For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them:
Angle parking space:
A parking space laid out at an angle of approximately sixty (60) degrees to the street curb or curb designating line adjacent to such parking place.
Citation:
A written notice of violation issued by the chief of police or his/her authorized representative for parking a motor vehicle in a restricted place or for parking in an unauthorized manner.
Operator:
Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
Parallel parking space:
A parking space laid out approximately parallel with the street curb adjacent to such parking space.
Park and parking:
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers.
Parking control zone:
The portion of the city’s downtown area as follows:
(1) 
Main Street from Market Street to Austin Street.
(2) 
Alamo Street from Market Street to Austin Street.
(3) 
Commerce Street from Market Street to Austin Street.
(4) 
Vulcan Street from Market Street to Austin Street.
(5) 
St. Charles Street from dead end north of Vulcan Street to the railroad tracks.
(6) 
Baylor Street from Vulcan Street to the railroad tracks.
(7) 
S. Park Street from Vulcan Street to the railroad tracks.
(8) 
Douglas Street from Vulcan Street to the dead end south of Commerce Street.
(9) 
Market Street from Vulcan Street to the railroad tracks.
(10) 
Church Street from Commerce Street to the railroad tracks.
Parking space:
A space laid out on a street as a place for parking a vehicle and designated by lines or marks painted on the surface of the street.
Street:
Any public way located in the city and established for the use of vehicles.
Vehicle:
Any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a street or highway.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 1; Ordinance adopted 6/6/91, sec. 6; Ordinance adopted 12/19/91, sec. 1; Ordinance O-09-010, sec. II, adopted 6/9/09)
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-09-010, sec. III, adopted June 9, 2009, repealed sec. 25-41, which pertained to days and times regulations applicable and derived from Ordinance adopted July 18, 1949, sec. 2; Ordinance adopted July 6, 1976, sec. 1.
(a) 
The city manager, or such other officers or employees of the city as he/she may select, is hereby authorized to cause parking spaces to be designated and maintained, in accordance with the provisions of this division, in and on such parts of the parking control zone, which may be authorized by action of the governing body. All parking spaces shall be either angle parking spaces or parallel parking spaces, shall be designated by lines or marks painted on the surface of the street, and shall be laid out so that each parking space shall be not less than eight (8) feet nor more than eleven (11) feet wide and so that each parallel parking space shall be not less than fourteen (14) feet nor more than twenty-two (22) feet long. Whether parking spaces shall be angled or parallel, such spaces shall be determined by action of the governing body. The fact that a parking space is designated by lines or marks painted on the surface of a street in the parking control zone shall be prima facie evidence that the city manager, or such other officers or employees of the city as he/she may select, was authorized by action of the governing body to designate same at the place it is located, and that it was determined by action of the governing body that same should be an angle parking space or parallel parking space, as the case may be, as it then exists.
(b) 
The city manager, or such other officers or employees of the city as he/she may select, is hereby authorized to install and maintain, or cause to be installed and maintained, parking signs in and on such parts of the parking control zone as may be designated for same by action of the governing body from time to time. The fact that a parking sign is installed in a part of the parking control zone shall be prima facie evidence that such part of said zone has been designated for same by action of the governing body.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 4; Ordinance adopted 1/5/89, sec. 3; Ordinance O-09-010, sec. IV, adopted 6/9/09)
Any vehicle parked in any angle parking space in the parking control zone shall be parked at an angle of approximately sixty (60) degrees to the curb if a curb is adjacent to said parking space, but if no curb is adjacent to said parking space, said vehicle shall be parked at an angle of approximately sixty (60) degrees to the line or mark painted on the surface of the street to designate the boundary of such parking space furthermost from the center of the street, herein called “curb designating line,” with the front end directed away from the center of the street; shall be parked wholly within the lines or marks painted on the street for such parking space as provided herein; and shall be parked so that some part of the front end of same shall be within ten (10) inches of the curb, if a curb is adjacent to said parking space, but if no curb is adjacent to same, said vehicle shall be parked so that the foremost part thereof shall be within eighteen (18) inches of being directly above the curb designating line. Any vehicle parked in any parallel parking space in the parking control zone shall be parked approximately parallel with the curb if a curb is adjacent to said parking space, but if no curb is adjacent to same, said vehicle shall be parked approximately parallel with the curb designating line; shall be parked wholly within the lines or marks painted on the street for such parking space as provided herein; and shall be parked so that the right side (or the left side, if the street is one-way and such parallel parking is on the left side of the street) shall be next to the curb or curb designating line and so that neither of its wheels next to the curb or curb designating line shall be more than eighteen (18) inches from the curb or curb designating line.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 5; Ordinance adopted 6/6/85, sec. 1; Ordinance O-09-010, sec. V, adopted 6/9/09)
Editor’s note(s)–Sections 25-44 and 25-45, pertaining to the installation, operations, etc., of parking meters and the deposit of coins in same, and derived from secs. 7 and 10 of an ordinance of July 18, 1949, were repealed by sec. 1 of an ordinance enacted Jan. 5, 1989.
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-09-010, sec. VI, adopted June 9, 2009, repealed sec. 25-46, which pertained to parking in control zones in excess of two hours prohibited and derived from Ordinance adopted July 18, 1949, sec. 11; Ordinance adopted Jan. 5, 1989, secs. 1, 2.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or operating a vehicle to double park said vehicle on any street within the parking control zone; that is, to park said vehicle out in the street, or in the line of traffic, and without moving the same up to the curbline, whether the same be occupied or unoccupied; provided this shall not apply to motor bus vehicles stopping at bus points designated to take on or discharge passengers, and to vehicles which cease to operate through mechanical failure.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 19)
Any operator of a vehicle operating under a valid commercial driver’s license may, for the purpose of loading and/or unloading of merchandise, supplies and materials at a place of business which does not have a suitable entrance from an adjoining alley or street which is not in the parking control zone, stop or park such vehicle in the parking control zone, provided such vehicle does not occupy any part of more than two (2) parking spaces; and provided further that such vehicle shall not be parked for a longer time than necessary to expeditiously load or unload such merchandise and give or secure a delivery receipt therefore; however, it shall be unlawful for any operator to permit such vehicle to remain at such place for a longer time than necessary to expeditiously load or unload such merchandise, and give or secure a delivery receipt therefore, and it shall be unlawful for any operator to stop such vehicle so that it will occupy any part of more than two (2) parking spaces.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 15; Ordinance adopted 6/6/91, sec. 3; Ordinance O-09-010, sec. VII, adopted 6/9/09)
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-09-010, secs. VIII, IX, adopted June 9, 2009, repealed secs. 25-49, 25-50, which pertained to parking motor vehicles with trailers, long trucks, etc.; trucks blocking streets and derived from Ordinance adopted July 18, 1949, secs. 18, 20; Ordinance adopted June 6, 1991, sec. 4.
(a) 
The chief of police and his/her authorized representatives are authorized to issue written citations for violations of this division, and any such citation shall include the following information:
(1) 
A description of the vehicle parked in violation of any of the provision of this division;
(2) 
The name of the state and number of the license plate, if any, attached to such vehicle;
(3) 
Any other fact, knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation;
(4) 
Written notice of the time and place the owner and/or operator person must appear before a magistrate; and
(5) 
The offense charged.
(b) 
In the event a police officer issues a citation pursuant to this division, the police officer shall attach the written citation to such vehicle parked in violation of this division, or the police officer may issue the written citation to the owner and/or operator thereof, if present, that such vehicle has been parked in violation of the provisions of this division, and instruct such owner and/or operator to report to the city’s municipal court in regard to such violation.
(Ordinance adopted 7/18/49, sec. 16; Ordinance adopted 1/5/89, sec. 4; Ordinance O-09-010, sec. X, adopted 6/9/09)
Editor’s note(s)–Section 1 of an ordinance enacted Jan. 5, 1989, repealed secs. 25-52 and 25-53, which prohibited the depositing of slugs in parking meters and prohibiting the defacing of meters, and which derived from an ordinance of July 18, 1949, secs. 12, 14.
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-09-010, sec. XI, adopted June 9, 2009, repealed sec. 25-54, which pertained to time limit for parking vehicles in one parking space on streets and derived from Ordinance adopted Oct. 25, 1983, sec. 1; Ordinance adopted June 6, 1991, sec. 1.
Editor’s note(s)–Section 25-55, pertaining to fines for overtime parking and derived from sec. 1 of an Oct. 25, 1983, ordinance, was repealed by sec. 1 of an Apr. 19, 1990, ordinance.
Editor’s note(s)–Section 1 of an ordinance enacted Jan. 5, 1989, amended Ch. 25 by repealing sec. 25-56, which pertained to parking tokens, and was derived from sec. 1 of an ordinance of Oct. 25, 1983.
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-14-026, adopted Aug. 21, 2014, repealed former sec. 25-57 which pertained to reserved parking and derived from Ordinance O-09-010, sec. XII, adopted June 9, 2009.
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance O-09-010, sec. XIII, adopted June 9, 2009, repealed sec. 25-58, which pertained to intentional removal or concealment of chalk mark on rear tire; penalty and derived from Ordinance adopted Feb. 21, 1985, sec. 1; Ordinance adopted Apr. 19, 1990, sec. 1.
Upon the request of the owner or operator of any off-street parking facility or as to any on-street parking, the public works department of the city is authorized to designate stalls or spaces in an off-street parking facility or stalls or spaces on the public streets for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate, specially designated symbols, tags, or other devices, issued pursuant to article 6675a–5e and 6675a–5el, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, to disabled veterans and disabled persons. Such stalls or spaces shall be designated by posting immediately adjacent to and visible from each stall or space a sign.
(Ordinance adopted 4/4/85, sec. 1; Ordinance adopted 6/6/91, sec. 5)
(a) 
It is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle not displaying a distinguishing license plate issued to disabled persons pursuant to Article 6675a–5el, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, or to disabled veterans pursuant to Article 6675a–5e, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, to stop, stand, park or leave standing such vehicle in any parking space properly designated for the exclusive use of physically handicapped persons pursuant to the foregoing section. Such shall constitute a Class C misdemeanor.
(b) 
A person not disabled or not transporting a disabled person who parks a vehicle displaying a disabled persons registration insignia in any parking space or parking area designated specifically for the physically handicapped shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
(c) 
Any vehicles not displaying the proper license plats, tags or devices may be towed from a handicapped parking space designated by the foregoing section at the expense of the owner of such vehicle, and may be impounded until all towing and storage charges are paid.
(Ordinance adopted 4/4/85, sec. 1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to affix a sign to the side of a building, or to erect or place a sign, item or object in any other location, that purports to designate a parking space or parking zone as a controlled parking zone or no-parking space when the city has not made an official designation of a controlled parking zone or no-parking space as described herein.
(Ordinance O-09-010, sec. XIV, adopted 6/9/09)