(A) On any county-owned lot which is marked off with lines or other devices indicating the parking spaces for motor vehicles, any vehicle parked there must be parked between the lines or other devices used to indicate the parking spaces.
(B) No vehicle shall stop in any parking lot except for the purpose of parking as prescribed in this subchapter, unless the stop is made necessary by the approach of an authorized emergency vehicle, by the passing of some other vehicle or a pedestrian, or by some emergency.
(C) No person shall stop, stand or park a motor vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a law enforcement officer or a traffic-control device, in any of the following places of a county-owned parking lot:
(1) On any sidewalk or crosswalk;
(2) Within any entryway or driveway to the lot;
(3) On a designated fire lane; or
(4) On or within any way of travel in a lot so as to block or prevent other traffic from passing thereon; except as may be necessary while actually loading or unloading.
(D) When authorized signs are placed, erected or installed, giving notice that parking is prohibited, no person shall park a vehicle at any time on an area of a county-owned parking lot so posted.
(E) Where authorized signs, symbols or diagrams are placed, erected or installed, giving notice that parking is prohibited during certain periods of time, or for longer than stated periods of time, no person shall park a vehicle during the prohibited parking periods or for longer than the stated parking period; and the changing of the position of a vehicle from 1 parking space directly to another parking space or back to the same parking space within the same parking lot shall be deemed 1 continuous parking period.
(F) Where authorized signs, symbols or diagrams are placed, erected or installed, giving notice of a loading zone, no person shall park or stand a vehicle except for the purpose of taking on or discharging passengers or loading or unloading cargo.
(G) Where authorized signs, symbols, numbers or diagrams are placed, erected or installed, giving notice that parking is reserved for certain persons or classes of persons, or certain purposes, no person shall stop or stand a vehicle unless that person be one for whom the parking is reserved, or unless the vehicle was parked for the reserved purpose.
(H) No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended in any county-owned parking lot or area without first stopping the engine. (This item excludes law enforcement vehicles equipped with canines.)
(Ord. 32, passed 6-4-2001)
(I) In the event a vehicle described in § 71.01 shall be found or located upon the lands of the County Board of Education in violation of §§ 71.01 through 71.05, or in the event the vehicle shall be found abandoned upon the lands of the County Board of Education, the vehicle may be removed from the property by an agent of the County Board of Education to a storage area or garage; and if the vehicle is so removed, the owner, as a condition of regaining possession of the vehicle, shall be required to pay the county all reasonable costs incidental to the removal and storage of the vehicle and any fine or penalty due for the violation in conformity with the provisions of G.S. § 153A-170.
(Ord. 23, passed 9-4-1990) Penalty, see § 72.99