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.