(A) It shall be a parking violation for the operator of any vehicle, including permittees under this section, to park the vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading and unloading of passengers or property. Such vehicles must have flashers in operation when engaged in this activity. The loading, unloading, or delivery of property or materials shall be only from or to private vehicles authorized by permit, commercial vehicles licensed as such, and actually in good faith being used for purposes of delivery, and shall not consume more than 30 minutes in any area where parking is regulated or restricted parking, the following:
(1) Within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available at least ten feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, or within an alley in such a position as to keep clear the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
(2) In any loading zone all days except Sunday.
(3) At parking meters.
(4) At no parking zones marked by a sign or yellow painted curb.
(B) Stopping a vehicle for parking or loading or unloading, unless the vehicle displays an official permit for purposes of use in areas listed below as (1), (2), (3), and (4), is prohibited in the following areas:
(1) Officially established taxicab stands.
(2) TARC stops.
(3) Horse carriage stops.
(4) Parking zones marked for use by a person with a disability or a temporary disability.
(5) Fire lanes.
(6) No stopping zones.
(7) Peak-hour restricted zones designated by signs.
(8) Areas temporarily restricted by means of signs, bagging of meters, or bagging of loading zone signs during special events.
(9) At any place within 15 feet of a point on the curb directly in front of the center of the entrance to any public building, church, school, theater, or any building used for public assembly during the hours while such building is used and open to the public.
(C) The Director of Public Works is authorized and required to determine the exact location and lengths of loading zones and to indicate such loading zones by suitable markings or signs. No persons other than those authorized by the Director of Public Works shall erect any such sign or shall place such markings.
(D) Loading zones shall be established in accordance with the following rules:
(1) No more than 25% of the total curb length of any block shall be reserved for loading zones within the central traffic district, or in any business district, except that the entire curb frontage may be so reserved provided that there have been filed with the Director of Public Works applications for the establishment of loading zones by the owners of the buildings or business.
(2) Curb space not to exceed 100 feet may be reserved temporarily or in an emergency at any place where required for public safety or convenience.
(3) Within the above limitations the Director of Public Works may establish loading zones at the entrance of office buildings, department stores, and other private buildings on written application therefore by the owners of such businesses or their representatives. The Director of Public Works shall have the power to issue or refuse permits for such loading zones, and in deciding all such applications shall consider primarily the relationship of the loading zones applied for and the public safety and convenience.
(4) Every such permit when issued shall be for a period of not exceeding one year and the Director of Public Works shall have the power either to renew the permit or to revoke it at any time or cause deemed sufficient to him or her in the exercise of a reasonable and sound discretion.
(5) Whenever such a permit has been issued or renewed by the Director of Public Works for a period of one year, the applicant therefore shall pay to the Director a permit fee as established by the Director of Public Works. The permit fee for a permit issued or renewed for a period of less than one year shall be the same proportion of a full year's permit fee as the number of days for which the permit is issued or renewed bears to the number of days in a year, which fee shall be paid to the Director of Public Works.
(6) The Director of Public Works is responsible for posting appropriate signs and markings to indicate designated loading zones.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 75.10) (Lou. Ord. No. 144-1982, approved 8-11-1982; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 309-1987, passed 10-29-1987; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 207-1988, approved 7-29-1988; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 160-1990, approved 6-29-1990; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 163-1998, approved 8-4-1998; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 0116-2001, approved 10-12-2001; Lou. Am. Ord. No. 0126-2001, approved 10-12-2001; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 64-2005, approved 5-17-2005) Penalty, see § 72.999