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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 424 ORDINANCE NO. . ~ .~ /._ AN ORDINANCE P~ELATING TO TRJ_FFIC ~-%ND t~EGULATtNG USE OF PUBLIC STREETS IN THE CITY OF COL~.~,[BtA tIEtGHTS, MINNESOTA, ~LND PROVIDING FOR TItE ESTABLISH- ~fENT, REGUL, ATION _AND CONTROL OF P_k!~KING kilTERS, AND TttE INSPECTION THEF~EOF, PRESCRIBING LI~IITS OF TIME FOR PIPd~ING IN PARKING ~f~TER ZONES, AND PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE AND PUNISHMENT FOR ITS VIOLATION, Y~ND i[EL:~TED ),L%TTERS: The City Council of the City of Columbia Heights does ordain: Section 1. To control and regulate the parking of motor vehicles on certain of public streets and avenues in the City of Co[tunbia Heights, Misneso%a, the use of mechanical devices commonly kno~m as parking meters be m~d is hereby adopted. Section 2. Said parking meters shall be installed and erected at at or near the curb, and at such locations on such streets and avenues as the City Council may at any time designate. Section 3. The installation or erection of parking meters upon any street or avenue in said City shall be conclusive as to the designation of the streets and avenues or parts thereof, and the parhing of motor vehicles is controlled and regulated by said parking meters. Section 4. Parking meters installed in parking mete-,' zones shall be installed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces, and each parking meter shall be so constructed and adjusted as to show when properly operated a signal that the space adjacent to which it is installed is or iw not legally in use. Section 5. Lines or markings painted upon the curb or street ad- jacent to each parking meter shall be made designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall park within said lines or markings. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or markings, or to park a vehicle in such a position 'that it shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings. Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or operated or con- trolled by him to be upon anF streets within a parking meter zone in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is installed, at any time durin;~ which the meter is showing a signal indicating that such sl~ace is ii- legally in use--other than such time as is necessary to operate the meter to show legal parking--between the hours of S:O0 o'clock ~.H. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. of any day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted; and except on Fridays between the ho~gs of 8:00 o'clock A.M. and 9:00 o'clock Section 7. Parking meters when installed and properly ol~erated shall be so adjusted so as to show legal p~rking during a period of twelve minutes upon and after the deposit therein of a United States one cent coin, 2~ ~inutes upon and after the deposit of two United States one cent coins, 36 minutes upon and after th~ deposit therein of three United States one cent coins, 48 minutes u~ .n and after the deposit therein of four United States one cent coins, 60 minutes upon and after the deposit therein of five United States one cent coines or one United States five cent coin, and 120 minutes upon and after the deposit therein of five United States one cent coins and one United States five cent coin or two United States five cent coins, or one United States ten cent coin. Pay- merit of the afores~d amounts for the above period shall be made for parking in the areas in which pe~rking meters are installed as above provided. Section 8. It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parhing meter any slug, device, or metallic substitute for a one cent or a five cent or a ten cent coin of the United States. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to open, or for any person to deface or tamper with or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed pursu~mt to this ordinance, or hitch any animals thereto. Section 10. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to keep account of all violations of this ordinance. (a) He shall keep an account of and report the number of each park- lng meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, the date and hour of such violation, the make and the State license number of such vehicle, and any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation. (b) He is to attach to such vehicle a notice stating that it has been parked in violation of this ordinance, and instructing the owner or operator to report to the office of the City Clerk or to the office of the Chief ef Police in regard to such violation. The owner or operator, may, within twenty-four hours after the time when such notice was attached to Such vehicle, pay the City Clerk, or his duly authorized deputy, or the Chief e£ i-~olice or his authorized deputy, in full satisfaction of sucik violation, the sum of fifty cents (50¢). Section 11. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punis}~a~le by a fine of not less than ~2.00 and not exceeding $50.00, or ]~y imprisonment in the City Jail for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days. Section 12. The coins deposited in parking meter~ are required and shall be used to defray the expense of proper~regulation of traffic upon the public streets of the City of Columbia Heights; to provide for the costof supervision, regulation and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones and to aver the cost of purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of parking meters. Section 13. It shall be the duty of the City Manager to designate some person, or persons, to make regular collections of the money deposi- ted in the said Parking meters, and it shall be the duty of the City Mana.- ger or his designated deputy to count the money and place it in a special fund to be kno~u~ as the "Parking Meter Fund" which fund shall be exclusiw~ly for the purposes specified in Section t2. Such person, or persons, makinl~ such collections, shall be bonded in such amount as the City Council shall designate. Section 14. This ordinance shall be deemed to be in additionand supplementary to and not in conflict with nor a repeal of existing or- dinances of this City, but shall be an additional provision for the regu- lation of traffic and parking in the parking meter zones provided for herein. Section 15. If any section, part of section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining provisions hereof shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. Section 16. All ordinances and parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. Section 17. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its adoption and publication. 1st Reading: 2nd Reading: -Passed: --Published: November 10, 1958 November 24, 1958 Offered by King Seconded by Chies Roll Call - All Ayes. Secretary to the City Council