It is unlawful for any person to park, permit to be parked, or allowed to be parked any vehicle:
A. 
Upon any privately owned property in the city without the consent of the owner or authorized agent of such privately owned property.
B. 
Upon any unimproved surface. An unimproved surface includes any surface which is not surfaced with a concrete, asphalt, masonry, turfstone, or another comparable durable and dustless surface, in accordance with Engineering Division specification.
C. 
Upon any vacant property within the city when such vehicle is offered for sale, excepting licensed car dealer sales lots.
The provisions of subsection B do not apply to vehicles displaying a parking permit to park on unimproved surfaces issued by the city manager or their designee or to vehicles parked on approved driveways or parking areas composed of dirt, gravel, or sand that are specifically exempt from surfacing requirements by the city's zoning regulations (Title 17). A citation may be issued to the registered owner of any vehicle found to be in violation of this section.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
Whenever the parking manager determines that the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on city property should be prohibited, limited or restricted, the parking manager shall have the power and authority to order signs or markings to be erected or posted indicating that the parking of vehicles is prohibited, limited or restricted.
When signs or markings authorized by the provisions of this title are in place, giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle contrary to the directions of such signs or markings.
Any vehicle parked in violation of such signs or markings may be cited as provided in the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
All persons engaged in the business of operating automobile parking facilities within the city, upon which a charge is made for parking of vehicles, shall post a notice of the schedule of rates to be charged to the public or persons desiring to park upon such facilities.
Such schedule of rates shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each entrance to any such parking facility and the rates to be charged shall be in words and figures of sufficient size so as to allow an operator of a vehicle desiring to park in any such facility to be notified of the rates chargeable for such service. Such notice shall be lighted at all times when the facility is open for business and there is insufficient natural light available to allow the operator of a vehicle to read it.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
Except as specifically otherwise provided herein, no vehicle shall be parked in any municipal parking facility, including private parking facilities operated or managed by the city, at any time without payment of the established fees. Except as otherwise provided herein, such fees shall be collected from all persons desiring to park vehicles in such facilities, including the officers and employees of the city, the state, the United States of America, or any public or private firm or corporation, or any municipal, state or federal agency or any public district. No fee shall be charged to nor collected from any officer or employee of the city for the parking of a city-owned vehicle in an off-street parking facility at such times when such officer or employee is engaged in public business of the city. In addition, the city manager may authorize specified officers and employees of the city to park their private vehicles in designated off-street parking facilities during such times when the officers and employees are engaged in their official public duties.
All fees, rates and charges for the use of the facilities shall be collected from the owner, operator or person in charge of the vehicle desiring to park. It is unlawful for any person to willfully fail to pay the fees, rate and charges for the use of the municipal off-street parking facilities after having been given notice to pay.
No vehicle may be removed from any municipal parking facility until all fees, rates and charges have been paid and discharged, except as provided in subsection A of this section:
A. 
In the event that the person operating a vehicle parked in any municipal parking facility attempts to remove the vehicle from the facility but is unable to pay all fees, rates and charges due at such time, such person shall, prior to removing such vehicle from the facility, be required to sign an agreement to pay any unpaid fees, rates and charges. A copy of such agreement shall be given to the person signing the agreement. Such agreement shall set forth the location of the facility, the date and approximate time that the vehicle is removed, the name of such person, the vehicle license number, the registration expiration date, if visible, the last four digits of the vehicle identification number, if available, the color of the vehicle, and, if possible, the make of the vehicle. Such agreement shall require payment to the city of all unpaid fees, rates and charges, plus a processing fee in an amount established by resolution of the city council, no later than the due date on the agreement and shall indicate how payment may be sent. If full payment is not made within such period, the parking manager shall mail a notice of late payment to the vehicle's registered owner. Such notice shall require payment to the city of the unpaid fees, rates and charges, and processing fee, plus a late payment fee in an amount established by resolution of the city council, no later than thirty days after the date of such notice. In the event that such amount is not fully paid within such thirty-day period, a notice of parking violation for each day parked, requiring payment of a penalty in an amount established by resolution of the city council, shall be mailed to the vehicle's registered owner. The above agreement shall include a reference to this section.
By entering a municipal parking facility and parking a vehicle in such facility, the owner, operator or person in charge of such vehicle shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of subsection A of this section. Any notices required to be mailed under subsection A of this section, shall be deemed served on the day that they are deposited in the U.S. mail, first class, postage prepaid. The issuance and review of notices of parking violation and delinquent parking violation, and the liability for and payment and collection of parking violation penalties, shall be governed by Sections 40200 et seq. of the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
The city may remove or cause to be removed any vehicles parked or left standing in any municipal parking facility under the following conditions.
A. 
Any circumstance described in the Vehicle Code.
B. 
Any vehicle left on a municipal parking facility for more than seventy-two hours without prior arrangements having been made with the parking manager.
C. 
Any vehicle with a registration expiration date in excess of six months.
D. 
Any vehicle parked, resting, or otherwise immobilized which lack an engine, transmission, wheels, tires, doors, windshield, or any other part or equipment necessary to operate safely.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
It is unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to enter, be upon, or remain upon the premises of any municipal parking facility, parking garage, parking lot, parking structure or other parking facility owned or managed by the city unless that person is on the premises for the purpose of parking a vehicle or retrieving a vehicle. This section shall not apply to city employees acting within the course and scope of their employment or any other person authorized to enter by the city.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)