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ORDINANCE NUMBER 8058
(Published 1n The Salina Journal huuner- c:12�Q , 1969)
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN THE CITY OF SALINA, KANSAS; PROVIDING FOR
THE METHOD OF DESIGNATING PARKING ZONES AND TIME LIMITATIONS THEREFOR; PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATION THEREOF; AMENDING ARTICLE VI OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SALINA CODE AND REPEALING
SAID ORIGINAL SECTION.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Article VI of Chapter 22 of The Salina Code is hereby amended
i. to read as follows:
"ARTICLE VI. PARKING
Section 22-169. Definitions.
For the purpose of this article the following words and
phrases shall have their meaning respectfully ascribed to them
as follows:
Vehicle. Any device by which any person or property may be
transported upon a public highway, except those operated upon
rails or permanent tracks.
Operator. Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee
of the owner, or is in physical control of a vehicle.
Park or Parking. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied
or not, upon a street or public parking lot otherwise than
temporarily for the purpose of, and while engaging in,
receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading
merchandise or in the obedience to traffic regulations,
signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle
by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator.
Parking Space. Any space duly designated for the parking of
a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably
marked on the curb or on the street adjacent to or adjoining
the parking space.
Parking Zone. Any restricted street or municipal parking lot
designated by the Board of Commissioners limiting parking to
a specified period of time.
Section 22-170. Application of Article.
The provisions of this article shall apply at all times
or at those times or places herein specified or as indicated
on official signs; Provided that the provisions of this
article imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve
any person from the duty to observe other or more restrictive
provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or
parking of vehicles in specified places or during specified
times.
Section 22-171. Authority of Board of Commissioners;
Parking Zones.
The Board of Commissioners may, by resolution, prohibit,
limit or otherwise regulate the stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles on all streets, city property, parks and other
public places where deemed necessary and in so doing may
designate zones or places where the drivers of vehicles shall
not park, stand or stop any vehicle at any time or during
specified times, and may limit the length of time which any
vehicle may park within any specified parking zone.
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Section 22-172. Manager to Sign and Mark Parking Zones.
The City Manager shall sign, mark and post all parking
zones as directed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners
and shall indicate by appropriate signs the time limitations
for parking within the respective parking zones.
Section 22-173. Designation of stalls; duty to park within.
The City Manager shall have markings painted or placed
upon the curb and/or upon the street for the purpose of
designating the parking space and each vehicle parking
therein shall park within the lines or markings so established.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article to park
any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said
vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely
within the area so designated by such lines or markings.
Section 22-174. Penalty for improper parking.
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the City,
acting in accordance with instructions issued by the City Manager,
to report any vehicle which shall be parked in violation of
Section 22-173 by showing the license number of such vehicle
and the time and place where such vehicle was parked in violation
of the provisions of this article. Each such owner or operator
may, within twenty-four (24) hours of the time when such notice
was attached to such vehicle, enclose said notice with one
dollar ($1.00) and deposit the same in the courtesy fine collection
box attached to certain parking meter posts or pay the same to
the desk sergeant at the police station as a penalty for and in
full satisfaction of such violation. If said penalty is not
paid within twenty-four (24) hours of the time when such notice
was attached to such vehicle, the penalty for such violation
shall be two dollars ($2.00) payable to the desk sergeant at
the police station, and the failure of such owner or operator
to make such providions within said twenty-four (24) hours
shall render said owner or operator subject to the penalties
hereinafter provided for violations of the provisions of this
article.
Section 22-175. Front wheel to be against curb.
All vehicles parked in a prescribed parking space shall be
parked so that the right or left front wheel of the vehicle is
resting against the curb.
Section 22-176. Overtime parking prohibited.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of
this article for any person to cause, allow, permit, or suffer
any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such
person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal
parking time established for any parking zone as herein
described or to permit a vehicle to remain or be placed in
any parking space beyond the period of time prescribed for
such parking space. In parking zones created under this
article, each maximum period of time indicated for such zone
in which a vehicle is permitted to remain illegally parked
shall constitute a separate and distinct offense and it shall
be the duty of the Police officer to place a violation ticket
thereon for each such violation.
Section 22-177. Erasing mark placed on parked vehicle by
City Officer.
No person shall erase or cause to be erased a chalk mark
or other mark placed on or about a vehicle or a time of a vehicle
by an officer of the City, which mark has been placed thereon for
the purpose of parking regulations while vehicle is standing or
parked in a designated parking zone.
Section 22-178. Length of vehicles in municipal lots.
No vehicle shall be parked within any municipal parking lot
if the vehicle shall be of an overall length in excess of
twenty (20) feet.
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Section 22-179. Police to report violations.
It shall be the duty of police officers of the City,
acting in accordance with instructions issued by the City
Manager to report any vehicle occupying a parking space in
a parking zone in violation of any of the provisions of this
article, and to indicate the state license number of such
vehicle, the time during which such vehicle is parking in
violation of any of the provisions of this article, and any
other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a
thorough understanding of the circumstances attending
such violation.
Section 22-180. Notice of violation; payment in lieu
of penalty.
Each police officer shall attach to such vehicle a notice
to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been
parked in violation of the provisions of this article. Each
such owner or operator may, within twenty-four (24) hours of
the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle enclose
said notice with one dollar ($1.00) and deposit the same in
the courtesy fine collection box attached to certain parking
meter posts or pay the same to the desk sergeant at the Police
station as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such
violation. If said penalty is not paid within twenty-four
(24) hours of the time when such notice was attached to such
vehicle the penalty for such violation shall be two dollars
($2.00), payable to the desk sergeant at the police station,
the failure of such owner or operator to make such provision
within said twenty-four (24) hours shall render said owner
or operator subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for
violation of the provisions of this article.
Section 22-181. Penalty.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this
article and any person who aids, abets or assists therein, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not exceeding
fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense or violation or be
imprisoned for not exceeding fifteen (15) days."
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
February 1, 1970 and its publication in the official city newspaper.
Section 3. Article VI of Chapter 22 of the Salina Code is hereby repealed
Introduced: December 15, 1969
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Passed: December 22, 1969
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Mayor
(SEAL)
Attest:
City Clerk