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

130. Under subsection A, a red curb means no stopping, standing, or parking at any time, the only carve-outs are whatever the California Vehicle Code separately allows and a transit bus stopping in a red zone that's marked or signed as a bus zone. The same section defines the rest of the palette so drivers can read a curb without a sign: yellow limits stopping to loading and unloading, capped at 30 minutes for a commercial vehicle (no more than 10 minutes unattended) and five minutes for a noncommercial vehicle; white allows only passenger loading or unloading, five minutes by default or up to 15 minutes where a sign states a longer limit, and applies at all times in front of a hotel or whenever the fronting building is open; green caps standing or parking at 15 minutes or less; and blue marks a space reserved for vehicles displaying a disabled-person placard or plate.

The parking manager places these markings, and where this title requires a marking, must place it, the color isn't decorative, it's the regulation. 130's closing sentence makes it unlawful to stop, stand, or park adjacent to it in violation of the meaning assigned to that color. 112. 200.