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Amending Chapter 157, Traffic Code - General Parking Restrictions, of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, to comply with state law changes and to update or eliminate outdated language.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1
Chapter 157 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 157.01. Stopping, Standing and Parking.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street or highway so as to interfere with or interrupt the passage of other vehicles unless otherwise provided by State Law.
Sec. 157.01 2. Removal of illegally stopped vehicles.
(a) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or highway in violation of any law, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such street or highway.
(b) When any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street or highway or upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes on obstruction to traffic, such officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle and remove the same to a place of safekeeping established by law.
(Code 1956, § 144.02)
Sec. 157.03. Parking at bus stops.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle within an area designated as a bus stop. The bus stop will be eighty (80) feet in length and on the near side of the street intersection except where local conditions make necessary a different location.
(Code 1956, § 144.03)
Sec. 157.02 3 . Stopping or parking prohibited in certain places.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or other recognized emergency authority or in obedience to a traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) across any curb, on a sidewalk or boulevard, lawn or grass plot except as provided in Section 157.04, State Fair Parking District, or Section 157.05, Parking or stopping on a public way;
(1) (2) in front of or within five (5) feet, of either side the throat of any public alley, public or private driveway measured from the sides of the alley or driveway perpendicular to the public street, or alley, or in such a manner as to block ingress or egress to or from a public alley, public or private such driveway or alley;
(3) on that portion of a private road or driveway lying between the public right of way line and the curb line of the adjacent street or if no curb the edge of pavement.
(4) within an intersection;
(5) within ten (10) feet of a fire hydrant;
(6) on a crosswalk;
(7) within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(8) within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, sign indicating direction of travel, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(9) between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;
(10) within an area designated as a bus stop for a length of eighty (80) feet or as signed;
(11) within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(12) within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station, and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance when properly signed;
(13) alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
(14) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge of the curb of a street;
(15) upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel, except as otherwise provided by ordinance;
(2)(16) at any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(17) on private property of any person without consent of such property owner;
(18) any place on public property which is not at the time open for the use of vehicular traffic;
(19) at any place on any pathway, sidewalk area for pedestrians or other portion of any public property which is not intended for the use of vehicles;
(20) on any street or alley, at the same location, for more than forty-eight (48) consecutive hours;
(21) in the front or rear entrance to any building so as to block a fire escape or exit from any building.
(b) No person, firm or corporation operating any business or parking facility shall park vehicles on the streets or alleys adjacent to or in the vicinity of such business or parking facility for longer than ninety (90) minutes.
(c) No person shall move a vehicle not owned by such person into any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(d) No person shall, for camping purposes, leave or park a travel trailer on or within the limits of any street or highway or on any street or highway right-of-way, except where signs are erected designating the place as a camp site.
(e) No person shall stop or park a vehicle on a street or highway when directed or ordered to proceed by any peace officer invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.
(f) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked or standing upon any street or alley within one hundred (100) feet of any place where tree trimming is being performed by the division of parks and recreation or a designee; and the director of the department of parks and recreation is hereby authorized to procure signs of such size as to be easily legible indicating that tree trimming work is in progress and that parking is banned within one hundred (100) feet of the location of such work; and the director or his/her designee is further authorized to place or cause to be placed a sufficient number of such signs in each and every location where tree trimming is being or is about to be carried out so as to inform the public of the parking restriction in the area.
(g) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley in the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except to load and unload only, but shall leave such space promptly upon completion of that operation and shall not park for more than thirty (30) minutes at any one time.
(h) No vehicle or any part of a vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), or load and unload in the alley, unless at least ten (10) feet of the alley is left available for the free movement of traffic and the vehicle is five (5) feet or more from of any driveway or garage entrance and, on the side of the alley opposite to said driveway, also maintains twenty (20) feet or more from said driveway or garage entrance.
Graphic Link displays diagram to assist understanding of stopping and parking prohibitions.
(Code 1956, § 144.03)
Sec.157.04. Miscellaneous parking restrictions and vehicle definitions. State Fair Parking District.
a. Definitions. The following words when used in this section shall have the following meanings ascribed to them:
Commercial vehicle shall include any bus or commercial truck, as herein defined, [or] any vehicle designed or modified to serve purposes other than the transportation of persons. A commercial vehicle shall not include public utility vehicles, authorized emergency vehicles and/or those vehicles currently owned and operated by federal, state and local governmental subdivisions.
Bus means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. The term "bus" does not include a vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers but not more than fourteen (14) passengers and operated for the personal or family use of the owner or operator.
Commercial truck shall include a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and licensed under the motor carrier laws of the State of Minnesota for the transportation of property but not persons, or a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and used exclusively in the transportation of property in commerce but not for the transportation of persons at any time. A commercial truck shall not include station-wagon-type vehicles, utility class vehicles, pickup trucks, any vehicle in which the cargo space is enlarged by the removal or folding down of seats, vans with more seats than for a driver and helper or any vehicle originally designed as a passenger-type vehicle.
b. Overweight vehicle. Any vehicle, with or without load, which weighs more than six thousand (6,000) pounds or is registered for a gross weight of more than nine thousand (9,000) pounds or is greater than twenty-two (22) feet in length and/or seven and one-half (7 1/2) feet in height. This definition includes but is not limited to semi-trailers, tow trucks, buses, limousines, tractors, construction equipment or similar vehicles. This definition excludes licensed, operable recreational vehicles (RV's).
No vehicle shall be parked in violation of any of the following provisions:
(1) No person, firm or corporation operating any public garage shall park vehicles on the streets or alleys adjacent to or in the vicinity of such public garage for a longer period than ninety (90) minutes.
(2) No vehicle shall be parked within eighty (80) feet of the point where the property line projected would intersect a street upon which buses are operated, where the corner where such intersection takes place is used as a bus stop.
(3) No vehicle shall be parked within thirty (30) feet of any arterial stop sign or sign indicating the direction for travel.
(4) No vehicle shall be parked on the approaches to any bridge, nor upon any boulevard, lawn or grass plot; provided, however, that parking on lawn in required side and front yards shall be permitted if such parking occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District," as established by Section 60.711 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code.
(5) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley in the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading, and then only for the length of time reasonably necessary therefor.
(6) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading unless at least ten (10) feet of the alley be left available for the free movement of traffic.
(7) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing upon the private property of any person without the consent of such property owner.
(8) No vehicle shall be parked on any street or alley for more than forty-eight (48) hours.
(9) No vehicle or combination of vehicles except those registered as recreational vehicles pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 168.013, subdivision 1g(1988), twenty-two (22) feet or more in length and seven (7) feet or more in width, measured between the two (2) most widely separated points or proportions on either side of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, shall be parked on any street or alley for more than thirty (30) minutes, or for a time longer than reasonably necessary to load or unload such vehicle or combination of vehicles.
(10) No vehicle or any part of a vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for the purpose of loading and unloading, within five (5) feet of any driveway or garage entrance or on the side of an alley opposite any driveway or garage entrance within twenty (20) feet of said driveway or garage entrance.
(11) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked or stopped upon any street or alley in the city within one hundred (100) feet of any place where tree trimming is being performed by the department of parks and recreation or a designee; and the director of parks and recreation is hereby authorized to procure signs of such size as to be easily legible indicating that tree trimming work is in progress and that parking is banned within one hundred (100) feet of the location of such work; and the director or his/her designee is further authorized to place or cause to be placed a sufficient number of such signs in each and every location where tree trimming is being or is about to be carried out so as to inform the public of the parking restriction in the area.
(12) No vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of garbage or rubbish, whether licensed or unlicensed, shall be parked or left standing on any private property, street or alley in any Class R-1, 2, 3, or 4, RT-1, 2, or RM-1, 2, or 3 District for more than thirty (30) minutes.
(13) Commercial vehicles; parking restrictions:
No vehicle defined herein as commercial or overweight shall be parked overnight or stored on property zoned residential or occupied exclusively as residential nor shall any such vehicle which is within or abutting, including across a street or alley, from an R-1 through R-4, RT-1, RT-2, or RM-1 through RM-3 Zoning District, shall be permitted to stop, stand or park on any street unless such vehicle is actually engaged in the loading or unloading of passengers or materials from the vehicle or is actually engaged in the providing of services at that location, or in compliance with official traffic-control devices or the direction of a police officer.
(Code 1956, § 144.04; Ord. No. 17376, § 1, 7-29-86; Ord. No. 17479, §§ 1, 2, 7-29-87; Ord. No. 17648, § 1, 4-13-89; Ord. No. 17668, § 1, 7-13-89; Ord. No. 17782, § 1, 11-6-90; C.F. 99-1202, § 1, 1-12-00; C.F. No. 00-164, § 1, 3-22-00; C.F. No. 09-81, § 6, 2-11-09)
Vehicles shall not be parked across any curb, on a sidewalk, nor upon any boulevard, lawn or grass plot; except parking on lawns in required setbacks for side and front yards as defined in the zoning code 66.231 and 60.226 (1), (3) shall be permitted if such parking occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District," as established by Section 67.101.
Sec. 157.15 05. Parking or stopping on public way.
The following provisions shall apply to parking or stopping on public ways:
(1) (a) No person shall stop, park or drive an automobile, motorcycle, motorized bicycle, truck, tractor, construction equipment, house moving equipment or vehicular equipment of any kind on, along or across any public curb, boulevard or sidewalk within the limits of the City of Saint Paul, other than where regular or authorized driveways or crossings are provided for that purpose. except for state fair parking (as defined in Section 60.219) and which occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District" as established in Section 60.711, or except that vehicles equipped with rubber tires may be used on those sidewalks not having areaways or other substructures between November 15 and April 1 for the purpose of plowing and removing snow where such equipment does not exceed a total weight of four thousand (4,000) pounds and the axle weight does not exceed two thousand (2,000) pounds. The exception for state fair parking shall not apply to any Minnesota state trunk highway.
(2) When necessary and for good reason, the above prohibition will not apply if permission is obtained in writing from the director of the department of public works or his authorized representative.
(3) Any permission secured will be on the condition that suitable precautions are taken to prevent any unnecessary damage to the curb, boulevard or sidewalk and to prevent any injury to persons lawfully using the curb, boulevard or sidewalk.
(4) Any person who has secured such permission shall bear the cost of repairing or installing the sidewalk, boulevard or curb damaged by him, his agents or employees.
(5) The department of public works shall maintain a file of all such locations where parking is permitted contrary to law.
(b) The following are exceptions to the above restrictions:
(1) State fair parking (as defined in Section 65.740) and which occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District" as established in Section 67.101. State fair parking shall not be permitted along any Minnesota state trunk highway.
(2) Vehicles equipped with rubber tires may be used on those sidewalks not having areaways or other substructures between November 15 and April 1 for the purpose of plowing and removing snow where such equipment does not exceed a total weight of four thousand (4,000) pounds and the axle weight does not exceed two thousand (2,000) pounds.
(3) When necessary and provided a permit has been obtained from the traffic engineer under Chapter 135. Any permit granted shall be with the condition that suitable precautions are taken to prevent any unnecessary damage to the curb, boulevard or sidewalk. The permittee shall bear the cost of repairing or installing curb, boulevard or sidewalk damaged by him or her, or his or her agents or employees.
(Code 1956, § 144.17; Ord. No. 17753, § 1, 7-17-90)
Sec. 157.12 06. Manner of parking.
(a) Parallel to curb, except where marked, etc. Any vehicle parked at any time in any part of the city shall be parked with the right-hand side parallel to the curb, and not more than one from the curb, leaving at least four (4) feet between parked vehicles No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway, headed in the direction of traffic, with the curbside wheels of the vehicle within twelve (12) inches of the edge of the roadway, and in a manner that does not block another vehicle from entering or exiting a legal parking spot, except where marks or signs on the streets indicate that cars shall be parked at an angle.
(b) One-way streets. Vehicles parked on one-way streets shall face in the same direction in which traffic is permitted to move on said streets, and vehicles when so parked may be placed with either the right-hand or left hand wheels parallel to the curb, but not more than twelve (12) inches therefrom with at least four (4) feet between parked vehicles.
(c) (b) Backing to curb restricted. No owner or driver of any vehicle shall be backed into or up to the curb at any time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. permit the same to be backed into or up to the curb of any street or highway for the purpose of loading or unloading or any other purpose whatsoever, unless allowed by permission of the police department. a permit has been obtained in accordance with Chapter 135 of this code. When taking on or discharging freight or passengers, vehicles shall be headed in the direction of traffic on the right of the roadway. So far as practicable, vehicles hauling freight, coal and ice and other heavy commodities shall be unloaded from the right side and not from the end of the vehicle, and shall be drawn in close to the curb.
(d) (c) Parking space about to be vacated. The driver of a vehicle intending to park at the curb of any street or highway at a place about to be vacated by another vehicle shall stop back of said parking space and wait until said vehicle has vacated said parking space. The person so desiring to park shall then move his or her vehicle to a place immediately in front of said parking space and back into it, and the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall yield the right-of-way to such person for the purpose of parking at said parking space. In case there is no one in position immediately in front of said parking space preparing to back into it, and said space is large enough to permit it, the driver of an approaching vehicle may head into said parking space without backing.
(Code 1956, § 144.12)
Sec. 157.07. Blocking Traffic.
(a) No vehicle shall occupy any street or highway so as to interfere with or interrupt the passage of other vehicles.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to enter a street intersection or a marked crosswalk area unless there is sufficient space beyond the intersection on the right half of the roadway to accommodate the vehicle without obstructing the passage of other vehicles, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed, except that on a one-way street, drivers shall not be restricted to the use of the right half of the road, but may have access to the entire width thereof beyond the intersection, provided sufficient space be available.
(c) It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive across a sidewalk in entering a garage or parking lot unless there is sufficient space beyond the crosswalk in the garage or on the parking lot to accommodate the vehicle without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians.
(Code 1956, § 144.07)
Sec. 157.10 07. Locking required. Duty to lock ignition, remove key.
(a) No Every person shall when leaveing a motor vehicle, except a commercial motor vehicle, unattended on any street, alley, used car lot or unattended parking lot without first stopping the engine, in the City shall locking the ignition, removinge the key and takinge it with him; or her. provided, however, that aAny violation of these provisions shall not (1) mitigate the offense of stealing such motor vehicle, nor (2) shall such violation be used to affect a recovery in any civil action for theft of such motor vehicle, or the insurance thereon, or (3) have any other bearing in any civil action.
(b) Whenever aAny police officer of said City of Saint Paul shall who finds any such a motor vehicle standing in violation of the foregoing provisions, such police officer is authorized and directed to remove therefrom the keys left therein and to deliver the same them to the desk officer at the City's central police station.
(Code 1956, § 144.10)
Sec. 157.05 8. Parking on Oone-way streets.
In the event a street or highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or parking. The director of the department of public works traffic engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such one-way roadway and to cause signs to be erected giving notice thereof.
(Code 1956, § 144.05)
Sec. 157.09. Blocking entries.
No person shall park a vehicle or permit it to stand, whether attended or unattended, upon a highway in front of or within ten (10) feet of either side of the entrance to any depot, theater, hotel, club or other building designated by official no parking signs; or within fifteen (15) feet of either side of the rear entrance to any theater, except when taking on or discharging freight or passengers, and then only for such length of time as is reasonably necessary for such purpose. At theaters, hotels, clubs, depots or public gatherings, or under unusual circumstances, vehicles must move or park as directed by police officers or police orders.
(Code 1956, § 144.09)
Sec. 157.06 9. Double parking.
Vehicles shall not stand two (2) or more abreast in any street except as follows:
(1) Commercial vehicles, when clearly so designated, and when calling for or delivering parcels or merchandise may double park for the length of time absolutely and reasonably necessary to load and unload, at the place of delivery when access to the curb is blocked by other vehicles at the place of delivery immediately adjacent to the place of delivery is occupied, including on streets where parking meters are in operation, but shall leave such space promptly upon completion of that operation and shall not park for more than thirty (30) minutes at any one time. If requested the commercial driver shall allow any blocked vehicle to move. A clearly designated vehicle shall meet the requirements of 151.02 or 158.01.
(2) On streets where parking meters are in operation, commercial vehicles, when clearly so designated, may double park at the place of delivery for the length of time absolutely and reasonably necessary to load or unload, but only when all available space on the same side of the street is filled.
Sec. 157.10 Physically disabled parking.
(a) Designated parking areas. No person shall park a motor vehicle in or obstruct the access aisle to a designated physically disabled parking space unless:
(1) that person is a physically disabled person as defined by the law or the person is transporting or parking a motor vehicle for a physically disabled person and:
(2) the motor vehicle is displaying a disability plate, or a valid identifying certificate or permit issued by the State of Minnesota, or another state, for the physically disabled.
(b) Parking privileges. A person exercising disabled parking privileges may park in a designated spot with appropriate identification:
(1) in a metered parking space without obligation to pay the meter fee in Saint Paul but must follow the time restrictions officially posted for the physically disabled, Chapter 160.09
(2) without time restrictions in a non-metered parking space where parking is otherwise allowed for passenger vehicles but restricted to a maximum period of time and that does not specifically prohibit the exercise of disabled parking privileges in that space.
(c) Disabled parking privileges. Disabled parking privileges do not permit parking in areas designated as no parking spaces or in parking spaces reserved for specified purposes or vehicles.
Sec.157.11. Transfer of goods restricted. Parking for larger vehicles.
No person shall transfer goods, wares or merchandise from one vehicle to another while such vehicles are stopped upon any street in the congested loop district, bounded by Jackson Street on the east, Ninth Street on the north, St. Peter Street on the west, and Kellogg Boulevard on the south, or on any arterial highway; provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply where the vehicle from which the transfer is being made in incapable of being moved by its own power.
(Code 1956, § 144.11)
(a) Recreational vehicles. No vehicle or combination of vehicles except those licensed under Chapter 331A.04 (d)(17) as a mobile food vehicle, or those registered as recreational vehicles pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 168.013, subdivision 1g or as amended, twenty-two (22) feet or more in length and seven (7) feet or more in width, measured between the two (2) most widely separated points or proportions on either side of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, shall be parked on any street or alley for more than thirty (30) minutes.
(b) Garbage or rubbish trucks. No vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of garbage or rubbish, whether licensed or unlicensed, shall be parked or left standing on any private property, street or alley in any Class R-1, 2, 3, or 4, RT-1, 2, or RM-1, 2, or 3 District for more than thirty (30) minutes.
(c) Commercial vehicles. No vehicle defined herein as commercial or overweight shall be parked overnight or stored on property zoned residential or occupied exclusively as residential nor shall any such vehicle which is within or abutting, including across a street or alley, from an R-1 through R-4, RT-1, RT-2, or RM-1 through RM-3 Zoning District, shall be permitted to stop, stand or park on any street unless such vehicle is actually engaged in the loading or unloading of passengers or materials from the vehicle or is actually engaged in the providing of services at that location, or in compliance with official traffic-control devices, the direction of a police officer or unless otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 157.14 12. Taxi parking at taxi stands.
(a) No taxicab shall be permitted to stand on any public street or alley while in service except on taxicab stands which shall be designated and plainly marked by the department of public works. and tThe parking of any vehicle not a taxicab on such designated stands is hereby prohibited;. except that wWhenever a taxicab is on a designated cab stand and blocks the delivery entrance to any building, the driver of such cab shall make an opening to the curb so as to permit a commercial vehicle to load or unload. The driver of any taxicab occupying a designated stand must remain on the driver's seat at all times, except when necessary to open or close the door of his or her cab, to assist a passenger to enter or leave, or to answer his or her call signal. No taxicab shall stand for a period longer than one-half an hour; at the end of such time the taxicab heading the line shall move off the stand and the remaining cabs will then move forward. No person shall solicit passengers for a taxicab upon the streets and highways of the City of Saint Paul except the driver of a taxicab when sitting upon the driver's seat of his or her vehicle, but the fact that such taxicab displays a device to indicate that such vehicle is not engaged shall not be considered as soliciting patronage.
(b) Nothing in the foregoing provision of this section, however, shall prohibit the driver of any taxicab from parking in any legal parking space or at a parking meter, provided the proper payment is made thereof, for reasonable periods of time in keeping with all parking regulations during which time said driver is taking his or her meals or is on an errand of personal business. During such periods, however, solicitation of patronage by said drivers is expressly prohibited.
(Code 1956, § 144.14)
Sec. 157.13. Moving parked vehicle.
No person shall move a vehicle not owned by such person into any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is lawful.
(Code 1956, § 144.13)
Sec. 157.0813. Exhibiting Display of vehicle for sale.
No person shall place more than one vehicle displaying a for sale or exchange sign or notice on a highway shall be parked on the street in front of a their person's residence. A Any such vehicle shall be deemed to be displayed in violation of this section when found standing parked in front of a residence which is different from the vehicle's registration address shall be in violation of this section. Such vehicle must be parked in full compliance of all other provisions of this chapter.
(Code 1956, § 144.08; Ord. No. 17712, § 1, 2-8-90)
Sec. 157.164. Saint Paul secondary schools--Parking restrictions.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park any motor vehicle on the land or premises of Central High School, Harding High School, Highland Senior High School, Johnson High School, Murray High School or Saint Paul Technical Vocational Institute any public high school at any time, except parking of designated vehicles shall be permitted on those portions of said premises within and in accordance with regulations as indicated by appropriate signs and markings, and only after obtaining a permit to do so from the principal of each respective school or institute and displaying said permit on the motor vehicle.
(b) Appropriate signs shall be erected and the parking areas suitably marked so as to clearly designate the restrictions set forth in this section.
(Code 1956, § 144.19)
Sec. 157.17. Parking privileges for the physically handicapped; special parking zones.
The director of the department of public works may establish special parking zones for the physically handicapped immediately adjacent to their usual place of residence and shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section including the requirement that applicants may be required to pay for all or a part of the cost of providing the necessary signing. Such zones shall be designated and marked by suitable signs. No person shall park a motor vehicle in such zone unless such motor vehicle is displaying the identifying certificate issued by the State of Minnesota for the physically handicapped.
(Code 1956, § 144.20)
Sec. 157.18. Physically handicapped parking zones on streets.
For the purpose of implementing Minnesota Statutes, Section 169.346, the traffic engineer is authorized to establish parking zones on public streets that are reserved for the physically handicapped. Upon the establishment of such physically handicapped parking zones, the city traffic engineer shall erect and thereafter maintain appropriate signs so as to clearly designate the physically handicapped parking zones. There shall be maintained in the traffic engineer's office, the traffic division of the police department, the traffic violations bureau and the clerk of municipal court's office a complete listing of all such physically handicapped reserved parking zones.
(Ord. No. 16438, 5-11-78)
Sec. 157.19. St. Paul--Ramsey Hospital parking lots.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park any motor vehicle in the portions of the Saint Paul Ramsey Hospital parking lots designated as "Medical Staff" or "Employees" without first obtaining a permit so to do from the superintendent of said hospital.
(b) All employee and medical staff vehicles shall be issued a parking permit evidenced by a numbered, nontransferable identification decal, which decal shall be displayed in the rear window of every authorized vehicle using said parking lot.
(c) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle in that portion of the hospital parking lot designated as "Visitors" for more than two (2) hours at any one time.
(d) No employee or medial staff vehicle shall be parked in that portion of the hospital parking lot designated as "Patients" or "Visitors" between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., Monday through Friday inclusive.
(e) Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in the manner provided by law.
(f) Appropriate signs shall be erected so as to clearly designate the restrictions set forth herein.
(g) All hospital personnel designated in writing by the hospital administrator, and approved by the mayor, are hereby empowered, authorized and directed to issue summonses for violations of the provisions of this section. Such summonses shall be in form approved by the Ramsey County Municipal Court and shall have the same force and effect as though issued by a police officer or other peace officer.
(Code 1956, § 144.18; Ord. No. 16911, 4-20-82)
Sec. 157.20 15. Public housing agency of the City of Saint Paul--Parking restrictions.
(a) No person shall stop, park or leave standing any motor vehicle on the land or premises of the public housing agency of the City of Saint Paul (PHA) at any time, except that parking of vehicles of PHA residents, their guests and other authorized personnel shall be permitted on said premises within and in accordance with regulations as indicated by appropriate signs and markings.
(b) The executive director of the public housing agency of the City of Saint Paul shall install or cause to be installed on said premises appropriate signs and markings which clearly designate the restrictions set forth herein, including, but not limited to, the designation of spaces where motor vehicles shall be lawfully parked.
(c) Any person found to be in violation of any of the parking regulations set forth herein, including, but not limited to, parking a motor vehicle in an area not designated for parking, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor unless otherwise provided by law.
(Code 1956, § 144.22)
Sec. 157.21 16. Penalty.; exception for fines paid early.
No person shall stop, stand or park or cause to stop, stand or park any vehicle in any place in violation of the rules and regulations of this chapter. Any such violation shall be a misdemeanor, except that the maximum penalty for any violation of a rule or regulation of this chapter is a fine of fifteen dollars ($15.00) if the fine is paid in the traffic violations bureau within one (1) week of the date of the violation.
This exception shall not apply in either of the following instances:
(1) To a violation of section 157.10 (Vehicle ignition unlocked), in which case the maximum penalty for any such violation is a fine of twenty dollars ($20.00) if the fine is paid in the traffic violations bureau within one (1) week of the date of the violation;
(2) To a violation of section 157.04(12) (Garbage vehicle over 30 minutes), in which case the maximum penalty for any such violation is a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) if the fine is paid in the traffic violations bureau within one (1) week of the date of the violation.
The penalty provided under this traffic code shall be identical with the penalty provided for under state law.
No person shall stop, stand or park or cause to stop, stand or park any vehicle in any place in violation of the rules and regulations of this chapter. Any such violation shall be a petty misdemeanor unless otherwise provided by law.
(C.F. No. 96-779, § 1, 8-7-96)
Section 2
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days following its passage, approval and publication.