Record #: O2013-9112   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 11/20/2013 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action: 5/20/2015
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-170 regarding removal of trial period for parking prohibition for special types of vehicles within 40th Ward
Sponsors: O'Connor, Patrick
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations
Attachments: 1. O2013-9112.pdf
Related files: R2015-407
ORDINANCE
 
 
SECTION 1. Section 9-64-170 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken, as follows:
 
9-64-170 Parking Restrictions - Special Types of vehicles.
 
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
 
(b)     It shall be unlawful to park any truck, self-contained motor home, or bus on any business street in the city for a longer period than is necessary for the reasonably expeditious loading or unloading of such vehicle, except that a driver of a bus may park the bus in a designated bus stand as authorized elsewhere in the traffic code. It shall be unlawful to park any taxicab on any business street in the city for a period longer than two hours between the hours of 2:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.; provided that this prohibition shall not apply to taxicabs parked on business streets in the 23 rd Ward, 40th Ward for a six month trial period starting on the effective date of this amendatory ordinance of 2012, and only on the (north side) North Lincoln Avenue, from North California Avenue to West Peterson Avenue, (south side) of North Lincoln Avenue, from North California Avenue to West Foster Avenue, (both sides) of North Western Avenue, from West Glenlake Avenue to West Peterson Avenue, (east side) of North Western Avenue, from West Balmoral Avenue to West Peterson Avenue and (south side) of West Peterson Avenue, from North Lincoln Avenue to North California Avenue, 46th Ward, 49th Ward and in the 50th Ward (on Devon Avenue and Western Avenue). A violator of this subsection shall be subject to the fine set forth in Section 9-100-020.
 
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon passage and publication.