Illegal Parking.
Never park or leave your vehicle:
• Where a “No Parking” sign is posted.
• On a marked or unmarked crosswalk, sidewalk, partially blocking a sidewalk, or in front of a driveway.
• Within 3 feet of a sidewalk ramp for disabled persons or in front of or on a curb that provides wheelchair access to a sidewalk.
• In a disabled person parking space, unless you are disabled and display a placard or disabled license plates.
• In the space next to a disabled person parking space, if it is painted in a crosshatched (diagonal) pattern (CVC §22507.8(c)(2)).
• In a space designated for parking or fueling zero-emission vehicles which display an identifying decal.
• In a tunnel or on a bridge, except where permitted by signs.
• Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant or a fire station driveway.

[Illegal parking, Based on the book: “California Driver Handbook”]