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 on any day except Sundays 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 on 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.
[R.O. 1998 § 340.220; Ord. No. 94-03 §§ 1 — 3, 5-12-1994]
A. COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Definition. As used in this Section the following term shall have the meaning set forth below:
Every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the transportation of property.
B.
No commercial motor vehicle weighing, with or without, a load in excess of eight thousand (8,000) pounds shall be operated upon any street of the City when signed with this weight limitation, except those commercial vehicles making deliveries thereon.
C.
Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of an ordinance violation.
[Ord. No. 08-16, 9-11-2008]
A.
Time Constraints Allotted. Any individual providing automotive related services such as maintenance, restoration or towing of vehicles, and or any individual engaged in any of the aforementioned activities for personal pleasure or as a hobby, shall be allotted two (2) months to complete any maintenance or restoration on any unlicensed vehicle. Any unlicensed vehicle remaining after the allotted two (2) months shall constitute a public nuisance and is prohibited as provided by Section 215.010 of the Municipal Code of the City of Bismarck, Missouri.
B.
Exemption.
1.
Individuals desiring to restore or work on one (1) vehicle may obtain a permit from City Hall for such restorative work. Said permit shall be valid for a period of six (6) months and shall be displayed on the vehicle being restored. Only one (1) permit shall be granted per site per six-month period. Permit may subsequently be renewed by making request at Bismarck City Hall.
2.
Persons conducting maintenance, restoration or towing services on any vehicle shall not be subject to the provisions of this Section; provided, such vehicles receiving work are housed in an enclosed building.