(a) Chief of Police to Designate Curb Loading Zones. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable.
(b) Standing in Passenger Curb Loading Zone. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes.
(c) Standing in Freight Curb Loading Zone. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed thirty minutes.
(d) Chief of Police to Designate Public Carrier Stops and Stands. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles on such public streets, in such places and in such number as he or she shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
(e) Stopping, Standing and Parking of Buses and Taxicabs Regulated.
(1) The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than a bus stand so designated as provided herein.
(2) The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone so designated as provided herein, except in case of an emergency.
(3) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone on a public street in such a manner that the bus, when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage, shall have its right wheels not more than 12 inches from the right-hand curb, unless it is impossible to approach so close to the curb, in which case he or she shall approach as close to the curb as possible, and only for the time necessary to discharge and receive passengers or baggage.
(4) The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated as provided herein. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
(f) Restricted Use of Bus Stops and Taxicab Stands. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand, when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(g) Loading and Unloading School Children. The Chief of Police, if he or she finds that the safety of school children requires it, may designate any portion of any street in the vicinity of public, parochial or private school premises where the loading or unloading of school children or the stopping of vehicles for the purpose of such loading or unloading shall be prohibited during such hours as such Chief shall designate. Such designation shall be made by posting appropriate signs at each end of the designated portion and at such locations within such designated portion as the Chief may find necessary. Such designation may but need not include restriction or prohibition of parking within the designated portion.
When a portion of a street has been so designated, no person shall load or unload any school child therein or stop any vehicle therein for the purpose of such loading or unloading.
(Ord. 64-100. Passed 12-7-64.)