The provisions of this Title 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 Title 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 by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof,
no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by ordinance
of any day except Sunday and public holidays within the districts
or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between the hours specified
by ordinance of any day except Sundays and public holidays within
the district or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
Whenever by this Title or any ordinance of the City any parking
time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets,
it shall be the duty of the City Traffic Engineer 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.
In cases where an equally direct and convenient alternate route
is provided, an ordinance may describe and signs may be erected giving
notice thereof that no persons shall operate any commercial vehicle
upon streets or parts of streets so described except those commercial
vehicles making deliveries thereon.
[Ord. No. 477-C §1, 12-20-1999]
A. The Street
Department of the City of Canton, Missouri, shall paint, and maintain
by renewed painting when necessary, clearly identifiable parking spaces
on the north side of Washington Street between Tenth Street on the
east and the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house on the west indicating
where parking is permitted pursuant to the presently existing ordinances,
or any future amendments to those ordinances, of the City of Canton,
Missouri.
B. Each
parking space shall be delineated by white painted lines being twenty-two
(22) feet in length, parallel to the curbing on the north side of
the street, and eight (8) feet in width, measured perpendicular from
the curbing on the north side of the street.
C. All motor
vehicles parking within the area designated by the painted lines shall
park within the lines with no part of the motor vehicle touching or
extending over the inner most edge of the painted lines.
D. Any person
convicted of violating the parking requirements of this Section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less
that one dollar ($1.00) and not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00),
or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not to exceed ninety
(90) days.
[Ord. No. 345-C §§1—3, 9-20-1990]
A. From
and after September 20, 1990, only persons legally residing on Kimrick
Drive in Canton, Missouri, or guests of persons legally residing on
Kimrick Drive shall be allowed to park on said street.
B. A sign
shall be placed at the intersection of Kimrick Drive and South Monticello
Road posting the prohibition of parking on Kimrick Drive by non-residents.
C. Any person
convicted of violating the terms of this Section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
[Ord. No. 492-C §1, 1-16-2001]
A. The Public
Works Director of the City of Canton, Missouri, shall have the responsibility
of declaring a snow emergency.
1. A snow
emergency shall be determined based on falling snow, sleet or freezing
rain or on the basis of a forecast by the United States Weather Bureau
or other weather service of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
2. A snow
emergency shall be declared when road conditions, or anticipated road
conditions, require that traffic on the following described streets
be expedited and that parking in the area to be described will hamper
or interfere with snow plowing and safe street maintenance.
3. The
snow emergency routes covered under the terms of this Article shall
be as follows:
a. All
of Madison Street and all street side parking areas on both the north
and south sides of Madison Street between the west right-of-way line
of Third Street on the east and the east right-of-way line of Sixth
Street on the west.
b. All
of Washington Street and all street side parking areas on both the
north and south sides of Washington Street between the west right-of-way
line of Third Street on the east and the east right-of-way line of
Sixth Street on the west.
c. All
of Lewis Street and all street side parking areas on both the north
and south sides of Lewis Street between the west right-of-way line
of Third Street on the east and the east right-of-way line of Sixth
Street on the west.
d. All
of Clark Street and all street side parking areas on both the north
and south sides of Clark Street between the west right-of-way line
of Third Street on the east and the east right-of-way line of Sixth
Street on the west.
e. All
of Fourth Street and all street side parking areas on both the east
and west sides of Fourth Street between the north right-of-way line
of Clark Street on the north and the south right-of-way line of Madison
Street on the south.
f. All
of Fifth Street and all street side parking areas on both the east
and west sides of Fifth Street between the north right-of-way line
of Clark Street on the north and the south right-of-way line of Madison
Street on the south.
B. The Public
Works Director shall have the power to prohibit parking on those streets
referred to herein when a snow emergency exists and has been declared.
[Ord. No. 492-C §2, 1-16-2001]
A. The Public
Works Director shall announce the declaration of a snow emergency.
1. The
Public Works Director shall cause the declaration of a snow emergency
made by him/her pursuant to this Article to be publicly announced
by means of broadcast and telecast by stations within the normal operating
range of the City of Canton.
2. The
Public Works Director shall make and keep a record of each time that
a snow emergency has been declared each year.
[Ord. No. 492-C §3, 1-16-2001]
Whenever the Public Works Director finds that an emergency situation
no longer exists, it shall be his/her duty to declare that a snow
emergency has terminated in the same manner as prescribed in this
Section.
[Ord. No. 492-C §4, 1-16-2001]
The streets described in this Article as a snow emergency route
shall be posted with special signs at intervals indicating that each
of those streets is a snow emergency route. The signs shall be distinctive
and uniform in appearance and shall be plainly readable to persons
traveling on those streets described in this Article.
[Ord. No. 492-C §5, 1-16-2001]
A. Any motor
vehicle found to be parked or abandoned on the snow emergency route
in violation of this Article may be removed immediately upon order
by the Public Works Director.
B. Within
forty-eight (48) hours of the removal of such vehicle, the Chief of
Police shall give notice to the registered owner of the vehicle, if
known, and to any holder of a security interest in the vehicle, if
known, that the vehicle has been impounded and stored for violation
of this Article. The notice shall be sent by certified mail and give
the location of the vehicle and the cost incurred by the City for
removal and storage.
1. Unclaimed vehicles may be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
220 of the City Code.
2. Vehicles may be redeemed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
220 of the City Code.
C. Any person
convicted of violating the snow emergency route provisions of this
Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject
to a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) and not to exceed five
hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the County Jail for
a term not to exceed ninety (90) days.