California Code of Regulations › Title 21 - Public Works › Division 2 - Department of Transportation › Chapter 20 - Permissible Activity and Use of Safety Roadside Rest Areas and Vista Points in and Along California State Highways › Article 3 - General Prohibitions and Restrictions › Section 2205 - General

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
It is the responsibility and desire of the department to
					 protect and ensure the convenience, enjoyment, health and safety of users of
					 safety roadside rest and vista point areas. Unless allowed under other
					 provisions of these regulations, the following are prohibitions and
					 restrictions for all users of safety roadside rest and vista point
					 areas.
(a) Camping is
				  prohibited.
(b) Vehicles shall not
				  be parked and persons shall not remain for more than eight (8) hours in any
				  twenty-four (24) hour period.
(c)
				  No parking is allowed for any period of time for the purpose of allowing any
				  traveler to engage in any activity off of the safety roadside rest area or
				  vista point. It is the intent to forbid persons to use the safety roadside rest
				  area or vista point to park their vehicle so as to allow the occupants to
				  engage in activities that include, but are not limited to, cross-country
				  skiing, off-road vehicle use, fishing, hiking, camping or hunting.
(d) Pitching of tents or erection of other
				  shelter is prohibited.
(e) Building
				  or maintaining campfires or other open fires is prohibited.
(f) Use of gas-fueled stoves is permitted
				  within suitably equipped vehicles, such as recreational vehicles, travel
				  trailers and motor homes.
Small portable gas-fueled campstoves and small portable
					 charcoal hibachis, barbecues or braziers, may be used if placed on the ground
					 or on designated stands and used in safe manner, in accordance with fire and
					 safety laws and ordinances and regulations thereunder.
(g) Solicitation for money is strictly
				  prohibited.
(h) Vehicles shall only
				  be parked in designated parking areas.
(i) All litter and garbage shall be placed in
				  trash receptacles provided.
(j) The
				  use of noise-producing instruments, megaphones, loudspeakers or other similar
				  devices which are used to amplify sound is not permitted.
(k) All use and activity shall cease in case
				  of emergency situations involving danger to the general public which result
				  from fire, flood waters, traffic conditions, hazardous substances, gases or
				  other conditions whether occurring on or off the state highway.
Final determination of when such conditions exist shall be
					 made by a department representative or a California peace officer at the safety
					 roadside rest area or vista point.
(l) All animals shall be on a leash; animals
				  not restrained by a leash shall be controlled by appropriate enclosures or
				  other adequate restraint.
(m) The
				  unauthorized use of the department's water, electrical and gas utilities is
				  prohibited.
(n) Selling,
				  publicizing or other means of merchandising any article of merchandise, food,
				  service or thing is a prohibited commercial activity.
(o) There shall be no dumping of sanitary
				  wastes except at designated sanitary dump stations.
(p) Signs, cards, handbills, flags, pennants,
				  streamers or other such material shall not be attached, nailed, placed or
				  otherwise affixed to any tree, fence, building, light standard or other such
				  fixture or facility.
(q) Users
				  shall not block vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
1. Amendment
					 of section and NOTE filed 3-7-95; operative 4-6-95 (Register 95, No.
					 10).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						225
						and
						225.5,
						Streets and Highways Code and 22651, Vehicle Code. Reference: Sections
						220,
						225,
						225.5,
						670
						and
						731,
						Streets and Highways Code; Sections
						22520.5,
						22520.6 and
						22651,
						Vehicle Code; Sections
						370,
						374.3 and
						374.4, Penal
						Code.