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Lodi, California
ORDINANCE NO, 622
AI? ORDINANCE ESTABLISHXIJG PARKING REGULATED BY PARKING VETF,3S
AND REPEALING ORIXUt&NCZ NO, 353 BEING AN ORDINANF FNTITLED
"AN ORDINANCE FKLATING TO TRAFFIC AND REGULATIXG TW TJSR OF
STRFETS AND IiIGlikAYS IN THE CITY OF LODI: CREATING AN? DRFINING
PAl3KIBG TTETEH ZONRS : PROVIDING FOR TKE DFEIGNATION OF
INDIVIDUAL PARKING SPWCZS : DT.PII.lfNG Aim PROVZD PEG FOR THE
INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND T.?AIBTENANCE OF' PkRBING METERS
PRESCRfBING PARKING TIMT;: LIMITS HEQIJIR:.I ldci DTPOSIT C'P COli'JS
FOR THE USE OF PARKIHG KETERS AND PARKING FQTER ZONRS AND
PROVIDING FOR THI;: COLLECTION AWD DISPOSITION OF S.UCH COINS;
REPEALING CONFLICTIHG ORDINANCES PROVIDING FOR T-m ENFORCE-
MENT HEREOF: DEFINING OFFENSES AND PRXSCHIBING PENALTIYS;
AND PROVIDING TIIAT INVALIDITY OF PART SHALL H3T AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF THE REMAINDER", AILTD REPEALIHG ORDIRANCE NO, 521~~
WHICH ORDIRABCE AI'.7ENDEE) SECTION "6 b" OF SAID ORDIWANCT NO,
353
The City Council of the city of Lodi does aPpdain as fo%lows:
SC*ZQX 1. Ordfnance No, 3539 being commonly known as "Parking
Meter Opdinancs" and Ordinance No, 524, amcndbg said ord2mw-m be
and the same are hereby repealed 5-33 fille
SECTION 2, DEFINITIONS, FOP the pu~pose of this ordinance:
(2) The word 9'velliclep1 shall mean any device in, upon or by
which any person or property is transported on a street OF highway
other than upon rails OF tracks,
(b) The word "street" shall mean any public street, aWmmD road,
alley, highway, lam, path, OF other public place located in the
City of Lodi and established for the use of vehicles,
(c) The word 'Ppe~s~n'l shall mean and include any indivfduah, firm,
co-partnership, associatlon OF corporation,
(d) The word "operator" shall nean and include every individual
who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent,
employee or permittee of the ownepp or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle,
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1I (e) The word "park" or papking" shall mean the standing of a
vehicle, whetherP occupied or not, upon a street OF parking meter space
otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually
engaged in, receiving or discharging passengeps OF loading or unload-
ing merchandise or in obedisnoe to traffic ~egulatfons, signs or signals
or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond
the control of the operator of the vehicle, -
(f) The words "Parking Meter" shall mean and include any mechani-
cal device or meter not inconsistent with this osdfnance placed OE"
erected fox? the regulation of parking by authority of this ordinance,
Each parking meter installed shall indicate by propen. legend the legal
parking time established by the City and when
times indicate the ba3-a::~~ CI-~ legal par~ing time, and at the expiratfoam
of such perZad shel.9_ fr?_cl%cate illegal OP" ox-mti'm perWng,
operated shall at all.
(g) words "Parkfng :leter Spxe" Ahall mean any space within
a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parkfng meter and which is duly
designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted OP
otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street
or space adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters,
(h) Holidays shall include the following days only: January 1,
February 22, May 30, July 4# November 11, December 25, the Monday fol-
lowing any Sunday on which any such day follows, th3 first Monday in
September, the Thursday in November appointed as Thanksgiving Dayo
Good kridw between the hours of h2:W porno to 3:OO porno, and Swdag,
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SECTEOR 3* ESTABLISEMENT OF TAKING METE8 ZONES* The City
Council shall., by resolution from time to the as traffic condftl~n~
require, establish zones to be hswa as “Parking Meter Zonesrr, upon
such streets or portions of streets and upon such Cfty-owned lots OF
off-street parkfng lots within the City of Lodi,and in the event
parking meters are installed as provided in this o~dinaflce along the
curb next to OF adjacent to any parking spaces in such zones, the
provisions of this ~~din~ince shdl govern pa~pkixsg in such parking
space,
SEZTIOR 4, RESOLUTEON ABHINORIZING INSTULATION AMD LOCATIOIY,
The City Council may, by resolution, specify the streets OF portions
of streets or City-owaed or leased sff-street parking lots within
the parking m&er zones wherein the pa~kiag meters sbalb be imtalled
together w&th tha maximm
Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to install or d%reet; the
installation of parking meters in such parking meter z~nes as so
directed by the City Camcil fox- the pupose, and in such numbeps ami
at such places as may be necessary to the regulation, control and
inspection of the parking of vehicles thersim, including the reser-
rkfag the limit thereon, and the Cjlty
vation of loading zoares for commercial vehicles.
SECTION 5e IRSTALLA2IQR AND CONSTRUCTLOW. Parkfng meters installed
in parking meter zones shall be installed upon the curb or in the case
of off-street parking lots in the apace immediately adjacent to the
individual parking space described in the following sectdon, and each
parking meter shall be so constructed and adjusted as to show when
properly operated and signal that the space adjacent t~ which it is
installed Its OF is not legally in wep
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SECTION’ 6, CITY EdGINZFJ? TO VARY PARKING SPACES; PARKING WITHIN
MARKED SPACES,
upon the curb or street or City-owned or leased off-street parking lot
The City Engineer shall have Pines and markings painted
adJacene to each parking meter, designatiX3.g
such rneter is to be used, alzd each vehicle parked adjacent to any park-
ing meter shall park within suck line of markingo It shall be unlawful
to park any vehicle ~CFOSS my such Pine or rnarkjing, or to park a vehicle
in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space desig-
nated by such lines or markings,
the parking space for which
SECTION 7, PARKING BEYOND LEGAL PARKING TIVE PROHIBITED, It
shall be unlawful for any pepson to cause, a%Pow OF permit OP suff‘ep,
any vehicle registered in his name OP opa~cnted or contPol”Ed by him
to be upon my street or City-omed OP leased off-street palrking 10.6,
within 8 parkhg meter zone in any space adjacent to whfch a parking
rneker is installed for more, than the maximum parking the limit fixed
and established by resolution of the City Council and indicated in
the parking meter space, or my time during whfch the meter is showing
a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use other than
such time as it is necessary to opsmoate the meter to show legal park-
ing, between the hours of 9:QO A,M, and 6rOO P,M, of any day, except
that such parking l%rnitat%ons shall not be operative on any Sunday or
holiday
Each hour of continued parking dwing which the meter is ~ho~il~g
a signal indicating that such space 2s illegally in use shall consti-
tute a separate offense and shall be punishable aa such,
SECTION 8, OPERATION OF FJETERS TO BE PRESCRIEED F;r" COUNCIL.
The denomination of the United States coin that shall be deposihd in
parking meters, the parking time allowed following the deposlt of such
coin and %he direotions which shall appear on the parking meters shall
be such as may be prescpibed by the, City Council by resolution,
SECTION 9. DEPOSIT OF COINS -- REQUIRED, Each pwking metep
shall be so designated that khe deposit of a coin of the United States
will set the mechanism of the meter in motionp or permit the mechanlsm
to be so set in motion that the meter will show the unexpired parking
time applicable to the pmking space adjacent to the lrlete~~ and the
meter when such parking time has expiked shall so indicate by a visible
sign.
SECTION 10,DEPoSIT OF COINS WAIVER BY COUNCIL, The council may,
by resolution, provide for and establish a monthl.y, quarteFly, semiamuab
Or annual charge payable in advance for the use of a pagking meter space
in each Gity-owned or leased off-street papking lot and the City Council,,
by resolution, may restrict the nunlber of such spaces in any such lot
that shall be rented OR such basis,
The Councfl, by resoEution, shall provide the nscessapy means
or methods of evidencing the paynent OF such charge by parking meter
hoods, stickers or other similar device,,
SECTION 11, TEMPORARY PERPIITS FOR USE OF WTERFD SPACES,
(a) Pemnit to use for public displays, The City Council upon
application therefor
meter spaces fop public display pwposes,
may grant temporary pemnits for the use of parking
(b) Permit to park construction equipment, The Chief' of Police
upon aPPlfcation may grant 8. pennit for parking of construction equip-
ment where necassarg beeause of construction work on abutting propepty,
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(0) Posting no parking sfma and meter hoods, The Chfef of Police
is hemby authorized $n those instances:
facilitate the movement of traffic; and, (2) whem a permit has been
issued for the use of parking meter spaces, to post no parking signs
OP hoods prohibiting parking in %he papking meter spaces, and in suck
(I) Whem it is required to
instance the '&ief of' Police shall conspicuously post on each parking
meter for each parking meter space wherefn parking is to be prohibited
or United in useo as above provided, no papking signs or hoods over
the parking metera.
(d) Parking in violation of no parking sign or hood, Any pefsonr
except for those given permission by the City Council, parking a vehicle
in any parking meter) space which has been consbicuously posted with
a no parking sign QP hood as provided in the preceding parereaph shall
be guilty of a violation of this ordinance,
(e) XP%ejqal posting of' no parking sign or hood, Any person post-
ing a no parking sign or hood on any- parking meter on cn parking space
not included in the permit shall be guilty of a violation of this
ordinance,
(E) Charges and deposits,, The Council may, by resobtion, pro-
vide and establish a charge to be made in those instances where pubPlc
display or construction equipment is to be parked in a parking meter
spaceo which charge shall be paid in advance to the Police hpart;ment
of the City OP such 0th~ department as the Council may determine by
resolPtion,
deposit for hoods OP signs and provide the necessary means OP methods
of evidencing the method of payment of such charge by stickers or
other similar device i.
me Council, by resolution, may also provide for a
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SECTION 12, USE OF SLUGS XJKLAmL,, It shall be ulnPawfuf for
person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter
ang slug, device or other subsfltute for a coin of the United Staters,
SECTION l3* TAMPERING WITH FfiETER UNLAWFUL. It shall be unlawful
for any unauthorfzed person to operateo or for anY pepson to defaceo
injure, tamper with, OP wilfully break, destroy OP impair the useful-
ness of any parking meter installed pursuant to this ordinance, OF to
hitch any animal thereto, 01" lam any bicycle against any meter.
SECTION 14,, COLLECTION OP COINS FROY PARKING METERS. me
Finance Director is hereby authorized, and it shall be his duty, to
designate some person OP" persons to make reguhak collections of the
money deposited in said pasking meters, It shall be the du%g of such
person OF persons so designatxd to collect and deffver to the Finance
Director all money deposited in the parking meters,
Director shall keep accwatet accotan% of all the parklng meter money
so delivered to him,
The Finance
SECTION 1Se USE OF MONEYS COLLECTED. All charges fop use of
parking meter spaces as provided in this opdinance me hereby levied
and assessed as the fee to provide for the proper regulation, control
and inspection of traffic upon the public streets or off-street pa&-
ing lots, as the case may be; td cover the cost of supervisingo regu-
latiq and inspectfng the parking of vehiclea in the parking meter
zones prPovided for in this ordinance; the cost of the acquisition,
installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of park-
ing meters and expenses incidental thereto; the acquisition by purchase
or lease, establishment, improvement, operation, maintenance, repair
and replacement of off-street parking facilitfes; and the payment of
principal of and interest and priop redemption premiums on bonds issued
to finance the acquisition and construction of such facilities.
SECTION 3.6, ENFORCENEMT; ISSUING CITATIONS, It skiall be the
duty of the Police bpartment to enforce the provisions of this
ordinancee
(a) Zt shall be the duty of each meter inspector to keep an account
of 'and repopt the nunibsr of each parking meter which indilcates that
vehicle occupying the parking space adjaoent to such parking meter is
or has been parked in vfolation of the provisions of this ordinance,
the date and how of such violation, the make and state license number
of such vehicle and any other facts a knowledge of which is necesaar~p
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such vio-
lation,
(b) Be shall issue and attach fm writing a citation for illegal
parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided
for by the ordinances of the City and the laws of the state applicable
to traffic regulations within the City,
(c) Any operator or owner of 8 vehicle to Wnom a cltation has
been issued may, within bwenty-four hours of the time of the i~sumce
of said citation, pay to the Clerk of the District Court as a penalty
for and in full satisfaction of such violation the sum of Fifty (SO)
Cents, The failure of such owner OP operator to make such payment
within said twenty-four hours shall render such owner or operator
subject to the penalties hereinaf$er provided fop violation of the
provisions of this ordinance
SECTION 17, PENALTY, Any pepson who shall violate or, fail to
COWPlY with a- Of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall
counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failwe to comply, shall
be deemed gullty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by 8 fine of
not to exceed &0,00 OF by imprisonment for not to exceed 30 days,
either or both penalties to be imposed at the discretion of the cowt,
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SECTION 1.80 The City Clerk sRtlXf certify to the passage of this
ordinarace and cause the same to be published one time In the tfLcx3i
Ne~s-Sentinel,~~ 8 daily newspaper of general cfrctslatfon prdnted and
published la the City of Lodf, and shell be in force and take effect
thirty days froaa and afte~ its passage.
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Approved this 3rd day of September, XS580
BEATRICE OUm&DE, City Clerk
I, BEATRICE GARIBALBI, City Clerk of the City of Lodf and
ex off%c&o Clerk of the City Comcil, do hereby cert%fg that
Ordinance Noo 622 was introdtreed at B regular meeting sf the City
CounciL held August 20, 3.958, and was thereafter passed, adopted
and ordered to prfnt at a regular meeting held September .39 1958,
by the following vote:
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AYES
NOES: Coucilmen - None
Councilmen - Brown, Culbertson, Mitchell, Robinson andl Katzakhn
AI3SENTt Comeblaen - Ibne
I further certify that Ordinance Roe 622 was approved and
sfgned by the Mayor on the date of its passage and that the same
has been published pursuant to law.
BEATRICE GARIBALDI
Ci%y Clerk