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.
[R.O. 2011 §365.080; Ord. No. 95-20 §§1 — 2, 6-14-1995]
No Parking In Excess Of Six Hours For Vehicles Licensed
Over Twenty-Four Thousand Pounds. It shall be unlawful for
any person to park or cause to be parked, any motor vehicle or other
vehicle, truck, or truck and trailer combination licensed for a gross
weight of twenty-four thousand (24,000) pounds or more on any public
street in the City of Trenton, Missouri, for a period of time in excess
of six (6) hours, except while loading or unloading are actually being
undertaken.
[R.O. 2011 §365.090; Ord. No. 3026 §1, 5-12-1982]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or cause to be parked
any motor vehicle or other type vehicle on the City streets and parking
lots in excess of those times enumerated in other ordinances where
times have been established and signs have been erected.
[R.O. 2011 §365.100; Ord. No. 3026 §2, 5-12-1982]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park in a no parking
zone or loading zone as designated by other ordinances or as designated
by this Title.
[R.O. 2011 §365.110; Ord. No. 3026 §4, 5-12-1982; Ord. No. 94-64 §4, 12-14-1994; Ord. No. 09-24 §1, 7-13-2009]
The members of the Police Department shall periodically inspect the streets and parking lots and shall attach to any vehicle violating the ordinances prohibiting illegal parking, whether for overtime or otherwise, a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been in violation of the provisions of the City ordinances, instructing the owner or operator that he/she may pay the penalty for such violations to the City of Trenton Violations Bureau or deposit the same in the United States mail properly addressed to the City of Trenton Violations Bureau. The penalty to be paid for illegal parking, whether for, overtime or otherwise, shall be ten dollars ($10.00) providing the fines hereinabove specified are paid to the City of Trenton Violations Bureau as herein provided. Failure of such owner or operator to make such payments by delivering the same to the City of Trenton Violations Bureau or by depositing the same in the United States mail, postmarked within twenty-four (24) hours after such notice has been written as shown in the face thereof shall render the owner or operator subject to the penalty provided in Section 100.220 of this Code.
