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Timestamp: 2017-03-28 08:19:22
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Sec. 20-205—20-209. Reserved.
Sec. 20-214—20-219. Reserved.
Sec. 20-226.4. Angle parking, direction.
Sec. 20-228. Taxicab stands—Application for; location; signs required.
Sec. 20-228.1. Same—Revocation.
Sec. 20-230.2. Temporary suspension of operation—When granted.
Sec. 20-230.3. Same—Fees.
Sec. 20-238—20-245. Reserved.
Sec. 20-249.1. Same—When nonauthorized vehicles prohibited in provisional zones.
Sec. 20-260. Stopping, standing, parking prohibited between the curb and sidewalk or in an unimproved pedestrian area impeding continuous pedestrian use.
Sec. 20-263. Recreational vehicles; commercial vehicles.
Secs. 20-264—20-270. Reserved.
Secs. 20-284—20-299. Reserved.
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.
Secs. 20-205—20-209. Reserved.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
Secs. 20-214—20-219. Reserved.
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.
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 two hundred eleven dollars and forty-eight cents ($211.48), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine does not include any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9867, § 1, 6-23-03; Ord. No. 11295, § 1, 8-5-15; Ord. No. 11324, § 3, 12-8-15)
(b) If the owner or operator of the vehicle involved in a violation of this section, subsequently produces to Park Tucson administrator or to Tucson City 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; Ord. No. 11400, § 3, 9-20-16)
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.
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.
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 twenty-five dollars ($125.00) and such fine shall not be suspended. This fine includes any assessments imposed under state law.
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 fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($14.75), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine does not include any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9867, § 2, 6-23-03; Ord. No. 11324, § 4, 12-8-15)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The director of transportation may at any time, without notice, remove, relocate or alter any taxicab stand issued under this section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Time limit parking restrictions in metered zones, including effective days and hours, shall be clearly posted on meters and/or signs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(b) Thereafter, subject to the advisory recommendation of Park Tucson 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.
Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle, other than a marked police or fire vehicle.
Where signs are erected, giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful to park a vehicle not bearing government plates.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
Secs. 20-238—20-245. Reserved.
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 twenty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents ($25.68), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine does not include any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9867, § 3, 6-23-03; Ord. No. 11295, § 2, 8-5-15; Ord. No. 11324, § 5, 12-8-15)
It is unlawful to park a vehicle upon any roadway for the purpose of:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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) 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 Park Tucson 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 Park Tucson 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.
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.
It shall be unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether posted or not, in that area between the curb and a sidewalk or in an unimproved pedestrian area such that it impedes continuous pedestrian use. Impeding continuous pedestrian use is determined when the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle leaves less than four (4) foot wide unimproved pedestrian area. Provided, unless the area is posted with "no-parking" signs, it shall not be unlawful to stop, stand, or park a vehicle in an unimproved pedestrian area adjacent to roadways less than or equal to twenty-six (26) feet wide.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9434, § 5, 8-7-00; Ord. No. 11063 § 2, 3-27-13)
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.
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 sixty dollars and eleven cents ($60.11), no part of which may be suspended or waived by the court. This fine does not include any assessments imposed under state law.
(Ord. No. 9196, § 1, 1-25-99; Ord. No. 9492, § 3, 11-27-00; Ord. No. 9867, § 4, 6-23-03; Ord. No. 11295, § 3, 8-5-15; Ord. No. 11324, § 6, 12-8-15)
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)
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.
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.
It shall be unlawful for any bus to stop within an intersection or on a crosswalk for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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