Sec. 23-1. - Sales on highway—Definitions.

As used in section 23-2 and 23-3 the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them:

County highway: Any highway which is (1) laid out or constructed as such by the county; (2) laid out or constructed by others and dedicated or abandoned to or acquired by the county; (3) made a county highway in any action for the partition of real property; (4) made a county highway pursuant to law.

Vehicle: A device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, except a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

Trailer: A vehicle designed for carrying persons or property on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon any other vehicle.

Structure: Something constructed or built, as a building.

(Ord. No. 208, § 3, 9-26-50)

Sec. 23-2. - Same—Declared a nuisance; removal by peace officer.

Any vehicle, trailer or structure parked or placed wholly or partly within any county highway, for the purpose of selling the same or of selling therefrom or therein any article or thing, is declared to be a public nuisance and any peace officer of the county may immediately remove such vehicle or structure from within any such highway.

(Ord. No. 208, § 4, 9-26-50)

Sec. 23-3. - Same—Violation a misdemeanor; exceptions.

Any person parking any such vehicle or trailer or placing any such structure wholly or partly within any county highway for the purpose of selling such vehicle or structure, or of selling therefrom or therein, any article or thing, and any person selling, displaying for sale, or offering for sale any article or thing either in or from any such vehicle or trailer or structure so parked or placed is guilty of a misdemeanor, except that the provisions of sections 23-1 and 23-2 shall not prohibit a seller from taking orders or delivering any commodity from a vehicle on that part of any county highway immediately adjacent to the premises of the purchaser.

(Ord. No. 208, § 5, 9-26-50)

Sec. 23-4. - Weight limitations; Avenal Community Services District.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 35714 of the Vehicle Code, no person shall drive a commercial vehicle on any street or highway within the Avenal Community Services District, except Skyline Boulevard, when the gross weight of said vehicle is in excess of 14,000 pounds.

(Ord. No. 293, § 1, 1-16-68)

Sec. 23-5. - Turning restrictions; as provided by resolution.

The board of supervisors is authorized to determine by resolution those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right or left turn, or where U-turns shall be permitted or prohibited. 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 sign or they may be removed when such turns are permitted. When the board determines by resolution that such official signs are necessary for the safe and orderly movement of traffic, the director of public works shall erect or cause to be erected the appropriate signs.

(Ord. No. 263, § 1, 3-19-63)

Sec. 23-6. - Authority to determine location of signs and markings.

The board of supervisors is authorized to determine by resolution those intersections, areas and places which will be designated as stop intersections, no parking areas and other such areas or spaces, and to designate where the location and marking shall be placed.

(Ord. No. 267, § 1, 8-27-63)

Sec. 23-7. - Signs and markings to conform to law.

Signs and markings shall be installed in such a manner as to conform with the requirements set forth in the Vehicle Code of the state.

(Ord. No. 267, § 2, 8-27-63)

Sec. 23-8. - Evidence of sign and markings, placement.

When an official traffic sign or marking is placed pursuant to this chapter, the director of public works shall file a certificate that the resolution has been complied with and the sign or marking is actually placed as provided. A certified copy of the resolution of the board for placement of said sign or marking, together with a certified copy of said certificate, shall be prima facie evidence that said sign or marking was in place in compliance with this chapter at all times subsequent to the date of said certificate.

(Ord. No. 263, § 2, 3-19-63; Ord. No. 267, § 3, 8-27-63)

State law reference— Signs, signals and markings, Veh. C., § 21350 et seq.

Sec. 23-9. - Obedience to signs and markings.

When official signs or markings are in place pursuant to this chapter, it will be an infraction for a person to drive or park a vehicle in violation thereof and will be punishable as provided in section 1-8.1.

(Ord. No. 263, § 3, 3-19-63; Ord. No. 571, § 1, 5-26-98)

Sec. 23-10. - Temporary signs or markings; ordering placement.

Whenever the board of supervisors shall determine by minute order that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions, or for other reasons, it may order temporary signs or markings to be erected, posted or placed indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited or restricted on such county roads, streets, highways, avenues, alleys, lanes or places, as it shall direct during the time such temporary signs or markings are in place.

(Ord. No. 220, § 1, 9-1-53)

Sec. 23-11. - Temporary covering of signs or markings.

Where, because of temporary detours, or other emergency, it would be impracticable and hazardous to require a vehicle to comply with signs or markings placed pursuant to this chapter, and the director of public works so finds, he may either remove or cover such signs or markings so that no portion of the instruction thereon remains visible.

At the termination of such emergency the director shall restore or uncover such signs.

(Ord. No. 267, § 4, 8-27-63)

Sec. 23-12. - One-way traffic—Portion of Main Street in area of Stratford—West to east.

Vehicular traffic shall move only from west to east on that part of the divided roadway of Main Street (Laurel Avenue) located south of the two dividing park areas and between Railroad Street and Empire Street (20¼ Avenue) in the unincorporated area of Stratford, when such roadway is properly signposted for such one-way traffic.

(Ord. No. 244, § 1, 3-15-60)

Sec. 23-13. - Same—Same—East to west.

Vehicular traffic shall move only from east to west on that part of the divided roadway of Main Street (Laurel Avenue) located north of the two dividing park areas and between Railroad Street and Empire Street (20¼ Avenue) in the unincorporated area of Stratford, when such roadway is properly signposted for such one-way traffic.

(Ord. No. 244, § 2, 3-15-60)

Sec. 23-14. - Through highways—Definition.

A "through highway" is a highway or portion thereof at the entrance to which stop signs have been erected and vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same.

(Ord. No. 299, § 1, 5-14-68)

Sec. 23-15. - Same—Designated.

The following described county roads, or portions thereof, are declared to be "through highways":

(1)

Excelsior Avenue, from 22nd Avenue to 6th Avenue.

(2)

Fremont Avenue, from 22nd Avenue to State Highway 41.

(3)

Grangeville Boulevard, from 25th Avenue to 6th Avenue.

(4)

Lacey Boulevard, from State Highway 41 to State Highway 43.

(5)

Hanford-Armona Road, from State Highway 41 to State Highway 43.

(6)

Houston Avenue, from 17th Avenue to State Highway 43.

(7)

Jackson Avenue, from State Highway 41 to State Highway 43.

(8)

Kansas Avenue, from State Highway 41 to Tulare County Line.

(9)

Laurel Avenue (and Main Street), from State Highway 41 to 18th Avenue.

(10)

Whitley Avenue, from 10th Avenue to Corcoran City Limits.

(11)

Utica Avenue, from Interstate Highway 5 to 6th Avenue.

(12)

Virginia Avenue, from 6th Avenue to Tulare County Line.

(13)

Skyline Boulevard, from State Highway 33 to Lassen Avenue (Fresno County Road).

(14)

Avenal Cut-Off, from Lassen Avenue to State Highway 198.

(15)

6th Avenue, from State Highway 198 to Tulare County Line.

(16)

6th Avenue, from Kern County Line to Corcoran City Limits.

(17)

10th Avenue, from Whitley Avenue to Nevada Avenue, and 10½ Avenue from Nevada Avenue to Kansas Avenue, and 10th Avenue, from Kansas Avenue to State Highway 43.

(18)

11th Avenue, from Jackson Avenue to Excelsior Avenue.

(19)

12th Avenue, from Houston Avenue to Excelsior Avenue.

(20)

12¾ Avenue, from Excelsior Avenue to Fresno County Line.

(21)

14th Avenue, from Kansas Avenue to Excelsior Avenue.

(22)

18th Avenue, from Laurel Avenue to Grangeville Boulevard.

(23)

22nd Avenue, from Grangeville Boulevard to Fresno County Line.

(24)

Seventh Street, in Avenal, from State Highway 33 to Mariposa Street.

(25)

San Joaquin Street, in Avenal, from State Highway 33 to Skyline Boulevard.

(26)

King Street, in Avenal, from State Highway 33 to Skyline Boulevard.

(27)

19th Avenue, from Nevada Avenue to Kansas Avenue.

(28)

16th Avenue, from Jackson Avenue to Excelsior Avenue.

(29)

Flint Avenue (and River Road), from State Highway 41 to 6th Avenue.

(30)

Third Street, in Avenal, from State Highway 33 to San Joaquin.

(Ord. No. 299A, § 1, 10-1-68; Ord. No. 332, § 1, 11-23-71; Ord. No. 346, § 1, 1-30-73)

Editor's note—

Sec. 23-15 is derived from and has been amended from time to time by the ordinances indicated in the history note following the section. Editorial analysis of ordinances adding, deleting or otherwise revising through highways is omitted. Reference to the Code Comparative Table beginning on page 1089 will indicate the particular subsection affected by amendment.

Sec. 23-16. - Same—Recommending additional highways.

The public works department is charged with the responsibility of recommending any further roads which after an engineering and traffic survey have been found to warrant "through highway" status.

(Ord. No. 299, § 4, 5-14-68)

Sec. 23-17. - Same—Exemptions.

The provisions of sections 23-14, 23-15 and 23-16 shall not apply to drivers of emergency vehicles being operated in compliance with the provisions of section 21055 of the Vehicle Code of the state.

(Ord. No. 299, § 5(b), 5-14-68)

Sec. 23-18. - No fishing from bridges—Declaration of purpose.

The board of supervisors has determined that, for the safety and welfare of pedestrians and for the free and uninhibited flow of vehicular traffic, fishing from highway bridges within the county should be prohibited.

(Ord. No. 272, § 1, 12-8-64)

Sec. 23-19. - Same—Determination by resolution.

The board of supervisors is authorized to determine by resolution those highway bridges from which fishing will be prohibited.

(Ord. No. 272, § 2, 12-8-64)

Sec. 23-20. - Same—Signs to be erected.

"No Fishing From Bridge" signs shall be installed in such manner as to conform with section 21109 of the Vehicle Code of the state.

(Ord. No. 272, § 3, 12-8-64)

Sec. 23-21. - Same—Placing sign, certificate.

When the board determines by resolution that such official signs are necessary for the safety of pedestrians and orderly movement of traffic, the director of public works shall erect or cause to be erected the appropriate signs. When an official traffic sign is placed pursuant to this section, the director of public works shall file a certificate that the resolution has been complied with and the sign is actually placed as provided. A certified copy of the resolution of the board for placement of said sign, together with a certified copy of said certificate, shall be prima facie evidence that said "No Fishing From Bridge" sign was in place in compliance with this section at all times subsequent to the date of said certificate.

(Ord. No. 272, § 4, 12-8-64)

Sec. 23-22. - Same—Obedience to signs.

When official signs are in place pursuant to section 23-20, it shall be a misdemeanor for a person to fish from a bridge in violation thereof.

(Ord. No. 272, § 5, 12-8-64)

Sec. 23-23. - Movement and parking of vehicles within county-owned grounds and installations.

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code, the county administrative officer of the County of Kings is hereby authorized and directed to determine and establish, as county requirements or public convenience, necessity and safety require, regulations for the driving, parking or other movement and use of vehicles over and upon county-owned grounds and institutions within the unincorporated area of the County of Kings or over or upon the grounds and institutions of the county government center in Hanford. Such regulations may include, but are not limited to, speed restrictions, one-way traffic requirements, public and official parking areas, areas of limited time parking, areas of parking restricted to permit, and to issue permits therefor, areas where all operation, parking, stopping, turning and other vehicular movements is or are prohibited. Upon determining and establishing such conditions and regulations or changes therein, the county administrative officer shall cause copies thereof to be printed and one copy filed and retained in the office of the county administrative officer, one copy filed in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors, one copy filed in the office of the director of public works, and one copy filed with each of the clerks of the Hanford, Lemoore, Corcoran and Avenal Judicial Districts. The county administrative officer shall cause appropriate signs or other markings to be erected or placed upon the premises affected by such regulations clearly setting forth such regulations. Such signs or markings, wherever practicable, shall be the standard traffic signs prescribed by the division of highways of the State of California. When copies of such regulations have been filed as aforesaid and when such signs or markings have been erected or placed, it shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the following:

(a)

Drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of that permitted.

(b)

Drive a vehicle the wrong way upon a one-way drive.

(c)

Park a vehicle in a restricted or prohibited area in violation of such restriction or prohibition.

(d)

Park a vehicle in a time-restricted area for a longer time than permitted, it being specifically provided that the movement of any vehicle from one place to another within the same area for the purpose of evading a time restriction shall be a violation of this section.

(e)

Drive a vehicle in violation of a turning, stopping or other vehicular movement restriction.

(f)

Drive, park, operate or use a vehicle in violation of any other regulation established pursuant to this section.

As used in this section, a vehicle is a device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, sidewalk, courtyard, walkway, ramp, or other pedestrian walkways, whether motor-driven or propelled exclusively by human power, including bicycles, skateboards or any device upon which a person may ride having one or more wheels, except devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(Ord. No. 274, § 1, 3-16-65; Ord. No. 318, § 1, 9-15-70; Ord. No. 455, § 1, 5-13-86)

Sec. 23-24. - Vehicles prohibited in the riverbed of the Kings River.

Except for vehicles used during commercial farming operations, official vehicles, or riverbed, channel and levee maintenance vehicles, it is unlawful to start, drive, operate, coast, move, park or possess any motor driven vehicle in the riverbed of the Kings River, and its distributaries in Kings County, including the Main Branch, North Fork, Clark's Fork, South Fork, Cole Slough, the Fresno Slough, Dutch John Cut and the Crescent By-Pass. As used in this section "motor-driven vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, including but not limited to any automobile, truck, jeep, motorcycle or other motor-driven cycle, sand buggy, dune buggy or all-terrain vehicle, excepting a vehicle solely moved by human power. As used in this section "riverbed" means all land within the designated floodway of the Kings River or in any of the distributaries described above, as shown on the designated floodway maps prepared by the Reclamation Board of the State of California as recorded in the Office of the Kings County Recorder at the request of the State of California as Document No. 1433, filed January 28, 1972 in Book 1 of DESIGNATED FLOODWAYS, at pages "Index 1, K-1 to K-79"

Every person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an infraction punishable under the provisions of section 1-8.1 of this Code.

(Ord. No. 485, § 2, 5-22-90; Ord. No. 597, § 2, 4-17-01)

Secs. 23-25—23-33. - Reserved.