(A) The City Council may by resolution establish spaces in streets or parking lots as loading zones or truck zones. The hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon of any day except Sundays, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day or other such time as the City Council may specify in the resolution establishing the zone shall be the loading zone or truck zone hours. The City Street and Maintenance Department shall be directed to mark each such zone by appropriate signs.
(B) During truck zone hours, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except a truck in a truck zone. No person shall stop, stand or park a truck in a truck zone during truck zone hours, except to receive or discharge passengers or freight and then only for a period of no longer than is necessary for the purposed.
(C) 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 the a period of time no longer than is necessary for the purpose. No person shall occupy a loading zone with a vehicle other than a truck for a period of time longer than five minutes during the hours.
(D) Any person or business desiring the establishment of a loading zone or truck zone abutting premises occupied by him or her shall make written application therefor to the City Council. If the Council grants the request, the proper city official shall bill the applicant for the estimated cost of placing signs and of painting the curb. When the amount is paid to the city, the City Administrator shall order the installation of the necessary signs and painting of the curb.
(E) No person shall allow a semi-trailer to stand or be parked unattached from a tractor unit for any length of time on any street or parking lot in the city except in an emergency or to change tractors.
(F) The City Council may by resolution establish “No Truck Parking” zones in the business district and the City Street and Maintenance Department shall be directed to make by appropriate signs any zones so established. The zones shall be established in the business district where heavy traffic by trucks or other traffic congestion makes parking by trucks a hazard to the safety of vehicles or pedestrians. No person shall park a truck of more that one ton capacity between 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon 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 the zone for the purpose of having access to abutting property when the access cannot conveniently be secured otherwise.
(Ord. 229, passed - -2001) Penalty, see § 10.99