Chapter 10.20
OPERATION OF VEHICLES
Sections:
Article I. Turning Movements
10.20.010 Authority to place turning markers and designate turn lanes.
10.20.020 Authority to place restricted turn signs.
Article II. One-Way Streets and Alleys
10.20.030 Installation of signs.
Article III. Stop and Yield Intersections; Special Stops
10.20.040 Installation of stop signs.
10.20.050 Stop at through street or stop sign.
10.20.060 Stop when emerging from alley, driveway or building.
Article IV. Special Speed Zones
10.20.080 Speed limits established.
Article V. Miscellaneous Driving Rules
10.20.090 Driving through funeral procession.
10.20.110 Use of private driveways by commercial vehicles.
10.20.120 Riding or driving on sidewalks.
10.20.130 Riding or driving across new pavement or markings.
10.20.140 Obedience to barriers and signs.
10.20.150 Obstructing traffic at intersection or crosswalk.
10.20.160 Excessive acceleration of vehicle.
Article I. Turning Movements
10.20.010 Authority to place turning markers and designate turn lanes.
The Director of Public Works is authorized to place official traffic control devices within or adjacent to intersections and indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and the Director of Public Works is authorized to locate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right- Or left-hand turns, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance. The Director of Public Works may establish and designate two-way left turn lanes as provided in the Vehicle Code.
(Code 1965, § 3228; Code 2002, § 106-121. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.020 Authority to place restricted turn signs.
The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs, or they may be removed when such turns are permitted.
(Code 1965, § 3229; Code 2002, § 106-122. Ord. No. 743)
Article II. One-Way Streets and Alleys
Cross references: Streets, sidewalks, and other public places, Title 12.
10.20.030 Installation of signs.
Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this city designates any one-way street or alley, the Director of Public Works 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.
(Code 1965, § 3231; Code 2002, § 106-141. Ord. No. 743)
Article III. Stop and Yield Intersections; Special Stops
10.20.040 Installation of stop signs.
Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any street, or portion thereof, as a through street or any intersection at which vehicles are required to stop at one or more entrances thereto, the Director of Public Works shall erect and maintain stop signs on each and every street intersecting such through street and at those entrances to other intersections where a stop is required; provided, however, stop signs shall not be erected or maintained at any entrance to an intersection when such entrance is controlled by an official traffic control signal. Every such sign shall conform with and shall be placed as provided in the Vehicle Code.
(Code 1965, § 3233; Code 2002, § 106-161. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.050 Stop at through street or stop sign.
(a) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be through streets for the purposes of this division.
(b) The provisions of this division shall apply at all entrances to intersections at which stop signs were existing and in place prior to the adoption of this chapter.
(c) The provisions of this division shall also apply at one or more entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections are established by resolution of the Council.
(Code 1965, § 3234; Code 2002, § 106-162. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.060 Stop when emerging from alley, driveway or building.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from 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 or driveway.
(Code 1965, § 3235; Code 2002, § 106-163. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.070 Designation of through streets, stop intersections and yield intersections; erection of yield signs.
(a) The City Council, pursuant to provisions of the state Vehicle Code, may from time to time, by resolution, upon recommendation of the Director of Public Works, designate through highways and stop intersections or yield intersections and authorize the erection thereon and thereof of traffic control devices.
(b) Whenever any resolution of the city designates any intersection as a yield intersection, the Director of Public Works shall erect and maintain yield right-of-way signs at each approach or entrance to the intersection where motorists are required to yield the right-of-way.
(Code 1965, § 3236; Code 2002, § 106-164. Ord. No. 793)
Article IV. Special Speed Zones
10.20.080 Speed limits established.
The City Council, on the basis of engineering and traffic investigations and surveys, has determined that the speeds permitted by state law, as applicable to the following streets, are different than those necessary for safe operation thereon, under the conditions found to exist on such streets, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those streets or parts of streets within the city hereinafter designated when signs giving notice thereof have been erected upon those streets.
(1) Fifty-five miles per hour.
Kirker Pass Road from the east city limits to Myrtle Drive.
Willow Pass Road from State Highway 4 to a point 2,000 feet north of Lynwood Drive.
(2) Fifty miles per hour.
(3) Forty-five miles per hour.
Arnold Industrial Way from Port Chicago Highway to the west city limits.
Bailey Road from a point 750 feet northeast of Myrtle Drive to a point 4,850 feet northeast of Myrtle Drive.
Kirker Pass Road from Myrtle Drive to Clayton Road.
Marsh Drive from Solano Way to the west city limits.
Port Chicago Highway from Panoramic Drive to Bates Avenue.
Treat Boulevard from the Oak Grove Road to San Miguel Road.
Willow Pass Road from Lynwood Drive to a point 2,000 feet north of Lynwood Drive.
Ygnacio Valley Road from Clayton Road to Michigan Boulevard.
Ygnacio Valley Road from Ayers Road to the west city limit.
Ygnacio Valley Road from Michigan Boulevard to Ayers Road.
(4) Forty miles per hour.
Avila Road from Willow Pass Road to the east city limits.
Clayton Road from Farm Bureau Road to Ygnacio Valley Road.
Concord Avenue from Market Street to the west city limits.
David Avenue from Oak Grove Road to Bancroft Road.
Minert Road from Oak Grove Road to the southwest city limits.
Oak Grove Road from Fox Way to the south city limits.
Port Chicago Highway from Olivera Road to Panoramic Drive.
Treat Boulevard from San Miguel Road to Clayton Road.
Treat Boulevard from the west city limits to Oak Grove Road.
(5) Thirty-five miles per hour.
Alberta Way from Clayton Road to Ygnacio Valley Road.
Ayers Road from Ygnacio Valley Road to Clayton Road.
Babel Lane from Clayton Road and Cowell Road.
Bailey Road from Clayton Road to a point 750 feet northeast of Myrtle Drive.
Bailey Road from a point 4,850 feet northeast of Myrtle Drive to the east city limits.
Bancroft Road from Mayhew Way to Hookston Road.
Bates Avenue from Nelson Avenue to Port Chicago Highway.
Burnett Avenue from Highway 680 Northbound on/off ramp to Diamond Boulevard.
Clayton Road from Market Street to Galindo Street.
Clayton Road from Oakland Avenue to Farm Bureau Road.
Concord Avenue from Market Street to Salvio Street.
Concord Boulevard from Denkinger Road to east city limits.
Concord Boulevard from Galindo Street to Clayton Road.
Concord Boulevard from Kirker Pass Road to the east city limits.
Concord Boulevard from Port Chicago Highway to Denkinger Road.
Cowell Road from Monument Boulevard to Ygnacio Valley Road.
Detroit Avenue from Monument Boulevard to Whitman Road.
Diamond Boulevard from Concord Avenue to Willow Pass Road.
East Street from Bacon Street to High School Avenue.
Galindo Street from Monument Boulevard to Clayton Road.
Grant Street from High School Avenue to Solano Way.
Laura Alice Way from Arnold Industrial Way to Nelson Avenue.
Market Street from Concord Avenue to Meadow Lane.
Meadow Lane from Market Street to Monument Boulevard.
Monument Boulevard from Galindo Street to the southwest city limits.
Nelson Avenue from Laura Alice Way to Bates Avenue.
Oak Grove Road from Monument Boulevard to Fox Way.
Olivera Road from Willow Pass Road to Hamilton Avenue.
Pine Hollow Road from Alberta Way to the east city limits.
Port Chicago Highway from Almond Avenue to Olivera Road.
San Miguel Road from Systron Drive to Homewood Drive.
Solano Way from State Highway 4 to the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks.
Turtle Creek Road from Ayers Road to Fallbrook Road.
Whitman Road from Oak Grove Road to Detroit Avenue.
Willow Pass Road from Contra Costa Boulevard to Galindo Street.
Willow Pass Road from Parkside Drive to Lynwood Drive.
(6) Thirty miles per hour.
Arnold Industrial Place from Peralta Road to the east end.
Ayers Road from Clayton Road to Concord Boulevard.
Burnett Avenue from Diamond Boulevard to John Glenn Drive.
California State Hayward Campus Road from Pine Hollow Road to Ygnacio Valley Road.
Clayton Road from Galindo Street to Oakland Avenue.
Commerce Avenue from Concord Avenue to the south end.
Commercial Circle (east) from Dean Lesher Drive to Bates Avenue.
Concord Boulevard from Port Chicago Highway to Galindo Street.
Denkinger Road from Clayton Road to Concord Boulevard.
Detroit Avenue from Sunshine Drive to Monument Boulevard.
East Street from Bacon Street to Pacheco Street.
Farm Bureau Road from Willow Pass Road to Clayton Road.
Galaxy Way from Commerce Avenue to Via De Mercados.
Galaxy Way from the west end to John Glenn Drive.
Galindo Street from Salvio Street to Clayton Road.
John Glenn Drive from Concord Avenue to Galaxy Way.
Meridian Park Boulevard from Concord Avenue to Willow Way.
Myrtle Drive from Ayers Road to Kirker Pass Road.
North Larwin Drive for its entire length.
Oakland Avenue from Clayton Road to Mt. Diablo Street.
Olivera Road from Solano Way to Hillsborough Drive.
Peralta Road from Olivera Road to Arnold Industrial Place.
Port Chicago Highway from Clayton Road to Almond Avenue.
Rolling Woods Way from Pine Hollow Road to the northernmost boundary of the Crystyl Ranch development.
San Miguel Road from 886 San Miguel Road to Treat Boulevard.
Solano Way from the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to Grant Street.
South Larwin Drive for its entire length.
Turtle Creek Road from Treat Boulevard to Fallbrook Road.
Via De Mercados from Concord Avenue to Galaxy Way.
West Street from Clayton Road to Concord Boulevard.
(7) Twenty-five miles per hour.
All other roadways within the city unless otherwise posted.
Hitchcock Road from Court Lane to Kaski Lane.
Rolling Woods Way from the northernmost boundary of the Crystyl Ranch development to Crystyl Ranch Drive.
San Miguel Road from 886 San Miguel Road to Homewood Drive.
(8) Twenty miles per hour.
The entire length of Ridge Park Drive from the beginning of Cowell Road until said road returns to Cowell Road.
(Code 1965, § 3292; Code 2002, § 106-181. Ord. No. 743; Ord. No. 751; Ord. No. 790; Ord. No. 793; Ord. No. 817; Ord. No. 862; Ord. No. 874; Ord. No. 887; Ord. No. 912; Ord. No. 947; Ord. No. 957; Ord. No. 963; Ord. No. 972; Ord. No. 978; Ord. No. 985; Ord. No. 1027; Ord. No. 1038; Ord. No. 1055; Ord. No. 1056; Ord. No. 1066; Ord. No. 1088; Ord. No. 1095; Ord. No. 1121; Ord. No. 1144; Ord. No. 1150; Ord. No. 1153; Ord. No. 1185; Ord. No. 1223; Ord. No. 1230; Ord. No. 1231; Ord. No. 1234; Ord. No. 1243; Ord. No. 83-3; Ord. No. 84-1; Ord. No. 84-23; Ord. No. 88-27; Ord. No. 88-28; Ord. No. 89-22; Ord. No. 91-5; Ord. No. 96-5; Ord. No. 97-14; Ord. No. 99-12; Ord. No. 02-4, §§ 2, 3, 4, 5; Ord. No. 13-2; Ord. No. 15-2, §§ 2, 3; Ord. No. 17-1, § 2)
Article V. Miscellaneous Driving Rules
10.20.090 Driving through funeral procession.
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.
(Code 1965, § 3237; Code 2002, § 106-201. Ord. No. 117; Ord. No. 743)
10.20.100 Cruising.
(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
Core areas. The following areas in the city:
(1) That area of the city which is bounded by East Street on the east, Market Street on the west, Clayton Road on the south, and Bonifacio Street and Concord Avenue on the north side.
(2) Willow Pass Road between Contra Costa Boulevard and San Vincente Drive.
(3) Clayton Road between Park Street and Washington Boulevard.
(4) Oak Grove Road between the city limits and Monument Boulevard.
(5) Monument Boulevard between Mohr Lane and Cowell Road.
(6) Galindo Street between Cowell Road and Salvio Street.
(7) Concord Avenue between Salvio Street and the city limits.
(8) Diamond Boulevard between Willow Pass Road and Concord Avenue.
(9) Treat Boulevard between Clayton Road and Winton Drive.
Cruise or cruising. The repetitive driving of a motor vehicle past a traffic control point in traffic which is congested at or near the traffic control point, as determined by the ranking peace officer on duty within the affected area, within a two-hour period and after the vehicle operator has been given an adequate written notice that further driving past the control point will be a violation of this section.
Motor vehicle. “Motor vehicle” has the meaning ascribed to it by Vehicle Code § 415, as it may be amended from time to time.
(b) Cruising prohibited.
(1) Cruising is prohibited in the core areas.
(2) No person shall be guilty of cruising unless:
a. That person has driven a motor vehicle past a traffic control point at least two times within two hours after being given, on a previous trip past that same control point, a written notice that further driving past the control point shall be a violation of this section; and
b. Notice is posted on the streets subject to cruising control. The notice shall state:
Cruising prohibited (hours specified). Repetitive driving within posted area is prohibited. California Vehicle Code 21100(K).
(Code 1965, § 3238; Code 2002, § 106-202. Ord. No. 88-15)
10.20.110 Use of private driveways by commercial vehicles.
(a) 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 a sign or markings are in place indicating that the use of such driveway is prohibited.
(b) For the purpose of this section, a commercial vehicle shall mean a vehicle having a rated capacity in excess of three-quarters ton.
(Code 1965, § 3239; Code 2002, § 106-203. Ord. No. 117; Ord. No. 743)
10.20.120 Riding or 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 vehicle across a sidewalk; provided, further, that said sidewalk area be substantially protected by wooden planks two inches thick. Such wooden planks shall not be permitted to remain upon such sidewalk area during the hours from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
(Code 1965, § 3240; Code 2002, § 106-204. Ord. No. 15; Ord. No. 743)
Cross references: Streets, sidewalks, and other public places, Title 12.
10.20.130 Riding or driving across new 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.
(Code 1965, § 3241; Code 2002, § 106-205. Ord. No. 117; Ord. No. 743)
10.20.140 Obedience to barriers and signs.
No person, public utility, or department in the city shall erect or place any barrier or sign on any street unless approved by the Director of Public Works, or disobey the instructions, remove, tamper with, or destroy any barrier or sign lawfully placed on any street by any person, public utility, or by any department of this city.
(Code 1965, § 3242; Code 2002, § 106-206. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.150 Obstructing traffic at intersection or crosswalk.
No operator of any vehicle shall enter any intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
(Code 1965, § 3243; Code 2002, § 106-207. Ord. No. 743)
10.20.160 Excessive acceleration of vehicle.
No person operating a motor vehicle within the city shall so accelerate the vehicle in a manner that causes audible noise by tire friction on pavement or causes the tires of such vehicle to leave skid marks upon the pavement, except when such acceleration is reasonably necessary to avoid a collision.
(Code 1965, § 3244; Code 2002, § 106-208. Ord. No. 1024; Ord. No. 91-13)