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TO: Stephan Jilk, City Administrator
FROM: Dean Johnson, Director of Community Development
DATE: August 14, 1987
SOBJ: Parking/ Nuisance Regulations
Attached are revised amendments to the parking regulations in the
City Code, These are in response to the City Council's request for
additional regulations on junked vehicles and truck parking. The
proposed amendments reflect all of the comments submitted by Red
Staats, Mike Wozniak and yourself, in our last meeting.
These have been copied to the Council, along with the existing
parking regulations, Section 8-2 of the City Code. I have also sent
a copy of the materialstoDave Grannis for his review.
Amendments to City Code
8-2-1: Definitions;
Vehicle
The term "vehicle" means any vehicle which is self-
propelled or designed to be pushed or pulled and shall
include, but not be limited to, automobiles, buses,
motorbikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, trucks, tractors,
go-carts, golf carts, campers, trailers, boats, planes and
gliders.
Passenger Vehicle
A motor vehicle which meets the criteria for "passenger"
class registration and license plate as established by the
Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Recreation Vehicle
A vehicle which meets the criteria for "recreation" class
registration and license plate as established by the
Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Junked Vehicle
The term "junked vehicle" means any vehicle, as defined in
this section, which does not have lawfully affixed or
attached thereto an unexpired state registration or license
plate or plates, or the condition of which is wrecked,
dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or
discarded.
Private Property
The term "private property" shall mean any real property
within the City which is privately owned and which is not
public property as defined in this section.
Public Property
The term "public property" means any street or highway
and includes the entire width between the boundary lines
of every way publicly maintained for the purposes of
vehicular travel, and shall also mean any other publicly
owned property or facility.
8-2-2: Parking Provisions:
F. Storing or Parking Junked Vehicle Prohibited: It is unlawful for any person
to park, store or leave any junked motor vehicle, whether attended or not,
upon any public or private property within the City, or for any person, as
an owner of or an occupant having control of private property within the
City to permit the parking, storing or leaving of any junked vehicle upon
such private property, unless such junked vehicle is within an enclosed
building or structure lawfully situated upon private property or is so
parked, stored or left upon private property lawfully zoned and operated as
a junkyard.
G. Unauthorized parking of vehicles or display of vehicles for sale shall not be
permitted on public property or publicly zoned property.
H. Residential Streets: No vehicles are permitted to be _ parked on public
streets in residential zoning districts, except passenger vehicles with
unexpired registration and license plates.
i. Residential Neighborhoods: No vehicles are permitted to be parked on
private property in residential zoning districts unless parked in a fully
enclosed, authorized structure, except passenger vehicles and recreation
vehicles which are parked in designated parking areas or the seasonal
parking of owner occupied recreation vehicles and passenger vehicles,
provided such seasonal parking' does not occupy front yards and is
adequately screened to prevent being considered a public nuisance.
J. Public Nuisance Declared: The presence of a junked vehicle upon private
or public property within the City, except as permitted by the provisions of
paragraph f. of this section, or the violation of any of the provisions of
this chapter, is hereby declared to be a hazard to the public health and
safety and a public nuisance which may be abated by the City as such.
8-2-1 ! 8-2-1
CHAPTER 2
DRIVING AND PARKING REGULATIONS
SECTION:
8-2-1: Definitions
8-2-2: Parking Provisions
8-2-3: Towing and Storage of Illegally Parked Vehicles
8-2-4: Driving Near Fires Restricted
8-2-5: Penalty
8-2-1: I)E>F INITIONS: For the purpose of this Chapter, certain words
and phrases are defined as follows:
VEHICLE Any device in, or upon, or by which any person or
property is or may be transported upon a public
highway. -
STREET Any public street, avenue, road, alley or highway
located in the City and established for the use of
vehicles.
OPERATOR Includes every individual who shall operate a
vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent,
employee, or permittee of the owner or any
individual who is in actual physical control of a
vehicle.
PARKING The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, upon a street, otherwise than temporarily for
the purpose of, and while actually engaged in,
receiving or discharging passengers or loading or
unloading merchandise, or in obedience to traffic
regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary
stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond
the control of the operator of the vehicle. (Ord.
X11.4, 2-1-72)
8-2-2 8-2-3
8-2-2: PARKING PROVISIONS:
A. Parking Designated By Council: The City Council is authorized to
designate parking and restrict the length of time parking shall be
permitted at any place within the City. In establishing or changing
parking zones or parking restrictions, the Council shall pass a resolution
at a meeting adequately describing and defining said parking zones or
parking restrictions. The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs
prohibiting or limiting parking at locations he deems appropriate.
B. Winter Parking: No owner of a motor vehicle shall leave, park or permit
the same to stand on any City street or alley for more than twenty four
(24) hours during the period from November first through April first of
each year,
C. Parking After Snowfall: No owner of a motor vehicle shall leave, park or
permit the same to stand on any street or alley fora period longer than
four (4) hours after a snowfall of two inches (2") or more in depth or of
such amount which necessitates the plowing and clearing of City streets
and alleys of snow by the City, until such time that the streets or alleys in
question are actually plowed and cleared of snow.
D. Parking Near Fires: No person except Fire Department members shall
park a car within three hundred feet (300') of a fire.'
E Violating Parking Signs: No person shall park a vehicle in such a manner
or location as to disobey or violate a parking sign which was posted by
the City. The registered owner of a vehicle shall be deemed responsible
for the parking of a vehicle under this subsection, along with the person
who actually parks the vehicle. (Ord. X11.4, 2-1-72; amd. 1983 Code)
8-2-3: TOWING AND STORAGE OF ILLEGALLY PARKED
VEHICLES:
A. Removal and Storage: Members of the Police Department are hereby
authorized and empowered to have removed any vehicle on any street or
alley in violation of Section 8-2-2 or stalled thereon and to have such
vehicle placed in a garage or outdoor area by any person engaged in the
general garage or filling station business.
B. Redemption, Charge: Such vehicle shall not be removed therefrom until
reasonable costs of storing and towing the same have been fully paid.
The police shall have the further authority to direct employees of the
City to remove any such vehicle and to that event the Police Chief may
impose a charge to be paid to the City Clerk before the said vehicle may
be taken or recovered by the owner thereof.
C. Lien Provided: In the event that any vehicle held or stored by the
direction of the Chief of Police upon which there are charges for storage
1. See Section 8--2-4 of this Code.
8-2-3 8-2-5
C) or towing or both, shall not be reclaimed, recovered or taken by the
owner thereof, there shall be deemed to be imposed upon such vehicle a ...�'
possessory lien in the amount so charged and unpaid and should the
owner thereof fail to pay the same, the the possessory lien may be
foreclosed in the manner provided for by law:
8-2-4: DRIVING NEAR FIRES RESTRICTED: No person shall come °
within three hundred feet (3001 of fire apparatus going to a fire;
immediately upon the approach of any fire apparatus or fire officers' cars
sounding proper signals and responding to an alarm, all other vehicles shall
draw as near as possible to the curb and remain standing until such apparatus
or vehicle shall have passed.' (Ord. XIIA, 2-1-72)
8-2-5: PENALTY: Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for a period not
exceeding ninety (90) days. (Ord. XII.4, 2-1-72; amd. 1983 Code)
1. See Section 8-2-2D of this Chapter.