Chapter 10.70
PARKING PROHIBITED—CITY-OWNED PARKING LOTS
Sections:
10.70.010 Parking prohibited—City-owned parking lots.
10.70.010 Parking prohibited—City-owned parking lots.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep in any vehicle located in any of the following parking lots between the hours of twelve o’ one a.m. and five a.m.:
1. The Depot parking lot.
2. The City Hall parking lot.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep upon the grounds of or improved surface of any of the following parking lots between the hours of twelve o’ one a.m. and five a.m.:
1. The Depot parking lot.
2. The City Hall parking lot.
B. Parking lot definitions as used in this section:
1. “Depot parking lot” is that parking lot bordered by 6th Street, 7th Street, Bennett Avenue, and the railroad tracks.
2. “City Hall parking lot” is that parking lot next to the City Hall, and the parking lot on the corner of Dudley Avenue and Meade Avenue.
C. “Vehicle” as used in this section shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, motorized recreational vehicles, campers, boats, travel trailers, boat trailers, utility trailers, or other similar devices.
D. “Grounds” as used in this section shall mean the landscaped area within a parking lot and the area surrounding a parking lot twenty-five feet in width in all directions from the improved surface of a parking lot.
E. “Improved surface” as used in this section shall mean an area for use by a vehicle, for the purpose of the parking of vehicles.
F. This section shall not apply to persons authorized to sleep in or on a parking lot by a special event permit issued by the city.
G. It shall be a defense to a charge under subsection A of this section that the offense was necessitated by a temporary emergency situation and that no reasonable alternative was available to the defendant under the circumstances.
H. Violation of this section is a civil infraction with a penalty of five hundred dollars. Each day during any portion of which such violation occurs shall constitute a separate infraction. (Ord. 3215 § 2, 2023).
10.70.990 Severability.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, paragraph, phrase, or word of this chapter should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality thereof shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section, subsection, sentence, clause, paragraph, phrase or word of this chapter. (Ord. 3215 § 3, 2023).