§ 72.37. OBSTRUCTING USE OF PUBLIC PARKING SPACES.

(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally or knowingly remove or cause to be removed from any vehicle, any markings or other devices used by the City to determine parking violations. This includes, but is not limited to, chalk markings on tires and/or pavement, or warning tags affixed to a window or antenna of the vehicle.

(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally or knowingly move or cause to be moved any vehicle for the purpose of removing markings or other devices used by the City to determine parking violations, which moving does not actually and entirely vacate the parking space and permit the occupancy thereof. The vehicle shall be subject to the service charges provided for in this section and the general penalty provided for in this Code.

(C) It shall not be considered a violation of this section for a person to remove a vehicle from a limited parking space and immediately thereafter park the vehicle in the same parking space, provided that the space is actually and entirely vacated by the vehicle, and all obstructions preventing the occupancy thereof by another vehicle are removed for a reasonable period of time which is of a duration that, should the operator of another vehicle desire to occupy the space, the operator would have the opportunity to do so.

(D) Whenever a vehicle is removed from a limited parking space in the manner provided for in this division and is thereafter parked in the same space, the vehicle may legally occupy the space for the entire parking time limit duly established for the space.

(Ord. 02-53, passed 10-7-02) Penalty, see § 10.99