(A) Definition. For the purpose of this section the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any personal property and/or person is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(B) Findings. It is deemed to be in the best interests of the city and in the best interests of the general public welfare of the city and further to be an appropriate exercise of the police power of the city that parking ordinances in reference to certain trucks and/or other large vehicles be updated as provided herein.
(C) Unlawful parking.
(1) It shall be henceforth unlawful to park any semi-tractor, freight truck, bus, recreational vehicle, motorized home and/or commercial vehicle over 20 feet in length and/or any motor vehicle with trailer of any length and/or any trailer of any kind of any length anywhere on the public streets and/or public city parking lots in those city areas zoned R-l through R-4 inclusive and/or zoned C-l through C-3 inclusive as set forth within the City of LaSalle Zoning Ordinance heretofore adopted and published as the same has been from time to time amended.
(2) Exceptions to this section and further restrictions shall be the parking of commercial and/or industrial vehicles when they are appropriately loading and/or unloading commercial cargo, and such vehicles as the city’s Police Chief may allow for limited periods of time within the appropriate exercise of discretion of the Police Chief.
(D) Responsibility for compliance. Each owner and/or operator of a vehicle shall be responsible for compliance with this section as to any vehicle in which such owner and/or operator owns and/or has operated the vehicle.
(Ord. 1734, passed 5-29-2001; Am. Ord. 2462, passed 11-19-2013) Penalty, see § 72.99