§ 72.03 LIMITATIONS OF STOPPING AND PARKING.

   (A)   No person shall stop or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in the following places:

      (1)   On a sidewalk;

      (2)   In front of sidewalk ramps provided for persons with disabilities;

      (3)   In front of a public or private driveway;

      (4)   Within an intersection or on a crosswalk;

      (5)   At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking;

      (6)   Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;

      (7)   On any controlled access highway;

      (8)   Within a highway tunnel;

      (9)   Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; or

      (10)   On an area between the roadways of a divided highway.

(KRS 189.450(5))

   (B)   No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any prohibited area.

(KRS 189.450(6))

(Prior Code, § 72.03) Penalty, see § 72.99

§ 72.04 RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS ON DESIGNATED STREETS.

   (A)   The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping and parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control devices.

   (B)   The provisions of this section imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from his or her duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping or parking of vehicles in specific places or at specified times.

   (C)   When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on any street so marked by official signs.

   (D)   When a curb has been painted in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, no person shall park a vehicle at any time at or adjacent to any curb so marked.

   (E)   When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by official signs on any day except Sundays on any street so marked.

   (F)   (1)   The city shall determine on what streets or portions thereof stopping or parking shall be restricted or prohibited. Whenever under authority of or by this traffic code or any other ordinance any parking limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets, or parking areas are restricted to handicapped parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof; however, in lieu of erecting the signs or in conjunction therewith, the face and top of a curb or curbs at or adjacent to which parking is prohibited at all times may be painted a solid yellow color.

      (2)   No regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted yellow at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require the signs and markings.

   (G)   When signs are erected in compliance with division (F) above in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for a time longer than specified on official signs any day except Sunday and on any street so marked.

(Prior Code, § 72.04) Penalty, see § 72.99

§ 72.05 PARKING RESTRICTED TO ALLOW STREET CLEANING.

   The city is authorized to designate street cleaning areas and shall provide suitable signs and markings on the street to be cleaned, restricting parking on that particular day. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop on any street so designated.

(Prior Code, § 72.05) Penalty, see § 72.99

§ 72.06 PARKING IN EXCESS OF CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS PROHIBITED; TOWING AUTHORIZED.

   (A)   It shall be unlawful for anyone to park in any one place any vehicle on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer. Any vehicle left parked in any one place on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer shall be deemed abandoned, and shall be subject to all existing regulations of the city pertaining to abandoned motor vehicles.

   (B)   During any calendar year no mobile home, recreational vehicle, trailer, camper, boat, or truck, (excluding pickup trucks), shall be parked visibly on the property outside of a legal enclosure, or on any street in the city for a period of time exceeding an aggregate total of 24 hours.

(Prior Code, § 72.06) (Ord. 4-1977, passed 3-3-1977; Ord. passed 4-13-2017) Penalty, see § 72.99

Cross-reference:

   Removal of abandoned vehicles, see §§ 72.25 through 72.27

§ 72.07 PARKING ON PARADE ROUTE.

   (A)   The City Commission or any authorized city official shall have the authority, whenever in his or her judgment it is necessary, to prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles along a street or part thereof constituting a part of the route of a parade or procession, to erect temporary traffic signs to that effect, and to prohibit and prevent parking.

   (B)   It shall be unlawful to park or leave unattended any vehicle in violation of the signs or directions.

(Prior Code, § 72.07) Penalty, see § 72.99

Cross-reference:

   Parades, see §§ 71.51 - 71.61

§ 72.08 PARKING ON OFF-STREET FACILITY.

   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to park or abandon the vehicle or drive on or otherwise trespass on another’s property, or on an area developed as an off-street parking facility, without the consent of the owner, lessee, or person in charge of the property or facility.

   (B)   If at any time a vehicle is parked, abandoned, or otherwise trespasses in violation of division (A) above, the owner, lessee, or person in charge of the property or facility may have the unauthorized motor vehicle removed in accordance with the provisions of §§ 72.25 through 72.27.

   (C)   Every property owner or operator of an off-street parking facility shall post signs stating thereon that the property or parking lot or facility is privately owned, and that an unauthorized vehicle will be removed at the owner’s expense before exercising the authority granted in division (B) above.

(Prior Code, § 72.08) Penalty, see § 72.99

Statutory reference:

   Removal of vehicles by owners of private parking lots; signs, see KRS 189.725

§ 72.09 OWNER RESPONSIBILITY.

   If any vehicle is found illegally parked in violation of any provisions of this subchapter regulating stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles, and the identity of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or person in whose name the vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for the violation.

(Prior Code, § 72.09) Penalty, see § 72.99

§ 72.10 PARKING IN PARKS.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to park any motor vehicle in or on any section of any public park, playground, play lot, or tot lot within the city not designed as a parking area or designed and regularly maintained as a roadway; however, nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the parking of a motor vehicle parallel to a designated and regularly maintained roadway in any park or playground where at least two wheels of the motor vehicle are resting on the roadway.

(Prior Code, § 72.10) Penalty, see § 72.99