No person shall park any motor vehicle or trailer upon City
highways, roads, streets, or other public property in the City at
any time, displaying any form of improper, expired, altered or incomplete
registration (plates, tabs, annual windshield sticker, temporary tags,
etc.), including failure to display all current plates and tabs required
by law, unless otherwise in compliance with applicable state law governing
lost, stolen, or damaged cards, plates or tabs; displaying improper
registration plates, including any registration plate issued to another
vehicle or to a person other than the owner of the vehicle; or displaying
altered plates, tabs, windshield stickers or temporary tags.
Any property owner or property owner's agent
may, when a vehicle is parked without authorization upon his or her
private property without his consent, make a complaint to an authorized
towing company stating that he or she requests that said vehicle be
removed from his or her property. Said complaint shall be on a form
approved by the Chief of Police and shall contain a statement made
by the property owner or property owner's agent, under oath, that
the vehicle which he or she seeks to have removed was parked on his
or her property without his or her consent and that the vehicle was
parked in an area on which a sign prohibiting unauthorized parking
was clearly visible.
Except temporarily for the purpose of, and while
actually engaged in, loading or unloading passengers or for emergency
repairs when the vehicle cannot be driven, no person shall park any
vehicle on a public parking facility:
A. In violation of any of the other parking provisions
of this Code;
B. In a "no parking zone" when posted by sign or indicated
by yellow painted curb or yellow painted lines on the parking surface;
C. Any place not otherwise designated by painted parking
spaces or otherwise prohibited, including driving aisles, driveways,
raised curb channelization structures, sidewalks, landscaped areas,
islands, etc.;
D. In an area where parking is temporarily prohibited
when marked off by temporary signs or barricades or when an official
cover or hood is placed over a parking meter;
E. So as to prevent another vehicle already stopped or
otherwise legally parked in a designated parking space, from moving
away;
F. For a period longer than twenty-four (24) hours;
G. By backing said vehicle into a parking space when
posted by "Front In Only" signs;
H. In such a manner as to cause said vehicle to straddle
the painted lines marking a parking space or otherwise cause the vehicle
to be parked not wholly within the area of one (1) designated parking
space;
I. And leave it unattended without first stopping the
engine, locking the ignition, removing the key, and effectively setting
the brake thereon; or
J. In such a manner so as to impede or obstruct the free
flow of traffic or to cause a hazard to public safety, including parking
against the normal flow of traffic (left wheels to the curb).
No unauthorized person shall stop, park, stand,
or drive any motorized vehicle on any public sidewalk, public right-of-way,
public utility right-of-way, trail, shoulder, field or parkland within
the boundaries of the City.