraction thereof for each Police vehicle (motorcycle or automobile) used in such escort service, and the additional sum of $1.50 per hour for each hour or fraction thereof for each Police Officer used in such escort service; provided that in each single operation not less than a minimum of one hour's service for each such Police vehicle so required, and not less than a minimum of one hour's service for each such Police officer so required, shall be charged and must be paid. The Traffic Authority may require a deposit in such amount, as in his discretion may be reasonably 45-