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(a) 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 posted, 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, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes, if such stopping is not prohibited therein by posted signs.
(b) No operator of a bus shall stop, stand or park such vehicle upon any street or other public way at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop so designated and posted as such, except in case of an emergency.
(c) No operator of a bus shall fail to enter a bus stop on a street or other public way in such a manner that the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage is in a position with the right front wheel of such vehicle not further than eighteen inches from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(d) No operator of a taxicab shall stand or park such vehicle upon any street or other public way at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated and posted as such. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking provisions at any place for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic, except that a driver may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when directed to by a police officer or traffic control signal.
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley except while actually loading and unloading, and then only for a period not to exceed thirty minutes.
(a) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls to a depth of two inches or more within the City, particularly on West 130th Street, York Road, Ridge Road, State Road, Royalton Road, Bennett Road, Edgerton Road, Sprague Road and/or any other streets that are determined from time to time to require the enforcement of this section, an emergency is declared to exist.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists, the Mayor or the Director of Public Safety shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that the emergency parking regulations will become effective. Such emergency parking regulations shall become effective no sooner than one hour after the first announcement, and such announcement by two local radio stations, or by two local television stations, or in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City, shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Mayor or the Director that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined herein.
(c) All owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions, and to comply with the emergency parking regulations.
(d) During the period of emergency, the Director may prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon any or all of the City streets.
No person, during such period of emergency, shall park, or cause to be parked, or permit to remain parked, or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such specified streets. However, vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three minutes for the loading or unloading of passengers, or thirty minutes for actual loading or unloading of property or goods, provided that no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(Ord. 1971-98. Passed 10-6-71.)
Whenever, in the opinion of the Mayor, there is an actual or threatened local emergency such as fire, riot, flood, other acts of God, common disaster or acts of the enemy, the Mayor may require the removal of motor vehicles parked upon the affected streets of the City. The Mayor shall inform the public of the aforementioned conditions through reasonable and usual methods of communication. Actual notification to the owners or operators of the vehicles is not required. If the owner or operator of the vehicle does not remove it within a reasonable time, the vehicle may be impounded and removed by order of the Police Department, in addition to the penalties provided in Sections 408.01 and 408.02.
(Ord. 1963-2. Passed 1-2-63.)
(a) No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park such vehicle on any street within the City for a period of time longer than three minutes for loading and unloading passengers between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Emergency and public safety vehicles and vehicles being used by physicians on emergency calls are exempt from the provisions of this section.
(b) The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to issue special permits allowing parking during the prohibited time under this section where certain hardships exist. Application must be made by the resident requesting parking at a given location outlining specifically the make, model and other descriptive features of each vehicle involved, as well as the license number assigned to that vehicle. The application shall also state the expected period for which the permit is required. The resident will be required to renew the application, where necessary, at the end of such period, or each year if the hardship is of indefinite duration. Such permits can be rescinded upon violation of the procedures or upon changes of the circumstances and conditions which created the reason for a hardship variance.
(c) The Director may also authorize, on a case-by-case basis, at his or her sole discretion, street parking during the prohibited hours under this section upon request of the individual in proximity to whose property and for whose benefit such parking will occur. Such request must specify some legitimate purpose and the time period therefor.
(Ord. 1984-40. Passed 3-21-84; Ord. 1984-166. Passed 11-7-84.)
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