[Code 1964, §§ 17-87, 17-91]
(a)
Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in
compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official
traffic-control device, no person shall:
(1)
Stop, stand or park a vehicle;
a.
On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the
edge or curb of a street;
b.
On a sidewalk;
c.
Within an intersection;
d.
On a crosswalk;
e.
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty
(30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a
safety zone, unless the (traffic authority) indicates a different
length by signs or markings;
f.
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when
stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
g.
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or
within a highway tunnel;
h.
On any railroad tracks;
i.
At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.
(2)
Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily
to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
a.
In front of a public or private driveway;
b.
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
c.
Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
d.
Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal,
stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
e.
Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire
station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire
station within seventy-five (75) feet of such entrance (when properly
signposted);
f.
At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
(b)
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into
any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is
unlawful.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.440.
[Code 1964, § 17-88]
Except as otherwise provided in sections 17-153 through 17-155, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel to and within eighteen (18) inches of the right-hand curb.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.415.
[Code 1964, § 17-89]
(a)
The city police department 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.
(b)
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 or upon any streetcar tracks.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.425.
[Code 1964, § 17-88(a)]
On those streets which have been signed or marked by the city
police department 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.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.425.
[Code 1964, §§ 17-88(b), 17-90]
(a)
The city police department 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.
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate
any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.430.
[Code 1964, § 17-91]
No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an
alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available
less than ten (10) feet of the width of the roadway for free movement
of vehicular traffic.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.445.
[Code 1964, § 17-92]
No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner
or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10)
feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular
traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within
an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any
abutting property.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.450.
[Code 1964, § 17-93]
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 district
or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.535.
[Code 1964, § 17-93]
It shall be unlawful for any operator to park any vehicle on
any street or in any district designated as a place where parking
is restricted to a time for a longer period than is permitted.
[Code 1964, § 17-94]
Whenever by this chapter 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 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.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.545.
[Code 1964, § 17-95]
No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal
purpose of:
(1)
Displaying such vehicle for sale; or
(2)
Repair such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.455.
[Code 1964, § 17-96]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park on any street any
vehicle for the primary purpose of displaying advertising.
[Code 1964, § 17-99(a)]
The city police department is hereby authorized to determine
the location of passenger 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.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.485.
[Code 1964, § 17-99(b)]
No person shall 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
(3) minutes.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.485.
[Code 1964, § 17-99(c)]
No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose
or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery
or pickup 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.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 300.500.
[Code 1964, § 17-100]
The city police department 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 it 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.
[Code 1964, § 17-102]
(a)
The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any
street at any place other than a bus stand so designated as provided
herein.
(b)
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 as provided herein, except in case of an emergency.
(c)
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 further than eighteen
(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.
(d)
The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon
any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated
as provided herein. This provision shall not prevent the operator
of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping
or parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
[Code 1964, § 17-101]
No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle other than a
bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when
any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately
signed, 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 or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
[Code 1964, § 17-103]
If any vehicle is found upon a street or highway in violation
of any provision of this chapter relating to the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles, and the identity of the driver cannot be determined,
the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall
be prima facie responsible for such violation.
[Code 1964, § 17-103.1; Ord. No. 1509, § 1, 5-7-1992; Ord. No. 2281 § 1, 6-5-2014]
(a)
Only motor vehicles which travel by means of four (4) or fewer rubber-tired
wheels and which do not exceed six (6) feet eight (8) inches in width
or seven (7) feet in height or twenty-one (21) feet in length shall
be parked in any street or public right-of-way of the City in front
of any area zoned residential or multiple-dwelling under the Zoning
Ordinance of the City, except for deliveries or during the duration
of a service call or repairs being made to a building which delivery,
service call or repair requires the use of a vehicle named above;
but in any event such parking time for such delivery, service call
or repair shall not exceed eight (8) hours' duration.
(b)
No commercial vehicle licensed for a gross vehicle weight greater
than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds or having a total length, including
tractor, if any, in excess of twenty (20) feet, may be parked, stored
or kept upon any public or private property, nor shall any person,
firm or corporation park, cause to be parked, or permit or suffer
to be parked any commercial vehicle upon any public or private property,
except in the following circumstances:
(1)
Such commercial vehicles may be parked in driveways or lawful
parking areas on public or private streets, highways or roads while
delivering, loading or unloading materials or otherwise being utilized
to provide service to persons or property adjacent thereto, subject
to the restrictions set forth in Subsection (a), above. Upon completion
of the delivery, loading or unloading, or upon completion of the service
requiring such vehicles, they are to be removed immediately.
(2)
Such commercial vehicles may be parked on properly paved parking
areas of commercial enterprises while delivering, loading or unloading
materials or otherwise being utilized to provide service to, or while
actively receiving services from, the business located on that property.
Upon completion of the delivery or upon completion of the service
associated with such vehicles, they are to be removed immediately.
For purposes of this Subsection, the phrase "actively receiving services"
shall mean the delivery of fuel or other personal property or the
provision of diagnostic or repair services. In no event shall such
a commercial vehicle be parked or kept on the parking area of a commercial
enterprise, whether or not attended by a driver, for three (3) or
more hours.
(3)
Such commercial vehicles may be parked or stored within a fully
enclosed garage at any time.
(4)
Such commercial vehicles which are owned by, leased to, or regularly
used by the owner or occupant of property in a commercial district
may be parked or stored on a paved parking lot located on the same
lot as the commercial enterprise for which such vehicles are used,
provided that the said vehicles are kept:
[Ord. No. 1252, § 1, 9-20-1984]
The parking of tank trucks containing gasoline, oil or flammable
material anywhere in the city is hereby prohibited, except when a
delivery from such tank truck of the tank contents is being made at
any residence or any commercial or industrial establishment and the
time for making such delivery shall not exceed one (1) hour.
[Ord. No. 1762, § 1, 12-18-1997]
(a)
Parking spaces and signs.
(1)
The city may designate parking spaces for the exclusive use
of vehicles which display a physically disabled distinguishing license
plate or card issued pursuant to state law.
(2)
Owners of private property used for public parking shall designate
parking spaces for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a physically
disabled distinguishing license plate or card issued pursuant to state
law.
(3)
Designated spaces shall meet the requirements of the federal
Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, and any rules or regulations
established pursuant thereto, and shall be indicated by a sign upon
which shall be inscribed the following information:
a.
The international symbol of accessibility;
b.
Any appropriate wording to indicate that the space is reserved
for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a physically disabled
distinguishing license plate or card; and
c.
$50.00 to $300.00 fine.
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Except that the information set forth in subparagraph (3)(c)
of this subsection may be contained in an additional sign posted below
or adjacent to the sign containing the information set forth in subparagraphs
(3)(a) and (3)(b); and that nonconforming signs or spaces which are
in use prior to the effective date of this section, as enacted by
this section, shall not be in violation of this section during the
useful life of such sign or space. However, under no circumstances
shall the useful life of the nonconforming sign or space be extended
by means other than those means used to maintain any sign or space
on the owner's property which is not used for vehicles displaying
a disabled license plate.
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(b)
Parking regulations.
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle which
is not displaying a physically disabled distinguishing license plate
or card in any space reserved for physically disabled persons.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any person who, without authorization,
uses a physically disabled distinguishing license plate or card to
park in a parking space reserved under authority of this section.
(3)
The police department may cause the removal of any vehicle not
displaying a physically disabled distinguishing license plate or card
or a "disabled veteran" license plate if there is posted immediately
adjacent to, and readily visible from, such space a sign on which
is inscribed the international symbol of accessibility and may include
any appropriate wording to indicate that the space is reserved for
the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license
plate or card. Any vehicle which has been removed and which is not
properly claimed within thirty (30) days thereafter shall be considered
to be an abandoned vehicle.
(4)
The police department may enter upon private property open to
the public to enforce the provisions of this section.
(5)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this subsection
(b) of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to
a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three
hundred dollars ($300.00).
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Editor's Note: Ord. No. 1762, § 1, adopted Dec.
18, 1997, repealed § 17-172 and enacted new provisions as
set out herein. Former § 17-172 pertained to similar subject
matter and derived from Ord. No. 1344, §§ 2 —
3, adopted March 19, 1987.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, stop or leave a
commercial vehicle over or along the west side of Bellefontaine Road
at any location between that point which is two hundred fifty-two
(252) feet south of the south side of the intersection of Shepley
Drive and Bellefontaine Road and that point which is four hundred
twenty-two (422) feet south of the said intersection.
[Ord. No. 1758, § 1, 11-6-1997]
(a)
RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONE
RESIDENT
VISITOR
Definitions. As used in this section, the following
terms shall have the meanings ascribed thereto:
A residential parking zone is any street or part thereof
which is designated as such with a specified parking time limit.
A resident shall be any person who lives in property abutting
a street designated as a residential parking zone.
A visitor shall be any person who is a household guest, a
visitor, a workman performing services or providing assistance to
a resident.
(b)
Residential parking permit. On any street which
is designated a residential parking zone, parking in excess of the
prescribed parking time limit will be permitted by a resident or a
visitor with a valid resident or visitor parking permit.
(c)
Issuance of parking permit. The city clerk shall
issue resident parking permits and visitor parking permits to a resident
of any street designated as a residential parking zone.
[Ord. No. 1758, § 1, 11-6-1997]
(a)
The following streets or parts of streets are designated as residential
parking zones where parking is restricted to thirty (30) minutes except
by valid resident and visitor permit:
Gardo Ct, Neighbor Ln, Trio Ln, Bella Ln, and Font Ln.
(b)
Any person found to have violated the parking restrictions set forth
herein shall be guilty of a city ordinance violation and punished
by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00).
[Ord. No. 2026 § 1, 2-16-2006]
(a)
No motor vehicle shall be parked, stored or kept outside of an enclosed
building on any lot within the city while covered with a cloth, plastic,
vinyl or other cover except in conformity with the requirements of
this section.
(b)
Vehicle covers must be manufactured or constructed for the purpose
of covering motor vehicles of the size appropriate for that vehicle.
No tarpaulins or other makeshift or adapted covers may be used.
(c)
Vehicle covers must be so secured as to not be subject to being blown
off or damaged by wind or storms.
(d)
Covers which are ripped, torn, tattered, frayed or otherwise damaged
may not be used.
(e)
Covers must be attached in such a way that the vehicle's license
plates are not covered or obscured.
(f)
Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the parking,
keeping or storage of unregistered, inoperable or derelict vehicles
contrary to any other requirements of the city.
[Ord. No. 2096 § 1, 12-4-2008; Ord. No. 2258 § 1, 8-1-2013]
(a)
Definitions. As used in this section, the term "snow emergency routes" shall mean those streets designated
as such in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(b)
Parking prohibitions under certain weather conditions. Whenever there has been a prediction of two (2) inches or more of
snow, an emergency will be declared and the snow route procedure will
be enforced when the snow begins to fall.
(c)
Posting of signs. On each street designated as a
snow emergency route, there shall be posted special blue and white
signs with the wording: "EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTE — TOW AWAY ZONE".
(d)
Parking prohibited on snow emergency routes during snow emergencies. While the snow emergency is in effect, no person shall park, or
allow to remain parked, any vehicle on any portion of a snow emergency
route to which the emergency applies. However, nothing in this Section
shall be construed to permit parking at any time or place where it
is forbidden by any other provisions of law.
(e)
Stalled vehicles on snow emergency routes. Whenever
a vehicle become stalled for any reason, whether or not it is in violation
of this section, on any part of a snow emergency route on which there
is a covering of snow, sleet or ice, or on which there is a parking
prohibition in effect, the person operating such vehicle shall take
immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway
of such snow emergency route onto the first cross street which is
not a snow emergency route. No person shall abandon or leave his/her
vehicle in the roadway of a snow emergency route (regardless of whether
he/she indicates, by raising the hood or otherwise, that the vehicle
is stalled), except for the purpose of securing assistance during
the actual time necessary to go to a nearby telephone or to a nearby
garage, gasoline station or other place of assistance and return without
delay.
(f)
Removal, impounding and return of vehicle.
(1)
Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove,
or have removed, a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or
other place of safety (including another place on a street), or to
a garage designated or maintained by the police department or otherwise
maintained by this city, when:
a.
The vehicle is parked on a part of a snow emergency route on
which a parking prohibition is in effect.
b.
The vehicle is parked on a part of a snow emergency route on
which there is a covering of snow, sleet or ice, or on which there
is a parking prohibition in effect and the person who was operating
such vehicle does not take appropriate steps to remove it in accordance
with the provisions of this Chapter.
c.
The vehicle is parked in violation of any parking ordinance
or provision of law and is interfering or about to interfere with
snow removal operations.
(2)
The removal, impounding and return of obstructing vehicles on
a snow emergency route shall be at the direction of the police department
in accordance with applicable ordinances pertaining thereto.
(g)
Evidence of violation. In any prosecution with regard
to a vehicle parked or left in a place or in a condition in violation
of any provisions of this section, proof that the particular vehicle
described in the complaint was parked or left in violation of a provision
of this section, together with proof that the defendant named in the
complaint was at the time the registered owner of the vehicle, shall
constitute prima facie evidence that the defendant was the person
who parked or left the vehicle in violation of this section.
(h)
Penalty for violation. Every person convicted of
a violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by
a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00), plus any towing and/or storage
fees.
