(a)
Subject to city council approval, parking meter zones shall be established
by the traffic engineer and chief of police upon such streets, portions
of streets, municipal parking lots or within the parking district
as may be necessary for traffic or parking control purposes.
(b)
The traffic engineer and chief of police shall install parking meters
or parking stalls for the purpose of, and in such numbers and in such
places, as in their judgment may be necessary for the regulation,
control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein.
(c)
The traffic engineer and chief of police are further authorized and
directed to reserve the zone spaces for loading or unloading passengers,
for bus stops, taxicab stands, and other spaces for use and convenience
of the public.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The parking meter rates and time limits shall be as set by resolution
of the parking place commission, and shall be published in the master
fee schedule. The traffic engineer and chief of police are authorized
to erect and maintain necessary signs pertaining thereto on the street
and in the parking lots.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
(a)
The traffic engineer and chief of police shall designate the parking
space adjacent to each parking meter for which such meter is to be
used by appropriate markings upon the curb and/or the pavement.
(b)
It is unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any designated
parking meter space so that any part of the vehicle occupies more
than one space or protrudes beyond the markings designating such space,
except that a vehicle which is of a size too large to be parked within
a single designated parking meter space shall be permitted to occupy
two adjoining parking meter spaces when coins have been deposited
in the parking meter for each space so occupied.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
It is unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle registered to, operated or controlled by that person to
be parked in any parking space upon any street or municipal parking
lot within a parking meter zone or parking district, next to which
a parking meter or parking time limit is established, for more than
the time indicated by proper signs, or any time or paid for on the
parking meter or by a parking ticket properly displayed, except during
the time from six p.m. to six a.m. Monday through Friday, or on Sundays
and holidays.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
(a)
The chief of police is authorized to issue parking meter hoods to
persons, firms or corporations occupying property adjacent to parking
spaces located within the parking meter zone, and also to proprietors
of funeral parlors, and such persons, firms or corporations are authorized
to use such hoods as provided herein.
(b)
Such parking meter hoods shall only be issued, after due application,
when the circumstances indicate to the satisfaction of the chief of
police that there is a need to limit the parking in certain parking
areas within the parking meter zone to park for the purpose of loading
or unloading passengers, merchandise or materials during certain times
and for purposes incident to the conduct of funerals.
(c)
Application for the issuance of a parking meter hood shall be made
on a form approved by the chief of police.
(d)
The person, firm or corporation authorized to use a parking meter
hood shall place the hood over the head of the parking meter with
the lettering facing the street, and shall lock the lock provided
on the hood and shall only place or allow such hood to remain on the
parking meter during such times as the limitation of parking as provided
herein is needed.
(e)
The chief of police may revoke the authority granted to use a hood
when the person, firm or corporation is found to be using the hood
for other purposes than to fulfill the need for which the authority
to use the hood was granted.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
It is unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle operated or controlled by that person to be parked in
any parking space within a parking meter zone adjacent to while a
parking meter is established while a parking meter hood is properly
in place on the head of such parking meter, unless such parking is
while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers, merchandise
or materials and in no event longer than thirty minutes. Vehicles
parked pursuant to the provisions of this section may remain so parked
as long as reasonably necessary for purposes incident to the conduct
of funerals.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
It is unlawful for any person to deposit, or cause to be deposited,
in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device
or metallic substance for a coin of the United States, or deface,
injure, tamper with, open, willfully break, destroy or impair the
usefulness of any parking meter.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
The parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a parking space,
at which space the parking meter displays the sign or signal indicating
illegal parking, constitutes a prima facie presumption that the vehicle
has been parked or allowed to stand in such space for a period longer
than permitted.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
(a)
A city parking lot is a lot or parcel of land owned, purchased or
leased by the city, or in which the city has the possessory right
of interest, and which is designated a city parking lot for the off-street
parking of vehicles.
(b)
Each city parking lot shall be designated by an appropriate number
or letter.
(c)
It is unlawful in any city parking lot to park or leave standing
any vehicle in any driveway, aisle, walk or area other than in a designated
parking space.
(d)
It is unlawful for any person to cause, allow or permit any vehicle
operated, controlled by, or registered to that person to be upon any
parking lot between the hours of eight a.m. and six p.m., Sundays
and holidays excepted, without causing a sticker, ticket or other
evidence furnished by the city to be displayed upon the vehicle.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
(a)
Whenever the traffic engineer and chief of police determine that
the orderly, efficient conduct of the city’s business requires
that parking or standing of vehicles on city property be prohibited,
limited or restricted the traffic engineer and chief of police shall
have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted
indicating that the parking of vehicle is thus prohibited, limited
or restricted.
(b)
When signs by the provisions of this section are in place, giving
notice thereof, no person shall park or stand any vehicle contrary
to the directions of provisions of such signs.
(Ord. 1109 § 2, 1992)
