[Adopted as Ch. 70, §§ 70.15 through 70.28, of the 1993 Code; amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ELECTED OFFICIALS' PARKING ZONE
A space or section of the parking lot set aside for the exclusive use of a particular elected official of Henderson County.
LOADING ZONE
A space or section of the parking lot set aside for the exclusive use of loading or unloading persons or supplies and merchandise.
PARK or PARKING
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or merchandise.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a street or highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks.
A. 
Thirty-minute incremental parking spaces shall be designated at selected locations on the Henderson County parking lot on the east side and immediately adjacent to the Henderson County Courthouse and bounded on the west by the Courthouse, on the south by the central park, on the east by Elm Street and on the north by the Henderson City Building.
B. 
The Henderson County Judge/Executive is authorized to select the locations and direct the installations of such thirty-minute incremental parking spaces, loading zones and elected officials' parking zones and shall further be authorized to limit the maximum time on any of such spaces to a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of 120 minutes.
Lines or markings shall be painted upon the parking lot adjacent to each parking space, designating the parking space for which the vehicle shall park within the limits or markings. No person shall park any vehicle across any such line or marking or within any space designated by such lines or markings as loading zones or elected officials' parking zones.
A. 
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or operated or controlled by him to be upon any parking space within the Henderson County Courthouse parking lot in a parking zone in any space adjacent to which a time limit is designated for more than 30 consecutive minutes for spaces designated as 30 minutes only.
B. 
Free parking shall be allowed after 12:00 noon on Saturday with no two-hour parking enforcement.
A. 
Designated loading zone spaces shall be used only for ingress and egress and for the loading and unloading of property or merchandise delivered to or from the premises of the Henderson County Courthouse. Such spaces shall be marked off adjacent or in proximity thereto.
B. 
No person shall park a vehicle in a loading zone except for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
A. 
The County Judge/Executive may designate certain spaces as elected officials' parking zones. Such spaces shall be used only for the parking of the elected official designated thereon or his or her designee.
B. 
No person shall park a vehicle in an elected officials' parking zone except for the designated elected public official or his or her designee.
A. 
The Henderson County Sheriff, under the direction of the Henderson County Judge/Executive, shall keep account of all violations of this article.
B. 
The Henderson County Sheriff or any member of the Henderson County Sheriff's Department shall attach to such vehicle a notice stating that it has been parked in violation of this article and instructing the owner or operator to report to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department in regard to such violation. The owner or operator may, within 48 hours after the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay the Henderson County Sheriff or his duly authorized representative in full satisfaction of such violation the sum of $5. If the owner or operator fails to pay for such violation within the forty-eight-hour period, he may, within seven days after the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay the Henderson County Sheriff or his duly authorized representative in full satisfaction of such violation the sum of $10. If the owner or operator fails to pay for such violation within seven days after the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, the Henderson County Sheriff and/or his designated representative shall issue a violation notice containing the necessary information of said violation as prescribed by the Henderson County Sheriff to the last known address of said offender or to the address of the registered owner of said vehicle. Any owner or operator to whom a violation notice is sent shall be required to pay an administrative fine of $10 to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department and shall further be required to pay the fine as set out hereinabove.
C. 
Any person, business, firm or corporation shall pay the administrative fine of $10 within 10 days of the issuance of the notice. Upon the failure of any person to answer charges of overparking as herein provided and/or to pay the fine or administrative fine as herein provided, the overparking complaint shall be treated in the same manner now applied to summons which shall be issued therefor.
D. 
Failure to pay the administrative fine shall result in the issuance of a summons to the Henderson District Court for violation of this article, in compliance with the penalties established by the Kentucky Revised Statutes and the Henderson County ordinances.