San Benito County, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Decision maker
- County Engineer, via traffic study
- Notice method
- Posted signs or curb markings
- Violation
- Unlawful, vehicle subject to removal
- Scope
- County-maintained roads only
Summary
The County Engineer decides where curbs get no-parking markings in unincorporated San Benito County, based on a traffic engineering study, not a fixed color code.
The County Engineer is hereby authorized to prohibit stopping, standing or parking, and is directed to place and maintain appropriate signs and curb markings giving notice of this regulation at any place when such prohibition, as indicated by a traffic engineering investigation, will alleviate dangerous hazardous traffic conditions or facilitate the full use of the roadway. The County Engineer is directed further to place and maintain appropriate signs or curb markings giving notice that vehicles in violation of this prohibition are subject to removal.
(2) It is unlawful to stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any place so marked or signed.
(B) When the County Engineer, upon the basis of an engineering investigation, finds that the conditions no longer exist to prohibit stopping, standing or parking as authorized in § 17.02.001(A), the County Engineer may remove such signs and such curb markings from such portion of such street or highway. (Ord. 1,019, § 2)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2025 S-28: current through Ordinance 1078).
Full Breakdown
Under § 17.02.001, the County Engineer may prohibit stopping, standing, or parking anywhere a traffic engineering investigation shows the restriction will relieve a hazardous condition or free up the roadway, and must post signs or curb markings giving notice. Stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle standing in a place so marked is unlawful, and the vehicle is subject to removal. The Engineer can also lift a restriction, and remove the related signs or markings, once an engineering review shows the hazard no longer exists. The code does not spell out a red/white/blue curb color scheme: enforcement rests on the posted sign or marking itself. Applies only to county-maintained roads in the unincorporated area.
Violations & Fines
Stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle standing in a place posted or curb-marked under § 17.02.001 is unlawful and the vehicle can be removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does San Benito County use color-coded curbs?
Can the county remove a no-parking zone?
Sources & Official References
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