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; or
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 thirty (30) feet of an intersection;
c.
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
d.
Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
e.
Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal,
stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
f.
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 said entrance (when properly signposted);
or
g.
At any place where official signs prohibit standing.
B.
No
person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his/her control into
any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is
unlawful.
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.
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.
A.
The
City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating
no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any
school property when such parking would, in his/her opinion, interfere
with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
B.
When
official signs are erected indicating no parking upon either side
of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein,
no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
A.
The
City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking
upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty
(20) feet or upon one (1) side of a street as indicated by such signs
when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty (30) feet.
B.
When
official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets
as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such
street in violation of any such sign.
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs upon
the left-hand side of any one-way street to prohibit the standing
or parking of vehicles, and when such signs are in place, no person
shall stand or park a vehicle upon such left-hand side in violation
of any such sign.
In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways
and traffic is restricted to one (1) direction upon any such roadway,
no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of
such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing
or parking. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine when
standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any
such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
A.
The
City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate
by proper signs places not exceeding one hundred (100) feet in length
in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create
an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to
traffic.
B.
When
official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized
herein, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any such
designated place.
[CC 1996 §365.080; Ord. No. 623 §§1 — 4, 5-5-1980; Ord. No. 1039 §I, 4-6-1998; Ord. No. 1478 §§I —
II, 6-20-2005]
A.
PHYSICALLY DISABLED
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
PROPERLY MARKED AS RESERVED FOR DISABLED PARKING ONLY
Definitions. For
the purposes of this Section, the following words and terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed:
A natural person who is blind, as defined in Section 8.700,
RSMo., or a natural person with medical disabilities which prohibits,
limits, or severely impairs one's ability to ambulate or walk, as
determined by a licensed physician or other authorized health care
practitioner as follows:
The person cannot ambulate or walk fifty (50) or less feet without
stopping to rest due to a severe and disabling arthritic, neurological,
orthopedic condition, or other severe and disabling condition; or
The person cannot ambulate or walk without the use of, or assistance
from, a brace, cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair,
or other assistive device; or
Is restricted by a respiratory or other disease to such an extent
that the person's forced respiratory expiratory volume for one (1)
second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one (1) liter, or
the arterial oxygen tension is less than sixty (60) mm/hg on room
air at rest; or
Uses portable oxygen; or
Has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional
limitations are classified in severity as class III or class IV according
to standards set by the American Heart Association; or
A person's age, in and of itself, shall not be a factor in determining
whether such person is physically disabled or is otherwise entitled
to disabled license plates and/or disabled windshield hanging placards
within the meaning of Sections 301.141 to 301.143, RSMo.
Any parking space or any area adjacent to a parking space
which is indicated by a sign upon which shall be inscribed the international
symbol of accessibility in white on a blue background and appropriate
wording to indicate the space is reserved for the exclusive use of
parking or accessing vehicles displaying a distinguishing license
plate or card.
B.
Signs And Markings To Conform. It shall be unlawful for
any person to maintain an improperly marked disabled parking space
upon any property owned or controlled by them. In addition to any
other penalty imposed by law, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized
to abate a violation of this Subsection by removing or painting out
the illegal parking space markings. The cost of posting and marking
such disabled parking spaces shall be charged to the property owner.
This charge shall not exceed the actual cost to the City of marking
the space and failure to pay such costs shall be an additional ordinance
violation. All signs provided for in this Section shall conform to
the size requirements and posting rules and guidelines established
by the Uniform Traffic Control Manual unless these standards are modified
by the City Traffic Engineer.
C.
Violations — Parking Prohibited Without Display Of Permit.
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or permit any vehicle
to remain in any parking space properly marked as reserved for disabled
parking only, unless such vehicle shall display a valid State disabled
license plate or placard issued under the provisions of Sections 301.142
et seq., RSMo., or any other State or a valid disabled license plate
issued by the Veterans Administration.
2.
It shall be unlawful for a person to permit a vehicle under that
person's control to block access to any parking space properly marked
as reserved for disabled parking or to block access in any manner
to any ramp, entrance or loading area designed or marked for disabled
access and use.
3.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating a vehicle properly
marked under this Section to park such vehicle in a space reserved
for disabled parking unless there is a physically disabled occupant
in the vehicle at the time of parking or when a physically disabled
person is being delivered or collected by a properly marked vehicle
which is parked for the sole use of the physically disabled person.
4.
The registered owner of any motor vehicle found to be illegally parked
in violation of Subparagraph (1) of this provision or blocking access
in violation of Subparagraph (2) shall be deemed to be responsible
for such violation. This presumption shall be rebuttable.
5.
The violations detailed in Subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this Subsection (C) shall be applicable whether such violations occur on private or public property so long as the public or private spaces are properly marked in the manner set forth herein and so long as the ramp, entrance or style is clearly marked in a manner readily visible to the public at large.
[Ord. No. 1115 §I, 8-9-1999; Ord. No. 1545 §§I — II(365.081), 11-20-2006; Ord. No. 1612 §§I —
II, 10-20-2008; Ord. No.
1672 §§I — II, 7-18-2011]
A.
There
is hereby established, and there shall be reserved, for the use of
disabled drivers parking spaces within the City of Bowling Green.
B.
The
number and locations of parking spaces for disabled drivers are:
1.
One (1) space on the north side of West Church Street directly in
front of the Bowling Green Police Department;
2.
One (1) space nearest the entrance to the Bowling Green Municipal
Swimming Pool;
3.
Two (2) spaces at 16 West Church Street at Bowling Green City Hall;
4.
One (1) space on the north side of West Church Street directly in
front of the Community State Bank of Missouri parking lot;
5.
Four (4) spaces at the Bowling Green Lake;
6.
One (1) space at 201 West Locust Street directly in front of the
Bowling Green Public Library;
7.
One (1) space at 214 West Church Street directly in front of Eastern
Missouri Health Services;
8.
One (1) space at 6 North Court Street in front of the old Ben Franklin
Building;
9.
One (1) space at 33 North Main Cross on the east side of the Court
House Square;
10.
One (1) space at 12 South Court Street beside Rainbow Flower Shop;
11.
One (1) space on the east side of the Court House Square across North
Main Cross from the old Hometown Appliance Store;
12.
One (1) space on the south side of the Court House Square across
West Main Street from Dos Primos Restaurant; and
13.
One (1) space on the north side of West Church Street in front of
the Second Baptist Church Educational Building located at 319 West
Church Street.
[Ord. No. 1936, 9-20-2021]
No vehicles shall be parked on grass or lawns on either private
or public property. Vehicles shall be parked only on improved areas
with surfaces of asphalt, concrete, rock, brick, or gravel.
