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(a) No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space at a parking meter during any period of time parking is limited and permitted:
(1) Unless a coin or coins of United States currency of the appropriate denomination have been deposited in such meter, or have been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval of time, and such meter has been placed in operation;
(2) Unless, where a vehicle is permitted to occupy two adjoining parking spaces, a coin or coins have been deposited in the parking meter for each such space so occupied;
(3) Whenever the parking meter for such parking space indicates by signal that the lawful parking time in such space has expired, except as is necessary to park such vehicle to deposit immediately thereafter a coin or coins in such meter;
(4) For a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time for which parking is permitted, irrespective of the number or amounts of the coins deposited in such meter.
(b) Notice of the period of time that parking is lawfully permitted at any parking meter and instructions for operating such parking meter may be placed upon the parking meter or its stand or posted in the immediate vicinity thereof.
(c) No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter any slug, button or other device or substance as substitutes for coins of United States currency.
(d) No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open without authority or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(e) All coins deposited in parking meters shall be collected by the duly authorized agents of the Commissioner of the Treasury and delivered to the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall count the coins so delivered and deposit same to the credit of the City of Toledo.
(Ord. 711-81. Passed 11-24-81.)
The Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized to:
(a) Establish regulations prohibiting parking of vehicles upon both sides of any street or highway where the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet or upon one side of any street or highway where the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet;
(b) Establish regulations prohibiting standing and/or parking of vehicles or limiting parking of vehicles upon any street or highway, or portion thereof, where the Commissioner has determined that such standing and/or parking would create a hazardous condition or cause unnecessary delay, or that such prohibition or limitation would improve the flow of traffic or be of convenience or benefit to the users of abutting properties;
(c) Establish regulations limiting the time of parking for vehicles in Municipally operated public off-street parking facilities;
(d) Establish regulations providing for the installation and/or removal of parking meters where, upon any part of any street or highway inside a business district and within any public off-street parking facility operated by the City, the Commissioner may deem appropriate;
(e) Declare the commencement and termination of any snow emergency, whenever weather and roadway conditions have been found by the Commissioner to warrant such declarations and to establish, enforce and rescind regulations prohibiting on-street standing and/or parking during such snow emergencies;
(f) Establish regulations for any place where the Commissioner has determined that standing and/or parking is to be prohibited or limited and the posting of signs therefor are required by this Traffic Code.
(A.O.; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94.)
(a) Any bus when receiving and/or discharging passengers shall come to a full stop at a designated bus stop within one foot of the right curb or pavement edge wherever possible unless otherwise authorized by the Commissioner of Transportation.
(b) All buses shall be equipped with doors which shall be kept closed while such bus is in motion, and opened only when necessary to board and discharge passengers or at railroad crossings as required by law, and such door shall not be reopened at the same stop after the bus has been put in motion.
(Ord. 34-87. Passed 1-13-87; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94.)
As public vehicles leave a taxicab stand, those behind shall move up and any incoming public vehicle shall enter only from the rear and shall stop as near as possible to the last public vehicle already on the stand. No taxicab or motor vehicle for hire shall park in a taxicab stand for a period of time exceeding one hour.
(1952 Code § 31-9-3, 31-9-4)
(a) The Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed to designate on-street curb space for the exclusive use of police, City-owned, public safety or emergency vehicles.
(b) Where signs are posted giving notice thereof, no person shall park a motor vehicle other than a police, City-owned, public safety or emergency vehicle along any curb space in the City designated by the Commissioner of Transportation for exclusive use by police, City-owned, public safety or emergency vehicles.
(c) The Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed to designate on-street curb space for the exclusive use by privately owned vehicles, U.S. Government vehicles or vehicles used for the transportation of disabled persons. The Commissioner of Transportation is further authorized and directed to establish a procedure whereby permits are to be issued and displayed in the windshield of these vehicles to properly identify them.
(d) Where signs are posted giving notice thereof, no person shall park a motor vehicle, other than a properly identified privately owned vehicle, a U.S. Government vehicle or a vehicle used for the transportation of a disabled person along any curb space in the City designated by the Commissioner of Transportation for exclusive use by privately owned vehicles, U.S. Government vehicles or vehicles used for the transportation of disabled persons.
(e) Designated on-street parking spaces for vehicles used by, or for the transportation of, disabled persons shall be limited to individual metered parking spaces or to curb space provided pursuant to the residential disabled parking permit policy established by the Commissioner of Transportation. These on-street parking spaces shall be identified by signs posted on the individual parking meter posts or by signs establishing special zones in residential areas.
(Ord. 979-89. Passed 10-24-89; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94.)
No person shall park, except in a designated parking space, any vehicle, unless otherwise posted, in any Municipally owned and/or operated off-street parking lot or Municipally owned and/or operated parking structure.
(Ord. 727-86. Passed 9-30-86.)
(a) When official signs are erected prohibiting or restricting parking at any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated lot, area or place without first having obtained authorization therefor from the Director of Public Service. The foregoing shall not apply to any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place which is serviced by parking meters.
(b) Law Enforcement Officers, as defined in Section 309.01 of this Code, are hereby authorized to issue a parking ticket and/or remove by towing or otherwise any vehicle from a municipally maintained parking lot, when such vehicle is parked therein without proper authorization.
(c) Within municipally maintained parking lots for the exclusive use of Municipal employees, the Director of Public Service shall have the authority to designate places or areas therein for the exclusive use by employees within the various divisions and departments of the City and Municipal Court. Law Enforcement Officers, as defined in section 309.01 of this Code are hereby authorized to issue a parking ticket and/or remove by towing or otherwise any vehicle of a City employee from such municipally maintained parking lot when such employee has parked his or her automobile in a place therein other than his or her designated parking place or area.
(d) The Director of Finance shall have authority to contract with any governmental or non-governmental entity including the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority to provide services in enforcing the City's rules, regulations and ordinances relating to non-public municipal off-street parking at any municipally maintained parking lot, area, or place, including, but not limited to, issuing, processing and collecting fines for civil Parking Infractions and in processing, collecting and enforcing parking tickets issued by Law Enforcement Officers, including those issued by traffic aides of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority or its designated assigns, and civil judgments and default civil judgments entered pursuant to this Chapter. All contracts entered into by the Director of Finance shall be subject to approval of City Council and the Mayor.
(Ord. 73-19. Passed 2-5-19.)
When fire lanes have been established on private property and the owner of such property has been so notified, it shall be the responsibility of the property owner to place and maintain traffic control devices, approved by the Commissioner of Transportation, on such fire lanes.
(A.O.; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94.)
The provisions of this chapter imposing any time limit parking or any prohibition of parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting standing and/or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
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