[Amended 9-8-2014 by Ord.
No. 14-9-8-1]
A. No person
shall park or stop or stand any vehicle, except when necessary to
avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following
places:
(2) Blocking or interfering with access to any street, alley, or driveway.
(3) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
(4) On the roadway side of a parked vehicle, so as to be double parked.
(5) At any place where official signs or markings prohibit stopping or
parking.
(6) In an area for a period longer than the time restrictions posted
by official signs or markers.
(7) In any place which will interfere with the free flow of traffic over
a public street or alley.
(8) In a manner which will permit a portion of the vehicle to extend
beyond officially marked individual parking spaces.
(9) In any area officially marked as a bus stop, crosswalk, or loading
area.
(11) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of
points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone,
unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings.
(12) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping,
standing or parking would obstruct traffic.
(13) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within
a highway tunnel.
(15) On any controlled-access highway.
B. Street-specific
parking restrictions. No person shall park or stop or stand any vehicle,
except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device,
in any of the following specific locations:
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Name of Street
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Location
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County Road 1760
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Entire length
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Delta Street or its shoulders
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Entire length
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Sailor Street
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Between Olmstead Street and Scott Street
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South Oakwood Street
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South of Route 150 on either side of the street between the
hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
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C. No person
shall stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily
to pick up or discharge passengers:
(1) In
front of a public or private driveway.
(2) Within
15 feet of a fire hydrant.
(3) Within
20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.
(4) Within
30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield
sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway.
(5) Within
20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side
of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet
of such entrance (when properly sign-posted).
(6) At
any place where official signs prohibit standing.
D. No person
shall park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
property or passengers:
(1) Within
50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
(2) At
any place where official signs prohibit parking.
No vehicle shall be parked with the left side of the vehicle
next to the curb, and it shall be unlawful to stand or park any vehicle
in a street other than parallel with the curb and with the two right
wheels of the vehicle within 12 inches of the regularly established
curbline. However, upon those streets that have been marked for angle
parking, vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated
by those marks.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle upon any street for
the purpose of displaying it for sale; or to park any vehicle upon
any business street from which vehicle merchandise is peddled; or
to park any vehicle upon any street for the purpose of advertising
a business or service for a period greater than 72 hours.
No truck except those registered as Class B vehicles (except
any truck temporarily stopped while in actual transit) shall be parked
upon Oakwood Street from the north Village limit to the south Village
limit.
No semi-tractor/trailer combined units, except those temporarily
stopped while in actual transit, or those in the process of delivering
goods to a destination within the Village, shall be parked upon any
street, alley, or public property within the Village limits of the
Village of Oakwood. No semi-tractor may be parked on any street, alley,
or public property within 50 feet of any semi-trailer.
No person shall leave standing any idling vehicle or park any
vehicle in front of any of the garage doors of the public buildings
located at the following site:
A. 102 Lake Bluff Drive (Oakwood Emergency Rescue Service).
B. 108 South Scott Street (Oakwood Police Department).
C. 527 South Oakwood Street (Oakwood Fire Protection District).
D. On Finley Street in front of the Oakwood Public Library.
If the driver of a vehicle in violation of this article is unable
to be located, the vehicle's registered owner will be issued the violation
unless he/she can provide the identification of the driver of the
vehicle at the time of the violation.
The Superintendent of Public Works is authorized and directed
to place the official signs and markers where parking is limited or
prohibited by this chapter.
Notice of violation of this article shall be given in writing
to the person committing the violation, either in person or by leaving
the notice in or on the vehicle involved in the violation. All fines
levied in accordance with this article shall be payable at the office
of the Village Hall within 10 days from the date of the notice of
violation.
Any violation of this chapter may be enforced through the administrative
adjudication of code violation procedures of the Village pursuant
to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Danville, Illinois.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this article shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 for each offense, except $100 shall be the minimum fine assessed for violating §
265-29; and a separate offense shall be deemed committed for each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.