It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle on
any public street or portion thereof in the City at any time when
such street is being cleaned or snow removed. Signs indicating such
cleaning or snow removal shall be posted a reasonable time before
such work is commenced.
[Amended 10-6-2009 by Ord. No. 6509]
No vehicle shall be parked with the left side
of such vehicle next to the curb, except on one-way streets, and it
shall be unlawful to stand or park any vehicle in a roadway other
than parallel with the curb or curbline and with the two right wheels
of the vehicle within 12 inches of the regularly established curbline,
except that upon those roadways that have been marked for angle parking,
vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb or curbline indicated
by such marks, with the front wheels against the curb or curbline.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle upon
any street for the purpose of displaying it for sale, or to park any
vehicle upon any street from which vehicle merchandise is peddled
or sold.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of a vehicle
to stand a passenger vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary
for the loading or unloading of passengers, in any place designated
by the City Council as a loading zone and marked as such, or in any
of the following designated places:
A. At any place not to exceed 75 feet along the curb
before the entrance to any hospital or hotel at any time.
B. At any place not to exceed 75 feet along the curbline
before the entrance to a public building between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00
p.m., except on a Sunday.
C. Directly in front of the entrance to any theater at
any time that the theater is open.
[Added 12-20-2005 by Ord. No. 6022]
A. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
VALET PARKING
The act of taking a vehicle from the street, whether or not
a fee is charged, and parking it for the vehicle operator, but attendant
parking at a licensed parking lot or garage shall not constitute valet
parking.
VALET PARKING/VALET SERVICE ZONE
The area adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles for the expeditious loading and unloading of passengers
and to turn control of the vehicle over to a valet parking operator
for the expeditious removal of the vehicle from the valet parking
zone to an authorized off-street parking facility.
B. Criteria for valet parking designation. Upon the application
of any business or businesses, the Mayor and City Council may designate
a curb as a valet parking zone for specified days and hours if it
is determined that such valet parking zone is necessary and justified
by traffic conditions and business operations of the applicant. In
making that determination, the Mayor and City Council shall consider:
(1) The existing parking regulations and controls at the
proposed location;
(2) The existing property uses at the location;
(3) The safety and convenience for the people of the City
of Crystal Lake;
(4) The actual number of passengers to be served by the
zone;
(5) The existing demands for curb use such as the number
and location of existing transit and taxi loading zones, and existing
commercial loading zones in the general area of the requested zone;
(6) The overall determination of available on-street parking
for the area;
(7) The presence of other valet parking zones in the area;
(8) The designation of the valet parking zone will cause
no significant impact on the environment; and
(9) Such other factors as the Mayor and City Council determine
are relevant to the necessity and justification for the valet parking
zone.
C. Permit application for valet parking/valet service
zone designation. Any person, business, firm or corporation desiring
a valet parking permit shall file a written application with the Mayor
and City Council, or an authorized representative, on an application
provided by the City Manager's office. The applicant shall accompany
the application with a tender of the correct license fee as hereinafter
provided and shall, in addition, furnish the following:
(1) The business name and address of the corporation,
partnership or other business entity seeking the permit;
(2) Location of business, activity, or event where valet
parking is proposed;
(3) Name of authorized representative available at all
times during valet parking operations;
(4) Telephone number of authorized representative;
(5) Date valet parking is to commence;
(6) If applicable, date valet parking will cease (short-term
parking only);
(7) Maximum number of attendees expected to use the valet
parking service;
(8) Maximum number of vehicles to be valet parked at any
one give time;
(9) The hours of operation during the day;
(10)
The number of employees assigned to provide
valet parking during the day;
(11)
The hours of operation during the evening (after
5:00 p.m.);
(12)
The location where vehicles will be stored;
(13)
The number of parking spaces at this location
available to the applicant for valet parking;
(14)
If applicable, additional location where vehicles
will be stored;
(15)
The number of parking spaces at this location
available to the applicant for valet parking;
(16)
An indemnification and hold-harmless agreement
signed by an authorized company representative and approved by the
Mayor and City Council, or an authorized representative and the City
Attorney;
(17)
A statement signed by an authorized representative
for the business, activity or event, confirming that there is a need
for the proposed parking service and consenting to the service, including
information as to the amount of seating or other measure of the capacity
of the business, activity or event to be served;
(18)
A plan showing passenger loading and unloading
zone, parking storage location and proposed route to and from the
authorized valet parking locations;
(19)
A signed letter of authorization from the owner(s)
of the parking facility, or person in control of any parking facility
designated in the application as a location where vehicles are proposed
to be parked or stored, the number of spaces in such parking facility;
and an estimate of the amount (percentage) of use of the parking facility
with and without the applicant's proposed use. Where the parking facility
is part of a building or premises devoted to other uses that require
off-street parking, the statement shall also include information as
to the number of parking spaces that are required by law to be provided
in the parking facility to serve such other uses;
(20)
A copy of a written contract of covenant giving
the applicant the right to use each facility for parking or storage
proposed by the application, which contains a provision precluding
cancellation of the applicant's right except by giving at least 10
days' prior written notice of such cancellation to the applicant and
the City;
(21)
A plan showing the location of the valet parking
stand and each proposed valet parking sign, including the content
of the sign;
(22)
Proof of insurance showing the limits and terms
required by the City of Crystal Lake.
D. Fee. The license fee for an annual valet parking permit
shall be $50 per year. The license fee for a temporary valet parking
permit (limit seven days per permit) shall be $20.
E. Permit provisions and restrictions. For the purposes
of this section:
(1) The permittee shall not allow any person engaged in
the valet parking service to either drive a vehicle of a customer,
or handle keys of a vehicle of a customer, unless the permittee has
certified that the person is at least 18 years of age, has a valid
Illinois driver's license and has not been convicted of reckless driving
or driving while under the influence of alcohol or narcotics within
seven years preceding that date of certification. Valet service employees
shall at all times obey traffic rules and regulations.
(2) All valet employees must have a valid Illinois driver's
license with them at all times.
(3) Permittee shall provide adequate staffing to park
vehicles so that traffic is not impeded by the activities of the permit.
No double parking or blockage of lanes shall be allowed. No vehicle
may stop or stand at a dropoff or loading area for longer than 15
minutes.
(4) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in a
valet parking zone during its posted hours of operation for any purpose
other than the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers and
to turn control of the vehicle over to the valet parking operator.
Valet parking operators must expeditiously remove vehicles from the
valet parking zone
(5) Vehicles shall be moved to and from the parking facility
only via the approved route as noted on the permit. Shortcuts and
U-turns are prohibited.
(6) Pedestrian walkways must not be blocked at any time
during valet operations, and the permittee must provide a minimum
pedestrian passing clearance of five feet.
(7) The permittee shall provide a claim check to the owner
upon receipt of each motor vehicle accepted for valet parking. The
claim check shall explicitly state the terms and conditions under
which the vehicle is being accepted.
(8) A copy of the permittee's permit complete with route
diagram must be maintained at every valet parking operation site.
(9) Each permittee shall install and maintain, at each
location at which a patron or guest surrenders his or her vehicle
for parking, a reflective sign, with letters and numerals plainly
visible from the street, displaying "Public Valet Parking," the permittee's
name, the address and telephone number of the business, the time when
the permittee is no longer on duty, and the parking fees, if any.
[Amended 6-3-2014 by Ord. No. 7036]
(a)
If fees are charged, such fees also shall be
stated as follows:
[2]
Rates per fraction of an hour, if any;
[3]
Rates for subsequent hours or fractions thereof;
and
(b)
All fractions of time must be spelled out in
letters. Valet signs must not be less than 24 inches by 36 inches
in size. The "Valet Parking" and the maximum rate portion of the sign
must have a minimum lettering/numeral size of three inches per character.
Prior to installation, plans for signage must be submitted to and
approved by the Crystal Lake Community Development Department.
(10)
At each closing time, the operator shall lock
or cause to be locked each vehicle, except those locked by the person
bringing the vehicle to the valet parking service, if a key is available,
and shall deposit or cause to be deposited such key with a responsible
person at a safe and convenient place, to be delivered to the person
who parked the vehicle upon surrender of the parking ticket if one
was given to such person, or otherwise upon proof that such person
has the right to possess the vehicle.
(11)
Permittee, or his or her agents and employees,
shall notify the City of Crystal Lake Police Department whenever a
vehicle has been left in his or her custody for a period in excess
of 48 hours without a prior contractual arrangement for such period
of time in order to determine whether the vehicle is stolen or abandoned.
(12)
Permittee shall agree that valet service employees
shall not park their own vehicles in the adjoining residential neighborhoods.
(13)
Permittee employees shall wear clothing that
indicates, at a minimum, the permittee's name, logo or similar approved
identification.
(14)
Valet personnel traveling on foot between the
valet zone and the parking facility shall comply with all applicable
traffic laws, ordinances and regulations and shall obey all traffic
controls. Jaywalking and crossing against traffic signals is prohibited.
(15)
Permittee will use the specified route for travel
between the vehicle dropoff/pickup and parking area. All traffic rules
and regulations shall be obeyed.
(16)
Permittee shall not park valet vehicles on any
public street, alley or in any off-street public parking facility,
at any time except the approved spaces designated in the permit for
dropoff/pickup areas and the designated approved lot.
(17)
Permittee shall comply with all applicable City
Code provisions and regulations of the City and state, including but
not limited to those pertaining to traffic, noise and nuisances.
(18)
Permits are nontransferable. Any change in the
use, ownership, business or valet parking permit fee shall require
reassessment and approval of a new permit by the City.
(19)
All valet parking permits shall be reviewed
on an annual basis for renewal.
(20)
Each valet parking permit issued by the Mayor
and City Council, or an authorized representative, shall be valid
for not more than one year.
F. Revocation or suspension of license. Any valet parking
license issued under this section shall be subject to the suspension
or revocation by the Mayor and City Council, or their authorized representative,
for violation of any provision of this section, for any grounds that
would warrant the denial of issuance of such license upon an original
application or if there is reasonable cause to believe that:
(1) The permittee has operated or managed the valet parking
service in a manner that violated any provision of the Crystal Lake
City Code, or any restriction or prohibition imposed in the permit,
including but not limited to the following:
(a)
Any employees of the permittee engaged in providing
valet parking services under the permit have violated any condition
or restriction or prohibition imposed in the permit conditions and
the permittee has permitted them to do so, or failed to prevent them
from doing so. The permittee shall be responsible for those acts of
its employees, which are done in the course and scope of their employment.
Moving violations by valet employees will be considered as a violation
of these conditions.
(b)
The permittee willfully made a materially false
or misleading statement or omission of fact on any application or
in any supplementary materials submitted or in any interview conducted
in the processing of the applications for the permit.
(c)
The permittee is operating or managing the valet
parking service in a manner which poses a danger to the health and
safety of employees, customers and/or the public or interferes with
the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
(2) Whenever the City Council has reasonable cause to
believe that grounds for the suspension or revocation of a permit
exists, the City Council, or its designee, shall give the permittee
written notice stating the alleged grounds for the suspension or revocation.
Failure by the permittee to comply with requirements of written notice
within 10 days will result in revocation of valet parking permit.
(3) The permittee fails to procure and maintain in full
force and effect the required City insurance coverages and limits.
(4) No application for any valet parking permit shall
be accepted by the City Manager from the same applicant within one
year following revocation of a valet parking permit or while the applicant
has a suspended permit.
(5) The Mayor and City Council or authorized representative,
upon such revocation or suspension, shall state the reasons in writing,
specifying the particular grounds for such revocation or suspension.
G. Transfer prohibited. No valet parking permit is transferable,
separate or divisible, and such authority as a permit confers shall
be conferred only on the permittee named therein.
H. Penalty. Any person, business, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section may, in addition to any penalty imposed under Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty, of this Code, suffer the penalty of having the permit revoked for any such violation. Revocation shall be in writing signed by the Mayor.
No person, except physicians on emergency calls,
shall park any vehicle for a period of time longer than 30 minutes
between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day on any streets
in the municipality.
No person shall park a vehicle within an alley,
except for the purpose of loading and unloading merchandise and then
in such manner or under such conditions as to leave available not
less than 10 feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement
of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle
within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance
to any abutting property.
No vehicle other than a licensed taxicab shall
be parked in any area designated by ordinance as a cab stand; and
no vehicle other than a bus shall be parked in a place so designated
as a bus loading zone.
It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle
on any private property without the consent of the owner of the property.
Appropriate signs shall be posted in all areas
where parking is limited or prohibited, indicating such limitations
or prohibitions.
No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle
shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine
and removing the ignition key, and when standing upon any perceptible
grade, without effectively setting the brake and turning the front
wheels to the curb or side of the highway.
[Amended 3-21-2006 by Ord. No. 6047; 3-3-2009 by Ord. No. 6448; 2-2-2010 by Ord. No. 6531; 10-4-2011 by Ord. No.
6703]
A. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
A natural person who, as determined by a licensed physician,
by a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to make
this determination by his or her supervising physician, or by an advanced
practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating
physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to make this
determination:
(1)
Cannot walk without the use of, or assistance from, a brace,
cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other
assistive device; or
(2)
Is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that his or
her forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured
by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension
is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at rest; or
(4)
Has a cardiac condition to the extent that his or her functional
limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV, according
to standards set by the American Heart Association; or
(5)
Is severely limited in his or her ability to walk due to an
arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition; or
(6)
Cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest because of one
of the above five conditions; or
(7)
Is missing a hand or arm or has permanently lost the use of
a hand or arm; and
(8)
As otherwise defined or provided in Section 1-159.1 of, or elsewhere
in, the Illinois Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/1-100 et seq.
VEHICLE
Has the same meaning as defined in Section 1-217 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/1-217.
B. No parking in handicapped parking space unless disabled. It shall
be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle, or to permit any vehicle
owned or controlled by that person to remain parked, in any parking
space designated as parking for a handicapped or disabled person,
unless the driver or an occupant of the vehicle is a person with disabilities
and there is clearly displayed on or in the vehicle a current, properly
authorized official decal, certification, device, or registration
plate issued by the State of Illinois or by the proper officials of
another state or the United States government stating that the driver
or occupant is handicapped or disabled. This prohibition applies to
all parking spaces designated as parking for a handicapped or disabled
person, including public or private spaces, spaces in public or private
parking lots, on-street or off-street spaces, and surface spaces or
spaces in parking structures.
C. No use of handicapped parking authorization except by person with
disabilities. No person other than the authorized person with disabilities
may use any decal, certification, device, or registration plate to
park a vehicle in any parking space designated as parking for a handicapped
or disabled person. The authorized person with disabilities must be
present in the vehicle at the time the vehicle is parked in the designated
space and must purposefully enter or exit the vehicle while the vehicle
is parked in the designated space.
D. Proper display of parking authorization. The decal, certification,
device, or registration plate authorizing parking by the person with
disabilities must be displayed properly and prominently in or on the
vehicle where it is clearly visible to law enforcement personnel.
"Prominently" means display by hanging from the rearview mirror, placing
on the dashboard, or placing elsewhere in or on the vehicle in plain
and clear view from the exterior of the vehicle.
E. Marking of designated parking spaces. Parking spaces and any adjacent
access aisles for persons with disabilities will be marked by the
City with paint or with posted signs designating the spaces for handicapped
parking only.
F. Registered owner presumed in control. For any vehicle parked in violation
of this section, the person in whose name a vehicle is registered
will be presumed, prima facie, to have been in control of the vehicle
at the time the violation was committed.
G. Penalty. Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section will be fined as set forth in Chapter
248, Fines, of this Code in addition to being liable to pay all costs and charges connected with the removal or storage of the vehicle parked in violation of this section. In addition to the fine, costs, and charges, a late-payment administrative fee shall be added to all fines paid more than 30 days after issuance of the citation, as set forth in Chapter
248, Fines.
[Added 1-16-2024 by Ord. No. 7999]
A. No passenger bus (as defined in §
467-86 of the City Code) shall park, load, or unload passengers except in accordance with Article
XV of Chapter
467 of the City Code.
B. Except as otherwise provided in Article
XV of Chapter
467 of the City Code, no bus (as defined in 625 ILCS 5/1-107) shall stop or park within the City in a manner that obstructs traffic or in violation of any traffic regulations or posted requirements.