Weed Municipal Code Ch. 14.16 Municipal Parking Facilities

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For statutory provisions on municipal parking facilities, see Gov. Code § 37353 and § 54300 et seq.

The city, a municipal corporation, is the owner and operator, as a public municipal facility of the following off-street parking facilities:

A. Parking Lot No. 1 consisting of all those certain premises situated in the city, and which are particularly described as follows:

All that portion of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 41 north, Range 5 west, M.D.M., described as beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 1, Block 8 of the First Addition to Shastina as shown upon the official plat thereof filed in the office of the county recorder of Siskiyou County in Book 1, Town Maps, page 68; thence south 8°00′ west along the east line of a twelve-foot alley one hundred twenty-five feet; thence south 82°00′ east eighty feet; thence north 8°00′ east one hundred twenty-five feet to the southeast corner of said Lot 1, Block 8; thence north 82°00′ west along the south line of said Lot 1, Block 8, eighty feet to the point of beginning.

B. Parking Lot No. 2 consisting of all those certain premises situated in the city, and which are particularly described as follows:

Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 7, according to the map of first addition to Shastina, filed in the Siskiyou County Recorders Office on February 11, 1920 in Liber 1 Town Maps, pages 68 and 105 therein. Assessor's Parcel Nos. 060-301-050 and 060-301-060.

C. Such other and additional parking lots and municipal parking facilities as shall from time to time be established by ordinance duly and regularly adopted or by resolution of the city council.

(Ord. 383-2007 §§ 1, 2, 2007; Ord. 75-66 § 1, 1966).

The method of regulation and control of parking or standing of vehicles in public off-street parking facilities and public off-street parking lots shall be determined by the city council.

(Ord. 75-66 § 2, 1966).

The chief of police, in consultation with the city manager and city attorney, shall develop a plan to issue permits for overnight parking at municipal parking facilities to the occupants of nearby properties that do not have appropriate off-street parking available to them. The fees to be paid for the permits shall be established by city council resolution.

(Ord. No. 445-2018, § 1, 4-12-2018)

All vehicles parked in a municipal off-street parking lot shall be parked in suitable and designated parking spaces.

(Ord. 75-66 § 3, 1966).

Parking spaces on public off-street parking lots shall be designated by lines or other appropriate markings. When parking spaces are so designated, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand or park said vehicle other than in a regularly designated parking or loading space, across any such line or marking, or in such position that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so designated as a parking space. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped, nor shall stand, either wholly or partially in any driveway or any public or off-street parking lot, or in any manner which obstructs or interferes with the free movement of vehicles in such driveway or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or interfere with ingress to or egress from any regularly designated parking space.

(Ord. 75-66 § 4, 1966).

A. It is unlawful for any person to enter any public off-street parking lot over any area or driveway or the portion between any curb return which is not marked with the word "Entrance" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs or words that it is a driveway or place for the entering of such parking lot.

B. It is unlawful for any person to move any vehicle from any such parking lot into any public way over any area except an area marked with the word "Exit" or otherwise indicated by arrows, signs or words that is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking lot.

(Ord. 75-66 § 5, 1966).

It is unlawful for any person to travel in the direction opposite to that designated in one-way aisles. It is unlawful for any person to travel on the left side of an aisle designated for any two-way traffic movement.

(Ord. 75-66 § 6, 1966).

It is unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any vehicle having an overall length in excess of twenty-one feet in any public off-street parking lot.

(Ord. 75-66 §7, 1966).

It is unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any house, boat or truck trailer in any public off-street parking lot.

(Ord. 75-66 §8, 1966).

The city police are authorized and directed to check the parking spaces on municipal parking lots for violation of Sections 14.16.030 through 14.16.080.

(Ord. 75-66 §9, 1966).

A. No vehicle or vehicles shall be parked or stored by the owner, operator or person in charge thereof upon municipal off-street parking facility for a time longer than a period of seventy-two hours. Any vehicle so parked or stored for a period longer than seventy-two hours shall be removed from the premises by the chief of police, and shall be subject to a possessory and safe-keeping lien in favor of the city, which lien shall attach to any vehicle or vehicles so parked.

B. Any vehicle or vehicles removed for storage and safe keeping as provided in this section shall be impounded subject to a possessory lien in favor of the city, pursuant to the provisions of Section 22851 of the Vehicle Code, with the following storage and removal charges and fees:

1. Actual towing and storage charges;

2. Payment of any fine imposed as provided by this chapter.

C. No vehicle shall be allowed by the chief of police or any policeman of the city to be removed from the premises by the owner, operator or person in charge until all charges and fees have been paid and discharged.

(Ord. 75-66 §10, 1966).

The chief of police shall post, in a conspicuous place on municipal Parking Lot No. 1, information as he may deem necessary for the proper management of the municipal off-street parking facilities.

(Ord. 75-66 §11, 1966).

In any prosecution charging a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter governing the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle in any public off-street parking lot, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was stopped, standing or parked in violation of any provision of this chapter, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such stopping, standing or parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such motor vehicle was the person who stopped, left standing or parked such motor vehicle at the point where and for the time during which such violation occurred, and that such registered owner was the person who failed to make the payments upon the notices provided for by this chapter.

(Ord. 75—66 §13, 1966).

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of an infraction. Every violation is punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for the first violation, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for a second violation of the same section within one year, and a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars for each additional violation of the same section within one year.

(Ord. 140—75, 1975: Ord. 75—66 §12, 1966).