Rialto, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

12 alongside the city engineer's authority over signals, lane markings, and roadway markings. It provides that no person, unless authorized by the city, shall paint any street or curb surface. The section carves out one exception: the painting of numbers on a curb surface, but only by a person who has complied with the provisions of any city resolution or ordinance pertaining to that practice, meaning even curb-number painters (commonly done for a fee to mark a house address) must follow whatever permitting process the city has separately adopted for it.

070, unauthorized curb painting, including the red, yellow, or blue color-coded curbs used citywide to mark no-parking, loading, or accessible zones, interferes directly with the city's own traffic-control markings. A resident or contractor who paints a curb red to create a private no-parking zone, or repaints a faded curb without city approval, falls squarely within the prohibition, regardless of intent.