A residential district shall be defined for purposes of this article as any territory, area and/or street located within the corporate limits of the city upon which or in there are located structures occupied as residential dwellings or other places of abode and the streets, roadways, alleyways, or other ways used for vehicular traffic within said areas are subject to a speed limit of twenty (20) miles per hour.
(Ord. 390, Sec. 2; Ord. 823; Code 2003)
It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a recreational vehicle to park such vehicle on any highway or street within the corporate limits of the city. Except the owner or operator of a recreational vehicle may park on the street at his or her residence for the purpose of loading or unloading for a period not to exceed twelve (12) hours in any one week period. For the purpose of this article, one week shall be defined as Sunday through Saturday. Pickup trucks that have toppers or slide in toppers that do not extend over the cab of the truck are not considered recreational vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person/persons to park a trailer that is not attached to a motor vehicle on any highway or street within the corporate city limits of the city. Trailers attached to motor vehicles that are parked on any highway or street within the corporate limits of the city shall have reflective lights/tape that is visible for four hundred fifty (450) feet by any approaching vehicle. Trailers attached to motor vehicles that block the view of person/persons operating a motor vehicle will not be allowed to park on any highway or street within the corporate city limits. It shall be unlawful for any person operator of a truck, bus, tractor-trailer unit, truck trailer unit larger than what is commonly referred to as a 1-ton truck (with a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,001 pounds or more), or a box type truck used for commercial purposes to park the same on any street in any residential district inside the corporate city limits, longer than a period necessary for loading or unloading of merchandise or household goods; PROVIDED, that the vehicle shall be promptly moved upon completion of the loading or unloading.
(Ord. 768; Ord. 797; Ord. 806; Code 2003; Code 2018)
It shall be unlawful for any person or business operating or owning any truck, tractor-trailer unit, or other vehicle to leave such vehicle unattended at any time on any public street when such vehicle is actually loaded with or contains gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, ammonia, explosives, volatile chemicals, benzene, or any crude petroleum, toxic or flammable materials other than the fuel load which is designed for and used to propel and power said vehicle.
(Ord. 389, Sec. 1; Ord. 823)
The owner of any property upon which such vehicle referred to in section 14-108 may be parked shall immediately notify the police department of the location of the vehicle, together with the names and addresses of the driver and owner.
(Ord. 389, Sec. 2; Ord. 823; Code 2003)
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave an inoperable vehicle upon any public land, street, alley or roadway within the corporate limits of the city. The police department is hereby authorized to have towed, at the vehicle owner’s expense, any vehicle left on any public land, street, alley or roadway for more than twenty-four (24) hours. Definitions of terms as used in this section shall be as follows:
(a) Inoperable - means a condition of being marked junked, wrecked, wholly or partially dismantled, discarded, abandoned, without proper license tag or registration or unable to perform the function or purpose for which it was originally constructed.
(b) Vehicle – means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except in devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Code 1984; Ord. 601; Ord. 823; Code 2003)
The fine for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or any other traffic offense for which the municipal judge establishes a fine in a fine schedule shall not be less than $10.00 nor more than $500.00. A person tried and convicted for violation of an ordinance traffic infraction or other traffic offense for which a fine has been established in Chapter 17 shall pay a fine fixed by the court not to exceed $500.00.
(Ord. 823; Code 2003; Code 2007)
Any person violating this article for which a penalty is not otherwise provided shall upon conviction be punished by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provisions set out in the ordinances of the city.
(Ord. 823; Code 2003)