2016-388s:\legal\our documents\ordinances\16\parking enforcement amendment.doc
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SECTION 1. Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances of the City ("Mator Vehicles and
Traffic") be and the same is hereby amended by amending subsection (b) of Sectian 18-91.50
"Stopping ar parking prohibited in certain places" to read as follows:
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(b) An operator may not, except mamentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger, stop
or park an occupied or unoccupied vehicle:
(1) in frant of a public or private driveway ar within 5 feet af a driveway;
(2) within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(3) within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, where crosswalk means:
(A) the portion of a roadway, including an intersection, designated as a
pedestrian crossing by surface markings, including lines; or
(B) the portion of a roadway at an intersection that is within the connections of
the laieral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured
fram the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable
roadway.
(4) within twenty (20) feet of the extension of the curbs or, in the absence of curbs
fram the edges of the traversable area of the adjacent cross-street;
(5) within 30 feet on the approach to a flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign ar traffic
control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(6} within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to a fire station and an the side of a street
opposite the entrance to a fire station within 75 feet of the entrance, if the entrance
is properly marked with a sign; or
(7) where an official sign prahibits stopping or parking.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in
this ardinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid by any court
O� COrilpeterii JUT1SC11CilOri, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ardinance, and the City Council of the City af Denton, Texas hereby declares it would have
enacted such remaining portions despite any invalidity.
SECTION 3. Save and except as amended hereby, all the provisions, sections,
subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of the Code of Ordinances shall remain
in full force and effect.
SECTION 4. Any person found liable of violating this ordinance by a court of competent
jurisdiction shall be fined a sum not ta exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per offense per day.
Each day that a provision of this ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 5. This ordinance providing for a penalty 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-Chranicle, the afficial newspaper
af the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of _ p_ , 2016,
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CHRIS���`i��I"5, MAYOR
ATTEST;
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
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APPROVED AS �I'� LEGAL FORM:
ANITA BURGESS, CITY ATTORNEY
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