Redwood City Municipal Code § 20.191 Payment of Fine to Avoid Prosecution

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Editor's note— Ord. No. 2406, § 6, adopted June 9, 2014, renumbered Div. 9, as Div. 10.

Note— Prior ordinance history: Ord. No. 1885, § 3; Ord. No. 1940, § 1; Ord. No. 1976, § 1; Ord. No. 2139, §§ 1—3; Ord. No. 2155, § 28; Ord. No. 2203, § 1; Ord. No. 2244, § 4; Ord. No. 2272, § 4.

The following off-street parking facilities, owned or operated by the City, are hereby designated as regulated, unmetered off-street parking facilities:

A. Police Department Parking Lot, located at the front, unenclosed area, of the Police Department building, 1301 Maple Street.

B. Municipal Services Center Parking Lot, 1400 Broadway.

C. Certain parking spaces designated (with posted signs and markings made) at:

1. Library Lot C, located in an unenclosed area at the rear of the Downtown Library Branch, 1044 Middlefield Road.

2. Schaberg Branch Library, located at 2140 Euclid Avenue.

3. Redwood Shores Branch Library, located at 399 Marine Parkway.

The City Manager shall cause parking spaces to be designated and shall cause appropriate signs to be posted, and markings to be made, in all regulated, unmetered off-street parking facilities designated in this Section.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05; Ord. No. 2329, § 2, 5-12-08; Ord. No. 2379, § 4, 2-27-12; Ord. No. 2512, § 3, 10-24-22)

The City Manager is hereby authorized to issue parking permits for use in regulated unmetered off-street parking facilities in accordance with such rates and regulations as shall be established by resolution of the City Council.

The parking facility permit may consist of a windshield card or may be in such other form as the City Manager may prescribe.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any vehicle to occupy or remain in any space in the Police Department Parking Lot for more than one (1) hour, except on Sundays and holidays, when signs are erected giving notice thereof, unless such vehicle displays a valid parking permit or said vehicle bears distinctive markings, or logo, or sign (collectively, "City identification") identifying said vehicle as City-owned or as an otherwise duly designated City vehicle.

B. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any vehicle to occupy or remain in any space in the Municipal Services Center parking lot for more than one (1) hour, except on Sundays and holidays, when signs are erected giving notice thereof, unless such vehicle displays a valid parking permit or said vehicle bears distinctive markings, or logo, or sign (collectively, "City identification") identifying said vehicle as City-owned or as an otherwise duly designated City vehicle.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05; Ord. No. 2379, § 5, 2-27-12)

Windshield card permits shall be placed so as to be clearly legible through the windshield of a vehicle parked in a regulated unmetered parking facility.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05)

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any vehicle to occupy or remain in, or adjacent to, any area marked or posted by signs for no parking, or parking prohibited, or adjacent to any curb painted red, as so designated by the City Manager in any off-street parking facility described in Section 20.184, or in any turnaround circle or other traffic circulation portion of said facility so designated.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05)

It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Division to park any vehicle across lines designated parking spaces or to park a vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05)

It shall be the duty of each police officer or parking enforcement deputy to take the designated name or description of the regulated unmetered parking facility at which any vehicle is parked in violation of Sections 20.186 through 20.189 of this Division; the state vehicle license of such vehicle; the time and date of such parking; and the make of such vehicle; and issue, in writing, a notice to appear (citation) for illegal parking in the same form and subject to the same procedures provided by the laws of the State applicable to traffic violations within the City.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05)

Any operator or owner of a vehicle to whom a citation has been issued in accordance with the preceding section may, within fifteen (15) business days of the time of the issuance of such citation, pay to the appropriate court, as a penalty for and full consideration of such violation, the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) plus applicable surcharges established by resolution. The mailing, in a sealed envelope properly addressed through the United States mail, of a check, money order or postal order, within fifteen (15) business days from the time of issuance of the citation, or notice of such violation, or the deposit with the court of the sum of forty dollars ($40.00), plus applicable surcharges, within fifteen (15) business days constitutes compliance with this provision. Delivery of such envelope shall be the responsibility of such owner or operator. The failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within the fifteen (15) business days shall render such owner or operator subject to the penalties provided for violation of the provisions of this Division.

(Ord. No. 2287, § 4, 8-22-05; Ord. No. 2349, § 4, 12-14-09; Ord. No. 2362, § 4, 2-7-11)