(A) Emergency lanes and fire access roads are required to be installed as provided in section 503 of the 2014 Indiana Fire Code.
(B) The Chief of Police and Chief of the Fire Department of the city are hereby authorized and required to establish and maintain emergency lanes on private commercial property upon the request of the owner thereof.
(C) Location and marking or emergency lanes upon said commercial property shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department.
(D) Emergency lanes shall be marked with appropriate yellow marks or lines. Signs designating the emergency lanes shall be marked “No Parking - Emergency Lane” and shall be placed at least every 50 feet along the curb or side of building wherein the lanes are established.
(E) It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the commercial property to bear the cost of the signs and marking of said emergency lanes and curbs.
(F) Police officers and/or fire officials of the city shall remove or cause the removal of any vehicle from any emergency lane established in accordance with this section. Such vehicle shall be impounded into a storage yard. The owner of said vehicle shall pay reasonable towing and storage charges before any vehicle may be released.
(G) Any person who stops, stands, or parks any vehicle other than an emergency vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any emergency lane established according to the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as set forth in § 91.99.
(H) Those vehicles displaying a state “Disabled” or other “Disabled” identifying insignia or by attesting officer’s certain knowledge of the person in question being “Disabled” or “Handicapped”, may stand in an emergency lane while loading or unloading.
(Prior Code, § 91.24) (Ord. 2022-1, passed 1-18-2022; Ord. 2022-6, passed 2-15-2022) Penalty, see § 91.99