§ 70-34. Parking restrictions generally.

(a)

The chief of police may erect or cause to be erected permanent signs within the city which shall be plainly marked permitting, restricting or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles upon streets or portions of streets during certain hours of certain days.

(b)

No person shall stop, stand or park a motor vehicle for any purpose or length of time in any restricted parking zone other than for the purpose to which parking in such zone is restricted; except that, a driver of a passenger motor vehicle may stop temporarily in such a zone for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading and unloading of passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any motor vehicle which is waiting to enter or about to enter the zone for the purpose of parking in accordance with the purpose to which parking is restricted.

(c)

Any motor vehicle remaining in a parking area longer than the posted time allowance shall be considered to be illegally parked, and any motor vehicle remaining in one position more than 24 hours in an otherwise unrestricted area shall be considered to be illegally parked.

(d)

When official signs are erected designating a parking space, area or lot for restricted or permit-only parking for authorized motor vehicles only, no person shall park an unauthorized motor vehicle in violation of such sign.

(e)

Whenever an official sign clearly indicates, in not less than two-inch-high, light-reflective letters on a contrasting background, that unauthorized motor vehicles will be towed away at the owner's expense, and the sign includes the words "towaway zone" in not less than four-inch-high letters of the aforesaid type, the illegally parked motor vehicle may be towed by a towing company on the city's rotation list. Such motor vehicle will be released only upon payment of all towing and storage charges by the owner.

(Code 1981, § 19-28; Ord. No. 2008-42, § 2, 1-20-09)