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Ordinance - 818ORDINANCE NO. 818 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING CHAPTER 1 OF ARTICLE III OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE REGULATION OF TRAFFIC. The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Sections 3100 to 3150, inclusive, of the West Covina Municipal Code are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following new sections, commencing with Section 3100, to -wit: "PART 1 - DEFINITIONS 3100. DEFINITIONS. Whenever any words or phrases used herein are not defined herein but are now defined in the Vehicle Code of this State, such definitions are incorporated herein and shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein. Whenever in this Chapter the following words and phrases set forth in this Section are used, they shall for the purpose of this Chapter have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section. (a) ALLEY. Any street less than twenty-five feet in width between property lines. (b) BICYCLE. A mechanical device without a motor, having two wheels, handle bars and a seat or seats, and propelled by human power. (e) COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Every self-propelled vehicle designed for, or engaged in, the carrying of any materials, goods, wares, merchandise, freight, or other commodities, whether such vehicle be laden or unladen, or any vehicle which, having no such rating is nevertheless loaded, carrying or laden with more than two tons of any materials, goods, wares, merchandise, freight or other commodities. Nothing in this definition contained shall be deemed to mean or include railroad, street or interurban railway cars, or vehicles for the carrying of passengers. (d) COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of West Covina. (e) CURB. The lateral boundary of the roadway whether such curb be marked by curbing construction, or not so marked; the word "curb" as herein used shall not include the line dividing the roadway of a street from parking strips in the center of a street, nor from tracks or rights of way of public utility companies. (f) LOADING ZONE. That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. (g) PARKWAY. That portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk. -1- (h) OFFICIAL SIGN. Any sign erected, and installed or authorized by the Traffic Authority. (i) PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot. (j) POLICE OFFICER. Every officer of the Police Department of this City or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. (k) SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD. Every person appointed by the Chief of Police of this City authorized to direct or regulate traffic at a school crossing. (1) STOP. When required means complete cessation of movement. (m) TRAFFIC AUTHORITY. Traffic Committee of the City or its authorized and acting representative. (n) VEHICLE CODE. The words, 'Vehicle Code' shall mean and refer to the Vehicle Code of the State of California as it now exists or may hereafter be amended. "PART 2 - TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION 3101. POLICE ADMINISTRATION. There is hereby established in the Police Department of the City a Traffic Division to be under the control of an officer of police appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of Police. 3102. DUTY OF TRAFFIC DIVISION. It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department to enforce the street traffic regulations of the City and all of the State vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the City, to make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate traffic ac- cidents and to cooperate with the Traffic Authority and other officers of the City in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties specifically imposed upon said Division by.this Chapter and the traffic ordinances of this City. 3103. TRAFFIC ACCIDENT STUDIES. Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, the Traffic Division may cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures. 3104. TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REPORTS. The Traffic Division shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be made available for the use and information of the City Traffic Engineer. 3105. TRAFFIC DIVISION TO SUBMIT ANNUAL TRAFFIC SAFETY REPORT. The Traffic Division shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the City Council. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in the City as follows; -2- 1. The number of traffic Accidents, the number of per- sons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data; • 2. The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police. 3106. CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER. The position of City Traffic Engineer is hereby established. The City Traffic Engineer shall exercise the powers and duties as provided in this Chapter. Whenever the City Traffic Engineer is required or authorized by the Traffic Authority to place or main- tain official traffic control devices or signals, he shall cause such devices or signals to be placed or maintained. 3107. TRAFFIC COMMITTEE. There is hereby established a Traffic Committee to serve without compensation, consisting of the City Traffic Engineer, the Chief of Police or in his discretion as his representative the Chief of the Traffic Division, and the City Engineer. "PART 3 - TRAFFIC REGULATIONS 3110. DUTIES OF POLICE It shall be the duty of the officers of the Police Department to enforce provisions of this Chapter. Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signals, in conformance with traffic laws, whenever and wherever necessary in the interests of safety, or to expedite the flow of traffic. 3111. OBEDIENCE TO POLICE OR AUTHORIZED OFFICERS. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order, direction or signal of a police officer, or of a person authorized by the Chief of Police or by law to give such order;. direction or signal. 3112. AUTHORIZED PERSONS TO DIRECT TRAFFIC. No person other than an officer of the Police Department, or a person designated by the Chief of Police, or an employee of the City who is at the time engaged in the necessary performance of his duties for the City, shall direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal, except as permitted or required in the Vehicle Code, and except that persons may operate, when and as herein provided, any mechanical signal erected by order of the legislative body of this City or the Traffic Authority. 3113. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned or used in the service of the United States Government, this State, any County, City or Municipal Corporation, or other public agency, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this Chapter, except as otherwise permitted in this Chapter. MI: 3114. EXEMPTIONS TO CERTAIN VEHICLES. The provisions of this Chapter regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle • of the Police or Fire Department, any public ambulance, or any public utility vehicle, or private ambulance, which has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle when such vehicle is operated in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call. The foregoing exemptions shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his willful disregard of the safety of others. The provisions of this Chapter regulating the placing, parking or standing of vehicles or equipment shall not apply to any vehicle or other equipment of a City Department, or public utility, or special permit holder of a permit issued by the City, while necessarily in use for construction or repair work or any vehicle owned or operated by the United States Post Office while in use for the collection, transportation, or delivery of United States mail. 3115. REPORT OF DAMAGE TO CERTAIN PROPERTY. (a) The operator of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly or privately owned or owned by a public utility, including but not limited to any fire hydrant, parking meter, • lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole, or resulting in damage to any tree, traffic control device or other property of a like nature located in or along any street, shall within twenty-four hours after such accident make a written re- port of.such accident to the Police Department. (b) Every such report shall state the time when and the place where the accident took place, the name and address of the person owning and of the person operating or in charge of such vehicle or animal, the license number of every such vehicle, and shall briefly describe the property damage in such accident. (c) The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident shall not be subject to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during the time he is physically incapable of making a report, but in such event he shall make a report as required in subdivision (a) within twenty-four hours after re- gaining ability to make such report. 31l6. WHEN VEHICLES MAY BE REMOVED FROM STREETS. Any regularly employed and salaried officer of the Police Department may remove or cause to be removed: (a) Any vehicle that has been parked or left standing upon a street or highway for 120 or more consecutive hours. (b) Any vehicle which is parked or left standing upon a street or highway when such parking or standing is prohibited by this City and signs are posted giving notice of such removal. (a) Any vehicle which is parked or left standing upon a street or highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway or for the installation of underground utilities or where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street or highway or any portion • thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided that signs giving notice that such vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the removal. 3117. BICYCLES AND ANIMALS. Every person riding a bicycle or driving an animal upon a highway is subject to the provisions of this Chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. 3118. AUTHORITY TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. (a) Whenever, by any provision of this Chapter, the Traffic Authority is authorized to install any traffic control devices, and such authority is made upon its determination of the need therefor, it shall be the duty of the Traffic Authority to make such determination only upon the basis of the traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations, and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as are set forth in this Chapter. (b) It shall be the duty of the Traffic Authority to in- stall traffic control devices whenever directed by any provision of this Chapter, to do so at any particular location specified herein and at any other particular location where it may be so directed by this Code or any other ordinance of this City. (c) The Traffic Authority may also place and maintain or cause to place and maintain such additional traffic control de- vices as it seems necessary or proper to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but such determination shall be made only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations and, in accordance with such standards, limita- tions and rules as may be set forth in this Chapter. (d) Whenever the traffic law of this State, or any traffic regulation set forth in this Chapter requires for its effective- ness that traffic control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law or regulation, the Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed the necessary devices. (e) No other person, board, or department of this City, and no private person or agency, shall install, place, or main- tain any traffic control device within the purview of this Chapter except upon order of the Traffic Authority. 3119. SIGNS REQUIRED. No provision of this Chapter for which signs or markings are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator, if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official sign or marking is not in place and sufficiently legible and visible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.' . WC 3120. OBEDIENCE TO BARRIERS AND SIGNS. No person, contractor, or public utility shall erect or place any barrier or sign on any street unless of a type approved • by the Traffic Authority, or disobey the instructions, remove, tamper with or destroy any barrier or sign lawfully placed on any street by any person, contractor or public utility. 3121. INSTALLATION OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to install and maintain official traffic signals at those intersections and other places where traffic conditions are such as to require that the flow of traffic be alternately interrupted and released in order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to protect life or property from exceptional hazard. The Traffic Authority shall ascertain and determine the lo- cation where such signals are required by field investigation, traffic counts, and other traffic information as may be pertinent, and the Traffic Authority's determination therefrom shall be made in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards set forth in the Bureau of Public Roads, 'Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.' 3122. SAFETY ZONES. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to establish safety zones of such kind or character consistent with the Vehicle • Code and at such places as the Traffic Authority may,deem neces- sary for the protection of pedestrians. 3123. TRAFFIC LANES - TURNING MARKERS, ETC. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to install and maintain center lines, lane lines, turning markers, and pavement warning signs, to indicate upon the surface of pavement the course to be traveled by vehicles at any place where the Traffic Authority determines that such devices are advisable or necessary to foster the orderly and safe movement of traffic. 3124. OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. The driver of any vehicle, the person in charge of any animal, and any person on a bicycle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with this Chapter unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exemptions granted by Section 3114. 3125. AVOIDANCE OF TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. No person shall operate a vehicle so as to leave the traveled portion of the roadway and re-enter the same or any other street for the purpose of taking a short cut or avoiding a duly author- ized traffic control device. 3126. AUTHORITY TO REMOVE, RELOCATE AND DISCONTINUE TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any of those traffic control devices hereinafter enumerated, whenever it shall be determined in any par- ticular case that the factors or conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist, to wit: In 1. Official traffic 'signals. 2. Stop signs and yield signs. • 3. Signs or markings limiting or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking except at locations where mainte- nance of such signs is required by ordinance. 4. Crosswalks, safety zones. 5. Directional signs, lane lines, turn signs, and any other device or devices to guide or warn traffic. 3127. UNAUTHORIZED PAINTING OF CURBS. No person, unless authorized by the City, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on the curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of this City pertaining thereto. 3128. REMOVAL OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS. The Traffic Authority may, without notice, remove or cause to be removed every unofficial sign, signal or device placed, maintained or displayed upon any City street. 3129. TAMPERING WITH TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, MARKINGS OR CONTROL DEVICES. • No person shall 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 Chapter. 3130. STOP SIGNS. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to determine those streets or intersections at which there is special hazard to life or property by reason of the volume of traffic upon such streets or at such intersections, or because of lack of visibility to the drivers of vehicles approaching such streets or intersections, or because of the number of accidents or proba- bility thereof on such streets or intersections, and where the factors creating the special hazard are such that, according to the principles and experience of traffic engineering, the in- stallation of stop signs is reasonably calculated to reduce the expectancy of accidents and that the use of warning signs would be inadequate. When such determination has been made, the Traffic Authority shall designate any such street as a STOP thoroughfare or through street between specific limits or designate any intersection a STOP intersection, and shall post such STOP signs as are necessary • to give effect to such designation. STOP signs at any intersection may be posted as to stop either or any stream of traffic as the needs may, in the judgment of the Traffic Authority, require. 3131. YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to determine those approaches to intersections of streets and highways which -7- are not through streets, at which there is a special hazard to life or property by reason of the volume of traffic at such intersection, the lack of visibility to the drivers of vehicles approaching the intersection, or the number of accidents or the apparent probability thereof, or because of physical conditions • which render such intersection hazardous to life or property, and where the factors are such that according to the principles of traffic engineering the installation of $YIELD RIGHT OF WAY' signs is reasonably calculated to reduce the potentiality of accidents and that the use of warning signs would be inadequate. When such determination has been made, the Traffic Authority shall designate such approaches as 'YIELD RIGHT OF WAY' - approaches and shall install and maintain such 'YIELD RIGHT OF WAY'- signs as are necessary to give effect to such designation. 3132. EMERGING FROM AN ALLEY OR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. The driver or operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, building, or from any private property, shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving therefrom into a sidewalk or into any public street. No stop signs need be erected, how- ever, in the case of such alleys, driveways, buildings or other private properties. 3133. DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL PROCESSIONS. No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and . when the vehicles in such procession are conspicuously so designated. 3134. NO ENTRANCE INTO INTERSECTION THAT WOULD OBSTRUCT TRAFFIC. No operator of any vehicle shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic -control signal indication to proceed. 3135. CONSTRUCTION SIGNS. The driver of any vehicle and the person in charge of any animal shall obey the instructions of any barrier or sign erected pursuant to this Code, or by any of the public departments of the City or public utilities in this City, or by other person, pursuant to the law. 3136. SIGNS PROHIBITING TURNS. The Traffic Authority may erect or place and maintain signs at any intersection prohibiting the making of left turns, right turns, or U-turns by drivers of vehicles wherever said Traffic Authority determines that such turns would cause traffic • congestion or traffic hazard. When such signs are so erected or placed, no turn as is indicated by the signs shall be per- mitted at such designated intersections at any time, or at such times and days as may be designated by such signs, and no operator or driver of any vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such signs. 3137. SIGNS PROHIBITING RIGHT TURNS - SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION. At any intersection within the City where mechanical traffic control devices shall have been installed, or may hereafter be installed, the Traffic Authority may erect, place and maintain signs prohibiting the making of right turns by drivers of vehicles against the red light or other means employed by said mechanical controlled devices indicating that the drivers of :vehicles travel- ing in one or more general directions shall stop, whenever the said Traffic Authority determines that such right turns would seriously interfere with the safe and orderly flow of traffic. During the time such signs are so erected or placed, no right hand turn shall be permitted against the red signal or stop signal or other means used to indicate that traffic approach- ing the intersection in one general direction shall stop, and no operator or driver of any vehicle shall make any right hand turn in such intersection at such times. 3138. TURNING MARKERS. The Traffic Authority may place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections. When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat no.driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. 3139. CLOSING STREETS TEMPORARILY. ENTRY PROHIBITED. • The Traffic Authority shall have the right, authority and power at any time to close any street or any portion thereof temporarily to vehicular, pedestrian or other traffic when in the opinion of such Traffic Authority the public peace, health or safety requires such temporary closing; provided, however, that in all such cases, suitable signs shall be conspicuously posted giving notice of the fact that such street or°portion thereof is closed, or a police officer or person designated by the Traffic Authority is present thereat for the purpose of giving such notice. No person shall, in case any such street or portion there- of is so closed, enter into or upon such closed portion or drive any vehicle into or upon the same contrary to any such notice or notices of order or orders of any such police officer or person so designated. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving the City Council and/or Street Superintendent from concurrent power to likewise temporarily close any street or portion thereof within the City, but the delegation of power to the Traffic Authority herein made shall be construed as in addition thereto. 3140. TRUCK ROUTES' • The following streets and portions of streets are hereby designated and established as Truck Routes, to wit: Azusa Avenue from the northerly City limit to the San Bernardino Freeway, Glendora Avenue from the San Bernardino Freeway to the southerly City limit, Garvey Avenue, Grand Avenue, the San Bernardino Freeway, San Bernardino Road, Francisquito Avenue from Glendora Avenue to the westerly City limit, Azusa Canyon Road from San Bernardino Road to the northerly City limit, and Sunset Avenue from Francisquito Avenue to the southerly City limit. 3141. SIGNS INDICATING TRUCK ROUTES. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to cause all streets and portions thereof established and designated by this Chapter as Truck Routes to be clearly marked or signposted at their intersections with other truck routes or boundary line of said City with appropriate signs displaying in letters not less than 4 inches in height the (words 'Truck Route.'' 3142. TRUCK ROUTES. COMPLIANCE WITH. When any such Truck Routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other except that nothing in this Section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a 'Truck Route'* having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any place, building or structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor. Any vehicle subject to the provisions of Section 50-1/4 of the Public Utilities Act is excepted from the provisions of this Section. 3143. SAME. WEIGHING ON NEAREST PUBLIC SCALES. Any peace officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load on any street is unlawful under the terms of Section 3142 is authorized to require the driver thereof to submit to a weighing of the same and for such purpose may re- quire that such vehicle be driven to the nearest public scales in the event such scales are within five miles. 3144. ONE-WAY STREETS. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of the City desig- nates any one-way street or alley, the Traffic Authority shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited. When signs are erected on any one-way street or alley, giving notice thereof, no person shall drive any vehicle in a direction contrary thereto. 3145. SAME. DESIGNATED. In accordance with Section 3144, and when properly sign - posted, traffic shall move only in the direction indicated upon the following streets or portions of streets; (a) Westerly upon the northerly and easterly upon the southerly drives or roadways of Rowland Avenue, between Lark Ellen Avenue and the easterly boundary line of the City. (b) Northeasterly upon Sunset Avenue, 60 feet wide, as shown on map of E. J. Baldwin's Fourth Subdivision, recorded 19� in Book 8 at Page 186 of Maps, on file in the office.of the County Recorder, beginning at a point 500.00 feet, northeasterly from Service Avenue, to a point 750.00 feet, northeasterly of said Service Avenue, as shown on said map. (c) Southwesterly upon that portion of Barranca Street as described in the Deed of Easement to County of Los Angeles recorded November 28, 1934, as Instrument No. 766 in Book 13072, Page 328 Official Records of said County, beginning at a point on the West line of Barranca Street, 50 feet wide, distant South 750 feet, and East 50 feet, from the point of intersection of the centerline of Barranca Street, with the centerline of Worokman Avenue; thence proceeding Southwesterly at approximately 45 , to a point of intersection with the Northerly line of Garvey Avenue, known as the North Frontage Road of the San Bernardino Freeway, as constructed by the State Division of Highways. 3146. BACKING OF VEHICLES. Unless in compliance with the immediate direction or.order of the Traffic Authority or any police officer of the City to the contrary, no person shall back or operate in reverse gear any vehicle on any street within the City for a greater distance than is necessary in order to place such vehicle in a position for the lawful operation thereof in a forward direction upon such street. 3147. LIMITED ACCESS. • No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are law- fully established. 3148. MOVEMENT OF HEAVY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT. PERMIT. No person shall move or operate upon any City street any vehicle with a load or loads in excess of those permitted by the Vehicle Code without a written permit from the City Traffic Engineer. The City Traffic Engineer may, by written permit, authorize a load or loads in excess of those allowed for in the Vehicle Code, if, in his judgment, the streets upon which such vehicle is to be operated can safely withstand the additional weight, or if the applicant will guarantee to the City that all costs of repair to the streets or to the public property of the City damaged by the movement of such load or loads will be paid in full. Such permit shall be granted upon such conditions and upon depositing such bond as the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may require. 3149. DAMAGE TO SURFACED STREETS. No person shall draw, propel or convey or cause or permit to be drawn or propelled, or conveyed over any paved or surfaced street of the City, any machinery, tools, implements of hus- bandry, or any equipment of any nature containing any cleats or sharp edges that tend to damage the surface of said street. -11- 3150. EXCAVATION IN STREETS. No person shall dig in, excavate, tear up, deface or injure any street without an express written permit so to do first had and obtained from either the Superintendent of Streets or the City Council of said City and no person shall violate or permit or cause to be violated any of the terms or conditions imposed in any such permit if and when issued. 3151. LIGHTS ON OBSTRUCTIONS OR EXCAVATIONS. No person placing or maintaining any obstruction or making any excavation in any street shall fail or neglect to provide, during the period between sunset .of any day and sunrise of the succeeding day, a suitable and adequate light or lights to warn users of such streets of such obstruction or excavation. MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES. 3152. DEPOSIT OF RUBBISH IN STREETS. No person shall throw, deposit or place in or upon any street any glass, bottles, paper, rubbish, garbage (except in proper containers as permitted by law) or any unsightly, foul or noxious substance. 3153. OBSTRUCTION TO VISIBILITY AT INTERSECTIONS. Whenever any hedge, shrubbery or tree growing in a parkway obstructs the view of any intersection, or of any traffic upon the streets approaching such intersection, the person in pos- session or control thereof shall cause the hedge, shrubbery or tree to be immediately removed or reduced to a height determined by the Traffic Authority so as to remove such obstruction. 3154. RIDING ON MOTORCYCLES AND BICYCLES. A person operating a motorcycle or bicycle upon a street shall not ride other than upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, or carry any other person upon such motorcycle or bicycle other than upon a firmly attached seat to the rear of the operator, nor shall any person ride upon a motorcycle or bicycle upon any street other than as above authorized. 3155. CLINGING TO MOVING VEHICLE. Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy vehicle, shall not attach the same or himself to any streetcar or moving vehicle upon any roadway. 3156. SIDEWALK TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS. The driver or operator of a vehicle or bicycle shall not drive or operate the same, nor shall the rider of any animal ride or drive such animal, within any sidewalk area of any parkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway. A temporary driveway for the purposes of this Section is defined to mean a crossing or driveway suitably planked or otherwise protected to prevent injury to the curb or sidewalk. -12- 3157. NEW PAVEMENT. No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle or bicycle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street when a barrier or sign is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street or any portion thereof is closed. "PART 4 - PEDESTRIAN REGULATIONS 316o. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, CROSSWALKS. The Traffic Authority may establish, designate and main- tain marked crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway. Marked crosswalks shall be established and maintained at all intersections where the Traffic Authority determines that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway subject to the limitations contained in the following Subsection. 3161. SAME. LIMITATIONS. Other than crosswalks at intersections no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than 600 feet in length. Elsewhere not more than one additional crosswalk shall be established in any one block and such crosswalk shall be lo- cated as nearly as practicable to mid -block. The Traffic Authority may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection in respect to any unmarked crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in the unmarked crosswalk so indicated. 3162. WHEN PEDESTRIANS MUST USE CROSSWALKS. 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 crosswalk. No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk if such action interferes with the lawful movement of traffic. This Section shall not apply to any police officer, sur- veyor, street sweeper or to another person when necessary for such person to be upon the street in line of duty. "PART 5 - PARKING REGULATIONS 3165. APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS. (a) The provisions of this Chapter prohibiting the stop- ping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device. (b) The provisions of this Chapter 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 Vehicle Code or the ordinances of this City prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at speci- fied times. -13- 3166. TRAFFIC AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE NO STOPPING, NO PARKING, AND RESTRICTED PARKING ZONES. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized and directed to maintain appropriate signs or paint upon the curb surface to designate all no stopping zones, no parking areas, and re- stricted parking areas, as defined and described in this Chapter. When said curb markings or signs are in place no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter. No person other than the Traffic Authority or person act- ing under its authority shall paint markings upon the curb or place traffic signs within the City. 3167. NO STOPPING. No Stopping shall be indicated by a red painted curb or by appropriate signing. When said markings or signs are in place, no vehicle may stop, stand, or park 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 zone. When signs are in place prohibiting stopping during certain hours of certain days, no vehicle may stop, stand, or park during the times in- dicated, except as permitted by the Vehicle Code. No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park, or • leave standing 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 other authorized officer, or traffic sign or signal: (a) Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings. (b) On either side of any street between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, street, or thoroughfare terminating at such street, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface. (c) In any area where the Traffic Authority determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface. (d) At any place so signed or marked adjacent to and within 35 feet of any streetcar tracks, interurban car tracks or railroad tracks within the City. (e) At any place so signed or marked adjacent to, in front of or opposite any fire station, police station, theater, school ground or public assembly hall, bus or passenger station, or other public place. (f) At any place so signed or marked between a safety zone and the nearest curb and any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb and immediately opposite the mid -block end of a safety zone. -14- (g) At any place so signed or marked within 25 feet of a stop sign or yield right of way sign except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop. (h) At any place within twenty feet of a crosswalk when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface, except that a bus may stop at a desig- nated bus stop. (I) At any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid -block end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface. (j) Within twenty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device. 3168. BUS ZONES. (a) The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to estab- lish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading or unloading of buses of common carriers of passengers and to determine the location thereof subject to the directives and limitations set forth herein. (b) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far side of an intersection. (c) No bus zone shall exceed 80 feet in length, except that when satisfactory evidence has been presented to the Traffic Authority showing the necessity therefor, the Traffic Authority may extend bus zones not to exceed a total length of 125 feet. No bus zone shall be established opposite and to the right of a safety zone. (d) The Traffic Authority shall paint a red line stenciled with white letters "NO STANDING," together with the words "BUS ZONE' upon the top or side of all curbs and places specified as a bus zone. 3169. SAME. VIOLATIONS. No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except a bus in a bus zone. 3170. PARKING ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS. (a) The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street adjacent to any school property when -such parking would, in his opinion, inter- fere with traffic or create a hazardous situation. (b) When official signs are erected prohibiting parking upon a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place. 3171. PARKING PROHIBITED ON NARROW STREETS. (a) The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet. -15- (b) When official signs or markings prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign or marking. 3172. PARKING PROHIBITED DURING CERTAIN DAYS OR HOURS. Whenever authorized signs prohibiting parking have been determined by the Traffic Authority to be necessary for the welfare of the general public, and are in place giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for any person to stand or park any vehicle at any time during the day or days indicated by said signs. 3173. PARKING PROHIBITED. NO SIGNS REQUIRED. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, or any portion thereof in any of the following places: , (a) Within any tunnel,or upon any bridge, viaduct or approach thereto. (b) Within any parkway. (c) Within any intersection. 3174. PARKING ON GRADES. No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unat- tended on a highway within any business or residence district when upon any grade exceeding 3% without blocking the wheels of said vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means. 3175. CURB ZONES AND TIME LIMIT PARKING. The Traffic Authority is hereby authorized to establish Loading Only zones, Passenger Loading Only zones, Curb Mail Drop Only zones, Short Time Limit zones, and Time Limit Parking, when satisfactory evidence has been presented showing the neces- sity therefor, and shall cause them to be marked as follows: a) LOADING ONLY Loading Only shall be indicated by a yellow painted curb stenciled 'Loading Only' or by appropriate signing. When said markings or signs are in place, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle at any time between 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. Said loading or un- loading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes nor the loading or unloading of'materials more than twenty minutes. Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial vehicles and shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor, and in no event for more than twenty minutes. No more than one-half of the total curb length in any block shall be reserved for loading purposes. b) PASSENGER LOADING ONLY Passenger Loading Only shall be indicated by a white painted curb stenciled 'Passenger Loading Only'- or by appropriate -16- signing. When said markings or signs are in place, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers, or the loading or un- loading of personal baggage. Said loading or unloading of passengers or baggage shall not consume more than three minutes. When such zone is in front of a theater, the restrictions shall not apply when such theater is closed. c) CURB MAIL DROP ONLY Curb Mail.Drop Only shall be indicated by a white painted curb stenciled "Curb Mail Drop Only' or by appropriate signing. When said markings or signs are in place, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the de- positing of mail into an adjacent curbside mail deposit box. Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for pur- poses of depositing mail shall not extend beyond the time neces- sary therefor. d) SHORT TIME LIMIT PARKING Short Time Limit Parking shall be indicated by a green painted curb stenciled "Passenger Cars Only - Minute Limit,' or by appropriate signing. When such markings or signs are in place, no person shall stand or park a vehicle for longer than the time as indicated at any time between 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays. e) TIME LIMIT PARKING • Whenever authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stand or park any vehicle for a period of time in excess of the parking time limit indicated by such signs on all days except as may be further indicated by such signs. 3176. AUTHORITY OF POLICE IN CROWDS. At places where large numbers of people and vehicles are to gather or have gathered, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent any police officer from prohibiting any person from parking any vehicle upon or using any street or sidewalk, or from prohibiting any pedestrian from using any street or sidewalk, and said police officer shall have authority to direct the parking of vehicles in any reasonable manner, way or direction, and it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to fail to promptly obey the said police officer's order, signal or command, regardless of any other provision of this Chapter. 3177. PARKING IN ALLEYS. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any alley for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials. 3178. PARKING SPACE MARKINGS. The Traffic Authority is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted. -17- When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no person shall stand or park a vehicle other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible. 3179. PARALLEL AND ANGLE PARKING. No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway or street other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of traffic and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle as near to the curb or edge of the roadway as is practicable, so that such vehicles shall not interfere with traffic on such street. Upon those streets which have been marked or signed by Traffic Authority for angle parking, vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated by such marks or signs. 3180. DIAGONAL PARKING. On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the Council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, no operator of any vehicle shall park said vehicle except: (a) At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pave- ment markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of said allotted space: • (b) With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of said curb. The provisions of this Section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or un- loading freight or goods, in which event the applicable pro- visions of this Chapter shall be complied with. 3181. PARKING PARALLEL ON ONE-WAY STREETS. (a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within 18 inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing. (b) In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking. (c). The Traffic Authority is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof. (d) The requirement of parallel parking imposed by this Section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case such vehicle may be backed'up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the center line of the street and does not block traffic thereby. 3182. PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED. No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for'the principal purpose of: (a) Displaying such vehicle for sale. (b) Washing, servicing, repairing, or otherwise working on such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency. (c) Selling therefrom or therein any article, service or thing provided that any peddler or canvasser licensed under the provisions of any ordinance of the City may take orders or de- liver any commodity from a vehicle on that part of any street immediately adjacent to the premises of any purchaser. 3183. VENDING AUTOMOBILES, WAGONS OR STANDS. No person shall keep, maintain or conduct, at any time, any automobile, wagon or other vehicle or temporary stand used for the purpose of selling, vending or furnishing any lunch, meals, popcorn, candy, peanuts, vegetables, fruit or any other articles of food or drink at any stationary place or stand within the boundaries of any street, avenue, or sidewalk within the City, except ranchers or gardeners living in the City who are selling their own seasonal products. • 3184. ADVERTISING VEHICLES. No person shall operate or drive, park or leave standing any vehicle for advertising purposes, or any vehicle used for announcing or other purposes, or with any sound producing or noise making device or means or a sound amplifying or loud speaking device or means (other than sirens, horns, or amplify- ing devices required or authorized by law), upon any street at any time within the City while such device or means is in use or operation, without first obtaining and having in effect a written permit from the City Traffic Engineer so to do, or in any manner contrary to any condition of or pursuant to which any such permit may be issued. The City Traffic Engineer may, subject to the right of appeal to the City Council by any person aggrieved, grant or refuse to grant such permit. Such permit shall be refused if the proposed use would violate any law or ordinance or would be detrimental to the public peace, health, safety or general welfare. 3185. OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS. No person shall erect, construct, place, maintain, leave or abandon any building, fence, porch, steps, post, pole, track, wire, pipe, conduit or other structure in whole or in part in or upon any street within the City, and no person shall place, affix, paint, maintain, leave or abandon any sign, placard, notice, advertisement, seat, bench, table, stand, material or other obstruction in any street within the City, without a per- mit so to do first had and obtained from the Traffic Authority or the Street Superintendent or the City Council, provided, however, that the provisions of the Section shall not apply to: -19- (a) The U. S. mail boxes. (b) Poles and facilities of public utilities lawfully using the public streets of said City. • (c) Portable and usual garbage and rubbish receptacles when conforming to and placed in accordance with the rules and regulations of the City with reference thereto. (d) Notices, placards, posters or any of the other articles or means above mentioned or referred to, erected or placed by any City or public officer, official or employee acting within the scope of his or her office or employment as such public officer, official or employee. 3186. SAME. LOADING OR UNLOADING MERCHANDISE. No person shall place upon any public street of the City, except as hereinafter provided, any automobiles, wagon or any other vehicle, boxes, goods, wares, merchandise, building material or other articles which will obstruct the free use of such public street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, without a special permit therefor first having been obtained from the City Clerk, pro- vided that this Section shall not apply to such obstruction as is the result of loading or unloading merchandise in the usual or ordinary manner and course of business unless such obstruction is permitted to remain on such public street, avenue, alley or sidewalk for a period of two hours or more. • 3187. PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - PROHIBITED. No person shall park or leave standing a vehicle in a private driveway or on private property without the direct or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of such driveway or property. "PART 6 - SPECIAL SPEED ZONES 3190. INCREASE OF STATE LAW MAXIMUM SPEED. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation and survey that a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour as presently applicable upon the following public streets within the incorporated limits of the City would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets, and it is hereby determined and de- clared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets or parts of streets herein designated when appropriate signs are erected giving notice thereof: Name of Street or Declared Prima Portion Affected Facie Speed Limit (a) SUNSET, AVENUE from Garvey Avenue to the northerly City limits of the City 35 miles per hour (b) VINCENT AVENUE from Garvey Avenue to the northerly City limits of the City 35 miles per hour (c) AZUSA AVENUE from the southerly City limits of the City to Garvey Avenue 35 miles per hour 1p.� • • (d) ROOT STREET from the westerly City limits of the City to Orange Avenue 35 miles per hour (e) PUENTE AVENUE from Orange Avenue to Azusa Avenue 35 miles per hour (f) LARK ELLEN AVENUE from the southerly City limits of the City to Garvey Avenue 35 miles per hour (g) FRANCISQUITO AVENUE, all the part within thejurisdiction of the City of West Covina between Glendora and Azusa Avenues 35 miles per hour (h) MERCED AVENUE from Garvey to Van Horn Avenues from Shadydale to California Avenues, from Glendora. to Lark Ellen Avenues 35 miles per hour (i) PACIFIC AVENUE from West City limits to Pacific Lane 35 miles per hour (j) CAMERON AVENUE from Holly Place to Dawley Avenue 35 miles per hour (k) HOLLENBECK STREET from Merced Avenue to Cortez Street 35 miles per hour (1) LARK ELLEN AVENUE from Workman to Rowland Avenues 35 miles per hour (m) VINE AVENUE from Glendora Avenue to Hollenbeck Street 35 miles per hour (n) HOLT AVENUE from Garvey Avenue on the west to the easterly City limits of the City 35 miles per hour 3191. DECREASE OF STATE LAW MAXIMUM SPEED. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation and survey that the speed permitted by State law outside of business and residence districts as applicable upon the following public streets within the incorporated limits of the City is more than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets, and it is hereby determined and declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those streets or parts of streets herein designated, when appropriate signs are erected giving notice thereof: Name of Street or Portion Affected (a) GLENDORA AVENUE from the inter- section of Garvey Blvd. therewith to the southerly City limits of the City (b) CITRUS STREET from the intersection of Garvey Boulevard therewith to the southerly City limits of the City Declared Prima Facie Speed Limit 35 miles per hour 35 miles per hour -21- (c) MERCED AVENUE from Van Horn to Orange Avenues from Lark Ellen Avenue to Glenview Road, from Glenn Alan to Hollenbeck Street, from Orange to Shadydale Avenues, and from California to Glendora Avenues 35 miles per hour • (d) CALIFORNIA AVENUE from Garvey Boulevard to the southerly City limits 35 miles per hour (e) SUNSET AVENUE from Garvey Boulevard to the southerly City limits 35 miles per hour (f) BARRANCA STREET from the northerly City limits to the southerly City limits of the City 35'miles per hour (g) PACIFIC AVENUE from Pacific Lane to Garvey Avenue 35 miles per hour (h) VINE AVENUE from Hollenbeck Street on the west to Citrus Street on the east (exclusive of that portion thereof which is not within the City) 35 miles per hour (i) AZUSA CANYON ROAD from San Bernardino Road to the northerly City limits of the City 35 miles per hour (j) FRANCISQUITO AVENUE those portions within the jurisdiction of the City from Willow Avenue to California Street 35 miles per hour (k) CITRUS STREET from Garvey Avenue to the northerly City limits of the City 35 miles per hour (1) CAMERON AVENUE from Glendora Avenue to Holly Place, and from Dawley Avenue to East City limits 35 miles per hour (m) CORTEZ STREET from Citrus Street to East City limits 35 miles per hour (n) HOLLENBECK STREET from Cortez Street to Garvey Avenue 35 miles per hour (o) LARK ELLEN AVENUE from Garvey to Workman Avenues, and from Rowland Avenue to North City limits 35.miles per hour (p) SAN BERNARDINO ROAD from East City limits to West City limits 35 miles per hour (q) Is SERVICE AVENUE from Orange to Sunset Avenues 35 miles per hour -22- 0 • • (r) GARVEY AVENUE from East City limits to West City limits 35 miles per hour" SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law. Passed and approved this loth day of September , 1963. Mayor STATE'OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS. CITY OF WEST COVINA I. ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 818 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 12th day of August , 1963. That, thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the loth day of September , 1963, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES: Councilmen: Jett, Towner, Heath, Snyder, Mayor Barnes NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT:Councilmen: None ze-tt jj6� City Clerk -23-