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No person shall enter or leave or open the door of a parked or stopped motor vehicle on the side of such vehicle next to moving traffic unless such person has exercised due care that such action can be made with reasonable safety, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a vehicle next to moving traffic for a period of time longer than is reasonably necessary to load or unload.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials in any place marked as a truck loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed thirty minutes.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately posted, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes, if such stopping is not prohibited therein by posted signs.
(b) The operator of a bus shall not stop, stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop so designated and posted as such, except in case of an emergency.
(c) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop on a public street in such a manner that the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage shall be in a position with the right front wheel of such vehicle not further than eighteen inches from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(d) The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated and posted as such. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking provisions at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic, except that a driver may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when directed to by a police officer or traffic control signal.
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley except while actually loading and unloading, and then only for a period not to exceed thirty minutes.
Upon any street or highway outside a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main traveled part of the street or highway if it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off the paved or main traveled part of such street or highway. In every event, a clear and unobstructed portion of the street or highway opposite such standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles, and a clear view of such stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of 200 feet in each direction upon such street or highway.
This section does not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or improved or main traveled portion of a street or highway in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the disabled vehicle in such position. (ORC 4511.66)
Except for a pickup truck or comparably sized van parked in a parking zone and being used at the time solely for passenger purposes, no person shall park a commercial truck (which includes a van), with or without a trailer, upon the streets or public ways within the limits of the Village unless:
(a) The truck is actively engaged in commerce at that time at a point as near as possible to the parked truck, and
(b) The truck utilizes an orange traffic cone to the front and rear of the truck (and trailer), or utilizes a flashing, oscillating, or strobe light or some other electronic signaling device to the rear of the truck (and trailer), and
(c) When the truck is so parked that it is not readily observable by oncoming traffic from a distance of 100 feet, a readily observable warning sign or device is placed 100 feet from the vehicle in the direction of such on-coming traffic, and
(d) The truck is parked in a parking zone, unless permission is granted by Chief of Police to park in a no parking zone as defined in this Code.
When trucks (and trailers) are parked together in a column, the warning devices described above may be placed only at the front and back of the column.
(Ord. 71-2012. Passed 11-5-12.)
(a) Whenever snow falls in the Village and accumulates to a depth of two inches or more during any period of twenty-four hours or less, or when severe icing conditions occur, an emergency is declared to exist in that such snow or ice constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the moving of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital Village facilities. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Mayor that snow and ice removal operations have been completed, which announcement shall be established for announcing such emergency as set forth in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists, the Mayor shall request the cooperation of the local press, radio and television to announce the emergency and the time that such emergency parking regulations shall be effective. Such announcement to the news media shall constitute notice to the public of the existence of the emergency. However, owners and operators of motor vehicles have the obligation to be aware of hazardous road conditions and to act in accordance with the provisions of this section without receipt of such notice.
(c) During snow emergency, the Mayor may prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon the streets of the Village and in the event of such prohibition, no person shall park, cause to be parked or permit to remain parked or abandon or leave unattended any vehicle of any kind or description upon Village streets provided that a vehicle may be stopped for a period not in excess of ten minutes for the loading or discharge of passengers provided that such stopping is not prohibited by other provisions of the Codified Ordinances.
(d) All provisions of the Traffic Code relating to parking fines or towing or impounding illegally parked vehicles apply to this section.
(e) For purposes of this section, the owner of a motor vehicle is presumed to be one who has parked, permitted to remain parked or abandoned any vehicle found to be on the streets in violation of this section.
(Ord. 10-1971. Passed 3-1-71.)
(a) No motor vehicle shall be parked on any street or highway within the corporate limits of the Village during the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any day of the week.
(b) For purposes of this section, the owner of a motor vehicle is presumed to be the one who has parked the same or permitted the same to remain parked in violation of this restriction.
(c) For the first violation of this section, the owner shall pay to the Village at the Office of the Clerk-Treasurer, Village Hall the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) provided the same is paid within seventy-two hours following the offense. After seventy-two hours and up to thirty days, the owner shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Thereafter, the owner shall pay the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00). If no payment is received within forty-five days following the offense, a citation to the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court will be issued.
(d) For all subsequent violations of this section, the owner shall pay to the Village at the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) providing the sum is paid within seventy-two hours following the offense. After seventy-two hours and up to thirty days following the offense, the owner shall pay the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00). If payment is not received within thirty days of a subsequent violation, a citation will be issued to the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court. For purposes of this section, a subsequent violation is deemed to be one occurring within one year following any previous violation.
(Ord. 12-1998. Passed 2-2-98.)
(e) The payment of the parking fines prescribed herein shall not prevent the execution of an affidavit and the imposition of the penalty provided in Section 351.99.
(f) The Police Department, upon finding a vehicle illegally parked under the provisions of this section may cause the same to be towed and impounded at the owner’s costs.
(Ord. 10-1975. Passed 3-3-75; Ord. 12-1998. Passed 2-2-98.)
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