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Ordinance 2974CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. 2974 New Series AMENDING ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING AND AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF ARTICLE I (PARKING LOTS) AND ARTICLE II (ON STREET PARKING METER ZONES) OF CHAPTER XII (DESIGNATED PARKING) AND ADDING A DEFINITION SECTION (SECTION 12-0) APPLICABLE TO ALL ARTICLES TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF PUBLIC PARKING SURFACE LOTS AND PARKING STRUCTURES ADMINISTERED BY THE CITY OF ALAMEDA BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Alameda that: Section The Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding section 12-0 (DEFINITIONS) applicable to Chapter 12 in its entirety to read as follows: 12-0 DEFINITIONS. As used in this Chapter: Operator shall mean and include every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent , employee or permittee of the owner. Parking meter zones shall mean portions of streets or off-street parking lots described and established by the City Council pursuant to subsection 12-12. Parking Meter shall mean any coin receptacle , instrument , device indicator or machine which upon the deposit therein of such coin or paper currency of the United States or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards , that are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America and as may be required by this title shows , indicates , registers displays or permits legal parking for one or more spaces in the parking meter zone wherein or adjacent to which such coin receptacle , instrument , device , indicator or machine is situated. A parking meter as defined herein mayor may not be a self- contained timing device; it may be manually adjusted , automatically or manually controlled , or otherwise operated either externally or internally, so as to show indicate , register , display or permit legal parking upon the deposit of coin or paper currency of the United States of America or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards , that are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America and as required by this title. Person shall mean and include any individual , firm , copartnership or corporation. Street shall mean any public street , avenue , road , boulevard , highway or other public place located in the City and established for the use of vehicles. Vehicle shall mean any device in , upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks. Section 2.The Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended by repealing and thereafter reserving Section 12-11 (DEFINITIONS) since it is superseded by Section 12- Section 3.The Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended with a new title for Section 12-4 which shall be "PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS INCLUDING GARAGE PARKING STRUCTURES" and Alameda Municipal Code Subsections , 12-, 12-4.4 12-, 12-, and 12-8 of Section 12-4 are hereby amended to read as follows: 12-4 PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING LOTS INCLUDING GARAGE PARKING STRUCTURES. 12-2 Method of Regulation. The method of regulation and control of parking or standing of vehicles in public off-street parking lots shall be determined by the City Council , and maybe by parking meters , attendants or any other appropriate means. 12-4.4 Parking Meter Charges. When any vehicle shall be parked in any space in a parking meter zone where parking meter is established in accordance with other provisions of this article , the operator of said vehicle , upon so parking, shall , and it shall be unlawful to fail to , deposit immediately one (1) or more five ($.05) cent , ten ($.10) cent, or twenty-five ($.25) cent coins .orpaper currency of the United States in the parking meter or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards , that are legally accepted as avalid form of cash payment in the United States of America for the designated space as per the directions imprinted on the parking meter. 12-5 Rates for Use of Public Off-Street Parking Lots. a. The parking meters located on the public off-street parking lots shall be equipped to receive only legal coins or paper currency of the United States of America or other legal form of payment such .as credit cards and debit cards which arelegallyacceptedasa valid form of cash payment in the United States of America. The rates shall be designated by appropriate markings or signs. b. Parking meter rates shall be as established byresolution. c. The rates for use of attendant lots shall be established per agreement with contractor and approved by City Council. d. Moneys collected from the parking lots shall be placed in the Parking Meter Fund and used accordingly pursuantto subsection 12-13.4. 12-8 Trailers and Other Non-Vehicles and Select Vehicles Prohibited from Off-Street Parking. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park any manufactured home (as defined by Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code), mobile home (as defined in Section 18008 oftheHealth & Safety Code), commercial coach (as defined in Section 18001.8 of the Health & Safety Code), special purpose commercial coach (as defined in Section 18012.4); recreational vehicle (as defined in Section 799.29 of the Civil Code ora truck trai ler orJrailer frame of any form or size in any public off-street parking lot except for areas designated as Loading Zones within off-street parking lots, and then only as otherwise permitted in Subsection 8-11.1 of this Code. Section 4.The Alameda MunicipalCode Subsections 12-13., 12-13.12- 13.and12-13.9 of Section 12-13 are hereby amended to read asfollows: 12-13.2 Regulations for Parking at Parking Meters. a. Parking meters, when installed , shall be so adjusted to show legal parking upon and after the deposit of only legal coins or paper currency of the United States of America or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards , which are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America. Maps detailing the location , time limits and hours of operation for all meters within the City shall be established and maintained by thePublic WorksDepartment. b. Parking Within Parking Spaces. Parking spaces on public off-street parking lots shall be designated by lines or other appropriate markings.. When parking spaces are so . designated , it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle. to stop, stand or park thevehic le other. than ina regularly designated parking or loading space , across any such line or marking, or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so designated. asa parking space. No vehicle shall be parked , stopped , nor shall stand either wholly or partially. in any driveway of any publicoff-streetparking .lot or in any manner which shall obstruct or interfere with thefree movement of vehicles in such driveway or in any manner so as to obstruct or otherwise prevent or interfere with ingress to or egress from any regularly designated parking space. 12-13.3 Marking of Meter Zones and Parking Therein. a. The Public Works Director shall cause lines or markings to be painted designating the parking. space. for which the meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked or within a parking space so designated by a .number or a letter shall park within said lines or markings. ltis unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking, and to park a vehicle in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings. The Public Works Director shall establish hours of operation , and maximum . time limits , and shall cause signage to be placed on each meter which shall indicate days and hours of operation , maximum timelimits,andanyexception. Such signs on parking meters shall constitute the parking meter zone signs referred to in subsection 12-16.4. b. Signs. The Public Works Director shall cause an appropriate sign to be affixed to or located on each parking meter within a parking meter zone indic(:ting the hours of operation of such meter and the maximum parking time permitted in the zone. Such.signs on parking. meters shall constitute the parking meter zone signs referred to in subsection 12-16.4 of this Code. (Ord. No. 903 N.; Ord. No. 1580; Ord. No. 2537 50 (17-365); Ord. No. 2664 12-13.4 Parking Meter Fund. The. Parking Meter Fund is hereby established. Money collected by the City or its contractors from parking meter or off-street parking lot charges as herein set forth shall be placed in the Parking MeterFund and shall be used only to regulate the use of parking spaces or off-street parking lots; to provide parking facilities and areas, together with maintenance and service thereon; to repay principal and intereston bonds issued for such purposes; and to reimburse the City s General Fund , Internal Service Funds and Capital Improvement Funds for any payment made therefrom , during the same fiscal year , for such purposes. (0 rd. No. 2006N.S.) 12-13.7 Unlawful to Park After Meter Time has Expired. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to permit the vehicle to remain parked in any parking space during any time that the meter is showing a signal or other means of indication indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time immediately after the original occupancy as is necessary to operate the meter to show legal parking. (Ord. No. 1202 N.; Ord. No. 2452 N. 1). 12-13.9 Parallel or Diagonal Parking. When a parking space in any public off-street parking lot is designed as parallel parking space , any vehicle parked or standing in such parking space shall beiparked or shall stand so that the foremost part of the vehicle shall be within the marked parking space. Ord. No. 903 N.; Ord. No. 2423 N.2; Ord. No. 2537 1 ). Section 5.The Alameda Municipal Code Section 12-15 is hereby amended to read as follows: 12-15 VIOLATIONS. 12-15.1 Records. of Violations; Attaching Notice of Violation to Vehicle. It shaU be the duty of each police officer to take the number of any meter or the designated number or letter of the parking space for those locations that have a single parking meter for multiple parking spaces designated by a number or a letter at which such vehicle is over parked , as provided in this article , the State vehicle license of such vehicle , the time and date of such over parking, and the make of such vehicle , and issue , in writing, a citation for illegal parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided for by the laws of the State of California applicable to the traffic violations within the City. (Ord. No. 903 N. Section 6.The Alameda Municipal Code Subsections 12-16.4 of Section 12-16 is hereby amended to read as follows: 12-16.4 Parking for More Than Time Permitted In Parking Space. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause , allow , permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his/her name or operated or controlled by him/her to be parked in any parking space within a parking meter zone where aparking meter is established , for more than the time indicated by proper signs placed in such parking meter zones indicating the maximum parking time allowed in such parking space ' . or any time during which meter is displaying a signal or other form of reporting indicating that the space is illegally in use except during the time necessary to setthe said meterto show legal. parking, .andexcepting also during the time from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays and all day on Sundays and legal holidays. . The Civic Center Parking Structure , is excepted from parking payment Mondays through Saturdays and on legal holidays from 5:00 p. to 9:00 a.m. and all day Sundays. When any section of this article exempts holidays from the parking restriction , the holidays exempt shall be the day observed by the City for the following: January 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday Lincoln . Birthday Presidents ' Day Memorial Day July 4 Labor Day Veteran s Day Thanksgiving Day Day after Thanksgiving December 25 Section 7.This Ordinance shall be in ful! force and effect from and after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of its final passage. Attest: I J Lara Weisiger , City Clerk City of Alameda \ . , the undersigned , hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 6 day of November , 2007 by the following vote to wit: AYES:Councilmembers deHaan , Gilmore , Matarrese, Tam and Mayor Johnson - 5. NOES:None. ABSENT:None. ABSTENTIONS:None. IN WITNESS , WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this day of November , 2007. I. Lara Weisiger , City Cl6r . ," .' '. \ City of Alameda "