(a) Current license and inspection sticker required.
Only
vehicles in operating condition with current license and inspection
sticker may park on city streets.
(b) Parking in residential areas.
In residential areas,
parking space is limited to curbside footage of the home owner or
renter using city utilities.
(c) Time limit for continuous parking; storage of building materials.
No vehicles or building materials of any kind shall be parked or placed on any street for a continuous period of over 24 hours with the exception of a home or business, and this shall be limited to vehicles meeting the requirements in subsection
(a) of this section.
(d) Vacant lots.
Vacant lots that are owned or rented that are not adjacent to the person’s home do not qualify under subsection
(a) and subsection
(b) of this section.
(e) Removal of vehicles by city.
The city will pick up any
vehicles in violation of this section, place in storage, charge for
moving and storage, make a reasonable effort to notify the owner and
give the owner 90 days to redeem.
(f) Removal of hazardous vehicles or objects.
The city maintains
the right to demand or remove any vehicle or object parked on a city
street that creates a hazard or might reasonably be considered a hazard.
Determination to be made by a police officer and the councilman. The
cost shall be paid by the person causing the problem, and the penalty
in accordance to the problem and the ordinance violation.
(Ordinance adopted 6/2/86)
(a) Parking time limits.
It shall be unlawful for anyone
to park a house trailer, truck, trailer or any attached vehicle over
twenty-four feet long on the public streets of the city over one hour
on Main Street and twelve hours on all other streets and alleyways.
(b) Occupancy of parked vehicle.
It shall be unlawful for
anyone to park and live in a house trailer, truck or attached vehicle
on a public street or alleyway. Such vehicles must be parked on approved
lots only.
(c) Penalty.
Any person in violation of this section, upon
conviction of such a violation, shall be deemed guilty and fined in
the amount not to exceed $200.00 in the city court.
(Ordinance 33 adopted 2/4/74)
Parking shall be prohibited as measured forty feet (40') from
either corner of all streets along Main Street (Highway 6) from Gregg
Street through and including Barton Street with the exception being
those streets having a traffic light (currently only Burnett Street),
which will adhere to the state law concerning same, and the southeast
corner of the intersection of Gregg and Main Streets, in which parking
will be prohibited measuring two hundred five feet (205') from the
corner in a southerly direction.
(Ordinance 222 adopted 8/15/05)