Butte County, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

When a traffic engineering study shows a highway needs a loading zone, passenger-loading zone or bus-loading zone, the Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution directing the Director of Public Works to install the signs or curb markings, and the Board removes them by the same process once the need ends (Sec. 14-42). mail, and the vehicle cannot stay longer than necessary and never more than twenty minutes; stopping to load or unload passengers, including their personal baggage, is capped at three minutes, and the rules are enforced to accommodate real loading needs without letting drivers abuse the privilege (Sec.

14-43). The curb colors carry fixed legal meanings: red bars all stopping, standing or parking except a bus in a marked bus zone; yellow allows stopping only to load or unload, three minutes for passengers or twenty minutes for freight; white permits stopping only to load or unload passengers within three minutes or to deposit mail in an adjacent box; and green bars parking longer than twenty minutes (Sec. 14-46). No one may stop, stand or park in a county alley for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or freight (Sec.

14-44). The Public Works Director can also mark bus loading zones on either side of a street next to a school where they would help traffic move safely (Sec. 14-45). A first conviction for violating any curb marking or sign under this article draws a fine up to fifty dollars, a second conviction within a year up to one hundred dollars, and a third or later conviction within that year up to two hundred fifty dollars (Sec. 14-47).