(1)
Section 9 "Overtime Parking, Signs" $20.00
(2)
Section 11 "Parking in Loading Zone Prohibited"
$25.00
(3)
Section 12 "Parking in Handicapped Space Prohibited"
$112.00
(4)
All other sections for which no amount is specifically provided
$15.00
(5)
Where specific penalties are otherwise provided, those penalties apply.
Section 4. Late
Fee.
Whenever enforcement is initiated by issuance of a parking ticket, and
the fine or penalty is not received by the county court or the owner or driver
does not appear in the county court to set a hearing on the allegation within
fourteen days of the date of issue, the fine or penalty shall be increased by a
late fee of $15.00.
Section
5. Separate Infractions.
(a) For each overtime parking
infraction, a new and separate infraction occurs when a vehicle remains
illegally parked for more than the maximum allowable time for parking after the
issuance of the preceding parking ticket.
(b) For all other parking
infractions, a new and separate infraction occurs when a vehicle remains
illegally parked for more than two hours after the issuance of the preceding
parking ticket.
Section 6.
Initiation.
(a) Enforcement of the provisions of
this chapter may be initiated in any of the following ways:
(1) A parking ticket may be served by
leaving it under the windshield wiper or otherwise attached to the vehicle, or
handing it to the driver or owner if the driver or owner is present, or mailing
it by first class or certified mail to the address of the owner of the vehicle
as shown in the motor vehicle ownership records of the state of registration;
(2) A summons and complaint may be
served on the driver of the vehicle as provided in the Colorado County Court
Rules of Civil Procedure;
(3)
A summons and complaint
may be served on the owner of the vehicle as provided in the Colorado County
Court Rules of Civil Procedure.
(b) No more than one fine or penalty
may be collected for each infraction.
Section 7.
Regulations Not Exclusive.
No traffic control sign imposing a time limit on parking relieves any person
from the duty of observing other and more restrictive regulations prohibiting or
limiting the stopping or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified
times.
Section 8. Stopping or Parking
Prohibited in Specified Places.
(1) On
a sidewalk or within the sidewalk area. For the purposes of this section, the far edge of a sidewalk
parallel and adjacent to a roadway is presumed to be the property line;
(2)
Within an intersection;
(3)
On a crosswalk;
(4)
No vehicle may be parked:
(a)
On a roadway in or within five feet of a public or private driveway or
junction;
(b)
When a fire hydrant is within ten feet of the curb, on a roadway within five
feet of that point on the curb closest to the hydrant;
(c)
In a bus stop; or
(d)
At any place on a street where a traffic control sign prohibits parking.
(5)
The provisions of this section are limited or modified by and are expressly
subject to any traffic control device regulating stopping or parking a vehicle.
Section 9 Overtime
Parking, Signs.
When a traffic control sign is in place giving notice thereof, no vehicle shall
remain parked for longer than the time designated thereon on any day except
Sundays and holidays.
Section 10. Parking in Space
Required.
Every vehicle parked in a parking lot of a public authority shall be parked
entirely within one individual parking space as indicated by traffic control
markings.
Section 11.
Parking in Loading Zone Prohibited.
(a)
No vehicle shall be parked in a
loading zone for any purpose or period of time except:
(1) In a passenger loading zone, for
the visible loading or unloading of passengers for a period not in any case to
exceed three minutes; or
(2) In any other loading zone, for
the visible unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of property for a
period not in any case to exceed thirty minutes, or such shorter time indicated
by a traffic control sign, or loading or unloading of passengers for a period
not in any case to exceed three minutes.
Section 12. Parking
in Handicapped Space Prohibited.
(a) No vehicle shall be parked in a space designated for
handicapped parking by any sign or pavement marking using the term
"handicapped,"
displaying a wheelchair symbol, or otherwise reasonably indicating designation
for handicapped parking, unless the vehicle displays a placard or license plate
issued by the Colorado Department of Revenue pursuant to Section 42-3-121, C.R.S.,
as amended, based upon a finding that the individual has an impairment that
substantially limits such person's ability to move from place to place.
(b) This section applies to all spaces designated for handicapped
parking on public property.
Section 13.
Parking in County Employee Lot Prohibited.
(a) No vehicle shall be parked in a county employee parking lot
except one bearing a valid parking sticker or parking tag issued by the Boulder
County Commissioner's
Office and in accordance with the
Commissioner's
administrative instructions or is a vehicle owned by the county.
(b)
"County
employee parking lot"
means any lot designated by sign as county employee parking.
Section 14 Towing
and Impoundment
The purpose of this Section is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare
by prohibiting the storage of abandoned or inoperable vehicles on public
property and to establish procedures for removing from such property any vehicle
that is abandoned or inoperable, obstructs traffic, is so defective as to pose a
safety hazard, is involved in criminal conduct, or whose impoundment is
otherwise authorized.
Section 15 Authority of County to Impound Vehicle.
(a)
A peace officer is authorized to
remove or cause to be removed a vehicle from any public property when:
(1)
A vehicle is situated in a manner
that obstructs the normal movement of traffic or creates a hazard to other
traffic on a public street, public alley, or public parking lot and the person
in possession of the vehicle is not present or is unwilling or unable to provide
for its immediate removal;
(2) A vehicle is found unattended and
situated in a manner that obstructs the commencement or ongoing operation of a
public construction, maintenance, or repair project or street closure; and it is
not practicable to move such vehicle in the manner authorized by Boulder County;
or
(3) Removal of a vehicle is necessary
in the interest of the public health or safety because of fire, flood, snow,
storm, or other emergency, and the person in possession of the vehicle is not
present or is unwilling or unable to provide for its immediate removal.
Section 16 Disposition
of Fines and Forfeitures.
All fines and forfeitures for the violation of this ordinance shall be paid into
the treasury of Boulder County.
Section 17
Interpretation.
This ordinance shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its
general purpose to conform to the
uniform system for the regulation of vehicles and traffic.
Section headings and cross references of this ordinance shall not be
deemed to govern, limit, modify or affect in any manner the scope, meaning or
extent of the provisions of this ordinance or any section thereof.
Section 18 Application.
This ordinance shall apply to every parking lot, alley, sidewalk area, driveway,
easement, park or other public property within the designated site addresses of
Boulder County, the use of which the County of Boulder has jurisdiction and
authority to regulate. Maps are available for viewing in the County Clerk's
office.
This ordinance is in addition to, and does not override, any municipal
ordinances which may apply to such designated property.
Section 19
BOULDER COUNTY DESIGNATED
PROPERTY FACILITIES
|
FACILITY
|
ADDRESS
|
CITY
|
| 33rd Street Building |
1750 33rd Street |
Boulder |
| Addiction Recovery Center |
3470 N. Broadway |
Boulder |
| Boulder County Jail |
3200 Airport Road |
Boulder |
| Boulder County Justice Center |
1777 6th Street |
Boulder |
| Boulder County Mental Health Department |
1333 Iris Avenue |
Boulder |
| Courthouse Annex |
2045 13th Street |
Boulder |
| Courthouse East Wing |
2025 14th Street |
Boulder |
| Courthouse West Wing |
2020 13th Street |
Boulder |
| Health Department Building |
3450 N. Broadway |
Boulder |
| Main Courthouse |
1325 Pearl Street |
Boulder |
| Old County Hospital |
3460 N. Broadway |
Boulder |
| Social Services Building |
3400 N. Broadway |
Boulder |
| Sunquist Building |
3482 N. Broadway |
Boulder |
| Longmont Courts |
1035 Kimbark Street |
Longmont |
| St. Vrain Complex |
529 Coffman Street |
Longmont |
Section 20 Definitions.
(A)
The
following words and phrases used in this title have the following meanings
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Abandoned vehicle"
means any vehicle that is left in one location on public property without the
consent of the owner thereof for a continuous period of more than seventy-two
hours.
(2) "Alley"
means a street or way within a block set apart for public use, vehicular travel,
and local convenience to provide access to the rear or side of abutting lots or
buildings.
(3) "Authorized
emergency vehicle"
means every vehicle equipped with audible or visual signals meeting the
requirements of Section 42-4-213, C.R.S., as amended, and operated
by a city police officer, city firefighter, or any peace officer, every other
vehicle defined as an authorized emergency vehicle by state law, and every
bicycle operated by a uniformed peace officer.
(4) "Authorized
service vehicle"
means such highway or traffic maintenance vehicles as are publicly owned and
operated on a highway by or for a governmental agency, the function of which
requires the use of service vehicle warning lights as prescribed by state law
and such other vehicles having a public service function, including, without
limitation, public utility vehicles and tow trucks, as determined by the State
Department of Highways under Section 42-4-214(5), C.R.S., as
amended. Some vehicles may be designated as both an authorized emergency vehicle
and an authorized service vehicle.
(5)
"Bus"
means a motor vehicle owned or operated by a public authority and designed for
carrying more than ten passengers.
(6) "Bus stop"
means an area extending eight feet into the roadway from the curb and extending
along the curb between the traffic control signs designating it as such. Where a
traffic control sign indicates the bus stop but does not indicate its extent, it
extends for fifty feet before the sign. Where
the curb is indented on a street where parking is prohibited and a traffic
control sign indicates a bus stop in the indented area, the bus stop extends
along the entire indented area. For the purposes of this paragraph, signs
erected at the curb bearing the words Regional Transportation District, or
"The Ride,"
or the letters R.T.D., or "The Hop,"
or a symbol for a bus are traffic control signs designating a bus stop.
(7) "Center"
or "centerline"
means a continuous or broken line marked upon the surface of a roadway by paint
or otherwise to indicate the portion of the roadway allocated to traffic
proceeding in opposite directions, and if the line is not so painted or
otherwise marked, it is an imaginary line in the roadway equally distant from
each curb. In the event that a street includes two or more separate one-way
roadways, centerline means the left curb of each such roadway.
(8) "Commercial vehicle"
means any self-propelled or towed vehicle bearing an apportioned plate or
having a manufacturer's recommended gross vehicle weight of ten thousand one
pounds or more, which vehicle is used in commerce on the public highways of this
state or is used to transport sixteen or more passengers, including the driver.
(9) "Crosswalk"
means, where unmarked, that portion of a roadway included within the
prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of a sidewalk, sidewalks, or
path or paths and, where marked, that portion of a roadway indicated for
pedestrian crossing by traffic control markings.
(10) "Curb"
or "curbline"
means the raised concrete or asphalt edge separating the roadway of a street
from the sidewalk, boulevard strip, median strip, path, or other areas, and
includes its prolongation across an intersection or junction. Where no curb
exists, the edge of that portion of the street improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for motor vehicular travel is the curb.
(11) "Driver"
means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of the steering,
accelerating, or braking controls of a vehicle or the rider of an animal. No
person shall be deemed not to be the driver or to drive because a vehicle is out
of control except immediately following a collision not proximately caused by a
traffic violation of such driver. A person dismounted from a bicycle, moped, or
motorcycle and pushing it on foot is a pedestrian, not a driver.
(12) "Holiday"
means New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Memorial
Day, Independence Day, Veterans' Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
Day, and such additional entire days declared as holidays by County Resolution
or state or federal statute. Where the holiday observed differs from the day of
the historical event commemorated, the day observed is the holiday for the
purposes of traffic law enforcement.
(13) "Inoperable
motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle that does not have a current license plate and
validation sticker lawfully affixed thereto or that is apparently inoperable due
to being wrecked, dismantled, or partially dismantled or having essential parts
missing.
(14) "Intersection"
means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral
curblines of two streets that join one another at, or approximately at, right
angles or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets
joining at any other angle may come in conflict, whether or not one such street
crosses the other, but the term does not include the junction of any alley with
a street. If a street includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, every
crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street is a
separate intersection. If such intersecting street also includes two roadways
thirty feet or more apart, every crossing of such streets is a separate
intersection. The farthest applicable points shall be used when measuring.
(15) "Junction"
means the intersection of a street with a driveway, alley, parking lot, or any
similar established point of entry or exit onto or from a street other than onto
or from another street.
(16) "Moped"
is synonymous with motorized bicycle and means a vehicle having two or three
wheels, equipped with operable pedals and a helper motor, and not licensed or
required to be licensed as a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorscooter,
or motorbicycle under the state vehicle licensing laws.
(17) "Motorcycle"
means every motor vehicle designed to travel with not more than three wheels in
contact with the ground, except a moped or farm tractor.
(18) "Motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle other than a moped or motorized
wheelchair.
(19) "Owner"
means jointly and severally the person who holds the legal title of a vehicle,
the person in whose name the vehicle is registered with the state or any other
state for licensing purposes, and any person otherwise having lawful use or
control or the right to use or control a vehicle for a period of thirty days or
more.
(20) "Park"
means, when prohibited, the stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not,
other than very briefly for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading
or unloading passengers while the vehicle is occupied.
(21) "Public authority"
means the County of Boulder, City of Boulder, City of Longmont, State of
Colorado, or the United States, any of their agencies or instrumentalities, and
any body or official thereof possessing power or authority delegated by the
public authority.
(22) "Roadway"
means that portion of a street from curb to curb. If a street includes two or
more separate roadways, "roadway"
refers to any such roadway separately, but not to all such roadways
collectively.
(23) "Sidewalk"
means that portion of the sidewalk areas paved or otherwise improved, designed,
or ordinarily used for pedestrians and every such walk parallel and
adjacent to a roadway, and every other paved exterior walkway publicly
maintained.
(24) "Sidewalk area"
means the area between the curb of a street and the adjacent property lines.
(25) "State
traffic control manual"
means the most recent edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
for Streets and Highways, including any supplement thereto, as adopted by the
Colorado State Highway Commission.
(26) "Stop"
means, when required, complete cessation from movement. When prohibited, the
term means any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle except when necessary to
avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a
police officer, firefighter, or any other person authorized under this title to
control traffic, or any traffic control device.
(27) "Street"
means the entire width between the property boundary lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes
of vehicular travel and includes, without limitation, alleys, or the entire
width of every way declared to be a public highway by any law.
(28) "Sunrise"
and "sunset"
mean the time given at latitude 40 degrees north for the day of the year in the
current Nautical Almanac, plus one hour during daylight saving time.
(29) "Time"
means, whenever certain hours are named herein or on any traffic control sign or
parking meter, mountain standard time or mountain daylight time, depending on
the date, as prescribed by state law. Mountain standard time is coordinated
universal time minus seven hours. Mountain daylight time is coordinated
universal time minus six hours.
(30) "Towing carrier"
means a person regularly engaged in the business of towing motor vehicles and
licensed by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
(31) "Traffic
control device" means any traffic control sign, signal, marking, or device, not
inconsistent with this title, placed or displayed by authority of the traffic
engineer or of any public official or public body having authority over a drive,
way, or parking area for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic
or the parking of vehicles. Where this title does not prescribe the meaning of a
device, it has the meaning ascribed to it by the state traffic control manual,
and where no such meaning is given, it has the meaning a reasonable person would
give it.
(32) "Traffic
control marking" means a marking on the pavement of a street placed by a public
authority to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.
(33) "Traffic
control sign" means a sign on, above, or adjacent to a street placed by a public
authority to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.
(34) "Traffic engineer"
means the county employee designated by the county manager to act as traffic
engineer or assistant traffic engineer, and the supervisors of any person so
designated.
(35) "Trailer"
means any wheeled vehicle, without motive power, that is designed to be drawn by
a motor vehicle.
(36) "Vehicle"
means any device that is capable of moving itself, or of being moved, from place
to place upon wheels or endless tracks, excepting devices used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
Section 21 Severability.
If any section, clause, sentence or part of this ordinance is adjudged to be
invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not
affect, impair or invalidate the other provisions of this ordinance which can be
given effect without such invalid provision.
Section 22 Effective Date.
This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after publication after adoption
on second reading.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED ON FIRST READING on July 3, 2001, and ordered
published in the BOULDER DAILY CAMERA.
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF BOULDER, COLORADO
Jana L. Mendez, Chair
Paul D. Danish, Vice Chair
Ronald K. Stewart, Commissioner
ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING on July 24, 2001.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF BOULDER, COLORADO, Jana L.
Mendez, Chair
Boulder
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