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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0516 Ordinance• r•17.qkr I' 1 ORDINANCE NO. L 0 74, .3 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO TRAFFIC AND REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THE CITY OF PASCO; PROVIDING FOR � 4 THE INSTALLATION, REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF P_9.RKING NITERS; REQUIRING 7"'• THE DEPOSIT OF COINS FOR THE USE OF 5 PARKING METERS; DEFINING PARKING METER ZONES; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF REVENUES FROM PARKI-NG METERS; PROVIDING FOR THE �61 ENFORCEIM72 THEREOF; DEFINING OFFENSES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES. 7 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS* 8 SECTION 1. Purposes of this ordinance 9 (a) The word "vehicle" shall mean every device capable of 10 being moved upon a public highway and in, upon or by which any 11 person or property is, or may be, transported or drawn upon a 12 public highway, excepting devices moved by human or animal power 13 or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; ` 14 (b) The word "person" shall mean every natural person, firm, 15 -co-partnership, corporation, association or organization; 16 (c) The word "operator" shall mean every person who is in 17 actual physical control -of a vehicle, as herein defined, upon a 18 public street or highway of the City of Pasco. 19 SECTION 2. The following described streets are hereby estab- 20 lished as a parking meter zone; The north and south sides of gest 21 Lewis Street from the west curb line of Second Street to the east 22 curb line of Fifth Street; the east and west side of South Fourth 23 Street from the north curb line of .Columbia Street to the south 24 curb line of Nest Lewis Street; the east and west sides of North Fourth Street from'the north curb line of idlest Lewis Street to the 25 south line of West :Clark Street; the east and west sides of South Z 46 o ° Third Street =between the south curb line of blest Lewis Street and V z 27 'W a = 4Oa: the north curb line of the alley running between West Lewis Street o 3 28 3_131 .o and West Columbia Street; the east and. west sides of North Third Y a 29 a Street from the north curb line of West Lewis Street to the south 30 curb line of the alley running between blest Lewis Street and West 31 Clark Street; and in said zone and in such other parking meter 32 Page i I s 1 zones as may hereafter be created by ordinance, the City Street 2 Superintendent is hereby authorized and directed to install or place 3 parking meters immediately and shall cause parking meter spaces 4 to be designated therein in accordance with the provisions of this 5 ordinance. 6 SECTION 3. Such.parking meters shall be placed upon the curb 7 along side of:; or next to, individual parking places to be designated 8 as hereinafter provided. Each parking meter shall be placed or set 9 in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking 10 space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each said 11 meter shall be arranged so that,upon the expiration of the legal 12 pa,.rking time,it will indicate by a mechanical operation that the 13 lawful -.-parking period has expired. 14 SECTION 4. The Superintendent of Streets is instructed to have 1, 15 lines or markings painted upon the curb adjacent to each parking 16 meter for the purpose of indicating the parking space for which said 17 meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked along side of or next 18 to any -parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so 19 established. It shall be unlawful. and a violation of this ordinance 20 to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park such vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely w:ithift,. 21 22 the area so designated. SECTION 5. When any vehicle shall be parked in any space along 23 side of or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator 24 of said vehicle shall upon entering said parking space immediately 25 deposit a coin of the United States in such parking meter in the Z 26 Naz denomination called for in the -particular location, and.such parking Wim= < 27 space may then be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during.the IL_J 3 J 28 period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the aYN a 29 IL street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle 30 shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking 31 time limit fixedf'gr such parking space, the parking meter shall 32 Page — 2 1, 1 display a sign or signal showing illegal parking, and,in that event, 2 such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the 3 period of legal parking time. 4 SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, 5 permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of said person 6 to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time 7 established for any parking meter zone as herein described. 8 SECTION -7. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provi- 9 sions of this ordinance for any person to deposit or cause to be 10 deposited in a parking meter a coin for the purpose of increasing 11 or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal 12 parking time which has been established for the parking space adjacent 13 to which said parking meter is placed., 14 SECTION S. It shall be unlawful to deposit, or cause to be 15 deposited, in'any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for 16 a coin of the United States. 17 SECTION 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to deface,injure, 18 tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy, or impair the use - 19 fulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this 20 ordinance. 21 SECTION 10. Notice of the violation of the provisions of this 22 ordinance may be given -in writing on a form provided by the Police 23 Department for•violations of this ordinance, same to be placed in a 24 conspicuous place on the vehicle parked and requiring the operator 25 thereof to appear within twenty-four hours at the Police Station for Z 26 booking and subsequent trial on the charge placed against him. o220 0 27 SECTION 11. The coins required to be deposited in parking LL 28 meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fess to a a Y N 29 provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the a 30 public streets and to cover the cost of supervision, inspection, 31 installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking 34 space and parking meter described herein, and also the cost of super - Page — 3 — 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 vising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby and to be hereafter created. SECTION 12. Every person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failure to comply, shat 1 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.) or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Passed and approved this _day of- 1943. ATTEST: City CleaF 21 APPROVED AS TO FORM: 22 G t�V—' 4 Vc 23 ,,./C'ittr Attorney 24 25 Z 26 020 U,Z 27 W CE 2U. Ue N 0_3 28 3X0 Y a 29 o. 30 31 32 Page