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 City of Hermosa Beach Municipal Code -- Vehicles and Traffic
CITY OFHERMOSA BEACH
MUNICIPAL CODE
VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.12
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10.12. 010 Driving through funeral processions or parades. No operator of any vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral procession or a parade; provided, that such vehicles are conspicuously so designated. The directing of all vehicles and traffic on any street over which such funeral procession or parade wishes to pass shall be subject to the orders of the police department. (Prior code § 19-5) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 020 Driving on sidewalks. No person shall ride, drive, propel or cause to be propelled any vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk excepting over permanently constructed driveways and excepting when it is necessary for any temporary purpose to drive a loaded vehicle across a sidewalk; provided, that such sidewalk area be substantially protected by wooden planks two inches thick, and written permission be previously obtained from the city street superintendent. Such wooden planks shall not be permitted to remain upon such sidewalk area during the hours from six p.m. to six a.m. (Prior code § 19-7) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 030 Driving animals or vehicles over fresh pavement or markings. No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted markings in any street when a barrier sign, cone marker or other warning device is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking or when any such device is in place indicating that the street or any portion thereof is closed. (Prior code § 19-8) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 040 Operating, parking, on private property generally. No person shall operate, drive or leave any vehicle in, over or upon any private property without express or implied permission of the owner thereof or the person entitled to the possession thereof for the time being or the authorized agent of either; except, that this section shall not apply to public or private parking lots. (Prior code § 19-9) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 050 Operating vehicles on private parking lots. No person shall operate or drive a vehicle in, on or across any private parking lot without the express or implied consent of the owner thereof or the occupant entitled to the possession thereof, provided that where entry is for the purpose of doing business on the premises such consent shall be implied. (Prior code § 19-9.1) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 060 Operating commercial vehicles on private driveway approaches. No person shall operate or drive a commercial vehicle in, on or across any private driveway approach or sidewalk area or the driveway itself without the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, if signs or markings are in place indicating that the use of such driveway is prohibited. For the purpose of this section a "commercial vehicle" means a vehicle having a rated capacity in excess of one-half ton. (Prior code § 19-10) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 070 Washing or polishing vehicles on public streets or parking lots. No person shall wash or cause to be washed, polish or cause to be polished any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street or public parking lot in this city, when a charge is made for such service. (Prior code § 19-11) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 080 Constructing, repairing vehicles on public streets or parking lots. No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair or cause to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street or public parking lot in this city. Temporary emergency repairs may be made upon a public street which will enable removal of the vehicle from the public street. (Prior code § 19-12) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 090 Camping or sleeping in vehicles on public streets or public parking lots. No person shall at any time camp or sleep in any vehicle parked upon any public street, alley or passageway or any public parking lot in this city. (Prior code § 19-12.1) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 100 Unauthorized painting of streets or curbs. No person, unless authorized by this city, shall paint any street or curb surface; provided, that this section shall not apply to the painting of numbers on a curb surface by any person who has complied with the provisions of any resolution or ordinance of this city pertaining thereto. (Prior code § 19-13) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 110 Driving onto or from limited-access highways. No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited-access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are lawfully established. (Prior code § 19-16) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 120 Central traffic district--Limitations on certain freight vehicles. No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the central traffic district between the hours of seven a.m. and six p.m. of any day: A. Any freight vehicle more than eight and one-half feet in width, with load or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than twenty (20) feet to the front or rear of such vehicle; B. Any vehicle carrying building material that has not been loaded or is not to be unloaded at some point within the central traffic district; C. Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage or dirt, except equipment of the city or its agents when performing contracted services or work. The city traffic engineer may, by written permit, authorize the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making necessary emergency deliveries to or from points within the central traffic district. (Prior code § 19-17) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 130 Central traffic district--Operation of advertising vehicles. No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound-amplifying or loudspeaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the central traffic district without first obtaining any necessary permits as may be required by this code or other ordinances of this city. (Prior code § 19-18) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 140 Central traffic district--Driving animal-drawn vehicles. No person shall drive any animal-drawn vehicle into or within the central traffic district between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six p.m. of any day without first obtaining any necessary permits as may be required by this code or other ordinances of this city. (Prior code § 19-19) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 150 Removal of vehicles from streets and public parking lots. Any regularly employed and salaried officer of the police department or regularly employed and salaried employee of this city engaged in enforcing parking laws and regulations may remove a vehicle from a highway or public parking lot under any of the following circumstances: A. When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic; B. When any vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway or public parking lot in such a position as to obstruct the normal movement of traffic or in such a condition as to create a hazard to other traffic; C. When any vehicle is found upon a highway or public parking lot and report has previously been made that the vehicle has been stolen or complaint has been filed and a warrant thereon issued charging that the vehicle has been embezzled; D. When any vehicle is illegally parked so as to block the entrance to a private driveway and it is impractical to move such vehicle from in front of the driveway to another point on the highway; E. When any vehicle is illegally parked so as to prevent access by fire-fighting equipment to a fire hydrant, and it is impracticable to move such vehicle from in front of the fire hydrant to another point on the highway; F. When any vehicle, except any highway maintenance or construction equipment, is left unattended for more than four hours upon the right-of-way of any freeway which has full control of access and no crossings at grade; G. When the person or persons in charge of a vehicle upon a highway or public parking lot are by reason of physical injuries or illness incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal; H. When an officer arrests any person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged offense and the officer is by this code or other law required or permitted to take, and does take, the person arrested before a magistrate without unnecessary delay; I. When any vehicle registered in a foreign jurisdiction is found upon a highway or public parking lot and if it is known to have been issued five or more notices of parking violations over a period of five or more days, to which the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded, the vehicle may be impounded until such person furnishes to the impounding law enforcement agency evidence of his identity and an address within this state at which he can be located and satisfactory evidence that bail has been deposited for all notices of parking violation issued for the vehicle. A notice of parking violation issued to such a vehicle shall be accompanied by a warning that repeated violations may result in the impounding of the vehicle. In lieu of requiring satisfactory evidence that such bail has been deposited, the impounding law enforcement agency may, in its discretion, issue a notice to appear for the offenses charged, as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 40500) of Chapter 2 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code of the state of California. In lieu of either furnishing necessary evidence that such bail has been deposited or accepting the notice to appear, such person may demand to be taken without unnecessary delay before a magistrate within the county in which the offenses charged are alleged to have been committed and who has jurisdiction of the offenses and is nearest or most accessible with reference to the place where the vehicle is impounded; J. When any vehicle is found illegally parked and there are no license plates or other evidence of registration displayed, the vehicle may be impounded until the owner or person in control of the vehicle furnishes the impounding law enforcement agency evidence of his identity and an address within this state at which he can be located; K. When any vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway or public parking lot for seventy-two (72) or more consecutive hours; L. When any vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway or public parking lot in violation of any portion of this code forbidding standing or parking and the use of a highway or public parking lot or a portion thereof is necessary for cleaning, repair or construction of the highway or public parking lot, or for the installation of underground utilities, and signs giving notice that such a vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to such removal; M. Wherever the use of the highway or public parking lot or any portion thereof is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size, and the parking of any vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement, and signs giving notice that such a vehicle may be removed are erected or placed at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to such removal; N. Whenever any vehicle is parked or left standing where such parking is prohibited and removal of such vehicle has been authorized. No vehicle may be removed unless signs are posted giving notice of the removal. (Prior code § 19-20) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 160 Public rights-of-way for exclusive use of pedestrians--Exceptions and restrictions. A. Designation by Resolution--Signing. Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any public right-of-way or portion thereof as a public right-of-way, the use of which is permitted only to pedestrian traffic and such use is prohibited to any vehicle or bicycle, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such resolution. B. Exceptions and Restrictions on Use by Vehicles and Wheeled Devices. No vehicle, bicycle or any other form of locomotion on wheels shall be permitted except as provided hereinbelow:
C. No person shall stand, sit, lie or congregate on any walk street in such a manner as to interfere or impede the free flow of travel along the walk street. (Ord. 00-1209, § 7, 12-12-00) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
10.12. 170 Operation of bicycles, skateboards and other wheeled devices in certain areas. A. Prohibited on Sidewalks in Commercial Zone - Exceptions. It is unlawful for any person to ride or operate any wheeled vehicle or device, propelled by human or motorized power, including bicycles, skateboards, roller skates and electric personal assistive mobility devices ("EPAMD")(as defined in Vehicle Code Section 313), on or over any sidewalk or part of a sidewalk within a commercial zone in the city, except:
B. Prohibited in City-Owned Parking Lots-- Exceptions. It is unlawful for any person to ride or operate any wheeled vehicle or device, propelled by human or motorized power, on or over any city-owned public parking lots, except:
C. Prohibited in Privately Owned Parking Lots--Requirements--Exceptions. It is unlawful for any person to ride or operate any vehicle or device, propelled by human or motorized power, on or over any privately-owned parking lots when properly posted, except:
As used in this subsection, "properly posted" means those privately-owned parking lots which have signs not less than eighteen (18) inches by twenty-four (24) inches in size and lettering not less than one-inch in height installed at each entrance to the lot and at least two additional signs at highly visible locations within the parking lot with the following wording: SKATEBOARDING AND ROLLERSKATING PROHIBITED ON THESE PREMISES, VIOLATORS WILL BE CITED HBMC 10.12.170(c) D. Prohibited Use on Roadway. It is unlawful for any person to ride or operate any wheeled vehicle or device, propelled by human or motorized power, including bicycles, skateboards and rollerskates on any roadway within the city in a manner that violates any of the following regulations:
E. Violation--Penalty. Any person violating any provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of an infraction. Each violation is punishable as follows:
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10.12. 180 Motorcycle operation restricted. The operation of motorcycles on public streets and public property, other than to gain access or egress to or from an approved public motorcycle parking location, shall be prohibited in the following areas: A. Within the area bounded by the north curbline of Eleventh Street, the west curbline of Hermosa Avenue, the south curbline of Thirteenth Street, and the Strand; B. Second Street and Twenty-second Street from Hermosa Avenue to the Strand; C. Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets from Beach Drive to the Strand. (Prior code § 19-26.1) Back to HomePage | Back to Code Index | Back to Traffic Index | Top of Page
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