ORD 04-21ORDINANCE NO.: 2004-21
CITY OF OTSEGO
COUNTY OF WRIGHT, MINNESOTA
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS FOR PARKING ON PUBLIC
STREETS, DITCHES, BOULEVARDS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY WITHIN THE CITY OF
OTSEGO.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OTSEGO DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
Section 1. Chapter 8, of the Otsego City Code is hereby amended to include the
following Section 3:
SECTION 3
ON -STREET PARKING
Section:
8-3-1
Purpose
8-3-2
General Parking Prohibitions
8-3-3
Exceptions
8-3-4
Parked Vehicles Impounded
8-3-5
Penalties
8-3-1: PURPOSE: The City Council finds that it is necessary to promote the health,
safety, and welfare of the citizens of Otsego, and to promote traffic flow, that restrictions be
placed upon the parking of certain vehicles upon City streets.
8-3-2: GENERAL PARKING PROHIBITIONS:
A. General Limit. Parking of vehicles is hereby prohibited for more than eighteen
(18) hours continuously on all public streets, boulevards, ditches, and rights-of-way
within the corporate limits of the City, with the exception of those streets or highways
otherwise provided time limitations in Section 8-3-2.0 of this City Code.
B. Trucks and Semi -Tractors and Trailers. Commercial vehicles, semi -tractors,
trailers or trucks exceeding a gross vehicle capacity of twelve thousand (12,000)
pounds or an overall length of twenty-five (25) feet may not be parked or stored on
public streets, boulevards, ditches, and rights-of-way within the City.
C. Designation of Parking Zones and Fire Lanes.
1. The Council may, by resolution, designate streets, blocks or alleys, or
portions thereof, as no parking zones, as fire lanes, or as five (5) minute, ten
(10) minute, fifteen (15) minute, thirty (30) minute, one (1) hour, two (2) hour,
or three (3) hour parking zones.
2. The Council may also upon application by the Fire Marshal or an owner,
lessee or operator of any building, which building generally attracts numerous
numbers of the public, designate and thus establish a fire lane upon private
property. The application shall be reviewed and approved or disapproved by
the Fire Marshal prior to being presented to the City Council for approval.
The designated area, when approved by the City Council, shall effectively
become a fire lane.
3. All designated zones pursuant to this section shall be appropriately marked
at the direction of the City, at the property owner's expense when on private
property, and the City's expense when on public property. Unless otherwise
provided within the resolution or application approval, such restrictions shall
apply every day of the week, including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
D. Night Parking. No vehicle shall be parked upon any public streets, boulevards,
ditches, and rights-of-way in the City between the hours of two o'clock (2:00) AM
and six o'clock (6:00) AM inclusive, between November and April, including, but not
limited to, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
E. Snow Emergency. After a snowfall of at least two and one-half (2-1/2) inches in
the City, parking is prohibited on any public streets, boulevards, ditches, and rights-
of-way until and after that particular public way has been plowed and the snow
removed to the curb line. It unlawful to deposit snow or ice, plowed or removed
from private property, onto the traveled portion of a street, alley or public way.
F. Immobile Vehicles and Trailers. Vehicles and trailers incapable of movement
under their own propulsion shall not be parked or stored on public streets,
boulevards, ditches, and rights-of-way within the City.
G. Access. No vehicle shall be parked so as to obstruct a public sidewalk or trail or
block access to a driveway or block access to a mailbox.
8-3-3: EXCEPTIONS: This Section shall not apply to the following circumstances:
A. City vehicles parked in connection with official City business
B. Vehicles picking up or delivering products to residential customers, or providing a
service to a residential customer. Even in the event of a pick up or delivery, in no
case shall any vehicle park for any period of time in any manner which tends to
block a designated bike path.
C. Police, fire and medical emergency vehicles or public or private utility vehicles
parked in connection with official duties.
8-3-4: PARKED VEHICLES IMPOUNDED: A vehicle in violation of this Section
may be ordered removed from a public street, boulevard, ditch, and right-of-way by a law
enforcement officer. The vehicle may be towed away to a garage, service station or other
place of safekeeping as authorized by the City Council as soon as possible to facilitate
snow removal, street maintenance, the orderly flow of traffic, fire fighting or other lawful
purpose. The vehicle will be surrendered to the duly identified owner thereof upon
payment of the required fees for such towing and storage. Removal of a vehicle does not
bar prosecution for a violation of traffic or parking regulations.
8-3-5: PENALTIES:
A. Any person found to be in violation of any provision of this Section shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by penalty
established by State Statute for a misdemeanor, and as amended. Each day in
which such violation occurs shall be deemed a separate offense.
B. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section, shall become liable to the
City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the City as the result of such
violation, including court costs and reasonable attorneys fees.
PASSED by the Otsego City Council this 27TH day of September, 2004.
CITY OF OTSEGO
ATTEST:
- 1� IdLan
Ju udso , Zoning Administr for/City Clerk
Published: River tar News 10-13-04
s,�Ner, Mayor