[R.O. 2009 §73.01; CC 1981 §§18-315—18-316; Ord. No. 75-35, 8-6-1975]
A.
Application. The provisions of this Chapter prohibiting
the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at
those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except
when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer or
official traffic control device.
B.
Regulations Not Exclusive. The provisions of this Chapter
imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from
the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting
or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified
places or at specified times.
[1]
State Law References—Similar provisions, §§300.520—300.525,
RSMo.
[R.O. 2009 §73.02; CC 1981 §18-320; Ord. No. 75-35, 8-6-1975; Ord. No. 17-111 § 1, 6-13-2017]
A.
Except as set forth in Subsection (B) of this Section, whenever any parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on a public street or public parking lot, signs shall be erected giving notice thereof, and no such ordinance shall be effective unless such signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.
[1]
State Law Reference—Similar provisions, §300.545,
RSMo.
[R.O. 2009 §73.03; CC 1981 §18-87; Ord. No. 75-35, 8-6-1975; Ord. No. 88-94, 6-10-1988; Ord. No. 88-118, 3-23-1988; Ord. No. 89-48, 3-22-1989; Ord. No. 90-128, 5-17-1990; Ord. No. 90-261, 10-4-1990; Ord. No. 96-64, 3-6-1996]
A.
Members
of the Police Department are authorized to remove a vehicle from a
street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety or
to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department or otherwise
maintained by the City under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
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 its custody or removal.
3.
When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked
illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the
normal movement of traffic.
4.
When any vehicle has been left unattended on the highway of Interstate
70, Missouri Route 364 or Missouri Route 370 for more than forty-eight
(48) hours.
5.
When any vehicle has been left unattended on the highway of Missouri
Route 94 from the intersection of Missouri Route 94 with Interstate
70 to the south City limit for more than forty-eight (48) hours.
6.
Alleys. When any vehicle shall be parked in an alley
under such conditions as to leave available less than twelve (12)
feet of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic.
7.
When any vehicle shall be parked on a highway or on an alley so as
to obstruct a driveway.
8.
Whenever a motor vehicle is parked upon any property owned or operated
by the City for the parking of motor vehicles for a longer period
of time than is lawfully permitted for a vehicle to remain parked
thereon, without regard to parking charges.
9.
Whenever a motor vehicle is found unattended upon any property owned
or controlled by the City not devoted to the parking of motor vehicles.
10.
Whenever a vehicle is parked in a prohibited area that is so designated
by signs or other official markings.
11.
When any vehicle has been left unattended on the highway of Missouri
Route 94 from the intersection of Missouri Route 94 and Barthel Street
and the north City limit for more than forty-eight (48) hours.
B.
Whenever
an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this Section
and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration
records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof,
the officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in
writing to the owner of the fact of the removal and the reasons therefor
and of the place to which the vehicle has been removed. In the event
any vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of the notice shall
be given to the proprietor of the garage.
C.
Whenever
an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this Section 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, then and in that event
the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent a written report
of such removal by mail to the State 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 the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
D.
Notwithstanding
any other requirements of this Chapter, no signs shall be required
to be posted at any of the locations enumerated in this Section for
enforcement of this Section.
[R.O. 2009 §73.04; CC 1981 §§18-285—18-287; Ord. No. 75-35, 8-6-1975; Ord. 94-290, 11-2-94; Ord. No. 94-327, 12-14-1994; Ord. No. 08-156, 8-18-2008]
A.
Signs Or Markings.
1.
The City Traffic Engineer shall determine upon what streets angle
parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets but
such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any Federal aid or
State highway within the City unless the State Highway Commission
has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes that
the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without
interfering with the free movement of traffic.
2.
Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where
passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon
the left side of the street.
3.
Forty-five degree (45°) angle parking is established along the
east side of Third Street between Washington and Jefferson Streets.
4.
Ninety degree (90°) angle parking is established in the cul-de-sac
on Evergreen Drive.
B.
Obedience To Signs Or Markers. On those streets which have
been signed or marked by the City Traffic Engineer for angle parking,
no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to
the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.
C.
Permits For Loading Or Unloading To The Curb.
1.
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to issue special permits
to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of
loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms
and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to
the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle
and shall grant to such person the privilege as therein stated and
authorized herein.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate
any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit.
[R.O. 2009 §73.05; CC 1981 §§18-327, 18-330—18-331,
20-100; Ord. No. 80-99, 8-27-1980; Ord. No. 84-74, 6-21-1984; Ord. No. 92-36, 3-4-1992; Ord. No. 92-276, 11-12-1992; Ord. No. 93-222, 9-22-1993; Ord. No. 93-253, 11-3-1993; Ord. No. 94-26, 2-1-1994; Ord. No. 94-37, 2-16-1994; Ord. No. 94-63, 3-15-1994; Ord. No. 94-125, 5-25-1994; Ord. No. 94-155, 6-29-1994; Ord. No. 97-47, 1-22-1997; Ord. No. 98-46, 1-22-1998; Ord. No. 07-162, 6-11-2007; Ord. No. 19-076, 3-19-2019]
A.
Parking In Designated Spaces. All persons parking on the municipally
owned and operated parking lots and parking garage shall park only
in the properly designated parking spaces.
B.
Unlawful Presence On Lots. It shall be unlawful for any person to
be upon or in any vehicles upon any parking lot in the municipal parking
system between the hours of 8:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M., except for that
period of time necessary to park or retrieve any vehicles being parked
upon such municipal parking lot.
C.
Parking Garage.
1.
No person shall park a vehicle in the City of Saint Charles'
parking garage located at the intersection of Monroe Street and Second
Street without either paying the prescribed fee set forth herein each
time the vehicle is parked or using a properly issued parking card.
2.
Schedule Of Fees.
a.
Vehicles entering the garage on Monday through Friday between
2:01 A.M. and 3:30 P.M. shall pay five dollars ($5.00).
b.
Vehicles entering the garage on Monday through Friday between
3:31 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. shall be no charge.
c.
Vehicles entering the garage on Monday through Saturday between
9:01 P.M. and 2:00 A.M. the following day shall pay five dollars ($5.00).
d.
Vehicles entering the garage on Saturday between 2:01 A.M. and
9:00 P.M., and Sunday from 2:01 A.M. through Monday 2:01 A.M., shall
be no charge.
e.
The monthly parking fee shall be forty dollars ($40.00). On
January 1, 2020, the monthly parking fee shall be fifty dollars ($50.00).
On January 1, 2021, the monthly parking fee shall be sixty dollars
($60.00).
f.
All fees shall become effective May 1, 2019.
g.
Any additional fee charged by an outside vendor associated with
the use of a credit card shall be in addition to the entrance fee
and paid for by the user.
3.
Waivers of the fee and other restrictions contained in Subsection (C)(2) above may be granted by the Mayor or the Mayor's designee to City Officials performing official City business; to City employees performing official City business; to lessees of space in the City Hall, their employees, suppliers and customers; to festival exhibitors and organizers; and to other similar persons. The Mayor shall issue regulations concerning the applicability and procedures for waiver of the provisions of Subsection (C)(2) above.
4.
No person shall park any vehicle less than six (6) feet seven
(7) inches in height in any space marked "Parking for vehicles six
(6) feet seven (7) inches or more in height only" in the parking garage
located at the intersection of Monroe Street and Second Street.
5.
No person shall park any vehicle in any space designated as
"City Employee Parking Only" in the parking garage located at the
intersection of Monroe Street and Second Street, unless a City-issued
"Employee Parking" sticker is attached to the vehicle.
[R.O. 2009 §73.06; Ord. No. 95-22, 2-8-1995; Ord. No.
95-142, 5-17-1995; Ord. No. 07-06, 1-3-2007]
There is hereby established a sixty-six (66) foot parking space
for the parking of City fire trucks only on the east side of Second
Street eighteen (18) feet north of the north curb line of Jefferson
Street. When signs are erected giving plainly visible notice thereof,
no person shall park a vehicle at this location.
