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Editor’s note–Former sections 5.03.002–5.03.003 pertaining to the International Fire Code, 2006 edition and deriving from Ordinance 5539, secs. 1 and 2 adopted by the city on July 7, 2008, was deleted in its entirety by Ordinance 5712 adopted by the city on August 15, 2011. Provisions can now be found in section 3.02.002(c) of this code.
(a) 
The accessways referred to in the fire prevention code shall be identified as “fire lanes”; and when determined by the fire marshal that parking shall be prohibited in such fire lane, appropriate “no parking” signs shall be installed and maintained by the owner of such building.
(b) 
Any person who shall park a vehicle in a marked fire lane shall be punished as provided in section 1.01.009. Unlawfully parked vehicles may be towed away at the owner’s expense and placed in the police auto pound.
(c) 
When part of the private road is selected as a fire lane by the fire chief or his authorized representative, it shall be marked along the perimeter with conspicuous signs in accordance with the specifications shown on exhibits 1 and 2 to the legislation from which this section is derived; and where a curb exists, the sign shall have the words “fire lane–no parking” painted:
(1) 
In four-inch-high letters, white in color;
(2) 
At fifteen-foot intervals;
(3) 
On a contrasting background stripe, red in color, six (6) inches wide.
(d) 
The fire lanes shall be:
(1) 
Free of all obstructions which pose a substantial threat of interference to the fire department, firefighting or rescue activities.
(2) 
Constructed in accordance with the specifications set out in exhibits 3 and 4 and shall be surfaced with a material substantial to support any fire department vehicle.
(3) 
Maintained so that it remains structurally unaffected during inclement weather.
(e) 
The operator of the premises shall maintain, free of obstruction, all fire lanes on his premises.
(f) 
No person may mark, post or otherwise identify a nonfire lane, private vehicular passageway:
(1) 
As a fire lane; or
(2) 
In such a manner as tends to create confusion as to whether the passageway is a fire lane.
(g) 
No person may park nonemergency vehicles in a fire lane.
(h) 
An unauthorized vehicle in a fire lane is:
(1) 
Subject to removal by the operator from the premises with the expense of removal and storage to be borne by the registered owner of the vehicle;
(2) 
Subject to citation, as well as removal, by the fire chief, his authorized representative or a police officer;
(3) 
Prima facie evidence that the person in whose name the vehicle is registered is the person who parked the vehicle in the fire lane.
(i) 
Any person who violates a provision of this section shall be punished as provided in section 1.01.009.
(1991 Code, sec. 11-48)