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Article III. Prohibited Parking Places and Areas
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A. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with other provisions of this code or with the direction of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal, it is unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand, park or angle park such vehicle in or on any of the following places:

1. Within an intersection area;

2. Within 20 feet of an uncontrolled intersection;

3. Within 30 feet of an intersection controlled by a stop sign, yield sign, or traffic-control signal;

4. On a crosswalk or within 20 feet of a crosswalk, whether marked or unmarked;

5. In front of or within 50 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire or police station or within any marked area contiguous to such driveway, when properly signed;

6. In front of or within a fire or emergency service access or an area signed for other safety access purposes;

7. In front of or within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;

8. Within any space marked as a fire lane;

9. In front of a public or private driveway, or within five feet of the end of the curb radius leading thereto;

10. On a sidewalk, pedestrian path, or landscape strip. However, parking shall be permitted on landscape strips subject to the maintenance requirements contained in ACC 10.36.215, and where the landscape strip is eight feet or greater in width between the curb and the sidewalk or the edge of right-of-way if there is no sidewalk, the adjacent curb is mountable, and the parked vehicle does not obstruct the use of the traveled way or sidewalk;

11. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, parking or angle parking would obstruct traffic;

12. In any alley, except that trucks or delivery vehicles may park or angle park in alleys for such time, not in excess of 30 minutes, as may be necessary for the expeditious loading or unloading of such vehicles or the delivery or pickup of articles or materials, unless otherwise restricted by this chapter;

13. Upon any bridge, overpass, underpass, trestle, or approaches thereto;

14. On that portion of any street contiguous to and opposite any outside court, corridor, passage, fire escape, exit or entrance door or any other place adjacent to, or any door opening in any outer wall of any building containing, in whole or in part, any theater, public auditorium, church, dance hall or other place of public assembly through which the public must pass to leave such building, while such building is being utilized for public gatherings; and it shall be incumbent upon and the duty of the owner or agent of the property used for the purpose herein specified to designate such prohibited areas by the placement of stanchions or signs or curb markings of the form and type satisfactory to the city engineer;

15. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

16. At any place where official traffic signs have been erected at the direction of the city engineer prohibiting parking and/or angle parking, either at all times or at such times as are indicated upon signage giving notice thereof;

17. Outside of the limits of the individual parking spaces (stalls) designated for vehicular on-street parking;

18. Within 30 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

19. At any place where all official signs prohibit stopping;

20. Within traffic lanes that are less than 18 feet wide on arterial and collector roadways, as designated in the comprehensive transportation plan, except when authorized by sign;

21. Within median lanes in the traveled way;

22. Within roadway shoulders that are less than eight feet wide;

23. Within marked bicycle lanes;

24. Upon any street or public way for the principal purposes of displaying the vehicles for sale or for advertising services for vehicles;

25. Upon any street or public way for the purpose of doing any work on, maintaining or repairing any vehicle except for repairs necessitated by an emergency;

26. Within any street-side drainage ditch or drainage swale;

27. Where prohibited by signage;

28. Adjacent to a traffic island; or

29. Any overtime parking or other parking restrictions designated in accordance with ACC 10.36.060.

B. No person shall move a vehicle not owned by them into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.

C. If any person wishes a different parking restriction sign placement or a different time parameter for any parking restrictions under this section, said person may forward such request to the city engineer. For review, the city engineer shall consult with community development and police.

D. Violation – Penalty. Any person who violates this section has committed an infraction and, except for those subsections set forth in Table 270-1, shall pay a fine of $30.00 within 15 days from the date of issuance of a notice of violation or of $40.00 if paid after the fifteenth day from issuance of the notice.

Any person who violates any of the subsections listed in Table 270-1 shall pay a fine as set forth in that table.

Table 270-1. 

Subsection

If paid within 15 days

If paid after 15th day

10.36.270(A)(1)

$40.00

$50.00

10.36.270(A)(2)

$40.00

$50.00

10.36.270(A)(3)

$40.00

$50.00

10.36.270(A)(7)

$50.00

$60.00

10.36.270(A)(8)

$50.00

$60.00

10.36.270(A)(10)

$40.00

$50.00

10.36.270(A)(16)

$50.00

$60.00

10.36.270(A)(17)

$50.00

$60.00

(Ord. 6543 § 1, 2014; Ord. 6535 § 2, 2014; Ord. 6275 § 2, 2010; Ord. 6247 § 9, 2009; Ord. 6211 § 6, 2008; Ord. 6129 § 4, 2007; Ord. 6082 § 1, 2007; Ord. 5684 § 1, 2002; Ord. 5212 § 1 (Exh. F), 1999; 1957 code § 9.22.140.)