[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Lincoln as indicated
in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as §§ 13-2-1 through 13-2-11 of the 1972
Code (Ch. 11, Art. IV, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances)]
No person shall engage in the business or trade of parking motor vehicles
for a fee unless first duly licensed by the Town Council.
The license required by the provisions of this article shall be issued
subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Town Council.
All licenses granted under the provisions of this article shall expire
on the first day of April next succeeding the date of such license.
Before the issuance of any license under the provisions of this article,
a fee shall be paid to the Town Clerk. The fee for a license to operate a
parking lot shall be set from time to time by the Council and is on file in
the Town Clerk's office. No rebate shall be made from the license fee for
any license term less than one year.
Every person maintaining or conducting an automobile parking lot within
the Town shall maintain at each entrance to such parking lot a permanently
affixed sign suitable to appraise persons using such parking lot with the
information set out in this article.
The name of the owner of the parking lot, the hours of the day or night
during which the lot is open for storing motor vehicles, the rates charged
for parking and the closing hour of such lot must be shown on the sign required
by this article.
Where more than one rate is charged for parking, the figures for each
rate shall be of the same size and dimensions, and such figures shall measure
not less than six inches in height. The letters and figures indicating the
closing hours shall be not less than six inches in height.
Every person in the business of parking motor vehicles in automobile
parking lots shall take out a blanket insurance by the terms of which any
motor vehicle owner whose motor vehicle has been left in any such parking
lot in the event of theft or damage to the same may be recompensed from such
insurance for such theft or damages.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any lot, plat, piece or parcel of land used for the purpose of storing
or parking motor vehicles where the owners or persons storing or parking such
vehicles are charged a fee therefor.
Every person engaged in the business of parking motor vehicles within
the Town shall report to the Police Department of the Town within eight hours
thereafter any motor vehicles left on the premises for more than 24 hours
continuously, giving the registration number of such motor vehicle and any
other information which the Police Department may require.
[Adopted as §§ 15-3-1 through 15-3-5 of the 1972 Code
(Ch. 13, Art. II, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances)]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context
clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any outdoor space, plot, place, lot, parcel, yard or enclosure, or
any portion thereof, where more than two motor vehicles may be parked, stored,
serviced, housed or kept. “Parking lot” includes but is not limited
to the driving and parking areas of drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks,
shopping centers, gasoline service stations, grocery parking lots, factory
parking lots, and all other parking lots used in connection with the operation
of a business. Parking lot also includes Town-owned or -operated off-street
parking lots.
The parking areas and the ingress and egress to the parking lot areas
designated by the parking lot owners or agent of the owner for off-street
parking of automotive or other vehicles, driveways, sidewalks, malls, arcades,
service areas and entranceways into stores and buildings.
Any combination of retail stores and services contained within one
or more buildings which are located on one or more parcels of land united
to form a general shopping center site and upon which site there are located
public areas for the nonexclusive use of members of the general public and
occupants, visitors and customers of such retail stores and services.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person on the public portions
of a parking lot to needlessly race the motor of any motor vehicle, needlessly
bring to a sudden start or stop any motor vehicle, blow any horn of any motor
vehicle needlessly, engage in any race with another vehicle so as to create
a nuisance or a disturbance which annoys any person or which endangers the
life or safety of any person.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to consume alcoholic
beverages upon any parking lot without the consent of the owner of the parking
lot.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any one person, alone or in
concert with others, to assemble or congregate on the public portion of a
parking lot so as to create a nuisance or a disturbance which annoys any person
or which endangers the life or safety of any person.
