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 on 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 on 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.
[CC 1987 §370.080; Ord. No. 79-13 §1, 6-12-1979]
The parking or storage of any motor vehicle or trailer, unless legally licensed under the Statutes of the State of Missouri and under the provisions of this Chapter, on any unenclosed premises or upon any public street or highway in this City is hereby prohibited.
[CC 1987 §370.090; Ord. No. 79-9 §2, 4-10-1979]
A. 
No person shall park or cause to be parked any wrecked or dilapidated vehicle, or any vehicle without motive power, or not capable of immediate movement on any street or roadway where parking is permitted for a period in excess of twenty-four (24) hours. Any such vehicle so parked is hereby declared to be a hazard and a nuisance, and an unlawful obstruction of the street, and the owner thereof shall be prima facie responsible for the immediate removal thereof.
B. 
Whenever any vehicle shall be found parked in a place where parking is not permitted or whenever a vehicle shall be parked or stored in violation of this Section or other City ordinances, such vehicle may be removed and conveyed by or under the immediate direction of a member of the Northwoods Police Department by means of towing the same or otherwise to a place to be determined by the Chief of Police. Before the owner or person in charge of such vehicle shall be permitted to remove it from the custody of the Police Department or its agent, he/she shall furnish evidence of his/her identity, title of the vehicle, he/she shall sign a release indemnifying the City, its Police Officers, and the agent or agents thereof of all loss and damages, and shall pay the cost of towing the vehicle and storage charges, if any.
C. 
The presence of any vehicle in or upon any public street or right-of-way or other place in the City of Northwoods, Missouri, in violation of any provision of this Section regulating the parking or storing of any such vehicle shall be prima facie evidence that the person in whose name such vehicle is registered in either the records of the City Clerk, or City License Collector, or the records of the Director of Revenue of the State of Missouri committed or authorized such violation.