City of pleasant hope missouri municipal code

Chapter 344 - Failure to Exhibit an Insurance Identification Card to a Peace Officer

Section 344.010: Exhibiting Insurance Identification Card, Penalty

Sub Section A. An insurance identification card, as is defined by RSMo. 303.024 shall be carried in the insured motor vehicle at all times. The operator of an insured motor vehicle shall exhibit the insurance identification card on the demand of any peace officer who lawfully stops such operator or investigates an accident while that officer or is engaged in the performance of the officer's duties. If the operator fails to exhibit an insurance identification card, the officer shall notify the director of revenue, in the manner determined by the director, and the officer may issue a citation to the operator pursuant to Sub Section 2 of this section. A motor vehicle liability insurance policy, a motor vehicle liability insurance binder or receipt which contains the policy information is required by RSMo.303.024 shall be satisfactory evidence of insurance in lieu of an insurance identification card.

Sub Section B. Any person failing to exhibit an insurance identification card or other satisfactory evidence of insurance in lieu of such card upon the demand of any peace officer pursuant to Sub Section 1 of this section is guilty of a class C misdemeanor. However, no person shall be found guilty of violating this section if the operator demonstrates to the court that he or she met the financial responsibility requirements of this section at the time the peace officer wrote the citation.

Chapter 345 - Stopping, Standing and Parking

Section 345.010: Signs Required for Enforcement of Parking Regulations

Wherever by any provisions of this Chapter a parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets, it shall be the duty of the traffic engineer to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. No such regulations shall be effective unless such signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.

Section 345.013: Director of City Services - Amending Map and Erecting Signs:

Erect signs at all entrances and other conspicuous locations as he deems appropriate, setting forth the parking restrictions imposed in this Chapter.

Section 345.020: Standing or Parking, Close to Curb

No person shall park a vehicle within a public right-of-way other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement, except in the case of designated angle or diagonal parking. In the case of angle or diagonal parking, no person shall stand or park a vehicle other than with the front of such vehicle directed toward the front or curb of such angle or diagonal parking space.

Section 345.030: Obedience to Signs or Markings

Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the traffic engineer for angle parking, no person shall park or stand by a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb of the edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

Section 345.040: Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited In Specified Places

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places:

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   On a sidewalk or parkway;
   
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   In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet thereof;
   
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   Within an intersection;
   
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   Within eight feet of a fire hydrant;
   
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   On a crosswalk or within twenty feet thereof;
   
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   Within thirty feet from the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, yield right-of-way sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
   
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   Within twenty feet of the nearest rail or railroad crossing;
   
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   Within fifteen feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five feet of such entrance when property sign-posted;
   
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   Along or opposite any street excavation of obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
   
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    On the roadway side of any vehicles stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
    
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    On the outer or inner drive of the Public Square;
    
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    Upon any bridge, viaduct, overpass, underpass, or any other type of grade separation, and upon the approaches to same;
    
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    In front of any place of business assembly during the period of public assemblage therein or of a principal exit or entrance to a school, hotel, theatre, hospital, or public building.
    
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    So as to obstruct or impede traffic in any manner.
    
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    Within four feet of a repository for United States Mail which is designed to be accessible by United State Post Office employees from a public right of way.
    

Notwithstanding any other requirements of this Section, no sign shall be required to be posted at any of the locations enumerated in this section for the enforcement of this section.

Section 345.050: Parking Not To Obstruct Traffic

No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to obstruct or impede the regular flow of traffic on the roadway.

Section 345.055: Standing or Parking Inoperable or Disabled Vehicle for More Than 48 Hours

Sub Section A. No person shall stand or park a disabled, unlicensed or inoperable vehicle within a public right-of-way or angled or diagonal parking space for a period to exceed 48 hours.

Sub Section B. A motor vehicle shall be determined to be inoperable when it does not have a current state license plate or when it has a current state plate, but is disassembled or wrecked in part or whole and is unable to move under its own power.

Sub Section B. A motor vehicle shall be determined as disabled when a vehicle is unable to move under its own power; or requires mechanical or other work to be able to move under its own power; or has one or more flat tires.

Section 345.060: Parking in Alleys

No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.

Section 345.070: Parking of Vehicles on Roadway for Purpose of Selling or Repairing, Etc. Prohibited

No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:

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   Displaying such vehicle for sale or advertising;
   

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   Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated in an emergency.
   

Section 345.080: Parking Near School - Generally

The traffic engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation. When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon either side of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.

Section 345.090: Parking Near Schools - Commercial Vehicles

No person shall stop, stand or park any commercial vehicle upon either side of any street adjacent to any school property between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on any day on which school is in session or otherwise open for school activities or community programs, for any purpose except loading or unloading of merchandise.

Section 345.100: Stopping, Standing or Parking near Hazardous or Congested Places

The City of Pleasant Hope City Council is hereby authorized to determine and designate by proper signs placed not exceeding one hundred feet in length in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay in traffic. When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as authorized herein no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any area or designated place.

Section 345.110: Standing In Passenger Curb Loading Zone

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials in any placed marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed thirty minutes.

Section 345.120: Stopping, Standing or Parking of Buses and Taxicabs

The following rules shall govern the stopping, standing and parking of buses and taxicabs:

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   Except in the operation or a charter or special bus, the operator of a bus shall not stop, stand or park any bus upon any street other than at a bus stand or any other location commonly used to take on and discharge passengers.
   
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   Except in the operation of a charter or special bus, the operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any passengers or their baggage other than at a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone or any other location commonly used for discharging and picking up passengers.
   
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   The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, but stand or passenger loading zone or other location where passengers are normally discharged or picked up in such a manner that the bus, when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage, shall be in a position as close to the curb as possible, so as not to impede unduly the movement of other vehicular traffic.
   
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   The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand designated by the traffic engineer. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the expeditious loading and unloading of passengers.
   

Section 345.130: Restricted Use of Bus and Taxicab Stands

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a .bus in a bus stop or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed, therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.

Section 345.140: Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited During Certain Hours on Certain Streets

When signs are erected in a block giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between the hours specified.

Section 345.150: Parking of Common Carriers on Street at Night Prohibited

No person shall park a truck, tractor or trailer with a capacity of one ton or larger or the chassis thereof on any street in the business district; nor shall any person use any street for the purpose of repairing or reconditioning any such truck, trailer or any common carrier or any part thereof, except when such repairs shall be necessitated by an emergency.

Section 345.160: Parking of Certain Vehicles on Public Right-of-Way in a Residential District

Sub Section A. Excluding pick-up trucks, it shall be unlawful for any person to park any truck, commercial vehicles, van, or recreational vehicles having an overall length of more than eighteen (18) feet, or having an overall width of more than seven (7) feet, or any truck tractor with or without trailer, on any residential street for a period of time longer than two (2) hours; and if any truck or commercial vehicle is used for the transportation of livestock or flammable or caustic liquids and gases, the same shall not be parked at any time, within one hundred and fifty (150) feet of any dwelling occupied by any person or family other than the person or family owning or using such truck or commercial vehicle.
Sub Section B. Residential Street shall be defined as all streets which are adjacent to or located in residential zoning districts as set forth on the official zoning map of the City.

Section 345.170: Parking on Private Property, Lots and Areas

Sub Section A. No person shall park a vehicle on any private property without the consent of the owner, lessee or occupant or other person having charge of such premises; and no person shall park a vehicle on any public property except in designated parking lots or parking areas without the consent of the City or other public entity that owns or controls such property.

Sub Section B. No person shall park a vehicle on a privately owned parking lot or designated parking area or a publicly owned parking lot or designated parking area unless such person shall be of the class of those permitted to park therein as such class shall be plainly specified by signs prominently displayed by the owner, leaser, occupant or other person having control of a private parking lot or area or a public entity in the case of property owned or controlled by such entity.
Sub Section C. No person shall park a vehicle on a privately or publicly owned or controlled parking lot or designated parking area except between the hours authorized for such parking, or for longer than the time designated, by signs prominently displayed plainly specifying such hours or time limitations, by the owner, lessor, occupant or other person having charge of a private parking lot or designated parking area or by the public entity that owns or has control of such parking lot or designated parking area. However, no such vehicles shall be removed pursuant to the provisions of this Section unless said signs contain notification that vehicles of violators may be towed at the owner's expense.
Sub Section D. In the case of property owned or controlled by the City of Pleasant Hope, no parking or parking limitations may be designated by order of the Director of City Services and Engineering. Any such order shall be in writing, shall be delivered to the City Clerk for delivery to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at its next regular meeting and shall be annexed to the minutes of such meeting. Such order shall be effective at 12:01 a.m. on the date immediately following the regular meeting at which the order is presented to the Board of Aldermen unless, by motion, resolution or ordinance, such order is disapproved or modified, and in case of modification, said order shall be effective at 12:01 a.m. on the next date following the regular meeting as modified by the Board of Aldermen. Any such disapproval or modification shall be by majority vote of the members present at such meeting.

Sub Section E. Any person, corporation or public entity in lawful possession of a public off-street parking facility may designate reserve parking spaces for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing license plate or card issued pursuant to Section 301.071 or 301.142 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri as close as possible to the nearest accessible entrance. Such designation shall be made by posting immediately adjacent to and visible from each space a sign upon which there is inscribed the international symbol of accessibility in white on a blue background and may also include any appropriate wording to indicate spaces reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles which display a distinguishing a license plate or card.

Sub Section F. No person shall park a vehicle in a space designated for physically disabled persons unless that vehicle properly displays a distinguishing license plate or card upon which is inscribed the International Symbol of Accessibility and the word "Disabled" issued pursuant to Section 301.071 or 301.142 RSMO., or a distinguishing license plate or card issued by any other state. However, no such vehicles shall be removed pursuant to the provisions of this Section unless there shall be posted immediately adjacent thereto and readily visible from such space, a sign on which is inscribed the International Symbol of Accessibility in white on a blue background.

Sub Section G. Any person who parks in a space reserved for physically disabled persons and is not displaying distinguishing license plates, or a card, is guilty of an infraction and shall be imposed a penalty as provided in Section 225.010(B)(1)(D) of the Pleasant Hope City Code, provided however that such fine shall not be less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00).

Sub Section H. Any police officer of the City is hereby authorized to cause the removal of any vehicle parked in violation of this section. Any vehicle that shall be towed pursuant to the provisions of this Section may be claimed within thirty days (30) thereafter by paying reasonable towing costs and storage fees. Any vehicle not claimed within thirty (30) days shall be considered as an abandoned vehicle and may be disposed of by the holder in any manner provide by State Laws.

Sub Section I. The provisions in this Section insofar as it relates to public parking areas shall not include those areas defined in Chapter 370 and the Amended Map Number 2 of Controlled Parking Areas Downtown Business District, City of Pleasant Hope, Missouri, as adopted under the provisions of said Chapter, and as amended from time to time.

Sub Section J. Any person that violates the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to punishment as provided in Section 365.110.

Section 345.180: Creation of Presumption for Parking Violations

If any vehicle is found upon a street, alley or other location within the City of Pleasant Hope, Missouri in violation of any provisions of Chapter 345 and for which a fine is payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 365.120(b) the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered in the records of any City, County or State shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation, if the driver thereof is not present.