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(a) When official signs are erected prohibiting or restricting parking at any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated lot, area or place without first having obtained authorization therefor from the Mayor or the Chief of Police. The foregoing shall not apply to any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place which is serviced by parking meters.
(b) Members of the Police Division are hereby authorized to move a vehicle by towing or otherwise, at the owner's expense, from such municipally maintained parking lot, area or place to a vehicle pound maintained by the Police Division, when such vehicle is parked therein without proper authorization.
(Ord. 49-1958. Passed 6-2-85; Ord. 61-1985. Passed 5-28-85.)
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(a) The Mayor or Chief of Police is hereby authorized and empowered to designate by rule those portions of streets or highways in the vicinity of any bridge, trestle or viaduct in the City and also to designate by rule the areas of public property in the vicinity of any bridge, trestle or viaduct in the City on or upon which the parking of vehicles shall be prohibited. The Mayor or Chief of Police is also authorized to erect and maintain appropriate signs along the portions of such streets or highways and upon such public property as shall be designated as hereinabove authorized.
(b) Any vehicle which is found parked in violation of this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and such nuisance shall be removed by the Police Division.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74; Ord. 61-1985. Passed 5-28-85.)
(a) No owner or operator of any truck over 7,500 G.V.W., tractor or trailer, passenger bus, or self-propelled motorhome shall park or permit the same to be parked on any street or alley at any time on Sundays and legal holidays, or between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any other day, except for a period not to exceed thirty minutes for the purposes of loading or unloading merchandise, permitting the operator to eat, or for other necessary purposes, or except as may be necessitated by an emergency.
(Ord. 60-1976. Passed 4-26-76.)
(b) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(a) The Mayor or the Director of Public Service is hereby authorized to declare a snow emergency whenever a snow accumulation of two inches or more exists within the City or in any section thereof. Such snow emergency shall continue until it has been determined by the Mayor or Director of Public Service that the state of emergency, with respect to snow removal no longer exists.
(b) The manner of announcement of such emergency shall be by the local news media after a request is made by the authorized City official. The effective time shall be no sooner than one hour after the initial declaration of the snow emergency is announced by the news media.
(c) During the period of the declared snow emergency, after four hours, no person shall park or permit to remain parked, or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle upon such streets as listed in Exhibit A attached to original Ordinance 5-1989. Further the City may establish more restrictive regulations of City streets as listed on Exhibit A if conditions warrant such actions by the Mayor or the Director of Public Service.
(d) Any person violating this section is subject to the penalties provided by law for illegal parking on normally regulated streets. Any vehicle in violation of this section shall be removed if necessary, at the order of the Chief of Police and towed to an impound lot at the expense of the owner.
(Ord. 5-1989. Passed 1-9-89.)