A. Application Of Section: The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping, standing or 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 device.
B. Regulations Not Exclusive: The provisions of this section imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times by municipal, county or state law.
C. Parking Time Limited On Certain Streets: When signs are erected in each block to give notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for more than the posted time limit.
D. City Manager And Chief Of Police May Make Additional Parking Regulations: The city manager and chief of police are authorized to make and enforce such regulations
E. Parking Signs Required: Whenever, by this title or any other city ordinance, any parking time is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets or public parking lots, it shall be the duty of the city manager to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof and no such regulations shall be effective unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.
F. Owner Responsible For Illegal Parking: If any vehicle is found upon a street or highway in violation of any ordinances, rules or regulations controlling stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles and the identity of the operator cannot be determined, the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered, shall be prima facie responsible for such violation.
G. Parking In City Parking Lot: Parking in city parking lot shall be limited to seventy two (72) consecutive hours. The owner of any vehicle violating this provision is in violation of this section.
H. Handicapped Parking: Parking spaces designated by the city manager shall be designated as handicapped parking spaces, subject to provisions of Montana Code Annotated sections 49-4-301 through 49-4-307. Spaces must be properly signed to be a legal handicapped zone.
(Ord. 96-4, 7-1-1996; amd. 2009 Code; Ord. 2022-15, 12-5-2022)