Record #: O2018-8090   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 10/31/2018 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
Final action: 12/12/2018
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-170 to allow parking of taxicabs on residential streets within 18th Ward
Sponsors: Curtis, Derrick G.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations
Attachments: 1. O2018-8090.pdf

ORDINANCE

 

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

 

 

 

SECTION 1. Section 9-64-170(a)(6) ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the underscored language, as follows:

9-64-170 Parking restrictions - Special types of vehicles - Exceptions.

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

(6) Residential streets - Exception for taxicabs - When authorized. In the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 15th, 16th, 18th. 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 35th, 46th and 50th wards, and on that portion of 108th Place from South Wentworth Avenue on the east to the perpendicular railway line on the west, the prohibition set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection (a) shall not apply to the owner of a taxicab if all ofthe following requirements are met: (i) the owner of the taxicab has no outstanding debt to the city for parking violations or has satisfied or otherwise resolved any such debt within the meaning of Section 2-32-094, and (ii) the taxicab is not in service, and (iii) the taxicab is lawfully parked at the curb adjacent to the taxicab owner's place of residence in accordance with the general parking requirements of this Code, and (iv) the taxicab bears a valid and current city wheel tax license emblem, and (v) the taxicab bears a valid and current special parking permit issued by the alderman of the ward in which the taxicab owner resides, and (vi) the taxicab is in apparent compliance with this subsection and other applicable requirements of this Code.

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take full force and effect upon its passage and approval.

Derrick Curtis Alderman. 18th Ward