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§ 72.04 RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS ON DESIGNATED STREETS.
   (A)   The provisions of this section prohibiting the stopping and parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those 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 police officer or official traffic-control devices.
   (B)   The provisions of this section imposing a time limit on 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 vehicles in specific places or at specified times.
   (C)   When signs are erected in compliance with the provisions of division (F) below giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on any street 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 Sundays on any street so marked.
   (F)   (1)   The city shall determine on what streets 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 streets or parking areas are restricted to disabled parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof. However, in lieu of erecting the 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.
      (2)   No regulations or restrictions shall be effective unless the signs have been erected and are in place or the curbs are painted yellow at the time of any alleged offense, except in the case of those parking restrictions which by their very nature would not require the 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 any day except Sunday and on any street so marked.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.05 PARKING RESTRICTED TO ALLOW STREET CLEANING.
   (A)   The city is authorized to designate street cleaning areas and shall provide suitable signs and markings on the street to be cleaned, restricting parking on that particular day.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop on any street so designated.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.06 PARKING IN EXCESS OF CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS PROHIBITED; TOWING AUTHORIZED.
   It shall be unlawful for anyone to park in any one place any vehicle on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer. Any vehicle left parked in any one place on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer shall be deemed abandoned, and shall be subject to all existing regulations of the city pertaining to abandoned motor vehicles.
Penalty, see § 72.99
Cross-reference:
   Removal of abandoned vehicles, see §§ 72.25 through 72.27
§ 72.07 PARKING ON PARADE ROUTE.
   (A)   The City Commission or any authorized city official shall have the authority, whenever in his or her judgment it is necessary, to prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles along a street or part thereof constituting a part of the route of a parade or procession, to erect temporary traffic signs to that effect, and to prohibit and prevent parking.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful to park or leave unattended any vehicle in violation of the signs or directions.
Penalty, see § 72.99
Cross-reference:
   Parades, see §§ 71.50 through 71.61
§ 72.08 PARKING ON OFF-STREET FACILITY.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to park or abandon the vehicle or drive on or otherwise trespass on another’s property, or on an area developed as an off-street parking facility, without the consent of the owner, lessee or person in charge of the property or facility.
   (B)   If at any time a vehicle is parked, abandoned or otherwise trespasses in violation of division (A) above, the owner, lessee or person in charge of the property or facility may have the unauthorized motor vehicle removed in accordance with the provisions of §§ 72.25 through 72.27.
   (C)   Every property owner or operator of an off-street parking facility shall post signs stating thereon that the property or parking lot or facility is privately owned and that an unauthorized vehicle will be removed at the owner’s expense before exercising the authority granted in division (B) above.
Penalty, see § 72.99
Statutory reference:
   Removal of vehicles by owners of private parking lots; signs, see KRS 189.725
§ 72.09 OWNER RESPONSIBILITY.
   If any vehicle is found illegally parked in violation of any provisions of this subchapter regulating stopping, standing or parking of vehicles, and the identity of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or person in whose name the vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for the violation.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.10 PARKING IN PARKS.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park any motor vehicle in or on any section of any public park, playground, play lot or tot lot within the city not designed as a parking area or designed and regularly maintained as a roadway.
   (B)   However, nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the parking of a motor vehicle parallel to a designated and regularly maintained roadway in any park or playground where at least two wheels of the motor vehicle are resting on the roadway.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.11 DISPLAY OF PARKED VEHICLE FOR SALE.
   It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle displayed for sale or a motor vehicle on which demonstrations are being made on any street.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.12 PARKING WITH DISABLED PERMITS.
   (A)   Any other provision to the contrary notwithstanding, a motor vehicle bearing a decal in its front windshield issued by the County Clerk pursuant to appropriate county ordinances for disabled persons, when operated by a disabled person or when transporting a disabled person, may be parked in a designated disabled parking place, or when parked in a metered parking space may be parked for two hours for no fee, or when parked where any parking limit is imposed may be parked for two hours in excess of the parking limit. The motor vehicle may be parked in a loading zone for that period of time necessary to permit entrance or exit of the disabled person to or from the parked vehicle, but in no circumstances longer than 30 minutes.
   (B)   This section shall not permit parking in a “No Stopping” or “No Parking” zone nor where parking is prohibited for the purpose of creating a fire lane or to accommodate heavy traffic during morning, afternoon or evening hours, nor permit a motor vehicle to be parked in a manner as to constitute a traffic hazard.
Penalty, see § 72.99
§ 72.13 FIRE LANE.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to park a motor vehicle or obstruct any part of a roadway designated as a “fire lane”. Each such fire lane shall be designated as such by a sign conspicuously posted.
   (B)   Any vehicle parking in violation of this section may, in addition to any other penalty provided in this chapter, be towed away at the expense of the violator upon the order of any Fire Department officer or any peace officer of the city.
(Ord. 03-08-18-D, passed 4-12-2018) Penalty, see § 72.99
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