DIVISION 5. - UNMETERED PARKING LOTS


Sec. 26-178. - Application of division generally.

The provisions of this division shall apply to and govern the use of unmetered parking lots owned by the city.

Sec. 26-179. - Division applicable at all times; exceptions.

The provisions of this division, except as otherwise provided, shall apply to parking for the entire period of twenty-four (24) hours each day, Sundays and legal holidays excluded.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961,§ 23-129)

Sec. 26-180. - To provide parking space for passenger vehicles and sedan delivery pickup trucks; parking of other trucks prohibited.

All unmetered city owned parking lots shall provide off-street parking space for passenger vehicles and sedan delivery and pickup trucks, three-quarters (¾) of a ton or under. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any truck, except sedan delivery or pickup trucks three-quarters (¾) of a ton or under, on any such parking lot.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961, § 23-129)

Sec. 26-181. - Designation and use of parking spaces.

The traffic engineer shall have lines or markings painted or placed on the parking lots governed by this division, for the purpose of designating the parking spaces, and each vehicle parked in such a lot shall be parked within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park such vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines or markings, and it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in any place in such parking lot except within the spaces indicted for such parking.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961, § 23-129)

Sec. 26-182. - Twenty-four-hour parking limit.

It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of such person to be parked for more than twenty-four (24) hours continuously on any parking lot governed by this division.

(Ord. No. 223, § 23-129)

Sec. 26-183. - Prohibition against parking during certain hours.

Parking in any lots governed by this division may be prohibited during certain hours of the day by the traffic engineer or by ordinance, and when signs are posted in any such lot indicating the hours during which parking is not allowed, it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of such person to be parked in such lot during such hours. Such regulations heretofore adopted by the cities of Newport News and Warwick shall continue in effect until such time as they are changed by the traffic engineer or by ordinance.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961, § 23-129)

Sec. 26-184. - Repairing or washing vehicle prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to repair or wash any vehicle on any parking lot governed by this division.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961, § 23-129)

Sec. 26-185. - Advertising and sales prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise or cause to be advertised any article, or to advertise for sale or to sell, or offer for sale any motor vehicle of any kind or description or any other article on any parking lot governed by this division.

(Ord. No. 223; Code 1961, § 23-129)

Cross reference— Distribution or deposit of advertising matter on public parking lots, §§ 3-4, 3-5.

Secs. 26-186—26-195. - Reserved.