The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to
determine the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones
and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same
and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section
are applicable.
The Traffic Engineer shall not hereafter designate
or sign any curb loading zone upon special request of any person unless
such person makes application for a permit for such zone and for two
signs to indicate the ends of each such zone. The Traffic Engineer,
upon granting a permit and issuing such signs, shall collect from
the applicant and deposit in the municipal treasury a service fee
of $50 per year or fraction thereof and may, by general regulations,
impose conditions upon the use of such signs, and for reimbursement
of the municipality for the value thereof in the event of their loss
or damage, and for their return in the event of misuse or upon expiration
of a permit. Every permit shall expire at the end of one year.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle
for any purpose or period of time, other than for the expeditious
loading or unloading of passengers, in any place marked as a passenger
curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to
such curb loading zone are effective, and then only for a period not
to exceed that which is reasonable.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle
for any purpose or length of time, other than for the expeditious
unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials, in any
place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the
provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall
the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed 20 minutes,
or when reasonable time permission is given by a police officer.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and
required to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxi stands, and stands
for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles on such public streets,
in such places and in such numbers as he shall determine to be of
the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such
bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand, or other stand shall be designated
by appropriate signs. These shall be listed in Schedule 3.
In the time restricted for use for bus or taxicab
stands, 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.