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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 9, Page 1032, No Ordinance NumberI Page 1032 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION, REGULATION,( CONTROL AND OPERATION OF PARING METERS ON CERTAIN STREETS AND C--'ga, WITHIN CERTAIN ZONES WITHIN THE CITY OF PVUCAH, AND PROVIDING 9�- PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. /o V i BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COi•4MISSIONERS OF THE {CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. The word "vehicle" as used herein shall mean any device lin, upon or by which any person or property is or may be trans- ported upon a street or highway, except those operated upon rails ; i or tracks. I I The word "Park" of "parking" when used herein shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily,for the purpose of and while actually engaged in unloading or loading passengers or merchandise. The word "loading zone" when used herein shall mean a space of section of the curb set aside for the exclusive use of loading and,unloading persons, supplies and merchandise. SECTION 2. That the parts of streets in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, described in Section 15 of this ordinance and established' I as parking meter zones, and in said zones and such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created by ordinance of the City of Paducah, the (-'ity is authorized to have installed parking meters and is authorized to cause parkin; meter s?aces to be designated in accordance with the provisions of 'chis ordinance. When signs are erected, or curbs are painted giving notice thereof or parking meters are installed in�each 1block ,no ehicle shall remain parked for longer than one hour at any time between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays and holidays officially sat by the Board of Commissioners, I within the district or upon any of the streets described in Section I 15 of this ordinance, nor for longer than one hour at any time between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the Board of Commissioners Nithin the district or upon any of the streets described in Section L5 of this ordinance, nor for longer than one hour at any time )etween the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. of anv day PYl. + Sundays and holidays officially set by the Board of Commissioners within the district or upon any of the streets described in lection 15 of this ordinance. Page 1033 SECTION 3. That the City Manager, or such officers or employes of the City of Paducah as he may select, are hereby authorized'to install or place parking meters in such parking meter zones hereby created or to be created by such ordinances of the City of Paducah. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb alongside of or next to individual parking places to be designated as hereinafter provided. Each said parking meter shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking space alongside of same is or is not in use. The City ?.tanager, or such officers or employes above referred to shall provide for the installation, regulation, control operation and use of the parking meters provided for in this ordinance and shall maintain said meters in good workable condition Each said parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of a Five Cent coin of the United States therein for a period of time conforming to the park- ing limit set out in Section 2 of this ordinance, or hereafter prescribed by the ordinances of the City of Paducah for the part of the street upon vrhich said meter is placed; and each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue operation from the time of depositing such coin until the expiration of the time fixed by said schedules and ordinances as the parking limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed, Each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said parking limit it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the dropping of proper signal that the lawful parking period as fixed by the ordinance of the City of Paducah has expired. SECTION 4. 'Ilhen any vehicle shall be parked in any space alon;;side of or next to which there is located, under this ordinance, a park- ing meter, the owner, operator, manager or driver of said vehicle i shall upon entering the said parking space immediately deposit a Five Cent coin of the United States in the parking meter alongside of or next to said parking space, and the said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking limit provided by the ordinance of the City of Paducah for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle shall remain I parked in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed by the ordinances of the City of Paducah for such parking space, the parking meter shall display a sign showing illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked over- Page 1034 time and beyond the time fixed by the ordinances of the City of Paducah, and the parkin of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period: of time fixed bow or hereafter by the ordinances of the City of Paducah in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this ordinance and punished as he.einafter set out. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person oto permit a vehicle to remain 6n be placed in any parking space :alongside or next to which any parking meter is placed while said (meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have 'been already parked beyond the period of time fixed by the (ordinances of the City of Paducah for such parking space. SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of each police officer to take the number of any meter at which any vehicLe is overparked as provided in this ordinance, the state vehicle license number of such vehicle, the time and date of such overparking, and the make of vehicle, and issue in writing on a form provided by the City a notice to answer to the charge of overparking within five days during the hours and at the place specified in the notice. SECTION 7. Any vehicle parked in any parking space in any parking meter zone shall be puked with the hood of such vehicle alongside of or next to the parking meter alongside of such parking space and shall be parked within the lines marked on the street for such parking space as provided hereinafter. SECTION 8. The City Manager, or suchofficer or employes of the City as h� shall select, shall cause said parking meters to be placed in the parking space designated by a plat and drawing of the same which has been received, filed by and adopted by the Board of Commissioners, and all such placing of parking m ters shall be in accordance with said plans, plat or drawing which is now on file with the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners, and as a ort of the minutes of the meeting of said Board of Commissioners held on the 11th day.of May, 1936. It shall be unlawful and an offense to park any vehicle across any line or mark designated for any parking meter or parking space to which a meter has beeri assigned, in such I way that the same shall not be complet:ly within the area so designated by such lines or markings. ffm ME MIN Page 1035 SECTION 9. The City Manager, or such other officers or employes as he may designate are authorized to mark off and establish zones in accordance with said plans, plat and drawing so adopted by the Board of Commissioners as aforesaid, and to properly so mark said zone. No person shall stand or park vehicles in a loading zone for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers for a period of time in excess of two (2) minutes, The use of loading zones for the loading and unloading of merchandise shall be confined to the handling of heavy or bulky materials, and all such loading or junloading shall be performed in an expeditious manner, and no vehicle shall remain in a loading zone for a period of time greater than necessary to expeditiously load or unload same, nor while the loperator thereof is soliciting or engaged oth,>rwise than in the loading or unloading of the vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allowed for securing a receipt of delivery. The use of metered spaces for loading or unloading merchandise as defined above will be permitted before the hour of 9:00 A.M. without the depositing of a coin in the parking meter of such space, except that the vehicle must load or unload centered as nearly as pos-ible in a metered space and in the manner above described. The above regulations shall apply only between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. on all days except Sundays. SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful and an offense to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for Five Cent coin.of the United States. SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any un- authorized person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this ordinance. SECTION 12. A notice of overparking may be presented to the Chief Df Police within 24 hours, and upon payment of the sum of $1.00 the complaint shall be considered as having been satisfied. In case the tame of the owner or operator shall not be added to the record of traffic violators kept by the Chief of Police as provided by )rdinance 2367, nor shall the app arance of the owner's or )perator's name on the said records for previous offenses mitigate igainst the satisfaction of this notice by the payment of the above Page JOZ6 mentioned fine. i When an overparking notice shall not have been presented within 24 hours to the Chief of Police, or when the vehicle shall have been impounded, the overparking complaint shall be treated lin the same manner now applying to traffic violations, nor shall the above provided fine apply to parking regulation violations committed in other than parking meter zones opposite which parking mL:ters have been installed. SECTION 13. Any person, firm or corporation, who shall violate any of i.the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be deemed I guilty of an offense and fined not to exceed the sum of $25.00 i Dollars. Any person aho shall aid, abet or assist in the violation' jof any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of an i offense and shall be fined not to exceed $25.00 Dollars. I Any person, fir* or corporation who shall violate any of ,the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor i Viand upon conviction shall be fined not to exceed the sum of $25.00 Dollars. SECTION 14. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a five cent coin for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the time I fixed by the ordinances of the City of Paducah for parking in the parking space alongside of or next to which said parking meter is placed. SECTION 15. The streets in which said parking meters shall be placed and established and which also embrace the loading zones herein established are as follows: Broadway from First Street to Seventh Street Jefferson Street from Second Street to Seventh Street Kentucky avenue from Second Street to Sixth Street The West side of First Street from Kentucky Avenue to Broadway Second Street from Broadway to Jefferson Street Third Street from Kentucky Avenue to Jefferson Street Fourth Street from Kentucky Avenue to Jefferson Street Fifth Street from Kentucky Avenue to Jefferson Street Sixth Street from Kentucky Avenue to Jefferson Street SECTION 16. The payment of the parking meter fee hereinbefore provided shall authorize and entitle any vehicle using said parking space to the use thereof for one hour. Page 1037 SECTION 17, That any ordinance inconsistent with any of the terms and provisions of this ordinance is hereby repealed,•provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such in- consistency and in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing the subject matt r covered by this ordinance. SECTION 18. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or such officers or employes as he may designate to collect up and account I for all monies deposited in said meters daily, and which col - (lection shall be reported to the City Treasurer, and shall be accounted for in a separate fund to be known as the Parking Meter Fund, and paid out as provided in a contract heretofore entered i into between the Parkrite Company and the City of Paducah, and all that part of the income from said meters which belongs to the City of Paducah shall become a part of its general fund, and to be used for the puipose for which the same has heretofore been or may hereafter be provided for. SECTION 19. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect, from and after its adoption. Mayor - Passed by the Board of Co( issioners May 19, 1936 Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, May 20, 1936 i