§ 71.01. STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING; PROHIBITIONS.  


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  • (A) Re-parking. For the purpose of this title and any regulations thereunder relating to limited parking on any street, thoroughfare, highway, avenue, alley, or parking lot, any vehicle moved and re-parked within a distance of not more than 900 feet during the limited parking period shall be deemed to have remained stationary.
    (B) Display for sale. No vehicle shall be parked on any street for the purpose of displaying it for sale.
    (C) Fire escape. No person shall park a vehicle so as to block a fire escape or the exit from any building, whether public or private property.
    (D) Police order. No person shall park any vehicle where temporary signs are posted reading “No Parking - Police Order,” as long as these signs are in place.
    (E) Fire lane. No person shall park in any area designated as a fire lane.
    (F) Existing parking signs. Existing signs which have been posted by direction of the Council, Engineer, or the Chief of Police regulating parking of vehicles shall be recognized as properly placed under this title until changed by proper direction of the Council.
    (G) Parking by entrances of certain buildings. No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle on any street or highway in this municipality in front of the entrance to, or exit from, any theater, dance hall, church, hospital, school, or any hotel having 25 or more rooms, for the full width of the entrance or exit during the hours that these buildings are in use by the public. After initial approval of the Council, the owner of any building used for these purposes shall cause to be placed at the entrance or exit, one hour before the building is opened to public use, proper, adequate, and visible signs subject to the approval of the Chief of Police, giving notice to the public of their hours of use of the building. These signs shall be removed when this use by the building ceases.
    (H) Parking in alleys. No person shall park a vehicle or permit it to stand, whether attended or unattended, upon any alley within this municipality; provided that this shall not prohibit the parking of vehicles for less than a period of one hour along any alley for the purpose of having access to any property abutting thereon for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise or other material when access cannot conveniently be secured upon the property itself.
    (I) Limited time parking zones. The Council may designate no parking or limited time parking zones by a resolution setting forth the location of the zone, and in the case of a limited time parking zone, the time limit imposed. The Chief of Police shall post signs at locations so designated which shall either indicate, in accordance with the resolution, a no parking zone or the specified time limit for parking, and if there is a concrete curb, the curb shall be painted yellow at the designated parking zone.
    (J) Operation and parking of vehicles on private parking lots. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any private parking lots within this municipality at a speed greater than is safe and reasonable under the conditions of traffic then existing therein, and in no event at a speed exceeding 15 miles per hour. Parking of vehicles on these lots shall conform to any stalls or positions for parking designated on the surface of the parking area and no vehicle shall be parked or allowed to stand in any area of the parking lot which has been designated or is used for a lane for moving traffic so as to interfere with the movement of traffic thereon. The Council may authorize the Chief of Police or Engineer to post signs at any entrances to a private parking lot from a public street, which shall designate one-way traffic for entrances or exits, and the driver of any vehicle entering or leaving any parking lot shall comply with any one-way signs so posted.
    (`74 Code, § 700:169.34) Penalty, see § 10.99