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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, other than one on official business, to park any vehicle within a block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(b) Violation of this section shall be an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.
(Code 1965, § 28-104; Ord. No. 4910, § 2, 11-9-21)
(a) Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked on a street during the time between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise and there is sufficient light to reveal any person within a distance of 200 feet upon such street, no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle. When, during such times or at any other time, there is not sufficient light upon a street to reveal a person at a distance of 200 feet, a parked vehicle shall be equipped with and shall exhibit lights in accord with G.S. 20-134.
(b) Violation of this section shall be an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.
(Code 1965, § 28-106; Ord. No. 4910, § 2, 11-9-21)
State law reference(s)—Authority of city to enact ordinance similar to this section, G.S. 20-134.
(a) Whenever a police officer finds a motor vehicle or other vehicle that falls into one or more of the following categories, the officer shall have the vehicle removed by a properly licensed wrecker to the storage lot or garage operated by such wrecker:
(1) Vehicle abandoned, junked or wrecked on the public streets of the city or on city property.
(2) Vehicle involved in a hit-and-run accident.
(3) Vehicle subject of a theft.
(4) Vehicle used in the commission of a felony.
(5) Driver of vehicle operates vehicle without a driver's license or was under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotics.
(6) Vehicle parked in violation of a state statute or a city ordinance, except the city ordinance against overtime parking.
(b) When any vehicle is so removed and impounded, it shall be the duty of the officer to affix to it a storage card. It shall be the duty of the police department to notify the owner of the vehicle or, if the owner is incapable of understanding the notice, to notify a responsible representative of the owner. If the owner of the vehicle cannot be determined, it shall be the duty of the police department to advertise the impounding of the vehicle. The owner may redeem and recover the vehicle by exhibiting proof of ownership to the police department and by paying all expenses incident to the impounding of the vehicle. Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge the power and authority of the police department to remove any obstruction from the streets or other public places of the city or to excuse or exempt any person having the custody or control of any vehicle from any fine or penalty provided for the violation of any traffic law or ordinance.
(c) The city manager or his or her designee shall have the authority to have a vehicle removed by a properly licensed wrecker to the storage lot or garage operated by such wrecker pursuant to this section:
(2) If a vehicle has parked in violation of article V of chapter 19 of the City Code except for overtime parking as set forth in section 19-165 of the City Code.
(d) For every vehicle removed by the city manager or his or her designee, he or she shall comply with the post- towing notice requirements as set forth in section 10-34 of the City Code.
(Code 1965, § 28-107; Ord. No. 3229, § 1, 5-10-05)
All such persons as may be designated by the city manager to enforce the various provisions of Article V of Chapter 19 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Asheville, shall attach to any vehicle violating the provisions thereof, a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such a vehicle has been parked in violation of the provisions of the ordinances of the city, and that such violation subjects the offender to a civil penalty in the amount stated in the notice.
(Ord. No. 2035, § 1, 6-29-93)
The City of Asheville shall have discretion, but not an obligation, to enforce the provisions of Chapter 19, Article V, Division 1 of the City of Asheville Code of Ordinances in all of the public vehicular areas located on land owned by the housing authority of the City of Asheville.
(Ord. No. 5052, § (a), 12-12-23)
Secs. 19-151—19-160. Reserved.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Operator means and includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Park or parking means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle because of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle.
Parking meter means and includes any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this division placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this division. Each parking meter installed shall indicate, by proper legend, the legal parking time established by the city and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
Parking meter space means any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking meter, and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meter.
Parking meter zone means and includes any restricted street upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
Street means any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path or other public place located in the city and established for the use of vehicles.
Vehicle means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks.
(Code 1965, § 28-113)
Cross reference(s)—Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.
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