HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 353In the City Council
City of Lodi
Lodi, California
ORDINANCE NO- 353
AN ORDINANCE RFUTIVG TO TRAFFIC ATID mGUUTING T!B
USE OF STREFlTS AND HIGHWAYS IN THE CITP OF IQDI:
CREATING AND DEFINING PARKING METER ZONES:
FOR THE DESIGIJATIODJ OF INDIVIBUAL PARKING SPACES:
FINING AND TROVIDIIG FOR THE INSTALLATION, OPERATI9R
AND WNTENAWGE OF PARKING METERS:
ING TIBE LIMITS: REQUIRING DEPOSIT OF COINS FOR THE
USE OF PARKING UETEX AND PARKING METER ZONES AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE COLLFCTION AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH COINS;
FZPEALIDTG CONFLICTING ORDINANCES:
EWORCBENT HERZOF: DEFINING OFFFJISZS AWD PRESCRIBING
PENALTIES; AND PROVIDING THAT INVALIDITY OF PART SHALL
NOT AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF THE RE6RAIDER.
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The City Council of the City of Lodi does ordiLin as follows:
Section 1. DEF'INITIONS. For the purpose of this ordinance:
(a) The word nvehicletf shall mean any device in, upon or by which any
transported on a street or highway person or property is$- other than upon rails or tracks.
(b) The word tistreettt shall mean any public street, avenue, road, alley,
highway, lane, path, or other public place located in the City of Lodi and estab-
lished for the use of vehicles.
(c) The word tipersonff shall mean and include any individual, firm, co-
partnership, association or corporation.
(d) The word rtoperatorft shall mean and include every individual who shall
operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of
the owner, or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
(e) The word JfparkJf or "parking" shall mean the standing of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, upon gstreet otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of,
and while actually engaged in, receiving or discharging passengers or loading or un-
loading merchandise or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or anin-
voluntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the opera-
tor of the vehicle.
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(f) The words IlParlCing Eetertt shall mean and include any mechanical device
or meter not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected for the regulation of
parking by authority qf this ordinance.
by proper legend the legal parking time established by the city and when operated shall
Each parking meter installed shall indicate
at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of
such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
(g) The words "Parking Neter Zone" shall mean and include any restricted
street upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
(h) The words "Parking Xeter Space" shall mean any space within a parking
meter zone, adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking
of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the
surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
Section 2. PPAING EVER ZOfB. The following named and described areas, streets,
or portions of streets and such other areas, streets, or portions of streets as may here-
after be included in this section by amendment hereto or by resolution of said council,
lying within the corporate limits of the City of Lodi, shall constitute a Parking Neter
Zone, namely:
Streets bounded within and by Stockton Street, Hutchins Street, Lockeford Street
Central Avenue from Lodi Avenue to Kettleman Lane; Cherokee Land and Lodi Avenue;
from Lockeford Street to Kettleman Lane.
All frontages in said squares, streets, or avenues defining said zones to be included
therein.
Section 3. DESIGXATION OF PARKING SPACES. The Superintendent of Streets is here-
by directed and authorized to nark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones
designated and described in Section 2 of this ordinance and in such other zones as may
hereafter be established, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or dur-
ably marked on the curbing or surface of the street.
shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall hot be en-
tirely within the limits of the space so designated.
At each space so marked off it
Sbction 4. INSTALLATION OF PAFEING METERS. In said parking meter zones the Chief
of Police shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediate-
ly adjacent to the parking spaces provided in Section 3 of this ordinance, said install-
ation to be placed not more than two (2) feet from the curb nor more than four (4) feet
from the front line of the parking space as indicated, and the Chief of Police shall be
responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance, and use of such prk-
ing meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking
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upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of
America, for the period of the prescribed by this ordinance.
arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper
visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired and in such cases the right
of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or
manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
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Each device shall be so
Section 5. OPBATION OF PARKING LETfiEES. Except in a period of emergency determined
by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of
a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in
any parking space a&e~1&~4e or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of
such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, imaediately deposit or
cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United States as is required
for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the meter, and when
required by the directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit
of the proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such
meter in accordance with directions prope
such proper coin, and to set the time mechanism in operation when so required, shall con-
stitute a violation of this ordinance.
of the timing mechanism in operation when so required) the parking
occupied by such vehicle during the perio
alongside
appearing thereon, and failure to deposit
Upon the deposit of such co
the which has be ribed for the part
of the street in which said parking space is located, provided that any person placing a
vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time
has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required
to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated
unused parking time.
yond the parking time Limi-t set for such parking space, and if the mete
such illegal parking, then, and in that event, such vehicle shall considered as park-
ing overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall. be
deemed a violation of this ordinance.
If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space be-
Section 6. PARKING TIME LD!ITS. (a) Parking or standing a vehicle in a designa-
ted space in a parking meter zone shall be lawful for twelve (12) minutes upon deposit
of a one-cent coin, twenty-four (24) minutes upon the deposit of two (2) one cent coins,
thirty-six minutes upon the deposit of three (3) one-cent coins, forty-eight (48) minutes
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upon the deposit of four one-cent coins, sixty (60) minutes upon the deposit of five
(5) one-cent coins or one (1) five-cent coin and one hundred twenty (120) minutes upon
the deposit of one (1) ten-cent coin, or any combination of one-cent or five-cent coins
that will equal one (1) ten-cent coin of the United States of America, or any less or
more multiples thereof, as the City Council may by resolution designate, for any par-
ticular parking meter space.
(b) Said parking meters shall be operated in said parking meter zones every
day between the hours of nine o'clock A. N. and six o'clock P. N,, except Sundays and
holidays;
shall include the following days 6nly:- the first day of January, the twenty-seoond
day of February, the thirtieth day of Hay, the fourth day of July, the first Monday in
provided however that within the meaning of this ordinance the term "holidayLy"
September, the eleventh day of November, the day designated and set aside by the Presi-
dent of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving and the twenty-fifth day of December.
Section 7. VIOLATIONS.
of this ordinance for any person:
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
(a) To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of,
or operated by such person to be parked overtime, or beyond the period of legal parking
time established for any parking meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any
parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking time
for the particular parking meter zone.
(b) To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent
to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle
occupying such parking space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for
such parking space.
(c) To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space
or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated
by such lines or markings.
(d) To deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy, or im-
pair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this ordin-
ance.
(e) To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, de-
vice or metal substance, or other substitute for lawful coins.
Section 8. ENFORCBS3l'.
the provisions of this ordinance.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce
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Section 9. COUCTIONS. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to desig-
nate some member or members of the Police Department to make regular collections of
the moneys deposited in said meters and it shall be the duty of such persons so desig-
nated to remove from the parking meters the coins deposited in said meters and to de-
liver the same to the City Clerk of the City of bdi under such regulations as he may
provide.
at the times and in the manner now provided by law.
Said City Clerk will deposit the moneys so collected with the City Treasurer
Section 10, USE CF FUNDS. The coins deposited in parking meters are required
and shall be used to defray the expense of proper regulation of traffic upon the pub-
lic streets of the City of Lodi;
and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones;
of purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, *operation, maintenance,
control and use of parking meters.
off-street parking and for maintenance and construction of the streets of the City.
to provide for the cost of supervision, regulation
and to cover %he cost
And also to acquire, maintain and operate lots for
Section 11. PENALTY. Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of
the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation
or failure to comply, shall be deemed guilty of an af$.wse and shall be punished by a
fine or not to exceed $50.00 or by imprisonment for not to exceed 30 days, either or
both penalties to be imposed at the discretion of the court.
a misdemeanor
Section 12. RESFEiVATION OF PO??EFtS. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed
as prohibiting the City of Lodi from providing for bus stops, for taxicab stands and
other mat+ers of similar nature, including the loading or unloading of trucks, vans, or
other commercial vehicles.
Section 13. REPEAL OF COWLICTING 0IU)INANCES. All ordinances and parts of or-
dinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided,
however, that such repeal shdl 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 14. SEV"r;RABILITY. If any section or provisions, or parts thereof in this
ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconsti-
tutiondity shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or of any other
section or provision or part hereof.
Section 15. EXERCISE OF POLICE PCY'BR. This entire ordinance shall be deemed and
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construed to be an exercise of the police power of the
California for the preservation and protection of public
sions shall be liberally construed with a view to the
Section 16. Each and all the provisions of this ordinance shall apply
street parking space which may be designated for that purpose by amendment
by resolution of said City Council, provided that in cases of off-street par
rates and parking time limits therefore may be fixed by resolution of said C
Section 17. This ordinance shall be published one time in the Lodi Times
shall be in force and take effect at the time in the manner provided herein and
law.
Approved this 27th day of August 1947 a
I, J. F. BLAKELY, City Clerk of the City of Lodi do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance Ro. 95% was regularly introduced in
the City Council of said City on the 13th day of August, 1947, and
was thereafter, on the 27th day of August, 1947, passed, adop-
ted and ordered to print by the following vote:
AYES: Councilme
NOES: Councilme
ABSENT: Councilmen None
I also further certify that Ordinance No. $3 w
by the Mayor on the date of its adoption.
Dated: August 27 1947*
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