(a) No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway, and with the right wheels of the vehicle not more than one foot from the curb or the edge of the roadway, except where parking is permitted on the left side of a one-way street, unless it is impossible to approach so close to the curb, and in such case the stop shall be as close to the curb as possible and only for the time necessary to discharge and receive passengers or to load or unload merchandise.
(b) No vehicle shall be stopped or parked on a road or street with the vehicle facing in a direction other than the direction of travel on that side of the road or street.
(c) Special parking locations and privileges for persons with disabilities that limit or impair the ability to walk, also known as handicapped parking spaces or disability parking spaces, shall be provided and designated by the Municipality and all agencies and instrumentalities thereof at all offices and facilities where parking is provided, whether owned, rented or leased, and at all publicly owned parking garages. The locations shall be designated through the posting of an elevated sign, whether permanently affixed or movable, imprinted with the international symbol of access, and shall be reasonably close to exits, entrances, elevators and ramps. All elevated signs posted in accordance with this subsection and Ohio R.C. 3781.111(B) shall be mounted on a fixed or movable post, and the distance from the ground to the top edge of the sign shall measure five feet. All handicapped parking spaces shall be non-metered.
(d) No person shall stop, stand or park any motor vehicle at special parking locations provided for in subsection (c) hereof or at special clearly marked parking locations provided in or on privately-owned parking lots, parking garages or other parking areas and designated in accordance with subsection (c) hereof, unless one of the following applies:
(1) The motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk and is displaying a valid removable windshield placard or special license plates;
(2) The motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a handicapped person and is displaying a parking card or special handicapped license plates.
(e) When a motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk and is displaying a removable windshield placard or a temporary removable windshield placard or special license plates, or when a motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a handicapped person and is displaying a parking card or special handicapped license plates, the motor vehicle shall be permitted to park for a period of two hours in excess of the legal parking period permitted by the Municipality, except where a local ordinance or police rule provides otherwise or where the vehicle is parked in such a manner as to be clearly a traffic hazard.
(f) No owner of an office, facility or parking garage where special parking locations must be designated in accordance with subsection (c) hereof shall fail to properly mark the special parking locations as required by that subsection or fail to maintain the markings of the special locations, including the erection and maintenance of the fixed or movable signs.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a person or organization to apply for a removable windshield placard or special license plates if the parking card or special license plates issued to the person or organization under prior law have not expired or been surrendered or revoked.
(h) As used in this section:
(1) “Handicapped person” means any person who has lost the use of one or both legs or one or both arms, who is blind, deaf, or so severely handicapped as to be unable to move without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair, or whose mobility is restricted by a permanent cardiovascular, pulmonary or other handicapping condition.
(2) “Person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk” means any person who, as determined by a physician or chiropractor, meets any of the following criteria:
A. Cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest;
B. Cannot walk without the use of, or assistance from, a brace, cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair or other assistive device;
C. Is restricted by a lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than 60 millimeters of mercury on room air at rest;
D. Uses portable oxygen;
E. Has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the American Heart Association;
F. Is severely limited in the ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological or orthopedic condition.
(3) “Special license plates” and “removable windshield placard” mean any license plates or removable windshield placard or temporary removable windshield placard issued under Ohio R.C. 4503.41 or 4503.44, and also mean any substantially equivalent license plates or removable windshield placard or temporary removable windshield placard issued by a state, district, country or sovereignty.
(i) Whoever violates division (f) of this section shall be subject to the following penalties:
(1) Except as provided in this division (i)(2), the offender shall be issued a warning;
(2) If the offender previously violated division (f) of this section, the offender shall not be issued a warning but shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each parking location that is not properly marked or whose markings are not properly maintained.
(Ord. 30-12. Passed 9-24-12.)