It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or maintain a motor vehicle in the parking area of Orland Park Place Shopping Center except in conformity with the parking and traffic control regulations hereinafter set forth:
1. DEFINITIONS:
Whenever in these regulations the following words and phrases are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them hereunder:
PARKING AREA: Shall include the area or areas of land near or contiguous to the shopping center, including interior private roadways and drives used by the public as the means of access to and egress from the buildings, stores and business establishments within the shopping center and that part of the shopping center designated for the parking of motor vehicles.
PLAN: The plan and drawing prepared for the coordination and control of parking and traffic control within the parking area, which document is entitled, "Orland Park Place Traffic and Parking Control Plan" and dated May 15, 1988, revised August 23, 1988, a true and correct copy of which is available for inspection at the office of the Village Clerk.
2. ONE-WAY TRAFFIC:
(a) Upon any drive or roadway in the parking area designated for one-way traffic, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direction when signs, signals or other devices indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at intersections and alleys where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle in violation of signs, signals or other devices so placed to designate drives or roadways, parts thereof or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction.
(b) Appropriate signs, signals or other devices designating certain roadways in the parking area for one-way traffic shall be erected or installed in conformity with the plan.
3. STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS:
(a) When stop signs or signals are erected or installed pursuant to the plan at or near the entrance to any intersection in the parking area, every operator of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle at such sign or signal or at a clearly marked stop line before entering the intersection except when directed to proceed by a police officer.
(b) After the operator of a vehicle has stopped in obedience to a stop sign or signal at an intersection in the parking area where a stop sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto, such operator shall proceed cautiously yielding to vehicles not so obliged to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, but may then proceed.
(c) Appropriate stop signs or signals shall be erected or installed in conformity with the plan.
4. YIELD RIGHT OF WAY:
(a) Where preference is given to traffic through any intersection on any roadway and specified entrances to said intersections are designated as yield right-of-way entrances by the erection of yield right-of-way signs or signals in the parking area, the driver of a vehicle in obedience to a yield right-of-way sign or signal shall slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions or shall stop if necessary and shall yield the right of way to other vehicles which have entered the intersecting roadway either from the right or left of which are approaching so closely on said intersecting roadway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver having so yielded may proceed at such time as a safe interval occurs.
(b) Appropriate yield signs or signals shall be erected or installed in conformity with the plan.
5. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING:
(a) When signs, signals or other devices have been erected upon any roadway or in any other portion of the parking area indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited during designated hours or prohibited for a longer time than is designated, no person shall park any vehicle in violation of any such signs, signals or other devices.
(b) The provisions of this Section prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in the parking area shall apply at all times or at those times therein specified or as indicated on 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.
(c) Appropriate signs prohibiting stopping, standing or parking or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking during designated hours or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking for a longer time than is designated shall be erected or installed in conformity with the plan.
6. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING IN LOADING ZONE OR SERVICE AREA:
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a passenger vehicle to stop, stand or park said vehicle in any place marked as a loading zone or service area other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers and in no case for a period longer than three (3) minutes.
(b) Appropriate signs prohibiting stopping, standing or parking in a loading zone or service area shall be erected or installed in conformity with the plan.
7. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING IN SPECIFIED PLACES:
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle in any of the following places in the parking area except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer:
(a) Within an intersection;
(b) On a crosswalk;
(c) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone;
(d) Within thirty feet (30') of a traffic signal or stop sign on the approaching side;
(e) Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(f) At any curb within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant;
(g) At any place where the standing of any vehicle will block the use of any driveway;
(h) On any sidewalk;
(i) Alongside or opposite any excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(j) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(k) On any fire lane;
(l) At any place where signs have been erected or installed prohibiting stopping, standing or parking.
8. PROHIBITION OF PARKING IN SPACES DESIGNATED HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES:
It shall be unlawful for a motor vehicle to occupy any parking space within the parking area designated and marked for the use of handicapped persons unless such vehicle is operated by a person defined as handicapped according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 1435 - an Ordinance regulating the use of handicapped parking spaces in the Village of Orland Park, Illinois, passed April 22, 1985.
9. UNAUTHORIZED PARKING OR ABANDONMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES:
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit an Inoperable vehicle to remain in the parking area within the view of the public. Inoperable vehicles may be towed pursuant to Ordinance No. 1736.
10. SPEED LIMITS:
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour on, over or along the roadway designated on the plan or in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour in any other portion of the parking area.
Appropriate signs shall be erected posting the speed limits in conformance with the plan.
11. PENALTY:
1. Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall upon conviction be fined according to the fine schedule located in Appendix B for each offense of which such person shall be convicted.
2. Before the owner or person entitled to possession of any vehicle removed from the parking area pursuant to Section 9-7-11-9 to subsection (8) of this Section may reclaim such vehicle, he shall furnish evidence of his identity and ownership of the vehicle and right to possession thereto, shall sign a receipt for the vehicle, and shall pay a fee at the prevailing rate determined by the Traffic Administrator in accordance with those rates established by the Illinois State Police to cover the cost of towing or removal to a vehicle pound or authorized garage, and in addition thereto, the cost of storage at the prevailing rate at the garage or parking lot at which said vehicle is stored. In some cases, the tow companies may deviate up or down from the regular rates if they determine the particular situation merits the adjustments. In doing so, they may be required to justify the rate adjustment.
(Ord. 1826, 11-7-88; Amd. Ord. 5224, 10-2-17)