The City Purchasing Agent shall provide to the Police Department
suitable serially numbered tickets for notifying violators to appear
and answer to charges of violating traffic laws and ordinances. The
Police Department shall keep a complete record of all such tickets
received from the Purchasing Agent, and a complete record of all tickets
issued to police officers. The envelope section of said tickets shall
be conspicuously affixed to the vehicle in violation, and the original
shall be turned over to the fiscal office. When the envelope section
of the ticket has been received, the City Clerk's office shall account
for the original issued by the police officer.
A. The Public Works Department, when directed by the City Council, is
hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces
on the public streets or highways of the City, said parking spaces
to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing
or surface of the street. At each space so marked off, it shall be
unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall
not be entirely within the limits of the spaces so designated.
B. Any police officer in uniform, at his discretion, may remove or cause
to be removed any vehicle left upon any street when such vehicle is
not in the apparent charge of any driver or other person or when such
vehicle is parked in violation of the regulations of this chapter.
Upon removal of any such motor vehicle, notice shall immediately be
served upon the registered owner by hand if said registered owner
can be found and, if not, by leaving at the abode if said registered
owner lives within the City of Laconia and by notice to the State
Police in the event of abode service or in the event said owner cannot
be found and does not reside within the City of Laconia, informing
him of the removal and the location of the motor vehicle. Every owner
of a motor vehicle left on any street within the City of Laconia by
so leaving said vehicle consents to such removal and assumes thereby
the cost of such removal and storage charges resulting therefrom and
waives thereby any claim against the City of Laconia or any corporation,
firm or individual for any damages arising from such removal.
C. The City Council may restrict parking on sections of streets otherwise
than specified in other sections of this chapter for such areas as
loading zones, to keep driveways open and for similar purposes. Upon
notice of establishment of said restrictions, the Department of Public
Works shall erect the signs requested.
[Added 4-9-2007 by Ord. No. 03.2007.03]
A. The provisions of RSA 231:130-a, Notification of Unpaid Fines, are
hereby adopted by the City of Laconia. Pursuant to the adoption of
RSA 231:130-a, the City Clerk shall:
(1) Maintain a record in the office of the City Clerk which shall contain
a listing of all residents of the City of Laconia who have outstanding
parking violations incurred in municipalities that have adopted the
provisions of this section.
(2) Notify the Town or City Clerk of any other municipality that has
adopted the provisions of this section of any outstanding parking
violations incurred by residents of such municipality within the limits
of the notifying municipality.
(3) Notify the Town or City Clerk of any municipality that has adopted
the provisions of this section of the payment of any outstanding parking
violations incurred by residents of such municipality within the limits
of the notifying municipality. Such action shall be taken within 10
days of the payment of the outstanding violation.
(4) Update and keep readily available the records required by RSA 231:30-a,
Subdivision I, in order that such records may be consulted at such
time as residents of such municipalities apply for permits for the
registration of motor vehicles pursuant to RSA 261:148.
B. Furthermore, no resident of the City of Laconia shall be allowed
to register a motor vehicle until all outstanding parking violations
have been paid to the City of Laconia or to any other municipality
that has adopted the provisions of RSA 231:130-a and which has given
the required notice to the City.
Whenever by this chapter or any other ordinance of this City,
any parking time limit or traffic regulation is imposed or parking
is prohibited on designated streets, it shall be the duty of the Department
of Public Works to erect appropriate signs or curb and/or street painting
giving notice thereof.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the
City Council from providing for bus stops, taxicab stands, street
marking, signs, parking arrangements and other matters of similar
nature, including the loading or unloading of trucks, vans or other
commercial vehicles.
Proof of ownership of any vehicle operated in violation of this
chapter shall be prima facie evidence that such owner operated said
vehicle in violation of this chapter or permitted said vehicle to
be operated in violation of this chapter; and in all cases where the
owner shall permit another to operate said vehicle, said owner may
be charged for any violation of this chapter by such person.
[Amended 3-25-2002 by Ord. No. 02.2002.02]
The City Council, upon the recommendation of the City Manager,
is hereby authorized to, from time to time, adopt temporary traffic
control orders. Such temporary traffic control orders may be adopted
by majority vote of the City Council. Temporary traffic control orders
are intended to allow the establishment of short-term measures to
control traffic on City streets. A temporary traffic control order
shall be a written order issued from the office of the City Manager,
after a majority vote of the City Council, describing the specific
traffic situation or problem to be addressed and establishing a suitable
regulation to control it. The order shall state the specific action
required and the devices which must be posted informing the public
of the required action. The order shall become effective when filed
by the City Manager with the City Clerk and with the Police and Public
Works Departments. The City Clerk shall maintain a permanent file
of all temporary traffic control orders as shall the Police Department.
All temporary traffic orders shall expire on the expiration date and
time listed in the temporary traffic order and may not be renewed.
A new temporary traffic control order shall be issued for the same
purpose only when required to deal with a situation temporary in nature,
such as a public emergency, disaster, parade, special sale, construction
activities or the like but not for the purpose of avoiding established
and permanent traffic ordinances.