96-9777 Comp Fee Schedule(Published in The Salina Journal January I W, 1997)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 96-9777
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER
38, ARTICLE III, DIVISION 1 OF THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO
PARKING.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That Sections 38-40, 38-44, 38-45, 38-46, 38-47 and
38-48 of the Salina Code are hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 38-40. Designating prohibited or restricted
parking.
The City Manager may designate, and direct appropriate
signage or pavement markings for, prohibited or restricted
parking areas on any public street, park road or public
parking lot.
Section 38-44. Establishing zones.
The Board of Commissioners shall from time to time, by
resolution, designate and establish parking zones and time
limits therein.
Section 38-45. Overtime parking prohibited.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow or
permit 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 city street
or parking lot.
(b) Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found in
violation of this ordinance, the officer finding such
vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any
other information displayed on the vehicle which may
identify its owner or operator, and shall conspicuously
affix to such vehicle a traffic citation.
The owner or operator may, within forty-eight (48) hours
of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle,
enclose the notice with two dollars ($2.00) if the violation
was for parking beyond the period of legal parking for the
zone in violation of subsection (a) and pay the same to the
Clerk of the Municipal Court or by depositing the fine and
notice in a courtesy fine collection box as a penalty for
and in full satisfaction of such violation.
If the penalty is not paid within forty-eight (48) hours of
the time when the citation was attached to such vehicle, the
penalty for the violation shall increase to five dollars
($5.00) , payable to the Clerk of the Municipal Court or by
depositing the fine and notice in a courtesy fine collection
box.
The owner or operator may contest the ticket by
contacting the Clerk of the Municipal Court and requesting
a trial date. Once a request for a trial date has been made
to the Clerk, the enforcement provisions are stayed,
pending decision by the Municipal Court Judge.
If the owner or operator does not pay or request a
hearing within a period of forty-eight (48) hours, the Clerk
of the Municipal Court shall send to the owner, of the
motor vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed, a
letter informing the 'owner of the violation and warning that
in the event such letter is disregarded for a period of five
days, a warrant of arrest will be issued. The fine will
then increase to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) which will be
the amount of the bond.
The failure of such owner or operator to make such
provisions within forty-eight (48) hours of the time the
citation was issued shall render the owner or operator
subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation
of the provisions of this division. Court costs are not
assessed for overparking tickets.
Section 38-46. Marking of vehicles in areas where parking
time is limited.
The Police Department shall cause all vehicles parked in
areas where the length of parking time is limited to be
marked in such manner as to distinguish such vehicles
during the hours in which the parking requirements within
such areas are effective, and any person who shall
remove, erase, or destroy or cause to be removed, erased
or destroyed any mark placed upon any such vehicle or
upon the tires thereof by any police officer, otherwise than
for the purpose and in the course of complying the
provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
with penalties set out in Section 38-48.
Section 38-47. Temporary suspension.
When warranted by ' the public interest, the City Manager
is hereby authorized to temporarily suspend the parking
regulations outlined in this Division as they apply to
specific locations within the city.
Section 38-48. Violations.
(a) Any person who shall violate any parking provisions
of the Code or any other parking regulations, except as
otherwise provided, shall beunished by a fine of not
more than twenty-five dollars (25.00) and court costs.
(b) When a vehicle is parked within any area wherein
parking is prohibited, each full hour shall be deemed to be
a separate offense.
(c) When a vehicle is parked within an area wherein the
length of time a vehicle is permitted to park is limited,
each successive period of time, equal to the permitted time,
shall constitute a separate offense."
Section 2. That the existing Sections 38-40, 38-41.3, 38-41.7, 38-44
and 38-45 of the Salina Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption and publication once in the official city newspaper.
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ATTEST:
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Introduced: December 16, 1996
Passed: January 13, 1997
Evel axwell, Mayor