The provisions of this article prohibiting the
standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those
times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except when
it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic
or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official
traffic-control device.
The provisions of this article imposing a time
limit on parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe
other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the
stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at
specified times.
When signs are erected giving notice thereof,
no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets
described in Schedule I on file in the office of the City Clerk.
When signs are erected in each block giving
notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified
and described in Schedule I on file in the office of the City Clerk,
except Sundays and legal holidays or any other day so specified.
When signs are erected in each block giving
notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle at
any time as specified and described in Schedule I on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
When signs are erected in each block giving
notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between
the hours specified and described in Schedule I on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
When signs are erected in each block giving
notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for longer than the
specified time limit between the hours indicated for any day except
Sundays and legal holidays within the district, municipal parking
lots or upon any of the streets described in the Schedule I on file
in the office of the City Clerk.
Whenever by this chapter or any other ordinance
of this City any parking time limit is imposed or parking prohibited
on designated streets or municipal parking lots, it shall be the duty
of the Director of Public Works or his/her designee to erect appropriate
signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective
unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged
offense.
A.
Stickers; portable plate.
(1)
Ambulatory handicapped persons who have been issued
parking privilege plates pursuant to R.I.G.L.§ 31-28-7 may
be issued a sticker displaying the international symbol of access
which is to be affixed to said plates.
(2)
A portable place indicating handicapped parking privileges
shall be issued to an ambulatory handicapped person who is being transported.
Upon application and proof of disability, a certificate of entitlement
shall be issued with the plate. The plates shall be numbered. The
plate is to be prominently displayed in the right-hand side of the
front windshield of the motor vehicle.
(3)
A temporary issuance of a plate shall be at the discretion
of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.
(4)
Ambulatory handicapped persons who have a car registered
in their name may be issued a parking privilege plate to be attached
to the car, or a portable plate, but not both. Certificates of entitlement
shall be renewed every two years.
(5)
A person, other than an ambulatory handicapped person,
who for his/her own purposes uses the parking privilege plate shall
be fined $25 for each violation.
B.
Handicapped parking spaces shall be designated and
identified by the posting of signs incorporating the international
symbol of access of white on blue and indicating that the parking
space is reserved for the handicapped with vehicles displaying the
required certificate. The posting of the signs shall in accordance
with the State Building Code and R.I.G.L. § 37-8-15 when
the location of the parking spaces on public and private lands is
within the purview of the State Building Code or R.I.G.L. § 37-8-15.
C.
Enforcement.
(1)
A person, other than a handicapped person who unlawfully parks a vehicle in a parking space designated for the handicapped, shall be fined as set forth in § 388-5. The vehicle may be subject to towing at the owners expense.
(2)
Enforcement of the parking provisions of this section
shall be enforced by the Pawtucket Police Department and prosecuted
through the Pawtucket Municipal Court.
D.
For the purpose of this section, "handicapped" means:
(1)
A permanent impairment which prevents or impedes walking
which shall include but not be limited to an impairment which prevents
walking and requires use of a wheelchair;
(2)
An impairment which involuntarily causes difficulty
or insecurity in walking or climbing stairs with or without the need
to use braces, crutches, canes or artificial support;
(3)
An impairment caused by amputation, arthritis or other
orthopedic condition; or
(4)
An impairment in respiratory, circulatory or neurologic
health which limits the person's walking capability.
E.
For the purpose of this section, physically handicapped
persons may be capable of working or may be presently working and
may be eligible under this chapter for the certificate or insignia
issued to physically handicapped persons by the Registry of Motor
Vehicles.
Wherever there appears in this chapter, and
attached schedules, a reference to distance along one street from
another street or from the intersection of such other street as a
point of reference, the point of reference shall be construed to mean
the point of tangency of the curve of the curbing on the street along
which the distance is measured, unless otherwise designated.
In front of a public or private driveway shall
mean the full opening between the point of tangency of the turnstones
at each side of the driveway or the end of a straight curbing if there
are no turnstones or the top of a continuous cast-in-place concrete
curbing where it slopes down to meet the gutter grade, across the
opening, plus a distance of four feet on either side of the driveway
opening.
