72.08 PARKING OF PROHIBITED VEHICLES IN RESIDENTIAL OR BUSINESS DISTRICTS.

   (A)   Residential districts. No person owning, leasing, possessing or operating a truck, trailer, bus, tractor, or tractor and trailer, or any other vehicle which is taller, wider, and longer than a conventional station wagon, pick-up truck, or van, except a bus used for school purposes in a bus zone, shall be permitted to park the same upon any street or alley within the residential district of the corporate limits of the town. However, such vehicles may park for a sufficient time to make deliveries or pick up merchandise, provided such parking does not interrupt the regular flow of traffic and does not create a hazard for the safety of others.

   (B)   Business districts. In the business district, no truck, bus, or recreational vehicle which is taller, wider, and longer than a conventional station wagon or pick-up truck shall park upon any street or alley within the corporate limits of the town longer than one hour.

However, such vehicles may park for a sufficient time to make deliveries or pick up merchandise in the regular course of business, provided such parking does not interrupt the regular flow of traffic does not create a hazard for the safety of others and provided complies with all other parking regulations in force in the town.

   (C)   Notwithstanding the provisions of divisions (A) or (B), a truck or bus may be parked upon a street in a business or residential district after obtaining written permission from the Town Marshal, which shall stipulate the location and length of time the vehicle may be parked.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81; Am. Ord. 2000-14, passed 12-28-00)   Penalty, see §72.99

BUS STOPS; TAXI STANDS

§ 72.20 TOWN TO DESIGNATE LOCATION.

   The Town Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to establish bus stops and taxi stands on public streets, in such places and in such numbers as they shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public. Every bus stop or taxi stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

Cross-reference:

   Designated bus stops, taxi stands, see Chapter 75 Schedules V and VI

§ 72.21 UNAUTHORIZED USE OF BUS STOP OR TAXI STAND.

   No person shall stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop or other than a taxi in a taxi stand when such stops have been officially designated and appropriately signed. However, the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxi entering, occupying, or departing that stop.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)   Penalty, see §72.99

§ 72.22 USE OF BUS STOP BY BUS.

   The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop on a public street in such a manner that the bus, when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage, shall be in a position with the right front wheel of the vehicle not farther than 18 inches from the curb. The bus shall be approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)   Penalty, see §72.99

VIOLATIONS

§ 72.30 REMOVAL OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE.

   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street in violation of any provision of this traffic code, the officer is hereby authorized to require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to remove it to a position off the paved, improved, or main-traveled part of the street. However, if any person so directed shall fail or refuse to move the vehicle or if the vehicle is unattended, then the officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of the vehicle to the nearest available garage or other place of safety.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 72.31 CITATION OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE.

   (A)   Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked, standing, or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance of the town or by state law, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its registration number; take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user; and conspicuously affix to the vehicle a traffic citation on a form provided by the Town Clerk-Treasurer, for the driver to answer to the charge against him within five days, during the hours and at a place specified in the citation.

   (B)   If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing, or parking under the traffic laws does not appear in response to a traffic citation affixed to his motor vehicle within a period of five days, the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him of the violation and warning him that, in the event the letter is disregarded for a period of five days, a warrant of arrest will be issued.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)

§ 72.32 PRESUMPTION THAT VEHICLE IS ILLEGALLY PARKED.

   In any prosecution charging a violation of any law governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of the parking, the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked or placed the vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, the violation occurred.

(Ord. 1981-6, passed 6-9-81)