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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1230 ORDINANCE NO. 1230 AN ORDINANCE regulating the parking and standing of vehicles within the City of Bremerton; providing for the installation and use of Park-O-Meters .in prescribed areas; providing penalties for violation thereo~ and amending Section 9 of Ordinance 1021. THE CITY C0~,~ISSIO~RS OF THE CITY OF BR~IERTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. ~Section 9 of Ordinance No. 1021 of the City of Bremerton being entitled, "An Ordinance relating to the parking~and standing of vehicles within the City of Bremerton providing pehalties for violation thereof and repealing Ordinance No. 817 and all other Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict therewith", be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "It shall be unlawSul to stand a vehicle as hereinbefore defined at any location designated for parking or to park a vehicle in any location designated for standing or to park or stand any such vehicle for a greater length of time on any of the streets hereinafter designated or outside the lines provided there- for between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., except Sundays and~Moltdays, to-wit: Pacific Avenue from the Navy Yard fence to Sixth street--one-half hour standing only. Washington Avenue from the Navy Yard fence to Fourth Street--one hour parking only. Washington Avenue from Sixth Street North,L-two hour standing on the East side only. ~irst Street from Pacific Avenue to City.Wharf, one-half hour standing only; and it.shall be Uhlawful to park or stand any automobile on ~irst Street from Pacific Avenue to the entrance of the Navy Yard, Second Street between Pacific Avenue and Washington Avenue--one hour standing only. Burwell Street from Washington Avenue to 630 feet West of Pacific Avenue--one hour standing only. Bu~ell Street from alley East o~ Navy Yard Hotel to Warren Avenue all day parking on South side and all day standing on ~orth side. ~'ourth Street from Park Avenue to Washington Avenue--onehour standing only. -- Fifth Street from Pacific Avenue to Park Avenue--one hour stand- ing only; provided however, that the automobiles and vehicles of physicians and surgeons may be exempted from this regulation and the Police Department are hereby authorized and directed to arrange for and dictate the parking or standing places for automobiles or vehicles of physicians and surgeons at such place or places as may be convenient for immediate use for such physician or surgeon, and it-shall be unlawful for any such physician or surgeon to park or stand an automobile or vehicle in any other place not directed, except while being used in an emergency or on calls. And provided further that person, firms and corporations doing a truck or transfer business may park or stand not more than one truck or vehicle in front of their place of business, except on Pacific Avenue, and any such Person, firm or corporation doing a truck or transfer business may park or stand its trucks or vehicles for the purpose of loading and unloading the same at any time between midnight and 10 o'clock in the forenoon of any day without being subject to the provisions hereinafter contained with reference to the deposit of a five cent coin in any Park-O-Meter placed at the point where such delivery or loading is being made, but that after 10 o'clock in the forenoon of'any day any such person, firm or corporation doing a truck or transfer business shall be subject to make such deposit of such coin if such delivery or loading is made at a place where a park-o-meter is installed.,, Section 2. That Ordinance No. 1021 as amended by Ordinance No. 1120 be amended by adding thereto a new section to be known and designated as Section 9-1 to read as follows: Section 9-1--PARKING ~ETERS. (a) The following described'streets a~d Avenues of the City of Bremerton are hereby established as Parking Meter Zones. Pacific Avenue from Sixth Street to Navy Yard Fence. Washington Avenue from Navy Yard fence to ~'ourth Street. First Street from Pacific Avenue to City Wharf. Second Street from Pacific Avenue to Washington Avenue. Burwell Street from Washington Avenue to 630 feet West of Pacific Avenue. Fourth Street from Park Avenue to Washington Avenue. Fifth Street from Pacific Avenue to Park Avenue. (b) The Commission is hereby authoriZed and directed to install, maintain and operate parking meters in the above designated parking meter zones. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb of or hext to individual parking or standing places to be designated as hereinafter provided, each parking meter shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking or standing place along side the same is or is not in use. The Commission shall provide for the installation, regulation, control, operation and use of the parking meters provided for in this Ordinance and shall maintain said meters in good workable conditions; each said parking meter shall be so set so as to display a signal to show legal parking on the deposit of a five cent coin of the United States therein for a period of time conforming to the time of the parking or standing limit now or hereafter pro- vided by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed, and each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue in operation from the time of depositing such coin until the expiration of the time fixed by said Ordinances as the parking or stand- ing limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed. Each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of the said parking limit that it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the dropping of a proper signal that the lawful parking or standing period as fixed by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton has expired. (c) When any vehicle shall be parked~or ~tood in any space along side of or next to which is located, under the Ordinance, a parking meter the owner, operator, manager or driver of said vehicle shall upon entering the said parking or standing space immediately deposit a five cent coin of the United States in the parking meter along side or next to sai~ parking'or standing space, and the said parking or standing space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking or standing limit provided by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton for the part of the street in which said parking or standing space is located. If said vehicle shall remain parked or stood in any such parking or standing space beyond the parking or standing limit fixed .by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton for such parking or standing space, the parking meter shall display a signal designating illegal parking or standing, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked or stood overtime and beyond the time fixed by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton, and the parking or standing of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of time fixed now or hereafter by the Ordinances of the City of Bremerton iu any such part of the street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this Ordinance. (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a five cent coin for the purpose of extending the parking or standing time as fixed by .th~...0rdinances of the City of Bremerton for parking or standing in the ~arking or standing space along side of or next to which said parking meter is'..~laced. (e) It shall be unlawful for ~y ~pe~.S'0~?to permit a vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking or standi~H~ SP~ along side of or next to which any parking meter is placed while said meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle sha~.l have already~en parked or.stood beyond the period of time fixed by the Ordinances of the'City of Bremerton for such parking or standing space. (f) It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman, or such other office in his beat or district as shall be so instructed by the Chief of Police, to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is over-parked or over-stood as provided in this Ordinance, and also the State I,icense n~aber of such vehicle, and shall affix consplciously to' such vehicle a notice tn writing, on a form provided by the Chief of Police, for the ~perator to answer to. the charges against him within twenty-four (241 hours; and the officers shall deliver a copy of such notice to the Chief of Police. orGlnance so. ±Em conk. (g) .Any vehicle standing in any standing space in any parking meter zone shall be stood with the hood of such vehicle along side of or next to the parking meter along side of such standing space and any vehicle parked in any parking space in any parking meter zone shall be parked with the radiator of such machine directed at the. meter placed at such parking space, and in either event shall be stood or parked within the lines marked on the street for such standing or parking space as provided hereinafter. (h) The Commission shall cause lines or marks to be placed on the curb or on the street about or along side of each parking meter to designate the parking or standing space for which said meter is to be used, and each vehicle stood or parked along side of or next to any parking meter shall stand or park within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful to park or stand any vehicle across any such line or .mark or to stand or park said vehicle in such way that the same shall not be within the area so designated by such lines or markings. (i) It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug or device or metallic substitute for a five cent coin of the United States. (J) It sha~l ~e unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this Ordinance. (k) The coins required to be deposited in parking meters, as provided herein, are hereby levied as police regulation and inspection fees to cover the cost of inspection and regulation involved in traffic control. The City Treasurer shall collect daily all revenues in all parking meters. installed pursuant to this Ordinance, and place the same in a special fund which is hereby designated ~s "The Traffic Control ~'und", from which the money shall be expended as provided by Ordinance and as required by law, Passed and adopted by the City Commission on the 23rd day of July, 1938, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of.such passage. ' Acting Mayor Attest: ~itY CIerk I tho u~d~fs~g~ed do ceflif~ ~at the ~ve end foreg~ng is a true and ~r~ect copy or ~ o~d~ce p.~od by ~e ci~ ~ the ~t~ of BTeme~on, Wa~ia~ on a~e date. · ~