(A) General prohibitions.
(1) Parking for certain purposes prohibited.
(a) No person shall park a vehicle upon any part of a street or municipal parking lot for the principal purpose of:
1. Displaying such vehicle for sale;
2. Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle except such repairs as are necessitated by an emergency;
3. Displaying advertising;
4. Selling merchandise from such vehicle except in a duly established marked place or when so authorized or licensed under the provisions of this code; and
5. Storage for more than 48 hours. However, this division (A)(1)(a)5. shall not apply to municipal parking lots.
(b) For purpose of this section, the word
STREET means the entire width between the property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular traffic. The term MUNICIPAL PARKING LOT shall mean the entire portion of all parcels of property owned by the city and improved and designated for vehicular parking.
(2) Fire limits. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(a) In any public alley within the fire limits of this city; and
(b) In any private alley within the fire limits of this city in such a manner that ingress or egress of fire apparatus to or from such alley might be blocked.
(B) Private property. It shall be unlawful to stand or park any vehicle, including, but not limited to, automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, construction machinery and farm machinery, as follows:
(1) Upon private farm and non-commercial real property owned by another without the express or implied permission of the owner, tenant or person legally in control of the real property. However, this section does not prohibit tenants in double and multiple rental residences from expressly or impliedly permitting others to stand or park vehicles in common area parking lots connected with the rental property unless there are plainly posted appropriate signs prohibiting such parking or standing by persons other than tenants. All lettering on said signs shall be a minimum of three inches in height and shall be posted at all entries to the real property or in places visible from all parking spaces;
(2) Upon private, commercial real property owned by another without the express or implied permission of the owner, tenant or person legally in control of the real property, and then only if the owner, tenant or person legally in control of the real property has caused to be plainly posted on said property appropriate signs prohibiting such parking or standing of vehicles. All lettering on said signs shall be a minimum of three inches in height and shall be posted at all entries to the real property or in places visible from all parking spaces; and
(3) Upon fire lanes or within five feet of fire hydrants or fire connections established on private commercial real property and designated as provided in this division (B)(3).
(a) Any owner of private commercial real property located in the city may establish and designate fire lanes upon said property.
(b) Fire lanes shall be designated by painting of the surface of the fire lane with diagonal yellow stripes and by painting of the following legend on the surface of the fire lane or by placing signs adjacent to the fire lane: “NO PARKING ANYTIME - FIRE LANE.” Such legends or signs shall be placed at not less than 200-foot intervals. Designated fire lanes shall not be less than 14 feet in width.
(c) Fire hydrants or fire connections may be placed on private commercial real property and designated with a sign bearing the following legend: “FIRE CONNECTION - NO PARKING WITHIN FIVE FEET.” No person shall park a motor vehicle within five feet of a fire hydrant or fire connection so established and designated.
(C) Non-self-propelled vehicles or equipment.
(1) No person shall park or store a trailer, camper or other non-self-propelled vehicle or equipment on any street or municipal parking lot in the city.
(2) The prohibition of this section shall not apply if the trailer, camper or other equipment is properly connected to a self-propelled vehicle and is promptly movable.
(D) All night parking prohibited. No person, except physicians or other persons on emergency calls, shall park a vehicle on any street marked to prohibit all night parking and giving notice thereof, between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day.
(E) Truck parking.
(1) No person shall stop or park any commercially licensed vehicle or combination of vehicles of a length of more than 22 feet; or an overall width of more than 80 inches on Highway 71, also designated as Grand Avenue and Highway Boulevard, unless such stop is required by traffic conditions, or by directions of police officers or traffic-control devices.
(2) No person shall park a tractor trailer combined vehicle for a period of more than 30 minutes on any public street in the city at a point closer than 150 feet to a residence.
(F) Blocking traffic prohibited. No vehicle shall be stopped or parked upon the traveled portion of a public street in the city, unless required by traffic conditions or by directions of police officers or traffic-control devices. However, a commercial vehicle may be parked so as to not block more than one lane of the traveled portion of a street for a time period of not more than 30 minutes, solely for the purpose of loading or unloading the vehicle.
(G) Police authority. Any police officer of the city shall have authority to permit, direct or prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon a city street, alley or in a public parking lot, as circumstances may require.
(H) Designation of individual parking spaces.
(1) The Chief of Police is authorized and directed to designate and mark off such individual parking spaces as he or she deems appropriate on streets, highways and in municipal public parking lots within the city.
(2) The parking of any vehicle shall be accomplished in such a manner so as to place the vehicle entirely within an individually marked parking space, and no vehicle shall be parked in any manner so as to occupy any portion of more than one parking space.
(I) Parking between curb and right-of-way boundary prohibited.
(1) On city streets where curbs have been constructed and parking is permitted, vehicles shall be parked only between the curbs and no person shall park a vehicle in the area outside of the curb, between the curb and the right-of-way boundary.
(2) The prohibition of this division (I) shall not apply:
(a) During periods when a snow emergency has been declared and is in effect pursuant to § 71.07;
(b) To that portion of the area outside of the curb between the curb and the right-of-way boundary, which is a driveway or entranceway to the property;
(c) To those areas in the city where the curb or sidewalk has been offset and a paved parking area constructed between the normal curb line and the right-of-way boundary; and
(d) During those days in September of each year, when the county fair is in operation.
(Prior Code, § 7-5-5) (Ord. 97, passed 6-19-1961; Ord. 97.4, passed - -1967; Ord. 328, passed 2-3-1986; Ord. 330, passed 2-3-1986; Ord. 360, passed 6-20-1988; Ord. 453, passed 3-21-1994; Ord. 466, passed 9-5-1995; Ord. 512, passed 2-15-1999; Ord. 570, passed 5-20-2002) Penalty, see § 71.99