5124 Traffic and Use of Public Streets1
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ORDINANCE 110. 5124
_First Published in the Salina Journal 1945)
AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic and regulating the use of public streets and
highways in the City of Salina; prescribing regulations relative to the
parking of vehicles upon such public streets and highvrays; providing for
purchase, leasing, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, super-
vision, regulation and control of the use of parking meters; defining and
providing for the establishment of parking meter zones upon the public
streets and highways and providing for the payment thereof; providing for
an inforcement thereof and providing penalties for the violation hereof.
WHEREAS, because of traffic conditions that have existed in certain sections of
the City of Salina, the free movement of traffic in those sections is, and has
been, impeded for a long period of time; and
V,IHEREAS, attempts to regulate the traffic and parking in the aforesaid areas have
not been as successful as is desirable;
1101J TFFEREFORE, FSE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of
Salina, Kansas;
Section 1. The word vehicle as used herein, shall mean any device by which
any person or property r,,ay be transported upon a public highway, except those
operated upon rails or permanent tracks.
Section 2. The term parking meter as used herein, shall mean a mechanical
device located upon a public street as sidewalk in a place regularly designated
as a parking zone as hereinafter defined, vrhich device shall record a certain
number of minutes by the use of a clock mechanism determining the period of time
for which parking privileges may be extended to the person so depositing such coin.
Section 3. A parking meter zone as used herein, shall mean representing a
certain designated and marked off section of the public street within the marked
boundaries where the vehicle may be temporarily parked and allowed to remain for
such period of time as the parking meter attached thereto may indicate. Such
parking meter zones shall be further designated by a parking meter which shall be
located upon the sidewalk opposite the marked boundaries of said zone.
Section 4. Park'_ng meter zones as herein above described, are hareby
created on the following streets of the City of Salina:
On both sides of Santa Fe Avenue from Walnut to Ash Street;
On both sides of Iron Avenue from Fifth Street to Seventh Street;
On both sides of Seventh Street south from Iron Avenue as far
as G4 parking meters will go and on both sides of Seventh
Street north from Iron Avenue as far as 24 parking meters
will go.
And from time to time hereafter as traffic Condit ons require in such other streets
and avenues as are selected by resolution of the governing body of the City of Salina
for the location of such zones.
Section 5. And in said parking meter zones the City Manager shall cause
parking meters to be installed and shall cause parking meter spaces to be designated
as hereinafter provided, and shall fix the tine limitations for legal parking in
such zones, and the hours during the day and night when the parking meter or meters
must be used and when the time limitations shall be effec�ive, in compliance with
the provisions of this ordinance; and shall indicate the tizLe limitations by designa-
ting the same on the parking meter or meters or by appropriate signs posted in
proximity to said meter or meters in said zones.
Section 6: City Idanager is hcreby directed to provide for the purchase, leasing,
acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of the
parking meters provided for in this ordinance and to maintain the said meters in good
workabe condition and the City Yanager is hereby vested with power and authority to enter
into a contract for a nine months trial period, after approval of the terms and condi-
tions thereof by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, for the leasing and
installation of parking meters, the payment for such meters and/or installation to be
provided for solely from the receipts, funds and revenues obtained from the operation
of said parking meters without in any manner obligating the city to pay for the same
from any other source. And the City Manager is further authorized and empowered to enter
into a contract, after approval of the terms and conditions thereof by the Board of Com-
missioners of the City of Salina, for such protection and maintenance of said parking
meters as may be necessary to maintain the some in ood operating condition and to pay for
such parts, protection and maintenance, exclusively from the receipts, funds and revenues
received from the operation of said parking meters.
Section 7. The parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established as
provided in Section 4 hereof shall be placed -,,,ion the curb immediately adjacent to the
individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed
or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking space adjacent
to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter ins7alled shall indicate
by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the city and when operated shall
indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking$
and on the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or over parking.
Section 8. The City 14anager shall have markings painted or placed upon the curb
and/or upon the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating
the parking space for which said meter is to be used and each vehicle parking adjacent
or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance to park any vehicle across any
such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such oosition that the slime shall not
be entirely within the area so designated by such lines or markings.
Section 9. When a parking space in any parking meter zone is parallel with the
adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such park ng space shall be parked
with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to such meter.
Section 10. When any vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which a
patking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, the
operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking space, immediately
deposit or cause to be deposited a five cent coin of the United States, in such park-
inC mater, and put such meter in operation, and failure to deposit such five cent
coin and put the meter in operation shall constitute a breach of this ordinance and
shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed in Section 16 hereof. Upon the
deposit of such five cent coin and placing said meter in operation, the parking space
may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking 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 fixed for such parking space, the parking meter shall by its dial and pointer
indicate such illegal parking, and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered
as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time and the parking of a
vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking shall be a violation of this
ordinance and punished as hereafter set out.
Section 11. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of ti -ds
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ordinance 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 meter zone as herein described.
Section 12. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
ordinance for any person to permit a vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking
space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating
that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already parked beyond the period
of time prescribed for such parking space.
Section 13. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
ordinance for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break,
destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions
of t -.is ordinance.
Section 14. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of tAis
ordinance to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter, any slug, device
or metallic substance, or any other substitute, for a five -cent coin of the United
States,
Section 15. It shall be the duty of police officers of the city, acting in
accordance with instructions issued by the City Manager to report:
(a) The number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle
occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has
been parking in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
(b). The state license number of such vehicle.
(c) The tirne during which such vehicle is parking in violation of
any of the provisions of this ordinance;
(d). Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
Each such police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner or
operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of
this ordinance and instructing such owner or operator to report at the Police Station
of the City of Salina in regard to such violation. Each such owner or operator, may,
within 24 hours of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay to the
desk sergeant at the police station as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such
violation the sum of One Dollar, the failure of such ovmer or operator to make such
payment within said 24 hours, shall render such owner or operator subject to the
penalties hereinafter provided, for violation of the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 16, Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance
and any person who aids, abets or assists therein, shall, upon conviction thereof by
the Police Court be subject to a fine of any amount not exceeding 450.00 for each
offense or violation or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 15 days, in the city
jail or in any place provided by the municipality for the detention of prisoners or
both.
Section 17. The five cent coins required to be deposited in parking meters as
provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper
regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets, and also the cost of super-
vision and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created here-
by, and to cover the cost of the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, installation, operation,
maintenance, supervision, regulation and control of the parking meters described herein.
Section 18. This ordinance shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary to,
and not in conflict with nor a repeal of prior or existing ordinances of this city,
but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of traffic and parking in those
zones provided for herein.
Section 19. If a 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 20. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage and publication in the official city paper.
Introduced, November 5, 1945
Passed, November 13, 1945
J. H. Ybore, Jr.
Ulayor
Attest: Chas. E. Banker
City Clerk
STATE OF KANSAS )
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COUNTY 0 SALINE )
I, Chas, E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a true and correct co .y of Ordinance No. 5124 passed
and approved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina November 13, 1945;
and a record on the vote of its final adoption is found on page Journal No. 15.
ty Clerk
(First Published in the Salina ai'ournal,a:tday of '11.,,&,1945)
ORDI1' Al CE NO. 5124
An Ordinance relating to traffic and regulating the use of
public streets and highways in the City of Salina; prescribing
regulations relative to the parking of vehicles upon such public
streets and highways; providing for purchase, leasing, acquir-
ing, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regula-
tion and control of the use of parking meters; defining and
providing for the establishment of parking :meter zones upon the
public streets and highways and providing; for the payment there-
of; providing for an Enforcement thereof and providing penalties
for the violation hereof.
WHEREAS, because of traffic conditions that have existed
in certain sections of the City of Solins., the free movement of
traffic in those sections is, and has been, impeded for a long
period of time; and,
WHEREAS, attempts to regulate the traffic and parking in
the afore said areas have not been as successful as is desirable;
BONN THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Board of Commissioner.
Of City of Salina, Kansas;
Section #1: The word vehicle as used herein, shall mean
any device by which any person or property may be transported
upon a public highway, except those operated upon rails or
permanent tracks.
Section jj,2: The term parking meter as used herein, shall
mean a mechanical device located upon a public street or side-
walk in a place regularly designated as a parking zone as Here-
inafter defined, which device shall record a certain. number cif
minutes by the use of a clock mechanism determining the period
of time for which parking privileges may be extended to the per-
son_ so depositing such coin.
Section 0: A parking meter zone as used herein, shall
mean representing a certain designated and marked off section
of the public street within the marked boundaries where the
vehicle may be temporarily parked and allowed to remain for such
period of time as the parking meter attached thereto may indi-
cate. Such parkin- meter zones shall be further designated by
a parkin- meter which shall be located upon the sidewalk oppo-
site the marked boundaries of said zone.
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Section 4; Parking rie ter zones as herein above described,
are hereby ci°eated on the following streets of the City of Salina:
On both sides of Santa Fe Avenue from Walnut to Ash Street;
on 'Doth sides of Iron Avenue from 5th Street to 7th Street;
on both sides of Seventh Street South from Iron Avenue as far
as 24 parking meters will go and- on both sides of Seventh
Street North from Iron Avenue as far as 24 parking meters will go
And from time to time hereafter as traffic conditions require in
such other streets and a,enues as are selected by resolution of
the Governing Body of the City of Salina for the location of such
zones.
Section J5: And in said parking meter zones the City lvanager
shall cause park'_ng meters to be installed and shall cause parking!
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meter spaces to be designated as hereinafter provided, and shall
fix the time limitations for legal parking in such zones, and the
44 hours during the day and night V:hen the park l_ng meter or meters
trust be used and when the time limitations shall be effective, in
compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance; and shall indi-
cate the time limitations by designating the same on the parking
meter or meters or by appropriate signs posted in proximity to
said me ter or „meters in said zones.
Section '6: City Manager is hereby directed to provide for
the purchase, leasing, acquiring,` installation, operation, main-
tenance, supervision, regulation and use of the parking meters
provided for in this ordinance and to maintain the said meters in
ood workable condition and the City I.Zanager is hereby vested
ith power and authority to enter into a contract for a nine month
rial period, after approval of the terms and conditions thereof
the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, for the
(leasing and installation of parking meters, the payment for such
tineters and/or installation to be provided for solely from the re-
ceipts, funds and revenues obtained from the operation of said
king
meters
without
in any manner
obligating the City
to pay
fort
same
from
any other
source. And
the City I42ana _.er is
further
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uthorized and empowered to enter into a contract, after approvalthe terms and conditions thereof by the Board of Commissioners
Of the City of Salina, for such protection and maintenance of said
``arking park`.ng meters as may be necessary to maintain the same in
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Section f,-6 (Cont1d)
goad operating condition and to pay for such parts, protection and'
maintenance, exclusively from the receipts, funds and revenues re -
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ceived from the operation of said park.' n5 meters.
Section #7: The Parking meters installed in the parking
meter zones established as provided in Section #4 hereof shall
be placed upon the curb inmrediately adjacent to the individual
parking places hereinafter described. Each. parking meter shall
'be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a sig-
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nal that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not
legally in use. Each parking r.�eter installed shall indicate by
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a proper legend the legal parkIng time established by the City
and when operated shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer
the duration of the period of legal parking, and on the expiration
of such period, shall indicate illegal or over parking.
Section #8: The City Manager shall have markings painted or
placed upon the curb and/or upon the street adjacent to each park-
{ing meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for
!which said meter is to be used and each vehicle parking adjacent
Dr next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or rk-
lingsso established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
ordinance to park any vehicle across any such line or maing or
k
�to park said vehicle in such position that the same shall not be
ientirely within
the area
so des nated
by
such lines
or markings.
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Section #9:
When a
park'_ng space
in
any parking
meter zone
JA parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked
in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of
such vehicle nearest to such meter.
Section #10: When any vehicle shall be parked in any space
adjacent to which a parking metc_r is located in accordance with the
provisions of this ordinance, the operator of said vehicle shall,
upon entering the said park'_ng space, immediately deposit or cause
;o be deposited a five -cent coin of the United States, in such
harking meter, and put such meter in operation, and failure to de-
>osite :3-uch five -cent coin and put the meter in operation shall
titute a breach of this ordinance and shall subject such person
o the penalty prescribed in Section 16 hereof, Upon the deposit
such five cent coin and placing said meter in operation, the
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Section ;10: (Cont'd)
parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the
period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of
the street in which said parking space is located. If said ve-
hicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the
parking time lir. it fixed for such parking space, the parking meter
shall by its dial and pointer indicate such illegal parking, and
in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtimel
and beyond the period of legal parking time and the parking of a
vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking shall be a
I violation of this ordinance and punished as hereafter set out.
Section jaL It shall be unlawful and, a violation of the pr
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visions of this ordinance 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
park'; ng time established for any park: ng meter zone as herein
;described.
Section ##12; It shall be unlawful and a violation of the pro
visions of this ordinance for any person to permit a vehicle to 1
remain_ or be placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking
`s''meter while said meter is displaying a signal indi c<.•;ting that the
vehicle occupying such parking space has already parked be9ora the
period of time prescribed for such parking space.
Section ##13: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
1.provisions of this ordinance for any person to deface, injur;�tam-
,;per with, open or Wilfully break, destory, or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this
ordinance.
Section
Section #=14: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
�1,iprovisions of this ordinance to deposit or cause to be deposited
!in any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substance, or
;',any other substitute, for a five -cent coin of the United States.
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Section #15: It shall be the duty of police officers of the
;;'City, acting in accordance with instructions issued by the City
'Manager to report:
(a) The number of each parking meter which indicates, that"
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the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to
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Section J`-15: (Contld)
(a) (cor_ttd)
such parking meter is or has been parking in violation
of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
(b). The State license number of such vehicle.
(c). Zhe time dur:'.ng which such vehicle is parking in vio-
lation of any of the provisions of this ordinance;
(d). Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to
a thorough understanding of the circumstances attend-
ing such violation.
VEach such police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a not -
to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been
1parked in violation of a provision of this ordinance and in-
structing such owner or operator to report at the Police Station
of the City of Salina in regard to such violation. Each such
!owner or operator, may, within 24 hours of the time when such
Inotice was attached to such vehicle, pay to the Desk S84'a the
`Police Station_ as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such
;violation, the sum of ME DOLLARS The failure of such owner or
,'operator to make such payment within said 24 hours, shall render
;such owner or operator subject to the penalti6s hereinafter provid-
ed, for violation of the provisions of this ordinance.
Section #16: Any person who shall violate any of the pro -
Visions of this ordinance and any person who aids, abets or assists
therein, shall, upon conviction thereof by the Police Court be
Oubject to a fine of any amount not exceeding $50.00 for each of -
tense or violation or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 15
mays, in the -City Jail or in any place provided by the municipality
for the detention of prisoners or both.
Section `17: The five -cent coins required to be deposited
in parking meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed
as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic
upon the public streets, and also the cost of supervision and reg-
Ilating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created
+ereb y, and to cover the cost of the purchasing, leasing, acquirl
installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and
ntrol of the parking meters described herein.
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Section J16: `Phis ordinance shall be deemed to be in addi-
tion and supplementary to, and not in conflict with nor a repeal
of prior or existing ordinances of this City, but shall be an
additional provision for the regulation of traffic and parking
in those zones provided for herein.
Section #19: If a 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 #20: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in con-
! flict with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are
'Thereby repealed. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication in the Official
City Paper.
introduced November 5th
1945.
Passed November 13th 1945.
Attest:
City Clerk`
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