The City Administrator, in consultation with professional engineers,
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.
[R.O. 1992 § 840.160; Ord. No.
1796-00 §1, 8-1-2000; Ord. No. 2401-11 §1, 4-5-2010]
Owners of property may request the City Administrator, in consultation
with professional engineers, for an area to be designated as a "Loading
Zone" or a "No Parking" zone. In the event such an area is allowed
to be designated as such, the property owner shall post signs to be
approved by the Police Department, which refer to this Section of
City Code and which conspicuously state that parking or stopping in
that area is prohibited. No person may park in any such area.
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 Administrator, in consultation with professional engineers,
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.