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15-201. - Parallel Parking.#
(1)
It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle on any street in this City other than parallel with the edge of the roadway, headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right wheels of the vehicle within 12 inches of the curb or edge of the street, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(2)
The following streets are restricted to forty-five (45) degree parking only:
(a)
200 West, from Main Street to the alley north of Main Street, east side of street only.
(b)
100 West, from Main Street to the first alley, approximately 30 South, east side of street only.
(c)
100 West, from Main Street to 100 North, east side of street only.
(d)
Tremont Street, east side, from Main Street to alley south of Main Street, and from 200 to 300 South.
(e)
300 South, from Tremont Street to 100 East, north side only.
(f)
Tremont Street, from alley north of Main Street to 100 North, both sides of street.
(g)
100 East, from Main Street to 100 South, both sides of the street.
(h)
100 East, from Main Street to the alley north of Main Street, both sides of the street.
(i)
100 South from Tremont to 100 East on the north side of the street.
(j)
100 North from Tremont Street to 100 West on the north side of the street.
(k)
200 North, from 100 East to Tremont Street, both sides of the street.
(l)
Tremont Street from 200 North to 300 North on the east side of the street.
(Amended 7/19/94, 4/4/95)
15-202. - (Reserved)#
(Ord. No. 99-09)
15-203. - Parking of Large Commercial Vehicles.#
(1)
It shall be unlawful for anyone to park a commercial vehicle with a vehicle or combination registered weight of greater than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds, on any street, alley or private property within Tremonton City for a period of time longer than four (4) hours unless parked in a commercial zone or other area where the parking of a commercial vehicle for a longer period of time is allowed, or unless parked for the purpose of relocating the personal property of a business or residence, such as in the case of a moving van, or U-Haul, but such parking shall be subject to the other terms of this Chapter 15-200, and provided that no commercial vehicle shall be parked or left standing at any time during the year, on any public road, street, or alley within fifty (50) feet from the intersection of any street frontage property lines. It is intended by the last provision to prohibit the parking of all commercial vehicles within fifty (50) feet of a street corner or intersection so as to assist in maintaining a clear view at intersecting streets and at street corners. Provided, however, that the parking of a commercial vehicle on private property for longer than four (4) hours shall be allowed if the commercial vehicle can be driven onto the private property without driving over a publicly owned curb, gutter or sidewalk and without damaging or causing the potential for damage to any public property or improvements, and provided that no engine or refrigerator unit, if any, may be started or left running anywhere in the City, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the next day, except as allowed in the next sentence. Provided, however, that the engine and/or refrigeration unit of a commercial vehicle may be started and/or left running for up to twenty-four (24) hours a day if it is parked where permitted on private property which is located within any Commercial District, the Central Development District, any Manufacturing District or the General Industrial District, as shown on the City's Zoning Map. Parking a commercial vehicle on private property shall also be subject to the provisions Section 15-220 of this Chapter 15-200.
(2)
For purposes of this Chapter 15-200, a "Commercial Vehicle" shall be defined as a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used or maintained for the transportation of persons or property that operates:
(a)
As a carrier for hire, compensation, or profit; or
(b)
As a carrier to transport the vehicle owner's goods or property in furtherance of the owner's commercial enterprise.
(3)
This chapter does not apply to persons, motor vehicles, and other equipment involved with the repair or construction of a highway, utility strip, sidewalks or rights-of-way belonging to Tremonton City during the construction period. However, the entire chapter applies to those persons and vehicles when traveling to or from the work.
(Ord. No. 99-09; Ord. No. 00-02)
15-204. - Double Parking Prohibited.#
It shall be unlawful within Tremonton City to park a motor vehicle parallel to and outside of the marked lines or stalls so laid out and designed for parallel parking wherein another vehicle is so parked within said lines or stalls, in a manner commonly called double parking.
15-205. - Unlawful to Park — Restricted Areas — Red Curbs.#
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park or cause to be parked any motor vehicle upon the streets in front of any curb painted red or designated "NO PARKING" by a sign or device placed in said area.
(2)
This section shall not apply to commercial buses that are stopped to load or unload passengers or for the rest and refreshment of passengers, on 100 West, between Main Street and 100 South, on the east side of the street.
15-206. - Disabled or Mechanically Inoperable Vehicles — Unlawful to Leave or Dismantle on Public Street.#
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park or cause to be left upon any public street in Tremonton City, any disabled vehicle for a period longer than forty-eight (48) hours.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to dismantle or cause to be dismantled any disabled vehicle upon any street in Tremonton City.
(3)
To park a vehicle upon any street or publicly owned or controlled property or right-of-way for the principal purpose of performing maintenance or repairing such vehicle except as is necessitated by an emergency.
(4)
To park upon any street, public right-of-way or publicly owned or controlled property a vehicle that is mechanically inoperable or cannot be lawfully operated on public streets. For purposes of this subsection, "mechanically inoperable" includes, but is not limited to, flat tire, dead battery, any mechanical problem that would prohibit the immediate starting of the engine and proceeding in a normal manner, or any physical condition, such as missing or inoperable lighting, prohibiting lawful operation. "Lawfully operated" includes, but is not limited to having current registration, inspection and required equipment.
(5)
The Chief of Police or any police officer is hereby empowered to remove or cause to be removed from the streets of Tremonton City, at the expense of the owner thereof, any disabled vehicle found left upon the public streets of Tremonton City contrary to the provisions of this section.
(Ord. No. 08-07)
15-207. - Motor Vehicles Left Unattended.#
No driver or person in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit such vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, and removing the keys, or when such motor vehicle is standing upon a perceptible grade without effectively setting the brakes thereon and turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the street.
15-208. - Approach to Parking Space.#
(1)
No person shall move his vehicle in any manner or leave a parking space and then re-enter it to avoid the intent of this chapter.
(2)
Every driver about to enter a parking space being vacated shall stop his vehicle and wait to the rear of the vehicle in the actual process of vacating the parking space and having so waited, shall have prior right to the parking space over all other drivers.
(3)
No driver shall stop his vehicle ahead of a parking space being vacated and attempt to interfere with a driver who has waited properly to the rear of a parking space being vacated.
(4)
No driver shall stop and wait for a parking space unless the vehicle vacating the space is actually in motion of the process of vacating.
15-209. - Parking in Alleys.#
No person shall park any vehicle within an alley except during the necessary and expeditious loading and unloading of merchandise, and no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property or interfere with the free movement of traffic through the alley.
15-210. - Standing and Parking on One-Way Roadways.#
In the event a street includes two separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon each of said roadways, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left side of either of such roadways.
15-211. - Parking Prohibited at All Times at Certain Hours on Certain Streets.#
When proper signs or traffic markings are erected or in place giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle or permit such vehicle to remain standing at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets.
15-212. - Parking on Walk or Curbing.#
In addition to other parking restrictions in this code, it shall be unlawful: (1)
To park any vehicle over, above, on, or across the public easement between the sidewalk and curbing abutting any public street;
(2)
To park any vehicle over, above, on, or across any sidewalk or portion thereof, or to otherwise park a vehicle in such a manner so as to obstruct access upon, or use of, the entire surface of any sidewalk.
(Ord. No. 08-07)
15-213. - Parking During Winter Months.#
(1)
No person, who owns or has possession, control, or custody of any vehicle, trailer or object, shall park, or allow or permit another to park any such vehicle, trailer or object, upon any public street between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., during the months of December, January, and February.
(2)
In addition to those set forth in Subsection (1) above, no person, who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle, trailer or object, shall park, or allow or permit another to park any such vehicle, trailer or object, upon any public street when snow is being removed from any roadway in the City. Any such vehicle, trailer, or object so parked or placed, is hereby declared a public nuisance that may be abated pursuant to U.C.A. § 10-8-60.
(3)
An exception may be made for those few older residences and apartments in the city, which were not designed with off-street parking.
(4)
Any nuisance vehicle, trailer, or other object parked in violation of this section may be cited and/or abated by removal from the city street. Pursuant to U.C.A. § 10-8-60, any enforcement official is hereby authorized to abate any public nuisance by removing, or causing to be removed, and/or by impounding said nuisance vehicle, trailer or object.
15-214. - Two Hour Parking Limit on Certain Streets.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, either attended or unattended, for a period greater than two (2) hours on any portion of Main Street between 200 East and 200 West, 100 North between Tremont Street and 100 West; between 100 North and 100 South on 100 East Street, Tremont Street, 100 West Street and 200 West Street and in the parking lot located on the north end of the Tremonton Fire Department.
(Ord. No. 06-01)
15-215. - Four Hour Parking.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, either attended or unattended, for a period greater than four (4) hours in the parking lot located on the northwest corner of Main Street and 200 West Street.
15-216. - Thirty Minute Parking.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, either attended or unattended, for a period greater than thirty (30) minutes in front of the Tremonton Civic Center on South Tremont Street on the west side of the street between the two signs regulating such parking.
15-217. - Evidence Required on Parking Violations.#
The presence of any vehicle in or upon any public street in Tremonton City, parked in violation of any City ordinance relating to this article, shall be prima facie evidence that the person in whose name such vehicle is registered as owner, committed or authorized the commission of such violation.
15-218. - (Reserved)#
(Ord. No. 99-09)
15-219. - (Reserved)#
(Ord. No. 99-09)
15-220. - Commercial Vehicle — Prohibited Parking.#
It shall be unlawful for anyone to park a commercial vehicle with a vehicle or combination registered weight of greater than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds on any street, alley or private property which will place the vehicle in front of, or within fifty (50) yards of any side of a building used primarily as a residence within the Tremonton City limits, unless the building used primarily as a residence is located wholly within any Commercial District, the Central Development District, any Manufacturing District, or the General Industrial District, as shown on the City's Zoning Map, in which event the referenced fifty (50) yard limitation shall not apply. Any parking of a commercial vehicle on private property shall be subject to all other provisions of this Chapter 15-200, and specifically Section 15-203.
(Ord. No. 99-09)
15-221. - Recreational Vehicles/Trailers/Boats — Prohibited Parking.#
It shall be unlawful to park a recreation vehicle, trailer, boat or similar apparatus, in a manner proscribed elsewhere in Chapter 15-200, or: (1)
To park such an item on any public street except for the immediate loading or unloading and never longer than twenty-four (24) consecutive hours;
(2)
To park any vehicle, trailer, etc., in any fire lane or to otherwise block or obstruct any fire lane established by the City;
(3)
To park any vehicle, trailer, etc., on any public property other than in designated parking or obvious parking areas or as legally permissible on roadways; or
(4)
To park any vehicle in any location that interferes with the delivery and monitoring of essential services, such as utilities, postal services, and refuse collection;
(5)
To park any vehicle, trailer, boat, or similar apparatus upon any developed parcel at a location other than that designed for parking.
(a)
Areas designed for parking must be concrete, asphalt, or similar solid surface of sufficient size to house the entire vehicle.
(b)
Exception. This section shall not apply to vehicles parked so as to facilitate the immediate loading or unloading thereof or service vehicles actively involved in the construction, repair, or servicing of the premises.
(6)
No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any recreational vehicle shall park or leave standing, at any time during the year, any such recreational vehicle on any public road, street, alley or other municipal property, within fifty (50) feet from the intersection of any street frontage property lines. It is intended by this provision to prohibit the parking of all recreational vehicles within fifty (50) feet of a street corner or intersection so as to assist in maintaining a clear view at intersecting streets and at street corners.
(7)
For purposes of this Chapter 15-200, a "Recreational Vehicle" shall be defined as a vehicular unit other than a mobile home, primarily designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, or vacation use, which is either self-propelled or pulled by another vehicle. "Recreational Vehicle" includes a travel trailer, a camping trailer, a motor home, a fifth wheel trailer, and a van. Flatbed and utility trailers are also included in this ordinance as "Trailers".
(Ord. No. 99-09; Ord. No. 08-07)
15-222. - Use of Front Yard for Parking Prohibited.#
No portion of a front yard as required in this Title shall be used for the parking of automobiles or other vehicles unless developed as a public parking area in conjunction with a permitted multi-family, commercial or industrial use.
No portion of a required front yard, other than driveways leading to a garage or properly located parking area, shall be paved or improved so as to encourage or make possible the parking of vehicles therein. Paved driveways leading to a garage or properly located parking area may be used as an approved parking area for additional vehicles to meet the requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 08-07)
15-223. - Vehicles Displayed for Sale.#
(1)
No person, as the owner or lawful bailee of any vehicle, shall locate said vehicle on any property, for the primary purpose of displaying said vehicle for sale or lease, unless the property is properly zoned for such a use and has obtained permission from the owner of said property.
(2)
No person, as the owner of property, shall permit the parking or locating of any vehicle thereon, for the primary purpose of displaying said vehicle for sale or lease, unless said property is properly zoned for such a use.
(Ord. No. 08-07)
15-224. - Bear River High School Parking.#
(1)
This ordinance covers the parking lot and driving range for Bear River High School located within Tremonton City boundaries.
(2)
Students may park in designated and striped parking stalls during school hours. Vehicles not properly parked in striped parking stalls will be found in violation of this ordinance and will be cited.
(3)
In those areas of the driving range not marked with parking stalls, vehicles shall park in a fashion that avoids any double parking, blocking other vehicles, or blocking any access to and from the parking area. Any vehicle found in violation will be cited.
(4)
All vehicles must be removed from the north end of the parking lot no later than 3:00 p.m. (Monday thru Friday) as this area is used for driver training. Vehicles not moved will be towed at the owner's expense.
(5)
It will be unlawful to park in a designated disability stall without a proper disability decal, tag, or license plate. Any vehicle not properly identified and parked in a designated disability stall will be cited.
(6)
Faculty parking stalls shall be labeled "Parking by Permit Only". Any vehicles parked in these stalls without a permit during normal school hours will be in violation of this ordinance and will be cited.
(7)
Repeat parking violation offenders may have their vehicles towed at the owner's expense.
(Ord. No. 09-12)