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§ 70.03 PARKING AND STANDING.
   (A)   Manner of parking where meters not installed. Any vehicle which is parked on any public way shall be so parked that all wheels on one side shall be near the curb, or to the edge of the pavement on any public way which does not have a curb, unless angle parking is designated by lines on the pavement or posting of signs.
   (B)   The Mayor and/or the Code Enforcement Officer to designate no parking zones. The Mayor and/or the Code Enforcement Officer, upon recommendation of the Chief of Police, are hereby authorized and directed to designate no parking zones along the streets, avenues, alleys and other public ways of the city by any means or devices, included but not limited to the following:
      (1)   Placing signs along the curb or edge of the street or other public way, which signs shall read "parking";
      (2)   Placing signs along the curb or edge of the street or other public way, which signs shall read "parking between these signs";
      (3)   Painting the curb yellow.
   (C)   Parking in no parking zones prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle in or along any no parking zone which has heretofore been or hereafter may be established in accordance with Section 10-40.
   (D)   Parking on sidewalk. No person shall park any vehicle on any sidewalk or in such manner as to wholly or partially obstruct any sidewalk within the city.
   (E)   Parking between sidewalk and public way. No person shall park or place any vehicle or other object between the curb of a public way and the adjacent sidewalk or between the edge of the pavement, where the public way is not curbed, and the adjacent sidewalk.
   (F)   Obstruction of driveways. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle on any public way of the city in such manner as to obstruct any driveway or entrance to any other public way.
   (G)   Double parking. No person shall double park any vehicle on any public way, whether the vehicle is attended or unattended, except while engaged in loading or unloading property.
   (H)   Unauthorized no parking and loading zones prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or attempt to establish any no parking zone or loading zone on or along any public way of the city, except when done by or under the direction of the Mayor and/or Code Enforcement Officer.
   (I)   Unauthorized painting of curb prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to paint any curb along any public way within the city any color whatsoever, unless same is done by or under the direction of the Mayor and/or Code Enforcement Officer.
   (J)   Impoundment of improperly parked vehicles. Any vehicle parked upon the public streets of the city at a place, in a manner or for a length of time prohibited by any of the provisions of this chapter or other ordinance of the city is, if unoccupied, hereby declared to be an obstruction in such streets and a public nuisance and any police officer and/or the Code Enforcement Officer of the city is hereby authorized to cause the same to be removed and impounded for such purposes.
   (K)   Parking near fire hydrants or in fire lanes prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, station, set or park any vehicle or other object within ten feet of any fire hydrant or fire hose connection located upon or near the rights-of-way or in any designated fire lane within the city.
   (L)   Parking in handicapped spaces limited.
      (1)   When a motor vehicle is being operated by or for the benefit of a handicapped person and is displaying an auto registration plate as provided in KRS 186.042, an out-of-state handicapped registration plate, a handicapped parking permit issued by any Veterans' Administration hospital or a special parking permit issued to a handicapped person as prescribed in KRS 189.456, the motor vehicle may be placed in a designated handicapped parking space.
      (2)   Except as hereinabove provided, no person shall park a vehicle in or otherwise obstruct a space designated for handicapped parking.
   (M)   Parking restrictions for vehicles or equipment having total length of 22 feet or greater.
      (1)   No vehicle, equipment or other thing whatsoever, or any attached combination thereof, having a total length of 22 feet or more, or a total width of seven feet, nine inches or more, shall be parked, placed or left upon the public ways of the city for a period of more than one hour, except when loading or unloading thereof is actually in progress or when a permit has been issued by the City Manager or Police Chief or their designee, which permit shall be based upon a genuine need related to construction, remodeling, repairing, razing and similar activities being performed upon adjacent premises; such permit shall be limited in duration to the time such need actually exists.
      (2)   Any person, firm or corporation owning a vehicle, equipment or other thing parked, placed or left upon the public ways of the city in violation hereof shall, upon conviction, be fined $25 and each calendar day such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. If the operator of same is not the owner thereof, the operator shall, upon conviction, also be subject to said penalty.
   (N)   Motor vehicles on private property.
      (1)   It shall be illegal for the operator of any vehicle to operate a vehicle on or park the same for any time on any private property in the city, including any private parking lot, without the consent of the owner or operator of the private property.
      (2)   The term PRIVATE PARKING LOT shall include any lot owned or operated by a business or industry and used as a parking lot for its employees, customers or other persons stopping there for the purpose of doing business with or soliciting business from the business or industry for whom the lot is provided.
      (3)   The consent mentioned in division (N)(1) above may be express or implied. However, no consent shall be implied on private parking lots, where warning signs are posted, for persons who are not employed there except (a) when the business or industry is open for business and (b) the non-employee who is traveling on or parked in the private parking lot is on the premises for the purpose of doing business with or soliciting business from the business or industry enterprise.
      (4)   The sign(s) referred to in division (N)(3) above shall clearly state that the parking lot is privately owned and that use by unauthorized persons may subject the operators to fines per § 70.99. The sign may also warn, in the manner required by KRS 189.725, that unauthorized vehicles may be towed away at the owner's expense.
      (5)   Operators of vehicles who violate this division (N) shall be subject to a fine as provided in § 70.99. This penalty in no way limits the right the owner or attendant of the privately owned parking lot otherwise must have the vehicle towed away at the expense of the owner of the vehicle.
   (O)   Removing parking ticket; prima facie proof. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove from one vehicle and place on another vehicle a notice of violation and proof that such notice has been removed from one vehicle to another shall constitute a prima facie case in any prosecution against the owner or operator of the vehicle from which the notice has been removed.
   (P)   Fraudulent parking ticket to avoid payment of fine. It shall be unlawful for any person to place any previously issued notice of violation or any device resembling a notice of violation on a vehicle for the purpose of avoiding payment of any penalty imposed in this section, and proof that such device has been so placed or found upon a vehicle shall constitute prima facie evidence in any prosecution hereunder against the owner or operator of the vehicle on which it has been placed.
(Ord. 2021-2, passed 4-15-2021) Penalty, see § 70.99
Statutory reference:
   Parking citation enforcement, see KRS 82.600 et seq.
   Enactment of parking ordinances by local government, see KRS 82.605
§ 70.04 LOADING ZONES.
   (A)   Definition. For the purpose of this section, a LOADING ZONE shall be a space located on a public way reserved for the stopping of vehicles during and for the exclusive purpose of loading or unloading passengers or materials.
   (B)   Designation. The Mayor and/or Code Enforcement Officer, upon recommendation by the Chief of Police, is hereby authorized and directed to provide for the establishment of such loading zones as may be necessary for the efficient conduct of commerce within the city, and for the designation, by appropriate signs, of the exact location and dimensions of such loading zones and the hours during which they shall be reserved as such.
   (C)   Unauthorized use prohibited. No person shall stop, park or allow to stand in a loading zone any vehicle for any purpose other than the unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials or persons during the hours when the provisions applicable to such zone are in effect, or for a longer period of time than shall be necessary for such authorized purposes.
   (D)   Effective hours. Loading zones shall be reserved as such between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, Monday through Friday. Such zones shall not be reserved as such after 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, or at any time on Saturday or Sunday or any other holiday generally observed by retail business.
   (E)   Use of loading zones by passenger vehicles. The driver of a passenger vehicle may stop temporarily in a loading zone for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading materials or passengers. All passenger vehicles used by any person for the purposes of commerce to deliver goods, wares and merchandise and having need to use loading zones shall have commercial signs on each side of such vehicle.
(Ord. 2021-2, passed 4-15-2021) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.05 USE OR OPERATION OF ENGINE BRAKE, COMPRESSION BRAKE AND MECHANICAL EXHAUST DEVICES PROHIBITED.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to use or operate or cause to be used or operated any engine brake, unmuffled compression brake or mechanical exhaust device designed to aid in the braking or deceleration of any vehicle which results in a noise disturbance, except on limited-access highways. This prohibition shall not apply to personnel of the city who are driving vehicles related to providing emergency services or any driver of a vehicle who is responding to an emergency event.
   (B)   A noise disturbance means any sound which:
      (1)   Endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals;
      (2)   Annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities; or
      (3)   Endangers or injures personal or real property.
(Ord. 2021-2, passed 4-15-2021) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.99 PENALTY.
   (A)   Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99 of this code of ordinances.
   (B)   Any person violating any of the provisions of § 70.02 of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a violation and, upon his or her conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not less than $25, nor more than $100.
   (C)   Unless otherwise provided on the notice of violation, the owner of any vehicle found parked or standing in violation of §§ 70.03 and 70.04 shall pay to the City Treasurer a penalty of $5, except that any person in violation of § 70.03(M) and (N) shall pay to the City Treasurer a penalty of $15. Any person who shall fail to pay any penalty as herein prescribed or as provided on the notice of violation within seven days of the issuance of the notice of violation shall be in criminal violation of §§ 70.03 and 70.04, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100, except that the fine for a violation of § 70.03(M) and (N) shall be not less than $25 nor more than $150. Each violation for which a separate notice of violation has been issued shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 1, 1991 Series, passed 3-11-1991; Ord. 2021-2, passed 4-15-2021)