HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 521 PARKING METER VIOLATIONORDINANCE NO. 521
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING ORDINANCE NO. 355,
SECTION 5, PERTAINING TO THE OPERATING HOURS OF METERS
AND ALSO AMENDING AND CHANGING SECTION 1 OF .ORDINANCE
NO. 514 CHANGING THE PENALTY FOR PARKING METER VIOLATIONS
TO $.25 FOR EACH HOUR AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THERWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
REXBURG, IDAHO:
SECTION I: That Section 5, Ordinance No. 355 of the City of Rexburg,
Idaho, be amended to read as follows, to -wit:
"Section 5. Any person or operator who shall park a vehicle during
operating hours in any such space for which a parking meter is located, shall deposit either
one cent (10 coin of a five cent (5C) coin or a ten cent (10c) coin in such parking meter,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, permit, allow or suffer any vehicle to be
parked, during operating hours in any such space while the colored signal or sign of the
parking meter is visible.
"Provided, that upon an application being made under oath to the Chief
of Police, by any person engaged inthe business of the delivery, drayage, and /or- 'transporations
of goods and merchandise, and upon the payment of the sum of $1.00 per month for each
such service of delivery vehicle, the Chief of Police may issue a service or delivery permit
and identification card for such vehicle which permit shall entitle such vehicle to park with-
in a metered space for a period not to exceed twenty minutes at any one time, and while actually
engaged in loading goods or merchandise, without the deposit of the coins as otherwise in this
ordinance provided.. Such service or delivery permit and identification card shall be attached
to the windshield of such vehicle in such manner as to be clearly visible.
"Operating hours of meters within the meaning of this ordinance shall be
between the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. and 5 o'clock p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of each week, unless the same is a legal holiday; that such parking meters
shall not be in operation on Sunday and all legal holidays."
SECTION II: That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 514 of the City of Rexburg,
Idaho, be amended to read as follows:
"Section 9. It shall be the duty of each police Officer observing a
violation of the provisions of Section 4, or Section 5, or Section 6 of this ordinance to leave
at or upon such vehicle or notice that the vehicle has been parked in violation of this ordinanc
that said notice shall bear the date and hour of leaving the same at or upon such vehicle, and
the notice shall instruct the owner or operator of such vehicle to report to the police depart -
m ent, or to the Magistrates Court of the City in regard to such violation. It shall be the duty
of such police officer to leave at or upon such vehicle a separate notice for each hour, or
fraction thereof, that such vehicle remains parked in violation of the provisions of Section 4,
or Section 5, or Section 6. Each such owner or operator, may, within twenty -four hours of the
time of such notice, pay to the police department, as a penalty for, and in full satisfaction
of such violation, the amount of $.25 for each hour, or fraction thereof, that such vehicle
was parked in violation of the provisions of Section 4, of Section 5 of Section 6. The failure
of such owner or operator to report and make such payment to the police department within said
twenty -four hours shall render such owner or poerator subject to the provided for in
Section 1, Ordinance No. 512.
"The notice above mentioned, shall be made and numbered in triplicate, and
it shall be the duty of each police officer to file one copy of such notice with the police
department, and to file one copy of such notice with the City Clerk of the City of Rexburg, It
shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to file a complaint before the Magistrate against all
persons who do not report and make payment to the police Department within the above mentioned
twenty -four hours. All money collected by the police department, for a violation of this
ordinance, shall be paid over to the City Clerk of the City of Rexburg."
SECTION III: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION IV: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect on and after
October 12, 1971.
Passed and approved October 6, 1971
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ity Clerk