(a) Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found parked or stopped
in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by the ordinances
of this municipality, the officer finding such vehicle shall take
its registration number and may take any other information displayed
on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously
affix to such vehicle a penalty assessment notice, directing the driver
thereof to respond to and answer the charge against him at a place
and at a time specified in said notice.
(b) If upon the violation of any of the parking restrictions imposed
by this chapter a person produces photographic evidence of a stopping,
standing or parking violation and reports the same to the municipal
law enforcement agency, then the municipal law enforcement agency
or the City Attorney, upon a determination of probable cause to believe
that a stopping, standing or parking violation has been committed,
may issue a penalty assessment notice to the registered owner of the
vehicle as otherwise provided in this section. Upon a determination
of the registered owner of the vehicle, a penalty assessment may be
mailed to the address of record shown on the current registration
for the vehicle.
(c) For purposes of this section, “photographic evidence”
means still photographs, video or digital images which show the violation,
the front and rear license plates of the vehicle and the date and
time of the violation. The person procuring the photographic evidence
shall for the purposes of prosecution be considered the complaining
witness. The person procuring the photographic evidence shall in order
for a prosecution thereon to be sustained, be sworn and under oath
or affirmation testify that the photographic evidence is true and
accurate and faithfully depicts what he/she observed.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) If the driver or owner of an unattended motor vehicle charged with
an apparent violation of the restrictions on stopping, standing or
parking under the traffic ordinances of this municipality does not
respond within the time specified to a penalty assessment notice affixed
to such vehicle, by appearance and payment at the court having jurisdiction,
or by mailing payment by means of the United States mail, or by other
disposition of the charge as provided by law, the Clerk of said court
shall send another notice by mail to the registered owner of the vehicle
to which the original notice was affixed, warning him that in the
event such notice is disregarded for a period of 20 days from date
of mailing, a complaint will be filed and a warrant of arrest will
be issued.
(b) If the driver or owner of an unattended motor vehicle charged with an apparent violation of the restrictions on stopping, standing or parking under the traffic ordinances of this municipality does not respond within the time specified to a penalty assessment notice affixed to such vehicle or mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle, as provided in GJMC §
10.08.030, by appearance and payment at the Traffic Violations Bureau or court having jurisdiction, or by mailing payment by means of the United States mail or by other disposition of the charges as provided by law, the clerk of said court or Traffic Violations Bureau shall send notice by mail to the registered owner of the vehicle to which the penalty assessment was affixed or another notice to the registered owner of the vehicle to which the first mailed notice was sent, warning him that in the event such notice is disregarded for a period of 20 days from the date of mailing, a warrant of arrest will be issued.
(c) When a driver, owner, or person in charge of a vehicle has failed
to respond to the following notices of illegal parking:
(1) A notice placed on the vehicle pursuant to GJMC §
10.08.030; and
(2) An additional notice mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle;
A police officer or other authorized person of the City, acting
in his official capacity, may temporarily immobilize such vehicle
by attaching to it a device designed to restrict the normal movement
of the vehicle; provided, however, that the vehicle shall be located
on a public right-of-way or in such a place frequented by the public
for public purposes, or private property where the public frequents
for public purposes, or private property where the public is a business
invitee. Prior to immobilization the Municipal Court shall review
the procedure followed and enter an order directing the immobilization.
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(d) If a vehicle is immobilized, the officer shall affix a conspicuous
notice to the vehicle informing the driver, owner or person in charge
of the vehicle that:
(1) The vehicle has been immobilized by the City of Grand Junction for
a parking violation pursuant to the code of ordinances of the City
of Grand Junction by an order issued by the Judge of the Municipal
Court.
(2) The owner of the vehicle may request an immediate hearing in the
Grand Junction Municipal Court to contest the citation or immobilization
of the vehicle, or the owner of the vehicle shall have the right,
upon request, to a post-deprivation hearing within 48 hours after
the request for such hearing, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
In the alternative, the owner may obtain immediate release of the
vehicle by posting bond in the amount of the delinquent parking fines
and fees plus booting costs as established by resolution of the City
Council and on file in the City Clerk’s office with the Clerk
of the Municipal Court. If the vehicle is so released, any hearing
requested will be set within the normal time limits of any other hearing
in Municipal Court.
(3) Release of the vehicle may be obtained without a hearing by payment
of fines, fees and costs as established by resolution of the City
Council and on file in the City Clerk’s office to the Clerk
of the Municipal Court.
(4) Unless arrangements are made for the release of the vehicle within 72 hours, the vehicle shall be removed from the streets by a police officer pursuant to GJMC §
10.12.010.
(5) That removing or attempting to remove the device before a release
is obtained is unlawful.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or attempt to remove
an immobilized vehicle before a release is obtained or to move any
such vehicle before the Police Department releases it.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
In any prosecution charging a violation of any provision of
this chapter governing the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle,
proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked
in violation of any such 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.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
There shall be no parking whatsoever on any roadway or contiguous
shoulder of any State highway or connecting link within the City during
the times and places where snow removal operations are in progress.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) Except where angle parking is permitted by this code and, in the
case of State highways, is approved by the State Department of Highways,
and except as otherwise provided by this code every vehicle stopped
or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with
the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand
curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the right-hand
shoulder.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this code, every vehicle stopped
or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel
to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized
traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the
right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the
right-hand shoulder or with its left-hand wheels within 12 inches
of the left-hand curb or as close as practicable to the left edge
of the left-hand shoulder.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) On those streets which have been approved and signed or marked for
angle parking, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other
than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by
such signs or markings.
(b) No person shall park a vehicle at an angle upon any street except
those streets upon which angle parking is specifically permitted.
(c) Where signs are posted specifying the direction of a vehicle for
angle parking, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle not in accordance
with the signs. No person shall park front-in or head-in in a space
or area designated for rear-in angle parking.
(d) When parked at an angle, a vehicle shall be parked only within the
designated angle parking space with the front wheel of the vehicle
nearest the curb within 12 inches of the curb or, in those areas specifically
designated for back-in angle parking, with the back wheel nearest
to the curb within 12 inches of such curb.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon a highway during the hours
between sunset and sunrise, and in the event there is sufficient light
to reveal any person or object within a distance of 1,000 feet upon
such highway, no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.
(b) Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder
adjacent thereto, whether attended or unattended, during the hours
between sunset and sunrise, and there is not sufficient light to reveal
any person or object within a distance of 1,000 feet upon such highway,
such vehicle so parked or stopped shall be equipped with one or more
operating lamps meeting the following requirements: At least one lamp
shall display a white or amber light visible from a distance of 500
feet to the front of the vehicle, and the same lamp or at least one
other lamp shall display a red light visible from a distance of 500
feet to the rear of the vehicle, and the location of said lamp or
lamps shall always be such that at least one lamp or a combination
of lamps meeting the requirements of this section is installed as
near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is closest to
passing traffic. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a motor-driven
cycle.
(c) Any lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or
dimmed.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit
it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking
the ignition, removing the key from the ignition and effectively setting
the brake thereon, and, when standing upon any grade, said person
shall turn the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway in
such a manner as to prevent the vehicle from rolling onto the traveled
way.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall park any vehicle upon a street or highway in
such a manner or under such conditions as to interfere with the free
movement of vehicular traffic or proper street or highway maintenance.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) No person shall park a vehicle within an alley except during the
necessary and expeditious loading and unloading of merchandise or
freight.
(b) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in
such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall move a vehicle not owned by or in charge of
such person into any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance
as is unlawful.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in such a manner as
to leave available less than two feet clearance between vehicles when
parked.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
The driver of a vehicle while waiting for a parking space to
be cleared by another vehicle which is in the actual process of leaving
such parking space shall stop on the roadway side immediately to the
rear of such leaving vehicle and shall remain in such position until
the parking space has been cleared.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) No person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Junction Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or GJMC Title 29, Transportation Engineering Design Standards (
TEDS), shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(4) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of
points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone,
unless the traffic authority indicates a different length by signs
or markings; every vehicle shall be parked wholly within a designated
parking space. Parking space designations shall be made by markings,
signs or other appropriate indication upon the curb and/or pavement.
Except where prohibited by other provision of this code, a vehicle
which is of a size too large to be parked within a single space shall
be permitted to occupy two adjoining spaces when the vehicle will
fit wholly and completely within the designated spaces and where,
as applicable, the necessary number of parking meter charges have
been paid;
(5) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping,
standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(6) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge
or curb of a street;
(7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within
a highway tunnel;
(9) On any controlled-access highway;
(10) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
(11) At any other place where official signs prohibit stopping, standing,
or parking;
(12) Either in whole or in part on a planting strip.
(b) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsection
(a) of this section, no person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Junction Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or GJMC Title
29, Transportation Engineering Design Standards (
TEDS), shall stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) Within five feet of a public or private driveway;
(2) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(3) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(4) Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon or signal,
stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side
of a roadway;
(5) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station or, on
the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station, within
75 feet of said entrance when properly signposted;
(6) At any other place where official signs prohibit standing.
(c) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsections
(a) and
(b) of this section, no person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Junction Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or GJMC Title
29, Transportation Engineering Design Standards (
TEDS), shall park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(2) At any other place where official signs prohibit parking.
(d) Nothing in this section shall prohibit persons from parking bicycles in accordance with GJMC §
10.04.1412.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall park a vehicle upon a roadway for the principal
purpose of:
(a) Displaying such vehicle for sale;
(b) Washing, greasing, painting, or repairing such vehicle except repairs
necessitated by an emergency;
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any highway
ramp or on any other portion of the main-traveled way of such highway.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on parking
shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more
restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles in specified places, at specified times, or
in a specified manner.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
On any street or at any place within this municipality where
official signs are posted giving notice of stopping, standing or parking
restrictions or prohibitions as authorized in this code and described
in traffic control schedules, no person shall stop, stand or park
a vehicle in any manner in violation of the provisions contained on
such sign or signs except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer
or official traffic control device or except for the purpose of loading
or unloading passengers when such standing does not obstruct, impede
or endanger any traffic.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) A vehicle with distinguishing license plates or an identifying placard
indicating a person with a disability as defined in §
42-3-204,
C.R.S., where such distinguishing license plate or identifying placard
has been issued pursuant to §
42-3-204,
C.R.S., may be parked along public streets regardless of any time
limitation imposed by official signs upon parking in such area; except
that such privilege shall not apply to zones in which:
(1) Stopping, standing, or parking of all vehicles is prohibited at all
times;
(2) Only special vehicles may be parked; or
(3) Parking is not allowed during specific periods of the day in order
to accommodate heavy traffic.
(b) It is unlawful for any person other than a person with a disability
as defined in §
42-3-204,
C.R.S., to park in a parking space on public or private property that
is clearly identified by an official sign as being reserved for use
by persons with disabilities unless:
(1) Such person is parking the vehicle for the direct benefit of a person
with a disability to enter or exit the vehicle while it is parked
in the space reserved for use by persons with disabilities; and
(2) A valid license plate or placard is displayed in or on such vehicle.
(c) A person with a disability as defined in §
42-3-204,
C.R.S., may park in a parking space identified as reserved for use
by persons with disabilities whether on public property or private
property available for public use; provided, that such person has
conspicuously displayed at all times on the vehicle parked in such
space a placard or license plate obtained pursuant to §
42-3-204,
C.R.S.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person, except physicians or other persons on emergency calls,
shall park a vehicle on any street signed to prohibit all-night parking,
for a period of time longer than 30 minutes between the hours of 2:00
a.m. and 5:00 a.m. of any day.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
When official signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on the shoulder of any highway
or any other facility so marked except in case of emergency involving
the vehicle or its occupants.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall stand a vehicle for any purpose or period of
time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers
in any place officially marked as a passenger loading zone during
hours when the regulations applicable to such loading zone are effective
and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) No person shall stand 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 officially marked as a freight loading
zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are
in effect.
(b) In no case shall the standing for loading and unloading of materials
exceed 30 minutes.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
Whenever special permits are issued, as authorized by the Transportation
Engineer, to establish or control the use of loading zones or to allow
the backing of a vehicle for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise
or materials subject to certain conditions, no permittee or other
person shall violate any of the special terms of any such permit.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any
street at any place other than a bus stop so designated as authorized
by the Transportation Engineer.
(b) The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street
at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or
their baggage other than at a bus stop so designated as authorized
by the Transportation Engineer, except in case of an emergency.
(c) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop on a public street in
such a manner that the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers
or baggage shall be in a position with the right front wheel of such
vehicle not further than 18 inches from the curb and the bus approximately
parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other
vehicular traffic.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon
any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated
as authorized by the Transportation Engineer.
(b) This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily
stopping in accordance with other parking, standing or stopping regulations
at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the
expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose
or length of time in any restricted parking zone other than for the
purpose specified on official signs marking such restricted zone and
during the period of time the restriction is effective, except that
the driver of a passenger vehicle may stop momentarily therein for
the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
passengers when such standing or stopping does not interfere with
the kind of traffic for which the zone is reserved.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
Wherever parking meter zones have been established on streets
or in parking areas regulated by this municipality, the parking of
vehicles at places, streets or parts of streets so designated shall
be controlled by parking meters between the hours and on the days
declared in said schedules or records and specified on authorized
parking meter signs or legends.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
Parking meters installed in parking meter zones established
as provided in this code shall be so designed, constructed, installed
and set as to meet the following conditions:
(a) Said meters shall be capable of being operated, either automatically
or mechanically, upon the deposit therein of one or more coins of
United States currency or authorized tokens for the full period of
time for which parking is lawfully permitted in any such parking meter
zone or, in lieu thereof, for an appropriate fractional period of
time.
(b) Upon the expiration of the time period registered by the deposit
of one or more coins or authorized tokens as provided herein, said
meters will indicate by an appropriate signal that the lawful parking
meter period has expired, and during said period of time and prior
to the expiration thereof will indicate the interval of time which
remains of such period.
(c) Each parking meter shall bear thereon an authorized sign or message
clearly legible indicating the days and hours when the requirement
to deposit coins or tokens therein shall apply, the value of the coins
or tokens to be deposited, and the limited period of time for which
parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in which such
meter is located.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) Parking meter spaces shall be of appropriate length and width as
determined by an engineering and traffic investigation and may be
designated by appropriate markings upon the curb and/or pavement of
the street.
(b) Except where parking is permitted within a double parking meter space,
every vehicle shall be parked wholly within a metered space with the
front end or front portion of such vehicle immediately opposite the
parking meter for such space.
(c) Every vehicle parked in a double parking meter space where coins
or tokens shall be deposited in the meter on the right side of the
double meter shall be parked wholly within the metered space with
the back end or back portion of such vehicle immediately opposite
the parking meter for such space.
(d) Except where prohibited by other provisions of this code, a vehicle
which is of a size too large to be parked within a single parking
meter space shall be permitted to occupy two adjoining parking meter
spaces when coins or tokens shall have been deposited in the parking
meter for each space so occupied as is required in this ordinance
for the parking of other vehicles in such space.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space upon a street
alongside of and next to which a parking meter has been installed
during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking
meter zone in which such meter is located unless a coin or coins of
United States currency or authorized tokens of the appropriate denomination
as provided in this code shall have been deposited therein, or shall
have been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval of
time, and said meter has been placed in operation.
(b) No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter
any slug, button or any other device or substance as substitutes for
coins of United States currency or authorized tokens, and no person
shall deposit any lawful coin or authorized token that is bent, cut,
torn, battered or otherwise misshapen.
(c) No person shall permit a vehicle within his control to be parked
in any such parking meter space during the restricted and regulated
time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such meter is located
while the parking meter for such space indicates by signal that the
lawful parking time in such space is expired. This provision shall
not apply to the act of parking or the necessary time which is required
to deposit immediately thereafter a coin(s) or token(s) in such meter.
(d) No person shall park a vehicle in any such parking meter space for
a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time
for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone
in which such meter is located, irrespective of the number or amount
of the coins or tokens deposited in such meter.
(e) A vehicle may be parked in a parking meter space without operation
of the meter on Sundays, on holidays as defined in this code, and
during those hours of the day when the requirement to deposit coins
or tokens does not apply as determined from the parking meter sign
or legend.
(f) The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person from
the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of this
code prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of
vehicles in specified places, at specified times, or in a specified
manner.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
(a) No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break,
destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(b) No person, firm or corporation shall place any sack or covering over,
upon or around any parking meter head, remove any parking meter head,
or otherwise indicate or show that the said meter is inoperative or
inapplicable without proper authority to do so.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
The warning lamps authorized by State law for authorized service
vehicles and those service vehicles designated as emergency vehicles
by the Police Chief shall be activated by the operator only when the
vehicle is operating upon the roadway and may create a hazard to other
traffic. The use of such lamps shall not relieve the operator from
his duty of using due care for the safety of others or from the obligation
of using any other safety equipment or protective devices that are
required by State law. Service vehicles authorized to operate also
as emergency vehicles shall also be equipped to comply with signal
requirements for emergency vehicles.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
In areas where parking spaces are designated by painted lines
or other markings, no vehicle shall:
(a) Park within more than one designated parking space;
(b) Park where no parking space is designated;
(c) Park in a space that is leased, reserved or otherwise assigned or
designated by the City for the use of a specified person.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)
A vehicle may be parked for an unlimited period in a metered
public parking space if:
(a) There are displayed on the vehicle special license plates issued
under §
42-3-213, C.R.S.
(b) A vehicle on which said special license plates are displayed is exempt
from payment of a parking fee charged by the City and collected through
a parking meter when the vehicle is being operated by or for the transportation
of the person to whom the vehicle is registered.
(c) The exemption provided by subsection
(b) of this section also applies to payment of a fee imposed by the City for parking in the municipal parking garage.
(d) This section does not permit a vehicle to be parked at a time when
or a place where parking is prohibited or limited by signs or markings
or a means of regulation other than a meter.
(Ord. 4759, 9-6-17)