ORDINANCE NO. 2003-6
AMENDING THE SAN MATEO MUNICIPAL CODE
CHAPTER 11.40 REGARDING PARKING ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES
AND
CHAPTER 11.44 REGARDING PARKING METERS RATE
The Council of the City of San Mateo, California, ordains as
follows:
Section 1. Chapter 11.40 of the San Mateo Municipal Code is
amended to read as follows:
Chapter 11.40
PROHIBITED OR LIMITED PARKING*
Sections:
11.40.010
11.40.020
11.40.030
11.40.035
11.40.040
11.40.050
11.40.055
11.40.060
11.40.070
11.40.080
11.40.090
11.40.100
11.40.110
11.40.120
Central traffic district--Prohibited when.
Central traffic district--Limited when.
Other business districts--Parking limited.
Parking--Prohibited on certain public property.
Limitation in certain locations.
All night parking prohibited.
Parking prohibited for street cleaning.
Grades--Curbing wheels required.
Street obstruction.
Peddlers--Vendors--Limitation.
Washing vehicle on street.
Emergency parking signs.
Consent required.
Illegal parking--Removal or towing of vehicle.
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For statutory provisions regarding removal of parked and abandoned vehicles see Cal. Veh. C. § 22650
et seq. For the statutory authority to regulate parking on the streets or portions thereof of the city
during all or certain hours of the day see Cal. Veh. C. §§ 22507 and 22507.5. For the provisions
authorizing the exercise of reasonable police power to adopt rules by ordinance regarding parking on
hills upon grades in excess of three percent in a business or residential district see Cal. Veh. C. § 22509.
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11.40.010 CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT -- PROHIBITED WHEN.
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon any street in the central
traffic district between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six p.m. of any
day except Sunday for any purpose other than the loading or unloading
of passengers or materials subject to the limitations of Section
11.48.020.
11.40.020 CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT -- LIMITED WHEN.
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand or park any vehicle within the central traffic district
between the hours of seven a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sunday
for a period of time longer than forty-five minutes.
11.40.030 OTHER BUSINESS DISTRICTS -- PARKING LIMITED.
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand or park any vehicles within a business district outside
of the central traffic district between the hours of eight a.m. and six
p.m. of any day except Sunday for a period of time longer than two
hours.
11.40.035 PARKING - PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN PUBLIC
PROPERTY. No person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle upon any
city property, including but not limited to lawn, turf, flowers, shrubs,
dirt, and the like, except in areas specifically designated or authorized
as parking areas and in conformance with the restrictions stated on
signs at the parking areas. The following areas are excepted from the
foregoing: (1) areas specifically striped for parking or (2) areas otherwise
specifically designated or authorized for parking by signing. For
purposes of this section, the term "city property" shall include, but not
be limited to, property owned (including easement interests) or leased
by the City of San Mateo, including parks, recreation facilities, City
Hall, Police and Fire Departments, and library facilities. Streets and
highways are not regulated by this provision. (Ord. 1996-17 § 1, 1996)
11.40.040 LIMITATION IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS. (a) The City
Manager may limit or prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of any
vehicle upon any City street or portion thereof owned or operated by the
City.
Such action may provide that the regulations shall not apply on
Sundays and holidays. For the purpose of this section, holidays are
defined as:
January 1, known as "New Year's Day"
The third Monday in January, known as "Dr. Martin Luther King
Day"
The third Monday in February, known as "Presidents Day"
The last Monday in May, known as "Memorial Day"
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July 4, known as "Independence Day"
The first Monday in September, known as "Labor Day"
November 11, known as "Veterans Day"
Thanksgiving Day
December 25, known as "Christmas Day"
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle except as provided by that action.
(b) The City Manager may limit or prohibit the stopping, standing, or
parking of any vehicle upon the City Hall motor vehicle parking lots, or
on any recreation building, area, or park motor vehicle lot, or on any
public library motor vehicle parking lot, or other parking lots owned or
operated by the City or a City parking improvement district, or the
municipal golf course motor vehicle parking lot.
Such action may provide that the regulations shall not apply on
Sundays and holidays. For the purpose of this section, holidays are
defined as:
January 1, known as "New Year's Day"
The third Monday in January, known as "Dr. Martin Luther King
Day"
The third Monday in February, known as "Presidents Day"
The last Monday in May, known as "Memorial Day"
July 4, known as "Independence Day"
The first Monday in September, known as "Labor Day"
November 11, known as "Veterans Day"
Thanksgiving Day
December 25, known as "Christmas Day"
When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle except as provided by that action.
11.40.050 ALL NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITED. No person shall
stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street for a period of time longer
than thirty minutes between the hours of two a.m. and four a.m. of any
day.
11.40.055 PARKING PROHIBITED FOR STREET CLEANING. No
person shall park any vehicle on that side of any street on the days, and
between the hours, designated by the City Manager for the purpose of
street cleaning, and as posted with signs giving notice of the days, and
the hours, of the parking prohibition effective on that side of the street.
11.40.060 GRADES -- CURBING WHEELS REQUIRED. No person
shall stand, or park any vehicle upon any street, the grade of which
exceeds five percent without setting the brakes thereon and blocking
the wheels of said vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other
means.
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11.40.070 STREET OBSTRUCTION. No person shall operate, or
stand or park any vehicle on any street in such a manner as to obstruct
the free use of such street.
11.40.080 PEDDLERS -- VENDORS -- LIMITATION. (a) Except as
otherwise provided in this section, no person shall stand or park any
vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise,
fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for
sale, or bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car, or
vehicle, on any portion of any street within this city, except that such
vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may stand or park only at the request of
bona fide purchaser of such goods, wares, merchandise, fruits,
vegetables or foodstuffs for a period of time not to exceed ten minutes at
any one 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 pushcart, 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 city council,
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 from the city council, which shall
designate the specific location where such vehicle may stand.
(d) No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any street for the
purpose of displaying such vehicle for sale by sign or otherwise.
(e) Whenever any permit has been granted under the provisions of
this section, and a particular location to park or stand has been
specified therein, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon, or
pushcart on any location other than as designated in such permit. In
the event that the holder of any such permit has been convicted in any
court of competent jurisdiction of violating any of the provisions of this
section, such permit shall be forthwith revoked by the city council upon
the filing of the record of such conviction with the city council, and no
such permit shall thereafter be issued to such person until six months
have elapsed from the date of such revocation.
11.40.090 WASHING VEHICLE ON STREET. No person shall
dust, wipe, wash, or otherwise clean, use, or employ any method of
dusting, wiping, washing or otherwise cleaning any vehicle, or portion
thereof, while on any street unless such vehicle is owned by, or under
the direct control or supervision of, the person doing any of the acts
herein enumerated.
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11.40.100 EMERGENCY PARKING SIGNS. (a) Whenever the city
manager has determined 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 city manager shall have the
power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted
indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is
prohibited on such streets and alleys as the city manager 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
city manager 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.
11.40.110 CONSENT REQUIRED. It is unlawful for any person to
drive upon, or across, or to park, or leave standing or to cause, or
permit to drive, park or leave standing, any vehicle upon any property
in the city without the consent of the owner or person in control of such
property.
11.40.120 ILLEGAL PARKING -- REMOVAL OR TOWING OF
VEHICLE. (a) The owner or person in lawful possession of any private
property may, subsequent to giving notice to the police department of
the city, cause the removal of the vehicle parked on such property to
the nearest public garage or other place of safety, if there is displayed in
plain view on the property a sign prohibiting public parking and
containing the telephone number of the police department of the city.
The person causing the removal of such vehicle shall comply with the
requirements of Chapter 10 of Division 11 (beginning with Section
22650) of the Vehicle Code of the state relating to notice when removing
a vehicle from private property.
(b) Pursuant to the authority granted by Section 22651 of the
Vehicle Code of the state, any officer of the police department of the city
or any regularly employed or salaried employee who is engaged in
directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations of the city
may remove a vehicle from any street, alley or other public way within
the city to the nearest public garage or other place of safety, or to a
garage designated or maintained by the city, under the following
circumstances:
(1) When a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street, alley
or other public way, for seventy-two or more consecutive hours in
violation of this section.
(2) When a vehicle is illegally parked on a street, alley, or other
public way in violation of any ordinance of the city forbidding standing
or parking, and the use of such street, alley, or other public way or
portion thereof is necessary for cleaning, repair, or construction of the
street, alley, or other public way or the installation of underground
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utilities, and signs giving notice that such vehicle may be removed, are
erected or placed at least twenty-four hours prior to the removal by the
authorities of the city pursuant to this section.
(3) Where the use of the street, alley, or other public way or any
portion thereof is authorized by the city for purpose other than the
normal flow of traffic; or for the movement of equipment, articles or
structures of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle would
prohibit or interfere with such use or movement and signs giving notice
that such vehicle may be removed, are erected or placed at least
twenty-four hours prior to the removal by the authorities of the city
pursuant to this section.
(4) Where any vehicle is parked or left standing when the city
has, by ordinance or resolution, prohibited such parking, and signs
giving notice of the removal have been posted pursuant to this section.
(c) The owner or person having the right to possession of any vehicle
removed pursuant to this section, shall pay all lawful removal, towing
and storage charges.
(d) Whenever a vehicle is removed under this section by an employee
of the city, the person authorizing such removal shall comply with the
California Vehicle Code provisions relating to notice and opportunity for
hearing as set forth in Chapter 10 of Division 11 of that Code
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Section 2. Chapter 11.44 of the San Mateo Municipal Code is
amended to read as follows:
Chapter 11.44
PARKING METERS*
Sections:
11.44.010
11.44.015
11.44.020
11.44.030
11.44.040
11.44.050
11.44.060
11.44.070
11.44.080
11.44.090
11.44.100
11.44.110
11.44.120
11.44.130
11.44.140
11.44.150
11.44.160
11.44.165
11.44.170
11.44.180
11.44.190
11.44.195
11.44.200
11.44.210
Definitions.
Parking meter placement and limits.
Metered parking zone temporary permits.
Permit--Application--Required.
Hood--Application--Form.
Permit--Issuance--Denial--Appeal--Hearing.
Permit--Signs--Notification.
Permit--Issuance fees.
Permit--Use revocation.
Permit only sign--Parking adjacent unlawful.
Permit--Not a waiver.
Purchase and installation authority.
Location.
Curb markings.
Parallel parking.
Deposit--Required--Amount.
Deposit--Exceeding time limit unlawful.
Repeat violations.
Allowing vehicle to remain past time limit unlawful.
Defacing unlawful.
Deposit of slugs unlawful.
Interference with enforcement unlawful.
Police report--Penalties.
Use of fees.
11.44.010 DEFINITIONS. The following words when used in this
chapter shall be construed as defined in this section:
(1) "Operator" includes every individual who operates a vehicle as the
owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner;
(2) "Street" means any public street, avenue, road, boulevard,
highway, or other public place located in the city and established for the
use of vehicles;
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For the statutory provisions regarding parking meter zones see Cal. Veh. C. § 22508. For provisions
relating to temporary removal of meters, see Chapter 17.08.
(3) "Vehicle" means any device in, upon, or by which any person or
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property is, or may be, transported upon a street, except a device which
is operated upon rails or tracks.
11.44.015 PARKING METER PLACEMENT AND LIMITS.
(a) Parking Meter Areas: Parking meters may be placed in any
location along the public streets or the City or District parking lots in
the area contained in the Central Parking & Improvement District. A
determination as to where to specifically place parking meters within
this area shall be made by the Public Works Commission.
(b) Parking Time Limits. The time limits for each parking meter area
and for each meter shall be established by the City Manager and shall
apply between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. each day except for
Sundays and the holidays set forth in Subsection (c) below.
(c) Holidays. The holidays excluded and during which the parking
specified in this Chapter shall not be limited nor the payment of the
parking charges collected shall be as follows:
January 1, known as "New Year's Day"
The third Monday in January, known as "Dr. Martin Luther King
Day"
The third Monday in February, known as "Presidents Day"
The last Monday in May, known as "Memorial Day"
July 4, known as "Independence Day"
The first Monday in September, known as "Labor Day"
November 11, known as “Veterans Day”
Thanksgiving Day
December 25, known as "Christmas Day"
(d) Parking Meter Rates. Rates for parking vehicles in a space
governed by a parking meter shall be as follows:
Meter Limits/Rate
24 minute meter
1 hour meter
2 hour meter
4 hour meter
10 hour meter
Nickel
6 minutes
6 minutes
6 minutes
Dime
12 minutes
12 minutes
12 minutes
Quarter
24 minutes
30 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
1 hour
11.44.020 METERED PARKING ZONE TEMPORARY PERMITS.
The superintendent of streets is authorized to issue permits which
specify particular metered parking spaces for the temporary exclusive
use by persons occupying property adjacent to the specified metered
parking spaces.
11.44.030 PERMIT -- APPLICATION -- REQUIRED. The permit
shall only be issued, after due application as provided herein when the
circumstances indicate to the satisfaction of the superintendent of
streets that there is a need to limit the parking in certain parking areas
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within the parking meter zone to parking for the purpose of
construction, demolition, remodeling, repainting or refurbishing and
maintenance of structures or grounds adjoining the meters during
certain times.
Application for the issuance of a parking meter loading zone permit
shall be made on a form provided by the superintendent of streets.
11.44.040 HOOD -- APPLICATION -- FORM. The application form
shall require the following information:
(1) Name and address of applicant;
(2) Name and address of person occupying the premises adjacent to
the parking space concerned;
(3) The number of the parking meter located at the parking space for
which restricted parking is requested;
(4) A statement of the reasons for the need for such parking
restriction;
(5) The estimated hours of the day during which such restriction
may be necessary;
(6) Such other relevant information as the superintendent of streets
may require.
11.44.050 PERMIT -- ISSUANCE -- DENIAL -- APPEAL -HEARING. The superintendent of streets may grant such permit with
such conditions as he may deem advisable, or deny such application.
If such permit has been denied, or granted with conditions and
applicant is dissatisfied with the denial, or the conditions, applicant
may appeal therefrom to the public works commission.
Such appeal must be filed within ten days after such action by the
superintendent of streets. If appeal is not filed within such period of ten
days, applicant shall be barred for a period of six months from making
further application with reference to the same matter. In taking such
appeal, applicant shall file notice thereof in writing within such period
of ten days with the commission secretary, who shall set the hearing
thereon for the next regular meeting of the commission, provided such
next regular meeting is to be held not less than ten days from the date
of filing such appeal. If such meeting is to be held within less than ten
days thereafter, such hearing shall be set for the regular meeting next
subsequent thereto.
At such hearing the commission shall hear all evidence offered by
applicant and the superintendent of streets, and may hear other
evidence with reference thereto, and may continue such hearing from
time to time. At the conclusion of such hearing, the commission shall
make its findings thereon, and if it has found that the action of the
superintendent of streets in denying, or conditioning the permit was
discriminatory against applicant, or if it finds that the granting of such
permit with or without conditions, or otherwise will not be injurious to
the public health, safety, welfare or morals, it shall refer the appeal with
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its findings and recommendations to the city council. Otherwise, it
shall affirm the action of the superintendent and deny the appeal.
Applicant may then appeal the matter to the city council within the
same time and in the same manner as set forth above. The decision of
the city council at such hearing shall be final, and conclusive, and
applicant shall be barred for a period of six months after such decision
from making further application with reference to the same matter.
11.44.060 PERMIT -- SIGNS -- NOTIFICATION. (a) A separate
permit shall be required for each space.
(b) A written permit shall be issued with a sign restricting use of the
space to the vehicles and/or objects for which the permit was obtained.
(c) The sign mentioned in subsection (b) above is to remain under
the sole custody and control of the superintendent of streets, and he
shall cause it to be affixed to the proper meter post throughout the
permit period and shall cause it to be removed upon expiration,
surrender or revocation thereof.
(d) The superintendent of streets shall forward to the police
department copies of each permit granted.
11.44.070 PERMIT -- ISSUANCE FEES. The person issued a
parking meter loading zone permit shall pay the fees therefor as shall be
set from time to time by resolution of the city council. Payment for each
day of each metered space for which application if made, shall be paid
prior to the granting of a permit. Any adjustment in fees shall be made
at the time the permit expires, or use is discontinued.
11.44.080 PERMIT -- USE REVOCATION. The superintendent of
streets may revoke the permit authority granted herein to use such
metered spaces for any of the following reasons:
(1) When the person has failed to pay the fee as provided herein;
(2) When the superintendent is satisfied that the circumstances no
longer require the existence of such authority;
(3) When the person is found to be using the permit for purposes
other than for which it was granted.
11.44.090 PERMIT ONLY SIGN -- PARKING ADJACENT TO
UNLAWFUL. It is unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or
suffer any vehicle operated or controlled by him to be parked in any
parking space within a parking meter zone while a
parking-by-permit-only sign is properly in place on the post for such
space. Any vehicle found to be improperly occupying any part of a
posted permit-only parking space shall be cited and, on the demand of
the permittee, the police shall have the offending vehicle towed and
impounded under the authority of Section 11.40.120 of this code.
11.44.100 PERMIT -- NOT A WAIVER. A permit allowing
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temporary exclusive use of metered parking spaces as set forth in this
chapter shall not waive the necessity of obtaining any and all other
encroachment and/or building permits, or any other permit or license
specified as required under other provisions of this code
11.44.110 PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION AUTHORITY. The
City Manager is directed to provide for the purchase, acquisition,
installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of
the parking meters provided for in this chapter, and to maintain such
meters in good workable condition, and he is vested with power and
authority to enter into a contract of purchase on approval of the terms
and conditions thereof by the city council.
11.44.120 LOCATION. Parking meters, installed in the parking
meter zones, shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the
individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter
shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal
that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use.
Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal
parking time established by the city, and when operated, shall indicate
on or by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking,
and on expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overparking.
11.44.130 CURB MARKINGS. The City Manager shall have lines or
markings painted or placed upon the curb and/or upon the street
adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the
parking space for which such meter is to be used and each vehicle
parking adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the
lines or markings so established. No person shall park any vehicle
across any such line or marking or park such vehicle in such position
that the same is not entirely within the area so designated by such lines
or markings.
11.44.140 PARALLEL PARKING. When a parking space in any
parking meter zone is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any
vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost
part of such vehicle nearest to such meter.
11.44.150 DEPOSIT – REQUIRED AMOUNT. When a vehicle is
parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the operator of such
vehicle shall, upon entering such parking space, immediately deposit,
or cause to be deposited, coinage in such parking meter, and put such
meter into operation, and failure to deposit such coinage of the specified
value, and put the meter into operation is unlawful. Upon the deposit
of such coins and placing such meter in operation, the parking space
may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking
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time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which such
parking space is located. If such vehicle remains parked in any such
parking space beyond the parking time limit fixed for such parking
space, the parking meter shall, by its dial and pointer indicate such
illegal parking and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as
parked overtime, and beyond the period of legal parking time, and the
parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time
in any such part of a street where any such meter is located is a
violation of this chapter and punishable as hereinafter set out.
(a) Commercial trucks may park in the parking zones to load or to
unload merchandise, without depositing coins or tokens for a period
not to exceed thirty minutes. Should any truck or delivery car be
parked longer than thirty minutes, such violator will be given a ticket
and classed as a violation, and the regular penalty imposed.
11.44.160 DEPOSIT -- EXCEEDING TIME LIMIT UNLAWFUL. No
person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the
name of, or operated by, such person to be parked overtime or beyond
the period of legal parking time established for any parking meter zone
as herein described.
11.44.165 REPEAT VIOLATIONS. If a vehicle receives a second
citation for violation of the overtime parking regulations within the
same calendar day, and the vehicle was not moved from the parking
space between violations, the bail for the second citation shall be
increased to that amount as is established upon the schedule of bail for
violation of this section.
11.44.170 ALLOWING VEHICLE TO REMAIN PAST TIME LIMIT
UNLAWFUL. No person shall permit any vehicle to remain, or be
placed, in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while such
meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such
parking space has already been parked beyond the period of time
prescribed for such parking space
11.44.180 DEFACING UNLAWFUL. No person shall deface, injure,
tamper with, open, or willfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter.
11.44.190 DEPOSIT OF SLUGS UNLAWFUL. No person shall
deposit, or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter, any slugs,
devices or metallic substances or any other substitute, for the coins, or
specified tokens in lieu of the coins.
No person shall deposit coins, tokens or metallic substances
indiscriminately in such meter, without the intent, or right to park the
motor vehicle which he is then operating, at the parking space adjacent
to such meter.
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11.44.195 INTERFERENCE WITH ENFORCEMENT UNLAWFUL.
No person shall interfere with, or obstruct in any way, any police officer,
traffic enforcement representative, or other officer or employee of this
city in their enforcement of the provisions of this title. The removal,
obliteration, erasure or concealment of any chalk mark or other
distinguishing mark used by any police officer, traffic enforcement
representative, or other officer or employee of this city in the
performance of their duties to enforce the parking regulations of this
title, if done for the purpose of evading the provisions of this title, shall
constitute unlawful interference or obstruction of enforcement
11.44.200 POLICE REPORT -- PENALTIES. It shall be the duty of
police officers of the city, acting in accordance with instructions issued
by Chief of Police, to report:
(1) The number of each parking meter which indicates that the
vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is,
or has been, parking in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter;
(2) The state license number of such vehicle;
(3) The time during which such vehicle is parking in violation of any
of the provisions of this chapter;
(4) Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
Each such police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to
the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in
violation of a provision of this chapter. Each such violation shall
constitute an infraction for which a penalty shall be imposed which
shall be the same as the penalty for all other overtime parking violations
as enforced by the municipal court, central judicial district, San Mateo
County.
11.44.210 USE OF FEES. The specified coin or coins required to
be deposited in parking meters as provided herein are levied and
assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of
traffic upon the public streets, and to cover the cost of supervision
and regulation of parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones, and
to cover the cost of purchase, installation, operation, maintenance,
supervision, regulation and control of the parking meters, and to
cover the cost to operate, maintain, and improve the garages and lots
within the parking district.
Section 3. PUBLICATION. This Ordinance shall be published
in summary in the San Mateo County Times, posted in the City
Clerk’s Office, and posted on the City’s website, all in accord with
Section 2.15 of the Charter and shall take effect upon publication.
I hereby certify this to be a correct copy of Ordinance No. 2003-6 of the City
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of San Mateo, California, introduced on March 3, 2003, and adopted on
March 17, 2003, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: Council Members LEE, GROOM, EPSTEIN, LEMPERT and MACK
ABSENT: NONE
NOES: NONE
(SEAL) /s/ NORMA GOMEZ, City Clerk
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