SEC. 11-030. ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS:
Municipal off-street parking lots are hereby established in the City of Stockton, and all of the provisions of this Part shall be applicable thereto. Such off-street parking lots are those areas so designated by resolution of the Council of the City of Stockton.
As used in this Part, the term "municipal off-street parking lots" shall include municipal off-street parking garages.
SEC. 11-031. METHOD OF REGULATION:
The method of regulation and control of parking or standing of vehicles in municipal off-street parking lots shall be determined by the City Manager and may be by parking meters, attendants or any other appropriate means.
On these municipal off-street parking lots which are to be controlled by parking meters, the City Manager shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained, and the provisions of Part I of Chapter 11 shall apply thereto.
(Amended by Ordinance 2969C.S. — Effective Sept. 29, 1977)
SEC. 11-032 through 11-036.
(Repealed by Ordinance 2969C.S. — Effective Sept. 29, 1977)
SEC. 11-037. FAILURE, NEGLECT, OR REFUSAL TO PAY PARKING CHARGES OR TO DISPLAY PARKING TICKET OR PERMIT:
When parking on a municipal off-street parking lot is regulated and controlled by parking attendants or parking ticket dispensers, or is subject to a permit issued by the City at periodic intervals, no operator of any vehicle parked on such municipal off-street parking lot shall fail, neglect, or refuse to pay the parking charges established for such municipal off-street parking lot or to fail, neglect or refuse to purchase the required ticket from the parking ticket dispenser or to display such parking ticket or permit in the manner specified on said ticket or permit or as required by law.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993) (Amended by Ordinance 1632C.S. — Effective Feb. 29, 1968)
SEC. 11-038. OVERTIME PARKING:
The limit of parking time and the days and hours during which parking time limits shall apply on municipal off-street parking lots shall be established by the City Manager.
When appropriate signs or markings designating such parking time limits are in place giving notice thereof, no operator shall stop, stand, or park said vehicle on any municipal off-street parking lot for longer than the permitted time.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993) (Amended by Ordinance 2332C.S. — Effective Jan. 18, 1973)
SEC. 11-039. PARALLEL OR DIAGONAL PARKING:
When a parking space in any municipal off-street parking lot is parallel with the adjacent meters, any vehicle parked or standing in such parking space shall be parked or shall stand so that the foremost part of said vehicle shall be nearest to the parking meter designated for the parking space. When a parking space in any municipal off-street parking lot is diagonal or at right angles to the parking meters, any vehicle parking or standing in such parking space shall be parked or shall stand with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter designated for the parking space.
SEC. 11-040. PARKING WITHIN PARKING SPACES:
Parking spaces on municipal off-street parking lots shall be designated by lines or other appropriate markings. When parking spaces are so designated, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, or park said vehicle other than in a regularly designated parking space, across any such line or marking, or in such position that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so designated as a parking space except upon the direction of a parking lot attendant. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped nor shall stand either wholly or partially in any driveway of any municipal off-street parking lot or in any manner which shall obstruct or interfere with the free movement of vehicles in such driveway or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or interfere with ingress to or egress from any regularly designated parking space except upon the direction of a parking lot attendant.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-041. USES OF ENTRANCE AND EXIT:
No person shall enter any municipal off-street parking lot over any area or driveway or the portion between any curb returns which is not marked with the word "entrance" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs, or words that it is a driveway or place for the entering of such parking lot.
No person shall move any vehicle from any such parking lot into any public way over any area except an area marked with the word "exit" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs, or words that it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking lot. (Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-042. WEIGHT OF VEHICLES:
No person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle having a capacity in excess of three-fourths (3/4) tons in any municipal off-street parking lot.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-043. LENGTH OF VEHICLES:
No person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle having an overall length in excess of twenty-one (21) feet except regular passenger vehicles in any municipal off-street parking lot.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-044. TRAILERS:
No person shall stop, stand, or park any house or truck trailer in any municipal off-street parking lot.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-045. SPEED OF VEHICLES:
No person shall move any vehicle on any municipal off-street parking lot at any speed exceeding ten (10) miles per hour.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-046. CITATIONS:
For any violation of any provision of this Chapter, the Police Department or authorized representative of the City of Stockton in accordance with Section 10-003.1 of this Code is hereby empowered to issue administrative citations as provided in Sections 1-043 and 1-044 of this Code, notices to appear, or citations in the usual form and manner as provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993)
SEC. 11-047. REMOVAL OF VEHICLES:
The Police Department of the City of Stockton is hereby empowered to remove, or cause to have removed to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the City of Stockton, any vehicle that is stopped, standing or parked on any municipal off-street parking lot in violation of Sections 11-040, 11-042, 11-043 and 11-044 of this Part, or which is left on such municipal off-street parking lot for a period exceeding thirty (30) hours. The provisions of Chapter 10, Part VI of this Code entitled "Removal and Impounding Vehicles" shall apply in the event of such removal.
(Amended by Ordinance 644C.S. — Effective July 13, 1961)
SEC. 11-048. PRIMA FACIE PRESUMPTION:
In any administrative adjudication, as such procedure is set forth under Section 1-045 of this Code, charging a violation of any of the provisions of this Part governing the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in any municipal off-street parking lot, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was stopped, standing, or parked in violation of any provision of this Part, together with proof that defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing, or parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing, or parked such motor vehicle at the point where and for the time during which such violation occurred.
(Amended by Urgency Ordinance 020-93C.S. — Effective June 28, 1993) (Added by Ordinance 211C.S. — Effective May 14, 1959)
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