No person shall operate or halt any vehicle in such a manner as to indicate a careless or heedless disregard for the rights or safety of others, or in such a manner as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property.

(Code 1988, § 14-201; Code 2016, Sec. 90-1)

(a)   No person operating or occupying a motor vehicle on a street, highway, alley, parking lot or driveway shall operate or permit the operation of any sound amplification system from within the vehicle so that the sound is plainly audible at a distance of 50 or more feet from the vehicle.

(b)   The term “sound amplification system” means any radio, tape player, compact disc player, loudspeaker or other electronic device used for the amplification of sound.

(c)   The term “plainly audible” means any sound produced by a sound amplification system from within the vehicle, which clearly can be heard at a distance of 50 feet or more. Measurement standards shall be by the auditory senses, based upon direct line of sight. Words or phrases need not be discernible, and bass reverberations are included. The motor vehicle may be stopped, standing, parked or moving on the street, highway, alley, parking lot or driveway.

(d)   It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section that the operator was not otherwise prohibited by law from operating the sound amplification system, and that any of the following apply:

(1)   The system was being operated to request medical or vehicular assistance or to warn of a hazardous road condition.

(2)   The vehicle was an emergency or public safety vehicle.

(3)   The vehicle was owned and operated by the city or a communications company.

(4)   The system was used for the purpose of giving instructions, directions, talks, addresses, lectures or transmitting music to any persons or assemblages of persons in compliance with ordinances of the city.

(5)   The vehicle was used in authorized public activities, such as parades, fireworks, sports events, musical productions and other activities which have the approval of the chief of police.

(e)   Violations of this section are a class C offense.

(Ord. 3150, §§ 1, 2, 5-10-94; Code 2016, Sec. 90-2)

The location of all traffic control signs, signals, devices and markings as of the adoption date of this Code is ratified and confirmed.

(Code 2016, Sec. 90-36)

(a)   Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from any street in the city to a garage or other place of safety, or to property maintained by the city under the circumstances enumerated in this subsection:

(1)   When any vehicle is left unattended upon any street, alley or other public way, and is so parked as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to the normal flow of traffic;

(2)   When a vehicle upon a street in the city is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, and the person in charge of the vehicle is by reason of physical injury, or otherwise, incapacitated to such extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal;

(3)   When any vehicle has been left unmoved by the owner or person in charge of the vehicle upon any streets of the city for a period of more than 48 hours;

(4)   When any vehicle has been left unmoved by the owner or person in charge of the vehicle upon any public parking lot owned or leased by the city for a period of more than 48 hours.

(b)   Whenever an officer removing a vehicle from a street, alley or public way, as authorized by this section, knows, or is able to ascertain from the registration records, the name and address of the owner, such officer shall immediately give, or cause to be given, notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor, and the place to which the vehicle has been removed. If any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage. If such officer is unable to ascertain the name of the owner, or the person who abandoned or left such vehicle so parked, by the means aforesaid, the notice required in this section need not be given.

(c)   Whenever, pursuant to the authority of this section, a vehicle is removed and stored by any police officer in a storage lot provided by, and owned or controlled by the city, there shall be assessed and collected from the owner thereof, a removal charge not to exceed an amount established in the city’s fee resolution, and a storage charge in an amount as established in the city’s fee resolution per 24-hour day, or part thereof, for each day such vehicle is stored in such city storage lot. There shall likewise be assessed and collected from the owner of such vehicle, in addition to the removal charge, a storage charge of not to exceed an amount established in the city’s fee resolution per 24-hour day, or part thereof, when such vehicle is stored in any privately owned garage. The storage and removal charges provided for in this subsection shall be a lien upon such vehicle, and such vehicle may not be removed from the storage lot or garage by the owner thereof, until the payment of such owner to the city of such storage charges, or by the payment by such owner to the operator of the garage in which such vehicle is stored, of such storage charges.

(d)   Whenever any owner or person in charge of a vehicle removed from the streets or public parking lots of this city pursuant to this section, shall fail for 30 days from the giving of the notice provided for in subsection (b) of this section, or from the abandonment of such vehicle in case such notice cannot be given, whichever is later, to appear and claim the vehicle, such vehicle may be advertised and sold at public sale in the manner provided by law for the sale of personal property under chattel mortgage. The proceeds derived in monthly reports to the city clerk for deposit in a special fund. If any such balance shall remain unclaimed for a period of 30 days from the time it is received by the city clerk, the balance shall be paid into the city treasury of the city in a special fund and be used for the upkeep and maintenance of any storage lot of the city. Any funds remaining in the special fund on June 30 of each calendar year, not anticipated as needed for such upkeep, shall be transferred and credited to the general fund of this city.

(Code 1988, §§ 14-317—14-320; Code 2016, Sec. 90-37)

No vehicle shall be allowed to be and remain parked on any street or highway in the city for a period longer than 72 hours.

(Code 1988, § 14-313; Ord. 3285, § 1, 3-26-02; Code 2016, Sec. 90-106)

(a)   It shall be unlawful to park a truck larger than what is commonly referred to as a one-ton pickup truck, or a bus, truck tractor, road tractor, farm tractor, farm implements, construction equipment, recreational vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer, regardless of weight, upon any street within a residential zoned area in the city, except parking will be permitted when it is necessary for the loading or unloading of merchandise or goods, provided that the vehicle shall be promptly moved upon completion of the loading or unloading.

(b)   It shall be unlawful to park a truck larger than what is commonly referred to as a one-ton pickup truck, or a bus, truck tractor, road tractor, farm tractor, farm implements, construction equipment, semi-trailer, box truck or step-van over 24 feet long and/or 12 feet high, motor homes, travel trailers and buses anywhere in the city that is zoned as a residential area, except as provided in this subsection:

(1)   When the vehicles or equipment are being used as part of a construction project.

(2)   When it is necessary for the loading or unloading of merchandise or goods.

(3)   When an all-weather parking surface (such as packed gravel, asphalt or concrete) is provided for trucks, truck tractors, road tractors, box trucks, step-vans, motor homes, travel trailers and buses. The parking surface cannot be located in the required front yard.

(c)   It shall be unlawful for any vehicle that transports a hazardous material in an amount that requires it to have a placard on it, a liquid or solid waste vehicle, or any other vehicle or trailer that its contents would be offensive or a health and safety hazard, to park such vehicle or trailer in the city in any area zoned as residential.

(d)   For the purpose of this article, the term farm tractor and farm implement shall not include tractors and equipment that are primarily used for landscaping, gardening, utility mowing and lawn care.

(e)   For the purpose of this article, the term “residential area” shall include all streets, alleys and property, both public and private, within the city that are zoned for residential use.

(f)    Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to public, church or private parking lots to which the public has access.

(Code 1988, § 14-207; Ord. 3285, § 2, 3-26-02; Code 2016, Sec. 90-107)