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(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand, when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately posted, except that 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 taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes, if such stopping is not prohibited therein by posted signs.
(b) No operator of a bus shall stop, stand or park such vehicle upon any street or other public way at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop so designated and posted as such, except in case of an emergency.
(c) No operator of a bus shall fail to enter a bus stop on a street or other public way in such a manner that the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage is in a position with the right front wheel of such vehicle not further than 18 inches from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(d) No operator of a taxicab shall stand or park such vehicle upon any street or other public way at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated and posted as such. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking provisions at any place for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
(e) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(Ord. 2869. Passed 4-25-05.)
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic, except that a driver may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when directed to by a police officer or traffic control signal.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley except while actually loading and unloading, and then only for a period not to exceed 30 minutes.
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00) and shall be subject to towing.
(Ord. 2869. Passed 4-25-05.)
(a) In order to facilitate the cleaning of certain streets and to expedite the free flow of vehicular traffic, no person shall park a vehicle on the streets designated herein at such times as two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of further snowfall. All vehicles parked prior to the time weather conditions prohibited parking must be removed by the owners or operators thereof. Any vehicle parked in violation of this prohibition shall be removed at the order of the Director of Public Safety and shall subject the owner or operator to the penalty provided in Section 408.01.
(b) The owners or operators of vehicles shall ascertain whether weather conditions require the removal of their vehicles from the streets designated and shall remove all vehicles parked in violation of this section. While the City will make every effort to inform the public of the existence of weather conditions requiring removal of parked vehicles from the streets designated herein, the owners and operators of motor vehicles in these areas shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions, and to remove parked vehicles if the weather conditions are such as require their removal under the provisions of this section.
(c) After two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of further snowfall, the Director shall order the removal of all vehicles parked on the streets designated herein which have not been removed by the owners or operators thereof. Such vehicles shall be removed to a motor vehicle pound as designated by the City Manager. Records shall be kept by the Police Department of all vehicles removed.
(d) The Police Department shall use all available means of disseminating information as to the existence of weather conditions requiring removal of parked motor vehicles from the areas designated. Such notice shall be disseminated to the radio, newspaper and all other available media to the extent feasible. The dissemination of this information, however, shall not relieve owners or operators of motor vehicles from the responsibility of ascertaining the existence of weather conditions requiring the removal of parked motor vehicles from the areas designated.
(e) The streets where parking is prohibited after two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of a further snowfall are as follows: All public thoroughfares within the City, except that vehicles may be parked in the designated downtown business section on Main Street from Forest Street to Eagle Street and on Broadway from Park Street to Depot Street until the Director gives public notice by radio or other means that an emergency exists. When such notice is given, parking may be controlled or prohibited in such exempted areas as ordered by the Director.
(f) Appropriate signs reading “Parking ban on all City streets when snow exceeds two inches” shall be posted at the main thoroughfare entrances to the City.
(a) No person shall park any vehicle or allow a vehicle to stand in front of or along any curb or any other place in the Central Business District, as outlined under Section 1268, in the City between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. However, this prohibition shall not be in effect between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(Ord. 2032. Passed 3-28-83; Ord. 2869. Passed 4-25-05; Ord. 2946. Passed 9-24-07.)
No person shall stand or park a vehicle or cause a vehicle to stand or park between a sidewalk and roadway, commonly known as the tree lawn, in the City, except as hereinafter provided.
(a) Tree lawn parking shall be permitted in industrial, commercial and retail zoned areas, provided the tree lawn area is hard-surfaced.
(b) No tree lawn parking shall be permitted in residential or multi-family zoned districts, except in front of a presently established business, and then only if the tree lawn is hard-surfaced.
(c) In the absence of a sidewalk, the dedicated right-of-way shall be considered the extreme line of the tree lawn.
(d) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(Ord. 2260. Passed 5-14-90; Ord. 2869. Passed 4-25-05.)
(a) No person shall park a motor vehicle nineteen feet or longer in the diagonal parking spaces on North Broadway and South Broadway.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(Ord. 1871. Passed 11-8-76; Ord. 2869. Passed 4-25-05.)
(a) No person shall park or occupy any trailer, mobile home or mobile camper on the premises of any dwelling, either of which is situated outside an approved mobile home park, except that the parking of only one unoccupied trailer, mobile home or mobile camper in an accessory private garage building or in a rear yard in any district is permitted, provided that no living quarters are maintained or any business practiced in such trailer, mobile home or mobile camper while such trailer, mobile home or mobile camper is so parked or stored, and provided further that such trailer, mobile home or mobile camper is parked not less than eight feet from the side or rear lot line.
(b) The word "dwelling" as used in this section means a structure designed for occupation as a residence by one or more families, each living independently as a housekeeping unit in a separate dwelling unit.
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
In any hearing on a charge of illegally parking a motor vehicle, testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was found unlawfully parked as prohibited by the provisions of this Traffic Code, and further testimony that the record of the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles shows that the license plate was issued to the defendant, shall be prima facie evidence that the vehicle which was unlawfully parked, was so parked by the defendant. A certified registration copy, showing such fact, from the Registrar shall be proof of such ownership.
Any person charged with a violation of any provision of this chapter for which payment of a prescribed fine may be made, may pay such sum in the manner prescribed on the issued traffic ticket. Such payment shall be deemed a plea of guilty, waiver of court appearance and acknowledgment of conviction of the alleged offense and may be accepted in full satisfaction of the prescribed penalty for such alleged violation. Payment of the prescribed fine need not be accepted when laws prescribe that a certain number of such offenses shall require court appearance.
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