Los Banos, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Who may authorize curb paint
- City Council or Traffic Safety Committee only
- Red curb
- No stopping/standing/parking; bus-zone exception
- Yellow curb
- Loading only, 7am-6pm, 3/20 min
- White curb
- Passenger/mail loading, 3 minutes, all times
- Green curb
- Max 24 minutes, all times
- Blue curb
- Disabled placard parking only
Summary
Painting or marking a curb in Los Banos without City sign-off is illegal. Section 4-5.10 reserves curb, sidewalk, and street painting for the City Council or Traffic Safety Committee, and Section 4-5.19 fixes exactly what each official curb color, red, yellow, white, green, or blue, permits.
§ 4-5.10. Unauthorized placement of signs, markings, or paint on city curbs, sidewalks and streets is prohibited. No person, except when specifically authorized by the City Council or Traffic Safety Committee, shall place any sign, marking or paint on City curbs, sidewalks or streets. § ... 4-5.19. ... Curb markings to indicate no stopping and parking regulations. ... Red: ... No stopping, standing or parking permitted, except that a bus may stop in a red zone which is marked or signed as a bus zone. ... Yellow: No stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided the loading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials more than 20 minutes. ... Blue: ... Parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons as described in California Vehicle Code Section 22511.5 and 22511.9.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4356507; v3 updated 2025-03-05).
Full Breakdown
10 makes it unlawful for anyone except the City Council or the Traffic Safety Committee to place a sign, marking, or paint on a City curb, sidewalk, or street. 13 separately makes it unlawful to remove, obliterate, or conceal a lawfully placed curb marking. 19 fixes what each color means. A red curb bars stopping, standing, or parking outright, with the single exception that a bus may stop in a red zone signed as a bus zone. every day except Sundays and holidays: passengers get three minutes, freight and materials get twenty.
A white curb is reserved for passenger loading or dropping mail at an adjacent mailbox, capped at three minutes, and applies around the clock. A green curb caps any stop at twenty-four minutes unless a sign posts a different limit, also around the clock. 9. 08.
Violations & Fines
Placing unauthorized paint or markings on a City curb is enforced by the Police Department under Section 4-5.04. General violations of the parking chapter are infractions under Section 4-5.02(a), punishable per the general penalty in Title 1, Chapter 2, while any violation involving the standing or parking of a vehicle instead draws a civil penalty set by City Council resolution under Section 4-5.02(b).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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