HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976-2004 REMINDERS & NOTICES FOR OVERTIME PARKING VIOLATIONS. ORDINANCE NO. ao0A
AN ORDINANCE relating to trattic control; providing for reminders and
notices to be issued for overtime parking violations;
amending Section 9.60.040 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code; and declaring an emergency.
111 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 9.60.040 ot the City of Yakima Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"9.60.040 Notice on illegally_parked vehicle.
A. Except as provided in Subsection,B of,this section,
whenever any motor vehicle without an operator is found parked,
angle parked, or stopped in violation 'of any of the restrictions
imposed by ordinance of this City, the officer finding such
vehicle shall record its license number and may record any other
information displayed on or in the vehicle which may identify
its user or registered owner, and shall conspicuously affix
to such vehicle a notice in writing, on a form provided by
the City, for the operator to answer to the charge against
him within five days at a place specitied in the notice.
B. Whenever any motor vehicle without an operator is found
parked, angle parked, or stopped in any parking lot in violation
0 of Subsection 9.50.675 A of the City of Yakima Municipal Code,
or parked, angle parked or stopped for a period in excess of
two hours in any unmetered parking space within the area bounded
by the centerlines of the following streets:
B Street on the north; Naches Avenue on the east;
Walnut Street on the south; and 1st Street on the
west;
then the officer or other authorized person finding such vehicle
shall record its license number and may record any other intor-
mation displayed on or in the vehicle which may identify its
user or registered owner, and shall conspicuously affix to such
vehicle an overtime parking reminder on a form provided by the
City reminding the operator of the parking violation. In the
event three or more overtime parking reminders are issued to
the same vehicle within any one calendar week, then a parking
violation notice shall be issued to the registered owner of
that vehicle citing that owner for the third and any subsequent
violations during any one calendar week, and notitying the regis-
tered owner that a warrant may issue for his arrest unless
remittance is made within ten days ot the date of the notice."
411 Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation ot the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare
of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared
to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately
upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by
the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this j'\.:
day of. 1976.
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