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It shall be unlawful for anyone to park in any one place any vehicle on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer. Any vehicle left parked in any one place on any of the public ways or streets of the city for a period of 24 hours or longer shall be deemed abandoned, and shall be subject to all existing regulations of the city pertaining to abandoned motor vehicles.
(1995 Code, § 72.07) Penalty, see § 72.999
Cross-reference:
(A) The Chief of Police or other authorized city official shall have the authority, whenever in his or her judgment it is necessary, to prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles along a street or part thereof constituting a part of the route of a parade or procession, to erect temporary traffic signs to that effect, and to prohibit and prevent such parking.
(B) It shall be unlawful to park or leave unattended any vehicle in violation of such signs or directions.
(1995 Code, § 72.08) Penalty, see § 72.999
Cross-reference:
(A) It shall be unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to park or abandon the vehicle or drive on or otherwise trespass on another’s property, or on an area developed as an off-street parking facility, without the consent of the owner, lessee, or person in charge of such property or facility.
(C) Every property owner or operator of an off- street parking facility shall post signs stating thereon that the property or parking lot or facility is privately owned and that unauthorized vehicle will be removed at the owner’s expense before exercising the authority granted in division (B) above.
(1995 Code, § 72.09) Penalty, see § 72.999
Statutory reference:
Removal of vehicles by owners of private parking lots; signs, see KRS 189.725
If any vehicle is found illegally parked in violation of any provisions of this subchapter regulating stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles, and the identity of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or person in whose name the vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for the violation.
(1995 Code, § 72.10) Penalty, see § 72.999
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any motor vehicle in or on any section of any public park, playground, play lot, or tot lot within the city not designed as a parking area or designed and regularly maintained as a roadway. However, nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the parking of a motor vehicle parallel to a designated and regularly maintained roadway in any such park or playground where at least two wheels of the motor vehicle are resting on such roadway.
(1995 Code, § 72.11) Penalty, see § 72.999
It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle displayed for sale or a motor vehicle on which demonstrations are being made on any street.
(1995 Code, § 72.12) Penalty, see § 72.999
(A) Any other provision to the contrary notwithstanding, a motor vehicle bearing a decal in its front windshield issued by the County Clerk-Treasurer pursuant to appropriate county ordinances for handicapped persons, when operated by a handicapped person or when transporting a handicapped person, may be parked in a designated handicapped parking place, or when parked where any parking limit is imposed may be parked for two hours in excess of the parking limit. The motor vehicle may be parked in a loading zone for that period of time necessary to permit entrance or exit of the handicapped person to or from the parked vehicle, but in no circumstances longer than 30 minutes.
(B) This section shall not permit parking in a “no stopping” or “no parking” zone nor where parking is prohibited for the purpose of creating a fire lane or to accommodate heavy traffic during morning, afternoon, or evening hours, nor permit a motor vehicle to be parked in such a manner as to constitute a traffic hazard.
(C) There shall be handicapped parking established as the Mayor may hereafter direct and such handicapped parking shall be designated by the painting of the handicapped symbol in such parking space or by the erection of a handicapped parking only sign. It shall be unlawful for any nonhandicapped person to occupy any space so designated.
(1995 Code, § 72.13) Penalty, see § 72.999
(A) Upon proper application therefor by a person conducting a business whose business requires space on the street in front of or at such place of business for the purpose of loading into vehicles and unloading therefrom merchandise, goods, materials or other property, the City Council may set off a space consisting of not more than two parking spaces in the street to the front of or at such business establishment for such unloading purchases.
(B) Such loading-unloading space shall be designated by proper marking with paint of a green color painted on the sidewalk curb and surface of the street.
(C) Such loading-unloading space shall not be designated or established or marked until the applicant has paid to the Clerk-Treasurer a fee hereby fixed at the rate of $10 per month for each parking space within the loading-unloading space; and no loading- unloading zone shall be established for a period of less than six months and payment for same at said rate has been paid in advance.
(D) Neither the applicant, nor any person engaged in conducting such business or employed at such business establishment, nor any other person, shall park any vehicle in such loading-unloading space except for the sole purpose of loading and unloading materials required in the business of the applicant, and such loading or unloading shall be accomplished as expeditiously as reasonably possible and the vehicle shall be removed therefrom promptly upon completion thereof. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in an establishment and designated loading- unloading space except as herein provided.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any marked and designated loading- unloading space in violation of the provisions of division (D) above.
(1995 Code, § 72.14) (Ord. passed 2-18-1972) Penalty, see § 72.999
(A) The City Council may designate a space on a street where the owner of an automobile, duly licensed by the Commonwealth to operate same as a taxi for hire to transport person, may park same for the purpose of soliciting and receiving passengers for hire thereat.
(B) A licensed taxi operator may make application to the City Council for such taxi space, describing the vehicle and furnishing evidence that he or she is licensed by the Commonwealth to operate such taxi during the period for which such taxi space is sought. In the event such application is in proper order, same shall be approved by the City Council which shall designate a suitable space on a street for such taxi, bearing in mind the purpose of this title to provide for the orderly flow and movement of traffic upon city streets, but same shall not be located in front of a place of business without the written consent of the operator of such business establishment.
(C) Upon designation of such taxi space, the taxi operator shall pay to the Clerk-Treasurer a sum equal to $10 per month for each parking space so allotted to the taxi operator, and the Clerk-Treasurer shall thereupon issue to the operator a permit for such taxi space. However, no permit for a taxi space shall be issued for a period of less than six months.
(D) Upon issuance of such permit, the taxi space so designated by the City Council shall be marked and identified by lines painted with green paint on the surface of the street and on the curb of the sidewalk and/or otherwise identify it as a space exclusively for parking of the taxi for which the permit is issued.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the operator of the taxi for which the taxi space is designated, to park a vehicle in such designated taxi space.
(1995 Code, § 72.15) (Ord. passed 2-18-1972) Penalty, see § 72.999
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