HomeMy WebLinkAbout058 - 06/04/1985 - AMENDING THE CITY CODE RELATING TO THE MODEL TRAFFIC CODE FOR COLORADO MUNICIPALITIES, 1977 EDITION ORDINANCE NO. 58 , 1985
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING SECTION 114-2 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF FORT COLLINS RELATING TO THE "MODEL
TRAFFIC CODE FOR COLORADO MUNICIPALITIES", 1977 EDITION
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS:
Section 114-2 (Amendments ) of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is
hereby amended as follows:
Section 1. Section 114-2A is amended to set out the following
additional amendments to the provisions of Model Traffic Code, in numerical
sequence with previous amendments :
Section 10-2, Obedience to angle-parking signs or markings, is
repealed and readopted as follows:
Section 10-2. Obedience to angle-parking signs or markings. On
those streets which have been approved and signed or marked for
angle parking, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle
other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway
indicated by such signs or markings WITH THE VEHICLE 'S RIGHT
FRONT WHEEL ADJACENT TO THE RIGHT-HAND CURB OR EDGE OF THE
ROADWAY, EXCEPT THAT ON A ONE-WAY ROADWAY WHICH HAS BEEN APPROVED
AND SIGNED OR MARKED FOR ANGLE PARKING ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF
THE ROADWAY, A VEHICLE MAY BE PARKED WITH ITS LEFT FRONT WHEEL
ADJACENT TO THE LEFT-HAND CURB OR EDGE OF THE ROADWAY.
Section 11-1. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified
places, is repealed and readopted as follows:
Section 11-1. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in
specified places.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with directions of a police officer or official traffic control
device, in any of the following places:
(1) On a sidewalk ;
(2) Within an intersection;
(3) On a crosswalk ;
(4) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within
thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the
ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic authority
indicates a different length by signs or markings;
(5) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or
obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would
obstruct traffic;
(6) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at
the edge or curb of a street ;
(7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a
highway or within a highway tunnel ;
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(8) On any railroad tracks ;
(9) On any controlled-access highway;
(10) In the area between roadways of a divided highway,
including crossovers ;
(11) At any other place where official signs OR MARKINGS
prohibit stopping.
(b) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsection (a)
of this section, no person shall stand or park a vehicle, except
when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in
compliance with the directions of a police officer or official
traffic control device, in any of the following places :
(1) Within five feet of a public or private driveway;
(2) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant ;
(3) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(4) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing
beacon or signal , stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control
signal located at the side of a roadway;
(5) Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire
station or, on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any
fire station, within seventy-five feet of said entrance when
properly signposted ;
(6) At any other place where official signs OR MARKINGS
prohibit standing.
(c) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsections (a)
and (b) of this section, no person shall park a vehicle, except
when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in
compliance with the directions of a police officer or official
traffic control device, in any of the following places :
(1) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad
crossing;
(2) At any other place where official signs OR MARKINGS
prohibit parking.
Section 12-2, Obedience to stopping, standing or parking regulations,
subsection (b) is repealed and readopted as follows :
(b) No person shall park or direct another person to park a
vehicle in a block face OR A PUBLIC PARKING LOT for a period in
excess of a time restriction established for parking in the block
face OR PUBLIC PARKING LOT, regardless of the movement of the
vehicle from various parking locations in the block face OR
PUBLIC PARKING LOT.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered
published this 21st day of May, A.D. 1985, and to be presented for final'
passage on the 4th day of June A.D. 1985.
Mfiyor
ATTEST: ,
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 4th day of June A.D.
1985.
mayor
ATTEST:
City clerk