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Home My WebLink About1459 ORDINANCE NO. 1459 AN ORDINANCE relating to the regulation of traffic on the public streets of the 0ity of Bremerton; providing for the pu.~t~aee, installation, regulation and control of parking met'ers, and establishing and defining parking meter zones, authorizing the method of payment for parking ~ten~nd~t~e~.installatien thereof exclusively from the receipts obtained from.th~i.r operation, 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; c-~ea~iag a.."?arking Meter Fund," and declaring an emergency. THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BRENERTON ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The word "vehicle" as used herein, shall mean any device by which any person or property may be transported upon the highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks. Section 2. The following described streets of the City of Bremerton are hereby designated and established as parking meter zones, and it shall be unlawful. to park cars on said streets for a longer period of time than is hereinafter opposite each specific street: Pacific Avenue from let to 6th Streets ............. i hour, Pacific Avenue from 6th to ?th Streets .[][.. [.[] ....... [.lB mlnute~ Washington Avenue from let to 5th Streets ................. 2 hours, let Street from Pacific to Washington Avenues .............. i hour, 2nd Street from Pacific to Washington Avenues ............. i hour, Burwell Street from a point 200 feet west of Pacific Avenue to Washington Avenue ........ 4thStreet from Park Avenue to W~s~in~'~v~e.[.[[][[][ 11 hour, hour, 5thStreet from a point 200 feet West of Pacific Avenue to a point 200 feet East of Pacific Avenue ...... 2 hours, Callow Avenue from Burwell Street to 6th Street ........... i hour. Providing however, that such hours for the limitation of parking shall apply only between the hours of 8 o'clock A.M., to .6 o'clock P.M., except on Burwell Street, between Pacific Avenue and Washington Avenue, on which street the fore- going limitation of parking shall be in effect from 6 o'clock A.M., to lO o'clock P.~. and providing further that the Chief of Police, by and with the consent of the City Commission is hereby authorized to restrict the time for legal parking to twelve minutes in areas adjacent to any bank or auy builStng in which a public utility company has its main office, by posting signs plainly indicating the period of time during which vehicles may be legally parked, and to extend, restrict, alter or otherwise change said parking meter zones and limitations of time for parking and to create additional parking meter zones, all by and with the consent of the City Commission by appropriate resolution or motion and by posting appropriate signs, as hereinbefore set forth. Section 3. The City Commission of the City of Bremerton is hereby author- ize8 to contract for the purchase or rental and installation of four hundred seventy-five (475) parking meters, more or less, from the DUNCAN ~ETER CORPORATION, c corporation, pursuant to the competitive bid submitted by said corporation and to provide for payment of the purchase price or rental of such meters exclusive- ly from receipts to be obtained by the City of Bremerton from the operation of said meters and said means of payment shall be in addition to any other pur- chasing powers heretofore granted the City of Bremertoh by the laws of the State of Washington or by the ordinances of the City of Bremerton. Section 4. The City Commission of the City of Bremerton is hereby author- ized to provide for the installation and placing of parking meters in the park- ing meter zones provided for herein or to be provided for hereafter, and to provide for the maintenance of said meters in good workable condition~ providing that payment for the necessary services shall be made solely from the receipts obtained from the operation of ~aid parking meters. Section 5. Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones hereby established, shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter shall be set to display, upon the deposit of a one-cent coin or a five-cent coin of the United States therein, a sign indicating legal parking for that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time which has been or may be established for that area or zone of the street upon which said parking meter is installed, and shall continue to operate from the time of the deposit of such coin therein until the expiration of the time fixed as the parking limit for the part of the Ordinance No. 1459 (cont) Section 14. 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 lawful coin of the United States. Section 15. The coins required to be deposited in parking meters, as pro- vided herein, are 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 zonew~ created hereby ~ 6~$ction 16. The City Commission shsl1 ~esi~n~ ~.~ ~"egular . llections of the''~ ~1~$~~ed i~ ~~tion it shall be t~. duty ~ .~c~ person so desi ~led coin boxes or cylinders containing the coins de the deliver such coin boxes or cylinders, with the seals thereon ~broken, to the City Treasurer of the City of Breme~ton. It shall be the duty of the said Treasurer to break the seals and co~t the funds and deposit s~e in a special f~d which shall be designated as the "Pa~king Meter F~d," which said f~d shall be disbursed on order of the City Co~ission of the City of Bremerbon~ evidenced ~%y ~esolution or motion for the purposes of defraying costs ~d expenditures involved In the inspection, regulation, installation, operation, control and use of the parking spaces and parking meters described herein, ~ inMolved in checking up and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby, including the purchase, replacement, repair and servicing Of said parking meters, together with the cost of street and sidewalk painting of parking areas, and the erection of appropriate street and curb signs as provided for herein. Se~n ~ ~ ~ ~ of the provisions ~ or ~y ~o!u01 u a~o~t~d ~ ordinance b~ L~ d~uaed e~ceed One Hu~:~.~ ~.. Z~ 00.00, ~,,~ _."' prisoment t. he City not more th~ t~;2~ ' 2~ I i .'~ :~,,js, or ~y.. ~;~Cth.~, h fine and impr. tso~ent. Section 18. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason hel8 to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordin~ce. Section 19. An emergency exists which affects the public peace, health and safety, and this ordinance shall become effective'i~ediately following passage and publication as required by law. PASSED by the City CoEission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the /~Mayor and attested by the City Clerk In authentication of such passage, this 1st day of April, 1942. Attest: Mayor ~City Cl&rk Cwanty of Kitsap I tha undersigned do certify that ~. and l~regoing is a true and u}re~ ~py m ord~aance pa;~d by tl~e city ~i~ c; the citl of ~oa, Wa~in~on r ~ C~