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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GILROY REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC
STREETS AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NOS. 229, 238 252, 268, 283, 291,
292, 322, 328t 330, 343, 345, 355, 357, 359, 363, 424, 426, 435, 455
and 459 AND ALL OTHER CRDINANCES AND m RTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
THEREWITH 0
The Jlayor and Common Council of the City of Gilroy do ordain
as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1. Definitions of Words and Phrases. (a) The
fOllowing words and phrases when used in this ordinance shall for
the purpose of this ordinance have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them in this article.
(b) Whenever any words or phrases used in this ordinance
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 as though set
forth herein in full.
Section 2. Central Traffic District. All streets and por-
tions of streets within the area described as follows: All that area
bounded by the East line of Konterey Street on the East and by the
West line of Monterey Street on the West and on the North by the
Easterly extension of the Southerly boundry line of Second street
and on the South by the South line of Seventh Street.
Section 3. Holidays. I. holiday is any day designated as
such in Section 10 of the Political Code of the State of California;
provided, however, that Saturday afternoon shall not be considered
a holiday for the purpose of this ordinance.
Section 4. Loadin~ Zone. The space adjacent to a curb
reserved for the exclusive use or vehicles during the loading or
unloading of passengers or materials.
Section 5. otticial Time Standardo Whenever certain h0urs
are named her.in, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving
time as may be in current use in this city.
Section 6. Official traffi~ Controt DeVice~o III signs,
signals, markings and devices not incoftsis ent wit this ordinance
placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having
jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
Section 70 Ofricia~ Traffie!ign,fls. Any'devide,whethet>. ..
manually, electrically or mechanica! y operated, by which traffic is
alternately directed to stop and proceed and which is erected by
authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction~
Section 8. ~. To stand or leave standing any vehicle,
whether occupied or not, otherwise engaged in loa~ng or unloading
passengers or materials.
Section 9. Parkwayo That portion of a street other than
a roadway or a sidewalk.
Section 10. Passenger Loadin~ Zone. The space adjacent to a
curb reserved for the exelusive use of vehicles during the loading
or unloading of passengers.
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Section 12. ~erson. Every natural person, firm, co-
partnership, association or corporation~
, Section 13. Police Qff1cer. EverT officer of the police
department of this city.
Section 14. (a)~. When required means complete cessation
of movement.
(b) ,tOD or Stand. When prohibited menas any stopping or
standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with t12
directi0ns of a police officer of official traffic control device.
Section 15. Traffic. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals,
vehicles, street cars and other conveyances either singly or together
while using any street for purposes of travel.
ARTICLE II
ENFORCEKENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Section 16. Authority 9f Police and Fire DeDartment 9ffJcials.
(a) It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department
or such officers as are assigned by tt~ chief of police to enforce
allstr et traffic laws of this city and all of the state vehicle
laws applicable to street traffic in this city.
(b) Officers of tm police department or such officers
as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to
direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with
traffic laws, provided that in the event of a fire orother emergency
or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedes'trians, officers of the
police department may direct traffic as conditions may require,
notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
(c) Officers of the fire department, when at the scene
of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic
thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
Section 17. Reauired Obedience To +raff1c Ordinance. It is
a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to
pertorm any act required in this ordinance.
Section 18. Oqedience to Police and Fire DeDa~tment,.
Qfficia1s. No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with
any lawful order of a police officer of fire department official
when directing traffic. <<
Section 19. Persons otmr tmn Qff~cials Shall not Direct,
T~affic. No person other than an officer of the police department
or a person deputized by the chief of police or person authorized
by law shall direct or attempt to direct ~raffic by voice, hand or
other Signal (except that persons may operate when and as herein
provided any mechanical pushbutton signal erected by order of tm
chief administrative officer.
Section 20. Public Employees to Obey Traffic Re~lations.
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the driver of any
vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Gov-
ernment, this state, any county or city and it shall be unlawfUl tor
any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance
except as otherwi$e permitted in this ordinance or by state statute.
Section 21. i~emDtions to Certain Vehicles.(a) The pro-
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visions of this ordinance regulating the operation, parking and
standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of tbe police
or fire department, any public ambulance or any public utijlity vehicle
or any ,private ambulance, when such public utility vehicle or private
ambulance has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when
any vehicle mentioned in this section is operated in the manner
specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
(b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, however, protect
the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his wilful
disregard of the safety of others.
(c) 1he provisions of this ordinance regulating the parking
or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city
department or public utility while necessarily in use for construction
or repair work or any vehicle owned by the United States while in use
for the collection, transportation or delivery of United States Kail.
Section 22. Report of Damage to Certain Property. (a) The
driver of a vehicle or the person. in charge of any animal involved
in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned
or owned by a public utility, including but not lia1ted to any fire
hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pOle, electric light
or power pole, or resulting in damage to any ornamental shade tree,
traffic control device or other property of a like nature located
in or along any street, shall within twenty-four (24) hours after
such accident make a written report of such accident to the police
department of this city.
(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 driving or in charge of such vehicle
or animal, the license number of every such vehicle, and shall
'briefly describe tm property damaged in such accident.
(c) A driver involved in an accident shall not be subject
to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during the time
such driver is physically incapable of making a report, but in such
event said driver shall make a report as required in subdivision (a)
within 24 hours after regaining ability to make such report.
ARTICLE III
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
Section 23. When Traffic Co~trol Devices Recuired for
Enforcement Purposes. No provision of the Vehicle Code or of this
ordinance for which signs are required shall be enforced against
an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and
SUfficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person,
giving notice ~f such provisions of the traffic laws.
Section 24. Obedience to Traffic Control Devices. The
driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic control device applicable thereof placed in accordance with
the traffic ordinances of this city unless otherwise directed by a
police officer subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an
authorized emergency vehicle when responding to emergency calls.
Section 25. Traffic Control Devices--Hours of Operation.
The official traffic signals shall be in operation or be in effect
except in those cases where different hours or days are specified
in this ordinance, from the hnur of o'clock a.m. to 10:30 o'clock
po.. and at other hours said devices shall be operated as blinkers.
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Section 26. Authority to Inst~ll Traffic Control Dev~ges.
(a) The Chief Administrative Officer shall have the exclusive power
and duty to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained
official traffic control devices when and as required under the
traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of
said ordinances.
(b) Whenever the Vehicle Code of this state requires for
the effectiveness of any provision thereof that traffic control
devices be installed to give notice to tm public of the application
of such law the Chief Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to
install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions
set forth in the law applicable thereto.
(c) The Chief Administrative Officer may also place and
maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may deem
necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he
shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic eng-
ineering principles and traffic investigations and in accordance with
such standards, limitations and rules as may be set forth in the
traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance
or resolution of the legislative body of this city.
ARTICLE IV
TURNING MOVEMENTS
Section 27.
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made by the driver of any vehicle upon the intersection at Third
and Monterey Streets or upon the intersection at Seventh and Monterey
Streets or at any place on Monterey Street between said intersectionso
The Chief Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to determine
additional intersections and areas in which drivers of vehicles shall
not make a "Uff turn; proper signs shall be placed at such intersections
where the making of a "Un turn is prohibited.
Section 28. Obedience to ~o-tur~ signs. Whenever authorized
signs are erected indicating that no rig t or left or "UN turn is
permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of
any such signo
ARTICLE V
ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
Section 29. the Chief Administrative Officer to St~n Qn.-Way
Streets a~d Alle~s. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this
city designates anyone-way street or alley, the Chief Administrative
Officer 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.
AR'fICLE VI
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
Section 30. ~he Chief Administr,tive O~tic.r ~o Erect Ston
Signs. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of t is city deSignates
and describes any street or portion thereof as a through street, or
any intersection at wHCh vehicles are required to stop at Qne or
more entrances thereto, or any railroad grade crossing at which
vehicles are required to stop, the Chief Administrative Officer shall
erect and maintain stop signs as follows:
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A stop sign shall be erected on each and every street at its
intersection with such through street or portion thereof so desig-
nated and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is
required. Every such sign shall conform with- and shall be placed
as provided in Section 471 of the Vehicle Code.
Section 31. Stop at Throu~h Street or Stop Si~no (a) Those
streets and parts of streets described in Section 70 hereof are
hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this sectiono
(b) The provisions of this section shall also apply at one or
more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections
are described in Section 71 hereof.
(c) When stop signs are erected as herein provided at tlB
entrance to any intersection or at any railway grade crossing, ever7
driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by the Vehicle Code.
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Section 32. Emer2in2 from A~leY or Private Driveway. The
driver of a vehicle emerging fro. an alley, driveway or building,
shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk
or into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway.
ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
Section 33. Driving Throu2h Funeral Processions. No driver of
a vehicle shall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession
while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such processions
are conspicuously so designated.
Section 34. Clin~in2 to Movin2 Vehicles. Any person riding
upon any vicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy
vehicle shall not attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle
upon any roadway.
Section 35. V,hicles Shall Not be Driven o~ the Sidewalk.
The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area or
any ~rkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
Section 360 lew Pavement. No person shall ride or drive any
animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement of freshly
painted marking in any street when a barrier or sign is in place
w'~ning 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
thereot is closed.
ARTICLE VIII
PEDESTRIANS
Section 37. The Chi,! Administrative Officer to Est~pli,h
Crosswalks. (a) Crosswalks shall be established and maintained in the
following locations:
1. Across Second Street at it s Westerly approach to Monterey
Street.
2. Across Monterey Street from Odd Fellows Avenue.
3. Across Monterey Street immediately Worth of each of the
following intersections: Third and Monterey, Fourth and
Monterey, and Fifth and Monterey.
4. Across Monterey Street immediately South of its intersection
thereof with Lewis Street.
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5. Across Monterey Street immediately South of tm inter-
section thereof with Martin Street.
,6. across Monterey Street immediately North or its
intersection with First Street.
7. Across Monterey Street imBediately South of its inter-
section with Casey Lane.
8. Across all approaches at the intersection of Sixth and
Monterey Streeto
9. Across Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Streets immediately
West of the intersection of each or the said streets with
Monterey Street.
10. Across Seventh Street, Old Gilroy Street, Martin Street
Lewis Street and Odd Fellows Avenue immediately East of the
intersection of each or said streets with Monterey Street.
11. Across Second Street on the Eastern approach to Hanna
Street.
12. Across Hanna Street on the Southern approach to Second Stree'
13. Across all approaches at the intersection of Hanna and
Firth Streets.
14. Across all approaches at the intersection or Hanna and
Third Streets.
15. Across Fourth Street on the Eastern and Western approaches
to Hanna Street.
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Across all appraoches at the intersection of Fourth and
Bigelberry Streets.
Across all approaches at the intersection of Firth and
Eigelberry Streets.
Across all approaches at tm intersection or Sixth and
Eige1berry Streets.
Across all appraoches at the intersection of Sixth and
Railroad Street~
Across the Northern approach on Maple Street at the inter-
section with Old Gilroy Street.
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21. Across the Northern approach on Chestnut Street at the
intersection with Old Gilroy Street.
22. Across the No thern approach on Forest Street at the
intersection with Old Gilroy Street.
(b) Crosswalks shall be established and maintained at Other
intersections and places as determined by the Chief Administrative
Officer.
(c) Stop Bars shall be painted in accordance with the speciric-
ations outlined in the "Manuel for Standard Traffic Striping and
Highway Signs in Cities" published by the California Division of
Highways, at all locations where stop signs are installed and where
no crosswalks are painted.
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(d) School crossing markings shall be established and
maintained in tront of the "Jordan" School on Hanna Street, and
on Third Street opposite the "S$verance- Public school.
, Section 380 When Pedestrians Must Use Crosswalk~. Io
ped.s~an shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in the
central traffic district or in any business districtt
Section 39. CrO~lin2 At R~les. No pedestrian shall
cross a roadway at any place otlBr ~7 a route at right angles
to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in
a marked crosswalk.
Section 40. Standing in Roadways. No person shall stand in
any roadway or in a crosswalk if such action interferes with the
lawful movement of traffic. This section shall not apply to any public
otficer or employee, or employee of a public utility when necessarily
upon a street in line of duty.
ARTICLE IX
STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
Section 41. Application of Re~lations. (a) The provisions
or this ordinance prohibiting the stopping, standing or palking or 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 com pliance with the directions ot a police
otficer or other official trafficoontrol device.
(b) The provisions of this ordinance imposing a time limit
on standing or parking shall not relieve any person fro. the duty
to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the state
Vehicle Code or the ordinances of this city, prohibiting or limiting
the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at
specified timeso
Section ~2. Standing in Parkways Prohibited. No person shall
stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway.
Section 43. Use ot ~t~eets for Stora~e of Ve~fc*es Proh~bitedo
(a) 10 person who owns or has possession, custody or control of a~
vehicles shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more
than a consecutive period otl~O hours.
(b) In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon
a street in excess of a consecutive period ofl~O hours, any member
of tffi police department authorized by the chiet of police may
remove said vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the
requirements of Sections 58, and 58501 of the Vehicle Code.
Section 44. Parking for Certain Purposes Prohibited. No person
shall park any vehicle upon any roadway within the Central Traffic
District or Business District for the principal purpose of:
1. Displaying such vehicle for sale.
2. WaShing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs
necessitated by an emergency.
Section 4,. Parking on Roadways. 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 oneway roadway unless signs
are in place permitting such standing or parking.
Section 46. An~le Parking Prohibited. There shall be no
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angle parking of any vehicle upon any of the streets of the City of
Gilroy until and unless an ordinance of this City permits the same.
Section 47. Parking Prohibited on Narrow Streets. (a) The
Chief Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to place signs
or markings indicating no parking upon any street of' alley when the
width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of a
street as :i.ndicated by such signs or markings when the width of the
roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
(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.
Section 48. sto or Parkin Prohibted -- Si ns Requ~red.
The Chief Administratlve cer shal appropriate y s gn or mark~e
following places and When so signed or marked no person shall stop,
stand or park a vehicle in any of said places:
1. At any place within five feet of an intersection in the
central traffic district or in any business district except on the
approach to a traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official
electric flashing device 'at the !tn.~ersectio1;1; provided, however,/ that
a bus may'stopata designated bus stop.
2. At any place where the Chief Adrninistrati ve Officer deter-
mines that it is necessary in order to eliminate unusual traffic
hazard.
Secticn 49. Unlawful Parking -- feddlers, Vendors.
(a) Except as otherwise privided in this section no person
shall stand or park any vehicle, wagon or push-cart from which goods,
wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs are sold, displayed,
solicited or offered for sale or bartered or exchanges, or any lunch
wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any portion of any street within
this city, except that such vehicles, wagons or push-carts may stand
or park only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of
time not to exceed ten (10) minutes at anyone place. The provisions
of this subsection shall not apply to persons delivering such articles
upon order of, or by agreement with a customer from a store or other
fixed place of business or distribution.
(b) No person shall park or stand on any street, any lunch
wagon, eating cart or vehicle, or push-cart from which tamales,
peanuts, popcorn, candy or other articles of food are sold or offered
for sale without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the
legislative body which shall designate the specific location in which
such cart shall stand.
(c) No person shall park or stand any vehicle, or wagon used
or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire on
any street while awaiting patronage for such vehicle or wagon without
first obtaining a written permit to do so fro," the legislative body
which shall designate the specific location where such vehicle may
stand 0
(d) vVhenever any permit is granted under the provisions of this
section and a particular location to park or stand is specified
therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, or push-
cart on any location other than as designated in such permit. In the
event that the holder of any such permit is convicted in any court of
competent jurisdiction for violating any of the provisions of this
section, swch permit shall be forthwith revoked by the legislative
body, and no permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until
six (6) months have elapsed from the date of such revocation.
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Section 50. Emergency Parking Signs. (a) Whenever the
Chief Administrative Officer shall determine that an emergency traffic
congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private
assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, the
Chief Administrative Officer shall have power and authority to order
temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation,
parking or standing ot vehicles is prohibited on such streets and
alleys as the Chief Administrative Officer shall direct during the
time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in
place only during the existence of such emergency and the Chief
Administrative Officer shall cause such signs to be removed promptly
thereafter.
(b) When signs authorized by the provisions of this section
are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate,
park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions
of such signs.
Section 51. Display of Warning Devices When Commercial
!ehiCle Disabled. Every motor truck having an unladen weight of
,000 pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight
when operated upon any street or highway during the time specified
in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code shall beequipped with and carry
at least two flares or two red lanterns, or two warning lights or
reflectors, which reflectors shall be of a type approved by the
Department of California Highway Patrol. When any vehicle above
mentioned or any trailer or semi-trailer is disabled upon streets or
highways outside of any business or residence district within this
City and upon which street or highway there is insufficient street
lighting to reveal a vehicle at a distance of 200 feet during any time
mentioned in Section 618 of the Vehicle Code, a warning signal of
the character indicated above shall be immediately placed at a
distance of approximately 100 feet in advance Of, and 100 feet to the
rear or such disables vehicle, by the driver thereof. The warning
signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during the
times mentioned in Section 618 while such vehicle remains disabled
upon such street or highway.
ARTICLE X
STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
Section 52. Authority to istablish Loading Zones. (a) The
Chief Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to determine and
mark loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows:
1. At any place in the central traffic district or any
business district except no loading zones shall be determined or
marked in front of any place of business which m s loading and/or
unloading facilities through or by means of a rear entrance.
2. Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business
or in front of any ball or place used for the purpose of public
assembly.
(b) In no event shall more than one-half of the total curb
length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.
(c) Loading zones shall be indicated by a yellOW paint line
upon the top and side of the curb within such zones.
(d) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by a white line
upon the top and side of all curbs within such ZOrBS.
Section 53.
Parking Regulations.
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authorized, subject*to the provisions and limitations of this
ordinance to place,'and when required herein smll place, the following
curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and said
curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set forth.
1. Red shall mean 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 shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any
time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p... of any day except Sundays and
holidays for any pur po se other than the load ing or unload1 ng of
passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the
loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes.
3. White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for
any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers which
shall not exceed three (3) minutes and such restrictions shall apply
between 7:00 a.a. and 6:00 p... of any day except ~undays and
holidays and except as follows t
When such zone is in front of a hotel the restrictions shall
apply at all times.
When such zone is in front of a theater the restrictions
shall apply at all times except when such theater is closedo
4. .reen shall mean no standing or parking for longer than
ten (10) minutes at any time between 7100 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any
day except Sundays and holidays.
(b) When the Chief Administrative Officer as directed under
this ordinance 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.
Section 54. Effect of Permiss10n to Load or Unloado Per.
mission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of
loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to com.ercial
vehicles and shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefor,
and in no event for more than twenty (20) minutes.
(b) The loading or unloading of materials shall apply only
to commercial deliveries, also the delivery or pickup of express and
parcel post paCkages and United States mailo
(c) Within the total time limits above specified the provisions
of this section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and
reasonable loading or unloading but without permitting abuse of the
privileges hereby granted.
Section 55. Standin<< for Loadin~ or Unloadin~ OnlY. No person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any yellOW loading zone for
any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or material for
such time as is permitted in Section 54.
Section 56. 'tandln~ in Any AlleY'. Ko person shall stop,
stand or park a vehic e for any purpose otb9 r than tlB loading or
unloading of persons or materials in any alley, but any such stopping,
rOading or parking shall be so done as not to block the alley or
pt"event the passage of otl'B r vehIcles. .
Section 57. Bus Zones to be Estab~ish~d~ (a) ~he Chief
Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to establish bus zones
opposite curb space for the loading and unloading of buses of common
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carriers of passengers and to determine the location thereof subject
to the directives and limitations set forth herein.
(b) Thw word "bus" as used in this sectirn shall mean any
motor bus, motor coach, trackless trolley coach, orpassenger stage
used as a common carrier of passengers.
(c) No bus zone shall exceed 80 feet in length, except
when satisfactory evidence has been presented to the Chief Adminis.
trative Officer showing the necessity therefor, the Chief Administrative
Officer may extend bus zones not to exceed a total length of 125 feet.
(d) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far side
of an intersecUon.
(e) The Chief Administrative Officer shall paint a red line
stencil 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 zoneo
(r) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except
a bus in a bus .pne.
ARTICLE XI
STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING RESTRICTED
OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS.
Section 58. Parking Time Limited in Central Traffic District
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof no person
shall stop, stand or park any vehicle ~thin the central traffic distric1
between the hours of 7:00 a._ and 6:00 ~.m. of any day except Sundays
and holidays for a period of time longer than one (1) houro
Section 59. Palkin~ Time Limited on Certa~ Inumerated Stree~S4
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof no person
shall stop, stand or park any vehicle on any of the streets enumberated
in section 72 hereor for a period bf time longer than two (2) hours
at any time between the hours or 7:00 a.a. and 6:00 p.ao of any day
except Sundays and hOlidays.
Section 60. Additional rarkin~ Time Restrictionso When
authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof no person shall
stop, stand or park any vehicle on Sixth Street between Eigelberry
Street and the entrance to the alleys extending throulh Block 1
North Range 1 West Block 1 ~outh Range 1 West of the City of Gilroy
between the hours or 7:00 a.a and 6:00 p.m. of any day except S~nday
and holidays for a period of time longer than ten (10) minutes.
Section 61. All Night paEk~n~ Proh~bited on Certain Str~.t,
~rin2 Certain Hour~o Bo person s all stop, stand or park any vehicle
on any paved street, that is on the paved portion of said street
if paved to the curb, for a period or time longer than thirty (30 )
minutes between the hrurs of 2:00 a.m. and 4:30 a... of any day_
ARTICLE XII
RESTRICTED USE OF CERTAIN STREETS
Section 62. Cet.in Vehicles Proh~~ited in Central Traff1~
~strict6 (a) No person shall operate any freight vehicle more than
8t reet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that
any part of its load extends more than twenty (20) feet to the fron
or rear of said vehicle in the Central Traffic District between the
hours of 7:00 a... and 6:00 pom. of any day.
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Section 63. Advertisin~ Vehicles. No person shall operate or
drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising
v vehicle ,equipped with a sounaamplifying or loud-speaker device
upon any street or alley at any time within the central traffic districto
Section 64. Truck Routes. (a) Whenever any ordinance of this
city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a
street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a
maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the Chief Administrative
Officer is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by
appropriate signs as "Truck Traffic Routes" for the movement of
vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(b) When any such truck traffic route or routes are established
and designated by appropriate signs the operator of any vehicle exceed~
ing a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such
route or routes and none other except when necessary to traverse
another street or streets to a destination for the purpose of loading
or unloading, but then only by such deviation from the nearest truck
route as is reasonab~y necessar7. The provisions of this section shall
not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public
Utilities Commission.
Section 65. Horse-Drawn Vehicles. No person shall drive any
animal-drawn vehicle into or within the central traffic district
between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day.
Section 66. Commercial Vehicles ProhlQited From Usin~ Cer~ain
Streets. (a) Whenever any ordinance of this city designates and
describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which 1s
prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the Chief Administrative Officer
shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected
by such ordinance. ~
~ ARTICLE XIII
TRAINS
Section 67. Boarding or 41i~htin~ from Vehicle. No person
shall board or alight from any vehicle which such vehicle is in motion.
Section 68. Trains Not to Block Streets. 50 person shall
operate any train or trains of cars, or permit the same to remain
standing, so as to block the movement of traffic upon any street for
a period of time longer than five (5) minutes.
ARTICLE XIV
SCHEDULES OF DESIGNATED STREETS REFERRED TO
IN ORDINANCB.
Section 69. One-Way Streef@. In accordance with section 29
and when properly signposted, traf io shall move only in the direction
indicated upon the following streets or roadways:
1. On the alleys running in a generally North and South
direction through Blocks 1 and 2 North and Block 1 South, all in
Range 1 West of the City of Gilroy, as shown upon the official map of
said City, only South bound traffic shall be permitted.
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2. Only North bOund traffic shall be permitted on the alleys
along the West side of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company's right
of way from Old Gilroy Street to Lew is street.
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Section 70. Through ~treets. The following named streets are
hereby designated as "Through streets:
'1. Monterey Street (State Highway US 101) from North City
Limits to South City Liaits.
2. First Street (State Highway 152) from West City Limits
to Monterey Street.
3. Old Gilroy Street (State Highway 152) from East City Limits
to Monterey Street.
4. Leavesley Road from East City Limits to Monterey Street.
50 Sixth Street from East City Limits to Monterey Street.
6. Forest Street from Leavesley Road to Old Gilroy Street
except for the crossing at Sixth Street.
7. Fifth Street from West City Limits to Monterey Street.
8~ Hanna Street from First Street to Fifth Street except
for the crossing at Third Street.
(b) In accordance with tlB provisions of section, 31 (a)
when signs are erected giving notice thereof drivers of vehicles on
streets intersecting through streets as described in subsection (a)
shall stop at the entrance or entrances of said intersecting street
and/or streets to said through streets except the intersection of
Third Street with Hanna Street and the intersection of Sixth Street
with Forest Street.
Sect~Qn 71. Stop Intersection;. In accordance with the provisiol
of section3l(~3nd when signs are erected giving notice thereof drivers
of vehicles shall stop at t he entrance or entrances of those inter-
sections described as follows:
10 On Second Street at its East entrance to Hanna Street
to stop West bound traffic on Second Street.
2. At the West and East entrances of Fourth Street to
Hanna Street stopping East and West bound traffic on Fourth Street
at Hanna Street. '
, 3. On Hanna Street at the North and South entrances to Third
Street stopping North bound traffic on the South line of Third Street
and South bound traffic on the North line of Third Street.
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4. On both North and South sid. of Fifth Street at Hanna
Street stopping North and South bound traffic on Hanna Street at the
intersection with Fifth Street.
5. On Fifth Street at it s intersection with Monterey Street
stopping East bound traffic.
6. On First Street at its intersection with Monterey Street
stopping East bound traffic.
70 On Forest Street at both its North and South entrances to
Sixth Street stopping North bound traffic at Sixth Street and S~
bound traffic at Sixth Street.
8. On Forest Street at its intersection with Old Gilroy
Street stopping South bound traffic on Forest Street.
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the hours of 7:00 a.a and 6:00 p.mo of any day except Sunday and
v' holidays upon any of the following nenumerated streets:
1. Upon any street within a business district outside of
the Central Traffic District.
2. Odd Fellows Avenue between the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company's right of way and Forest street.
ARTICLE XV
PENALTIES AND EFFECT OF ORDINAKCI
Section 73. Pena ties. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance s all be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the
city jailor in the~ty jail for not exceeding thirty (30) days,
or by a fine of not to exceed one hundred (I 100.00) DOllars, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 74. ~ffect of Ordinance. If any section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held
to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The legislative body
hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and
each section, sUbsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
Section 750 ~. Ordinance Numbers 229t 238 252, 268,
283, 291, 292, 322, 328,330, 343, 345, 355, 357, 359, ~63, ~24, ~26,
435, 455 and ~59 are and each of them 1s hereby repealed and all other
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with or inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed except tmt this
repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any
person for any act done or committed in violation or any ordinance
hereby repealed prior to the taking of effect of this ordinance.
Section 76. Effective Date.This ordinance shall take effect
and be in full forc~ from and after its passage and approvalo
ADOPTED AND PASSED this 5thday of June 9 1950, by the
following vot.so
A YES :
Councilaen: George.. U.MtasQn~J. H.p.We.ntworth,
Carl w.Pa e,JalueS n.~homasi
David V.Stout,Dale D.Danie s
Councilmen: None
NOES:
ABSENT :
Councilmen: None
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