72. PARKING REGULATIONS

CHAPTER 72: PARKING REGULATIONS

Section

72.01 Purpose

72.02 Definitions

72.03 Manner of parking

72.04 Limitation of parking areas

72.05 Camping restrictions

72.06 Duration of parking

72.07 Residential parking

72.08 Commercial parking

72.09 Violations

72.10 Impoundment of vehicles and authority to remove

72.11 Prohibited parking by truck-tractors and semitrailers

§ 72.01 PURPOSE.

This chapter is enacted to promote and protect the health, safety, and general welfare throughout the city by lessening congestion in the public rights‑of‑way and in the commercial and residential areas.

(Prior Code, § 702)

§ 72.02 DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

DRIVEWAY. A path for cars leading from a street or road to a garage, house, or building.

HIGHWAY. Any public roads freely open to everyone.

LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. Any peace officer, whether it be a local police officer of the city of the Sheriff’s Department or a state patrol officer.

PUBLIC POUND. A storage lot for the impoundment of vehicles as designated by the City Council.

RIGHT‑OF‑WAY. A strip of land upon which a public road or highway is constructed and which is constructed for the purpose of passage of persons, vehicles, or things.

ROAD. A way made for traveling between places.

SNOW EMERGENCY. When one inch or more of snow falls in a given area or period of time within the city.

STREET. A public road in a town or city which is a paved or unpaved thoroughfare.

VEHICLE. Any device or contrivance for carrying or conveying persons or objects, including house trailers, cars, trucks, motor vehicles, pickups, semis, motorized vehicles, trailers, and recreational vehicles.

(Prior Code, § 702.1)

§ 72.03 MANNER OF PARKING.

(A) Every vehicle parked upon any street with a curb shall be parked parallel to the curb and with the right side of the vehicle within 12 inches to the curb unless otherwise provided by this chapter. On other streets, the vehicles shall be parked to the right of the main traveled portion thereof and parallel thereto, and in such a manner as to not interfere with the free flow of traffic.

(B) Vehicles parked on the south side of the Community Center on the north side of Second Street NW shall be parked vertically to the curb.

(Prior Code, § 702.2)

§ 72.04 LIMITATION OF PARKING AREAS.

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except: when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic; when the vehicle is disabled upon any street; in compliance with the directions of police officer, traffic control device, temporary traffic control signs; or during snow emergency, any of the following places:

(A) On a sidewalk;

(B) In front of a public or private driveway;

(D) Within 20 feet of a fire hydrant;

(E) On a crosswalk;

(F) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

(G) Within 30 feet upon the approach of any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

(H) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;

(I) Within 30 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station;

(J) Along the side or opposite any street excavation or obstruction;

(K) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

(L) Upon any bridge or elevated structure upon a highway; or

(M) At any place where temporary or permanent official signs of the city prohibits the stopping or the parking of vehicles.