It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to park any truck with a registered gross
weight exceeding 12,000 pounds, or any bus, recreational vehicle, trailer,
truck tractor, semi-trailer, or the trailer component thereof, regardless of
weight, upon any street or alley within a residential district in the City of
Whitewater, Kansas, except as provided in Section 14-502.
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(a) The prohibition set forth in Section 14-501
above shall not apply to public utility trucks.
(b) Any truck, bus, recreational vehicle trailer,
truck tractor, semi-trailer or the trailer components thereof, may be parked on
any street or alley within a residential district in the City of Whitewater,
Kansas, for so long as may be reasonably necessary to make deliveries of cargo therefrom
to stores, residences or business establishments in said city, or to load cargo
into such trailers from said premises for delivery elsewhere.
(c) An exception of eight (8) hours to this article
shall apply to the parking of trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, trailers,
truck tractors, semi-trailers, or the trailer components thereof, in case of
breakdown or emergency necessitating such parking.
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Residential
district is defined as the territory contiguous to and including a street
or alley not comprising a business district when the property on such street or
alley for a distance of 200 feet or more is in the main improved with
residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
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Every person, firm or
corporation convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this article
shall, for the first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than
Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment of not more than ten (10)
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and for a subsequent conviction within
one (1) year thereafter, shall be punished by fine of not more than Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment of not more than twenty (20) days
or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a third or subsequent conviction
within a one (l) year period after the first conviction such person shall be
punishable by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by
imprisonment of not more than six (6) months or by both such fine and
imprisonment, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that each day of violation constitutes a new
and separate offense.
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