No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley
in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting
property, and no person shall park a vehicle other than a commercial
vehicle within an alley, and no person shall park a commercial vehicle
within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave
available less than ten feet (10') of the width of the roadway except
while actually engaged in loading or unloading operations and, between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for a period not to exceed thirty
(30) minutes, except public utility vehicles for periods not exceeding
two (2) hours while actually engaged in emergency repairs.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1401)
(a) The director of public works is authorized to erect signs indicating
no parking upon any street adjacent to any school property when such
parking would, in his or her opinion, interfere with traffic or create
a hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon a street
adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in
any such designated place.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1402)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway 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) Advertising, except by permit issued by the chief of police and under
the conditions stipulated in such permit.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1404)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park, stand or stop any motor
vehicle within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant, except momentarily
to pick up or discharge a passenger.
(b) It shall be unlawful and a violation to park any vehicle, except
a United States Postal vehicle, within ten feet of a United States
Postal box, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Saturday, except on national holidays, and except momentarily to load
or unload passengers or merchandise. Enforcement of this section shall
occur upon receiving a complaint from the owner, occupant or property
manager of the property which receives mail at said mailbox.
(Ordinance 10-030 adopted 3/23/10)
(a) When signs are erected or curbs painted giving notice thereof, no
person shall park a vehicle at any time upon the streets or sides
of streets or portions thereof designated by ordinance. Such ordinances
are not included in this section, but they are specifically saved
from repeal and are on file in the city secretary’s office.
(b) However, the provisions of such ordinances shall not apply to the
driver or operator of a motor or other vehicle halting the same when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic in and upon said portion
of said public street, highway and thoroughfare, or in compliance
with the lawful directions of a police officer or official traffic-control
sign or signal, or when impossible to avoid stopping such vehicle
and temporarily leaving such vehicle when the same has been disabled
while on such portion of such public street, highway or thoroughfare.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1405; Ordinance
adopting Code)
(a) The parking time for motor or other vehicles in certain designated
parking spaces in and upon certain public streets, highways, thoroughfares,
and tracts of land, and portions of certain public streets, highways,
and thoroughfares, located and situated within the corporate limits
of the city, or in any combination of such designated parking spaces
on the same side of any one block bounded in whole or in part by any
such portion of any said public streets, highways or thoroughfares
is limited to one hundred twenty (120) minutes. Such public streets,
highways, thoroughfares and tracts of land and portions thereof are
established by ordinance. Such ordinances are not included in this
section, but they are specifically saved from repeal and are on file
in the city secretary’s office.
(b) As used herein, “vehicle” shall mean every device in,
upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or
drawn upon any public street, highway or thoroughfare, except devices
moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or
tracts.
(c) In order to facilitate the orderly and safe flow and movement of
traffic in and upon said portions of said public streets, highways,
thoroughfares and tracts of land, and to protect the persons and property
of those using the same from unusual or undue danger and hazard, the
director of public works is hereby authorized and empowered to establish,
designate and mark off, and cause the establishment, designation and
marking off, of such individual parking spaces in and upon said portions
of public streets, highways, thoroughfares and tracts of land, for
the parking of motor and other vehicles, said parking spaces to be
laid out and designated with white lines painted or durably marked
on the surfaces of said portions of public streets, highways, thoroughfares
and tracts of land, and to erect and maintain on said portions of
said public streets, highways, thoroughfares and tracts of land appropriate
signs clearly reflecting the words “2-hour parking in this block”
and “8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.,” the lettering on such signs
to be in green and the background thereof to be in white, all in conformity
with applicable requirements of law. No prohibition or limitation
as to time designated or established pursuant to the provisions of
this section shall be effective until such signs have been posted
in accordance with the provisions hereof at the time of any alleged
violation.
(d) It is hereby prohibited and it shall be unlawful and an offense for
the driver, operator or owner or for the owner to suffer or permit
the driver or operator of a vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle
in any such designated parking space in and upon any such portion
of any of said public streets, highways, thoroughfares or tracts of
land, or in any such combination of said designated parking spaces
on the same side of any one block bounded in whole or in part by any
such portion of said public streets, highways or thoroughfares, from
the hour of 8:00 a.m. to the hour of 6:00 p.m. of any day, except
Sundays and legal holidays, for a longer period than one hundred twenty
(120) minutes, when such signs are erected and in place. Such legal
holidays shall be January first, Memorial Day, July fourth, the first
Monday in September, Thanksgiving Day, and December twenty-fifth.
(e) Whenever any vehicle is found in the same position within any such
designated parking space, or whenever any vehicle is found to be stopped,
standing or parked on the same side of any one block bounded in whole
or in part by any such portion of said public streets, highways or
thoroughfares, for a period of time longer than one hundred twenty
(120) minutes, such fact shall be prima facie evidence that such vehicle
has been so stopped, standing and parked beyond such period of one
hundred twenty (120) minutes, and that the person who so stopped,
stood or parked such vehicle was the person in whose name such vehicle
was then and there registered.
(f) Any vehicle or combination of vehicles is restricted from occupying more than one (1) designated and marked parking space, or in unmarked areas a maximum of space of twenty feet (20') on streets described in (a) of this section, except as provided for in section
18.04.003.
(g) It shall be the duty of the personnel of the police department, or
any other personnel of the city as may be designated by the city manager
thereof, to enforce the provisions of this section.
(h) An exception to this restriction is a commercial vehicle may occupy
two (2) spaces or double park on streets having more than two (2)
traffic lanes for periods not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes for the
purpose of loading and unloading.
(i) Another exception shall be for clients conducting business with tenants
of the Greenville Exchange Building, who may exceed the one-hundred-twenty-minute
limit so long as the tenant authorizes the extended parking. Evidence
of such authorization shall be provided by the tenant.
(j) Violations of this section can subject the vehicle to impoundment in accordance with article
24.10 of this code pertaining to the removal of abandoned vehicles and other property.
(k) Any person violating any portion or provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by the assessment of a fine as provided in section
1.01.009 of this code, and each period of one hundred twenty (120) minutes that such portion or provision of this section is so violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1407; Ordinance
adopting Code)
(a) Certain portions of tracts and parcels of land, of which the city
is the owner in fee, are hereby designated as areas for the parking
of certain vehicles by the public generally. Such tracts and parcels
of land are established by ordinance. Such ordinances are not included
in this section, but they are specifically saved from repeal and are
on file in the city secretary’s office.
(b) However, the use of said parking areas by the officers and employees
of said city as well as by the public generally shall be subject to
each and all of the conditions and restrictions as follows:
(1) The use of said parking areas on the days of the week Monday through
Friday and during the hours of such days from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30
p.m. shall be limited to officers and employees of said city duly
authorized to so use the same as hereinafter provided, and it shall
be unlawful for any person other than such duly authorized officers
or employees to use the same for the parking of vehicles during such
hours of such days; provided, however, that such limitation shall
not apply on the following holidays of the year: New Year’s
Day, Memorial Day, July the Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas.
(2) Any person using any such parking area for the parking of a vehicle
shall only park such vehicle within a space designated for the parking
of vehicles by the director of administrative services of said city
as hereinafter provided, and any vehicle so parked shall be parked
in such a manner as not to interfere with other persons using any
such parking area or any space therein for the parking of vehicles.
(c) It shall be the duty of the director of public works of said city,
and said officer shall have the power and authority, to designate
those portions of the hereinabove described lots, tracts and parcels
of land for the parking of vehicles and lay out and mark parking spaces
therein and to sign each such parking area in order to notify the
public generally when it may use such parking areas for the parking
of vehicles. It shall be the further duty and responsibility of such
officer, and he or she shall have the power and authority, to determine
and designate the officers and employees of said city who shall have
the right and privilege thereof when the use of same is limited to
officers and employees of said city and to designate the parking space
any such officer or employee shall use on such days and during such
hours.
(d) Whenever any police officer of said city finds any vehicle standing,
stopped or parked in or upon the hereinabove described lots, tracts
and parcels of land in violation of any portion or provision of this
section, such officer is hereby authorized and empowered to move or
remove, or cause to be moved or removed, any such vehicle or require
the driver or operator or other person in charge of any such vehicle
to remove the same from such area. Any such police officer is further
authorized and empowered to remove or cause to be removed any such
vehicle so standing, stopped or parked to any garage within the corporate
limits of said city providing for the storage of motor vehicles or
other place of safety or to a garage or storage facility designated
or maintained by authorized personnel or employees of said city for
the storage of vehicles.
(e) Whenever a vehicle shall be left standing, stopped or parked in or
upon the hereinabove described lots, tracts and parcels of land in
violation of any portion or provision of this section, such fact shall
be prima facie evidence that the person who left such vehicle so standing,
stopped or parked was the person in whose name said vehicle was then
and there registered.
(f) Any person violating any portion or provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by the assessment of a fine as provided for in section
1.01.009 of this code, and each day and every day that any such portion or provision of this section is so violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1408; Ordinance
adopting Code)
(a) No truck, tractor or truck tractor in combination with a semitrailer,
trailer, or semitrailer in combination with a towing vehicle having
a total length greater than twenty feet (20') from front wheel base
to rear wheel base or recreational vehicle shall be parked or left
standing on any street, highway or other public way located within
those areas zoned one-family-1 (SF-1), one-family-2 (SF-2), one-family-3
(SF-3) and single-family attached (SFA) during the day or night; provided,
however, such vehicles may be parked in such areas for the purpose
of making delivery of goods, wares, merchandise, building material
or other commodities to, or performing necessary services for a person
residing on, property situated on such street, highway or public way.
(b) Any person violating any portion or provision of subsection
(a) above shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be punished by the assessment of a fine as provided for in section
1.01.009 of this code, and each day and every day that any such portion or provision of this section is so violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1409)
(a) It shall be illegal to park on private property where signs have
been posted indicating the following:
NO PARKING FROM THE HOUR INDICATED TO THE HOUR INDICATED. (The
specific hours shall be set out. For example: 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 am.)
DO NOT PARK OR REMAIN ON THIS PROPERTY BETWEEN THESE HOURS. PARKING
VIOLATORS WILL BE FILED ON, $25–$200, CARS CAN BE IMPOUNDED.
(b) Letters must be clearly visible and at least two inches (2") high.
Sign background must be white and letters must be a dark color.
(c) The sign or signs must be posted on the property so as to be reasonably
likely to come to the attention of persons entering onto the property.
Vehicles in violation of this provision can also be impounded.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1410)
(a) In the event a public improvement project is scheduled to be performed
within the public street or right-of-way and the location of vehicles
will present a hazard or safety risk to the project, persons or property,
the public works director or his or her authorized designee shall
post notice of such improvement forty-eight (48) hours prior to the
commencement of construction/improvements by placing notices on doors
of residences and businesses within the area affected and posting
signs at the location so as to reasonably notify persons that it is
unlawful to park vehicles in the street, specifying the location,
time, and dates, and a failure to observe this restriction will result
in towing and/or penalty.
(b) Any such police officer or other peace officer is authorized to remove
at the owner’s cost any motor vehicle or other vehicle which
is stopped, standing or parked in or upon any portion of a public
street of right-of-way when such vehicle constitutes a hazard or obstruction
to any public improvement project, property or person within the public
street or right-of-way.
(c) It shall be unlawful for a person to park a vehicle in the public
street or right-of-way during the prohibited times as provided in
this notice.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1412)
(a) It shall be an offense for a person to stop, stand or park a vehicle
over or across a curb or on the area between a sidewalk and a curb,
except if such stopping, standing or parking is on a paved driveway.
(b) It is presumed that the registered owner of the vehicle is the person
who stopped, stood or parked the vehicle at the time and place of
the offense charged.
(c) A computer-generated record of the registered vehicle owner received
from the state department of transportation by the police department
is prima facie evidence of the contents of the record.
(1990 Code, sec. 10.1413)
Editor’s note–Former section 18.03.013
“Parking enforcement personnel” which derived from Ordinance
08-110 adopted 9/23/08 was repealed by Ordinance 16-008 adopted 2/9/16.