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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 102674~ F ~~ ORDINANCE N0. L'~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 22 (ARTICLE VI) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH ( 1 986) , AS AMENDED, MAKING CERTAIN ACT IONS RELATED TO THE PARKING, STOPPING OR STANDING OF VEHICLES CIVIL OFFENSES SUBJECT TO CIVIL FINES AND PENALTIES PURSUANT 'I'0 THE PROCEDURES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 10 OF SAID CODE ; REPEALING CONFLICT ING ORDINANCES ; MAKING TH I S ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF OTHER ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AN D ENROLLMENT; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AS REQUIRED BY LAW; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE; AN D PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH SECTION I . That Article VI (Stopping, Standing and Parking) of Chapter 22 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new Section 22-178 as set forth in Exhibit "A", attached hereto and incorporated herein, and the violation of the provisions of said section shall be civil offenses subject to civil penalties and fines pursuant to the procedures for administra- tive adjudication as set forth in Chapter 10 of the Code. SECT ION I I . This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in which event conflicting provi- sions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed. :~ SECTION I I I . It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconsti- tutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordi- n ance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION IV. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption and Sections I, VI and VII in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. SECTION V. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby directed to publish the caption and Section VI of this ordinance for two (2) days in the official newspaper of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, as authorized by Section 52.013, Texas Local Government Code. -2- .x SECT ION VI . Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists the enforcement of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each offense. SECT ION VII . This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: t ~G:u,G`' Asst City Attorney Date: 02 "" ~oZ- ~j''~Q/ ADOPTED: ~~ ~ O EFFECTIVE: _rr I ~~ ~~f `t~~~`r~~ RV ~', ` ~'' i - Vl ~ j ~4 t/ ~ Yl/1~.. ,- r ---- - - _ .~ ~ ., a ,~~ ' -.,r L ~ ~ `+- -.~ Wis.. `~.' ~..-. .,, ~~~ .. -,w- ~ r ~ a -3- ..~" EXHIBIT "A" Sec. 22-178. Stopping, standing and parking prohibited in certain places. (a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall: (1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle: (A) at any place where official signs prohibit stopping; (B) on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (C) on a sidewalk; (D) within an intersection; (E) on a crosswalk; (Fj between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or with- in thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immedi- ately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings; (G) alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic; (H) upon a bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel; or (I) on any railroad track. (2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passen- gers (A) at any place where official signs prohibit stand- ing ; (B) in front of a public or private driveway; (C) within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant; (D) within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an inter- section; '"3 (E) within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic- control signal located at the side of a roadway; or (F) within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street oppo- site the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance (when properly sign-posted). (3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except tempo- rarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in load- ing or unloading merchandise or passengers: (A) at any place where official signs prohibit parking, or (B) within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing. (b) Except where official signs or markings indicate otherwise, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within eighteen (18) inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (c) Except where official signs or markings indicate otherwise, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within eighteen (18) inches of the right-hand curb or edge of roadway, or its left-hand wheels within eighteen (18) inches of the left-hand curb or edge of roadway. (d) All words and .phrases used in this section shall have the same meaning as they are defined in the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. Art. 6701d. -5- MASTER FILE• 1 TV p - ACCOUNTINQ•2 ~~ .. `L/Z~~f/ ®~ JL ®Y lL ~®U IL /IIL~ ~~~~LIL~ TRANSPOR7ATIOt~~PUBLIC.WC, 1~JL'L.WILJ/®U ~{.W~u.IV ~,J®ILi1V~~~lV ~®UUW~ILiIV~IV~~LW~~®~ HATER ADMINISTRATION ~i sy POLICE ADMINISTF PROSECUTING ATTO MUNICIPAL C®UR7 CiIIIEE :lUll.GEry DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 22, CITY PAGE 2N ~,, ~-~-89 NUMBER G-7955 CODE PARKING, STOPPING AND 1 taf___ STANDING VIOLATIONS UM~ph>0 RECOMMENDATION It i~s recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance amen8ing Chapter 22 (Article VI), City Code, by adding Section 22-178 thereto which codifies certain stopping, standing and parking offenses. DISCl3SSI0N On May 3, 1988, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 10107 which implemented a civil adjudication process for parking violations. The ordinance was effective September 1, 1988. On-going analysis of the provisions of the City Code related to parking offenses has indicated the desirability of codifying all City parking violations in Article VI of Chapter 22. This will facilitate the finding of applicable law and will clarify the original jurisdiction of the Parking Violation Bureau over such offense. mmc r ~ n ~~ ~"w ~ ~ ~~~ pp ~ //1 q ~~(/JyJ~~ ~~'!~~ ~ ~ ~~1+ ~k~~~{'Y~y/~" ~ Ci~ ,// II ~ ~~) /~ APPROVED BY CITY COt~NCIL MAR l 3989 ~F~i 4~~aw~,~~..... city Secretary of ~e City of Port WoIC.h, Trine ORIGINATING DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL. PROCESSED BY DEPARTMENT HEAD• ^ APPROVED SUBMITTED FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) OFFICE BY CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (~ tEd d3'd3Ii8tICE NO CONTACT , UQp DATE