Yreka Municipal Code Ch. 10.60 Municipal Off-Street Parking

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* Prior ordinance history: Ords. 326, 328, 338, 495, 560, 691, 696—698, 741, 742 and 778.

The city, a municipal corporation, is the owner and operator, as a public municipal facility, of such parking lots and municipal parking facilities as shall from time to time be established or designated by resolution of the city council, duly and regularly adopted.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

(a) 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 and may be by parking meters, parking tickets, attendants or any other appropriate means, and may be established by the city council from time to time by resolution setting forth all procedures, regulations and charges therefore; and if so established, the notice of the regulations shall be posted in a conspicuous place at or adjacent to the public off-street parking facilities or public off-street parking lots.

(b) On those public off-street parking lots which are to be controlled by parking meters, the chief of police shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained; or at the discretion of the city council, the chief of police shall cause parking ticket dispensers to be installed and maintained.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

The city council may designate by resolution all or any portion of a city off-street parking facility wherein free parking is permitted in any such lot so designated. No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle for a period of more than twelve hours nor between the hours of two a.m. and five a.m. It is unlawful to change the oil or repair any vehicle within any such parking lot.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

The city council may designate by resolution all or any portion of a municipal parking lot wherein free two-hour parking is permitted between the hours of nine a.m. to six p.m. When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof on such parking lot, or portion thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle for a period of time longer than two hours at any time between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Saturdays and Sundays or when such vehicle is authorized to park for a greater time period.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

Except as is otherwise allowed herein, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to permit the vehicle to remain parked in any parking space past the time allowed in Section 10.60.025.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

All vehicles parked in a municipal off-street parking lot shall be parked in suitably marked spaces, at right angles to the curbs provided therefor, with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the curb designated for the parking space.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

Parking spaces on public off-street parking lots shall be designated by lines or other appropriate markings. When parking spaces are so designated, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop, stand or park the 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 of any public or off-street parking lot or in any manner which shall obstruct or interfere 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. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

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 returns 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.

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 it is a driveway or place for the leaving of such parking lot.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

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 two-way traffic movement.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

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

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

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

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

The municipal parking facilities now or hereafter acquired or established by the city shall be under the supervision of the chief of police.

(a) It is unlawful to park any vehicle or vehicles upon the off-street parking facility as defined in and designated pursuant to Section 10.60.010 of this code for a period of twenty-four hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays.

(b) It is unlawful to park any vehicle or vehicles for a time longer than that upon which parking rates, if any, have been paid and discharged.

(c) It is unlawful to park any vehicle or vehicles for a period of twenty-four hours after the parking time paid thereon or contracted for with the city, if any, has expired.

Any vehicle so parked or stored for a period longer than twenty-four hours shall, by the chief of police, be removed from the premises 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.

Any vehicle or vehicles removed for storage and safe keeping pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be impounded subject to a possessory lien in favor of the city, pursuant to the provisions of Section 22651(n) of the Vehicle Code, with the following storage and removal charges and fees:

(1) Accumulated unpaid parking charges to the time of removal;

(2) Actual towing and storage charges.

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.

Failure on the part of the owner, operator or person in charge of any vehicle so removed from any of the municipal off-street parking facilities to redeem his vehicle or vehicles within the time and in the manner provided by law shall be cause for the chief of police to proceed to sell the vehicle to satisfy the lien and all charges and fees unpaid thereon in the manner in such cases provided.

(Ord. 801 § 1(part), 2008).

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. 801 § 1(part), 2008).