San Luis Obispo County, CA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Section 15.710.050 establishes a civil penalty schedule for any violation of vehicle standing, parking, registration, or equipment rules under the California Vehicle Code, federal law, or a local ordinance occurring anywhere in the county's jurisdiction. The schedule lists specific dollar amounts next to specific offenses, and blocking a bicycle path under California Vehicle Code Section 21211 carries a fifty-dollar civil penalty, the same amount set for basic no-parking and standing violations, parking within an intersection, parking in a safety zone, parking within fifteen feet of a fire station driveway, and blocking a wheelchair access ramp.

Higher penalties apply nearby in the same schedule: three hundred forty dollars for a disabled-parking violation under Vehicle Code Section 22507.8 and two hundred sixty dollars for a fire-lane violation under Section 22500.1. Section 15.710.020 assigns enforcement of these civil penalties to the sheriff or a designee and other law enforcement agencies, while the auditor-controller or a designee processes the citations under the procedures in Division 17, Article 3 of the Vehicle Code (Section 40200 et seq.).