(A) The city is authorized to require the establishment and maintenance of emergency lanes on private commercial property.
(B) Location and marking of emergency lanes upon commercial property shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department.
(C) Emergency lanes shall be approximately 15 feet in width, and shall be marked with appropriate yellow marks or lines. Signs designating the emergency lanes shall be marked “No Parking - Emergency Lane”, and shall be placed every 50 feet along the curb or side of the building where the lanes are established. The signs shall be of the size and marking that conforms to state law.
(D) It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the commercial property to bear the cost of the signs and the marking of the emergency lanes and curbs.
(E) Police officers or the fire officials of the city shall cause the removal of any vehicle from any emergency lane established in accordance with this section. The removed vehicle shall be impounded into a storage yard. The owner of the vehicle shall pay reasonable towing and storage charges before the vehicle is released.
(F) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle other than an emergency vehicle, whether attended or unattended, in any emergency lane established in accordance to the provisions of this section.
(G) This section shall not apply to the following:
(1) Those vehicles displaying a state disabled or other disabled identifying insignia, or by the attesting officer's certain knowledge of the person in question being disabled or handicapped.
(2) All areas already established and marked as handicapped parking shall remain as placed and marked, and shall not be moved or changed in any manner so as to conflict with the establishing of emergency lanes, except when they cannot be complied with in accordance of division (B) of this section.
(Ord. 2017-7, passed 7-5-17) Penalty, see § 92.99