HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1983-0554INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMEMBER MERKL
ORDINANCE N0, 554
Series of 1983
TITLE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 12-2, MODEL TRAFFIC CODE--
AMENDMENTS, ADDITIONS, MODIFICATIONS, AND DELETIONS, OF
THE CODE OF LAWS OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE BY REPEALING
AND REENACTING SECTION 11-1, STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING
PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PALCES--THEREOF, AND ADDING THERETO
SECTION 11-4, PARKING OF "MAJOR VEHICLES" AND PROVIDING
METHODS OF ENFORCING SAID ADDED SECTION 11-4, AND ADDI14G
THERETO SECTION 11-5, PARKING OF MAJOR VEHICLES WITHIN
COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS WHEREIN A SPECIAL USE PERMIT HAS
NOT BEEN GRANTED, EACH OF WHICH SHALL CONSTITUTE AMEND-
MENTS TO "THE MODEL TRAFFIC CODE FOR COLORADO MUNICIPALITIES,
1977 EDITION, PREVIOUSLY ENACTED BY THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO:
Section 1. Section 12-2, Model Traffic Code--Amendments, Additions,
Modifications, and Deletions, is hereby amended as follows:
"Section 11-1, Stopping, Standing, or Parking Prohibited
in Specified Places, is hereby amended by repealing in its
entirety existing Section 11-1(a)(12) and reenacting said
Section 11-1(a)(12) as follows:
12. Within emergency access lanes designated pursuant to
Section 23-9(b)(9) hereof so as to obstruct designated and
marked emergency access lanes anywhere within the municipality
of the city of Wheat Ridge. This prohibition against stopping,
standing, or parking a vehicle within said designated emer-
gency access lanes shall be applicable to all property,
whether public or private within the city of Wheat Ridge,
and shall prohibit the parking, stopping, or standing of
any vehicle within said emergency access lanes except
emergency vehicles (i.e. police cars, fire department
vehicles, amublances, EMT vehicles, etc.) during the answer-
ing of an emergency call."
Section 2. Article XI "Stopping, Standing, or Parking Regulations
of the Model Traffic Code as enacted and enforced within the city
of Wheat Ridge is hereby amended by the addition of the following
Section 11-4 "Parking of 'Major Vehicles':"
"(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park or
store, or allow the parking or storing of, a major vehicle
upon any property located and situate within the city of
Wheat Ridge, or upon any dedicated public street or road,
or private street or road, or public right-of-way or easement
or park within the city of Wheat Ridge except as hereinafter
specified.
(b) For the purposes of this Section 11-4, 'Major Vehicle'
is defined as any vehicle (1) eight feet or more in width,
and/or (2) twenty-five feet or more in length, or (3) regard-
less of size, a truck tractor or semi-trailer, or (4) any
vehicle licensed in the state of Colorado, or required to
be licensed by the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles
in Colorado, or, if not a Colorado vehicle, which would
otherwise be required to be licensed by the Department of
Motor Vehicles in Colorado, under any of the categories
COMM, GTM, Metro, apportioned, or farm.
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INTRODUCED, READ, AND ADOPTED on first reading by a vote of 7
to 1 on this 26th day of September , 1983, ordered
published in full in a newspaper of general circulation in the city
of Wheat Ridge and Public Hearing and consideration on final passage
set for October 24, 1983 , 1983, at 7:30 p.m. at Chambers,
7500 West 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
READ, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final reading
by a vote of 7 to 0 this 24th day of October , 1983.
SIGNED by the Mayor on this 25th day of
October , 1983.
Frank Stites, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Wanda Sang, City C1 k
lst Publication September 29, 1983
2nd Publication cto er 27, 983
(Wheat Ridge Sentinel)
Effective Date: November 25, 1983
APPROVED AS TO FORM BY
OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY:
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John E. Hayes
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