(A) Establishment. The Council may, by resolution, establish spaces in streets as loading zones or truck zones. The hours of 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sunday, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, or such other time as the Council may specify in the resolution establishing the zone, shall be the loading zone or truck zone hours. The Police Chief shall mark each such zone by appropriate signs painted by the Public Works Department.
(B) Loading zone prohibitions. During loading zone hours, no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle in a loading zone except to receive or discharge passengers or freight and then only for a period no longer than is necessary for the purpose. No person shall occupy a loading zone with a vehicle other than a truck for more than five minutes during such hours.
(C) Property owner initiative. Any person desiring the establishment of a loading zone or truck zone abutting premises occupied by the owner shall make written application therefor to the Council. If the Council grants the request, the proper city officer shall bill the applicant for the estimated cost of placing signs and of painting the curb. When the amount is paid to the Administrator, the Public Works Department shall install the necessary signs and paint the curb.
(D) Parking.
(1) No person shall allow a semi-trailer to stand or to be parked unattached from a tractor unit for any length of time on any street in the city except in an emergency in order to change tractors.
(2) An over the road tractor vehicle that has no more than a weight of five tons per axle may park on any city street if the trailer is not connected/attached. Under no circumstances shall a tractor’s trailer be parked on any city street.
(Prior Code, § 70.04)
(E) No truck parking zones. The Council may, by resolution, establish “No Truck Parking” zones in the business district, and the Public Works Department shall mark by appropriate signs any zones so established. Such zones shall be established in the business district where heavy traffic by trucks and other traffic congestion makes parking by trucks a hazard to the safety of vehicles or pedestrians. No person shall park a truck of more than one-ton capacity between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any week day upon any street in any such zone, but parking of the vehicle for a period of not more than 30 minutes shall be permitted in such zone for the purpose of having access to abutting property when such access cannot conveniently be secured otherwise.
(Prior Code, § 72.04)
(Ord. 208, passed 6-14-1999; Ord. 218, passed 9-10-2002) Penalty, see § 72.99