Fresno County, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Red curb
- No stopping, standing, or parking at any time
- Yellow curb
- Freight or passenger loading zone
- White curb
- Passenger loading or postal mail zone
- Green curb
- 24-minute limit, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. except Sundays/holidays
- Blue curb
- Disabled persons/veterans parking only
- Who may paint curbs
- Only the director of public works
Summary
Fresno County assigns fixed meanings to painted curb colors under Section 11.04.010: red bars stopping, yellow and white mark loading zones, green limits parking to 24 minutes on weekdays, and blue reserves spaces for disabled parking. Only the public works director may authorize curb painting.
The director of public works is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter and as he finds the public safety and convenience requires, to place, and when required herein shall place, the following curb markings to indicate stopping, standing or parking regulations and those markings shall have the meaning herein set forth. 1. Red means no stopping, standing or parking at anytime except as permitted by the Vehicle Code and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone. 2. Yellow indicates a loading zone for freight or passengers. 3. White indicates a passenger loading zone or a postal mail zone. 4. Green means no standing or parking for longer than twenty-four minutes at anytime between nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays or holidays. 5. Blue indicates parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of disabled persons and disabled veterans. No person, other than the director of public works, shall paint any curb surface unless granted permission to do so by the director of public works.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 51).
Full Breakdown
on any day except Sundays or holidays; and blue reserves parking exclusively for vehicles of disabled persons and disabled veterans. Subsection (B) bars anyone other than the director of public works from painting any curb surface unless the director grants permission, closing off homeowner or business self-painting of curbs. Subsection (C) then makes it unlawful to stand, stop, or park a vehicle in violation of markings or signs the director has placed. The section traces to Ordinance 553 from 1973 and prior code section 311, and was last amended by Ordinance 00-007. 010 sets the base color code for the whole county road system.
Violations & Fines
Chapter 11.04 does not write its own infraction penalty for Section 11.04.010, unlike neighboring parking chapters 11.08 and 11.12 which expressly call their violations infractions under Section 1.12.020. Absent that specific language, a violation of the curb-marking or unauthorized-painting rules falls under the county's general penalty in Section 1.12.010: up to $500 and/or six months in jail, with each day a separate offense.
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