[Code 1962 §18-171; CC 1979 §16-176; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977]
A. Nothing
in this Chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the City from providing
for bus stops, taxicab stands and other matters of similar nature,
including the loading or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial
vehicles.
B. The
City Manager or his/her designate is hereby expressly given the authority
to establish additional safety zones, no parking zones, limited time
parking zones or zones in which parking is prohibited at certain hours
when in his/her discretion it becomes necessary for the public safety.
No person shall park any vehicle in any zone marked as a no parking
zone nor in any zone at a time when it is improper according to clearly
designated markings, whether such prohibitions are established directly
by this Chapter or through the discretion given the City Manager or
his/her designate in this Section.
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 pick-up and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight
curb loading zone during hours when the provision 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.