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No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any property owned by the City if a sign erected on such property gives notice that such standing or parking is prohibited. In addition, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any property owned by the City, even absent any such sign, for more than seventy-two (72) hours.
(Ord. No. 2000-80. Passed 5-18-81, eff. 5-20-81)
No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:
(a) Advertising;
(b) Displaying such vehicle or any article for sale;
(c) Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) At the request of the Fire Chief, the Director of Public Safety by regulation adopted in the manner provided in Section 403.03 shall designate as fire lanes such streets or parts of streets upon which the standing or parking of vehicles constitutes a hazard or obstruction to the operation of the fire fighting equipment of the City in case of fire. When so designated and upon the erection of signs giving notice thereof, no person, other than members of the safety forces of the City engaged in the performance of duty at a fire, shall stand or park a vehicle within a fire lane.
(b) The Fire Chief shall designate fire lanes on private property open to public use subject to approval of the property owners involved. Signs, approved as to type and location by the Fire Chief, shall be erected at the pro rata expense of such property owners. No person shall stand or park a vehicle within a posted fire lane on private property except in an emergency.
(c) No person shall stand or park a vehicle in any private driveway, alleyway or areaway between buildings, when in the opinion of the Fire Chief, such parking constitutes a fire hazard or an obstruction to or interference with operation of the fire fighting equipment of the City and is so posted.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
The Director of Public Service shall erect signs upon such streets or parts of streets as the Director designates when such streets or parts of streets are about to be cleaned of dirt, rubbish or snow by the Division of Streets. When signs have been posted, no person shall park a vehicle during the time such street or part of street is so posted prohibiting parking thereon.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four (24) hours or less, snow falls in the City or in a section thereof to a depth of two (2) inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital facilities of the City. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Public Safety that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists the Director shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations will become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one (1) hour after the first announcement. Such announcement by two (2) local radio stations or two (2) local television stations or in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the City shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. However, the owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with the emergency parking regulations.
(c) During the period of the emergency, the Director may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any or all of the City streets designated as a through street or highway by Section 413.02, or as a snow emergency street in the regulations adopted pursuant to the authority of section 403.03. During the emergency, no person shall park, or cause or permit to be parked or permit to remain parked, or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such specified streets. However, vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three (3) minutes for actual loading or unloading of passengers or thirty (30) minutes for actual loading or unloading of property if no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(d) Any motor vehicle parked in violation of this prohibition may be impounded in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 405 at the cost and expense of the owner thereof. If the Director of Public Safety authorizes additional emergency equipment to be used, the fees to be charged for towing and storage by such authorized agents shall conform to the fees assessed by the City for the same service.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
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