Knowledge Base

Never park or leave your vehicle:

• Where a “No Parking” sign is posted.
• On a marked or unmarked crosswalk, sidewalk, partially blocking a sidewalk, or in front of a driveway.
• Within 3 feet of a sidewalk ramp for disabled persons or in front of or on a curb that provides wheelchair access to a sidewalk.
• In a disabled person parking space, unless you are disabled and display a placard or disabled person license plates.
• In the space next to a disabled person parking space, if it is painted in a crosshatched (diagonal) pattern (CVC §22507.8(c)(2)).
• In a space designated for parking or fueling zero-emission vehicles which display an identifying decal.
• In a tunnel or on a bridge, except where permitted by signs.
• Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant or a fire station driveway.
• On or within 7½ feet of a railroad track.
  
• Between a safety zone and the curb.
  
• “Double parked.” (Parking in the street when all legal parking places at the curb are taken.)
  
• On the wrong side of the street.
  
• At a red curb.
• On a freeway, except:
  • In an emergency.
  • When a peace officer or device requires a stop. 
  • Where a stop is specifically permitted. A vehicle (even if disabled) that is stopped, parked, or left standing on a freeway for more than 4 hours may be removed (CVC §22651(f)).