As a pubic service, below is the most recent list of Citations and fines for San Francisco, California. From https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2020/10/fy_2021_fees_and_fines_effective_1.1.21.pdf
| Parking Violations and Fines – SF Transportation Code Penalty Schedule | Effective 7/1/2021 |
|---|---|
| Citations | |
| Div I 7.2.10 Pedestrian Crossings | $77 |
| Div I 7.2.11 Electric Assistive Personal Mobility Devices | $100 |
| Div I 7.2.12 Bicycle Riding Restricted | $100 |
| Div I 7.2.13 NUV Violation | $100 |
| On-Street Parking | |
| Div I 7.2.20 Residential Parking | $97 |
| Div I 7.2.22 Street Cleaning | $85 |
The Tyranny of Parking Tickets
There is perhaps nothing that can ruin your day in San Francisco more than returning to your car and finding a parking ticket under your windshield wiper.
Every San Franciscan with a car has experienced the wrath of the metermaid – seemingly peaceful and calm people in their blue uniforms driving around in their golf carts issuing pain and misery around town. The reason they wear helmets is surely for self protection. It is a hard job indeed and the fines make it so if there is one thing that San Franciscans take seriously it is avoiding parking tickets. Once you get a rash of these you begin to wonder if you should simply stay in bed all day just so you do not lose money.
The one that is often the most peculiar is the $85 you must cough up for the Div I 7.2.22 Street Cleaning infraction. While you look out your window with your car ticketed and observe the street cleaning truck go by mostly just blowing trash every which way it makes you take a deep breath and hopefully chuckle. I have street cleaning schedule on my calendar with alerts thirty minutes prior to the event.
When you get one of these you soon start think of all the various ways you could have spent the $85. Perhaps a dinner for two at a fine restaurant. Three large pizzas at North Beach Pizza. Six Super Carnitas Burritos at Guadalajara, Tickets for two at SF Jazz, the list is endless.
Whoever said San Francisco is soft on crime never parked their car and forgot to plug the meter!
| On-Street Parking (continued) | |
| Div I 7.2.23(a) Parking Meter- Downtown Core | $96 |
| Div I 7.2.23(b) Parking Meter-Outside Downtown Core | $87 |
| Div I 7.2.25 Red Zone | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.26 Yellow Zone | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.27 White Zone | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.28 Green Zone | $90 |
| Div I 7.2.29 Parking for Three Days | $75 |
| Div I 7.2.30(a) Overtime Parking Downtown Core | $96 |
| Div I 7.2.30(b) Overtime Parking Outside Downtown Core | $87 |
| Div I 7.2.30(c) Overtime Meter Parking Downtown Core | $96 |
| Div I 7.2.30(d) Overtime Meter Parking Outside Downtown Core | $87 |
| Div I 7.2.32 Angled Parking | $72 |
| Div I 7.2.33 Blocking Residential Door | $60 |
| Div I 7.2.34 Median Dividers and Islands | $97 |
| Div I 7.2.35 Parking on Grades | $60 |
| Div I 7.2.36 100 Feet Oversize | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.37 Motorcycle Parking | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.38 Parking in Stand | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.39 Parking Transit-Only | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.40 Tow-Away Zone- Downtown Core | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.41 Tow-Away Zone- Outside Downtown Core | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.42 Parking Restrictions | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.43 Parking-Public Property | $79 |
| Div I 7.2.44 Misuse Disabled Parking Placard/License | $866 |
| Div I 7.2.45 Temporary Parking Restriction | $85 |
| Div I 7.2.46 Temporary Construction Zone | $85 |
| Div I 7.2.47 Remove Chalk | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.48 Repairing Vehicle | $104 |
| Div I 7.2.49 Permit on Wrong Car | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.50 Invalid Permit | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.51 Parking Marked Space | $67 |
| Div I 7.2.52 On-Street Car Share Parking | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.54 Large Vehicle | $110 |
| Off-Street Parking | |
| Div I 7.2.60 Parking Facility | $72 |
| Div I 7.2.61 Entrance/Exit Parking Facility | $100 |
| Div I 7.2.62 Blocking Space Parking Facility | $77 |
| Div I 7.2.63 Speeding within Parking Facility | $100 |
| Div I 7.2.64 Block Charging Bay | $110 |
| Div I 7.2.65 Overtime Parking_Off Street Parking Meter | $79 |
| Div I 7.2.66 Misuse Disabled Parking Placard/License Plate | $866 |
| Div II 1009 SFMTA Property | $110 |