(A) Parking in the City Parking Lot at 210 North First Street is limited to four consecutive hours and to the hours between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Parking in excess of these limits is allowed only if a permit has been issued by the city.
(B) (1) Advertising, selling or offering merchandise for sale in the City Parking Lot at 210 North First Street is allowed only if a permit authorizing such activities has been issued by the city.
(2) Permits authorizing the advertising, selling or offering of merchandise for sale in the City Parking Lot shall only be issued to a nonprofit or governmental organization.
(3) No permit is to be issued unless the permittee first waives any and all claims against the city for liability for property damage and personal injury based on allegations of negligence and agrees to indemnify and hold the city harmless from any such claims brought by third persons which arise out of the permittee’s use of the City Parking Lot.
(C) The City Administrator is directed to post signs at the entrance of the City Parking Lot stating the restrictions on the use of the City Parking Lot contained in divisions (A) and (B) above.
(D) A person commits the offense of violation of posted parking restrictions in the City Parking Lot, if without a permit issued by the city:
(1) The person parks a vehicle in the City Parking Lot in violation of the posted parking restrictions contained in this section; or
(2) The person is the owner of an unattended vehicle parked in the City Parking Lot in violation of the posted parking restrictions contained in this section.
(E) A person commits the offense of unlawful parking for vending purposes, if, without a permit issued by the city, the person parks or leaves standing in the City Parking Lot a vehicle for the purpose of advertising, selling or offering merchandise for sale.
(F) A person commits the offense of unlawful vending in the City Parking Lot if, while in the City Parking Lot without a permit issued by the city, the person advertises, sells or offers merchandise for sale.
(G) (1) Violation of divisions (D), (E) or (F) above is punishable by a fine for each violation. All vehicles parked in violation of this section may be towed and impounded at the owner’s expense as provided in the state statutes.
(2) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution of the owner of a vehicle that the use of the vehicle was not authorized by the owner, either expressly or by implication.
(Prior Code, § 72.11) (Ord. 402, passed 3-12-2007) Penalty, see § 70.99