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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0455 Ord (Amend Parking Meters to Regulate Traffic)315 ORDINANCE NO. 455 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 322 OF THE CITY OF STILLWATER AUTHORIZING THE INSTALLATION OF PARKING METERS TO REGULATE TRAFFIC Section 1. Sections 2, 5 and 6 of Ordinance No. 322 entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the Installation of Parking Meters to Regulate Traffic" shall be amended as follows: "Section 2. The following portions of streets are hereby established as parking meter zones: West side of Water Street where designated by City Engineer. Both sides of Main Street. Both sides of Second Street between Nelson and Mulberry Streets. Both sides of Union Street between Chestnut and Myrtle Streets. Both sides of Olive Street between Main and Second Streets. Both sides of Chestnut Street between the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks and Third Street. South Side of Myrtle Street between Water and Third Streets. Both sides of Commercial Avenue between Main and Second Streets. Those municipal parking lots located on parts of Blocks 18, 28 and 30 of the Original Town (now City) of Stillwater and that municipal parking lot located on property leased from the railroad adjacent to Lowell Park. Section 5. Operation of Parking Meters and Parking Time Limits. (a) Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the fire or police departments, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin or coins of the United States as is required for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the meter. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance. (b) Parking a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone on Main Street between Nelson and Mulberry Streets shall be lawful for a period not to exceed sixty (60) minutes upon deposit of the proper coin or coins. Parking a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone on all of the other streets designaged in Section 2 shall be lawful for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) minutes upon deposit of tie proper coin or coins. It shall be lawful to park on meters located in the municipal parking lots for the following periods upon deposit of the proper coin or coins as herein provided: In that lot located on part of Block 18, original Town (now City) of Stillwater east of Main Street, the northerly two rows, or 26. parking meters shall be lawful for a period not to exceed 10 hours upon deposit of A 316 • • the proper coin or coins, and in the following or middle two rows of meters consisting of 26 meters shall be lawful for a period of not to exceed 4 hours upon deposit of the proper coin or coins, and in the most southerly two rows of meters consisting of 16 meters, shall be lawful for a period of not to exceed 2 hours upon deposit of the proper coin or coins. In that municipal parking lot located upon part of Block 30 of Original Town (now City) of Stillwater the most southerly 21 meters, or 2 rows, shall be lawful for a period of not to exceed 10 hours upon deposit of the proper coin or coins, and the remaining 31 meters shall be lawful for a period of not to exceed 120 minutes upon deposit of the proper coin or coins . �) In that municipal parking lot located upon part of Block 28 of the Original Town (now City) of Stillwater, shall be lawful for a period not to exceed 60 minutes upon deposit of the proper coin or coins.' In that municipal parking lot located upon railroad property adjacent to Lowell Park, shall be lawful for a period not to exceed 120 minutes. (c) Said parking meters shall be occupied in said parking meter zones every day between the hours of 8:00 o'clock A. M. and 6:00 o'clock P. M., except that on Fridays such parking meters shall be operated in said parking meter zones between the hours of 8:00 o'clock A. M. and 9:00 o'clock P. M.; provided, however, that parking meters shall not be operated on Sundays and holidays. Within the meaning of this Ordinance the term "holiday" shall include the following days only: the first day of January, the 30th day of May, the 4th day of July, the first Monday in September, the 25th day of December and the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of thanksgiving. Section 6. Parking meters, when installed and properly operated, shall be so adjusted as to show legal parking for deposit of the following coins: One hour and two hour meters, 12 minutes for each 1 cent deposited; 4 hour meters, 4 hours for each 1 dime deposited; and 10 hour meters, 10 hours for each 1 quarter deposited. The City Council may lease, on a monthly basis, those meters where 10 hour and 4 hour parking is permitted, for a monthly rate of $5.00 per month, the lessee to receive a Stillwater Municipal Parking Permit, which permit must be dis- played in such a manner so as to be readily visible to a police officer inspecting for parking meter violations. Parking without deposit of the above coins or without a display of a Municipal Parking Permit shall be unlawful." Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication. Passed: June 9, 1970 Published: June 15, 1970 ATTEST: 42,12.4-C.-B—W-Q.4J City Clerk iF1Lc�sSi Mayor at et C.7 et • 4