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ORDINANCE NO. 01 -94
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL,
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 685,
PARKING REGULATIONS, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL TO AMEND SECTION
685.02, ESTABLISHING NO PARKING ZONES,
RENUMBERING PRESENT SECTION 685.06, PENALTIES,
AND CREATING NEW SECTION 685.06, DESIGNATION
OF FIRE LANES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES
AND RESOLUTIONS; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CAPE
CANAVERAL, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 685.02, Establishing of No Parking Zones,
of the City Code of Ordinances of the City of Cape Canaveral is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 685.02. Establishing of No Parking Zones
A. Except as provided in B. below, the chief law
enforcement officer may establish no parking zones by
designating those places where motor vehicles are prohibited
from parking. The chief law enforcement officer shall place
a sign or other identifying mark indicating no parking zones.
B. The City Fire Chief shall designate all fire lanes
in which it shall be unlawful for any vehicle to park in
accordance with the provisions of Section 685.06 below. The
City Fire Chief, or his designee, is hereby designated as a
parking enforcement specialist who may enforce prohibitions
against parking in fire lanes.
SECTION 2. Section 685.06, Penalties, of the City Code of
Ordinances of the City of Cape Canaveral is hereby renumbered
Section 685.07 and shall read as follows:
Sec. 685.07 Penalties. Anyone violating any of the
provisions of this Chapter shall be punished in accordance
with the Schedule as set out below:
Violations Penalty
1. Parked in excess of Authorized Time $ 25.00
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2. Parked in "No Parking" Zone
3. Parked in "Loading Zone"
4. Parked in Reserved Zone Without Permit
5. Parked in Irregular
(Extending Over Boundary)
6. Parked in Handicapped Space
7. Parked Double or Obstructing Traffic
8. Parked on Sidewalk
9. Parked on Ocean Dunes
10. Parked in Fire Lane
11. Other
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
$100.00
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
$100.00
$ 25.00
$ 25.00
SECTION 3. There is hereby created a new Section 685.06,
Designation of Fire Lanes, of the City Code of Ordinances of the
City of Cape Canaveral as follows:
Sec. 685.06 Designation of Fire Lanes
A. The City Fire Chief shall be authorized to designate
fire lanes on or in a public street, alley, roadway, or
premises, or on any public property which, in his opinion,
would be necessary or desirable for the free movement of fire
apparatus or of fire fighting personnel responding to or
operating at a scene of a fire or other public emergency.
B. Designated fire lanes authorized by the City Fire
Chief shall be appropriately identified with signs bearing the
words "FIRE LANE, NO PARKING." Said signs and lettering shall
be standard information type traffic signs, with red letters
on white background. In addition, the City Fire Chief may
require diagonal striping placed on or in any public street,
alley, roadway or premise or on any public property or any
private property to which the public has access and the words
"FIRE LANE, NO PARKING" painted thereon in letters no less
than eighteen (18) inches in length.
C. The City Fire Chief may require, as a condition of
the issuance of a building permit, site plan or development
plan, that the owner thereof designate fire lanes on the
property subject to said building permit, site plan or
development plan when the City Fire Chief determines that such
designation is necessary to protect the public health, safety
and welfare. Any such private property designated as a fire
lane shall be marked in accordance with subsection B. above
and subject to the provisions of subsection D. below.
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D. Vehicles, equipment or materials parked or stored in
an area designated as a fire lane shall be removed, ticketed
and /or impounded upon the order of the City Fire Chief or his
designee or the chief law enforcement officer of the City, and
all costs of such removal and impounding shall be assessed
against the owner, lessee or other person having control of
such vehicle, equipment or material.
SECTION 4. Severability. If any section, paragraph, phrase,
or word of this Ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or
invalid, such portion shall not affect the remaining portions
hereof and it shall be construed to have been a legislative intent
to pass this Ordinance without such unconstitutional or invalid
part.
SECTION 5. Conflicting Provisions. Any ordinance, or parts
of an ordinance, in conflict herewith are repealed.
SECTION 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption.
ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florid, this 1st day of February
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Approved. as to arm;
John
�. la- �acila ,O]C.TY ATTORNEY
, 1994.
• Salamone, MAYOR
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