ORDINANCE NO. 1118

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION 37, SECTION 43, SECTION 183, SUBSECTION (b) OF SECTION 190, SECTION 204 AND SECTION 211 ALL OF CHAPTER 47 OF THE 1953 COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS AS TO USE OF THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY WITHIN THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION.

 

 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 

 The following Sections or Subsections of Chapter 47 of the 1953 Compiled Ordinances of the City of Grand Junction be amended to read as follows:

 

 1. Section 37. — 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 the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places;

 

 1.  On a sidewalk;

 2.  In front of a public or private driveway;

 3.  Within an intersection;

 4.  Within 5 feet of fire hydrant;

 5.  On a crosswalk;

 6.  Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

 7.  Within 30 feet of any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;

 8.  Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic engineer indicates a different length by signs or markings;

 9.  Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad;

 10.  Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a roadway opposite the entrance to any fire station, within 75 feet of said entrance when properly sign-posted;

 11.  Alongside or opposite any street or highway excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;

 12.  On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped, or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

 13.  Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street or within a street tunnel;

 14.  At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;

 15.  On the space between the sidewalk and the curbing commonly known as the sidewalk parking except that the Traffic Engineer may grant permission for parking of vehicles bearing licenses for the current year after he has determined that such parking would not generate additional traffic hazards, and that such parking could be accomplished without driving over any curb or sidewalk.

 

 2. Section 43. PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED. No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or portion of the public right of way for the principal purpose of:

 

 (1)  Displaying such vehicle for sale.

 (2)  Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency.

 (3)  Displaying advertising.

 (4)  Selling merchandise from such vehicle except in a duly established market place, or when so authorized or licensed under the ordinances of this municipality.

 (5)  Storage, or as junkage or dead storage for more than 72 hours.

 

 3. Section 183. TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS AND REGULATIONS UPON USE OF STREETS AND RIGHTS OF WAY.

 

 (a) TRUCK AND FARM VEHICLE ROUTES. The Traffic Engineer, when so directed by the City Council, is hereby authorized to prohibit the use of the roadway by farm tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and by trucks or other commercial vehicles, and to impose limitations as to the weight thereof on designated streets where in his opinion the public safety is concerned; but said prohibitions and limitations shall not become effective until notice thereof is given by means of appropriate signs placed on such streets.

 

 To prevent undue hardship, where necessity therefor is shown and where the public health, safety and welfare is not endangered thereby, permits may be issued by the Traffic Engineer permitting deviation from the routes established by Article 21, Schedule VIII hereof. Each permit issued shall be valid until revoked or required to be renewed by direction of the Traffic Engineer. Such permits shall be issued to the business or private carrier and shall cover all vehicles owned and operated by it. Each vehicle covered by such permit must bear in letters not less than two (2) inches high the name of the owner. No permit granted under these provisions shall be transferable from one owner to another. Such permit shall provide that the vehicles operating under it will be permitted to deviate from the established routes only at such times as the vehicle is actually engaged in the picking up or delivering of cargo. The operator of any vehicle operating under such permit will be required to take the most direct route from the regularly designated routes to destination and return and to comply with all other regulations under the permit. Any abuse of the rights granted by the permit shall be a violation of this ordinance; and the driver, upon being found guilty of such abuse, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not more than ninety (90) days, and the permit may be canceled.

 

 (b).VENDING RACKS AND BEAUTIFICATION. The Traffic Engineer shall have the authority to regulate the use of newspaper or magazine vending racks and the placement and use of tubs, pots or hanging baskets of shrubs, plants or flowers for beautification purposes on the public right of way.

 

 (c). DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE. The display and/or sale of merchandise on the public right of way is prohibited except that, when directed by the City Council, such display or sale may be permitted for a maximum of seven (7) days when proposed and conducted as a part of a coordinate promotional effort involving the majority of the retail business establishments within the City.

 

4. Section 190. DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS, OR MARKINGS.

 

 (b) No person shall place or maintain upon any street or public right of way, traffic sign, signal or parking meter any commercial or political advertising of any type, except that the Traffic Engineer shall have the authority to permit and regulate informational signs of non-profit organizations upon said streets and public rights of way.

 

5. Section 204.—(a) STREET OR HIGHWAY. Every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular travel. The term “street” shall not be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities, or institutions.

 

 (b). PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel.

 

 (c). ROADWAY. Those portions of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.

 

 (d). SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.

 

 (e) ALLEY. Every street or way within a block set apart for public use, vehicular travel, and local convenience, except foot paths.

 

 (f). PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. All streets, roadways, sidewalks, alleys, and all other areas reserved for present or future use by the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular or pedestrian travel or utility installation.

 

 6. Section 211. APPLICATION OF ORDINANCE. This ordinance applies to every street, alley, sidewalk, driveway, park area, public right of way and every other way, either within or outside the corporate limits of this municipality, the use of which the municipality has jurisdiction and the authority to regulate.

 

 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of September, 1960.

 

/s/ Ed Strnad

President of the City Council

 

ATTEST:

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the forgoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1118 was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 17th day of August, 1960, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said city, this 8th day of September, 1960.

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

1st Pub Aug. 20, 1960  

Final Pub Sept. 10, 1960  

 

 effective Oct. 10, 1960