(A) Owner’s responsibility for illegal parking. No person shall knowingly allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name to stand or park or occupy more than one designated and marked parking space in any street in the town in violation of any ordinances of the city relating to the standing or parking of vehicles.
(B) Manner of parking. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle other than parallel with the curb and headed in the direction of traffic. The curb side wheels shall be within 12 inches of the edge of the roadway on any streets or parts of streets, except as designated.
(C) Parking within an intersection. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle within an intersection.
(D) Parking on a crosswalk. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle on a crosswalk.
(E) Parking from curblines and property lines. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle within 15 feet from the intersection of curblines, or, if none, within 15 feet of the intersection of property lines, except alleys.
(F) Parking in front of fire hydrant. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle within ten feet of a fire hydrant.
(G) Parking when prohibited for temporary reasons. It shall be unlawful for the operator to park a vehicle at any place where an official sign prohibits parking for temporary emergency reasons.
(H) Parking of vehicles that are not self-propelled. No person shall park any boat, boat trailer, trailer of any kind or any other vehicle that is not self-propelled upon any of the streets, alleys or rights-of-way within the city.
(I) Overnight parking. It shall be unlawful to leave any motor vehicle parked on the public streets of the town for a period in excess of 24 hours or to park any motor vehicle which is held for sale or one which is not in running condition on the public streets of the city in excess of 24 hours.
(J) Prohibited parking areas.
(1) (a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of the following places:
1. On a sidewalk;
2. In front of, or otherwise blocking access to, a public or private drive;
3. Within an intersection;
4. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant;
5. On a crosswalk;
6. On a tree lawn, the space between the street curb and the sidewalk;
7. In a yard visable from a public street, other than a designated driveway; and
8. Any public roads in the Heritage Springs Subdivision, including but not limited to Heritage Way, Frontier Trail, Pioneer Lane, Wagon Trail, Patriot Place, Conestoga Court and Freedom Court.
(b) The following exceptions apply:
1. When necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic;
2. When providing for the passage of an emergency vehicle, in compliance with the law; and
3. At the direction of a police officer or traffic control device.
(2) It shall be unlawful to park any of the following vehicles on any public street or public right-of-way in the city:
(a) Truck tractors, road tractors, truck trailers, semi-trailers or any other commercial vehicle; and
(b) Any vehicle with declared gross weight over 26,000 pounds or exceeding 25 feet in length.
(3) (a) It shall be unlawful to leave, park or stand any of the following vehicles on any public street or any public right-of-way, in any area of the city zoned as a residential district or where the primary use is residential: mobile homes, motor homes, travel trailers, boat trailers, stock trailers or any other type of trailer.
(b) The following exceptions apply:
1. Recreational vehicles owned by an out-of-town guest of a residential property owner may be parked in front of that owner’s property for a period not to exceed five days, providing the parking does not impair the regular flow of traffic or does not violate any other ordinance.
2. A property owner may park a trailer (not a semi-trailer) in front of property owned by such person for a period not to exceed 24 hours for a maximum of 72 hours in a year, providing that such parking does not impair the regular flow of traffic.
3. This section shall not apply to street construction, maintenance and repair equipment used by public service utility companies engaged in repairing or extending public service utilities and to motor buses when taking on or discharging passengers at customary bus stops.
(4) For the purpose of this section, a DRIVEWAY shall be defined as a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds.
(5) Only authorized and constructed curb cuts and driveways permitted by the city shall be used for ingress and egress. Driving, parking or stopping across the curb, tree lawn or sidewalk is not permitted.
(6) The Marshal Department shall enforce this section.
(Ord. 2021-TO-015, passed 12-13-2021; Ord. 2023-TO-015, passed 8-14-2023)