The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine
the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall
place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating
the hours during which the provisions of this Section are applicable.
The City Traffic Engineer shall not designate or sign any curb
loading zone upon special request of any person unless such person
makes application for a permit for such zone and for two (2) signs
to indicate the ends of each such zone. The City Traffic Engineer
upon granting a permit and issuing such signs shall collect from the
applicant and deposit in the City Treasury a service fee of ten dollars
($10.00) per year or fraction thereof and may by general regulations
impose conditions upon the use of such signs and for reimbursement
of the City for the value thereof in the event of their loss or damage
and their return in the event of misuse or upon expiration of permit.
Every such permit shall expire at the end of one (1) year.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose
or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading
of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone
during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading
zone are effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three
(3) minutes.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose
or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery
or pickup and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight
curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such
zones are in effect.
The City Traffic Engineer, when authorized by the City Council,
is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops, bus stands,
taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common carrier motor
vehicles on such public streets in such places and in such number
as he/she shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience
to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or
other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
[Code 1980 §15-161; CC 1990 §15-348]
A. No person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop
when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately
signed with the following exceptions:
1. The
driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop within a bus stop
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus waiting
to enter or about to enter such zone.
2. A driver
of any motor vehicle which may be legally parked along Florissant
Road between Dunn Road and Harrison Avenue, were it not for the bus
zones, may park such motor vehicle, parallel with the bus zone, on
the black-paved parking strip located alongside and parallel with
Florissant Road.