PEDESTRIANS

Los Angeles Municipal Code ch. VIII, div. I

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Los Angeles Municipal Code § 80.37 CROSSWALKS - DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH.

SEC. 80.37. CROSSWALKS - DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH. The Department is hereby authorized to determine those intersections or other places at which exceptional hazard exists to pedestrians crossing the roadway. When such determination has been made in any case, the Department shall install crosswalks at such intersections or other places, by appropriate markings or other devices. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,523. Eff. 7/17/67.)

Los Angeles Municipal Code § 80.42 HAND CARTS AND HAND TRUCKS.

SEC. 80.42. HAND CARTS AND HAND TRUCKS. (a) To Comply With Traffic Laws. Every person pushing, propelling, moving or drawing any hand cart or hand truck used for the transportation of persons or property upon any roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the Vehicle Code of this State and ordinances of this city, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. (b) To Conform to Traffic Flow. No person shall push, propel, move or draw any hand cart or hand truck used for the transportation of persons or property on a roadway in a direction opposed to the flow of traffic thereon. (c) Cross Roadway at Right Angles to Curb. No person, while so pushing, propelling, moving or drawing any hand cart or hand truck, shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route which is at right angles to the curb, or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a marked or unmarked crosswalk. (d) Exemption. This section shall not apply to any employee of this City who is required to push, propel, move or draw a hand cart or hand truck upon any roadway as part of the employee’s official duties.

Los Angeles Municipal Code § 80.42.1 PLACES CLOSED TO PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL.

SEC. 80.42.1. PLACES CLOSED TO PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL. The Department is hereby authorized to determine those structures or freeways or portions thereof, upon which travel by pedestrians constitutes a hazard. When such determination has been made, in any case, the Department is directed to post signs giving notice that such places are closed to pedestrian travel. When such signs are in place, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to go or travel upon, along, or across such structure, freeway, street or public way, except to perform public work or official duty or when unavoidable as a result of an emergency. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,523, Eff. 7/17/67.)

Los Angeles Municipal Code § 80.44 TRAINS NOT TO BLOCK STREETS.

SEC. 80.44. TRAINS NOT TO BLOCK STREETS. No person shall operate any train or train of cars, or permit the same to remain standing, so as to block the movement of traffic upon any street for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes.

Source: City of Los Angeles, Charter and Codes (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/los_angeles/latest/lamc/0-0-0-166123Fetched: 10/24/2026