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Home My WebLink About1981-032NO $1 -32 AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING CERTAIN PUBLIC STREETS IN THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS FOR ANGLE AND PARALLEL PARKING, PROVIDING FOR THE LIMITATIONS FOR VEHICLES PARKING ON SUCH CITY STREETS, PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES UPON CERTAIN PUBLIC STREETS IN THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, PROVIDING FOR SIGNS GIVING NOTICE OF TIME LIMITATIONS AND NO -PARKING ZONES, PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEHICLES PARKED IN NO -PARKING ZONES, PROVIDING FOR UNRESTRICTED PARKING LOCATIONS, PROVIDING A PENALTY OF NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES THAT CONFLICT HEREWITH, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, HEREBY ORDAINS SECTION I (a) Unless otherwise posted or marked as a no -parking zone pursuant to Section III of this ordinance, the following described public streets or parts of streets in the City of Denton, Texas are hereby designated for angle parking for a continuous period of time not to exceed two (2) hours between the hours of 8 00 A M to 5 00 P M from Monday through Friday, inclusive, of each week STREET EXTENT Oak from Locust to Elm, both sides Elm from Oak to Hickory, both sides Hickory from Elm to Locust, both sides, Carroll to Cedar, south side only Locust from Hickory to Oak, both sides Walnut from Locust to Elm, north side only Austin from Hickory to McKinney, east side only (b) A person commits an offense, without regard to his mental state, if the person parks a vehicle for more than two (2) continuous hours between the hours of 8 00 A M to 5 00 P M from Monday through Friday, inclusive, of each week on any of the public streets described in subsection (a) of this section when such location is posted or marked giving notice thereof (c) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200 00) SECTION II (a) Unless otherwise posted or marked as a no -parking zone pursuant to Section III of this ordinance, the following described public streets or parts of streets in the City of Denton, Texas are hereby designated for parallel parking for a continuous period of time not to exceed two (2) hours between the hours of 8 00 A M to 5 00 P M from Monday through Friday, inclusive, of each week STREET EXTENT Austin from McKinney to Hickory, west side only, Hickory to Mulberry, both sides Walnut from Austin to Locust, both sides, Locust to Elm, south side only, Elm to Cedar, both sides Mulberry from Bell to Carroll, both sides Cedar from Pecan to Mulberry, both sides Pecan from Austin to Cedar, south side only Oak from Bell to Locust, both sides, Elm to Carroll, both sides Elm from McKinney to Oak, both sides, Hickory to Mulberry, both sides Hickory from Bell to Locust, both sides, Elm to Cedar, both sides, Cedar to Carroll, north side only Locust from Oak to McKinney, both sides, Walnut to Hickory, both sides (b) A person commits an offense, without regard to his mental state, if the person parks a vehicle for more than two (2) continuous hours between the hours of 8 00 A M and 5 00 P M from Monday through Friday, inclusive, of each week on any of the public streets described in subsection (a) of this section when such location is posted or marked giving notice thereof PAGE 2 (c) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200 00) SECTION III (a) When a location is posted or marked as a no -parking zone, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the following public streets or parts of streets in the City of Denton, Texas, to -wit STREET EXTENT Oak from Bell to Carroll, both sides Elm from McKinney to Sycamore, both sides Hickory from Bell to Carroll, both sides Locust from Sycamore to McKinney, both sides Walnut from Austin to Cedar, both sides Austin from McKinney to Mulberry, both sides Mulberry from Bell to Carroll, both sides Sycamore from Bell to Carroll, both sides Pecan from Austin to Cedar, both sides Cedar from McKinney to Mulberry, both sides Bolivar from McKinney to Oak, both sides (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section prohibiting the parking of vehicles shall apply at all times to the streets and parts of streets designated therein except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic -control device on those streets or parts of streets described in subsection (a) of this section (c) Any police officer of the City of Denton is hereby authorized to remove and tow away or cause to be removed and towed away by a commercial towing service any vehicle found parked in a no -parking zone in violation of the provisions of subsection (a) of this section Such vehicle shall be taken to PAGE 3 a place designated or maintained by the police department for such purpose and kept until application for redemption is made by the owner or agent pursuant to Section 24-131 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton (d) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200 00) SECTION IV If no postings or markings give notice that a location under Section III of this ordinance is a no -parking zone, or that a location under Sections I and II of this ordinance is a two hour parking zone, the parking regulation for such locations shall be unrestricted parking SECTION V That Section 1-5 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is incorporated into the ordinance as if set out in full herein, and the penalty by fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200 00) is applicable hereto, and it is hereby declared unlawful to park any vehicle on any portion of the above described public streets in violation of Sections I, II, or III of this ordinance SECTION VI That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity SECTION VII That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and provision of the City of Denton Code of Ordinances in conflict PAGE 4 herewith, and as to all other ordinances or provisions of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton not in direct conflict herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative SECTION VIII That the repeal of any ordinance or any portion thereof by the preceding sections shall not affect or impair any act done or right vested or accrued or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced in any cause before such repeal shall take effect, but every such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, suit or prosecution had or commenced shall remain in full force and effect to all intents or purposes as if such ordinance or part thereof so repealed had remained in force SECTION IX That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be published twice in the Denton Record -Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage PASSED AND APPROVED This the � day of 1Le 1981 2 0 S W/ T, YO CIT OF DENTON, TEXAS ATTEST A0019/00' h4e---o TWOOKS T, CITY SECREMY CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM C J TAYLOR, JR , CITY ATTORNEY CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS BY PAGE 5