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(a) Members of the police department are hereby authorized to impound a vehicle from a street, alley or highway under any of the circumstances enumerated in this section.
(b) Members of the fire department are authorized to impound a vehicle under the circumstances enumerated in subsections (d)(6) or (7) of this section.
(c) Traffic agents are authorized to remove a vehicle under the circumstances enumerated in subsections (d)(1), (3), (4), (6), (7), (9), (10) or (11) of this section.
(d) Vehicles may be impounded under the following circumstances:
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, and the person in charge of the vehicle is by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street or alley and is parked illegally or constitutes a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(4) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street for a period in excess of twenty- four (24) hours.
(5) When any person is arrested while in possession of a motor vehicle and taken into custody.
(6) When any vehicle other than an authorized emergency vehicle is parked, whether or not attended, in a properly designated fire lane established pursuant to chapter 13 of this Code, or earlier legislation.
(7) When any vehicle other than an authorized emergency vehicle is parked, whether or not attended, within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant placed on either public or private property.
(8) When any person is given a civil citation for operating a motor vehicle off the roadway within a quarter mile of a structure in violation of section 11-70.1 of this Code.
(9) When a special limited magistrate or magistrate orders a vehicle impounded as authorized by this Code.
(10) When any vehicle is owned by a person who has three (3) or more unpaid civil parking infractions or has failed to respond as set forth in section 20-203(a) of this Code.
(11) When any vehicle has been booted for more than forty-eight (48) hours.
(12) When any person is arrested or given a citation for operating a motor vehicle in violation of section 20-161 of this Code, relating to racing motor vehicles.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 17; Ord. No. 4969, § 1, 5-14-79; Ord. No. 5544, § 1, 4-12-82; Ord. No. 8464, § 2, 3-20-95; Ord. No. 9697, § 1, 4-15-02; Ord. No. 10418, § 2, 6-12-07; Ord. No. 11452, § 2, 4-19-17)
Sec. 20-13(1). If owner known. Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in section 20-12, and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof such officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage.
Sec. 20-13(2). If owner unknown. Whenever a traffic agent removes a vehicle from a street under section 20-12 and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as herein before provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three (3) days, the traffic agent shall immediately send or cause to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the motor vehicle division, state highway department, whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reasons for such removal, and name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
(1953 Code, ch 17, § 18; Ord. No. 10418, § 2, 6-12-07)
Application for redemption of a vehicle impounded under the provisions of sections 20-12 and 20-13 shall be made by the owner or his duly authorized agent, who shall be entitled to the possession thereof upon payment to the city of the sum of five dollars ($5.00), together with all other costs of removal, storage, and any assessments due pursuant to section 20-203 that may have accrued thereon. In the event the vehicle impounded shall not be redeemed by its owner or agent within thirty (30) days, then such vehicle shall be sold for such penalty, charges, costs and any assessments due pursuant to section 20-203 that may have accrued thereon, in a manner provided by A.R.S. Title 28. This remedy shall be cumulative of any and all other penalties provided by this chapter.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 19; Ord. No. 8464, § 3, 3-20-95; Ord. No. 8958, § 7, 9-22-97; Ord. No. 9697, § 2, 4-15-02)
Within the incorporated city all streets identified as arterial or collector streets in the Major Streets and Routes Plan, adopted by Resolution 12340 and as amended, are hereby established as truck routes.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 20; Ord. No. 3448, § 1, 5-18-70; Ord. No. 5927, § 1, 12-19-83; Ord. No. 7757, § 2, 1-27-92; Ord. No. 10418, § 2, 6-12-07)
(a) All vehicles having a total gross vehicle weight rating in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) pounds, including, but not limited to, trucks, truck tractors, road tractors, trailers, semitrailers, vehicle transporters, or any combination of such vehicles, shall use only those streets established as truck routes. It is unlawful to drive any vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) pounds on a street not established as a truck route, except as provided in section 20-15.2 below, or where a permit has been issued by the chief of police, or that officer's designee, pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 20-16.
(b) The director of transportation, or the director's designee, is authorized to prohibit certain vehicles from using certain designated streets, including truck routes, by the placement of appropriate signs limiting the gross weight of vehicles permitted to use those streets. However, the vehicles may use the streets designated under this section to make a delivery or pickup or to provide services to a property as permitted under section 20-15.2(b).
(Ord. No. 7757, § 3, 1-27-92; Ord. No. 8270, § 2, 11-21-94; Ord. No. 10418, § 2, 6-12-07)
(a) Section 20-15.1 does not apply to recreational vehicles.
(b) A vehicle regulated under section 20-15.1 may:
(1) Leave the truck routes by the shortest route to perform the following activities, after which it must return to the nearest designated truck route.
(i) Deliver, pick up, load, or unload merchandise, materials, or equipment, including furniture and other household goods, except as prohibited under section 20-17; or
(ii) Provide construction, repair, or similar services to a property.
(Ord. No. 7757, § 3, 1-27-92)
(a) Except as may be otherwise specifically provided in subsection (b), where it is necessary for a vehicle whose use of city streets is regulated under section 20-15.1(a) to use a street not established as a truck route pursuant to section 20-15; or for any oversize or overweight vehicle, load, or mobile home to use any street, whether established as a truck route or not, that lies within the corporate limits of the city and that is not designated as a state highway, application shall be made to the chief of police, or that officer's designee, for a permit for such use under police department supervision, and no such use of streets as is set forth in this subsection shall occur, unless and until such permit is issued.
(b) A permit pursuant to subsection (a) is not required in the following situations:
(2) Where the total maximum width of the vehicle, or of the vehicle and load, does not exceed one hundred two (102) inches, exclusive of safety equipment, and the operation or movement takes place solely on streets established as truck routes pursuant to section 20-15.
(3) Where the vehicle is exempted from size, weight and load limitations under A.R.S. section 28-1001(b), or any successor provision(s).
(c) The chief of police, or that officer's designee, is hereby authorized to issue the permits required under subsection (a). The categories of authorized permits shall be as follows: single trip permits, mobile home permits, thirty-day permits, envelope permits, and annual permits. Permits to use a street not designated as a truck route shall be issued on a single trip or thirty-day basis only. Envelope permits shall be issued on an annual basis only, and neither envelope permits nor single trip permits shall be issued for the movement of mobile homes. Any movement of a mobile home subject to the permit requirements of this section shall be undertaken as one continuous journey pursuant to a mobile home permit, which shall be valid for ninety-six (96) hours from the time of issuance.
(d) A person seeking any of the types of permits authorized under subsection (c) shall submit an application, accompanied by the corresponding fee as established in subsection (e). Such fees shall be waived for a vehicle, load or mobile home in governmental service. In addition, no fee shall be collected for a vehicle, load, or mobile home for whose operation or movement a valid permit has been issued by the state, a political subdivision of the state, or any other municipality, when the operation or movement of such vehicle, load, or mobile home terminates in or transits the city.
(e) Permit fees shall be as follows:
Type of Permit | Non Truck Route | Oversize | Overweight | Envelope |
Single trip: | $15.00 | $ 15.00 | $ 25.00 | -- |
Mobile home: | -- | $ 15.00 | $ 25.00 | -- |
Thirty-day: | $30.00 | $ 30.00 | $ 50.00 | -- |
Annual: | -- | $240.00 | $480.00 | $600.00 |
Note: The fee for annual permits issued after January 31 of a calendar year shall be reduced by one-twelfth ( 1/12) for each full calendar month that has expired prior to issuance of the permit. Where a vehicle, load, or mobile home is both oversize and overweight, the permit fee shall consist solely of the overweight fee.
(f) Upon receipt of the application, and payment of any applicable fee, the chief of police, or that officer's designee, may grant the requested permit. The permit may restrict the use of any street, whether or not established as a truck route, or the operation or movement of any oversize or overweight vehicle, load, or mobile home, by day of the week, time of the day, route, or location within the city, and may set such additional restrictions as are necessary for public safety and convenience.
(g) All annual permits issued under this section shall expire at midnight on January 1 of the next calendar year, and persons seeking an annual permit for the new calendar year shall be required to submit a new application and permit fee.
(h) Any violation of the provisions of this section, specifically including, but not limited to, the failure to obtain a required permit or to comply with permit restrictions, is declared to be a civil infraction punishable by a mandatory sanction of not less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), no part of which shall be suspended or waived by the court.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 20; Ord. No. 8270, § 3, 11-21-94; Ord. No. 8958, § 7, 9-22-97)
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