(A) The City Council may by resolution establish spaces in streets as loading zones or truck zones. The City Council may specify, in the resolution establishing the zone, the times as shall be the loading zone or truck zone hours. The Chief of Police shall mark each 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, except to receive or discharge passengers or freight and then only for a period no longer than is necessary for the purpose.
(C) (1) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in a loading zone, except to receive or discharge passengers for the purpose.
(2) No person shall occupy a loading zone with a vehicle other than a truck for more than five minutes.
(D) Any person desiring the establishment of a loading zone or truck zone abutting premises occupied by him or her shall make written application therefore to the City Council. If the Council grants the request, the proper city officer shall bill the applicant for the estimated cost of placing signs and of painting the curb. When the amount is paid to the City Treasurer, the Chief of Police shall install the necessary signs and paint the curb.
(E) No person shall allow a semi-trailer to stand or be parked unattached from a tractor for any length of time on any street in the city, except in an emergency in order to change tractors.
(F) (1) The Council may by resolution establish “no truck parking” zones in the business district and the City Engineer shall mark 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 make parking by trucks a hazard to the safety of vehicles or pedestrians.
(2) No person shall park a truck of more than two-ton capacity between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any week day upon any street in any zone except vehicles owned by contractors providing services to the abutting property, 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.
(`87 Code, § 701.06) Penalty, see § 10.99