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Ordinance - 1988 - 135 - Parking - 03/21/1988ORDINANCE NO. 135 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PARKING; ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 3, TITLE 5, EAGLE CITY CODE, TO PROHIBIT PARKING OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, OR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND TRAILER, EXCEEDING THIRTY (30) FEET IN LENGTH, ON STATE STREET BETWEEN EAGLE ROAD AND FIRST STREET IN THE CITY OF EAGLE, IDAHO; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF PARKING TICKETS FOR PARKING VIOLATIONS; ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR PARKING FINES AND FOR THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT IN DISTRICT COURT IF PARKING FINES ARE NOT ADMINISTRATIVELY PAID; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE WHEREAS, the City of Eagle, Idaho (the "City"), is a municipal corporation duly organized and operating under the laws of the State of Idaho and is authorized under Idaho Code § 49-582 to regulate or prohibit vehicles from stopping, standing, or parking within designated areas of the City; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the public health, safety, and welfare is endangered by the parking of motor vehicles and motor vehicles and trailers exceeding thirty (30) feet in length on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street in the City; and WHEREAS, the Ada County Highway District is a county -wide highway district directed under Idaho Code § 40-1415 to procure, install, operate, and maintain traffic control devices where they are needed for traffic control, and the City has requested that the Ada County Highway District install "no parking" signs prohibiting parking by motor vehicles and motor vehicles with trailers exceeding thirty (30) feet in length on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EAGLE, IDAHO, as follows: Section 1: The City Council of the City of Eagle, Idaho, hereby finds and determines that the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City and other persons using the streets of the City are endangered by the parking of motor vehicles and motor vehicles with trailers exceeding thirty (30) feet in length on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street in the City. Section 2: A new Chapter 3, Title 5, Eagle City Code, be, and the same hereby is, enacted to read as follows: Page 1 5-3-1: Stopping, Standing, or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places: Except when necessary to avoid collision with other traffic, or to comply with the law, directions of a police officer, or an official traffic control device, no person shall park a motor vehicle, or motor vehicle and trailer, exceeding thirty (30) feet in length, whether or not occupied, except temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading passengers or merchandise, on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street. 5-3-2: Parking Tickets and Procedures: The City Clerk and any other individual designated by the City Council shall have authority to issue parking tickets as follows: A. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or any other individual designated by the City Council, upon observing a motor vehicle, or motor vehicle and trailer, exceeding thirty (30) feet in length, parked, standing, or stopped in violation of the provisions of this Chap- ter, to leave upon such vehicle a separate parking ticket every two hours that such vehicle has been parked, standing, or stopped in violation of the provi- sions of this Chapter. Such parking ticket shall bear the hour and date of leaving the same upon the vehicle, the make of the vehicle, the vehicle's license number, the specific code section violated, and the amount of the fine for such violation. Each parking ticket shall instruct the operator of the vehicle to report to the City Clerk at the Eagle City Hall. B. To avoid burdening the judicial system with parking violations and for the convenience of the public, each person receiving a parking ticket under this Chapter shall: 1. Within seventy-two (72) hours of the time the ticket was left upon the vehicle, pay to the City Clerk, in full satisfaction of the parking violation, four dollars ($4.00) for each parking ticket left upon his or her vehicle. 2. Within ten (10) days from the date a parking ticket was issued, if the parking ticket has not been paid within the seventy-two (72) hours prescribed above, pay to the City Clerk an additional three dollars ($3.00) for each parking ticket, the additional three dollars ($3.00) for each ticket being deemed necessary to defray administrative and clerical expenses. The failure Page 2 of any operator of a vehicle receiving a parking ticket to make the above-described payments to the City Clerk within the designated times shall render the operator of the vehicle subject to the penalties provided by Section 5-3-3 of this Chapter. C. If any vehicle is found stopped, standing, or parked in violation of the provisions of this Chapter, the fact that the vehicle is registered or leased to a person shall be considered prima facie evidence that such person was in control of the vehicle at the time of such violation. 5-3-3: Penalties: Any operator of a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle and trailer exceeding thirty (30) feet in length, who shall stand, stop, or park such vehicle in violation of the provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed to have committed a parking violation. In the event that a parking ticket is not paid in accor- dance with the administrative procedure set forth in Section 5-3-2, Eagle City Code, an infraction citation or complaint for a parking violation may be filed in the magistrate division of the district court. Section 3: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval, and publication. DATED this 2.IST day of March, 1988. CITY OF EAGLE By MLDkaj115 Page 3 SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 135 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PARKING; ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 3, TITLE 5, EAGLE CITY CODE, TO PROHIBIT PARKING OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, OR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND A TRAILER, EXCEEDING THIRTY FEET IN LENGTH, ON STATE STREET BETWEEN EAGLE ROAD AND FIRST STREET IN THE CITY OF EAGLE, IDAHO; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF PARKING TICKETS FOR PARKING VIOLATIONS; ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR PARKING FINES AND FOR THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT IN DISTRICT COURT IF PARKING FINES ARE NOT ADMINISTRATIVELY PAID; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE A summary of the principal provisions of Ordinance No. 135 of the City of Eagle, Ada County, Idaho, adopted on April 12, 1988, is as follows: Section 1: Finds that the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City are endangered by the parking of motor vehicles, or motor vehicles and trailers, exceeding thirty feet in length, on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street in the City. Section 2: Enacts a new Chapter 3, Title 5, Eagle City Code, to read as follows: Section 5-3-1: Prohibits stopping, standing, or parking a motor vehicle, or a motor vehicle and trailer, exceeding thirty feet in length, on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street, except in specified instances. Section 5-3-2: Directs the City Clerk to issue parking tickets every two hours for vehicles parked in violation of the Chapter and provides an administrative procedure for paying such tickets, establishing the fact that the vehicle parked in violation of the Chapter is registered or leased to a person as prima facie evidence of control of the vehicle by such person at the time the violation occurs. Section 5-3-3: Establishes that violation of the Chapter is a parking violation and provides for filing a complaint in district court if the violation is not paid administratively. Section 3: Provides effective date. DATED this 25th day of April, 1988. CITY OF EAGLE By Mayor County of Ada § § State of Idaho § SS. PROOF OF PUBLICAi ION Marjorie Ruth Moon, being first duly sworn, on oath says that she is the principal clerk of The VALLEY NEWS, a newspaper of general circulation, published weekly by Marjorie Ruth Moon, publisher, at Meridian, County of Ada, State of Idaho; That the annexed notice was published in said news- paper once each and every week for 1 consecutive weekk1 the first publication being on the 2 7th day of An r i 1 ,198 8 , and the last publication being on the 27th day of _Avi i , 19 R8. That the said newspaper has been published continu- ously and uninterruptedly in said county during a period of more than seventy-eight consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the attached notice. Principal Clerk Subscribed and sworn to before me this e›? day of , 196f. Residence: % 0 Notary Public My commission expires: 3-1-7-7 -7% CITY OF EAGLE SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 135 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PARKING; ESTABLISHING CHAP- TER 3, TITLE 5, EAGLE CITY CODE, TO PROHIBIT PARKING OF A MO- TOR VEHICLE, OR A MOTOR VE- HICLE AND A TRAILER, EXCEED- ING THIRTY FEET IN LENGTH, ON STATE STREET BETWEEN EAGLE ROAD AND FIRST STREET IN THE CITY OF EAGLE, IDAHO; AUTHOR- IZING THE ISSUANCE OF PARKING TICKETS FOR PARKING VIOLA- TIONS; ESTABLISHING AN ADMIN- ISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR PARKING FINES AND FOR THE FIL- ING OF A COMPLAINT IN DISTRICT COURTIF PARKING F :NES ARE NOT ADMNISTRATIVELY. PAID; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE A summary of the principal provisions of Ordinance No. 135 of the City of Eagle, Ada County, Idaho, adopted on April 12, 1988, is as follows: Section 1: Finds that the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City are endangered by the parking of motor ve- hicles, or motor vehicles and trailers, exceeding thirty feet in length, on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street in the City. Section 2: Enacts a new Chapter 3, Title 5, Eagle City Code, to read as fol- lows: Section 5-3-1: Prohibits stopping, standing, or parking a motor vehicle, or a motor vehicle and trailer, exceed- ing thirty feet in length, on State Street between Eagle Road and First Street, except in specified instances. 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