Sec. 19-161. - Cross street stop sign locations.

All street intersections established by separate ordinance as stop intersections and at which a stop sign is situated are hereby established as official stop sign locations.

(Code 1959, § 38-32)

State law reference— Authority of city to establish stop intersections, Vernon's Ann Civ. St. art. 67-Old, § 91.

Sec. 19-162. - All-way stop locations.

At intersections and junctions at which all streets have stop signs erected, commonly known as all-way stop sign intersections, the driver or operator reaching the intersection first and making a complete stop first shall have the right to proceed into or across said intersection. When two (2) or more vehicles arrive thereat and stop at approximately the same time, the driver or drivers of the vehicles which are to the right of the other vehicles shall proceed into or across the said intersection first.

(Code 1959, § 38-33; Ord. No. 47498, § 1, 12-16-76)

Sec. 19-163. - Loading zone.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to park, cause to be parked, or permit to be parked any motor vehicle of which he is the owner, or of which he has the custody or control, in any loading zone of any of the streets of the city at any hour of the day or night, except after noon on Saturdays, on Sundays or holidays as defined in section 19-218, as provided below.

(b)

Commercial vehicles loading, unloading, delivering or picking up freight or materials shall be permitted to park in loading zones for a period not to exceed thirty (30) minutes.

(c)

In cases where, due to the nature of the freight and materials or the business involved, loading operations will necessitate parking vehicles for a period longer than thirty (30) minutes, then the chief of police department may issue, after evidence is presented him of such need, special permits for such operations.

(d)

Where construction vehicles involved in building construction or maintenance must be parked in loading zones or on the city streets for extended periods of time, the city traffic engineer may issue permits for such privilege. A fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day per parking space will be filed with the city traffic engineer as a prerequisite to the granting of this permit.

(e)

Noncommercial vehicles are permitted to be parked in loading zones except during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., however such vehicles are prohibited from being parked at any hour of the day or night in those certain loading zones marked and designated by a sign worded "Loading Zone Day-Night."

(f)

Any authorized vehicle which remains parked beyond the posted time limit of a loading zone, and any unauthorized vehicle which is parked in a posted loading zone, is hereby declared to be a violation of the parking enforcement ordinances of this city, and shall be cited with a civil parking violation ticket and may be either towed to the police department vehicle impoundment facility or immobilized with a wheel locking device, and subjected to all administrative adjudication procedures and ordinances applicable to parking meter zone violations.

(g)

Any violation of this section shall be punished in accordance with section 1-5

(Code 1959, § 38-77; Ord. No. 33964, §§ 1, 2, 1223-65; Ord. No. 35626, § 1, 7-27-67; Ord. No. 43883, § 1, 6-6-74; Ord. No. 65692, § 1, 9-10-87; Ord. No. 73958, § 5, 7-18-91; Ord. No. 86612, § 2, 9-11-97; Ord. No. 96409, § 3, 9-19-02)

Sec. 19-164. - Parking of buses and taxicabs regulated.

The driver of a bus or taxicab shall not park upon any street in any business district at any place other than at a bus stop or taxicab stand, respectively, except that this provision shall not prevent the driver of any such vehicle from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers.

(Code 1959, § 38-78)

Sec. 19-165. - Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands.

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, other than a bus in a bus stop or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand, which any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while engaged in loading or unloading passengers.

(Code 1959, § 38-79)

Sec. 19-166. - Signs or markings indicating angle parking.

The city traffic engineer shall determine upon which streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets, but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state highway within this city unless the state highway and public transportation commission has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.

(Code 1959, § 38-81)

Sec. 19-167. - Obedience to angle parking signs or markings.

Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the traffic engineer for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

(Code 1959, § 38-82)

Sec. 19-168. - Parking in alleys; alleys designated loading zones.

No person shall park a vehicle within any alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten (10) feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property; alleys within the central business district are hereby designated loading zones and also subject to the provisions of section 19-163.

(Code 1959, § 38-83; Ord. No. 29940, § 1, 11-8-61)

Sec. 19-169. - Parking for certain purposes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park unused cars in any street or public place for more than twenty-four (24) hours or at any time for purposes of storage, washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, (except repairs necessitated by an emergency) sale, or display of advertising signs or posters fixed to such vehicle, or any trailer, semi-trailer, or house trailer, not attached to a tractor or towing vehicle.

(Code 1959, § 38-84)

Sec. 19-170. - Parking of rendering plant vehicles; limited; special permits.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle used for the purpose of collecting, removing or transporting dead animals, dead fowl, inedible offal, meat scraps, bones, suet, feathers, unrendered animal fat, waste cooking greases, and/or similar animal matter in any street or public place; provided, however, that for purposes of loading, such vehicles may park for not more than thirty (30) minutes.

(b)

In cases where loading operations will necessitate parking vehicles for a period longer than thirty (30) minutes, then the director of the department of public health may issue, after evidence is presented to him of such need, special permits for such operations.

(Code 1959, § 38-84.1; Ord. No. 34352. § 1, 5-12-66)

Sec. 19-171. - Parking adjacent to schools.

When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

(Code 1959, § 38-85)

Sec. 19-172. - Parking prohibited on narrow streets.

(a)

The traffic engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty (20) feet, or upon one (1) side of a street as indicated by such signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty (30) feet.

(b)

When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign.

(Code 1959, § 38-86)

Sec. 19-173. - Driver leaving parking space to yield right-of-way.

Every driver of a motor vehicle parked on a roadway or other public property and leaving such parking area for the traveled portion of a roadway shall yield to vehicles moving upon such roadway.

(Code 1959, § 38-61)

Sec. 19-174. - Parking prohibited on controlled-access roadway.

No person shall park a vehicle on the traveled portion of a controlled-access roadway.

(Code 1959, § 38-55)

Sec. 19-175. - Parking on expressways.

(a)

No person shall stand or park a motor vehicle on the roadway portion of any expressway located within the city limits.

(b)

No person shall stand or park any motor vehicle on the untraveled portion of any expressway located within the city limits, except for repairs necessitated by an emergency and in no event for a period in excess of two (2) hours.

(c)

Equipment owned by governmental agencies, or their contractors, while being used in the performance of authorized duties on the various expressways within the city are exempted from the provisions of this section.

(d)

Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00).

(Code 1959, § 38-55.1; Ord. No. 34317, §§ 1—3, 4-28-66; Ord. No. 34425, §§ 1—4, 6-9-66)

Sec. 19-176. - Public tour and school bus loading and unloading around Alamo East.

Loading and unloading of public tour and school buses is limited to the designated ten minute "Bus Loading Zone" located on Alamo Plaza East, north of Crockett Street.

(Ord. No. 69292, § 4, 4-13-89; Ord. No. 71159, § 1, 3-1-90)

Editor's note—

Ord. No. 69292, § 4, adopted April 13, 1989. amended Ch. 19 by the addition of provisions which have been designated at the discretion of the editor as § 19-176

Cross reference— Prohibited parking at Alamo East, 19208; public tour and school bus parking, § 19-209.

Sec. 19-177. - Local tour zone.

The sale of public tours in the downtown business district, as defined by section 16-236(c), is limited to the two (2) local tour zones located on the west curb of Alamo Plaza East just south of the Alamo Fortress Compound, at all times, and the designated twenty-minute local tour zones on the north curb of Crockett St., effective Midnight to 6 p.m.

The sale, peddling or solicitation of public tours at any other location within the downtown business district is strictly prohibited and punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

Exhibit A which is attached hereto and incorporated herein for all purposes sets out the locations of the above Zones.

(Ord. No. 71159, § 2, 3-1-90)

Editor's note—

Ord. No. 71159, § 2, adopted March 1, 1990, amended Ch. 19 by the addition of provisions which have been designated at the discretion of the editor as § 19-177. Exhibit A, referred to above, has not been set out at length herein but is on file and available for inspection in the offices of the city.

Cross reference— Areas prohibited to peddlers and canvassers, § 16-236; guided tour sales prohibited from Alamo East, within the Historic 1936 Alamo Fortress Compound, § 16-236.1.

Sec. 19-178. - Parking prohibited on city property not designated for parking.

(a)

This section shall not apply to city property designed in whole or in part as a parking facility, garage or lot.

(b)

No person shall park a vehicle on city property that is not designated for parking.

(c)

The city manager or his designee is authorized to place signs on said property forewarning persons that parking is prohibited. Said signs shall:

(i)

Face the street or streets fronting the property;

(ii)

Be at least eighteen (18) inches wide and twenty-four (24) inches tall;

(iii)

Contain the international symbol for towing vehicles;

(iv)

State "NO PARKING ANYTIME - VEHICLES WILL BE TOWED AT OWNER'S OR OPERATOR'S EXPENSE"; and

(v)

Contain a telephone number that is answered twenty-four (24) hours a day to enable the owner or operator of a vehicle to locate the vehicle.

(d)

Where signs are posted in the manner described above on city property, the city manager or his designee may order the impoundment of a vehicle parked on city property.

(Ord. No. 84042, § 1, 5-2-96)

Secs. 19-179—19-190. - Reserved.