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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF PARMA
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PARMA OHIO
CITY OF PARMA ROSTER OF OFFICIALS (2025)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN- FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART FIFTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
PART NINETEEN - INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
PART TWENTY-ONE - PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM CODE
PART TWENTY-THREE - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 351
Parking Generally
351.01   Police may remove unattended vehicle which obstructs traffic.
351.02   Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking.
351.03   Prohibited standing or parking places.
351.04   Manner of parallel parking; handicapped persons.
351.05   Moving other person's vehicle into prohibited parking space.
351.06   Advertising, sale or repair of vehicles on roadway or private property.
351.07   Unattended vehicles; duty to lock ignition, remove key, set brake on grade.
351.08   Opening and closing vehicle doors.
351.09   Truck zones.
351.10   Bus stops and taxicab stands.
351.11   Parking in alleys and narrow streets; exceptions.
351.12   Parking on private or public property.
351.125   Parking prohibitions on private property; private tow-away zones.
351.13   Parking of commercial and heavy vehicles.
351.14   Parking of recreational vehicles.
351.15   Twenty-four hour limit.
351.16   Snow emergency.
351.17   Willfully leaving vehicles on private or public property. (Repealed)
351.175   Impounding of vehicles parked without permission.
351.18   Overnight parking during winter months.
351.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   See sectional histories for similar State law
   Truck zone defined - see TRAF. 301.53 
   Reporting unclaimed vehicles - see TRAF. 303.16 
   Parking near stopped fire apparatus - see TRAF. 331.29 
    Parking upon sidewalks, street lawns or curbs - see TRAF. 331.38 
   Lights on parked or stopped vehicles - see TRAF. 337.09 
   Junk vehicles - see GEN. OFF. 660.31; P.M. 1707.15
351.01   POLICE MAY REMOVE UNATTENDED VEHICLE WHICH OBSTRUCTS TRAFFIC.
   (a)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of Ohio R.C. 4511.66 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, such officer may move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such highway.
   (b)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any highway, bridge, or causeway, or in any tunnel, where such vehicles constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer may provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.
(ORC 4511.67)
351.02   REGISTERED OWNER PRIMA-FACIE LIABLE FOR UNLAWFUL PARKING.
    In any hearing on a charge of illegally parking a motor vehicle, testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was found unlawfully parked as prohibited by the provisions of this Traffic Code, and further testimony that the record of the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles shows that the license plate was issued to the defendant, shall be prima-facie evidence that the vehicle which was unlawfully parked, was so parked by the defendant. A certified registration copy, showing such fact, from the Registrar shall be proof of such ownership.
(Ord. 417-47. Passed 3-17-47.)
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