10 rules for unincorporated Colusa County, California.
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Unincorporated Colusa County has no blanket residential-street ban on RVs or boats, but any vehicle left on a street over 120 consecutive hours is prohibited, large truck-trailers are barred from signed streets, and the zoning code bars storing trailers, boats, or campers in required parking spaces.
Colusa County Code Section 12A-34(a)
No person shall stop, park or leave standing any truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or semitrailer trailer unit of a truck tractor-trailer, truck tractor-semitrailer, or truck-tractor semitrailer-trailer combination, having a capacity in excess of twelve thousand pounds (six tons) gross vehicle weight (GVW) on any street signed no parking by resolution of the board of supervisors.
Unincorporated Colusa County prohibits parking in front of any public or private driveway and bars parking near wheelchair access ramps. Where a driveway has no curb cut, the visibly paved or marked entrance area counts as the protected driveway.
Colusa County Code Section 12A-14
No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle in front of a public or private driveway, except that a bus or taxicab may stop to load and unload passengers. Where the entrance of a private driveway is not delineated by an opening in a curb, so much of the surface of the ground as is paved, surfaced, or otherwise plainly marked by vehicle use as a private driveway entrance, shall cons...
Unincorporated Colusa County prohibits parking trucks and trailer combinations over 12,000 lb GVW on streets signed 'no parking,' caps loads on partially improved county highways at 16,000 lb, and follows California Vehicle Code authority on heavy commercial-vehicle parking.
Colusa County Code Section 12-24
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to drive or move, or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved, on any partially improved county highway any vehicle of a weight, including its load, in excess of sixteen thousand pounds, such weight to be distributed as follows: not more than six thousand pounds resting upon any one axle with single tires, and not more than ten th...
Unincorporated Colusa County requires vehicles to park within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, prohibits angle parking unless approved and striped, bars double parking, and lets the road commissioner mark parking spaces and post location-specific restrictions.
Colusa County Code Section 12A-5(a)
Every vehicle stopped or parked on a street where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within eighteen inches of the right-hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel touching the right-hand curb.
Unincorporated Colusa County has no general overnight street-parking ban, but on streets posted with signs no vehicle may park more than 10 minutes between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. (except Sundays and holidays), and no vehicle may sit on any street more than 120 consecutive hours.
Colusa County Code Section 12A-3
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle on that street for a period of time longer than ten minutes between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m. of any day, except Sundays and holidays.
Colusa County's municipal code has no dedicated electric-vehicle-charging ordinance. EV-charging infrastructure for new construction is governed by the statewide California Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen, Title 24, Part 11), which the county administers through its adopted Building Code (Chapter 5).
Colusa County declares abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles a public nuisance. On private property, Chapter 12B sets a 10-day-notice abatement process run by the sheriff; on county roads, a vehicle unattended 72+ hours is presumed abandoned and removed under state law.
Colusa County Code Section 12C-6
Any vehicle found unattended upon a county road, highway, street or right-of-way for seventy-two hours or more shall be presumed to be abandoned and may be removed in accordance with Section 22651 et seq. of the California Vehicle Code.
In unincorporated Colusa County only the road commissioner (under board authority) may place curb markings, which carry standard meanings: red (no stopping at any time), yellow (timed loading), and white (passenger loading). Parking contrary to a legible curb marking is prohibited.
Colusa County Code Section 12-18(a)
Red shall mean, "no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code of the state, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone."
Unincorporated Colusa County uses yellow curbs for freight/passenger loading and white curbs for passenger loading, establishes bus zones, and requires off-street freight-loading spaces for larger commercial and industrial buildings under its Zoning Code.
Colusa County Code Section 12-18(b)
Yellow shall mean, "no stopping, standing or parking at any time between eight a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays, for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading and unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes, or the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty minutes."
Unincorporated Colusa County bars trucks and trailer combinations over 12,000 lb GVW from streets signed 'no parking,' caps gross weight on unpaved county highways at 16,000 lb, and relies on California Vehicle Code authority for oversized-vehicle parking limits.
Colusa County Code Section 12-23
As used in this article, a "partially improved county highway" is defined as every public county highway excepting a highway paved with cement concrete or asphalt, concrete, or a highway with a roadway of hard surface not less than four inches thick made up of a mixture of rock, sand or gravel bound together by an artificial binder other than natural soil.
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