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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 254 1941-07-03 . .- ... I 1 I " ORDINAbTOE NO. 21)4 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE OITY OF SEAL BEAOH RELArIlm TO AIID REGULATIirG TRAFFIO UPON THE PUBLIO STREETS OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEAOH AIm REPEALUTG ALL ORDIlUUOES INCONSISTENT HERE\'1lTH. follows: The Oity Council of the Oity of Seal Beach do ordain as ARTIOLE I. DEFIlil TIOl~S Section 1. Whenever in this ordinanoe the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section: STREET. Every way set apart for publio travel except alleyways, bridle paths and foot paths. ROADWAY. That portion of a street between the regularly established curb lines. SIDEJALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines. INTERSEOTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the property lines of t~o or more streets which join at an angle. ~ether or not one such street crosses the other. CROSSWALK. That portion of the roadway included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at street interseotions. SAFETY ZOJE. That marked portion of a roadway reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians. LOADING ZONE. That space adjaoent to a curb reserved for t~e exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. VEHIOLE. Every device or animal by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails. For the purpose of this ordinance a bicyle shall be deemed a vehicle. STREET OAR. Every device traveling exclusively upon rail when upon or croesing a street other than devices propelled by steam OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual personal control of a vehicle or street oar. TRAFFIO. Pedestrians, vehicles and street cars, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel. BUSIlmSS DISTRIOT. The territory contiguous to a street which is fifty (50) per cent or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is occupied by building in use for retail or wholesale business, also any territory contisun s to a street which is immediately adjacent to or a continuation of a street within a business district wben such territory is so designat d r 1. ordinance Number by the Chief of Police. RIGHT OF ~':AY. The privilege of the imi.1ediate use of the street. 1 PARK. To st~nd a vehicle for a period of time greater than is reasonably neoessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons or materials. OFFICIAL. ~arning and Direotion Signs and Signals. All ~arning and direction signs and signals not inconsistent with this ordinance heretofore or hereafter placed or erected under this ordinance by authority of the City Oouncil. 1 ARTICLE II. Section 2. OBEDIEnCE TO POLICE. Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to direct all traffice by means of visible or audible signal and it 'Jhall be unla\7ful for any person to refuse or fail to oomply with any lawful order, signal or di- reotion of a traffio or police officer. It shall be unlawful for any minor to direot or atte~t to direct traffic, unless authorized so to do by the Ohief of Police. Bection 3. SIGNS. The City Council shall by resolution determine and designate the oharaoter of all official warning and direction signs and signals. Subject to this seleotion the Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those signs required here- under it shall be his duty, to place and maintain or cause to be plaoed and maintained all official ~arning and direotion signs and signals. All signs authorized and required hereunder for a particu- lar purpose shall be uniform. No provision of this ordinance for which signs are re- quired shall be enforoeable against the alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation the sign herein required is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Section 4. OBEDIENOE TO TRAFFIC SIGNS. It shall be un- lawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any mechanical or electrical traffic signal, traffio sign or mark upon the street placed in accordance'with the provisions of thi ordinance. Ro public utility or department in this city shall ereot or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the Ohief of Police. It shall be unlaITful for any operator or pedestria to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved, as above provided, ereoted or placed by a public utility or by any de- partment of this oity. Section 5. TRAFFIO STOP AND GO SIGUAL LEG~1D. Uhenever traffic at any interseotion is regulated by a stop and go mechanical or electrical Bi~nal, the follo~ing colors may be used, and none other, and those colors herein authorized shall indicate as follows: Red, except in flashing signals, requires that traffic shall stop and remain standing. Green requires that traffio shall move and continue in motion, exoept ",'hen stopped for the purpose of avoiding an accident or in the event of other emergency or uhen stopped at the oommand of a pOlice offioer. Amber shall indicate preparation for a change in the direction of traffic movement. .~en amber is shown no traffio shall enter the intersection until a green or "Go" signal is shown. I 2. Ordinance Number " I BELLS, The ringing of a bell in connection with any mechanical or electric traffic eignal shall indicate preparation for a change in the direction of traffic movement. TIhen such bell is sounded no traffio shall enter the intersection until a green or "Go" signal 1's shown. Section 6. OROSS'1ALKS ESTABLISHED. The Ohief of Police is hereby authorized and required to establish and maintain and to designate upon the surface of the roadway, by appropriate devices, marks or white or yellow lines, crosswalks approxirately equal in width to the adjacent sidewalk at all intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the road way. ~fuen crosswalks are established and maintained outside a business district, the Chief of Polioe shall by appropriate devices, marks or white or yellow lines, mark and maintain along the surface of the roadway an arrow not less than twelve (12) inches wide in the shaft and not less than thirty (30) feet long, pointing in the direction of such crosswalk, together with the word SLOW in block letters not less than twenty-four (24) inohes high and not less tha four (4) inches wide one hundred (100) feet distant from each cross walk so established. 1 Section 7. DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to dis- play any device, other than an of:ioial warning or direction sign or signal ereoted under competent authority, upon or in view of a street, which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles, an offioial warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the actions of operators, and any ,such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance and the Chief of Police may remove it, or cause it to be removed without notice. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfUlly deface, injure, move or interfere with any official warning or direction sign or signal. Seotion 8. POLIOE AIm FIRE VEHIOLES EXE;JPT FRO~ CERTAIN RULES. The provisions of this ordinance regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of the police or 9heriff's office or of the Fire Department or of a public utility while the driver of any such vehicle is en- gaged in the necessary performance of public emergency duties. I ARTICLE III. PEDESTRIANB Section 9. PEDESTRIAN'S RIGHT OF WAY AT INTERSEOTIONS. (a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle or street car to drive into any crosswalk which is marked as provided in Section 6 of this Ordinance, while there is in su6h crosswalk upon the half of the roadway upon which such vehicle is traveling any pedestrian engaged in crossing the roadway until such pedestrian shall have passed beyond the path of said vehicle. lb) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to drive into any unmarked crosswalk where there is in suoh cross- walk upon the half of the roadway upon which suoh vehicle is travel- ing any pedestrian engaged in crossing the roadway until suoh pe- destrian shall have passed beyond the path of such vehicle, when the pedestrian shall indicate his intention to cross by a timely and continuous warning by holding up his hand pale out toward the appro a ing traffic. 3. Ordinance Number I' (0) The operator of a vehicle shall stop before entering any croaswalk when any other vehicle proceeding in the same direction is stopped at suoh crosswalk. (d) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply at intersections where traffic is being directed by an offioer or traffio stop and go signal, at which intersections the mutual right of pedestrians and operators of vehicles shall be exercised under the direotion of the officer or traffic signals. Sect ion 10. PEDESTRIAN'S LIaITED RIGHT TO USE OF ROAD~AY. When within a business district, no pedestrian shall cross a road- way other than ,by a crosswalk. , Outside of a bUSiness district no pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a route at right angles to the curb and when crossing at any place other than a cross walk shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the rOadway. It shall be unlawful for any person to stand in a roadway for the purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the operator of any private vehicle. Section 11. PEDESTRIANS TO OBEY SIGNALS. At intersections where traffic is directed by a traffic or pOlice offioer or by a traffic stop and go signal, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross the roadway other than with released traffic. Section 12. PEDESTRIANS STANDING ON SIDEWALKS. In any business district it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to stand on the sidewalks, except as near as is physically possible to the building line or to the curb line. ARTICLE IV. RULES FOR DRIVING Section 13. l.J!:THOD OF APPROACH FOR LEFT TURI~. The operator of a vehicle intending to turn to the left at an interseotion or into an alley or driveway shall approach the point of turning in th line of traffic next to the center of the roadway. Section 14. liETHOD OF TURNING TO LEFT AT INTERSEOTIONS. The operator of a vehiole in turning left at an intersection shall pass to the right of the center of the intersection before turning, except that where markers have been placed upon the intersection boundary lines to be crossed by vehicle, the operator shall pass to the right of such markers. , Section 15. LOOATION OF ,TURNING UARKERS. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those intersections mentione in the following subdivision (1) of this seotion it shall be his duty, to place or cause to be plaoed turning markers in intersectio s as follows: I I (1) Within intersections where either intersecting roadway i less than sixty (60) feet in width and in intersections where streets meet at other than right angles and in intersections where one street terminates in another, a marker shall be placed at every intersection of the medial line of each street with the prolongatio of the property lines of the intersecting street, or as near the interseoting point of said lines as may be practical. (2) Interseotions other than those mentioned in paragraph (1 m~y be marked as provided in paragraph (1) Qr a single matker may b 4. Ordinance Number -- ' 1 placed within such intersection at the intersection of the medial lines of intersecting streets. Section 16. LEFT TURNS PROHIBITED. The operator of a vehic1 shall not between the hours of seven (7) A.H. and six (6) P.I~, of any day e~cept Sunday make a left turn at any intersection when so designated by Resolution of the City Oouncil. Signs shall be erected and maintained designating the pro- visions of this seotion. Seotion 17. J.iETHOD OF APPROAOH FOR RIGHT TURN. The operator of a vehicle intending to turn to the right at an intersection or into an alley or driveway shall approaoh the point of turning in the line of traffic nearest the righthand edge of curb of the stree . Section 18. ;ffiEN RIGHT TURNS liAY BE MADE. The operator of a vehicle may make a right turn at any interseotion irrespective of a traffio signal subjeot to the right of pedestrians at such inter- sections. I Section 19. UHEN TURNING AROUND AT INTERSECTIONS. The opera tor of a vehicle may turn such vehicle at an intersection in a oomplete circle or so as to proceed in the opposite direction. Seotion 20. DRIVING FROU ALLEYS. The operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or garage, in the business distric , shall stop, such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewal or onto the sidewalk area ext'endeil. across any alleyway. Section 21. VEHIOLES SHALL UOT BE DRIVEli ON SIDE9'ALK. The operator of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway. I Section 22. OERTAIN VEHICLES PROHIBITED IN BUSIITESS DISTRIOT. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any of the following vehicles to drive the same in any business district between the hours of seven (7) A. ti. and Six (6) P. U. of a.ny day except Sunday: 1. Any vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than three (3) feet to the front or more than ten (10) feet to the rear of said vehicle. Section 23. BOULEVARD STOPS. Such streets and parts of streets as may be hereafter disignated by Resoultion of the Oity Council shall constitute boulevards for the purpose of this ordinanc . Every operator of a vehiole or street car traveling any stree~ intersecting any boulevard shall stop suoh vehicle or street car at the place where suoh street meets the nearest property line of the boulevard before entering such boulevard, provided the property line is clearly marked or signposted as required in this ordinance. The Ohief of Police is hereby authorized and required to plaoe and maintain upon such streets or parts of streets, designated by Resolution of the Oity Council andconnected with or intersecting a boulevard and at or near the property line of the boulevard, appro- priate signs upon the street or devices or marks in the roadway, suc signs, devices or marks to bear the word "STOP" or the words "BOULEVARD STOPIl in such position and with letters of a size to be olearly legible from a distance of fifty (50) feet along the street interseoting the boulevard. Section 24. FOLLO~I~G FIRE APPARATUS PROHIBIT~D. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle other than one on official business, to follow any fire a.pparatus traveling in J:esponae to a 5. Ordinance Number ., . 1 fire alarm, closer than five hundred (500) feet. It shall be un- lawful for the general public to apprQach nearer than two hundred (200) feet of any fire to which the Fire Department has been called Section 25. CROSSI~G FIRE HOSE. No street oar or vehicle shall be driven over any unproteoted hose of the Fire Department when laid down on any street, private driveway or street car track, without the oonsent of the Fire Chief or the assistant in command. Seotion 26. BIOYCLE RIDIJG RESTRICTED. It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk. The rider of a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as nearly as praoticabis within five (5) feet of the righthand curb or edge of the rOadway except when passing a standing or other vehicle or making a left hand turn at an inter- section. Seotion 27. RIDING ON HANDLE BARS PROHIBTED. It shall be un lawful for the operator of any bicyle or motorcycle when upon a street to oarry any other person upon the bar, handle or tank of any such vehicle or for any person to so ride upon any such vehicle. I Section 28. UNLA~FUL TO DRIVE THROUGH FU~~RAL PROCESSION. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to dpive be- tween the vehioles comprising a funeral procession, provided that such vehicles are conspicuously so designated. Section 29. CLINGING TO I!OVING VEHIOLES. It shall be unlawf 1 for any person traveling upon any bicycle, motorcycle or any toy vehicle to cling to or to attaoh himself or his vehicle to any othe coving vehicle or street car upon any roadway. Seotion 30. USE OF COASTERS, ROLLER SKATES AnD SI~ILAR DE- VICES RESTRICTED. It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device to go upon any roadway. I ARTICLE V, STOPPING. STANDING A:rn PARKING Section 31. STOPPING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES. It shal be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop such vehicle in any of the following places except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or traffic sign or si~nal: ~l~ In an intersection 2 In a crosswalk 3. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within twenty (20) feet of a point on the curb iWllediately opposite the end of a safety zone. (4) ~lithin fifteen (15) feet of an intersecting roadway exoept busses at a desisnated bus stop. Upon all streets within any business distriot the Chief of Polioe shall designate the provisions of paragraph (3) and (4) of this section by placing and maintaining red paint or other red material upon the entire curb surface within such areas omitting any orosswalk area or by placing and ~aintaining appropriate signs di- recting that the stopping of vehicles is prohibited. Section 32. STAliDING FOR LOADI~G OI1LY IN OERTAIN PLAOES. (a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the load- ing or unloading of passengers or material, provided that the loadin or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) 6. Ordinance Number 1 minutes, nor the loading or (30) minutes, in any of the 1. At any curb where per cent (12%); 2. In any 3. In any 4. At any to any hospital; 5. At any curb within fifty (50) feet of the entrance to any pOlice station; 6. At any curb within fifteen (15) feet of a fire plug; 7. In any mar ked bus stop. (b) The Ohief of Police shall deterMine the location of "loading zones" and shall I!Iark by appropriate signs or as specifica ly required herein those places where standing for loading only is permittea under this section, subject to the following requirements and limi tations: Bus stops shall be designated by appropriate signs at those places determined by the Chief of Police, exoept that a bus stop shall not exceed fifty (50) feet in length and shall not be placed adjaoent to a safety zone at a street car stop; Every loading zone, also that portion of every curb reserved for loading only by paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 of Subdivision (a) of this section shall be designated by yellow paint or other yellow material upon the entire curb surface therein with the words: "LOADHiG Oi.n.Y" , in black letters thereon; ~ithin any business district not more than one-half of the total curb length in anyone block may be set apart as a loading zone. unloading of materials more than thirty following plaoes: the grade of the street exceeds t~elve alley; "loading zone"; ourb \Vi thin tt1en ty-fi ve (25) feet of the entrance 1 Section 33. PAR7.I!G TIME LI~IT IN SPECIFIED PLACES. The operator of a vehiole shall not park such vehicle for longer than two hours within any Rortion of any street in said city between the hours of 9 A. 1,. and 6 P. 1,. of any day, except Sunday and Holidays, which portion of such street has been designated by resolution of the City Council of the City of Seal Beaoh, as subject to a two hour parking limit. The Chief of Police shall erect or cause to b erected and maintain not more than One Hundred Fifty (150) feet apa t in each block subject to two hour parking limit, signs designating the provisions of this section. Section 34. EARLY ~ORNING PARKING LI~ITED. It shall be un- lawful for the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle on any street for a period of time longer than thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 2 A. :1. and 4 A. Il. of any day. Section 35. STAirnI~G OR PARXIUG CLOSE TO CURB. The operator of a vehicle shall not stop} stand or park such vehicle in a road- way other than parallel witn the curb and with the two right-hand wheels of the vehicle within one (1) foot of the regularly estab- lished curb line, except that upon those streets which have been marked for angle parking, as provided in this section, vehioles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated by.such marke. The Oity Oouncil by Resolution or the Ohief of Police is hereby authorized to determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and to indicate such plaoes by the paintins of white 0 yellow lines upon the surfaoe of the roadway to indicate the proper angle for parking, provided that such lines shall not be placed upo , nor shall angle parking be permitted upon any street where such parking would diminish the width of the roadway available for travel to less than twenty (20) feet, nor upon any street which is a oontinua I 7. Ordinance Number ".' I tion of or part of a county trunk line high~ay or a state highway unless a clear width of forty (40) feet'is left for the movement of vehicles when angle parking is permitted. The Ohief of Police is hereby authorized to prohibit the park ing of vehicles, provided appropriate signs are placed and main- tained to give notice thereof, on one side of a street in any block where angle parking is permittted on the opposite side of the stree in such block. Section 36. PARKI~G VEHIOLES FOR SALE. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park the same upon any street for the purpose of displaying it for sale, or to park any vehicle upon any street in any business district from which said vehicle merchandise is being sold. Section 37. RIDING ON VZHIOLE RUl~~ING BOARD. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride upon the fender or eunning board of any vehicle. Section 38. RAILWAY TRAIlTB AIm STREET CARS ImT TO BLOCK STREET. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any steam, inter- urban 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 five (5) minutes. ARTICLE VII. PEIiALTIES I Section 39. PENALTIES. Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this ordinance, or any rule or regulation cade by the City Oouncil or the Chief of Police pursuant thereto, shall be guil of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or by imprison- ment in the Oounty Jail of Orange County, for not more than three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. I Section 40. EFFEOT OF ORDIuAPCE. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall n~t affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Oity Council here- by declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespec- tive of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sen- tences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitut!onal. Section 41. REPEAL. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with or inconsistent ~ith the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, exoept that-this repeal shall not aff ct or prevent the prosecution or punishcent of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effeot of this ordinance. Section 42. PUBLIOATICll OF vRDI:-.A;~v::i:. 'The.]i ty Olerlt shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published by one insertion in the II Seal Beach Post and :7avell a neus- paper of general circulation printed and published weekly in said city, of Seal Beach, and thirty days thereafter it shall take effect and be in force. Passed and adopted this 3~ day of J~, 1941. ATTEST: /J.a~~4~~.If'l ~_~~ Ci ty Olerk !:a.yor of the l10i ty !f Sec.l s. Beach, California Ordinance Number County of Orange ) ~ ss. STATE OF OALIFOR1~IA 1 I, Ollie B. Padrick, City Clerk of the Oity of Seal Beach, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance' uas introduced at a regular meeting of the Oity Oouncil of said Oity. duly held on the /r~day of June, 1941, and thereafter at a regular meeting of said Oouncil duly held on the sat day of ~, 1941, duly passed and adopted by said Oouncil and si~ed and approved by the wayor of said Oity, and that said Ordinance was passed and adopted by a vote of more than tuo-thirds of the members of said Oity Oouncil, as follows: AYES: Oouncilmen /)J~/hf~~.... /1,~//~.6 , 1 ~r~) ( SEAL ) NOBS: Councilmen ~ ABSE~!T: CouncilQen ~.J") tlI#~4~~~~) Olerk 0 the City of Seal Beach, California I 9.