(A) Definition. A PARKING LOT shall be defined for the purposes of this section as any area within the city on which more than ten automobiles may be parked and shall include public parking lots and those parking lots which are for the principal purpose of providing parking during business hours for shopping centers, stores, restaurants, drive-ins, theaters and other business or commercial establishments.
(B) Congregation prohibited. It shall be unlawful for more than ten people to congregate on any one parking lot in the city between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., eastern standard time, if the closest part of the parking lot is within 300 feet of a private residence, excepting any person parking a vehicle on a lot or being on a lot for the purpose of patronizing a business establishment which is actually open for business between the aforesaid hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., eastern standard time.
(C) Enumeration of offenses. It shall be unlawful for any person on a parking lot in the city between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., eastern standard time, to do one or more of the following:
(1) Talk in a loud or boisterous manner;
(2) Drink beer or any kind of alcoholic beverage;
(3) Throw any type of bottle, can, container, trash or paper on the parking lot; and
(4) Make noise or disturbance so that persons living in homes or other dwelling accommodations within 300 feet of the parking lot are disturbed in their place of living and deprived of their peace and quiet.
(D) Privately owned public vehicular areas.
(1) No person owning or having control or charge of a vehicle shall park or leave standing the vehicle upon the privately owned public vehicular areas and during the hours indicated on Schedule A attached to the ordinance from which this section is derived, and made a part hereof, by reference.
(2) The City Manager is directed to ensure that signs giving notice of the hours during which parking is prohibited in the areas be placed at the entrances to each area. The signs shall indicate that vehicles parked contrary to the provisions of this section shall be towed to storage.
(3) The provisions of this section shall be enforceable in the same manner as is used to enforce other parking regulations and ordinances and penalties shall be the same as for the corresponding violation on publicly owned or controlled streets or property.
(4) The cost of erecting, placing or installing signs, and the cost of the necessary signs as determined by the Chief of Police, shall be paid by the person requesting regulations.
(Prior Code, § 18-84) Penalty, see § 10.99