(a) No person shall enter or remain within any parking garage or parking lot owned by, or located on land owned by, the City of Carmel, the Carmel Redevelopment Commission, or the Carmel Redevelopment Authority, and located within the City’s corporate boundaries, or within a public parking section of any privately-owned parking garage or parking lot located within the City’s corporate boundaries, except when actually and lawfully parking a motor vehicle therein, riding in a motor vehicle at the time that it is being lawfully parked therein, or when proceeding to or from a motor vehicle lawfully parked therein.
(b) No person shall enter or remain within any parking garage or parking lot owned by, or located on land owned by, the City of Carmel, the Carmel Redevelopment Commission, or the Carmel Redevelopment Authority, and located within the City’s corporate boundaries, or within a public parking section of a privately-owned parking garage or parking lot located within the City’s corporate boundaries, except for the purpose of proceeding to or from a vehicle lawfully parked therein.
(c) No person shall remain within, or in or upon any motor vehicle located within, any parking garage or parking lot, owned by, or located on land owned by, the City of Carmel, the Carmel Redevelopment Commission, or the Carmel Redevelopment Authority, and located within the City’s corporate boundaries, or within a public parking section of a privately-owned parking garage or parking lot located within the City’s corporate boundaries, except for a period of time, not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes, reasonably necessary to either park and exit a motor vehicle or to enter a motor vehicle and exit the parking garage or parking lot therein.
(d) No person shall remain within any parking garage or parking lot owned by, or located on land owned by, the City of Carmel, the Carmel Redevelopment Commission, or the Carmel Redevelopment Authority, and located within the City’s corporate boundaries, or within a public parking section of a privately-owned parking garage or parking lot located within the City’s corporate boundaries, after being directed by a uniformed or otherwise properly identified police officer to leave the premises.
(e) Any violation of this Section shall subject the violator to a fine of $50 for the first offense within any calendar year, and to a fine of $150 for each subsequent violation within the same calendar year.
(Ord. D-2534-20, § 3, 7-6-20)