Oakdale Municipal Code § 18-45 Paid Parking Zones and Parking Permits

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

(a) Pursuant to the California Vehicle Code, the City Council may establish paid parking zones to aid in the regulation, control, and inspection of the parking of vehicles and/or to increase utilization and turnover to support local businesses and economic development.

(b) The Central Traffic District is designated as a paid parking zone, including all City-owned or leased land, streets, and off-street parking lots within the boundaries of such district.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

Wherever any term is defined in this article, it shall be deemed and construed to have the meaning ascribed to it in this section. The definition of any term used in this article not otherwise defined herein shall be the same as such term is defined and described in the California Vehicle Code and amendments thereto. For the purposes of this article:

"Paid parking device"

means any parking meter, pay station, web application, or other device that, when a City-approved method of payment is used to purchase time for parking, the parking time for one or more vehicles is registered.

"Paid parking space"

means a parking space of sufficient size to permit the parking of one vehicle within a paid parking zone.

"Paid parking zone"

means City lots and streets, or portions thereof, described and established by the City Council as zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated, and inspected with the aid of timing devices or meters, herein referred to as "paid parking devices."

"Park" or "parking"

means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of, and while actively engaged in, loading or unloading passengers or merchandise.

"Vehicle"

means any device in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported upon a street or highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

The Public Works Director is authorized and directed to install, maintain and operate the necessary paid parking devices in all paid parking zones described herein, to provide for the efficient control and regulation of the parking of vehicles therein, and the installation and existence of a paid parking device shall designate its location as a paid parking zone for the purposes of this article.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

The Public Works Director is authorized to erect or cause to have erected signs within the paid parking zones described above, which fulfill the requirements of the ordinances and resolutions of the City pertaining thereto and according to the specifications set forth in the California Vehicle Code. The regulation of traffic by paid parking device and the use of any City-approved method of payment in such paid parking device shall become effective upon the installation of appropriate paid parking devices and signs thereon, giving notice of such paid parking regulation and hourly rate.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

The Public Works Director shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb or street designating one or more parking spaces within paid parking zones. It is unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park a vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(a) Whenever the parking of vehicles is required within parallel parking spaces, a vehicle, or combination of connected vehicles, exceeding the dimensions of such space may also occupy one or more adjoining spaces, provided that all other provisions of this article applicable to each such space must be observed.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

Paid parking devices, when installed and properly operated, shall be so adjusted that legal parking time is registered and accumulated upon such paid parking devices; provided, however, that no paid parking device shall be adjusted to show or register any period of parking time in excess of the maximum legal parking time limit, designated by appropriate signs located on such paid parking devices or in the paid parking zone wherein any such paid parking device is installed.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

During the hours of operation, when any vehicle is parked in any space designated as a paid parking space, in accordance with the provisions of this article, the operator of the vehicle upon so parking shall immediately satisfy the payment required to park in said paid parking space utilizing any City-approved method of payment; it is unlawful for the operator of the vehicle so parked to fail to do so and/or to allow the vehicle to remain parked following the expiration of the purchased time.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

(a) The City Council hereby establishes an acceptable range of hours of operation and hourly rates for paid parking zones. The Public Works Director is authorized to adjust hours of operation and/or hourly rates within these ranges in an effort to achieve a target utilization rate of 85% occupancy of paid parking spaces. Hours of operation and hourly rates may vary based on the time of year, time of week, or time of day.

(1) Hours of operation will range from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day.

(2) Hourly rates will range from $0.25 per hour to $10.00 per hour.

(3) Vehicles displaying distinguishing placards or permits for specified resident or employee permit parking zones may be exempted from payment requirements.

(b) The Public Works Director is authorized and directed to establish maximum time limits for both fee and non-fee parking spaces located within paid parking zones in order to facilitate long- and short-term visitor access to destinations within the City.

(c) Days and hours of operation, hourly rates, and maximum time limits shall become effective when such paid parking regulation and hourly rates are displayed upon appropriate signs installed within such paid parking zone or are affixed to, located on, or displayed by a paid parking device located within such paid parking zones.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

It is unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any paid parking devices any slug, device or nonaccepted payment material, or to deface, injure, tamper with, open, willfully break, remove, destroy, circumvent, or impair the usefulness of such paid parking devices installed pursuant to this article.

[Added 6-2-2025 by Ord. No. 1291]

Notwithstanding that a paid parking device shall indicate expiry of legal parking time:

(a) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in any paid parking zone, area, or paid parking space for a period of time in excess of parking time limits prescribed and established by or pursuant to any provisions of this article.

(b) It is unlawful to purchase parking time from any paid parking device using any City-approved method of payment for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established for the paid parking space or paid parking zone wherein said paid parking device is installed.