(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park any truck with a registered gross weight exceeding 24,000 pounds, or any bus, trailer, truck tractor, semi-truck tractor, semi-trailer, or the trailer component thereof regardless of weight, upon any street or alley in the City of Sedgwick, Kansas, except as provided in (b) hereof.
(b) Exceptions.
(1) Any truck, bus, trailer, truck tractor, semi-trailer, or the trailer component thereof, may be parked on any street or alley in the City of Sedgwick, Kansas, for so long as may be necessary to make deliveries of cargo therefrom to stores, residences or business establishments in said city, or to load cargo into such trailers for said premises for delivery elsewhere.
(2) An exception of eight (8) hours to this section shall apply to the parking of trucks, busses, trailers, truck tractors, semi-trailers or the trailer components thereof, in case of breakdown or emergency necessitating such parking.
(c) General Penalties. Every person, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall, for the first conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); and for a subsequent conviction within a one (1) year thereafter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). Upon a third or subsequent conviction within a one(1) year period after the first conviction such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), provided, however, that each day violation constitutes a new separate offense.
(Ord. 669; Code 2022)
(a) Designation of parking zones; no parking zones; time limitations thereon; persons with a disability parking.
(1) The governing body may by resolution designate any street area or public right-of-way as a no parking zone. Such resolution may disallow parking in all or any part of any no parking zone so designated, upon such terms and conditions, as the governing body shall deem reasonable to effectuate the purposes of the article.
(2) The governing body may by resolution designate any street area or off-street parking station as a parking zone and shall prescribe maximum time limitations on parking within any parking zone so designated. Such resolution may provide for unlimited parking in all or any part of any parking zone so designated, upon such terms and conditions, as the governing body shall deem reasonable to effectuate the purposes of the article.
(3) With respect to any area designated as a parking or no parking zone by resolution of the governing body, the city administrator:
(A) Shall cause appropriate signs to be erected, giving notice that either no parking is allowed or that parking spaces within such parking zone may be used for parking for a limited time only, and specifying such time limitation;
(B) May, notwithstanding any other provision of this article, designate certain parking spaces in any parking zone as “person with a disability parking space”, and any parking space so designated shall be clearly identified and marked. Parking in any parking space designated and marked “person with a disability parking space” shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) Any vehicle occupying a person with a disability parking space shall either:
1. Have properly displayed within such vehicle a person with a disability parking placard issued by the state, or
2. Have displayed upon the rear of such vehicle a state license or registration plate indicating issuance to a person with a disability.
(ii) Time limitations upon parking, established by resolution for the parking zone in which any person with a disability parking space is located, shall apply to any vehicle parked in a “person with a disability parking space”.
(iii) Time limitations upon parking in parking zones shall apply for any time period and day of the week set forth in the resolution and stated on the sign erected.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the city may provide for the loading and unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles.
(b) Definitions.
Legal holidays mean January 1st, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day and December 25th; provided, that if any such holiday shall be on a Sunday, the following day shall be considered and treated as a legal holiday.
Off-street parking station means any area, which is owned or operated by the city and designated as a public place for parking vehicles
Parking space means any space upon a public street or within an off-street parking station, which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the pavement.
Parking Zone means any street area or off-street parking station designated by resolution of the governing body for limited parking time only.
(c) Prohibited Acts. It shall be unlawful for any person:
(1) To cause, permit or allow any vehicle operated by such person to be parked in a no parking zone designated pursuant to this section.
(2) To cause, permit or allow any vehicle operated by such person to be parked beyond the period of legal parking time prescribed for any parking space in any parking zone designated pursuant to this section.
(3) To cause, permit or allow any vehicle operated by such person to be parked in such a manner that such vehicle is not entirely within the marked limits of the parking space occupied;
(4) To cause, permit or allow any vehicle operated by such person to be backed into any parking space in an off-street parking station which has been designated as a parking zone pursuant to this section; or
(5) To circumvent or attempt to circumvent any parking time limitation imposed pursuant to this article by erasing or otherwise obliterating any mark applied to any vehicle by an agent of the city as a means of enforcing compliance with the provisions of this article.
(6) With regard to the legal holidays referenced herein, a police officer, or other officer of the city duly appointed to enforce parking regulations, shall have discretion to issue warnings or waive such violations in light of the greater parking demands within the jurisdiction.
(d) Penalties for violation, notice of violation, and towing authorized.
(1) Any person adjudged guilty of a violation of this section, or any amendments thereto, shall be subject to punishment as provided herein. Any vehicle found to be parking in violation shall have attached to it by a police officer, or other officer of the city duly appointed to enforce parking regulations, a notice advising the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a specific provision of this section. A warning ticket maybe given not requiring payment of a fine. Each such owner or operator may, within ten (10) days of the time such original notice is attached to the vehicle, remit to the City Offices the applicable fine as set forth below by delivery of the same to the City Offices for and in full satisfaction of such violation. The applicable fine to be shown on such original notice shall be as follows:
(A) The sum of $25.00 as to a violation prescribed in this section.
(B) A sum designated by the Judge of the Municipal Court of the city as to such offense in the judge's then adopted schedule of fines.
(2) If neither payment of the applicable fine under subsection (1) above, or a request to be placed upon the docket for Sedgwick Municipal Court have not been made within ten (10) days of the date such original notice was affixed to such vehicle, a second notice shall be sent to the registered owner of such vehicle of such violation. In the event such a request to be placed upon the docket for Sedgwick Municipal Court is made within the initial ten (10) days prescribed within the original notice, the Municipal Judge shall have discretion to waive all or a portion of the attendant fines and court costs. Such second notice shall advise that, in the event the payment required by subsection (A) above, plus the additional sum of $10.00, is not made within ten (10) days from the date of such second notice, a complaint will be filed and prosecution commenced in the municipal court, and a warrant of arrest may be issued. Upon issuance of a complaint all court costs shall be assessed and no waiver shall be granted.
(3) In addition to or in lieu of attaching to an unlawfully parked vehicle the notice required by subsection of this section, such vehicle may be impounded, towed to, and stored in the city impoundment lot or other place of safety. No vehicle so impounded shall be released to the owner or other authorized person until a reasonable charge, as fixed by the chief of police, for such towing and storage shall have been paid to the city.
(Ord. 750; Code 2022)
(a) No person shall utilize the streets of the said City for the parking of any recreational vehicle, as defined by the Standard Traffic Ordinance, except for the direct purpose of loading, unloading or preparing said vehicle for transport or use and then for a period not to exceed seventy-two (72) continuous hours.
(b) Any person desiring to park a recreational vehicle on said streets for any purpose other than outlined or for a period longer than allowed herein must show good cause to the Governing Body of said City and obtain a written permit for said parking from the City Clerk.
(c) No recreational vehicle may be parked on the street or within 300 feet of any residence and leave the motor, either vehicle or refrigeration, running to create a nuisance to residents in the area.
(d) Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section for which no penalty has been provided shall for the first conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. Upon a third or subsequent conviction within one year after the first conviction, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment, provided the penalties prescribed in the Standard Traffic Ordinance by reference incorporated in said section shall prevail as to violations for its provisions.
(Ord. 667; Code 2022)
(a) Every operator or user of a bicycle or similar wheeled device within the City shall obey all standard traffic ordinances of the city.
(b) Every operator or user of a bicycle, roller skates, roller blades, sidewalk roller scooter, racer scooter, moped scooter, motorized scooter, skateboard, coaster or similar device within the City shall:
(1) Not ride or operate any such device within, upon or across any sidewalk, parking area or driveway in the Central Business District (C-1), between the hours of 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday-Friday.
(2) Not ride any such device upon or across any private lot or property if such property is clearly and visibly marked by a sign or signs indicating that such use of the property is prohibited.
(A) The police department is hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of this section on any private property so marked.
(3) No such device will be parked or left upon any sidewalk in the Central Business District (C-1) in such a manner as to block or obstruct entrances or exits of any kind to adjacent building structures or properties.
(4) No bicycle shall be permitted on any street, sidewalk, or other public highway of the City between 30 minutes after sunset or 30 minutes before sunrise, without a headlight, and a rear red light or red reflector conforming to the requirements for such devices under the Standard Traffic Ordnance as has been adopted and is in effect.
(c) Any person violating the provisions of this section, shall upon conviction, be fined any sum in an amount not to exceed $50.00. Furthermore, any law enforcement officer may impound any bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, roller blades, sidewalk roller scooter, racer scooter, moped scooter, motorized scooter, roller skates, coaster or other similar device that is ridden or operated in violation of this section or of the Standard Traffic Ordnance, and upon such impoundment shall not release the same to the owner thereof until each of the following has occurred.
(1) Payment of $10.00 to the City for the impoundment fee.
(2) All fines or other obligations or conditions imposed by the Municipal Court are settled.
(Ord. 646; Code 2022)