Ordinance 702
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ORDINANCE NO. 702
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GILROY AMENDING
SECTIONS 15.67, 15.88, 15.90, 15.91 and 15.93
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF GILROY RELATING TO
THE LENGTH OF TIME CONT INUOUS PARKING UPON
STREETS OR ALLEYS IS PERMITTED~ PROVIDING FOR
AN EXCEPTION TO SAn> REGULATIONS ON CERTAIN
STREETS, PROVIDING FOR THE MARKINGS FOR LOADING
ZONES, SETTING FORTH THE MEANINGS OF CURB
MARKINGS, FORBIDDING THE VIOLATION OF SUCH
SECTIONS, REQUIRING PERMITS FOR PARKING IN AN
ALLEY FOR DELIVERY OR LOADING OR UNLOADING
BETWEEN CERTAIN HOURS
The Council of the City of Gilroy does ordain as follows:
SECTION. I:
Sec. 15.67 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 15.67 Parking for more than one hundred and twenty
hours prohibited~ exception.
No person who owns or has possession, custody or control
of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley
for more than a period of one hundred and twenty consecutive hours.
In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a
street in excess of one hundred and twenty consecutive hours,
any member of the police departmet authorized by the chief of
police may remove such vehicle from the street in the manner and
subject to the requirements of sections 22650-22652 and 2285d~
22854 of the State Vehicle Code.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
owner or lessee of a residence, living in or occupying a
dwelling situated on either side of Eigleberry Street between
Fourth Street and Sixth Street or on the east side of Railroad
Street between Old Gilroy Street and Lewis street, in cases
where there is no garage or other parking area or facilities
available for a motor vehicle upon the dwelling property.
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Where there are no parking facilities available, the owner or
operator of a motor vehicle shall nevertheless, be restricted
as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this section, unless
and until he obtains a permit from the city police department,
which shall be attached to the vehicle, authorizing the unre-
stricted parking of such vehicle on the portions of Eigleberry
and Railroad Streets described in this section. Application for
such a permit must be made in writing and shall only be granted
by the police department after an inspection of the premises
involved.
SECTION II:
Sec. 15.88 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 15.88 Same -- To be indicated by yellow paint
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Loading zones shall be indicated by yellow pa~nt lines upon
the top and side of the curb or upon the pavement if there is
no curb.
SECTION III:
Sec. 15.90 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 15.90 Curb markings -- Authority, meaningo
The City Administrator is hereby authorized, subject to the
provisions and limitations of this chapter to place, and when
required by this Chapter or other ordinance of the city shall
place, the following curb or pavement markings to indicate
parking or standing regulations and such markings shall have the
meanings as set forth:
Red. No stopping, standing or parking at any time except
as permitted by the state Vehicle Code and except that a bus may
stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
Yellow. No stopping, standing or parking at any time
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between 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays and
holidays for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of
passengers which shall consume less than three minutes or the
loading or unloading of materials which shall consume less than
twenty minutes. I
White. No stopping, standing or parking for any purpose
ether than loading or unloading of passengers which shall not
exceed three minutes and such restrictions shall apply between
7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays and holidays
and except as follows:
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 restric-
tions shall apply at all tine s except when such theater is
closed.
Green. No standing or parking for longer than ten minutes
at any time between 7:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except
Sundays and holidays.
SECTION IV:
Sec. 15.91 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 15.91 - Same - Not to be Violated.
When the City Administrator as directed under this chapter
has caused curb or pavement markings to be placed, no person shall
stop or stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb
marking or within such legible pavement markings in violation of
any of the provisions of the preceding section
SECTION V:
Sec. 15.93 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended~,to
read as fol.lows:
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Sec. 15.93 Limitations on use of yellow loading zones; exception.
Regardless of the restrictions and limitations regulating the use of
yellow loading and unloading zones set forth in the preceding sections,
where the owner or lessee of business property has no area on the property
for parking facilities the owner or lessee may park a service or delivery
vehicle within an alley loading zone between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and
6:00 P.M. for unlimited periods of time. The owner or lessee of the
business property shall nevertheless be required to obtain a permit from
the police department to park his service or delivery vehicle within
such loading zone. Such permit parking shall be granted only after in-
vestigation of the premises and the establishment of a need for such
vehicle. When such a parking permit has been granted the permit shall
be attached to the vehicle in such a manner as to be in plain view of a
traffic officer.
Yellow loading zones in alleys may also be used by vehicles of
clients or business customers for the loading of purchases, subject to
the time limit set forth in Section 15.90.
SECTION VI:
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
S EC T I ON V II :
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force within thirty
(30) days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of July, 1963, by the following vote:
NOES:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: Duffin,Eckard,Goodrich,Jordan,Quartiroli,
Wentworth, and Petersen.
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
A YES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
APPROVED~/ ~
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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SUSANNE E. PAYNE
,City Clerk of
the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached Ordinance
No. 702
is an original ordinance, duly adopted by the Council
of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on
the
Pith
day of
July
, 19~, at which meeting
a quorum was present.
I further certify that the said ordinance has been pub-
lished In accordance with the charter of the City of Gilroy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and af-
July
, 1963.
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fixed the official seal of the City of Gilroy, this
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tity Clerk of the City of G