Chapter 14 · Traffic

Article 5. Truck Parking

Sections 14-501 to 14-504 · 4 sections

14-501 Prohibition.

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.

(Ord. 483)

14-502 Exceptions.

(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.

(Ord. 483)

14-503 Definition.

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.

(Ord. 483)

14-504 General penalties.

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.

(Ord. 483)