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| 6-4-1: DEFINITIONS | 6-4-2: DESIGNATION OF PARKING SPACES | 6-4-3: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DESIGNATIONS OF LIMITED PARKING AREAS |
| 6-4-4: DESIGNATIONS OF LIMITED PARKING AREAS | 6-4-5: INSTALLATION OF SIGNS | 6-4-6: TIME LIMIT PARKING |
| 6-4-7: PARKING TICKETS AND PROCEDURE | 6-4-8: VIOLATIONS | 6-4-9: REMOVAL OF ABANDONED OR INOPERATIVE VEHICLES |
| 6-4-10: BOAT AND TRAILER PARKING PROHIBITED | 6-4-11: PENALTY | 6-4-12: PARKING OF OVERWEIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; RUNNING OF REFRIGERATED UNITS PROHIBITED |
| 6-4-13: PARKING IN CITY PARKS | ||
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6-4-1: DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein: LIMITED PARKING AREA: Any restricted street or section of such street where parking is limited to a designated period of time. LOADING ZONE: Any limited parking area designated by the City to be used exclusively in the delivery of goods and merchandise and only for a length of time designated by posted signs. OPERATOR: Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as an agent, employee, or permittee of the owner, or is in actual physical control of the vehicle. PARK or PARKING: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street, other than temporarily for the purposes of receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of a vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle. PERSON: Any individual, firm, co-partnership or association or corporation. STREET: Any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path or other public place located in the City and established for the use of vehicles. VEHICLES: Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-85) |
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6-4-2:
DESIGNATION OF PARKING SPACES: The City is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces and the limited parking areas designated in accordance with this Chapter and in such other limited parking areas as may hereafter be established. Said parking spaces are to be distinguished by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street or by appropriate signs. At each space so marked off, it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-85) |
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6-4-3: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DESIGNATIONS OF LIMITED PARKING AREAS:
The Chief of Police shall, from time to time, recommend to the mayor and to the city council locations to be designated as limited parking areas, as well as recommendations concerning the continued designation of existing limited parking areas. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985) |
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6-4-4:
DESIGNATIONS OF LIMITED PARKING AREAS: The mayor and city council may, from time to time, designate limited parking areas. The boundaries of the limited parking areas designated by this chapter shall be established and clearly marked upon a parking map adopted by ordinance and kept on file in the office of the city clerk. That certain map submitted herewith and identified by the notation "City of Mountain Home Limited Parking Map" and bearing thereon the approving signatures of the mayor and council, be and the same is hereby adopted. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985) |
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6-4-5: INSTALLATION OF
SIGNS: The city shall post or cause to be posted suitable signs marking off any street or section of street as a limited parking area, displaying the proper time limits as designated by this chapter. If a vehicle shall remain parked in any parking space within a limited parking area beyond the time limits set for such parking space, then that vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this chapter. Upon the expiration of the lawful time limit, the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985) |
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6-4-6: TIME LIMIT PARKING:
Except on Sundays or holidays, it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle for a longer consecutive period of time than that designated by the posted signs. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985) |
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6-4-7: PARKING
TICKETS AND PROCEDURE: A. It shall be the duty of members of the police department, upon observing a vehicle parking, stopped or standing in violation of the provisions of this chapter, to leave at or upon such vehicle a parking ticket that such vehicle has been parked or stopped in violation of the provisions of this chapter. Among other things, the parking ticket shall bear the date and hour of leaving the same at or upon the vehicle, make of the vehicle and its license number, and the location of the limited parking area, instructing the owners or operators of such vehicle the amount of the fine for the violation of the limited parking area and where the fine can be paid. It shall be the duty of members of the police department to leave at or upon such vehicle a separate parking ticket for each additional consecutive time period thereafter that such vehicle remains parked or stopped in violation of the provisions of this chapter. B. Each person receiving a parking ticket left upon his or her vehicle shall pay at city hall the fine of five dollars ($5.00) for each parking ticket if paid within twenty four (24) hours or ten dollars ($10.00) for each such parking ticket paid after twenty four (24) hours. Failure of any operator to report or to make such payments within the time prescribed above shall render the operator thereof subject to the penalties as provided by section 6-4-11 of this chapter. (Ord. 1324, 11-13-2000) |
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6-4-8: VIOLATIONS: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any person to: A.Cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established by a limited parking area as herein described. B.Permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space within a limited parking area where such vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking space. C.Park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such markings. D.Park any vehicle in such a manner as to obstruct free flow of traffic in an alley. E.Park any vehicle that is not currently registered, on a public street or alley, or to park any vehicle on a public street or alley to conduct any repair or modification, other than emergency repairs. F.Deface, injure, tamper with, wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any sign designating a limited parking area under the provisions of this chapter. G.Violate any other provision of this chapter. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985) |
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6-4-9: REMOVAL OF ABANDONED OR INOPERATIVE VEHICLES 1:
The city, through authorized police officers, may order the removal of and remove abandoned, junked, dismantled or inoperative motor vehicles or parts thereof from public property, including, but not limited to, streets, highways and alleys. The procedures governing such removals shall be in accordance with chapter 18, title 49 of the Idaho Code. (Ord. 1299, 7-12-1999) |
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6-4-10:
BOAT AND TRAILER PARKING PROHIBITED: It shall be unlawful for any person to park a trailer that is not self-propelled or boat on any public street or alley within the city limits of the city in excess of seventy two (72) consecutive hours. (Ord. 1060, 10-14-1985) |
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6-4-11: PENALTY: Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any violation or failure to comply, shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and shall be subject to the penalties in accordance with section 1-4-1 of this code. (Ord. 1043, 4-8-1985; amd. 1990 Code) |
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6-4-12: PARKING OF OVERWEIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; RUNNING OF
REFRIGERATED UNITS PROHIBITED: A.Parking Of Overweight Commercial Vehicles In Residential Districts Prohibited: No person shall park any commercial vehicle having a gross weight capacity in excess of eight thousand (8,000) pounds, whether attended or unattended, upon the streets in any residential district within the city except: 1. For the purpose of loading and unloading passengers, materials or merchandise in the most expeditious manner. 2. For any purpose incident to any lawful construction project located within the immediate vicinity of such parked vehicle. 3. For any purpose incident to a lawful commercial operation located in any residential district within the immediate vicinity of such parked vehicle. B.Running Of Refrigerated Units Prohibited: It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit any motorized refrigeration unit used in connection with a truck or trailer to be run in any residential district of the city between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. (Ord. 1140, 11-13-1990) |
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6-4-13: PARKING IN CITY
PARKS: It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any city park, other than in a paved parking lot, except where prior written permission has been granted therefor by the mayor or council for special events held at a park, such as air force appreciation day, car shows and other like events. (Ord. 1186, 11-8-1993) |
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