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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Establishing a 48 Hour Parking Limit ORDINANCE NO. 686 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A FORTY-EIGHT HOUR PARKING LIMIT ON ANY PUBLIC STREET, PARKING LOT, OR PUBLIC PLACE IN THE. CITY OF AMES, IOWA, PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND PROVIDING FOR +HE REMOVAL AND IMPOUNDING OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE DISPOSAL.. OF ABANDONED VEHICLES. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa: Section I. Definitions. ' For the purpose of this ordinance "vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, and shall include self-propelled motor vehicles, trailers, motorcycles, trucks or any special mobile equipment. i Section 2. Forty-eight hour parking limit on public streets. No person, shall park any vehicle and permit the same to remain standing upon any public street, municipally owned or based parking lot, or any public place in the Cityi of Ames, Iowa, continuously and in one place for a period of more than forty- I eight hours. :Section 3. Penalty for violations. Any person violating this ordinance i shall, upon conviction, be fined a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($ 100.00) and costs and in default of payment be committed to the city or count jail until such fine and costs are paid not exceeding thirty (30) days, or a jail sentence may be imposed not exceeding the said thirty (30) days, or a violation of this ordinance shall place such vehicle in the status of an abandoned motor I vehicle and the same may be dealt with pursuant to the following sections. Section 4. Removal and impoundment of a vehicle. Any motor vehicle found upon the streets and highways, parking lots, or public places of the City of Ames, Iowa, illegally parked or reasonably appearing to be abandoned, may be removed from said streets or highways under the direction of the Police Department and be impounded until disposed of as hereinafter provided. Im- poundment shall be in any City owned garage or area or in any privately owned public garage to be designated by the City Council. i Section 5. Impoundment fees. Within three days after the impound- ment of any such motor vehicle the owner thereof may appear and claim the same on payment of an impoundment fee of Three Dollars ($3.00) and towing charges if stored by the City of Ames, or upon payment of the towing and stor- age fees, if stored in a public garage, whereupon said vehicle shall be released. Section 6. Notice of impoundment. If any impounded vehicle is not claimed by the owner within three days after impoundment the Chief of Police on said date, shall notify the Commissioner of the Iowa 'State 'public Safety De- partment as the administrator of the State Motor Vehicle Department by regis- tered letter giving notice that he has such a motor vehicle in his possession, and giving a full and complete description of the same, including all marks of identification and factory and serial numbers. Section 7. Release of vehicle after notice. I£ within forty (40) days from notice to the owner thereof by the Commissioner of the Iowa State Public Safety Department as provided by the State statute, said owner shall appear and properly identify such vehicle, the same shall be released to him upon pay- ment of the impoundment fee and towing charges or upon payment of the towing and storage fees if impoundment in a privately owned public garage, and in addition thereto the costs incident to the location of such owner. 2 Section 8. Notice of sale. If the owner of said vehicle do s not appear within such period the Chief of Police shall advertise said motor vehicle for sale in a newspaper published within the county at least once each week for tw consecutive weeks. Section 9• Sale of unclaimed vehicle. Said sale shall be held at a time and place to be fixed in said published notice, which shall be within one week following the date of the last publication thereof, at which time and place said motor vehicle shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder thereof, for cash. Section 10. Disposal of proceeds of sale. After ,deducting costs of the sale, those incurred in attempts to locate the owner of such vehicle and the towing and storage fees or impoundment fee, the Chief of Police shall pay the remaining money to the City Clerk to be credited to the General Fund. Section 11. Payment to owner of proceeds of sale. If within six months from the date of sale the owner of any motor vehicle sold under the provisions hereof makes a showing satisfactory to the City Council of the City of Ames, that he was the owner of such motor vehicle at the time of said sale, the City Council may direct the drawing o`. a warrant paying such owner the amount for which sane was sold less impoundment fee, towing or storage charges and the costs incidental to notice to the owner and the conducting of said sale, and may direct the Clerk of the City of Ames to pay the same out of the Gen- eral Fund. Section 12. Bids for private storage. At least once each year th Council may take bids from privately owned garages for aschedule of fees` towing and storing impounded vehicles. Thereupon the City Council may nate the garage or garages to be used. 1, Section 13. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 14. Ordinance in effect. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this 20th day of March, 1950. J,,'` rather; City Clerk W. L. Allan, Mayor 3 Moved by McCormick, seconded by Bauge, that Ordinance No. 686 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye:. Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Miolleston, MacDonald, Moore Voting Nay: None Moved by MacDonald, seconded by Griffith, that the rules be suspended, the second and third readings omitted, and Ordinance No. 686 placed on final passage. Voting Aye: Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Molleston, MacDonald, Moore Voting Nay: None Moved by McCormick, seconded by Molleston, that Ordinance No. 686 do now pass. Voting Aye: Griffith, Bauge, McCormick, Molleston, MacDonald, Moore Voting Nay: None Mayor declared Ordinance No. 686 passed. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 686 was duly and properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 20th day of March, 1950, and published in the Ames Daily Tribune on the Zftk day of March, 1950. J. W. Prather, City Clerk