Subchapter 6.03 — Rules of the Road

(a) Designation of Through Highways. That the State Highway, also known as El Camino Real, and Hillside Boulevard, within the corporate limits of the Town of Colma be, and each is, hereby designated as a through highway.

(b) Through Highway. Any street, alley or other thoroughfare entering or crossing shall be marked so that vehicles must come to a stop before entering or crossing said through highway, by use of the word "STOP", or other suitable notice.

(c) Unlawful Conduct. It shall be unlawful for the driver of a vehicle to enter upon or cross either of the through highways herein designated without first bringing said vehicle to a stop before entering or crossing said through highways, or either of them.

(d) Designation of Additional Stop Intersections. The following intersections are designated as stop intersections and stop signs shall be erected at certain of the entrances thereto as hereinafter set forth:

(1) The intersection of Clark and "B" Street, with stop signs on the southwest corner
and northwest corner of "B" Street;

(2) The intersection of Clark and "C" Street, with stop signs on all four corners;

(3) The intersection of Clark and "D" Street, with stop signs on the southwest corner
and northwest corner of "D" Street;

(4) The intersection of Clark and "E" Street, with a stop sign on the southwest
corner of "E" Street;

(5) The intersection of Clark and "F" Street, with a stop sign on all three corners of
said intersection.

(6) The intersection of Hillside Boulevard and F Street, with stop signs on the
northwest corner and southeast corner of Hillside Boulevard.

(7) The intersection of Colma Boulevard and the Most Easterly Entrance to 280
Metro Center, with stop signs stopping eastbound and westbound traffic on Colma
Boulevard.

[History: formerly § 6.301, ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 347, 4/08/87; ORD. 350, 6/10/87;
ORD. 363; 1/13/88; ORD. 510, 2/19/97; ORD. 528A. 5/13/98; ORD. 546, 2/10/99; ORD.
638, 12/14/05]

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It shall be unlawful for any persons in the Town of Colma to drive or operate any motor vehicle or other vehicle through the line of any funeral procession when the vehicles in the funeral procession are less than fifty feet apart.

[History: formerly § 6.302; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

It is hereby determined, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey of streets within the city limits of the Town of Colma that a speed of twenty-five (25) miles per hour on Colma Boulevard; thirty (30) miles per hour on Mission Road and on Serramonte Boulevard; thirty-five (35) miles per hour on Lawndale Boulevard; and forty (40) miles per hour on Junipero Serra Boulevard and on Hillside Boulevard would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be reasonable and safe, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit within the city limits of the Town of Colma shall, at all times when signs are erected giving notice thereof, be twenty-five (25) miles per hour on Colma Boulevard; thirty (30) miles per hour on Mission Road and on Serramonte Boulevard; thirty-five miles per hour on Lawndale Boulevard; and forty (40) miles per hour on Junipero Serra Boulevard and on Hillside Boulevard.

[History: formerly § 6.303; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 315, 3/13/85; ORD. 352, 6/10/87; ORD. 354, 6/24/87; ORD. 638, 12/14/05; ORD. 695, 5/11/11]

[History: formerly § 6.304; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05; ORD. 712, 10/10/12]

(a) Definitions. For the purposes of sections 6.03.050 through 6.03.110 of this Code, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.

(1) City is the Town of Colma.

(2) Deviating Truck is a truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while
traveling inside the city.

(3) Person is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or
organization of any kind.

(4) Truck is any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and
whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight exceeds three (3) tons.

(5) Truck Route is a way over certain streets, as designated herein, over and along
which trucks coming into and going out of the city must operate.

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[History: formerly § 6.320; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

(a) No person, firm, or corporation shall operate any truck having a gross weight in excess of three (3) tons on F Street or Olivet Parkway in the Town of Colma. This prohibition shall be subject only to the exceptions provided in section 6.03.080.

(b) The Chief of Police of the city shall cause signs to be posted giving notice of the effect of the prohibitions contained in this ordinance.

[History: formerly § 6.321; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 285, 3/09/83; ORD. 343, 12/10/86; ORD. 356, 9/08/87; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

The following streets are hereby declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a minimum gross weight of three (3) tons (hereinafter called "trucks").

(a) All of El Camino Real within the corporate limits of the Town of Colma;

(b) All of Junipero Serra Boulevard within the corporate limits of the Town of Colma;

(c) All of Hillside Boulevard within the corporate limits of the Town of Colma;

(d) All of A Street between Hillside Boulevard and El Camino Real, also known as Mission Street;

(e) All of Market Street between Hillside Boulevard and El Camino Real, also known as Mission Street;

(f) All of El Camino Real and Mission Street to the juncture thereof with any of the streets mentioned in subparagraphs (d) and (e) above;

(g) All of Junipero Serra Boulevard in and adjacent to the Town of Colma;

(h) All of Hillside Boulevard to the juncture thereof with any of the streets mentioned in subparagraphs (d) and (e) above;

(i) All streets in the Town of Colma, except F Street and Olivet Parkway.

[History: formerly § 6.322; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 343, 12/10/86; ORD. 638, 12/14/05; ORD. 356, 9/08/87]

All trucks within the city shall be operated only over and along the truck routes established in section 6.322 and on the other designated streets over which truck travel is permitted.

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(a) Operation on Street of Destination. The operation of trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point, provided streets upon which such traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.

(b) Emergency Vehicles. The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city.

(c) Public Utilities. The operation of any vehicles owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor, while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility or the repair, maintenance or construction of streets or street improvements within the city.

(d) Detoured Trucks. The operation of trucks upon any officially established detour in any case where such truck could lawfully be operated upon the street for which such detour is established.

(e) The operation of commercial vehicles coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress by direct route to and from any restricted street, when necessary, for the purpose of making pick-ups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted street, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon the restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(f) The operation of any vehicle which is subject to the provisions of section 1031 to 1036, inclusive, of the Public Utilities Code.

[History: formerly § 6.323; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 251, 7/09/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

(a) Inside Destination Point. All trucks entering city for a destination point in the city shall proceed only over an established truck route and shall deviate only at the intersection with the street, upon which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.

(b) Multiple Inside Destination Points. All trucks entering the city for multiple destination points shall proceed only over established truck routes and shall deviate only at the intersection with the street, upon which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first destination point a deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the shortest direction and only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.

[History: formerly § 6.324; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

(a) Outside Destination Point. All trucks, on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for a destination point outside the city, shall proceed by the shortest direction over streets on which such traffic is permitted to a truck route as herein established.

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(b) Inside Destination Points. All trucks, on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for destination points in the city, shall proceed only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted.

[History: formerly § 6.325; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

(a) Clerk Maintains Maps. The City Clerk shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted; the maps shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk and shall be available to the public.

(b) Chief of Police Maintains Signs. The Chief of Police of the city shall cause all truck routes and those streets upon which truck traffic is prohibited to be clearly sign-posted to give notice that sections 6.03.050 through 6.03.110 are in effect. The City Council determines that such signs will best serve to give notice of these sections.

(c) Failure to Post. No person shall be charged with violating the provisions of this ordinance by reason of operating a truck upon a street where truck travel is prohibited unless signs are posted on such street.

(d) Weigh-In. The Chief of Police shall have the authority to require any person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck route or street over which truck traffic is permitted to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this ordinance has been complied with.

[History: formerly § 6.326; ORD 249, 5/14/80; ORD. 638, 12/14/05]

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CHAPTER SIX: VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC CODE