Cross Reference: See also Schedules VI, VII and VIII, regarding
parking restrictions, included at the end of Title III.
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.
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);
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.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.045; Ord. No.
07-59 § 1, 11-13-2007]
A.
TRAILER
RECREATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE
Definitions.
As used in this Section, the following terms shall have these prescribed
meanings:
Any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property
or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled
vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semi-trailer
or vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction
with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its own
weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle.
Any motor vehicle designed, constructed or substantially
modified so that it may be used and is used for the purposes of temporary
housing quarters, including therein sleeping and eating facilities
which are either permanently attached to the motor vehicle or attached
to a unit which is securely attached to the motor vehicle.
B.
It
shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for the driver, owner or
operator of any tractor, trailer, any motor vehicle having a combination
thereof, any motor vehicle having more than ten (10) wheels or tires
or any such vehicle or equipment designed, maintained or used primarily
for the transportation of property, persons or goods which is licensed
by State authority in excess of twelve thousand (12,000) pounds or
any camper, recreational motor vehicle as defined by Section 301.010,
RSMo., or other wheeled vehicle made to be towed, whether or not it
is connected by a towing device to a tow vehicle to park or cause
to be parked any such vehicle or equipment for longer than two (2)
hours at any one time on any street, alley or street or alley right-of-way;
except that any operator may park any such vehicle for a longer period
while actually and continuously engaged in business activities at
the location and while loading or unloading; provided however, that
such vehicles may be parked in front of a legally operating place
of business during business hours of such business. All vehicles shall
be subject to all other provisions of this Code or other ordinances
regulating parking at such location.
C.
The
provisions of this Section imposing a time limit on parking shall
not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive
provisions of the Code or other ordinances prohibiting or limiting
the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places
or at specified times.
D.
Violations
are subject to 479.353, RSMo.
A.
The City Public Works Director 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 Public Works Director 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 Public Works Director 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 Public Works Director 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 Public Works Director 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.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stand any vehicle
in any stall or space designated or reserved for physically disabled
persons, as defined in Section 301.142, RSMo., as amended, whether
upon public or private property open to public use, unless the vehicle
bears the State of Missouri license plate or placard for the disabled
as provided for in Sections 301.071 or 301.142, RSMo., as amended.
The space shall be indicated by an upright sign whether on a pole
or attached to a building upon which shall be inscribed the international
symbol of accessibility and may also include any appropriate wording
such as "Accessible Parking" to indicate that the space is reserved
for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license
plate or card. The sign described in this Subsection shall also state,
or an additional sign shall be posted below or adjacent to the sign
stating, the following: "$50 fine, plus court costs." Beginning August
28, 2011, when any political subdivision or owner of private property
restripes a parking lot or constructs a new parking lot, one (1) in
every four (4) accessible spaces, but not fewer than one (1), shall
be served by an access aisle a minimum of ninety-six (96) inches wide
and shall be designated "lift van accessible only" with signs that
meet the requirements of the Federal Americans With Disabilities Act,
as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and any rules and
regulations established pursuant thereto.
B.
Any vehicle operator who is not physically disabled shall not use
the handicapped parking space unless there is a physically disabled
person in the vehicle or while the vehicle is being used to transport
a physically disabled person.
C.
Any person convicted of violating this Section is guilty of an offense
and shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00)
nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00). Every day upon which
such violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.110; Ord. No.
50-A § 15]
Parking, unparking, stopping and standing or any manner of driving
or otherwise obstructing shall be so regulated and controlled as to
permit a clear, free and unimpeded freeway, travelway or throughway
of such certain widths for certain streets, alleys and State and Federal
marked highways, or portions thereof, as described and set forth in
the parking schedules of this Title, and any person so parking, unparking,
stopping and standing or any manner of driving or otherwise obstructing
as is herein forbidden, shall be guilty of an ordinance violation.
Such obstruction shall be removed as provided herein; provided, further
within the meaning of this Section, that not less than twenty (20)
feet in width shall constitute an unobstructed freeway, travelway
or throughway on all State and Federal marked highways in the City.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.120; Ord. No.
92]
No person shall sell or dispose of, barter, trade or advertise
merchandise of any nature from any vehicle parked on any street in
the City subject to local control. The provisions of this Section
shall apply to all peddlers, whether licensed or unlicensed, operating
under the provisions of Section 71.630, RSMo.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.130; Ord. No.
84-2 § 2, 1-23-1984]
No person shall park a vehicle or allow to be parked any motor
vehicle at any time for a period of time exceeding two (2) hours upon
any of the following streets or portions thereof as listed in Schedule
VIII.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said schedule is included at the end of Title
III.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.140; Ord. No.
84-2 §§ 3 — 6, 1-23-1984]
A.
If any motor vehicle shall remain parked in the two-hour parking area as above designated in Section 355.130, beyond the parking limit fixed for such space by this Chapter, such vehicle shall be deemed to have parked overtime beyond the time limit fixed by this Chapter. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond such lawful period of time. The following exception is hereby made, namely: All areas previously designated as five-minute parking zones or twelve-minute parking zones shall remain as such five-minute parking zones or twelve-minute parking zones and the Street Department personnel are hereby directed to continue their signing of such limited parking areas.
B.
The
Mayor and the Chief of Police shall place lines or marks on the curb
on the street about or alongside each parking space to designate the
parking space. Each vehicle parked shall park within the lines or
markings so established. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle
across any such line or mark, or to park such vehicle in such manner
that the vehicle is not within the area so designated by such lines
or markings.
C.
It
shall be the duty of the City Mayor, Chief of Police and the City
Police Department under the direction of the Board of Aldermen to
enforce the above parking limits and zones. The Police Department
is authorized to make inspection of a parked motor vehicle, mark them
in an appropriate manner, and when they determine that such motor
vehicles have been parked for more than two (2) hours consecutively
in a single parking space, such parking violation shall be determined
to be an ordinance violation for which the responsible party shall
pay a fine of two dollars ($2.00). If a second violation occurs within
a twenty-four (24) hour period, the person so making said violation
shall again be in violation of this Section and upon conviction be
fined an additional two dollars ($2.00). If said fine is not paid
within seventy-two (72) hours of the issuance of a parking summons
or ticket, such ticket shall be filed with the Municipal Court and
the court costs assessed in addition to the fine.
[R.O. 2013 § 355.150; Ord. No.
74 §§ 1 — 3; Ord. No. 77-5 § 2]
A.
One
(1) parking space located on the north side of the Courthouse shall
be designated as "reserved" and limited to the motor vehicle owned
and operated by the Madison County Associate Circuit Judge.
B.
Special
Meetings. If and when any meeting of any organization or civic club,
or any meeting held under the direction of any governmental agency,
whether City, County, State or Federal, is held in the City, if the
parties or officials in charge of such meeting will call the City
Clerk and advise him/her at least two (2) days before such meeting
of the approximate number of people to attend the meeting, the City
Clerk shall issue to the directors or parties in charge of such meeting
a number of courtesy tickets for parking on the public streets of
the City equal to the number to attend the meeting. When such tickets
are either presented to the City Police or placed on the motor vehicle
parked on the public streets by any person attending such meeting
within the City, the Police Officers shall not issue a ticket for
overtime parking, regardless of where such motor vehicle is parked,
for the length of time it is parked in any one particular place, except
in alleyways, or where such vehicle blocks a crosswalk on the sidewalk
or is parked within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant.
C.
Courtesy
Tickets. The courtesy tickets provided by the City Clerk shall be
delivered by the parties or directors of such meeting to each operator
of a motor vehicle. It shall be the burden of the organization directing
the meetings to deliver the courtesy tickets to the people attending
the meetings, and it shall not be the burden of the City Clerk to
see that such courtesy tickets are delivered to the owners or operators
of motor vehicles attending such meetings and parking on the public
streets in the City.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
The purposes of this Article are to make the removal of snow
and ice from certain public streets safe, economical and more efficient;
to reduce or to avoid collisions of snow removal equipment with motor
vehicles, motorcycles, trailers, etc.; and to provide an efficient
and systematic utilization of snow removal equipment when a snow removal
proclamation is in effect.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
As used in this Article the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Every self-propelled device in, upon or by which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public street,
public right-of-way or highway, except vehicles or devices used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
A motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the
rider and designed to travel on no more than three (3) wheels in contact
with the ground.
Every vehicle without self-propulsion designed to carry persons
or property and which is drawn by a motor vehicle.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
Parking of any motor vehicle, motorcycle, trailer or other conveyance
or object shall be prohibited on the following snow route streets
within the City when a snow removal proclamation is in effect:
|
Snow Route Street
|
|---|
|
Azalea Drive
|
|
Baker Street
|
|
Buford Boulevard
|
|
City Lake Road
|
|
Dogwood Court
|
|
Dogwood Drive
|
|
High Street
|
|
Juniper Court
|
|
Lincoln Drive
|
|
Magnolia Court
|
|
Main Street (East)
|
|
Main Street (North)
|
|
Main Street (South)
|
|
Main Street (West)
|
|
Marvin (East)
|
|
Marvin (West)
|
|
Matthews Street
|
|
Park Drive
|
|
Pine Castle Drive
|
|
Redbud Drive
|
|
Robinson Street
|
|
Sherlock Drive
|
|
Wood Avenue (South)
|
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
A map of snow route streets where parking is prohibited when
a snow removal proclamation is in effect shall be available for review
by the public at the office of the Public Works Director during regular
City business hours.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
The Public Works Director may issue a snow removal proclamation
when snow fall has accumulated or is expected to accumulate on public
streets and public properties of the City in an amount sufficient
to pose a hazard to the health, safety and/or welfare of the inhabitants
and/or property of the City. Such snow removal proclamation shall
order the snow removal proclamation parking restrictions in this Article
be in effect and shall state the specific date and time when such
restrictions shall go into effect, the Public Works Director may rescind
a snow removal proclamation at any time with or without the consent
of the Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen may rescind a snow
removal proclamation at any time by a majority vote.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
Parking restrictions in this Article shall become effective
upon the date and time stated in the snow removal proclamation, provided
that in no event shall such restrictions become effective before the
expiration of not less than twelve (12) hours following the first
time when the snow removal proclamation is: (a) posted on the City's
social media webpage; or (b) broadcast at least once by any radio
or television station serving a general audience within the City;
or (c) before eight o'clock (8:00) a.m., of the day following the
date on which the snow removal proclamation is first published in
the official newspaper of the City, whichever is sooner,
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
This Article is intended to alter parking regulations in this
Code only to the extent necessary to comply with the contents of this
Article.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
Any motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer parked upon any public
snow route street in violation of this Article may be removed at any
time at the direction of a City Police Officer and may also be towed
and stored in any public or private storage lot without prior notice
to the owner or operator of such motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
The owner or operator of any motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer
towed to or stored in a private storage lot pursuant to this Article
shall be responsible for all reasonable towing and storage charges
related to storage of such motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer. Charges
shall be paid to the private towing company before the motor vehicle,
motorcycle or trailer is released. If the motor vehicle, motorcycle
or trailer is towed to a storage lot owned, controlled or leased by
the City, the appropriate towing charge shall be paid to the City.
If the motor vehicle, motorcycle or trailer is stored on City property,
a reasonable storage fee shall be paid to the City.
[Ord. No. 21-05, 4-26-2021]
Any person violating any provision of this Article shall be punished pursuant to Section 100.070 of this Code. The imposition of one (1) penalty for any violation of the Article shall not excuse such violation or permit such violation to continue. Each twenty-four (24) hour period or part thereof, following notice of the snow removal proclamation provided in this Article, shall constitute a separate offense.
