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
of 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 of 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.
[Ord. No. 180 §§1 —
4, 8-19-1986]
A.
Parking Trucks, Trailers, Etc., In Residential Districts.
1.
No person shall operate any vehicle, diesel or gas-powered weighing
over twelve thousand (12,000) pounds on any paved or surfaced street
in the City. This Subsection shall not apply to a vehicle making a
delivery to or from an address on a paved or surfaced street when
such vehicle is traveling the most direct route from an unimproved
street, State or Federal highway or access road, or from an exempted
street to such address.
2.
The public shall be apprised of the restrictions imposed by this
Section by appropriate signs and when so posted it shall be unlawful
to transport any gross load in excess of that posted and in addition
to conviction and punishment for a misdemeanor, the registered owner
of such vehicle shall be held liable in any court of competent jurisdiction
for destructive damages to the surface and physical conditions pertaining
by the City or other interested persons.
3.
It shall be unlawful for the driver, owner or operator of any bus,
truck, trailer, house-trailer, tractor-trailer, (gas or diesel-powered)
weighing over twelve thousand (12,000) pounds, road building machinery
or other commercial vehicles to park, or cause to be parked for longer
than two (2) hours at any one (1) time on any street in a residential
district, except that an operator may park such vehicle for a longer
period while actually and continuously engaged in loading or unloading,
provided that such vehicles may be parked in front of a place of business
in such district during business hours of such business, but subject
to all other ordinances regulating parking at such location.
B.
Time Limit Regulations For Parking Not Exclusive.
1.
The provisions of this Article imposing a time limit on parking shall
not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive
provisions of this Code or other Ordinance prohibiting or limiting
the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles at specified times.
2.
All parking by any type vehicle is prohibited at the intersection
of U.S. Highway 60 and VV intersection for a distance of one thousand
(1,000) feet, both east and west bound lanes.
C.
Dangerous Cargo.
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or park a motor vehicle
having a tank capacity of more than two thousand (2,000) gallons within
the area in the City if such tank is empty, but has contained gasoline,
kerosene oil or other inflammable or explosive liquids, except for
the purpose of securing necessary repairs to such motor vehicle or
tank, unless such empty tank shall have first been steamed or purged,
and a tag affixed showing the date that such tank was steamed or purged
and the name of the person performing such steaming operating.
