In any prosecution charging a violation of any section within
this article, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint
was parked in violation of any section within this article together
with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time
of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle shall constitute
in evidence a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner of
such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle in violation.
(Ordinance 92-31, sec. 1, adopted 3/24/92; 1978 Code, sec. 26-51)
The streets, alleys, or other public places of the city are
not intended for storage of vehicles; therefore, any vehicle standing,
parked or remaining unattended within the same two (2) blocks of any
public street, alley, sidewalk, parkway or upon any property of the
city for forty-eight (48) or more continuous hours, even though the
vehicle is moved from one place to another within such blocks or city
property, is hereby declared to be illegally parked. If the vehicle
remains within the same two (2) blocks of any public street, alley,
sidewalk, parkway or upon any property of the city for an additional
forty-eight (48) continuous hours, it is hereby declared to be a nuisance
per se, and any such vehicle when so found shall be removed summarily
by any police officer of the city to any storage area designated or
maintained by the police department and shall be kept there until
redeemed or sold as provided in this section. For purposes of this
section, “vehicle” means a device in or by which a person
or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway,
other than a device used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
(Ordinance 99-1, sec. 1, adopted 1/12/99; 1978 Code, sec. 26-41; Ordinance 07-069, sec. 7, adopted 6/19/07)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle on any street in excess of parking time limits determined for that location and posted in accordance with section 20.01.004(14).
(Ordinance 92-31, sec. 1, adopted 3/24/92; 1978 Code, sec. 26-50)
No angle parking shall be permitted on any of the streets of the city, except as authorized in section 20.04.005.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-107; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-42)
The public works director is authorized to issue special permits
to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of
loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms
and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to
the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle
and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and
authorized herein. It shall be unlawful for any permittee or other
person to violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such
permit.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-109; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-43; Ordinance 07-069, sec.
8, adopted 6/19/07)
It shall be unlawful for a person to stop, stand or park a vehicle
otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged
in loading or unloading, upon, along or across any railroad track
within the city so as to interfere with the normal movement of railroad
cars along such track.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-112; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-44)
No person shall park any truck, bus or other commercial vehicle
on any street between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-114; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-45)
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to park a vehicle
in any city parking lot for a period of two (2) hours or more unless
the person is conducting business or attending an event at an affiliated
venue.
(Ordinance 77-69, sec. 1, adopted 6/28/77; 1978 Code, sec. 26-45.1; Ordinance 07-069, sec. 9, adopted 6/19/07)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street right-of-way
for the principal purpose of:
(1)
Displaying such vehicle for sale.
(2)
Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated
by an emergency.
(3)
Using such vehicle or trailer for advertising purposes or displaying
large signs therefrom containing pictures or reading matter.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-115; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-46; Ordinance 07-069, sec.
10, adopted 6/19/07)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus
in a bus stop or bus zone, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab zone,
when any such stop or zone 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.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-121; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-47)
(a)
The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any
street at any place other than a bus stop or bus zone so designated
as provided herein.
(b)
The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street
at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or
their baggage other than at a bus stop, bus zone or passenger-loading
zone so designated as provided herein, except in case of an emergency.
(c)
The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus zone or passenger-loading
zone on a public street in such manner that the bus when stopped to
load or unload passengers or baggage shall be in a position with the
right front wheel of such vehicle not further than eighteen (18) inches
from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as
not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-122; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-48; Ordinance 07-069, sec.
11, adopted 6/19/07)
The owner or operator of a vehicle is exempt from the payment
of a fee or penalty for parking in a parking garage or lot or in a
space with a limitation on the length of time for parking if:
(1)
The vehicle is being operated by or for the transportation of a person
with a disability; and
(Ordinance 12-023, sec. 1, adopted 5/22/12)
The regulations provided for in this division shall apply between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on all days other than Saturdays,
Sundays and the following holidays: the first day of January, the
fourth day of July, the first Monday in September, Thanksgiving Day,
and the twenty-fifth day of December.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-123; Ordinance 79-25, sec. 1, adopted 3/27/79; 1978 Code, sec. 26-60; Ordinance 07-069, sec. 13, adopted 6/19/07)
(a)
The public works director shall install parking meters in the parking
meter zones established as provided in this article upon the curb
immediately adjacent to each designated parking space. Such meters
shall be capable of being operated, either automatically or mechanically,
upon the deposit therein of an appropriate coin of United States currency.
The public works director shall time the meters upon the basis of
an engineering and traffic investigation to best aid in the regulation,
control and inspection of the parking of vehicles. The timing and
type of operation shall be one (1) of the following:
(b)
Each parking meter shall be so designed, constructed, installed and
set that, upon the expiration of the time period registered by the
deposit of one or more coins, as provided herein, it will indicate
by an appropriate signal that the lawful parking meter period has
expired, and during such period of time, and prior to the expiration
thereof, will indicate the interval of time which remains of such
period.
(c)
Each parking meter shall bear thereon a legend indicating the days
and hours when the requirement to deposit coins therein shall apply,
the value of the coins to be deposited, and the limited period of
time for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter
zone in which such meter is located.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-125; Ordinance 79-25, sec. 2, adopted 3/27/79; Ordinance 02-009, sec. 1, adopted 1/29/02; 1978 Code, sec. 26-62; Ordinance 07-069, sec. 15, adopted 6/19/07)
(a)
The designated parking space for each parking meter shall be bounded
as follows: The front edge of the designated parking space along the
roadway shall be at the point the meter is located; the rear edge
of the designated parking space shall be the next adjacent parking
meter located along the roadway in a direction opposite to the flow
of traffic on that side of the street; in locations without adjacent
meters to define the rear edge of the space, the rear edge shall be
defined as a point twenty (20) feet along the roadway in a direction
opposite to the flow of traffic on that side of the street. The meter
that is located at the front edge of the designated parking space
shall be applicable for the space. The above definition shall be superseded
by signs and markings that define the bounds of the parking space
for each meter or areas in which parking is restricted.
(b)
No person shall park a vehicle in any such designated parking space
during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking
meter zone in which such meter is located so that any part of such
vehicle occupies more than one such space, except that a vehicle which
is of a size too large to be parked within a single designated parking
space shall be permitted to occupy two (2) adjoining parking meter
spaces when coins shall have been deposited in the parking meter for
each space so occupied as is required in this division for the parking
of other vehicles in such space.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-126; Ordinance 92-31, sec. 2, adopted 3/24/92; 1978 Code, sec. 26-63)
(a)
No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space upon a street
alongside of and next to which a parking meter has been installed
during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking
meter zone in which such meter is located unless a coin or coins of
United States currency of the appropriate denomination, as provided
in this division, shall have been deposited therein, or shall have
been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval of time
and such meter has been placed in operation.
(b)
No person shall permit a vehicle when in his control to be parked
in any such parking meter space during the restricted and regulated
time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such meter is located
while the parking meter of such space indicates by signal that the
lawful parking time in such space has expired. This provision shall
not apply to the act of parking or the necessary time which is required
to deposit immediately thereafter a coin or coins in such meter.
(c)
No person shall park a vehicle in any such parking meter space for
a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time
for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone
in which such meter is located, irrespective of the number or amounts
of the coins deposited in such meter.
(d)
Minimum fines.
The minimum fines to be assessed for
parking violations are as follows:
(e)
The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person from
the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of this
division and the state vehicle code prohibiting or limiting the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified
times.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-127; Ordinance 02-002, sec. 1, adopted 1/22/02; 1978 Code, sec. 26-64)
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-129; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-66)
(a)
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided
in this division are levied and assessed as needed to cover the regulation
and control of parking upon public streets; the cost of parking meters,
their installation, inspection, supervision, operation, repair and
maintenance; control and use of parking spaces and regulating the
parking of vehicles in parking meter zones.
(b)
The coins deposited in parking meters shall be collected by qualified
employees of the city designated by the city manager. Such persons
so designated shall take from such parking meters the coins deposited
in the meters and deliver same in the locked containers to the director
of finance or to someone designated by him, where such money shall
be counted, and same shall be deposited to the credit of the city.
Each person so designated to collect such coins from the meters and
deliver same as provided for herein shall execute a fiduciary bond
in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) payable to the
city, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties in collecting
and delivering all such coins and moneys, which bond shall be executed
by a corporate surety which has been duly authorized under the laws
of the state to execute such bond. The premium for such bond shall
be paid by the city. The duties prescribed to the employees under
the terms of this section may be in addition to other regular duties
which they may be performing.
(1958 Code, sec. 37-130; 1978 Code,
sec. 26-67)
(a)
The director of public works or his designee is hereby authorized
to reserve metered parking spaces for special purposes. If the director
of public works or his designee deems the reservation of metered parking
spaces in the public interest, he shall mark such meters appropriately
to notify the general public that use of such meters is unlawful by
unauthorized vehicles and shall collect from the person or firm requesting
the reserved use the following fees:
(1)
The single charge of ten dollars ($10.00) per meter shall be made
as an administrative charge for each trip to a single block location
for the purpose of designating reserved meter spaces; and
(2)
An additional fee of four dollars ($4.00) per meter per day shall
be charged for each day that the designated spaces remain reserved.
(b)
Persons or firms who are performing renovations and/or improvements
which would endanger the safety and welfare of the citizens if parking
spaces are not reserved will be granted a waiver of all reserved use
fees by the director of public works. To obtain the waiver provided
herein, a written request must be received by the director of public
works at least ten (10) days prior to the date the reserved meters
are required. The written request shall additionally contain the meter
location and dates for which the reservations are needed. The waiver
will be granted only for those meters abutting the property being
renovated or improved.
(Ordinance 83-124, sec. 1, adopted 9/27/83; Ordinance 87-89, sec. 1, adopted 11/24/87; 1978
Code, sec. 26-68; Ordinance 07-069, sec. 17, adopted 6/19/07)
