(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful to park any vehicle at any time on the following streets: Garvey Court, from Lake Street to Wacker Drive; State Street and Michigan Avenue, from Wacker Drive to Ida B. Wells Drive. Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful to park any vehicle during the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for days established as holidays in Section 9-4-010 on any of the following streets: Washington Street, Madison Street and Monroe Street, between State Street and Michigan Avenue; Adams Street and Jackson Boulevard, between Canal Street and Michigan Avenue; Dearborn Street, Clark Street and LaSalle Street, between Washington Street and Jackson Boulevard; and Wacker Drive, from Franklin Street to Van Buren Street.
(b) The restrictions in this section shall not apply to any designated handicapped parking area or to any ambulance, any emergency vehicle owned by a governmental agency, any vehicle owned by a public utility while the operator of the vehicle is engaged in the performance of emergency duties, any mobile food vehicle legally operating at any officially designated mobile food vehicle stand, any taxicab at an officially designated taxicab stand and/or engaged in the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers with disabilities, any passenger vehicle engaged for not more than three minutes in the loading or unloading of passengers, or to the parking of any commercial vehicle engaged in the expeditious loading, unloading, pick-up or delivery of materials in a designated loading zone, or to any bus at a designated bus stop or bus stand. Nothing in this section prohibits or prevents more restrictive regulation of parking on any street designated in subsection (a). Where the provisions of subsection (a) conflict with more restrictive regulations contained in another ordinance and appropriate signs indicating those regulations have been erected, the more restrictive regulations shall apply.
(c) No parking meters shall be installed on those portions of streets listed in subsection (a) where parking is prohibited at all times.
(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634; Amend Coun. J. 7-7-92, p. 18778; Amend Coun. J. 2-10-93, p. 28535; Amend Coun. J. 5-4-94, p. 49835; Amend Coun. J. 11-1-95, p. 9066; Amend Coun. J. 11-15-00, p. 46957, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 7-25-12, p. 31326, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 11-20-19, p. 9510, Art. I, § 8)