CHAPTER 70: PARKING
Section
   70.01   Obstructional parking; double parking
   70.02   Manner of parking
   70.03   Limitations on stopping and parking
   70.04   Restrictions and prohibitions on designated street, road or alley
   70.05   Parking restricted to allow street, road or alley cleaning
   70.06   Parking in excess of certain number of hours prohibited; towing authorized
   70.07   Parking on parade route
   70.08   Owner responsibility
   70.09   Parking in parks
   70.10   Parking with handicapped permits
   70.11   Impoundment of vehicle authorized; redemption
   70.12   [Reserved]
   70.13   Sale of vehicle
   70.14   Announcement of snow emergency
   70.15   Termination of emergency
   70.16   Snow emergency routes
 
   70.99   Penalty
§ 70.01 OBSTRUCTIONAL PARKING; DOUBLE PARKING.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to place or leave any vehicle or any other item of personal property that is a nuisance, obstruction or hindrance to the ordinary flow of traffic in or on the right-of-way of any street, road, alley or sidewalk within the county.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park any vehicle in a travel lane of a roadway and on the side of the other vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street, road or alley. It shall be a defense to a violation of this section that the stopping or parking was due to an emergency or in the normal, ordinary and safe operation of the vehicle.
(Ord. 03-5-13-08, passed 5-13-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.02 MANNER OF PARKING.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park the vehicle in a manner other that with its right-hand side toward and parallel with the curb, except that where parking is permitted on the left side of a one-way street, road or alley, the left-hand side shall be so parked, except for commercial loading and unloading on one-way streets, roads or alleys.
   (B)   No vehicle shall be parked or left parked or left standing on any street, road or alley unless its two right wheels are within six inches of and parallel with the curb, except that on one-way streets, roads or alleys, where parking is permitted on the left side, the two left wheels are to be within six inches of and parallel with the curb.
   (C)   No vehicle shall be parked to the curb on any street, road or alley except that wagons and trucks may do so when loading and unloading; provided, that such loading and unloading and delivery of property and material shall not consume more than 30 minutes. Such backing of trucks or wagons is prohibited at all times and on all streets, roads or alleys in the county where any truck or wagon so backed interferes with the use of the roadways by moving vehicles or occupies road space within ten feet of the centerline of the street, road or alley.
   (D)   The county may establish diagonal parking at certain places, requiring the parking of vehicles at a certain angle to the curb and within a certain portion of the roadway adjacent thereto; however, diagonal parking shall not be established where the roadway space required therefor would be within ten feet on the centerline of any street, road or alley. Such diagonal parking places shall be designated by suitable signs, and shall indicate by markings on the pavement the required angle and the width of the roadway space within which such vehicle shall park.
   (E)   It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to so park such vehicle that any part thereof shall extend beyond the lines marking the side or the rear of the ...[missing material]...
(Ord. 03-5-13-08, passed 5-13-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.03 LIMITATIONS OF STOPPING AND PARKING.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park such vehicle, except in a case of emergency, or in compliance with the provisions of this traffic code, or when directed by a law enforcement officer or traffic sign or signal at any time in the following places:
      (1)   On traveled portion of any roadway or on any other place in the roadway where vehicles stand in any manner other than as specified in § 70.02;
      (2)   On a sidewalk;
      (3)   In front of sidewalk ramps provided for persons with disabilities;
      (4)   In front of a public or private driveway;
      (5)   Within an intersection or crosswalk;
      (6)   At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking. This does not apply to law enforcement officers when operating properly identified vehicles during the performance of their official duties or to emergency personnel and vehicle responding to an actual or reported emergency;
      (7)   Within 30 feet of any flashing beacons, traffic sign or traffic-control device;
      (8)   No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area;
      (9)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle within ten feet of a fire hydrant; or
      (10)   It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to park in an area designated as a “fire lane”. These areas shall be designated by the Fire Department in accordance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Code 1141 and approval of the County Judge Executive or his or her designee. These areas are to be marked by appropriate sign and/or paint (KRS 189.450(5), (6)).
   (B)   This section shall also apply to “fire lanes” required for businesses under and planning and zoning ordinance and as are set forth in the plat or development plans for the business, a copy of which are on record at any Planning and Zoning office or the County Clerk’s office.
(Ord. 03-5-13-08, passed 5-13-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99
§ 70.04 RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS ON DESIGNATED STREET, ROAD OR ALLEY.
   (A)   The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping and parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at times herein specified or as indicated on official signs, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a law enforcement office or official traffic-control devices.
   (B)   The provisions of this section imposing a time limit of parking shall not relieve any person from his or her duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping or parking of vehicle in specific places or at specified times.
   (C)   When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of section below giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on any street, road or alley so marked by official signs.
   (D)   When a curb has been painted in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, no person shall park a vehicle at any time at or adjacent to any curb so marked.
   (E)   When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below, in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by official signs on any day except Sunday on any street, road or alley so marked.
   (F)   (1)   The County Fiscal Court shall determine on what streets, roads or alleys or portions thereof stopping or parking shall be restricted or prohibited. Whenever under authority of or by this traffic code or any other ordinance any parking limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated street, road or alleys, or parking areas are restricted to handicapped parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof; however, in lieu of erecting such signs or in conjunction therewith, the face and top of a curb or curbs at or adjacent to which parking is prohibited at all times may be painted a solid yellow color, to give notice parking is prohibited or painted blue to give parking notice of handicap parking only.
      (2)   No such regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require such signs and markings.
   (G)   When signs are erected in compliance with division (F) above in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for a time longer than specified on official signs.
   (H)   There shall be no parking in any area marked as such through the use of yellow-painted curbs. This shall include areas marked with “No Parking,” No Parking This Side” or “No Parking Here to Corner” signs.
   (I)   It shall be unlawful to park opposed to traffic, on any street, road or alley within the county.
   (J)   It shall be unlawful to park on the right-of-way of any street, road or alley and within 20 feet of a street, road, alley intersection or within ten feet of a private or public driveway.
   (K)   No parking will be allowed when the distance from the edge of the pavement (EOP) to the curb line is less than eight feet, EOP is to be defined by the State Department of Transportation and/or the county’s planning and zoning ordinances.
(Ord. 03-5-13-08, passed 5-13-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99
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