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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating the Use of Public Streets and Highways �i ORDINANCE NO. 646 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO TRAFFIC AND REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS IN THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA; PRESCRIBING REGULA- TIONS RELATIVE TO THE PARKING OF VEHICLES UPON SUCH PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INSTALLATION, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, SUPERVISION, REGULATIONS AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF PARKING METERS; _ DEFINING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PARKING METER ZONES UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS; PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT HEREOF AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE APPLICATION OF REVENUE FROM SAID PARKING METERS. Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa: Section 1. Definitions . The following words and phrases wheni used in this ordinance shall, for the purpose of this ordinance, have the meaning respectively ascribed to them: (a) Vehicle shall mean every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway excepting devices operated exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks . (b) Street shall mean any public street, avenue, road, boule- vard, highway or other public place located in the City of Ames, Iowa. (c) Person shall mean and include any individual, firm, co- partnership or corporation. (d) Operator shall mean and include every individual who shall, operate a motor vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, em - ployee or permittee of the owner. (e) Parking meter shall mean a device or devices which shall indicate thereon the length of time during which a vehicle may be parked in a particular place which shall have as a part thereof a receptacle or chamber for receiving and storing coins of the United States money; a slot or place in which said coin or coins may be deposited; a timing mechanism to indicate the passage of the inter- val of time during which parking is permissible; and which shall also display an appropriate signal when the aforesaid interval of time shall have elapsed; also brief instructions as to their opera- tion. (f) Parking shall mean the stationary standing of a vehicle upon a street whether such vehicle is occupied or not by an operator. (g) Parking space shall mean that area of the street, next to the curb, designated by lines or marks thereon within which a ve- hicle may be parked. i (h) Holiday shall mean as follows : January first, May thirti- eth, July Fourth, the first Monday in September, Thanksgiving Day as proclaimed by the President or the Governor, and December twenty- fifth. i Section 2. Parking Meter Zones . There are hereby established certain zones, to be known as parking meter zones . (a) The following streets shall comprise the parking meter zones : (1) Both sides of Main Street from Duff Avenue to Clark Avenue, (2) Both sides of Douglas Avenue from Main Street to Fifth Street, (3) Both sides of Kellogg Avenue from Main Street to i Fifth Street. 2 (b) Said parking meter zones are hereby established from the hours of 8:00 o 'clock A. M. to 6:00 o 'clock P. M. , excepting Sun- days, Holidays and Saturdays, and from the hours of 8:00 o 'clock A. M. to 9:00 o ' clock P. M. on Saturdays . (c) Said parking meter zones shall include such other streets ) or places as may from time to time be hereafter created by ordinances of the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa. Section 3. Installation of parking meters . The City Manager is hereby authorized to install or cause to be installed, parking meters in such parking meter, as are hereby established by this ordinance or which shall hereafter be established by any other ordi- nance of the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa, and to mark the lines on the street and curb between which vehicles shall be parked. Said parking meters shall be installed within approximate) twenty-four (24) inches of the curb line and in front of the spaces designated by lines or marks on the curbs and on the street caused to be placed thereon by the City Manager to indicate the parking space for which such meters are to be used. Section 4. Supervision. The City Manager shall have direct supervision of the installation, operation, repair and maintenance of said parking meters and parking meter zones . Section 5. Policing. The Chief of Police of the City of Ames , under the direction of the Mayor, shall have direct supervision of the policing of said parking meters and parking meter zones . Section 6. Collection of Funds . The City Clerk or his duly authorized representative shall have the power and authority to make regular collections of the monies deposited in said parking meters, and the City Clerk shall deliver the same to the City Treasurer of the City of Ames, Iowa. Section 7. Use of Funds . The funds so collected under Sec- tion 6 hereof shall be used as follows : (a) For the purchase, repair, replacement, operation, mainte- nance, policing and upkeep of said parking meters and parking meter zones . (b) All monies not so used as specified in subparagraph (a.) above shall be used only for the leasing or purchase, construction, ioperation and maintenance of off-street parking places or for the widening of streets in the business district to create greater park- ing facilities and for the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for such purposes . Section 8. Maximum Parking Time Limits . 1 (a) In the following places where the stands supporting the parking meters are �ainted orange, the maximum parking time limit shall be twelve (12 minutes and nothing but a one-cent coin shall be deposited in said parking meter: (1) Both sides of Douglas Avenue from the South line of the East and West Alley between Main and Fifth Street to the North line of Main Street, (2) Both sides of Kellogg Avenue from the North line of the East and West Alley between Main and Fifth Street to the South line of Fifth Street. (b) In all other places where the stands supporting the park- ing meters are colored silver, the maximum parking time limit shall be as follows : (1) Upon the deposit of a five-cent coin in said parking meter, maximum parking time limit shall be one (1) hour; (2) Upon the deposit of a one-cent coin in said parking meter, maximum parking time limit shall be twelve (12) minutes ; 3 (3) Upon the deposit of two one-cent coins in said park- ing meter, maximum parking time limit shall be twenty-four (24) minutes; (4) Upon the deposit of three one-cent coins in said park- ing meter, maximum parking time limit shall be thirty-six (36) minutes; (5) Upon the deposit of four one-cent coins in said park- ing meter, maximum parking time limit shall be forty-eight (48) minutes ; (6) Upon the deposit of five one-cent coins in said park- ing meter, maximum parking time limit shall be one (1) hour. (c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as permitting the operator or any other person to deposit or cause to be deposited an additional coin or coins for the purpose of extend- ing the maximum parking time limit. Section 9. Duty of Operator. (a) It shall be the duty of the operator of any vehicle, upon parking said vehicle in any parking space adjacent to which a park- ing meter is located, to immediately deposit or cause to be depos- ited a five-cent coin o- uri�_= -cent coin or coins, as the case may be, of legal coins of the United States of America in said parking meter, for the time said vehicle is to occupy said parking space, and a failure to deposit such coin or coins shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance. (b) It shall be the duty of the operator of the vehicle, upon the expiration of the parking time paid for, to immediately remove the vehicle from the parking space and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance for the operator to allow said vehicle to remain therein beyond the maximum parking time limit as pre- scribed by this ordinance or while the parking meter is displa-ving a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been parked beyond the time limit. Section 10 . Parking. Every vehicle parked within the parking meter zones shall be so parked as to be between the lines on the street placed thereon by the City Manager and parallel thereto, and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance to park any vehicle across any such line or mark or to park any vehicle in such a way that the same shall not be entirely within the area so desig- nated by lines or markings or to park therein for a longer period of time than has been paid for by the insertion of a coin or coins in the parking meter. Section 11. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordi- nance to park any vehicle in the parking meter zones specified herein unless said vehicle is parked in a parking space designated by lines or marks for use with a par'K-ing meter. Section 12. Extending Time Limit. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance for the operator or any person to de- posit or cause to be deposit',;d in a parking meter, any coin or coins for the purpose of extending the maximum parking limit fixed by this ordinance. Section 13. Exception. Nothing herein contained shall be con- strued as prohibiting the parking of commercial in the park- ing meter zones for the purpose of loading or unloading, provided, however, that the operator of such truck, if parked in a parking space therein longer than thirty (30) minutes, shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter prescribed for the violation of this ordinance. 4 Section 14. Slugs and Counterfeit Coins . It shall be unlaw- ful and a violation of this ordinance for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or sub- stitute for a one-cent coin or a five-cent coin of the United States of America. Section 15. Injury to Parking Meters . It shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open, wilfully break, destroy, plug up, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter. Section 16. Penalties . Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100 .00) or committed to jail not exceeding thirty (30) days. Section 17. Conflicting Ordinances . All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent or in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 18. Validity of Ordinance. Should any provision of this ordinance be held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remain- der of the ordinance. Section 19. Ordinance in Effect. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication as required by law. Passed this 12th day of April, 1948. W. Prather, City Clerk W. L. Allan, Mayor Moved by Molleston, seconded by McCormick, that Ordinance No. 646 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Lawlor, McCormick, Molleston, MacDonald, Moor, Voting Nay: None I i Moved by MacDonald, seconded by Lawlor, that the rules be suspended, the second and third readings omitted, and Ordinance No. 646 placed on final passage. Voting Aye: Griffith, Lawlor, McCormick, Molleston, MacDonald, Moor Voting Nay: None Moved by McCormick, seconded by Moore, that Ordinance No. 646 do now pass . Voting Aye: Griffith, Lawlor, McCormick, Molleston, MacDonald, Moor Voting Nay: None Mayor declared Ordinance No. 646 passed. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 646 was duly and properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 12th day of April, 1948, and published in the Ames Daily Tribune on the 23d day of April, 1948. W. Prather, Auditor and Clerk