California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 9 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking

• Section 22500.
  A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or...
• Section 22500.1.
  In addition to Section 22500, no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict...
• Section 22500.2.
  (a) A local authority may, by ordinance, prohibit a person from stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, except if necessary to...
• Section 22500.5.
  Upon agreement between a transit system operating buses engaged as common carriers in local transportation and a public school district or private school, local authorities...
• Section 22501.
  No ordinance enacted by local authorities pursuant to subdivisions (e) and (k) of Section 22500 or Section 22507.2 shall become effective as to any state...
• Section 22502.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway with adjacent curbs or class IV bikeways, as defined in...
• Section 22503.
  Local authorities may by ordinance permit angle parking on any roadway, or left-hand parking upon one-way roadways of divided highways, except that no ordinance is...
• Section 22503.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, establish special parking regulations for two-wheeled or three-wheeled motor vehicles.(Amended...
• Section 22504.
  (a) Upon any highway in unincorporated areas, a person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when...
• Section 22505.
  (a) The Department of Transportation with respect to highways under its jurisdiction may place signs or markings prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of...
• Section 22506.
  Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on a state highway, in their respective jurisdictions,...
• Section 22507.
  (a) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles, including, but not limited to, vehicles that are...
• Section 22507.1.
  (a) A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, designate certain streets or portions of streets for the exclusive or nonexclusive parking privilege of motor vehicles...
• Section 22507.2.
  Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 22500, a local authority may, by ordinance, authorize the owner or lessee of property to park a vehicle in front...
• Section 22507.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 22507, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways, or...
• Section 22507.6.
  Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on designated streets or highways, or portions thereof, for...
• Section 22507.8.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in a stall or space designated for disabled persons and disabled veterans...
• Section 22507.9.
  Local authorities may establish a special enforcement unit for the sole purpose of providing adequate enforcement of Section 22507.8 and local ordinances and resolutions adopted...
• Section 22508.
  (a) A local authority shall not establish parking meter zones or fix the rate of fees for those zones except by ordinance. The rate of fees...
• Section 22508.5.
  (a) A vehicle may park, for up to the posted time limit, in any parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or an...
• Section 22509.
  Local authorities within the reasonable exercise of their police powers may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution providing that no person driving, or...
• Section 22510.
  (a) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on designated streets or highways within their jurisdiction, or...
• Section 22511.
  (a) (1) A local authority, by ordinance or resolution, and a person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility may designate stalls or spaces in an...
• Section 22511.1.
  (a) A person shall not park or leave standing a vehicle in a stall or space designated pursuant to Section 22511 unless the vehicle is connected...
• Section 22511.3.
  (a) A veteran displaying special license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6, or 5101.8 may park his or her motor vehicle, weighing not more...
• Section 22511.5.
  (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran displaying special license plates issued under Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued under Section 22511.55 or 22511.59 is...
• Section 22511.55.
  (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran may apply to the department for the issuance of a distinguishing placard. The placard may be used in lieu...
• Section 22511.56.
  (a) A person using a distinguishing placard issued under Section 22511.55 or 22511.59, or a special license plate issued under Section 5007, for parking as permitted...
• Section 22511.57.
  A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of a vehicle on streets or highways or in a...
• Section 22511.58.
  (a) Upon a request to the department by a local public law enforcement agency or local agency responsible for the administration or enforcement of parking regulations,...
• Section 22511.59.
  (a) Upon the receipt of the applications and documents required by subdivision (b), (c), or (d), the department shall issue a temporary distinguishing placard bearing the...
• Section 22511.6.
  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles may cancel or revoke a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Section 22511.55 or 22511.59 in any of the following events:(1) When...
• Section 22511.7.
  (a) In addition to Section 22511.8 for offstreet parking, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, designate onstreet parking spaces for the exclusive use of...
• Section 22511.8.
  (a) A local authority, by ordinance or resolution, and a person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility may designate stalls or spaces in an...
• Section 22511.85.
  A vehicle, identified with a special license plate issued pursuant to Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Section 22511.55 or 22511.59, which...
• Section 22511.9.
  Every new or replacement sign installed on or after January 1, 1992, relating to parking privileges for disabled persons shall refer to “disabled persons” rather...
• Section 22511.95.
  All new or replacement signs installed on or after July 1, 2008, relating to parking privileges for disabled persons shall refer to “persons with disabilities”...
• Section 22511.10.a.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Two and one-half million Californians suffer from some form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Those persons...
• Section 22511.11.
  (a) The Office of the State Architect shall propose regulations specifying the location of disabled person parking stalls or spaces designated pursuant to Section 22511.8, for...
• Section 22512.
  Except as otherwise indicated in subdivision (b), none of the following provisions shall apply to the driver or owner of any service vehicle owned or...
• Section 22513.
  (a) (1) It is a misdemeanor for a towing company or the owner or operator of a tow truck to stop or cause a person to stop...
• Section 22513.1.
  (a) (1) A business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck during hours the business is open to the public shall document all of the...
• Section 22514.
  No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle within 15 feet of a fire hydrant except as follows:(a) If the vehicle is attended by...
• Section 22515.
  (a) No person driving, or in control of, or in charge of, a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand on any highway unattended without first...
• Section 22516.
  No person shall leave standing a locked vehicle in which there is any person who cannot readily escape therefrom.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• Section 22517.
  No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and...
• Section 22518.
  (a) Fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities constructed, maintained, or operated by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 146.5 of the Streets and Highways Code...
• Section 22519.
  Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit, restrict or regulate the parking, stopping or standing of vehicles on any offstreet parking facility which it...
• Section 22520.5.
  (a) No person shall solicit, display, sell, offer for sale, or otherwise vend or attempt to vend any merchandise or service while being wholly or partly...
• Section 22520.6.
  (a) No person shall engage in any activity within a highway roadside rest area or vista point prohibited by rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section...
• Section 22521.
  No person shall park a vehicle upon any railroad track or within 71/2 feet of the nearest rail.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 625.)
• Section 22522.
  No person shall park a vehicle within three feet of any sidewalk access ramp constructed at, or adjacent to, a crosswalk or at any other...
• Section 22523.
  (a) No person shall abandon a vehicle upon any highway.(b) No person shall abandon a vehicle upon public or private property without the express or implied consent...
• Section 22524.
  (a) The abandonment of any vehicle in a manner as provided in Section 22523 shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the last registered owner of...
• Section 22524.5.
  (a) Any insurer that is responsible for coverage for ordinary and reasonable towing and storage charges under an automobile insurance policy to an insured or on...
• Section 22525.
  Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution authorize vanpool vehicles to utilize designated state highway bus stops.The ordinance or resolution shall be submitted to the...
• Section 22526.
  (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018