This division shall apply to and regulate all existing loading
zones and all loading zones which shall hereafter be established.
(Ordinance 1847, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/1956; Ordinance 1963 adopted 7/12/1956; 1959 Code,
sec. 18-2.5; 1983 Code, sec. 16-13; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
(a)
The traffic engineer shall determine the location of loading zones
in the city and shall place and maintain adequate signs indicating
the same, which shall be operative from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. unless
otherwise specifically authorized or permitted.
(b)
For the purpose of regulating and supervising loading zones and to
provide a fund to cover all costs involved for installing adequate
signs designating and identifying loading zones, there is hereby imposed
an annual fee for all loading zones. These fees shall be set annually
in the city’s budget ordinance. If no fee is established by
budget ordinance, the following minimum fees are established for these
costs:
(1)
Initial installation of a new loading zone shall be two hundred dollars
($200.00) per sign, plus three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30) per
linear foot.
(2)
Existing loading zones shall be three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30)
per linear foot. Such charges are against and to be paid by the applicant
for such loading zone as hereinafter provided.
(c)
All charges for such applicable loading zones shall be payable annually
in advance for the calendar year on or before January first of each
such year, and charges for all loading zones designated subsequent
to the last day of any quarter of a calendar year shall be prorated
for the remainder of such year on a quarterly basis; provided, however,
the minimum charge for any portion remaining in a calendar year shall
be for at least one full quarter.
(Ordinance 1847, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/1956; Ordinance 1963 adopted 7/12/1956; 1959 Code,
sec. 18-2.1; Ordinance 4745, sec.
1, adopted 7/22/1965; Ordinance 5173, sec. 2, adopted 12/21/1966; Ordinance 7758, sec. 1, adopted 11/9/1978; Ordinance 8226, sec. 1, adopted 8/27/1981; 1983 Code, sec. 16-9; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
Every person desiring or requiring a loading zone shall make
application to the traffic engineer and shall have the collection
of the annual charge provided for in this division certified to him
by the traffic engineer. The traffic engineer shall thereafter collect
the renewal fee on the same basis for subsequent years, and in the
event the same is not promptly paid, he shall so advise the applicant
that the signs notifying the public of the restrictions on parking
shall be removed, the curbs repainted and the area otherwise restored
to the previously existing character of parking.
(Ordinance 1847, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/1956; Ordinance 1963 adopted 7/12/1956; 1959 Code,
sec. 18-2.3; 1983 Code, sec. 16-10; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
Loading space shall be adjacent to the curb. No person shall
stand or park a vehicle in any loading space for the purpose of loading
or unloading passengers for a period of time in excess of three (3)
minutes. All loading or unloading of merchandise, supplies and materials
in such loading space must be performed in an expeditious manner and
no vehicle shall remain in a loading space for a longer period of
time than is reasonably necessary to expeditiously load or unload
merchandise, supplies and materials from such vehicle, nor while the
operator thereof is soliciting or engaged otherwise than in loading
such vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allowed to the
operator of such vehicle for securing a receipt of delivery. All other
parking within such loading zones is hereby declared unlawful. There
shall be no time limit upon the parking of a taxicab in a taxi stand
or taxicab loading zone.
(Ordinance 1847, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/1956; Ordinance 1963 adopted 7/12/1956; 1959 Code,
sec. 18-2.4; Ordinance 5173, sec.
3, adopted 12/21/1966; 1983 Code,
sec. 16-11; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
The traffic engineer shall have the authority to revoke or alter
the designation of any loading zone space provided for in this division.
In the event of such revocation or alteration of loading zone space
there shall be refunded, upon application by the person making payment
of the current charge therefore, a percentage of the total sum paid
based upon the proportion that the period of actual use or any reduction
in space bears to the total period or space for which the charge has
been paid.
(Ordinance 1847, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/1956; Ordinance 1963, adopted 7/12/1956; 1959 Code,
sec. 18-2.2; 1983 Code, sec. 16-12; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
