(a)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or
the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any
of the following places:
(1)
On a sidewalk.
(2)
In front of a public or private driveway.
(3)
Within an intersection.
(4)
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, unless otherwise marked.
(5)
On a crosswalk.
(6)
At an intersection within thirty (30) feet of an existing intersecting
curb line or projection of an intersecting curb line, unless otherwise
marked.
(7)
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30)
feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety
zone, unless the chief of police has indicated a different length
by signs or markings.
(8)
Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station.
(9)
Alongside or opposite any excavation or street obstruction when stopping,
standing, or parking would obstruct traffic.
(10)
In the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge
or curb of a street.
(11)
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within
a street tunnel or underpass.
(12)
At any place where official signs or markings prohibit stopping.
(13)
Beside any curb painted red in color.
(b)
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into
any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1401),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park
any motor vehicle upon any portion of Jacksboro Highway, State Highway
199, described below:
(1)
Any portion of the right-of-way on the north side of said highway
between its intersection with Boat Club Road easterly for a distance
of four hundred thirteen point six (413.6) feet to the intersection
of Loop 820 West Frontage Road.
(b)
It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle on the south side of
State Highway 199 (Jacksboro Highway) from a point three hundred (300)
feet west of its intersection with Boat Club Road to a point three
hundred (300) feet east of the said point where State Highway 199
intersects with Boat Club Road. The chief of police is authorized
and directed to erect “No Parking” signs in said six hundred
(600) foot area.
(c)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park
any motor vehicle upon any portion of Foster Drive described below:
(1)
Any portion of the right-of-way on the north and south sides of said
street from its intersection with Ranch Drive westerly for a distance
of five hundred twenty-eight (528) feet to the Fort Worth city limit
line.
(d)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park
any motor vehicle upon any portion of Tompkins Corner described below:
(1)
Any portion of the right-of-way on the east and west sides of said
street from its intersection with Foster Drive northerly for a distance
of one hundred seventy-eight (178) feet to the Fort Worth city limit
line.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1402),
adopted 6/11/19)
No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an
alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available
less than fifteen (15) feet of the width of the roadway for free movement
of vehicular traffic.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1403),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or
under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10) feet
of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic,
and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley
in such position as to block the driveway to any abutting property.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1404),
adopted 6/11/19; Ordinance adopting
2021 Code)
In any case where any street in the city is being torn up, repaired,
paved or where any work is being done upon the same, making necessary
the regulation of traffic thereon, the chief of police is hereby authorized
to prevent parking either altogether or to any extent deemed wise
by him for any certain period of time that he may deem necessary,
or to close the street to traffic altogether for such period of time,
by erecting thereon official signs with the parking restrictions clearly
stated thereon.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1405),
adopted 6/11/19)
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any
vehicle having a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of more
than one and one-half (1-1/2) tons or exceeding twenty-one (21) feet
in length (measured from the outermost edge of the bumper or any appurtenances
attached to such vehicle to the outermost edge of the bumper or appurtenance
attached to the opposite end of such vehicle), any trailer, recreational
vehicle, or any abandoned motor vehicle on any public roadway or public
right-of-way in any residential subdivision at any time, except as
follows:
(1)
Where the operator is using such motor vehicle or trailer as defined
above to make bona fide pickups or deliveries, or for the temporary
loading or unloading of the vehicle, provided that the operator furnishes
evidence to that effect upon demand by a peace officer and provided
that the operator removes such motor vehicle or trailer from the roadway
immediately upon completion of said pickups, deliveries, loading or
unloading;
(2)
Maintenance vehicles, trailers and equipment owned and operated by,
or on behalf of, the city, or any public utility or governmental entity,
where the person operating the vehicle, trailer or equipment is engaged
in maintenance work;
(3)
Any authorized emergency vehicle as defined in Texas Transportation
Code section 541.201, and any amendments thereto, provided such vehicle
is conclusively identified;
(4)
Any bus or school bus actively engaged in the receiving or discharging
of passengers;
(5)
Motor vehicles and trailers left at or on an active jobsite under
a current valid permit issued by the city.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1406),
adopted 6/11/19)
No vehicle having a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity
of more than one and one-half (1-1/2) tons or exceeding twenty-one
(21) feet in length (measured from the outermost edge of the bumper
or any appurtenances attached to such vehicle to the outermost edge
of the bumper or appurtenance attached to the opposite end of such
vehicle) or any trailer, recreational vehicle, or abandoned vehicle
shall be parked upon any public roadway or public right-of-way in
the city between the hours of ten p.m. (10:00 p.m.) and six a.m. (6:00
a.m.) except for repairing or servicing necessitated by an emergency.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1407),
adopted 6/11/19)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street for the principal
purpose of:
(1)
Displaying such vehicles for sale.
(2)
Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicles except repairs necessitated
by an emergency.
(3)
Displaying for sale or selling any merchandise.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1408),
adopted 6/11/19)
The chief of police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating
no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property
when such parking would interfere with traffic or create a hazardous
situation.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1409),
adopted 6/11/19)
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in front of any entrance
which provides access to hotels, motels, theaters, skating rinks or
to the upper floors of any building two (2) or more stories in height.
Such entrances shall remain open for fire or other emergency purposes.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1410),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
The chief of police is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating
no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not
exceed twenty (20) feet, or upon one (1) side of a street as indicated
no parking by such signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed
thirty (30) feet.
(b)
When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets
as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such
street in violation of any such sign.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1411),
adopted 6/11/19)
In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways
and traffic is restricted to one (1) direction of travel upon any
such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand
side of such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such
standing or parking. The chief of police is authorized to determine
when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side
of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1412),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
The chief of police is hereby authorized to determine and designate,
by proper signs, places in which the stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would
cause unusual delay in traffic.
(b)
When authorized official signs are erected at hazardous or congested
places as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand or park a
vehicle in any such designated place.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1413),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
No person shall allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in
his name to stand or park in the city in violation of any provisions
of this article regulating the standing or parking of vehicles.
(b)
If a vehicle is found unattended or unoccupied upon a street, highway,
alley or other public place, in violation of any provision of this
article regulating the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles,
the same is hereby declared a nuisance per se, and the fact that the
vehicle is unattended or unoccupied by any person shall be prima facie
evidence that the owner unlawfully stopped, placed or parked such
vehicle.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1414),
adopted 6/11/19)
(a)
Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street
or highway in violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this
article, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or
require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move
the same, to a position off the paved or main traveled part of such
highway or street.
(b)
Any police officer is hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from
a highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety designated
by the city, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
(1)
When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, or
causeway or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an
obstruction to traffic.
(2)
When any vehicle is illegally parked so as to block the entrance
to any private driveway, and it is impracticable to move such vehicle
from in front of the driveway to another part of the highway.
(3)
When any vehicle is found upon the highway and a report has previously
been made that such vehicle has been stolen or a complaint has been
filed and warrant thereon issued, charging that such vehicle has been
embezzled.
(4)
When any such officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any
such vehicle has been abandoned.
(5)
When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled that its normal operation
is impossible or impracticable and the persons in charge of the vehicle
are incapacitated by reason of physical injury or other reason to
such an extent as to be unable to provide for its removal or custody,
or are not in the immediate vicinity of the disabled vehicle.
(6)
When an officer arrests any person driving or in control of a vehicle
for an alleged offense and such officer is by this Code of Ordinances
or other law required to take the person arrested immediately before
a magistrate.
(c)
A reasonable fee for removing the vehicle and for storage shall be
charged against the vehicle.
(d)
Any vehicle standing unattended may be moved by any member of the
police or fire department and any policeman or fireman may require
the moving of such vehicle if it obstructs the free movement of such
persons in the actual discharge of their duties.
(e)
Any member of the police department is hereby authorized to remove
any vehicle parked or standing in or on any portion of the highway
when, in the opinion of said member of the police department, the
said vehicle constitutes a hazard or by reason of any catastrophe,
emergency or unusual circumstances the safety of said vehicle is imperiled.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1415),
adopted 6/11/19)
It shall be a misdemeanor for the operator of any vehicle which
does not display such handicapped identifying tag to park in a parking
space designated for handicapped parking. Such person shall be fined
in accordance with the general penalty provision set forth in this
code.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1416),
adopted 6/11/19)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic in compliance with the law, or
to obey the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device,
in any of the following locations:
(1)
In a place or manner which obstructs any portion of a sidewalk;
(2)
Within a street right-of-way in front of or within five (5) feet
of a public or private driveway serving single-family or duplex uses,
or in front of or within twenty (20) feet of a driveway serving a
use other than single-family or duplex (for purposes of this section,
the driveway does not include the rounded or clipped corner at the
intersection of the driveway and the public street);
(3)
Within the rounded corner (curb return) at an intersection;
(4)
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
(5)
Adjacent to the curb of any public street unless parking is parallel and immediately adjacent to the curb of the street, the vehicle is oriented in the correct direction of travel and parking is not otherwise prohibited on the street, or unless parking is in compliance with section 12.07.006(1) of this article; or
(6)
Within the roadway or public right-of-way of any arterial roadway
so designated by the city within the corporate limits of the city.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1417),
adopted 6/11/19)
No person shall inhabit a vehicle, including a recreational
vehicle, at any time when such vehicle is parked upon a public roadway
or public right-of-way located within the corporate limits of the
city.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1418),
adopted 6/11/19)
In a prosecution for an offense involving the stopping, standing,
or parking of an unattended motor vehicle, it shall be presumed that
the registered owner of the vehicle is the person who stopped, stood,
or parked the vehicle at the time and place the offense occurred.
The registered owner of the vehicle may rebut this presumption by
showing that he or she did not stop, stand or park the vehicle.
(Ordinance 1145, sec. 4 (12.1419),
adopted 6/11/19)
The governing body is hereby authorized to determine the location
of freight curb loading zones and shall direct the chief of police
to place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same. These
zones shall be operative from 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., except Sundays
and legal holidays.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 17A; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1701)
(a)
For the purpose of regulating and supervising loading zones and to
provide a fund to cover all costs involved in installing adequate
signs or curb markings designating loading zones and to pay the cost
of periodic maintenance of same, there is hereby imposed against the
applicant for a loading zone, and against any person, firm or corporation
who desires the maintenance of a loading zone abutting their property,
a charge per month per lineal foot of such space reserved, to be determined
by motion or resolution of the council. A loading zone shall be designated
by upright signs and/or painted curb marking of a distinctive color.
However, if the zone applied for lies within a section of curb at
which parking is normally prohibited, such zone shall be designated
by yellow curb markings and/or upright signs.
(b)
Every person, firm or corporation desiring or requiring a loading
zone shall make application on appropriate forms to the city manager
or his/her designee. If such approval is granted, the chief of police,
before setting aside such zone by exhibiting signs, will have the
collection of the annual fee provided for herein certified to him
by the city manager or his/her designee. The city manager or his/her
designee 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 advise the chief of police, who will remove the signs or
curb markings designating such loading zones.
(c)
No loading zone permit shall be granted where the flow of traffic
would be impeded or traffic hazards created by such zones.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 17B; Ordinance 707 adopted 6/10/03; 2004 Code, sec. 12.1702)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose
or period other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers
in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours
when the regulations applicable to such curb loading are effective,
and then only for a period not to exceed five (5) minutes.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 17C; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1703)
All loading zones shall be available to anyone who may have
loading or unloading to be in the immediate vicinity.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 17D; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1704)
No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose
or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery
or pickup and loading of materials in any place marked as an unloading
zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zone are
in effect.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 17E; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1705)
