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Tucson City Codes	Article VII. Stopping, Standing and Parking
Sec. 20-200. Unlawful parking prohibited; classification; parking defined; parties liable; applicability of regulations; continuous violations; mandatory fines and fees; community service.
Sec. 20-201. Reserved.
Sec. 20-202. Prima facie evidence of parking infraction.
Sec. 20-203. Failure to respond to citation; default fee; booting and impounding vehicle authorized, booting and impound fees; damages to boot.
Sec. 20-204. Booting or impounding list.
Secs. 20-205--20-209. Reserved.
Sec. 20-210. Director of transportation; duties; authorization to issue citations.
Sec. 20-211. Administrative guidelines.
Sec. 20-212. Civilian volunteer police assist specialists authorized to issue citations.
Sec. 20-213. Parking enforcement agents exempt.
Secs. 20-214--20-219. Reserved.
Division 3. Parking for Individuals with Physical Disabilities
Sec. 20-220. Parking for individuals with physical disabilities; designation; enforcement.
Sec. 20-221. Penalty.
Sec. 20-222. Parking prohibited in spaces reserved for individuals with physical disabilities.
Sec. 20-222.1. Parking prohibited in access aisles of spaces reserved for individuals with physical disabilities.
Sec. 20-222.2. Paratransit loading zones.
Sec. 20-223. Wheelchair curb access ramps.
Sec. 20-224. Reserved.
Division 4. Basic Parking Controls
Sec. 20-225. Penalty.
Sec. 20-226. Designation of places angle parking permitted.
Sec. 20-226.1. Obedience to angle parking signs, marking.
Sec. 20-226.2. Parking at angle to load or unload merchandise.
Sec. 20-226.3. Angle parking.
Sec 20-226.4. Angle parking, direction.
Sec. 20-227. Designation of common-carrier passenger vehicle stands.
Sec. 20-228. Taxicab stands--Application for; location; signs required.
Sec. 20-228.1. Same--Revocation.
Sec. 20-229. Time limit parking.
Sec. 20-230. Designation of parking meter zones; authority to create, alter, eliminate.
Sec. 20-230.1. Director of transportation to install within designated zones.
Sec. 20-230.2. Temporary suspension of operation--When granted.
Sec. 20-230.3. Same--Fees.
Sec. 20-230.4. Location; legend.
Sec. 20-230.5. Spaces to be marked; parking in spaces.
Sec. 20-230.6. Overtime parking prohibited; "feeding" meters prohibited.
Sec. 20-230.7. Effective days and hours.
Sec. 20-230.8. Prima facie evidence of overtime parking.
Sec. 20-230.9. Meters to show parking compliance.
Sec. 20-230.10. Deposit of slugs prohibited.
Sec. 20-230.11. Residential parking permit meter exemption.
Sec. 20-230.12. Parking rates; director of transportation authorized to set rates within specific range; infraction.
Sec. 20-231. Police/fire vehicle parking.
Sec. 20-232. Government plated vehicles.
Sec. 20-233. Specific vehicle type restrictions (RV, motorcycle, etc.).
Sec. 20-234. Hazard flashers mandatory.
Sec. 20-235. Public parking prohibited in parking lots or spaces reserved for city officers or employees.
Sec. 20-236. Height limit restriction.
Sec. 20-237. Obedience to markings; double parking prohibited.
Secs. 20-238--20-245. Reserved.
Division 5. Nuisance Parking Controls
Sec. 20-246. Penalty.
Sec. 20-247. Parking for certain purposes prohibited.
Sec. 20-248. Parking regulations for peddlers.
Sec. 20-248.1. Parking regulations for peddlers in certain central business district streets.
Sec. 20-249. Freight curb loading zones; location of provisional zones in parking meter zones.
Sec. 20-249.1. Same--When nonauthorized vehicles prohibited in provisional zones.
Sec. 20-250. Parking on property of another prohibited without permission.
Sec. 20-251. Parking in parks and playgrounds.
Sec. 20-252. Parking on city-owned property.
Sec. 20-253. Parking for purposes of sale on unpaved lots.
Sec. 20-254. Parking prohibited during certain hours on certain streets.
Sec. 20-255. Residential permit parking.
Sec. 20-257. Special events permit parking.
Sec. 20-258. Additional permit parking programs; fees; director of transportation authorized to establish additional permit parking programs and to establish annual parking permit fee.
Sec. 20-259. Expired registration.
Sec. 20-260. Stopping, standing, parking prohibited in sidewalk area.
Sec. 20-261. Unattended and inoperable vehicles prohibited.
Sec. 20-262. Truck parking on streets not designated as truck routes prohibited.
Section 20-263. Recreational vehicles; commercial vehicles.
Secs. 20-264--20-270. Reserved.
Division 6. Safety Issues
Sec. 20-271. Penalty.
Sec. 20-272. Reserved.
Sec. 20-273. Parking in alleys.
Sec. 20-274. Hazardous areas adjacent to schools.
Sec. 20-275. Standing or parking outside of business or residence district.
Sec. 20-276. Buses stopping on crosswalks, within intersections prohibited.
Sec. 20-277. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
Sec. 20-278. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in additional specified places.
Sec. 20-279. Parallel parking.
Sec. 20-280. Parking near fire or rescue apparatus.
Sec. 20-281. Parking prohibited on certain streets and portions of streets.
Sec. 20-282. Fire lanes.
Sec. 20-283. Law enforcement officers exempt from specified parking provisions.
Secs. 20-284--20-299. Reserved.
Article VII. Stopping, Standing and Parking
(a) Classification. Violation of any provision of this article which regulates the time, place, or method of parking shall constitute a civil infraction.
(b) Definition. Parking means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not.
(c) Parties liable. The owner(s) of the vehicle and the person who parked or placed the vehicle where the violation occurred shall be jointly and individually liable for the violation and for the fine and fees prescribed therefor.
(d) Applicability of regulations. The provisions of this article prohibiting the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device.
(e) Continuous violations. Where parking is time restricted, each full time period the vehicle is unlawfully parked shall constitute a separate violation. In all other cases, each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(f) Mandatory fines and fees. Unless otherwise specifically provided by this article, the fines and fees for violating any provision of this article shall be mandatory, no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court.
(g) Community service. Community service work may be substituted for fines and fees in accordance with section 1-8(4) of this Code.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 10418, § 3, 6-12-07)
Editors Note: Ord. No. 9492, § 3, adopted Nov. 27, 2000, repealed § 20-201, which pertained to administrative enforcement fee. See the Code Comparative Table.
Sec. 20-202. Prima facie evidence of parking infraction. No civil infraction may be established except upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence; provided, however, that a parking violation notice, or copy thereof, issued in accordance with this chapter and the Local Rules of Practice and Procedure in City Court Civil Proceedings shall be prima facie evidence thereof and shall be admissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding as to the correctness of the facts specified therein. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
(a) Arizona registered vehicles. When a citation is issued to a vehicle registered within the State of Arizona, the court shall within seven (7) working days send a citation letter to the owner address on file with the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles advising the owner of the citation and containing the date, time, and location of the violation as well as the vehicle description and violation description; or a duplicate copy of the citation.
(b) [Failure to respond.] If the owner or operator of the vehicle involved in a civil parking violation or infraction fails to respond within thirty (30) calendar days from the day the citation was issued by one (1) of the prescribed methods in Rule 7 of the Local Rules of Practice and Procedure in City Court Civil Proceedings, a default fee pursuant to section 8-6.7 shall be assessed and the court shall within seven (7) working days of the default date send a default letter to the owner address on file with the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles, advising the owner that the citation is in default and that the vehicle may be subject to boot or impoundment as set forth in subsection (d).
(c) Foreign registered vehicles. If the owner or operator of the vehicle, registered in a state or jurisdiction other than Arizona, involved in a civil parking violation or infraction fails to respond within thirty (30) calendar days from the day the citation was issued by one (1) of the prescribed methods in Rule 7 of the Local Rules of Practice and Procedure in City Court Civil Proceedings, a default fee pursuant to section 8-6.7 shall be assessed.
(d) [Booting, impoundment.] In addition to actions taken under section 20-203(b) or (c) above, the citing authority may boot, impound or cause to be booted or impounded any motor vehicle owned by a person who has three (3) or more unpaid civil parking infractions or has failed to respond to the civil parking infractions as set forth in section 20-203(b) or (c), giving notice that there shall be a hearing before a limited special magistrate within forty-eight (48) hours of the booting or impoundment, excluding weekends and holidays. The owner of the vehicle which was booted or impounded may post a bond in the amount of the booting and/or impound fees, damages or replacement cost of the boot if any, and potential fines in order to have the vehicle released pending the hearing. The limited special magistrate shall conduct the hearing as follows:
(1) The limited special magistrate shall conduct a hearing where the sole issue shall be to determine whether the vehicle was owned by the person at the time of the civil parking infractions, determine whether the infractions have been paid or otherwise responded to, and determine whether the boot was damaged or taken from the vehicle.
(2) If the owner fails to appear as directed by the citing authority, the limited special magistrate shall enter a default judgment in the amount of the unpaid fines, booting fees, impound fees, other costs imposable under this section and order the vehicle impounded until all fines, fees and other costs imposable under this section are paid or the vehicle is disposed of pursuant to sections 20-13 and 20-14 of this Code.
(3) For purposes of this hearing, the transference of title of the vehicle from the owner of the vehicle when the civil parking infraction occurred to another person after the vehicle was booted or impounded is not a defense to nonpayment of the fines and the vehicle will not be released until the unpaid fines, booting and/or impound fees and any other costs imposable under this section are paid, except pursuant to subsections (d)(6) and (7) of this section.
(4) If a continuance is granted to the defendant for good cause, the booted or impounded vehicle may be released upon the posting of a cash bond in the amount of the booting and/or impound fees, other costs imposable under this section and potential fines. If a continuance is granted to the city for good cause, the impounded or booted vehicle shall be released forthwith without the necessity of a bond.
(5) If the case is continued, the limited special magistrate shall set the hearing within thirty (30) days.
(6) If judgment is entered in favor of the owner, the booted/impounded vehicle shall be released forthwith to the operator or owner of the vehicle, unless the boot was damaged or taken, without any booting and/or impound fees, and any bond posted shall be returned to the person posting the bond unless the boot was damaged or taken, then the vehicle shall not be released nor the bond released until the repair or replacement cost for the boot is paid.
(7) If judgment is entered in favor of the city, the limited special magistrate shall order the payment of unpaid fines and fees booting and/or impound fees and damages or replacement cost of the boot, if any. The limited special magistrate may order the vehicle impounded until all fines, fees and damages or replacement cost of the boot, if any, are paid or the vehicle disposed of pursuant to sections 20-13 and 20-14 of this Code. The limited special magistrate may allow the vehicle released if the owner shows good cause and agrees to make payments. However, the booting and/or impound fees and any damages or replacement cost of the boot, if any, shall be paid before the vehicle is released to the owner.
(8) The booting fee shall be in the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) and the impound fee shall be in the amount of the towing or removal costs plus storage fees. These fees are hereby declared to be cost recovery measures, administrative in nature, separate from and in addition to any civil penalty imposed.
(9) Any person who damages a boot on a vehicle either by attempting to remove the boot or by trying to drive off with the boot or by taking the boot is responsible for the repair or replacement cost of the boot. The limited special magistrate shall order the repair or replacement cost of the boot be paid before the release of any vehicle.
(a) When a vehicle has three (3) or more unpaid civil parking infractions or the vehicle owner has failed to respond to the civil parking infractions as set forth in section 20-203(b) or (c), the city court shall place that vehicle on the booting/impound list.
(b) After a vehicle has been placed on the booting/impound list, any other vehicle owned by the owner of that vehicle is also subject to booting and/or impoundment. Prior to the booting or impoundment of any vehicle registered in a state or jurisdiction other than the State of Arizona, where such booting or impoundment is based solely on section 20-204(b) or (c), a boot/impound notice shall be affixed to the vehicle at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance of any booting or impoundment advising the owner and/or operator of the vehicle that the vehicle has been placed on the booting/impound list and is now subject to booting or impoundment without further notice.
(c) Twenty-four (24) hours after a boot/impound notice has been affixed to a vehicle pursuant to section 20-203(d), that vehicle, as well as any other vehicle owned by the same owner, shall be subject to booting or impoundment without further notice.
(a) The duties of the director of transportation, or his designee, shall include, among other things, to regulate parking under the provisions of this chapter and the parking ordinances of the city. It shall be the general duty of the director of transportation, or his designee, to establish, change, remove or prohibit, as conditions may require, boulevard stops, pedestrian lanes, parking spaces, parking time limits, safety and loading zones, public carrier stands and other necessities of facilitating parking.
(b) The director of transportation, or his designee, is hereby authorized to issue citations enforcing any regulation relating to the stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles contained in any chapter of this Code. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 10418, § 3, 6-12-07)
Sec. 20-211. Administrative guidelines. The director of transportation has authority to prepare such administrative guidelines as may be deemed necessary and desirable to implement the provisions of this article. Three (3) copies of these guidelines will be kept on file by the city clerk.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-212. Civilian volunteer police assist specialists authorized to issue citations. Civilian volunteer police assist specialists appointed at the discretion and under the direction of the chief of police are hereby authorized to issue citations enforcing any regulation relating to the stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles contained in any chapter of this Code. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-213. Parking enforcement agents exempt. Any stopping, standing or parking restrictions provided in this article shall not apply to any police officer, peace officer, or parking enforcement agent when such stopping, standing or parking is for the purpose of actual performance of law enforcement duty.
PARKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
Sec. 20-220. Parking for individuals with physical disabilities; designation; enforcement. Parking spaces subject to these provisions shall be clearly and conspicuously designated as being reserved for individuals with physical disabilities. Such designation shall include a standard symbolic disabled parking sign bearing the number of this section of this Code and conforming to specifications for design and placement as approved by the director of transportation. The posting of such sign or signs shall authorize enforcement of the provisions of this division and shall thereby constitute consent by the owner of the property to enforcement of this division.
Sec. 20-221. Penalty. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the penalty for violating any ordinance or provision of article VII, division 3, which regulates the time, place, or method of parking a vehicle shall be a mandatory fine of five hundred eighteen dollars ($518.00), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9859, § 1, 6-23-03)
(a) It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle, other than one bearing a license plate with the international wheelchair symbol or displaying a placard issued under state law for this purpose, in a parking space reserved for use by individuals with physical disabilities whether on public property or private property available for public use, when such space is designated as described in section 20-220 above.
(b) If the owner or operator of the vehicle involved in a violation of this section, subsequently produces to the court proof of possession of a valid placard issued under state law for these purposes, the fine shall be reduced to twenty dollars ($20.00), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00)
Sec. 20-222.1. Parking prohibited in access aisles of spaces reserved for individuals with physical disabilities. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle, including one with a disabled plate or placard, to park in the access aisle of such space as designated by diagonal white or yellow lines spaced at approximately two-foot intervals.
Sec. 20-222.2. Paratransit loading zones. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, it is unlawful to stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any provisional paratransit loading zone. The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles bearing a license plate with the international wheelchair symbol or displaying a placard issued under state law for this purpose, or to authorized commercial paratransit vehicles, when any such vehicles are actively engaged in loading or unloading of passengers. In no case shall the stop for the loading or unloading of passengers exceed twenty (20) minutes. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-223. Wheelchair curb access ramps. It is unlawful to stop, stand, or park a vehicle in such a manner as to block or deny access to a wheelchair curb access ramp. A violation of this section is punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and such fine shall not be suspended. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
BASIC PARKING CONTROLS
Sec. 20-225. Penalty. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the penalty for violating any provision of article VII, division 4, which regulates the time, place, or method of parking a vehicle shall be a mandatory fine of twenty five dollars ($25.00), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9859, § 2, 6-23-03)
Sec. 20-226. Designation of places angle parking permitted. The director of transportation shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets, but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal aid or state highway within the city unless the state highway commission has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.
Angle parking shall not be intended or permitted at any place where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the left side of a two-way street.
Sec. 20-226.1. Obedience to angle parking signs, marking. Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the director of transportation for angle parking, it is unlawful to park a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or marking.
Sec. 20-226.2. Parking at angle to load or unload merchandise. When a vehicle is stopped for the purpose of loading or unloading merchandise, it is unlawful to park such vehicle at an angle to the curb or freight curb loading zone designated by appropriate signs and markings for such purpose.
Sec. 20-226.3. Angle parking. Where signs are posted specifying the direction of a vehicle for angle parking, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle not in accordance with the signs.
(Ord. No. 9434, § 1, 8-7-00)
Sec 20-226.4. Angle parking, direction. Unless signs are posted directing otherwise, vehicles shall pull into angled parking spaces while traveling in the same direction as the travel flow of the nearest traffic lane and shall park facing the curb.
(Ord. No. 10418, § 3, 6-12-07)
Sec. 20-227. Designation of common-carrier passenger vehicle stands. The director of transportation is hereby authorized and required to establish bus stops and stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles other than taxicabs on such public streets, in such places and in such number as the director of transportation shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public; and every such bus stop or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
Sec. 20-228. Taxicab stands--application for; location; signs required. Upon receipt of a written application, the director of transportation is hereby authorized to determine the location of taxicab stands and shall place and maintain appropriate signs and/or markings indicating same. The written application shall define the area wherein the taxicab stand is requested, the size of zone requested, the hours of day during which the zone is needed, and such other pertinent information as may be necessary for the director of transportation to determine whether the application should be granted.
Sec. 20-228.1. Same--Revocation. The director of transportation may at any time, without notice, remove, relocate or alter any taxicab stand issued under this section.
Sec. 20-229. Time limit parking. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, it is unlawful to park a vehicle for longer than the time period posted. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle in the same time restricted space, or same type time restricted space within the same block, for any portion of two (2) consecutive time periods.
Sec. 20-230. Designation of parking meter zones; authority to create, alter, eliminate. For the purposes of this division, the term parking meter zones means zones, areas or streets established or designated by the mayor and council where parking meters may be installed by the department of transportation. The director of transportation is hereby granted the authority to convert existing time limit parking zones into parking meter zones meter. The mayor and council may create, expand, change or eliminate any of the such zones.
Sec. 20-230.1. Director of transportation to install within designated zones. The director of transportation may cause parking meters to be installed in such parking meter zones established by mayor and council for the purpose of and in such numbers and at such places as in the director of transportation's judgment may be necessary to regulate and control the parking of vehicles therein.
Sec. 20-230.2. Temporary suspension of operation--When granted. The director of transportation may temporarily suspend the operation of parking meters upon request by contractors, merchants, or others, for bona fide reasons if in the director of transportation's judgment such suspension shall be in the interest of public safety, traffic control, health or the general welfare.
Sec. 20-230.3. Same--Fees. Request for suspension of parking meters shall be made upon forms supplied by the city and filed with the director of transportation. Before meters are suspended, the following fees shall be paid in full:
For each day, or part thereof:
The full parking fee that would otherwise be charged within a twenty-four-hour time period.
Sec. 20-230.4. Location; legend. Parking meters installed in parking meter zones shall be placed at the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces hereinafter described, and each parking meter shall be so constructed and adjusted as to show or display a signal that the space adjacent to which it is established is or is not legally in use.
(a) It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any line or marking designating the parking space for which a parking meter is used, or to park a vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.
(b) It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle at a metered space in such a way as to prevent another vehicle from parking in any adjacent space.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 2, 8-7-00)
(a) It is unlawful to park a vehicle in any space upon any street within a parking meter zone adjacent to which a parking meter is established for more than the length of time indicated on signs or meters maintained on the street pursuant to this chapter, or for any time during which the meter is displaying a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use, except during the time necessary to set the meter to show legal parking.
(b) Overtime parking prohibited; "feeding" meters prohibited. It is unlawful to add additional time to a parking meter beyond the maximum length of time indicated on signs. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle in the same time restricted space for any portion of two (2) consecutive time periods.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 3, 8-7-00; Ord. No. 10418, § 3, 6-12-07)
Sec. 20-230.7. Effective days and hours. Time limit parking restrictions in metered zones, including effective days and hours, shall be clearly posted on meters and/or signs.
Sec. 20-230.8. Prima facie evidence of overtime parking. The parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a parking meter space at which zone the parking meter is displaying the flag, sign or signal showing that such space is not legally in use shall constitute prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked or allowed to stand in such zone for a period longer than permitted by the provisions of this division.
Sec. 20-230.9. Meters to show parking compliance. Parking meters, when installed, shall be so adjusted as to show legal parking upon the deposit of United States coins or other legal payment method in the amounts indicated on such meters, during the periods of time stated on such meters.
Sec. 20-230.10. Deposit of slugs prohibited. It shall be unlawful to deposit, or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substitute for coins of the United States.
Sec. 20-230.11. Residential parking permit meter exemption. The holder of a valid residential parking permit issued pursuant to §§ 20-255 et seq. shall be authorized to park at any parking meter located in the designated area for which the residential parking permit is issued, without having to pay the metered rate and without being found in violation of any time limitations otherwise imposed. This exemption shall not apply to parking at any meters located outside of the designated area for which the permit has been issued, including other residential parking permit areas.
(a) The director of transportation is authorized to establish initial parking rates subject to mayor and council approval.
(b) Thereafter, subject to the advisory recommendation of ParkWise commission, the director of transportation is authorized to set parking meter rates within the range of five cents ($0.05) to one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per hour for any location within an established parking meter zone.
(c) Three (3) copies of the current parking rate schedules and all future rate schedules established by the director of transportation under this section shall be filed with the city clerk.
(d) It shall be unlawful for persons occupying parking meter spaces not to deposit proper coins in meters in accordance with the rates posted on the meters and on file with the city clerk.
Sec. 20-231. Police/fire vehicle parking. Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle, other than a marked police or fire vehicle.
Sec. 20-232. Government plated vehicles. Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle not bearing government plates.
Sec. 20-233. Specific vehicle type restrictions (RV, motorcycle, etc.). Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle of body style, or type, different than that body style, or type of which the signs(s) indicate.
Sec. 20-234. Hazard flashers mandatory. Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be illegal to park a vehicle without utilizing the vehicle's emergency hazard flashers. This restriction may be posted in conjunction with, and in addition to, any other section of this article.
(a) It is unlawful for any person not an officer or employee of the city to stand or park a vehicle on city parking lots or parking spaces reserved for or allocated to city employees or officers.
(b) It is unlawful for any officer or employee of the city to stand or park a vehicle on city parking lots or parking spaces reserved for or allocated to another city employee or officer without that officer's or employee's permission.
(c) The provisions of this chapter relating to parking meters, and to the enforcement of parking violations set forth in section 20-230, unless the context otherwise requires, shall apply to public use designated parking spaces on such lots having city parking meters. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-236. Height limit restriction. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle of height in excess of the clearly and conspicuously posted height limit of an off-street parking facility.
Sec. 20-237. Obedience to markings; double parking prohibited. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle in off-street parking facilities, designed and maintained in accordance with Tucson Code chapter 23, except within the individually marked parking spaces. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle in such a manner as to block ingress or egress to another legal parking space. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
NUISANCE PARKING CONTROLS
Sec. 20-246. Penalty. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the penalty for violating any provision of article VII, division 5, which regulates the time, place, or method of parking a vehicle shall be a mandatory fine of fifty dollars ($50.00), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9859, § 3, 6-23-03)
Sec. 20-247. Parking for certain purposes prohibited. It is unlawful to park a vehicle upon any roadway for the purpose of:
(1) Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except for immediate repairs necessitated by an emergency and necessary to be made before the vehicle can be moved; or
(2) Displaying commercial exhibits, except by special permit lawfully issued by the city.
Sec. 20-248. Parking regulations for peddlers. No peddler shall park a vehicle or alternating vehicles or series of vehicles on any public street for the purpose of peddling food or wares for a period in excess of sixty (60) continuous minutes, or in excess of one hundred twenty (120) minutes in any 24-hour period at one (1) location. The parking of such vehicle within a distance of three hundred (300) feet from the original parking space shall be deemed one (1) location. No service from such vehicle to the public shall be made from the traffic side or the side of the vehicle which faces the center of the public street. However, such vehicle may park for such purposes in the vicinity of a special event, such as a football game or other sporting event, circus, fair, rodeo or parade, during the period of the event, plus one (1) hour, prior to and after the event.
(a) Peddlers may not park a vehicle for the purpose of peddling food or wares in the central business district upon Stone Avenue between Franklin Street and 14th Street, and upon Congress Street and upon Pennington Street between Sixth Avenue and Church Avenue, except in the red painted street zones at the following designated areas:
(1) North side of Pennington Street, east of Stone Avenue;
(2) West side of Stone Avenue, north of Pennington Street;
(3) South side of Congress Street, east of Stone Avenue.
Parking for such purposes at permitted areas is limited from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and is not permitted on sidewalks.
(b) The permitted area may not be used for peddlers' vehicles all day on special event days when the named streets are blocked off to vehicle traffic.
(c) Peddlers' vehicles must be removed immediately in event of an emergency, and must be at least fifty (50) feet from any objecting business.
(d) Only one (1) peddler's vehicle is permitted for each permitted designated area. The first peddler at the area each day shall have prior right to the area until the vehicle is removed.
(e) The maximum size of a peddler's vehicle shall be forty-eight (48) inches high, forty-eight (48) inches wide, and seventy-two (72) inches long.
(f) All items relating to the peddling activity must be kept in or under the peddler's vehicle, and nothing placed on any public area adjacent to the vehicle, including signs.
Sec. 20-249. Freight curb loading zones; location of provisional zones in parking meter zones. The director of transportation is hereby authorized to determine the location of provisional freight curb loading zones within any parking meter zone. The director of transportation may at any time, without notice, remove, relocate or alter any freight curb loading zone issued under this section.
Sec. 20-249.1. Same--When nonauthorized vehicles prohibited in provisional zones. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, it is unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any provisional freight curb loading zone between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday except public holidays, however the provisions of this section shall not apply, when the vehicle's hazard warning flashers are in operation, if the authorized commercial vehicle or government-plated truck is parked in any provisional freight curb loading zone for a period of time not to exceed thirty (30) minutes.
Sec. 20-250. Parking on property of another prohibited without permission. It is unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to park the vehicle in or upon property of another without having in the driver's possession the written permission of the person legally entitled to possession of the property. However, a citation charging violation of this section shall be dismissed if the aforesaid written permission is subsequently presented to the department of transportation or to the city court.
Sec. 20-251. Parking in parks and playgrounds. It is unlawful to park a motor vehicle in or upon the parks and playgrounds of the city except in designated and signed parking areas.
Sec. 20-252. Parking on city-owned property. No person shall park a motor vehicle in or on city-owned property, other than public streets or alleys, when signs prohibiting or regulating parking have been placed thereon by the director of transportation as authorized by this chapter, unless in compliance with such erected signs. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-253. Parking for purposes of sale on unpaved lots. It is unlawful to park a motor vehicle for the purpose of sale upon any lot or area which is not paved within the city. The display of any signs or other markings indicating that a motor vehicle is for sale shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle has been parked for the purpose of sale. For the purposes of this section, a lot or area which is not paved means the absence of any of the surfacing methods described in chapter 23. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a maximum of one (1) motor vehicle parked for the purpose of sale where the motor vehicle is owned by the resident of the lot or area on which the motor vehicle is parked, and the sale of such motor vehicle would come within the meaning of a casual activity or sale as described in section 19-100. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99)
Sec. 20-254. Parking prohibited during certain hours on certain streets. When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, it is unlawful to park a vehicle between the hours as specified by the signs.
Sec. 20-255. Residential permit parking. The director of transportation may designate, a residential area or areas consisting of streets or portions of streets on which the parking of motor vehicles may be restricted in whole or in part to motor vehicles bearing a valid parking permit issued pursuant to these provisions by the director of transportation and approved by mayor and council, to residents of the area so designated. The director of transportation shall provide for the issuance of permits and cause parking signs to be erected in the area, indicating the times and conditions under which parking shall be by permit only. A permit shall be issued upon application and payment of the applicable fee, only to the owner or operator of a motor vehicle who resides on property immediately adjacent to a street within the residential permit parking areas.
(a) Park a motor vehicle in a residential parking permit area during the designated hours unless the vehicle is equipped with a valid permit or valid visitor's pass.
(b) Falsify information to obtain a residential parking permit or visitor's pass.
(c) Fail to surrender a residential parking permit or visitor's pass to the city director of transportation's designee on demand if such permits or passes are used in violation of these provisions or if the holder of the permit or pass is no longer entitled to the pass or permit.
(d) Knowingly park a motor vehicle displaying a residential parking permit or visitor's pass in a permit parking area during the designated hours when the holder of the permit or pass is not entitled to possess the permit or pass.
(e) Use a residential permit or visitor's pass outside of the designated residential permit parking area for which the residential parking permit is issued or outside of the 500-foot distance from the qualified residence for which the visitor's pass is issued.
(f) Otherwise violate these regulations, including but not limited to the issuance or use of residential parking permits or visitor's passes.
(g) The owner of a vehicle may contest the revocation of a permit by filing a written application for a hearing with the civil infractions division of city court requesting that the court determine whether justification existed for the revocation of the permit existed under the provisions of this article. The application shall be filed within ten (10) days after the revocation of the permit, and not thereafter. The court shall set a time and date for a hearing to be held no later than fifteen (15) days after receipt of the written application for a hearing and shall notify both the applicant and the director of transportation of the hearing date. At the hearing, the city shall prove by a preponderance of evidence that the revocation of the permit was justified pursuant to the provisions of this article.
Sec. 20-257. Special events permit parking. The director of transportation may designate special events parking permit areas consisting of streets or portions of streets on which the parking of motor vehicles may be restricted during posted specified hours to motor vehicles bearing valid special events parking permits or visitor's passes issued pursuant to these provisions. The director of transportation shall provide for issuance of permits and shall place signs (which may be temporary) which indicate the hours and conditions under which parking shall be by permit or visitor's pass only.
(a) Park a motor vehicle in a special events parking permit area during the designated hours unless the vehicle is equipped with a valid special event permit or valid special event visitor's pass.
(b) Violate any regulations pursuant to section 20-255 relating to the issuance and use of parking permits.
(a) In addition to other permit parking programs authorized in this article, the director of transportation is authorized to establish, subject to the advisory recommendation of the ParkWise Commission, additional permit parking programs as may be necessary and desirable to control traffic in high demand areas within the area described in section 10A-146 as the city center. Pursuant to this section a "high demand area" is defined as one where over seventy-five (75) percent of the legal curb parking spaces are occupied on a recurring basis.
(b) Subject to the advisory recommendation of the ParkWise Commission, the director of transportation is authorized to establish an annual fee for such additional permit parking programs to reduce parking in high demand areas and to promote alternate modes of transportation.
(c) Three (3) copies of the designations of programs and fees established under this section by the director of transportation shall be listed within the administrative guidelines on file with the city clerk.
(d) Mayor and council may, at their discretion, change, modify or eliminate fees and/or permit parking programs established by the director of transportation.
(e) Vehicles parked within a designated parking permit area are subject to all provisions of section 20-255 except that applicants are not required to reside on a property immediately adjacent to the designated permit parking area in order to obtain a valid parking permit.
Sec. 20-259. Expired registration. It shall be unlawful to park a vehicle on any city street that does not conspicuously bear proof of a current registration. A citation charging violation of this section may be dismissed if proof of current registration is submitted to the City Court.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 4, 8-7-00)
Sec. 20-260. Stopping, standing, parking prohibited in sidewalk area. It shall be unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether posted or not, in any planted, landscaped or dirt area between the curb, or the roadway and the property line.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 5, 8-7-00)
(a) It shall be unlawful to park, or leave unattended, on any street or roadway or right- of-way thereof, any vehicle for a period in excess of twenty four (24) hours.
(b) Any operable, currently registered, non-commercial, passenger vehicle registered to a resident of a property immediately adjacent to the parked vehicle shall be exempt from section 20-261(a) provided the vehicle is not in violation of any other section of this code.
(c) It shall be unlawful to park or leave unattended, on any street or roadway or right- of-way thereof, any vehicle exempt from section 20-261(a) as described in section 20-261(b) for a period in excess of seven (7) calendar days.
(a) It is unlawful to park any vehicle having a total gross vehicle weight rating in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) pounds, including, but not limited to, trucks, truck tractors, road tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, vehicle transporters, or any combination of such vehicles:
(1) On a street not designated as a truck route under article I section 20-15 of this chapter; or
(2) On a street posted pursuant to section 20-15.1(b) with a sign or signs limiting the gross weight of vehicles permitted on the street; or
(3) Within a residence district.
(b) Notwithstanding the prohibition in section 20-272(a) above, a restricted vehicle may park, except as otherwise prohibited by this article:
(1) On any street within a business district, unless the street is posted pursuant to section 20-15.1(b) with a sign or signs limiting the gross weight of vehicles on the street; or
(2) On any street to perform the following activities, except that, upon completion of such activity, the vehicle must return to the nearest designated truck route:
(i) Deliver, pickup, load, or unload merchandise, materials, or equipment, including furniture and other household goods; or
(ii) Provide construction, repair, or similar services to a property.
Note: Formerly § 20-272.
Section 20-263. Recreational vehicles; commercial vehicles. It shall be unlawful to park any recreational vehicle, or any commercial vehicle, on the same block of any street or roadway or right-of-way thereof for any portion of any two (2) consecutive calendar days.
Sec. 20-271. Penalty. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the penalty for violating any provision of article VII, division 6, which regulates the time, place, or method of parking a vehicle shall be a mandatory fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9859, § 4, 6-23-03)
Editors Note: Ord. No. 9492, § 3, adopted Nov. 27, 2000, renumbered the provisions of former § 20-272 as current § 20-262. The user is directed to § 20-262 for provisions concerning truck parking on streets not designated as truck routes prohibited. See the Code Comparative Table.
Sec. 20-273. Parking in alleys. It is unlawful to park a vehicle within an alley, whether posted or not, except for the loading or unloading of merchandise and materials, and then not unless such loading or unloading can be accomplished without blocking the alley to the free movement of vehicular traffic. Notwithstanding the foregoing provision, the director of transportation may authorize limited alley blockage for periods not to exceed twenty (20) minutes at locations where such blockage is necessary for the immediate loading or unloading of persons, merchandise, or materials, provided that vehicles shall remain attended at all times and shall be immediately moved if necessary to accommodate the passage of emergency or city service vehicles. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9424, § 1, 7-10-00; Ord. No. 9434, § 6, 8-7-00)
Sec. 20-274. Hazardous areas adjacent to schools. The director of transportation is authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon that side of any street adjacent to any school property where and when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation. When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon such side of a street adjacent to any school property, it is unlawful to stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
Sec. 20-275. Standing or parking outside of business or residence district. Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district, it is unlawful to stand or park any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main-traveled part of the highway when it is practical to stand or park the vehicle off that part of the highway, but in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite the vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles; and a clear view of the standing or parked vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon the highway. This section shall not apply if the vehicle is disabled while on the paved or main-traveled part of a highway and is disabled in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the disabled vehicle in such position.
Sec. 20-276. Buses stopping on crosswalks, within intersections prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any bus to stop within an intersection or on a crosswalk for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers.
Sec. 20-277. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. Except for public buses, which may stop in a no-parking zone marked or sign posted as a bus loading zone, or authorized commercial vehicles or government-plated trucks as defined in section 20-249 in freight curb loading zones, or disabled or handicapped vehicles in disabled zones, or passengers or their effects in passenger curb loading zones, it is unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with law or directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk area.
(3) On a crosswalk, whether marked or unmarked.
(4) Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at the departing side of an intersection whether marked or unmarked.
(5) In red zones.
(6) Where "no-parking" signs are specifically posted.
(7) Within five (5) feet of a driveway.
(8) Within ten (10) feet of an alleyway.
Sec. 20-278. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in additional specified places. Except for public buses, which may stop in a no-parking zone marked or sign posted as a bus loading zone, it is unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with law or directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant placed on public or private property.
(2) Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station.
(3) Within or adjacent to a construction zone, behind or within a barricaded area as permitted by the traffic engineer per Tucson Code 25-20 et seq.
(4) Within an intersection.
(5) Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway.
(6) Within thirty (30) feet of the approaching side of an intersection either marked or unmarked.
(7) Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad track, except while a motor vehicle with motive power attached is loading or unloading railroad cars.
(8) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the end or curb of a street.
(9) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel.
(10) On a controlled-access highway except for emergency reasons or except in areas specifically designated for parking, such as rest areas.
(11) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street or alley and is parked in violation of the law or otherwise constitutes a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(12) Within a center left turn lane.
(13) When any vehicle stops, stands or parks on a laned street or roadway and obstructs or stops traffic behind the vehicle.
(14) At a bus stop.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 7, 8-7-00)
Sec. 20-279. Parallel parking. Except as otherwise provided in this article, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs, and parallel parking is authorized, shall be so stopped or parked with the curbside wheels of the vehicle within eighteen (18) inches of the right-hand curb with the vehicle's right wheels or on one-way streets only the left-hand curb with the vehicle's left wheels. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway shall be stopped or parked facing in the same direction as the traffic flow of the nearest travel lane. (Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 10418, § 3, 6-12-07)
Sec. 20-280. Parking near fire or rescue apparatus. It is unlawful to park a vehicle within five hundred (500) feet of any fire apparatus or fire rescue vehicle which has stopped in response to a fire alarm or request for medical or rescue services.
Sec. 20-281. Parking prohibited on certain streets and portions of streets. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, it is unlawful to park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or portions of streets.
Sec. 20-282. Fire lanes. When signs are erected as per Tucson Code 13-3 et seq. and the Uniform Fire Code, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle in a designated fire lane. The posting of such signs shall authorize the enforcement of the provisions of this section and thereby constitute consent by the owner of the property to enforcement of this section.
Sec. 20-283. Law enforcement officers exempt from specified parking provisions. The provisions of sections 20-260, 20-277 and 20-278 shall not apply to law enforcement officers while engaged in the performance of law enforcement duties. For purposes of this section, law enforcement officer shall include persons engaged in photo enforcement at the direction of law enforcement.
(Ord. No. 10479, § 1, 11-20-07)
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