HomeMy WebLinkAbout2848 public streets of the City of Bremerton; providing for
the installation, regulation and control of parking
meters, and establishing and defining parking meter zones
and rates, requiring deposit of coins in parking meters
for the parking of cars adjacent thereto in parking meter
zones; providing penalties for violation of the
provisions thereof, and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. The word "vehicle" as used herein, shall mean
every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in,
upon, or by which any persons or property is or may be transported
or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human
or animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
Section 2. The parking meter rate shall be as set by
resolution of City Council.
Section. 3. The City Commission of the City of Bremerton
is hereby authorized to provide for the installation and placing of
parking meters in the parking meter zones provided for herein or to
be provided for hereafter, and to provide for the maintenance of
said meters in good workable condition.
Section 4. During the period when time limit is in effect
and the deposit of an appropriate coin in a parking meter is
required, the owner, operator, manager or driver of ahy vehicle
shall, upon entering a parking meter stall, immediately deposit
appropriate coin or coins in the parking meter alongside of or next
to said parking stall and said parking stall may then be used by
such vehicle for the period of time shown on the calibrated dial,
but, in no event, in excess of the parking limit provided for the
part of'the street in which said parking stall is located.
Section 5. The Chief of Police is hereby instructed to
have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb and/or upon
the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of
designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used,
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and each vehicle parking alongside of or next to any parking meter
shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance to park any vehicle
across any such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such
position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so
designated by such lines or markings.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit
a vehicle to remain parked overtime or beyond the period of legal
parking time established for any parking meter zone: as herein
described.
Section 7. 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 of such
vehicle~ the time and date of such overparking, and the make of
such vehicle; and issue, in writing, a citation for illegal?parking
in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided for by
the ordinances of the City of Bremerton and the laws of the State of
Washington applicable to the traffic violations within said City.
Any operator or owner of a vehicle to whom a citation has
been issued may, within seven days of the time of the issuance of
said citation, pay to the Clerk of the Municipal Court as a penalty
for and in full satisfaction of such vio].ation the sum of Two
Dollars ($2.00). The failure of such owner or operator to make
such payment within said seven days shall render such owner or
operator sub,eot to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation
of the provisions of this Ordinance.
Provided, however, that the Municipal Judge may, by
General Order, allow a parking ticket to be settled by the payment
of $1.00 within twenty-four (24) hours after the ticket is issued.
Section 8. Restrictions on parking, as herein set forth,
and the requirements contained herein for the deposit of coins in
parking meters, shall not be effective on Sundays and on the
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following holidays: January 1, February 22, May 30, July L~, the
first Monday in September, December 25 and the day designated and
set aside by the Ppesident of the United States as Thanksgiving
Day.
Section 9. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this Ordinance for any unauthorized person to deface,
injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy oF impair the
usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of
this Ordinance.
Section 10. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this Ordinance to deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for a ].awful
coin of the United States.
Section 11. The coins required to be deposited in
parking meters, as provided herein, awe hereby levied and assessed
as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic
upon the public streets, and to cover the cost of supervision~
inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use
of the parking spaces and parking meters described herein, and.
also the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles
in the parking meter zones created hereby.
Section 12. The captain or officer in charge of the
Traffic Division of the Police Department shall be the collector
of all money deposited in parking metems and for that purpose shall
be a deputy of the City Treasurer. Ail money so deposited shall be
removed from each meter by the collector and immediately placed in
a suitable locked, container from which such money cannot be with-
drawn except by use of a key which shall be held by the City
Treasurer. The City Treasurer shall be responsible for all such
money after such containers are delivered into his possession. Ail
such money shall be deposited by the City Treasurer in the city
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funds or accounts in conformance wit!. ~the provisions annually made;~ ~he
official budget of the City ot5 llremer~on and shall be disbursed and ex-
pended in confomance with the provisions o15 the said official city budget.
Section 13. Every person in whose name a vehicle is registered
(licensed) shall be responsible for any parking or angle parking of said
vehicle and for all offenses other than moving violations in violation
this code. It shall be no 4efense to such charge that said vehicle was
illegally parked or angle parked or used by another, unless it be shown
that at such time said vehicle was bein~ used without the consent of the
registered (licensed) owner thereof.
Section 14. Any person ~ho shall violate any of the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemamor and upon conviction
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $300.00, together with the costs
of such action or by imprisimment in the City 3ail for a period not exceed-
ing ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 1S. If any section, subsection, sentence,,.Clause or
phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutior~l,
such decision shall not affect the validity o£ the retaining portions of
this Ordir~nce.
Section 16. An--emergency exists ~ch affects the. public peace,
health and safety, and th~s 'Ordinance shall become effective iron. lately
following passage and publication as required by law.
PASSBD UNANIMOUML¥,by the City~i Council of the City of Bremer~n,
signed by the Mayor and attested bY' ~e City Clerk in authentication
such passage this 1 8 day of .... JUN , 1969.
'GLENN K.
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