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(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.
Whenever any vehicle without an operator is found parked or standing in violation of the provisions of this Traffic Code or State law, the police officer, or Law Enforcement Officer as defined in Section 309.01 of this Code, finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information which may identify its user and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a parking ticket. Such ticket shall give notice of the charge against the operator of such vehicle and the place and hours that the charge shall be answered. The police officer or Law Enforcement Officer shall send a copy of such parking ticket to the place where the charge is to be answered.
(Ord. 73-19. Passed 2-5-19.)
Parking tickets issued pursuant to this Ch. 351 shall be within the jurisdiction of the Parking Violations Bureau and shall be handled pursuant to and governed by the provisions of Ch. 309 of this Code. If, subsequent to the issuance of a parking ticket, any person fails to make an appearance or fails or refuses to pay a fine therefor, a complaint shall be filed in Municipal Court by the Police Division or by the contracted entity under sections 309.02 (d) or 351.15 (d) of this Code.
(Ord. 73-19. Passed 2-5-19.)
In any hearing on a charge of illegally parking a vehicle, testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was found unlawfully standing or parking as prohibited by the provisions of this Traffic Code, and further testimony that the record of the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles shows that the license plate was issued to the defendant, shall be prima-facie evidence that the act of unlawfully standing or parking the vehicle was committed by the defendant. A certified registration copy, showing such fact, from the Registrar shall be proof of such ownership.
(Ord. 711-81. Passed 11-24-81.)
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park any motor vehicle at special parking locations provided for the handicapped under this section or at special, clearly marked, parking locations provided the handicapped in or on privately owned parking lots, parking garages or other parking areas, unless the motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a handicapped person and is either displaying a parking card issued under Ohio R.C. 4503.44 or displaying a special license plate(s) authorized by that section.
(b) When a motor vehicle bearing a special handicapped license plate(s) or the parking card provided in Ohio R.C. 4503.44 is being operated by or for the transport of a handicapped person, the motor vehicle shall be permitted to park for a period of two hours in excess of the legal parking period permitted by ordinances or regulations, except where such ordinances or regulations provide otherwise or where the vehicle is parked in such a manner as to be clearly a traffic hazard.
(ORC 4511.69).
(c) As used in this section, "handicapped" means having lost the use of one or both legs, or one or both arms, who is blind, deaf or severely disabled as to be unable to move about without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair, or whose mobility is restricted by a permanent cardiovascular, pulmonary or other handicapping condition.
(ORC 4503.44; Ord. 727-86. Passed 9-30-86.)
(a) If an owner of private property posts on the property, in a conspicuous manner, a 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.
(ORC 4511.681)
(b) The owner of private property may create a private tow-away zone only if all the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The owner posts on his property, a sign, that is at least eighteen inches by twenty-four inches in size, that is visible from all entrances to the property, and that contains at least all of the following information:
A. A notice that the property is a private tow-away zone and that vehicles not authorized to park on the property will be towed away;
B. The telephone number of the person from whom a towed-away vehicle can be recovered, and the address of the place to which the vehicle will be taken and from which it may be recovered;
C. A statement that the vehicle may be recovered at any time during the day or night upon the submission of proof of ownership and the payment of a towing charge in an amount not to exceed that specified for a third party tow in Chapter 765 of the Business Regulation Code, and a storage charge in the amount not to exceed that specified for third party storage in Chapter 765.
(ORC 4513.60(B)(1))
(2) The place to which the towed vehicle is taken and from which it may be recovered is located within the corporate limits of the City, is a licensed storage facility, is well lighted, and is on or within reasonable distance of a regularly scheduled route of one or more modes of public transportation.
(Ord. 816-95. Passed 12-19-95.)
(c) If a vehicle is parked on private property that is established as a private tow-away zone in accordance with this section, without the consent of the owner of the property or in violation of any posted parking condition or regulation, the owner or his agent may remove, or cause the removal of, the vehicle. The owner and the operator of the vehicle shall be deemed to have consented to the removal and storage of the vehicle and to the payment of the towing and storage charges specified in Chapter 765, and the owner may recover a vehicle that either has been prepared for removal or has been so removed in accordance with Chapter 765.
(ORC 4513.60(B) (2))
(d) No owner of private property located within the City shall remove, or shall cause the removal and storage of, any vehicle pursuant to this section by any towing operator not licensed in accordance with Chapter 765.
(ORC 4513.60(B) (3))
(e) If the owner or operator of a vehicle that is being removed under authority of this section arrives after the vehicle has been prepared for removal but prior to its actual removal from the property, the owner or operator shall be given the opportunity to pay a fee and obtain releases of the vehicle according to the provisions of Chapter 765. Upon payment of that fee and upon release of the vehicle, the owner or operator immediately shall move it so that it is not parked on the private property established as a private tow-away zone without the consent of the owner or in violation of any posted parking condition or regulation.
(ORC 4513.60(C))
(f) The owner of a vehicle that is removed under authorization of this section may reclaim it upon payment of any expenses or charges incurred in its removal and storage in an amount not to exceed that stipulated in Chapter 765, and upon presentation of proof of ownership, which may be evidenced by a certificate of title to the vehicle.
(ORC 4513.60(E))
(g) No person shall remove, or cause the removal of, any vehicle from private property that is established as a private tow-away zone other than in accordance with this section.
(ORC 4513.60(F); Ord. 744-84. Passed 10-9-84.)
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