(A) Chief of Police to designate curb loading zones. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine the location of passengers and freight curb loading zones and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable.
(B) Permits for curb loading zones. The Chief of Police shall not hereafter designate or sign a curb loading zone upon special request of any person unless such person shall make application for a permit for such zone and for two signs to indicate the ends of each such zone. Said permit fee shall be as set and designated by the Council.
(C) Standing in passenger curb loading zone. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are effective and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes.
(D) Standing in freight curb loading zone. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading or unloading of materials exceed 30 minutes.
(E) Chief of Police to designate public carrier stop and stands. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles on such public streets in such places and in such number as they shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
(F) Stopping, standing and parking of buses.
(1) The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than at a bus stand so designated.
(2) The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone so designated, except in case of an emergency.
(3) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone on a public street in such a manner that the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage shall be in a position with the right front wheel of such vehicle not farther than 18 inches from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(G) Restricted use of bus stands. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus.
(1985 Code, § 10.02.120) (Ord. 373, passed 3-3-2020)