(A) The corporate authorities of the city and a school board, hospital or owner of any shopping center or apartment complex which controls a parking area located within the limits of the city may, by contract, empower the city to regulate the parking of automobiles and the traffic at such parking area. Such contract shall empower the city to accomplish all or part of the following:
(1) The erection of stop signs, flashing signals, handicapped parking area signs or yield signs at specified locations in a parking area and the adoption of appropriate regulations thereto pertaining, or the designation of any intersection in the parking area as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection and the ordering of like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection, subject to the provisions of this title;
(2) The prohibition or regulation of the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations in the parking area;
(3) The regulation of a crossing of any roadway in the parking area by pedestrians;
(4) The designation of any separate roadway in the parking area for one-way traffic;
(5) The establishment and regulation of loading zones;
(6) The prohibition, regulation, restriction or limitation of the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified areas of the parking area;
(7) The designation of safety zones in the parking area and fire lanes;
(8) Providing for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned in the parking area during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies, or found unattended in the parking area where they constitute an obstruction to traffic, or where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle;
(9) Providing that the cost of planning, installation, maintenance and enforcement of parking and traffic regulations pursuant to any contract entered into under the authority of this division (A) be borne by the city, or by the school board, hospital, property owner or apartment complex owner, or that a percentage of said cost be shared by the parties to the contract;
(10) Causing the installation of parking meters on the parking area and establishing whether the expense of installing said parking meters and maintenance thereof shall be that of the municipality or county, or that of the school bond hospital, shopping center or apartment complex owner. All moneys obtained from such parking meters as may be installed on any parking area shall belong to the municipality or county; and
(11) Contracting for such additional reasonable rules and regulations with respect to traffic and parking in a parking area as local conditions may require for the safety and convenience of the public or of the users of the parking area.
(B) No contract entered into pursuant to this section shall exceed a period of 20 years. No lessee of a shopping center or apartment complex shall enter into such a contract for a longer period of time than the length of his or her lease.
(C) Any contract entered into pursuant to this section shall be recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in the county in which the parking area is located, and no regulation made pursuant to the contract shall be effective or enforceable until three days after the contract is so recorded.
(D) At such time as parking and traffic regulations have been established at any parking area pursuant to the contract as provided for in this section, then it shall be a petty offense for any person to do any act forbidden or to fail to perform any act required by such parking or traffic regulation.
(E) The term
SHOPPING CENTER, as used in this section, means premises having one or more stores or business establishments in connection with which there is provided on privately-owned property near or contiguous thereto an area, or areas, of land used by the public as the means of access to and egress from the stores and business establishments on such premises and for the parking of motor vehicles of customers and patrons of such stores and business establishments on such premises.
(F) The term
PARKING AREA, as used in this section, means an area, or areas, of land near or contiguous to a school or hospital building, or shopping center, but not the public highways or alleys, and used by the public as the means of access to and egress from such buildings and the stores and business establishments at a shopping center and for the parking of motor vehicles.
(G) The terms
OWNER, PROPERTY OWNER, SHOPPING CENTER OWNER and APARTMENT COMPLEX OWNER, as used in this section, mean the actual legal owner of the shopping center parking area or apartment complex, the trust officer of a banking institution having the right to manage and control such property, or a person having the legal right, through lease or otherwise, to manage or control said property.
(H) The term
FIRE LANE, as used in this section, means travel lanes for the firefighting equipment upon which there shall be no standing or parking of any motor vehicle at any time so that firefighting equipment can move freely thereon.
(I) The term
APARTMENT COMPLEX, as used tn this section, means premises having one or more apartments in connection with which there is provided on privately-owned property near or contiguous thereto an area, or areas, of land used by occupants of such apartments or their guests as a means of access to and egress from such apartments or for the parking of motor vehicles of such occupants or their guests.
(Prior Code, § 40-1-209)