The provisions of this Title 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.
The provisions of this Title 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.
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall
park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof,
no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by ordinance
of any day except Sunday and public holidays within the districts
or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between the hours specified
by ordinance of any day except Sundays and public holidays within
the district or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
Whenever by this Title or any ordinance of the City any parking
time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets,
it shall be the duty of the City Traffic Engineer to erect appropriate
signs giving notice thereof and no such regulations shall be effective
unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged
offense.
In cases where an equally direct and convenient alternate route
is provided, an ordinance may describe and signs may be erected giving
notice thereof that no persons shall operate any commercial vehicle
upon streets or parts of streets so described except those commercial
vehicles making deliveries thereon.
A.
Parking Trucks, Tractors, Commercial Trailers, Buses, Car Haulers,
Box Trailers Or Stock Trailers On City Streets. Parking of these type
trailers, either attached or unattached, is prohibited on any street
within the City of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, provided, however, that
this prohibition shall not apply to trailers in the act of loading
or unloading from such trailers, or buses in the act of loading or
unloading passengers, standing while in service, or parked in a designated
bus parking area. No person shall park a truck, tractor, or trailer
having a licensed capacity of more than eighteen thousand (18,000)
pounds or any bus on any street within the City of Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri, except for the purpose of loading and unloading such vehicle:
however, that this prohibition shall not apply to those vehicles commonly
known as pickup trucks licensed for eighteen thousand (18,000) pounds
or more which are parked without full cargo or construction vehicles
engaged in the current act of construction or motor homes which are
able to be parked on private property or church owned buses which
are able to be parked on private property.
B.
Parking Boats, Trailers, Or Recreational Vehicles. No unattached
boat, trailer or recreational vehicle shall be parked on any street
in the City of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, however, that this prohibition
shall not apply to those vehicles commonly known as recreational vehicles
(RV's or motor homes) which are in use by someone other than
the owner of the property directly abutting the street where such
vehicle is parked. This provision is for visitors using their RV's
for lodging while visiting. Although this provision is for no more
than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours except where permitted.
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Editor’s Note: Ord. No., 4074 also changed the title
of this Section from "Parking By Heavy Vehicles On City Streets Regulated"
to "Parking And/Or Storage Of Oversized Trucks, Trailers, Or Other
Vehicles On City Streets."
