01-911 City Code Parking Regulations
CITY OF MERIDIAN
ORDINANCE NO. () /- '1//
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AMENDING SECTION 10
TO CHAPTER 2 OF TITLE 7 AND ENACTING NEW SECTIONS 13
THROUGH 16 TO CHAPTER 2 OF TITLE 7 MERIDIAN CITY CODE TO
PROVIDE FOR PARKING REGULATIONS PROVIDING AUTHORITY;
PROVIDING FOR APPOINTMENT OF VOLUNTEER PARKING
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; PROVIDING FOR TRAINING OF VOLUNTEER
PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; AND PROVIDING FOR
AUTHORITY OF VOLUNTEER PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO:
SECTION 1; That Section 10 of Chapter 2 of Title 7 Meridian City
Code, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
7-2-10
ParJdng Tickets and Procedures: Police officers and Volunteer
Parking Enforcement Officers of the Meridian Police Department
shall have aumority to issue parking tickets as follows:
A.
Issuance Of Parking Citation: It shall be the duty of the
police officer and the volunteer parking officers of the
Meridian Police Department upon observing vehicle
parked, standing or stopped in violation of the provisions
specified in Chapter 1 of this Title to leave upon such
vehicle a separate notice for each posted time limit or as
frequently as every two (2) hours that such vehicle has
been parked or stopped in violation of the provisions of
this Chapter or in violation of Chapter 1 of this Title.
Among other things, each notice shall bear the date and
hour of leaving the same at or upon the vehicle, make of
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the vehicle and its license number, the specific Code
section violated and the amount of the fine, instructing the
owner or operator of such vehicle to report to the Parking
Control Officer. One copy of each notice mentioned
herein shall be filed with the Police Department.
SECTION 2: New sections 13 through 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 7
Meridian City Code are hereby enacted to read as follows;
7-2-13
Authority:
A.
Law enforcement officials and volunteer parking
enforcement officers, employed or commissioned by the
City of Meridian, are empowered to enter public property
or private property open to public use, to enforce all the
provisions of Section 7, Chapter 2 of the Meridian City
Code, and are empowered to check personal identification
to determine if the user of a special license plate or placard
is authorized to use an accessible handicapped parking
space.
7.2.14
Appointment Of Volunteer Parldng Enforcement Officers:
A.
7-2-15
A.
The Chief of Police is authorized to appoint volunteers to
issue parking violation notices for all violations of this
Chapter of Section 7-2 of the Meridian City Code.
Volunteers appointed under this Section and Chapter must
be at least twenty-one (21) years of age and a resident of
the City of Meridian. The Chief of Police appointing the
volunteers may establish any other qualifications deemed
desirable and necessary.
T:taining Of Volunteer Parking Enforcement Officers:
Upon appointment of volunteers by the Chief of Police
under this Chapter and Section, the volunteers shall be
provided training before being authorized to issue parking
violation notices.
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7-2-16
Authority Of Volunteer Parking Enforcement Officers;
A.
Any parldngviolation notice issued by a Volunteer Parking
Enforcement Officer appointed under Section 7-2-14 of
this Chapter. shall have the same force and effect as a
parking violation notice issued by a City of Meridian
police officer for the same offense. Volunteer Parking
Enforcement Officers shall not be authorized to impound
any vehicle.
SECTION 3: All ordinances, resolutions, orders or parts thereof in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed, rescinded and annulled.
SECTION 4; VALIDITY; The Meridian City Council hereby declares
that any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this Ordinance as adopted and
amended herein be declared for any reason to be invalid it is the intent of the
Meridian City Council that it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance
independent of the elimination herefrom of any portion as may bè declared invalid.
SECTION 5: SAVINGS CLAUSE: This Ordinance does not affect an
action or proceeding commenced or right accrued before this Ordinance takes effect.
SECTION 6: DATE OF EFFECT: This Ordinance shall be in full force
and effect after its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN,
IDAHO, this 21-1J:: day of kbr-«Þtre{ ,2001.
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APPROVED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO,
this 27#0. day of hhN,(.&tÞ!f ,2001.
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ayo Robert D. Corrie
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