10.40.020 Curb markings--Meanings--Compliance required.
A. The traffic authority, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title, to place, and when required in this title shall place the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations. The curb markings shall have the meanings as set forth in this section:
1. Red means no stopping, standing or parking at any time, except as permitted by the vehicle code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
2. Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking at any time between nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than the loading and unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty minutes.
3. White means no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, which shall not exceed three minutes, and such restrictions shall apply between nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays, and except as follows:
a. When such zone is in front of a theater, the restrictions shall apply at all times;
b. When such zone is in front of a theater, the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater is closed.
4. Green means no standing or parking for longer than thirty minutes at any time between nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays.
5. Blue means parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons as described in Sections 22511.5 and 22511.9 of the California Vehicle Code.
B. When the chief of police, as authorized under this title, 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. 467 §1, 2002; Ord. 320 §1, 1987; Ord. 50 §61, 1951).