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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1962-OR-1583OR I ' OE NO. An Ordinance concerning parking meters and regulating the use of public streets and alleys of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana; providing for the enforcement thereof; and repealing Ordinances 1249, 1261, 1295, 134~ and 1~33. BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana: SECTION I The word "vehicle" as used herein shall mean any self- propelled device by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a public highway, except those operated on rails and tracks. Wherever the phrase "parking meter zones" is used it shall refer to both sides of the respective streets, unless otherwise expressly specified. Wherever the phrase "Board" is used in this Ordinance, it shall mean The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana. SECTION 2 The following described parts of Streets in the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, are hereby established as parking meter zones: P~arl Street between Chestnut Street and Court Avenue; the East side of Kentucky between Sixth and Seventh Stree%~$ SprinE Street between Riverside Drive and Eighth Street; Wall Street between Chestnut Street and Court Avenue; West side of Wall Street between Court Avenue and Federal; West side of Meigs Avenue between Court Avenue and Seventh Street; East side of Meigs Avenue between Seventh Street and Franklin; Riverside Drive between Mulberry Street and Watt Street; Market Street between Pearl Street and Wall Street; Chestnut Street between Pearl Street and Wall Street; Maple Street between Pearl Street and Wall Street; South side of Court Avenue between Mulberry Street and Mechanic Street; North side of Court Avenue between Mechanic Street and Sixth Street; North side of Court Avenue between Kentucky and Michiga~ North side of Sixth Street be- tween Court Avenue and Michigan Street. SECTION The Board is hereby authorized to designate the size of each parking meter zone, to determine in which zones park- ing meters shall be installed, to determine the type of meters to be installed, and the respective charges to be made by the meter for each zone. SECTION The Board is hereby authorized to install or place parking meters in such parking meter zones hereby created or to be hereafter created by Ordinance of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and such meters shall be placed upon the curb alongside or next to individual parking spaces to be designated as heretofore provided. The Board is authorized to provide for the rental, purchase, acquis- ition, installation~ regulating, operation, maintenance, repair, servicing, and replacement of parking meters when- ever necessary to carry out the intent of this Ordimance. SECTION 5 The Board is authorized to enter into such written contracts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance and provide payment therefor, exclusively from the funds received and revenues obtained from the operation and use of said parking meters, without in any way obligating the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, to pay for the same from funds derived from any other source. In purchasing parking meters, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall advertise for bids as now provided by statute for other purchases by the City, and the purchases shall be made from the lowest and best bidder. SECTION 6 The coin or coins required to be deposited as provided herein are levied for the payment of the purchase price, rental fees, and cost of installation of such parking meters or parking mechanical devices; for the payment of the cost of maintenance, operation, repair, and all other incidental costs and expenses in the operation of this Ordinance; and for the payment of the cost of traffic signal devices used in the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and also in the repair and main- tenance of any of the public streets and highways where said mechanical parking devices are in use and all streets connected therewith in said City, and for the painting and marking of all public streets where said mechanical parking devices are in use and all streets connected therewith in said City. SECTION 7 When any vehicle shall be parked in any space alongside or next to which there is located a parking meter, as provided for in this Ordinance, the owner, operator, manager or driver of such vehicle shall immediately deposit in said parking meter the appropriate coin of the United States of America and set in operation the parking meter for that parking zone. The parking meter zone may then be lawfully occupied by such vehicle dur- ing the time paid for. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking zone beyond the appropriate limit, the park- ing meter shall display a sign showing unlawful parking and in ~hat event such vehicle shall be considered and deemed to be parked overtime. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle, whether he be the operator or registered owner, to be parked overtime. SECTION 8 No vehicle shall be double parked on any street or alley within the corporate limits of the City of Jefferson- vilie, Indiana. In the event any vehicle is found double parked on a street or alley within the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, said vehicle may be towed to the City Police Depart- ment by a towing service called by the parking meter officer or any member of the Jeffersonville Police Department. The expense of said towing is to be paid by the owner of the vehicle. SECTION 9 It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman and any or all other officers that are so instructed by the Chief of Police to take the number of each vehicle which is over-parked and report the same to the office of the Police Department and the Traffic Division of the City of Jeffersonville. In the event any vehicle is found parked at any parking meter, said vehicle having three (3) or more violations of this Ordinance which have not been paid, then in that event said vehicle may be towed to the City Police Department by a towing service to be called by the parking meter officer or other officer of the Jeffersonville Police Department, the expense of towing to be paid by the owner of the vehicle. SECTION 10 Any vehicle parking in any parking space in any parking meter zone established under this Ordinance shall be parked with the ~eod of such vehicle along side of or next to the parking meter adjacent to said parking zone. In the event the parking meter zone is marked for diagonal parking, then the vehicle shall be directed toward the parking meter. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be parked across any parking zone lines, or~not to be parked within the zone so designated by appropriate markings. SECTION 11 It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter a slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States of America. SECTION 12 It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the use- fulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this Ordinance. SECTION 13 The City Clerk-Treasurer shall be charged with the duty of collecting the money derived from the operatzon of such park- ing meters. He may deputize some person or persons to perform these duties and if such person or persons are appointed, they shall take an oath to faithfully perform these duties as such deputy and they shall each give bond in the sum of Five Thousand ($ 5,000.00) Dollars, payable to the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, to guarantee the faithful performance of their duties and give a full acco~uting of all monies they receive from the use of the parking meters. The bond or bonds shall be approved by the City Clerk-Treasurer and filed in his office. The premium on each bond shall be paid out of the Traffic Fund. SECTION 14 The Board is authorized to create loading zones within the parking meter zones established by Section T,o(2) of this Ordinance. These loading zones may be established only where a retail or wholesale business has no access to back street or alley parking. The owner of the business so affected may make written application to the Board for the establishment of a load- ing zone. If the Board, in its discretion, creates a loading zone, it shall be for a period not to exceed One (1) year. The suc- cessful applicant shall pay to the City of Jeffersonville a fee, the amount to be determined by the Board, for the use of the load- ing zone. The Board shall have authority to renew such permit or permits upon written application or to~ revokethe same at any time for cause deemed sufficient to it in the exercise of its discretion. SECTION 15 ~ The Board shall have the authority to pro~ide for load- _ing zones in areas cover by this Ordinance from.~.OO A.M. to /~A.M. in order for retail and.wholesale businesses to rec- zu~ eive deliveries by commercial vehicles. The owner of any vehicle which is parked in one of these temporary loading zones, for any purpose other than making a delivery as defined above, shall be deemed in violation of this Ordinance and punishable as hereinafter provided. SECTION 16 The Board is authorized, in its discretion, to ~uspend the operation of any meter or meters to fttrther a general planned business promotion within the City of Jeffersonville. SECTION 17 The Board is authorized to issue windshield stickers to vehicle owners living in the areas in which parking meters are installed pursuant to this Ordinance. These stickers shall entitle the vehicle owner to park, free from charge, on either side of the Street within the block in which he or she resides. SECTION 18 ~uy person, firm or corporation who shall obtain a park- ing meter violation ticket shall, if such ticket is turned in to the Clerk-Treasurer of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, within Twenty-Four (24) hours after the violation, be allowed to pay the sum of Twenty-Five Cents ($ 0.25) in satisfaction of said violation. Any person, firm or corporation who shall obtain a park- ing meter violation ticket, and who mere than Twenty Four (24) hours after the violation charged in said ticket, presents the same to the Clerk-Treasurer of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, will be allowed to pay the sum of One ($ 1.O0) Dollar in satisfaction of said violation° Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or cause to be violated any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and who shall be brought into Court, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than Five ($ 5°00) Dollars nor more than One Hundred ($ lO0.O0) Dollars, or ~mprisoned in the County jail for not more than One Hundred (100) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each violation resulting in conviction. SECTION 19 The following Ordinances of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana, are hereby repealed as of the date thisOrdinance becomes effective: Ordinances N~mbers 1249, 1261, 1295, 1341 and 1433. Any other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in con- flict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 20 If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation is declared invalid by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or applications of this Ordin- ance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this Ordin- ance are declared to be severable. SECTION 21 This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and due publication ac¢,rding to law. Passed by the Common Council of the City of Jeffer- sonville, Indiana, this 6th day of August, 1962. - ~yor A~test: GIerk-%~asure~ Presented by me as Clerk-Treasurer to the Mayor of said City of Jeffersonville this 6th day of August, 1962 Approved and Clerk-Tr~,mrer ' signed by me this 6th day of August, 1962. .... ffor · t