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Home My WebLink About1021 ORDII~i~GE i%0. 1021 ~I~ 0RDIN~i%C~ regulating the parking and standiug of vehicles within the Gity of Bremerton, providing penalties for violation thereof, and repealing Ordinance lqo. 817 and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- flict herewith. Tt~ GITY COMblISSION 0~ T~ CITY 0F B~EJvt~,~RT0t~ D0 0RD~IN ~S FOLL0~¥S: Section 1. Definitions. Park, parking or parked, as in this ordinance used, shall mean a waiting vehicle placed at an angle of between 45 and 90 degrees to the curb line of the street. Stand or standing shall mean a waiting vehicle placed parallel to and wlthin one foot of the curb. Section 2. No person shall stand a vehicle at any location designated for parking or park a vehicle at any location designated for standing. Section 3. It shall be unlawful to either double park or double stand a vehicle or to park or stand any vehicle in any alley except when actually loading or unloading, nor in front of any exit of any church, hall, assembly room, theatre, picture show, pool room, fire station, or other place of public, assemblage when persons are congregated therein, or in fromt of any driveway or cross walk. Section 4. There shall be no parking or standing 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 had and obtained. Section 5. There shall be no parking within twe~ty-five feet of any fire hydrant. Upon the sounding of a fire alarm or siren of an ambulance when on an emergency business, all cars shall i~naedi, ately pull up to the curb and come to a stop. And it shall be u~.]awf~l to park or stand any vehicle within one block of a fire or a fire apparatus while such apparatus is beln~ used for the purpose of controlling or putting out any fire. Section 6. Every motor vehicle when par'ked or standing upon any business street within the city shall exhibit and display during the period between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour bei'ore sunrise, and at all times when fog or other atmospheric conditions render the parking of such automobiles dangerous to traffic, or the use of the highway, and at any time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible a person, vehicle or other substantial object on the street at a distance of 200 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 standing or parked automobile on Pacit'ic or Washington avenues from the Navy Yard fence to Sixth Street, or on First Street, Second Street, Burwell Street from Washington avenue to Warren ~venue; Fourth Street from Washington ~venue to Park ~venue; Fifth Street frm~ 'Washington Avenue to Park ~venue, except when the condition of the atmosphere is such either fro~ fog or otherwise to render such cars or vehicles indiscern- ible without such lights...: ~ S.ection 7. That a written permit sh~ll be obtgined from the Chief of \ Po!~s~bject___ to the approval of the City Coramissib~for the parking, zoning tndsof all jitney cars, stare taxis, for hire transfer cars, cars, cars ~all other cars or motor vehicles operating for a consideration, and such ~permlts granted subject chan~e from time to tim~, as deemed best when be to 'for the regulation of traffic within the city limits of the City of Bremerton, and provided further that no such approval, permit or license shall be granted for a taxi, for hire, transfer or other vehicle operated for a .consideration on 'the South Side of Second Street. application for any such permit shall be made to Zhe Onief of Police, by the person, firm or corporation operatin~ such jitney, for hire car, transfer car or vehicle operating for a consideration. Such written permission, when ~rante~, shall be displayed in such vehicle. Section 8. That parking or standin~ of automobiles or other vehicles on (a) Fifth Street frc~ Park avenue to Naval ~venue. (b) The West side o~ Washin~ton avenue North of Sixth Street. (c) Park ~venue SoUth of Fifth Street, be and the same is hereby prohibited. Section ~. It shall be unlawful to stand a vehicle, as hereinbefore defined, at location hereinafter desigmated for parking or to park a vehicle any location designated for standing or to park or to stand any such vehicle for a greater length of time on any of the streets hereafter designated or out- Side of the lines provided therefor, between the hours of 8 ~.M. and 6 P.i4., each day except Sundays and Holidays, to-wit: Pacific Avenue from the Navy Yard fence to 'Sixth Street, one-half hour standing only; Washington ~venue from the Navy Yard fence to Second Street, one-half hour standing only; ~ashington Avenue from Second Street to Fourth Street, two hours standing on West side only, and two hours parking on the East side, only; Washington Avenue from Sixth Street North, standing on east side, only; First Street from Pacific Avenue to City Wharf, one-half hour standing, only; and it shall be unlawfu.1 to park or stand any automobile on First Street from Pacific Avenue to the entrance of the Navy Yard; Secon~ Street between Pacific ~venue and Washington Avenue, one-half hour standing, only; Burwell Street between Pacific avenue and Washington Avenue, two hours standing only; Burwell Street from Pacific a. venue to alley east of ~avy Yard Hotel, two hours parking on the South side and two hours standing on the i~orth side, only; Burwell Street from alley East of ~avy Yard Hotel to Warren ~ven-ue all day ~'t Parking on South side, all day standing on i~iorth side; Fourth Street from Pacific ~venue to Washington nvenue, two hours standing, only; Fifth Street from Pacific Avenue to Washington Avenue, two hours standing; and it shall be unlawful to park or stand any vehicle on Fifth Street frc~a Park ~venue to i~aval ~venue; provided, /that the automobiles and vehicles of physicians and surgeons may be exempted from this.reo~ulation, and the Police Department is hereby authorized and directed to arrange for and dictate the p~rking or standin~g place for auto- mobiles or vehicles of physicians and surgeons at such place or places as may be convenient for iramediate use to such physician or surgeon ~nd it shall be unlawful for airy such physician or surgeon to park or stand his automobile or vehicle in any other place not directed, except while beinf~ used in an y or on calls, and provided further that perso~s, firms and corporations ~oing a tr~ck or tr~nsfer business ma~f p~rk or sta~'~d ~o~ l~mre than one tr~ck~ or vehicle in front of his place of b~inea~, e~.~cept on Pacific ~.venue, or under rem~.lations arranged ~.~d directed by L~:e ?elite Dep~rtment, arid such greater l~a,. t_. el t ..... t ......... ~ ......~ ....]=~ l .................. be allow or the loadin~ or unloadin~ of trucks, where circ~;mst~nces require. Section 10. The Police Department is hereby directed to desi~2mate by appropriate lines and nmrks on the pavement, at an(~les herein specified, the areas herein designated for parkins~ of vehicles and by appropriate parallel lines and marks, o[~ pavement, the areas herein desig~mtea for standing of ve- hicles, and it shall be unlawful to pmrk or stand any vehicle except within such lines so designated, and the Police Dep~rt[~lent is hereby further~ directed to pla~e signs at a[)propri~te distances along the areas herein designated for parking and standing, with the limits of ti~e plainly printed thereon permitted for the parking and standing of automobiles within such amens. Sectionll. That the parking of automobiles or other vehicles on any st:feet or avenue East of Park avenue and South of Si~h Street between the hours of 2 A.M. and 6 ~.M. without written permission of the Chief of Police, is hereby prohibited. Section 12. That the auto~'~obiles and vehicles of bon~ fide tourists or other visitors not acquainted ~ith the parking ordinance may be exempted from the provisions of this ordinance in the discretion oF the Police Dept. Section 13. That 0rd~nanoe 20. 819 a~d all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 14. Any person violating the parking or standing pro~isions herein shall, upon conviction, be fined for the first offense in the sum of $2.00; second offense in a sum not to exceed ~5.00; third offense not to exceed ~25.00 and subsequent offenses not to exceed ~100.00 or thirty days in jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment. P~SS~ by the City Go~maissio~ of the City of Bremerton on first reading filed with the g~t.[7 Clerk for inspection for one week. Passed and adopted by the City Oo~m~ission on second readin(~ on the 14th day of April, 1934, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage. aTTEST: