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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1334 ORDINANCE NO. 1334 AN ORDINANCE defining and regulating the parking of vehicles on or adjacent to the streets, avenues, alleys and highways in the City of Bremerton; providing penalties for violation thereof, and repealing ordinances numbered 1021, 776, and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in cohflict therewith. THE CITY C0~G,.ZISSION OF THE CITY OF BRE~ERTON DOES 0RD&IM AS ~0LLCL~S: Section 1. Definitions. Park, parking or parked, as i.n this ordinance used, shall mean a standing vehicle, whether attended or unattended, on any city street, alley, avenue, highway, or immediately adjacent thereto, except in cases of an attended car necessarily stopped by reason of traffic conditions, or pursuant to mandate of laws of the State of ?~ashington or of the City of Bremerton. Section 2. Unlawful parking. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle on any city street in any manner other than parallel to and within one foot of the curb on the driver's righthand side of the said street, Practices commonly known as "angle parking" and "double parking" are hereby prohibited. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in any alley except when actually loading or unloading, or in front of any exit of any church, hall, assembly room, theater, picture-show, poolroom, fire station, or any place of public assemblage when persons are congregated therein, or in fromtof any driveway or crosswalk, or within twenty-five (£5) feet of any fire hydrant. Section 3. Permission requl.red to park pn parking strip. There shall be no parking of vehicles on parking strips anywhere in the city, without permission from the property owners or occupants of said property abutting said parking strip, first ha~d and obtained. Section 4. Emergency alarms and sirens. Upon the sounding of a fire alarm or siren of any ambulance, police car, or emergency vehicle, when on emergency business, all cars shall immediately pull up to the curb and come to a stop. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle within one block of a fire or a fire apparatus while such apparatus is being used for the purpose of controll, ing or putting out any fire. Section 5. lights while parked. Every vehicle when parked upon any street within the city shall exhibit and display during the period between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, and at all times when fog or other atmospheric conditions render the parking of such vehicle dangerous to traffic, or other users of such street, and at any time when there f.s not sufficient light to render clearly discernible a person, vehicle or other substantial object on the street at a distance of two hundred feet from such parked car, a rear light and dimmed head lights so that the vehicle so parked may be easily discernible; provided, however, that it shall not be necessary to keep lights on a parked vehicle on Pacific Avenue or Washington Avenue from the Navy Yard fence to Sixth Street, or on First Street, Second Street, Burwell Street from Washington Avenue to Warren Avenue; Fourth Street from Washington Avenue to Park Avenue; fifth Street from ~ashington Avenue to Park Avenue, except when the condition of the atnosphere is such either from fog or otherwise as to render such cars or vehicles indiscernible without such lights. Section 6. Permits from Chief of Police. That a written permit shall be obtained from Chief of Police, subject to the approval of the City Commission, for the parking of all Jitney cars, stage caFs,~,..taxis, for hire cars, transfer cars, and all other cars or motor vehicles o~rating for consideration, and such permits when granted shall be subject t~ change.~from time to time, as deemed best for the regulation of traffic within the-ci~y~,l~imits of the citY of Bremerton. Application for any such permit shall be made tO',"t'h'~'~hief of Police by the person, firm or corporation operating such jitney~,'~for~ h'i'~e ca.r,.~transfer car, or vehicle operating for a consideration, such written permission, when granted, shall be displayed in such vehicle. Section 7. Certain streets restricted. That parking of vehicles on: (a) Fifth Street from Park Avenue to Naval Avenue, (b) 'West side of Washington Avenue, North of SL~h Street, be and the same is hereby prohibited. Section 8. Parkin~ limited on certain streets. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle, as hereinbefore defined, at any location thereinafter designated for parking for a greater length of time on any of the streets hereafter designated or outside of the lines provided therefore, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. each day except Sundays and holidays, to-wit: ~ Ordinance No. 1334 (cont) d~~% Pacific Avenue from the Navy Yard fence to Sixth Street, one-half hour parking; Pacific Avenue from Sixth Street to Ninth Street, two hour parking; except from Sixth Street to Seventh Street on the east side of Pacific Avenue, which shall be only one-fourth hour parking (fifteen minutes); Was.h~ingten Avenua~fromvEeurth ~r~Ll~iltd'~Ntnth Str~eet, two hour parking; First Street from City Wharf to Navy ?~'~ ,~ Yard Gate, one-half hour parking; Second Street from the old City Wharf to Pacific Avenue, one hour parking; Burwell Street from Washington Avenue to State Avenue; one hour parking; Fourth Street from Washington Avenue to Park Avenue, one hour parking; Burwell Street from Warren Avenue to State ~venue, two hour parking; Fifth S~reet from Washington Avenue to ?ark ~venue, two hour ~arking; Sixth Street from Washington Avenue to Park Avenue, two hour parking; Park Avenue from Fifth Street to Fourth Street, two hour parking; Warren Avenue from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, two hour parking; State Avenue from Navy Yar~ fence to Fourth Street, two hour parking; Callow Avenue from Burwell Street to Sixth Street, two hour parking; Burwell Street from ~iontgomery ~venue to Callow Avenue, two ~our parking; Burwell Street from Montgomery Avenue to Callow Avenue, two hour parking; ~ixth Street from Callow Avenue to ~iontgomery AvenUe,~ two hour parking; Highland Avenue from Sixth Street to Ninth Street,. two hour parking; PROVIDED, that the vehicles of physicians and surgeons may be exempted from these regulations, and the Police Department is hereby authorized and directed~to arrange for and dictate the parking place for vehicles of physicians and surgeons at such place or places as may be convenient for immediate use for such physicians or surgeons, and it shall be unlawful for any such physicians to park their vehicles in any other place not directed except while being used in an emergency or on calls, and provided further that persons, firms and corporations doing a truck or transfer business, may not park more than one truck or vehicle in front of his place of business, except on Pacific Avenue, or under the regulations arranged and directed by the Police Department, and such greater length of ti~.e than specified in this ordinance shall be allowed for loading or unloading of trucks, where circumstances require. Section 9. ~Police Department to designate locations. The Police Department is hereby directed to designate by appropriate parallel lines and ma~l~s on the pavement, the area herein designated for parking of vehicles, where times of parking are limited; and it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle except within such lines so designated, and the Police Department is hereby further directed to place signs at appropriate distances along the areas herein designated for parking, with the limits of time for parking within such areas plainly printed thereon. Section 10. pa.rkinE limited at certain times. That the parking of automobiles or other vehicles on any street or avenue east of Park Avenue and south of, or on Fourth Street, between the hours of 2:00 A.M., and 6:00 A.~., without written permission of the Chief of Police, hereby is prohibited. Section 11. Vehicles of tourists exempted. That the autom°biles and vehicles of bona fide tourists or other visitors not acquainted with the parking ordinance may be exempted from the provisions of this ordinance in the discretion of the Police Department. Section 12. Parking time in restricted areas. The limitation of time when vehicles shall be parked on certain streets as set forth in Section 8 hereof, shall be computed as the period of time during which any vehicle is parked in any block, regardless of whether the vehicle is moved to another location in the same block. It shall be unlawful to attempt to avoid penalty for over-parking by moving a vehicle to another position in the same block; and it shall further be unlawful for any person to interfere with an officer in the performance of his duty in checking traffic and pa'rking, by obliterating, erasing or alterdng chalk marks or other marks made by such officer for the purpose of checking traffic and parking, or by any Other unwarranted interference. Section 13. Repealing conflicting ordinances. Ordinances numbered 1021 and 776, and all other ordinances, or parts of ordinances in conflict with the pro- visions hereof, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 14. P~enalties. Any person, firm or corporation violating the parking provisions in this ordinance contained, shall upon conviction be fined for the first offence in the sum of $2.00; second offense in a sum not to ex¢-eed $5.00; third offense in a sum not to exceed $25.00, and subsequent offenses in a sum not to exceed $100.00, or by confinement in the city jail for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprlsonment.. · Ordinance No. 1334 (cont) Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the other provisions herein contained shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not to exceed ~100.00 or by not more than thirty days confinement in the city jail or by both such fine and impri s onme nt. PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the ~dayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, the 31st day of July, 1940. ~,~ ay ~ Attest: of Ceun~ye~ Kit~ ~ ' '  do ~dify ~at t~ ~ the ~ ty 01e r~ Ifld fofeEo;ng ~s a flue and ~rrect copy ot a~ o~inenee passed by the ci~ comml~ion et t~ ~t~ of 6~eme~on, W~hia~ ~ I~ date.