HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Designating and Regulating City Parking Lots M and N ORDINANCE NO. 3099
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE
CITY OF AMES, IOWA, BY REPEALING SECTIONS 18.22 AND
18.25 AND ENACTING NEW SECTIONS 18.22 AND 18.25 AND
ENACTING NEW SUBSECTIONS 18.3(11) AND 18.3(12) FOR
THE PURPOSE OF DESIGNATING AND DEFINING MUNICIPAL
PARKING LOTS M AND N, AND SETTING REGULATIONS FOR
PARKING VEHICLES IN LOT M AND TO REGULATE DISPLAY
OF MUNICIPAL PARKING PERMITS AND TO RESERVE CER-
TAIN AREAS FOR OFFICIAL CARS; REPEALING ALL ORDI-
NANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; ESTABLISHING A PENAL-
TY AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council for the City of Ames, Iowa:
Section One. The Municipal Code of the City of Ames, Iowa is
hereby amended by enacting new Subsection 18.3(11) and (12) as fol-
lows:
11(11) That area used for parking in the western half of
the block bounded by Clark Street on the west, 5th
Street on the south, 6th Street on the north, and
Burnett Avenue on the east is hereby designated Munici-
pal Parking Lot N in the east parking district.
(12) That area used for parking to the immediate west of the
Ames City Hall Building bounded on the north by 6th
Street and by 5th Street on the south is hereby desig-
nated Municipal Parking Lot M in the east parking dis-
trict."
Section Two. The Municipal Code of the City of Ames, Iowa is
hereby further amended by repealing Section 18.22 as it now exists and
re=enacting a new Section 18.22 as follows:
"Sec. 18.22 OBEDIENCE TO SIGNS, MARKINGS IN
MUNICIPAL PARKING LOTS AND DRIVES;
DISPLAY OF PARKING PERMITS
(1) No person shall disobey any duly authorized signs or
markings stating directions, limitations, and restric-
tions upon traffic movement or parking in any municipal
parking lot, or in the City Hall Utility Drive-
through/Drop off lane located adjacent to and on the west
side of the 500 block of Clark Street.
(2) In lots and locations where municipal parking permits are
required, permit tags designed to hang shall be hung
from the rear view mirror and not lower than the top of
the dashboard, and permit tags designed to be affixed
to a window shall be affixed to the lower corner of the
driver's side of the front window so the face of the
permit is visible from the outside of the vehicle.
Motorcycles shall have a parking permit sticker affixed
to the handlebars of the vehicle. It shall be a violation
to improperly display, or to fail to display, a parking
permit where one is required."
Section Three. The Municipal Code is further amended by repeal-
ing Section 18.25 as it now exists and re-enacting a new Section 18.25
as follows:
"Sec. 18.25. SPACES RESERVED FOR OFFICIAL VEHICLES
The parking spaces on the south side of Sixth Street
directly north of the Ames City Hall Building, are hereby
reserved and set aside for marked patrol vehicles, including
motor vehicles of the police department, sheriff's department,
Iowa Highway Patrol, Iowa State University Department of
Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, or other
authorized vehicles as designated by the traffic engineer.
Areas on the south side of Fifth Street from the center line
of Carroll Avenue east one hundred seventy (170) feet, adja-
cent to the municipal power plant, and on the north side of
Fifth Street beginning one hundred fifty-one (151) feet west
of the west line of Carroll Avenue and extending nine (9) feet
to the west, and all the parking spaces in Municipal Lot M
located between "Authorized Vehicles Only" signs, are hereby
reserved and set aside for motor vehicles of the police de-
partment, other official vehicles of the city, sheriff's
department vehicles, vehicles of the Iowa Highway Patrol,
vehicles of the Iowa State University Department of Public
Safety, and other authorized vehicles as designated by the
Traffic Engineer. All other vehicles are prohibited from
parking in said spaces, at any time, or from interfering with
the use of said space by such motor vehicles.
Section Four. Violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall
constitute a simple misdemeanor punishable as set out in Sec. 18.7(1),
Ames Municipal Code.
Section Five. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith shall be repealed to the extent of such conflict if any.
Section Six. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage and publication as required by law.
Passed this 9th_ day of O,tnher 1990.
Nancy Dioni , City Clerk/7 Larry R. rtis, Mayor
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