No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine and effectively setting the brakes thereon and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the roadway.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
(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 or sidewalk area.
(2) 
In front of a public or private driveway.
(3) 
Within an intersection.
(4) 
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, except within an officially marked parking stall.
(5) 
On a crosswalk.
(6) 
Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection or within twenty (20) feet of an intersection when marked by a yellow-colored curb.
(7) 
Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway.
(8) 
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 a different length is indicated by signs or markings.
(9) 
Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
(10) 
Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to the fire station and, on the side of a street opposite the entrance to the fire station, within seventy-five (75) feet of such entrance (when properly sign posted).
(11) 
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic.
(12) 
In such an area on a roadway, such as a curve or bend, which would create a motor vehicle or pedestrian traffic hazard by interfering with an unobstructed view of oncoming traffic, street signs, traffic-control signs or devices and thus interfere with the free movement of traffic on the roadway.
(13) 
On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(14) 
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or city roadway.
(15) 
At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(16) 
Within twenty (20) feet of a commercial and/or industrial refuse container.
(17) 
Within ten (10) feet of either side of the driveway of any business or commercial establishment located within a business district.
(b) 
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any prohibited area specified above or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
(a) 
No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to stand unattended on the following roadways, streets or highways:
(1) 
Darter Court - all sides of the street and along the entire hammerhead located on the west end of the private roadway.
(2) 
Cardinal Lane - all sides of the street from FM 120 south to Front Street (railroad tracks).
(b) 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined an amount of thirty dollars ($30.00). Each day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable accordingly. Unlawfully parked vehicles may be towed away at the owner's expense.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16; Ordinance 1411 adopted 5/7/18; Ordinance 1489 adopted 9/11/2023)
The access ways referred to in the fire prevention code shall be identified as "fire lanes"; and when determined by the fire chief 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 guilty of a class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provision in Section 1.109 of this code. Each day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable accordingly. Unlawfully parked vehicles may be towed away at the owner’s expense.
(c) 
When part of a 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; or where a curb exists, the curb shall have the words “fire lane-no parking” painted:
(1) 
In four-inch-high letters, white in color;
(2) 
On a contrasting background stripe, red in color, six (6) inches wide;
(3) 
Shall be maintained in a clean and legible condition at all times and be replaced or repaired when necessary to provide adequate visibility.
(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 and 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.
(Ordinance 1421 adopted 12/3/18; Ordinance 1411 adopted 5/7/18)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or let stand, or cause the same to be done, any motor vehicle upon the parking lot of a commercial business, vacant or occupied, after business hours on any day of the week and in violation of the times posted at each entrance to the parking lot, if so posted, without specific written consent to do so by the property owner.
(b) 
Each commercial business parking lot owner may request, in writing to the director of public works for the city that sufficient signs be posted at each of the entrances to their parking lot from a public street or alley, a sign prohibiting the parking or standing of motor vehicles during designated days and hours.
(c) 
The city shall determine the number of signs required and shall bill the owner, at the city’s actual cost, for the expense of construction and installation of each sign.
(d) 
The city shall establish uniform requirements for the sign height, shape, color, letter size, the sign location and the sign terminology.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or permit to be parked any vehicle on any street in the city for the purpose of exhibiting such vehicle for sale, or for the purpose of washing such vehicle, or for the purpose of making repairs to such vehicle, except such repairs as may be necessary as emergency repairs.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10) feet of the width of either lane of a roadway for free movement of the vehicular traffic, except that a driver may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when necessary in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals or a police officer.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, drive or propel a vehicle in such manner as to block or obstruct the traffic on any street or alley of the city. Other restrictions contained in Article 12.500 - Traffic Obstructions of this code.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
In any prosecution charging a violation of any ordinance or regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such ordinance or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)
(a) 
Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of this section, or who fails to comply with any of the provisions herein, within the corporate limits of the city, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine in accordance with the general penalty provision set forth in Section 1.109 of this code. Each motor vehicle, or part thereof, with respect to which there is a violation and each day that a violation occurs is a separate offense and shall be punishable accordingly.
(b) 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any violation of any provision of this article which constitutes an immediate danger or threat to the health, safety and welfare of the public may be enjoined in a suit brought by the city for such purpose.
(c) 
In addition to any other remedies or penalties contained herein, the city may enforce the provisions of this article pursuant to the applicable provisions of Texas Local Government Code chapter 54, which provides for the enforcement of municipal ordinances.
(d) 
Allegation and evidence of a culpable mental state is not required for the proof of an offense defined by this article.
(Ordinance 1382 adopted 11/7/16)