[Added 5-21-1990]
For the purposes of this article, the following definitions
shall be applicable unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary:
Includes a vehicle without automotive power designed to transport
a boat or other property wholly on its structure and to be drawn by
a motor vehicle.
Includes any vehicle of a type designed, used or maintained
for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit
or transportation of property for hire, compensation or profit, except
taxicabs.
Includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, society,
club, firm, company, partner, director, officer, lessee, employer,
employee or any of them, including an executor, administrator, trustee,
receiver or other representative appointed pursuant to law.
Includes any motor vehicle used for temporary human living
quarters, not the permanent residence of the owner or occupant, and
used for recreational or vacation activities, including but not limited
to motor homes, self-propelled campers and other motor vehicles with
permanently attached camper components and vans which are used for
personal pleasure and not for commercial use, regardless of the equipment
or furnishings contained within such van, mobile home, camping trailer,
pop-up camping trailer, pickup coach or any other motor vehicle designed
for or utilized as a temporary or vacation residence.
Includes all streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes,
alleys, sidewalks, curbs or other areas used for vehicular or pedestrian
traffic.
Includes a mobile home, travel trailer, house trailer, office
trailer, camping trailer or any other vehicle without motive power
designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure
and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
In order to promote safe, unimpeded traffic circulation in residential
areas, safe ingress and egress over residential driveways and to reduce
congestion in the streets, the following restrictions limiting parking,
stopping or storage of certain types of motor vehicles and trailers
shall be applicable.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, stand or store or permit
to be parked or stored any boat trailer, commercial vehicle, recreational
vehicle or trailer on any street in any district of the City which
is heretofore or which may hereafter be zoned Residential Low-Density,
Residential Low-Density (Historic), Residential Beach, Residential
Beach (Historic), Residential Medium-Density, or Residential Medium-Density
(Historic), unless actual loading or unloading of such motor vehicle
is being performed.
[Amended 7-8-1991; 8-9-2004; 6-10-2013]
The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to motor
vehicles of contractors working in the area whose vehicles are less
than 17 feet in total length, noncommercial passenger vans, passenger
vans and passenger pickup trucks less than 17 feet in total length,
including any attachments, emergency vehicles, vehicles of the City
of Lewes or the Board of Public Works while on official business and
motor vehicles of governmental agencies while on official business.
[Amended 3-18-2019]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof in
a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than $25
nor more than $150 and shall pay the costs of prosecution; provided,
however, that, with the consent, in writing, of the person charged
with parking under this article, the Chief of Police or the Chief
of Police's authorized representative is authorized to accept and
receive, without hearing, not less than $100 if such parking ticket
is paid within seven days from the date and time of the violation
or $150 as a penalty for such violation if such violation is paid
within 30 days after the day that the violation occurs: and to accept
and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $175 as a penalty for such
violation if the penalty is paid after 30 days after the day that
the violation occurs.
Notwithstanding any other provision concerning a penalty, any police officer of the City, while in performance of his duty, may remove or cause to be removed, at the expense of the owner or operator of any such motor vehicle, any motor vehicle, for which this article is applicable, parked or left standing in violation of the provisions of this article when the owner or operator is unable, unwilling or unavailable to move such motor vehicle immediately, If any motor vehicle is removed pursuant to the provisions of this section, the owner or operator thereof shall pay the fine imposed by the provisions of § 183-63, the cost of removal, a reasonable charge for storage, not to exceed six $6 for each day or part thereof that the vehicle is so stored, and any court costs. In addition, said owner or operator shall sign a receipt for such motor vehicle prior to its being released to him by the storage facility. In the event that payment is made under protest, a bail bond for further appearance shall be posted as required by a court of competent jurisdiction.
