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(a) If an owner of private property posts on the property in a conspicuous manner, prohibition against parking on the property or conditions and regulations under which parking is permitted, no person shall do either of the following:
(1) Park a vehicle on the property without the owner's consent;
(2) Park a vehicle on the property in violation of any condition or regulation posted by the owner.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4511.681)
(a) Council hereby authorized and creates an emergency parking ban which shall be in force and effect whenever an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm or other natural disaster constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital facilities of the City. An emergency within the meaning of this section shall exist:
(1) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City, or in any section thereof; or
(2) Whenever any other natural disaster including but not limited to storms, floods, tornadoes, etc., is declared by the Director of Public Safety.
(b) Such emergency parking ban shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Public Safety that snow plowing operations, debris removal, emergency assistance or any other procedure necessary to render the emergency nonexistent has been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as described in subsection (c) hereof.
(c) Whenever such a snow or other natural disaster emergency exists, the Director of Public Safety shall request the co-operation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations will become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement. Such announcement by two local or area radio stations, or two local or area television stations, or in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the City, shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency, except that the owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with the emergency parking regulations.
(d) During the period of the emergency:
(1) The Director of Public Safety may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any or all of the City streets designated as through streets or highways by law; and
(2) No person shall park or cause or permit to be parked or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such specified streets except that vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three minutes for actual loading or unloading of passengers or thirty minutes for actual loading or unloading of property, provided that no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(e) When the Director of Public Safety deems it necessary, he shall cause appropriate signs to be posted accordingly as herein designated and curbing to be painted yellow where necessary, and shall make any other necessary changes not inconsistent with this section to provide notice or warning to the public of an existing snowfall or other natural disaster emergency.
(f) The Director of Public Safety or his authorized agents shall cause any vehicle violating the emergency parking ban to be towed at the expense of the owner or operator.
(Ord. 1974-11. Passed 2-4-74.)
(g) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(a) The regulations set forth herein are hereby established for the purpose of guarding against the occurrence of fires and to assist in protecting the lives and property of residents of this City and assist in avoiding pedestrian and automobile accidents. Whenever the Director of Safety, on advice of the Chief of the Fire Department, determines that the parking of a motor vehicle or vehicles on public or private property does or will interfere with ready access to a structure or structures for the purpose of fighting fires thereon, or with ready access to a fire hydrant installed for the protection purposes of the premises, then the Director shall designate a reasonable area or areas leading to and adjacent to such structure or structures and fire hydrants as fire lanes.
(b) Following the designation of a fire lane as provided herein, the Director of Safety shall serve notice in writing, or cause notice served in writing to the owner or the authorized agent of the owner of the premises so designated as requiring certain fire lanes of the exact nature and extent of the fire lanes so required. The owner or authorized agent of the owner shall place, or cause to be placed or erected, adequate signs and markers to notify all persons of the existence and extent of such fire lane not later than ninety days after receipt of the notice. The owner or authorized agent of the owner shall maintain or cause to be maintained such signs and markers in legible condition. The design and location of the signs and markers referred to in subsection (b) herein shall be specified by the Director of Safety. The specifications therefor shall not be less than those required for such signs and markers on public highways, as set forth by the Ohio Department of Transportation.
(c) (1) No person shall park or permit to stand a motor vehicle in any fire lane designated as such pursuant to this section; nor within ten feet of any fire hydrant whether located on private or public property.
(2) No owner of premises whereon a fire lane has been designated, pursuant to this section shall fail to provide, erect, install and maintain the signs and markers as required herein within ninety days after receipt of notice to do so from the Director of Safety.
(3) Each day of failure to comply with the provisions of subsection (b) hereof shall be deemed a separate offense.
(Ord. 1983-36. Passed 5-23-83.)
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
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