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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02240 ORD - 03/16/1948AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF PARKING METERS; AND DESIGNATING THE STREETS UPON C.110H THEY vvILL BE OPERATED; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PARKING LIMIT CN TEE STREETS; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CON- FLICT HEREWITH ADJ PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION. ,IalFaEAS, with a view to consolidating into one comprehensive ordinance the various regulations applicable and pertaining to parking meters and with a view to incorporating certain changes therein, this Council now deems it desirable to repeal all other ordinances in conflict herewith and in their stead enact the present ordinance; NON, T:1&REFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY TIE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; SECTION 1. The word "vehicle" as used herein shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a street or highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks. The word "park" or "parking" when used herein shall mean the standing of s vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in unloading or loading passengers or merchandise. The word "loading zone" when used herein shall mean a space or section of the curb set aside for the exclusive use of loading and unloading persons, supplies and merchandise. SECTION 2. That the parts of streets in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, described in Sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Ordinance and established as parking meter zones, and in such zones and such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created by Ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi, the City is authorized to have installed parking meters, and is authorized to cause parking meter spaces to be designated in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. When signs are erected, or curbs are painted giving notice thereof, or parking meters are installed in each block, no vehicle shall remain parkea longer than sixty (60) minutes at any time between the hours of 7 A.M. and 6 P.M. on any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council, within the district or upon any of the streets described in Sections 17 and 18 of this Ordinance, nor for longer than thirty (30) minutes at any time between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 6 :00 P.M. of any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council, within the district or upon any of the streets described in Section 19 of this Ordinance. SECTION j. That the City Manager, or such other officers or employees of the City of Corpus Christi as he may select, are hereby authorized to install or place parking meters in such perking meter zones hereby created or to be created by other Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb alongside of or next to individual parking places to be designated as hereinafter provided. Each said parking meter shall be so set as to shoe or display a signal that the parking space alongside of same is or is not in use. The City Manager, or such officers or employees above referred to, shall provide for the installation, regulation, control, operation and use of parking meters provided for in this Ordinance, and shall maintain said meters in good workable condition. Each said parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal shoeing legal parking upon the deposit of five cent coin of the United States therein for a period of time conforming to the parking limit set out in Sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Ordinance or hereafter prescribed by the Ordi- nances of the City of Corpus Christi for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed; and each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue operation from the time of depositing such coin un- til the expiration of the time fixed by said schedules and ordinances as the parking limit for the part of the street upon which said mater is placed. Each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expira- tion of said parking limit it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the dropping of proper signal that the lawful parking period as fixed by the Ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi has expired. SECTION h. 'i&en any vehicle shall be parked in any space alongside of or next to which there is located, under this Ordinance, a parking meter, the owner, operator manager or driver of said vehicle shall upon entering the said parking space immediately deposit a five -2- cent coin of the United States in the parking meter alongside of or next to said parking space, and the said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking limit provided by the Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. j If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking place beyond the parking limit fixed by the Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi for such parking apace the parking meter shall display a sign shoeing illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be Considered as parked overtime and beyond the time fixed by the Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of time fixed now or here- after by the Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this ordinance and punished as hereinafter not out. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person, firm or corporation having registered in its or his name or owning or operating or having in charge any vehicle, to allow, or suffer or permit same to rem in or be placed in say parking space alongside of or next to which any parking meter is placed while said meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been parked beyond the period of the time fixed by the Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi for such parking space. SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of each police Officer to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is overparked as provided in this Ordinance, the state vehicle license number of such vehicle, the time end date of such overparking, and the make of vehicle, and issue in writing on a form provided by the City a notice to answer to the charge of overparking within five days during the hours and at the place specified in the notice. SECTION %. Any vehicle parked in any parking space in any parking meter zone shall be parked with the hood of such vehicle alongside of or next to the parking meter alongside of such parking space and shall be parked within the lines marked on the street for such parking spsoe as provided hereinafter. -3- SECTION S. The City Manager, or such officers, persons, or employees of the City of Corpus Christi as he shall select shall place lima or narks on the curb or on the street about or alongside of each parking meter to designate the parking space for which said meter is to be used and each vehicle parked alongside of or next to any parking mater shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful and an offense to park any vehicle across any such line or mark or to park said vehicle in such way that the same shall not be within the area so designated by such lima or markings. SECTION 9. The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to establish such loading zones as are necessary for the conduct of busi- noes, to omit parking meters from such loading some and to properly sign and mark such zones where, in his opinion, the dimensions of the streets and sidewalks, the flow of traffic and the use of property abutting the streets are such that he finds it to be necessary for the free flow and expeditious handling of traffic and the safety of persons and property. SECTION 10. No person shall stand or park a vehicle in e loading zone for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers for a period in excess of tks 0) minutes. The use of loading zones for the loading or unloading of merchandise shall be confined to the handling of heavy or bulky materials. All such loading or unloading must be per- formed in an expeditious manner and no vehicle may remain in a loading zone for a period of time greater than necessary to expeditiously load or unload same nor while the operator thereof is soliciting or engaged otherwise than in the loading or unloading of the vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allowed for securing a receipt of delivery. The use of metered spaces for loading or unloading merchandise as defined above will be permitted before the hour of 1Oz00 A.M. with- out the depositing of a coin in the parking meter of said space except that the vehicle muat load or unload centered as nearly as possible in a single metered space and in the manner above described. The above regulations shall apply only between the hours of 7 A.M. and 6 P.M. of axy day except Sundays and holidays officially '.jl- sat by the City Council within the district or upon any o£.th. streets described in Sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Ordinance. SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful and an offense to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute £or a five cent coin of the United State.. In the event that a slug, device or substitute of a five cent coin of the United States should be found in the face of any such meter, indicating that the last article deposited is a slug, device or substitute for the five cent coin of the United States, the same shall constitute prima facie evidence of the fact that the driver or operator of the vehicle parked alongside any such meter is guilty of the offense of depositing or causing to be deposited in any such parking meter a slug, device or substitute for the five cent coin of the United States. SECTION 12. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any unauthorized person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this Ordinance. SECTION lj. The five cent coins required to be deposited as provided herein are hereby levied as police regulation and inspection fees to cover the cost of inspection, installation, operation, control and use of the parking spaces and parking meters described herein and involved in checking up and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby. SECTION li+. Any person, firm or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of the Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of an offense and fined not to exceed the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Any person who shall aid, abet or assist in the violation of any Of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offense and shall be fined not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). SECTION 15. If any section or provision or part thereof in this Ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole or of any section, provision or part thereof not adjudged invalid or unconstitutional. -5- SECTION 16. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a five cent coin for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the time fixed by the ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi for parking in the parking space alongside of or next to which said narking meter is placed. SECTION 17- A Meter Zone No. 1 is established limiting parking to sixty (60) minutes between the hours of 7 A.M. and 6 p.M. on any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council upon the following streets: On Water Street from Lawrence Street to Taylor Street On Chaparral Street from Laguna Street to Schatzel Street On Chaparral Street from Schatzel Street to Peoples Street, :ast side only On Chaparral Street from Peoples Street to Twigg Street On Mesquite Street from Laguna Street to Schatzel Street On Mesquite Street from Peoples Street to Twigg Street On Taylor Street from Ater Street to Mesquite Street On Star Street from gater Street to Lower Broadway On People. Street from ]rest Shoreline Drive to Lower Broadway On Schatzel Street from Uest Shoreline Drive to Chaparral Street On Schatzel Street from Mesquite Street to Chaparral Street, Southeide only On Lawrence Street from Water Street to Mesquite Street On Williams Street from Chaparral Street to Mesquite Street SECTION 18. A Meter Zone No. 2 is established limiting parking to sixty (60) minutes between the hour. of 7 A.M. and 6 P.M. on any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council upon the following streets: On Leopard Street from North Broadway to Sam Rankin Street On Upper Broadway from Antelope Street to Mestina Street On Carancahua Street from Antelope Street to the property line of the North Side Junior High School On Antelope Street from Carancahua Street to North Broadway -6- SECTION 19. A Meter Zone No. 3 is established limiting parking to thirty (30) minutes between the hours of 7 A.M. and 6 P.M. on -W day except Sundays and holiday. officially set by the City Council upon the following streets: On Mesquite Street from Peoples Street to Schatsel Street, East side only On Sohatzel Street from Chaparral Street to Mesquite Street, North Side only On Chaparral Street from Peoples Street to Schatsel Street, West side only SECTION 20. That any Ordinance inconsistent with any of the terms and provisions of this Ordinance is hereby repealed, provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this Ordinance shall be cumulative of other Ordinances regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this Ordinance. SECTION 21. That it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some member, or members, of his department to make regular collections of the money deposited in said meters. In this connection, it shall be the duty of such pare.." .o designated to pick up the sealed Cylinders containing the coins as deposited in the meters and deliver such cylinders with the seals unbroken to the City Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi. It shall be the duty of the City Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi to break the seals and count the funds and deposit same to the credit of the City of Corpus Christi in a special fund called "Parking Meter Fund," which said fund shall be disbursed on order of the City Council. That the duties prescribed to the officer and /or officer. of the City of Corpus Christi under the terms of this section shall be in addition to their regular duties which they are now performing. -7- The foregoing Ordinance was read the first time and passed Y Of 1948, �. to the second reading, on the .Z da by the following votes Wesley L. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The foregoing Ordinance was read 4 second time and passed to the third reading, on the 9 day of , 19.18, by the following vote- Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The foregoing Ordinance was read third time and passed and ordered approved by the Mayor, on the --1- =— day of �. 1948, by the following votes iYealey E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson APPROVED this �_ day of J�7 A. D. 19i�• City of Corpus Christi, Texas ATTEST. c ty a et APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: A torney A/ D n tact! y �eietant ity orney a9L+e