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 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.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus
in a bus stop or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any
such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately
signed, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily
stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading
or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with
any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
[R.O. 2014 §360.080; Ord. No. 970, 2-14-2002]
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine
the location of Patient Loading Zones and to place and maintain signs
indicating same and stating the hours during which the provisions
of this Section are applicable. No person shall stop, stand, or park
a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than expeditious
for loading and unloading medical and physical therapy patients in
any place marked as a patient loading zone during the hours and days
posted. The Patient Loading Zone designated by the City Traffic Engineer
pursuant to this Section shall be no more than thirteen (13) feet
in width and the time limit required for use of said Patient Loading
Zone shall not exceed fifteen (15) minutes.