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PARKING GENERALLY
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any vehicle or any other thing that may be a nuisance, obstruction or hindrance in or on any street, alley or sidewalk within the city either during the day or night.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park any vehicle on the roadway side of any other vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
(Prior Code, § 72.01) Penalty, see § 72.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park the vehicle in a manner other than with its right-hand side toward and parallel with the curb, except that where parking is permitted on the left side of a one-way street, the left-hand side shall be so parked, and except for commercial loading and unloading on one-way streets.
(B) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing on any street unless its two right wheels are within six inches of and parallel with the curb, except that on one-way streets where parking is permitted on the left side, the two left wheels are to be within six inches of and parallel with the curb.
(C) (1) No vehicle shall be backed to the curb on any street, except that wagons and trucks may do so when loading and unloading; provided, that such loading and unloading and delivery of property and material shall not consume more than 30 minutes.
(2) Such backing of trucks or wagons is prohibited at all times and on all streets in the city where any truck or wagon so backed interferes with the use of the roadway of moving vehicles or occupies road space within ten feet of the center line of the street.
(D) (1) The city may establish diagonal parking at certain places, requiring the parking of vehicles at a certain angle to the curb and within a certain portion of the roadway adjacent thereto. However, diagonal parking shall not be established where the roadway space required therefor would be within ten feet of the center line of any street.
(2) Such diagonal parking places shall be designated by suitable signs and shall indicate by markings on the pavement the required angle and the width of the roadway space within which such vehicle shall park.
(E) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to so park such vehicle that any part thereof shall extend beyond the lines marking the side or the rear of the space assigned for one vehicle.
(Prior Code, § 72.02) Penalty, see § 72.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop or park such vehicle except in a case of real emergency or in compliance with the provisions of this traffic code or when directed by a police officer or traffic sign or signal at any time in the following places:
(1) On the mainly-traveled portion of any roadway or on any other place in the roadway where vehicles stand in any manner other than as specified in § 72.02 of this code;
(2) On a sidewalk;
(3) In front of sidewalk ramps provided for persons with disabilities;
(4) In front of a public or private driveway;
(5) Within an intersection or crosswalk;
(6) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping or parking. This does not apply to police officers when operating properly identified vehicles during the performance of their official duties;
(7) Within 30 feet of any flashing beacon, traffic sign or traffic-control device; and
(8) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area.
(KRS 189.450(5), (6))
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to park any kind of vehicle or place any obstruction within ten feet of any fire hydrant within the city limits.
(C) It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle on any street or alley in the city, so marked on the curb by yellow paint, or by sign or other traffic-control device indicating that parking in such place is prohibited.
(D) It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle for more than two continuous hours on any street or alley in the city so marked on the curb by sign or other traffic-control device indicating that parking in such place is restricted as set forth in this division (D). Each continuous two-hour period shall constitute a separate violation.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing upon any street or alley in the city, any junked vehicle or any vehicle not capable of operation under its own power or in disabled condition. The owner or operator of any vehicle which becomes disabled while being operated upon any street or alley in the city shall have three hours in which to remove or cause to be removed said vehicle from said street or alley.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing any vehicle upon any street in the city within 80 feet of the center of the intersection of any two streets over which run state and/or federal highways.
(G) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing a truck, wrecker, wagon, trailer, school bus or public vehicle, upon any street in the city traversed by a federal highway, for a longer period than one hour.
(H) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing upon any street not mentioned in division (G) above or prior ordinances, or upon any alley in the city any truck, wrecker, wagon, trailer, school bus or public bus or public vehicle for a longer period of time than eight consecutive hours.
(I) It shall be unlawful to place, park or leave standing any vehicle on any street in the city, traversed by a federal highway, between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(J) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing any vehicle or any obstruction within 15 feet of the entrance to the firehouse in the city.
(K) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing on any street or alley in the city, any vehicle so as to block said street or alley.
(L) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, park or leave standing any truck, wrecker, wagon, trailer, school bus or public vehicle on any street within 50 feet of the front of any church property in the city.
(M) Parking shall be limited in the Business District and in other designated areas within the city to two hours between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
(N) Each act of placing, parking or leaving shall constitute a separate offense.
(O) The Mayor shall cause to be erected appropriate markers for the convenience of the public, but the lack of any markers shall not be a defense to any prosecution or action brought pursuant to division (E) through (N) above, or to any claim or lien created thereby. Any person, firm or corporation who places or parks any vehicle in violation of this section shall be subject to citation as provided in § 72.99 of this code. The citing officer shall report all violations not paid to the City Hall within seven days of the provided bylaw. Further, any vehicle or obstruction which is cited three times in one day for parking violations, or which is parked in a designated handicapped parking zone without a handicapped permit, or which is parked in a designated no parking zone or which is parked or placed on any street or alley in the city, shall, at the discretion of the citing officer, be towed to an approved impound lot. Any towing or storage charges as the result of the parking violation shall be assessed to the owner of the vehicle or obstruction. Should any vehicle or obstruction be not claimed within 60 days after its removal, the vehicle or obstruction may be sold, and the proceeds distrusted to pay for towing and storage, expenses incurred by the city and/or fines adjudged due to the city, with excess proceeds to be paid to the owner of the vehicle or obstruction.
(P) Divisions (E) through (O) above shall not affect any specific limitations as to time or place or parking set up in prior ordinances, except when in conflict.
(Prior Code, § 72.03) (Ord. 130, passed 1-27-1934; Ord. 150, passed 3-8-1938; Ord. 290, passed 5-4-1965; Ord. 450, passed 5-1-1984; Ord. 453, passed 12-4-1984; Ord. 475, passed 3-5-1987) Penalty, see § 72.99
(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 handicapped parking, appropriate signs shall be erected giving notice thereof. However, in lieu of erecting such 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 such 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 such 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.
(Prior Code, § 72.04) Penalty, see § 72.99
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