[Amended 7-2-1996 by Ord. No. 2812]
No person shall park any semi-truck or truck/trailer;
or any truck, trailer, tractor, or other motor vehicle, or other stationary
trailer or tractor, in excess of 14,000 pounds, on property within
and without the City of El Reno which is owned by the City of El Reno.
A. Exceptions.
(1) The above prohibition shall be subject to the provisions of §§
343-29 and
343-45 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of El Reno and all requirements and provisions in connection with such sections, and nothing contained herein shall supersede §§
343-29 and
343-45 or requirements and provisions in connection with such sections.
(2) Further, the above prohibition shall not apply to
such vehicles parked for a public event as long as such parking is
in all ways in conformance with other applicable ordinances.
(3) Nothing herein shall be construed as to prohibit the
parking of such vehicles at the direction of the City of El Reno for
a public purpose, or the parking of an authorized emergency vehicle.
B. Signs. The City of El Reno shall erect an official
sign in a proper position which is sufficiently legible to be seen
by an ordinarily observant person, indicating the prohibition of parking
by such vehicles. No provision of this section shall be enforced against
an alleged violator if, at the time and place of the alleged violation,
such official sign is not placed.
C. Penalty. All persons guilty of violating this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and pay a fine not to exceed $100.
D. Removal. Members of the Police Department are hereby
authorized to remove such an unattended vehicle from a street or property
owned by the City to a garage or other place of safety, or require
the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same,
to a place where it can be legally driven or parked. A vehicle impounded
as provided herein shall be delivered back to the owner or other person
to whom it may properly be delivered only after any reasonable costs
of or charges for impounding and storage shall have been paid.
In an area where parking spaces have been marked
off on the surface of the street, a driver parking a vehicle shall
park it within a parking space as thus marked off, and not on or over
a line delimiting a space.
[Amended 2-4-1997 by Ord. No. 2827; 2-2-1999 by Ord. No. 2883]
A. Truck parking on residential streets.
(1) No
person shall park any semi-truck or truck/trailer; or any truck, trailer,
tractor, or other motor vehicle, or other stationary trailer or tractor,
in excess of 14,000 pounds, on any residential street within the City
of El Reno.
(2) Exceptions.
(a)
The above prohibition shall be subject to the provisions of §§
343-29 and
343-45 of this chapter and all requirements and provisions in connection with such sections, and nothing contained herein shall supersede §§
343-29 and
343-45 or requirements and provisions in connection with such sections.
(b)
Further, the above prohibition shall not apply
to such vehicles parked for a public event as long as such parking
is in all ways in conformance with other applicable ordinances.
(c)
Nothing herein shall be construed so as to prohibit
the parking of such vehicles at the direction of the City of El Reno
for a public purpose or the parking of an authorized emergency vehicle.
B. Parking, in general; legal requirements; parking for
more than 24 hours.
(1) All motor vehicles allowed to park on residential
streets must meet all legal requirements to operate on any City and
state street or road.
(2) Such vehicles shall not be parked:
(a)
Within 15 feet of any fire hydrant.
(b)
On any crosswalk, or within 20 feet of a crosswalk
at an intersection.
(c)
Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing
beacon, stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of
the roadway.
(d)
Nearer than five feet to any driveway.
(3) No person shall park a vehicle on any street for a
period of time longer than 24 hours.
(4) Nothing herein shall affect parking limits established
for shorter periods of time.
(5) The distance for the driveway or intersection shall
be measured from the tangent or intersection point of the driveway
or street radius intersection with the street on which the vehicle
is parked.
The City Manager, subject to any directions
which the Council may give by motion or resolution, is hereby authorized
to establish parking time limits, or to prohibit parking, on designated
streets and parts of streets, by having appropriate signs placed thereon.
When such signs are in place, it shall be unlawful for any person
to park a vehicle in violation thereof.
The Council, by motion or resolution, is hereby
authorized to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and
stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles on such public
streets, in such places and in such number as it shall determine to
be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public. Every such
bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated
by appropriate signs. By the same authority, such stops and stands
may be changed or discontinued.
The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or
park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab
stand designated in accord with this article. This provision shall
not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in
accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the expeditious loading
or unloading of passengers.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle
other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab
stand, when any such stop or stand has been officially designated
and appropriately signed, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle
may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in loading or unloading passengers, when such stopping does
not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to
enter such zone.
[Amended 1-19-1981 by Ord. No. 2377]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or park a motor vehicle in any parking space on private property accessible
to the public and where the public is invited or public property that
is designated and posted as a reserved area for parking of motor vehicles
of a physically disabled person unless such is eligible for a detachable
insignia or reflective insignia as a physically disabled person as
provided in 47 O.S. § 15-112, and such insignias are displayed
as provided in 47 O.S. § 15-112.