37-10 Amend Title Seven, Parking

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Please Substitute for Ordinance No. 37-10 (Placed on 1~ Reading and referred to the Rules & Ordinances Committee 5/3/10, Placed on 2"d Reading 5/17/10) ORDINANCE N0. 37-10 BY: Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Madigan, Powers, Smith, Summers. AN ORDINANCE to take effect August 1, 2010 provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members elected to Council otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allow by law, to amend Title Seven, Parking of the Traffic Code, within the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood for the purpose of updating and expanding the Code and to be consistent with the Ohio Revised Code and to remove criminal penalties for parking violations to be consistent with new Chapter 309 of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances. WHEREAS, this ordinance is necessary for the public health, welfare and safety; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that this legislation must go into effect simultaneously with the enactment of new Chapter 309 which makes all parking offenses in the City of Lakewood civil effective August 1, 2010. Now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That Chapter 351, Parking Generally within Title Seven, Parking of the Traffic Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood currently reading as follows: 351.01 LIMITATIONS ON PARKING. No person shall stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or with the provisions of this Traffic Code, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or a traffic control device, in any of the following places: (a) On a sidewalk, except a bicycle.