(A) The City Council finds and declares that during the Cassia County Fair, parades, dance festivals, boat races, concerts, athletic events, celebrations, and other events attended by more than fifty (50) people within the City, that regulation of traffic flow and direction, and regulation and restriction of vehicular parking must be established and enforced to ensure the safety of those attending the events and citizens and visitors to the City of Burley. The Council further finds and declares that emergency response agencies and personnel, and individuals responsible for the safe and orderly management of these events must have adequate access to property where these events take place. Therefore, the City Engineer shall have the authority to regulate the flow and direction of traffic and to regulate and restrict parking in the City for such events. Said authority shall include, but not be limited to:
1. Establishing one-way roads and closed roads for the event(s);
2. Designating parking spaces along any public street, alley, right-of-way or parking lot to be used only by Fire Departments, law enforcement agencies, emergency response vehicles, or any other person or entity designated by the City Engineer for the purpose of safe and orderly management of the above-described events; and
3. To post signs, paint surfaces or otherwise give notice of said regulations and restrictions.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person (other than those for whom the parking space is reserved) to park any vehicle on, or own any vehicle found to be parked on or to otherwise obstruct with such person's property, or own any property found to be obstructing any space reserved for parking of vehicles of the Fire Department, any law enforcement agency of the State of Idaho or political subdivision of the State of Idaho, ambulance, or any other person as designated by the City Engineer as described above. The notification, penalty and towing provisions set forth in section 11-2-5 of this title for violations of sections 11-2-2 and 11-2-3 of this title shall also apply to all violations of any parking regulation or restriction described or set forth in this section.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to comply with any traffic regulation or restriction established by the City Engineer that is marked or posted as described in this section. Any operator of a vehicle in violation of this section, other than violations of parking regulations, shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be punished by a fine of seventy dollars ($70.00) excluding court costs and fees. (Ord. 1334, 7-18-2017)