10.60.030 Curb markings – Color to indicate use – Driver obedience required.
A. Whenever the City Engineer determines the need to install a parking control device to indicate parking or standing regulations, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter, the City Engineer shall place the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations:
1. Red means no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone;
2. Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays specified in CVMC 10.08.110 for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes and the loading or unloading of materials more than 20 minutes;
3. White means no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mailbox, which shall not exceed three minutes, such restrictions to apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays specified in CVMC 10.08.110, except said restrictions shall apply at all times when such zone is in front of a hotel or mailbox, or theater when the theater is open;
4. Green means no standing or parking for a period longer than 12 minutes at any time between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays and holidays specified in CVMC 10.08.110, unless otherwise posted.
B. When the City Engineer, as authorized under this chapter, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section. (Ord. 2670, 1996; Ord. 973 § 1, 1966; prior code § 19.12.2).