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.