(A) No person shall stop or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid a conflict with other traffic or in compliance with state law, ordinance, the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, or in an emergency situation, in any of the following places:
(1) On any sidewalk;
(2) In front of or obstructing any (public or private) driveway;
(3) Within an intersection;
(4) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, except in an officially marked parking space;
(5) Within or on a crosswalk;
(6) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station;
(7) Near any street work or excavation, when stopping or parking would obstruct traffic;
(8) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street (double-parking or double-stopping);
(9) In any alley where less than ten feet of the roadway will be left available for the movement of vehicular traffic;
(10) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(11) At any place which has been designated with properly posted signs as a fire lane;
(12) Within 50 feet of any intersection;
(13) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway underpass;
(14) In a parking lot in a way so as to block access to trash dumpsters; provided, the required area for access is indicated on or near the dumpster. The area so designated shall be a tow-away zone; or
(15) Within any municipal park located in the corporate limits of the city, except in designated parking areas. The City Manager and/or City Council shall, however, have the authority to allow parking outside the designated areas within municipal parks for specified periods for special occasions and holidays.
(B) The City Council is hereby authorized to establish parking time limits, and to prohibit parking on designated streets and parts of streets by having appropriate signs placed thereon.
(C) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or park a motor vehicle in any parking space on private property accessible to the public and where the public is invited or on a public property that is properly designated as hereinafter provided as a reserved area for parking of motor vehicles of a physically disabled person unless such person is eligible for an insignia as a physically disabled person under provisions of 47 O.S. §§ 15-111, 1135.1 or 1135.2 or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and such insignia is displayed on such vehicle as provided in 47 O.S. §§ 15-112 or 15-112(F).
(2) For purposes of this section, reserved handicapped parking spaces shall be deemed to be properly designated and posted when immediately in front of said reserved space there shall be displayed a handicapped parking sign not less than 12 inches by 18 inches in size permanently mounted above the ground not less than four feet nor more than seven feet from the parking surface to the bottom of the sign. Said sign shall be specified by the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices” with the standard international handicapped wheelchair symbol with the legend “RESERVED PARKING”.
(3) The Police Department shall have the authority to enter property as designated in division (C)(1) above to enforce the provisions of this section.
(4) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of an offense against the city and if convicted shall be punished by a fine of $50 plus court costs. However, if the insignia referenced in division (C)(1) of this section is presented to the court within 48 hours after the violation, the charge shall be dismissed without payment of fine and court costs.
(2002 Code, § 72.01) (Ord. 554, passed 3-27-2006; Ord. 630, passed 8-25-2008) Penalty, see § 70.99