ORDINANCE 2014-22

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE VI, CHAPTER 4, SECTION 1, OF THE CODY CITY CODE PERTAINING TOPARKING TIME LIMITED ON CERTAIN STREETS

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING, as follows:

Section 6-4-1 shall be amended to read as follows:

PARKING TIME LIMITS:

  1. Unless posted signs provide otherwise, it is unlawful for any person to park, store or leave standing, or permit to be parked, stored or left standing, upon the public streets or alleys of the city, any trailer or vehicle for a continuous period of longer than twenty-four (24) consecutive hours, except for:

1.Fully operative and licensed, registeredtrailers or motor vehicles belonging to the owners of the immediately abutting property; and,

2.Vehicles parked, stored or left standing, or permitted to be parked, stored or left standing, upon the public streets or alleys of the city with theexpress consent of the immediately abutting property owner or occupant.

  1. For purposes of this Section, the term “vehicle” shall have the same meaning as provided in W.S. 31-5-102(a)(lviii). The term “trailer” shall have the same meaning as described in W.S. 31-5-102(a)(liv).
  2. When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle longer than two (2) hours at any time between the hours of eight thirty o’clock (8:30) A.M. and five thirty o’clock (5:30) P.M. of any day, except Sundays and public holidays, upon any street where such signs have been erected.
  3. The penalty for violating this section shall be Twenty Five Dollars ($25). The penalty for each subsequent violation of this section shall be double the fine of the previous violation.
  4. Nothing in this section shall be construed in any way to limit, prevent or bar the authority of the police department or the sheriff’s office to treat a vehicle as abandoned pursuant to Wyoming law.
  5. Nothing in this section shall be construed to in any way limit the authority of the City to post signslimiting or regulating additional limits on parking within the City.

This Ordinance shall become effective at the final passage and publication in the Cody Enterprise.

PASSED ON FIRST READING: _December 16, 2014 _

PASSED ON SECOND READING: _January 5, 2015____

PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED

ON THIRD AND FINAL READING: _January 20, 2015___

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Nancy Tia Brown, Mayor

ATTEST:

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Cynthia Baker, Administrative Services Director