Chapter 12.50
HOTEL BUSINESS LOADING ZONES

Sections:

12.50.010    Definitions.

12.50.020    Hotel business loading zones regulated.

12.50.030    Hotel business loading zones to be designated and signed.

12.50.010 Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter:

(1)    “Hotel business loading zone” means a designated location on the public right-of-way adjacent to a hotel entrance or exit reserved for use by vehicles loading and unloading hotel business related persons or commodities and for providing temporary hotel parking necessary to implement hotel valet parking services.

(2)    “Overnight parking” means the parking of a vehicle in a hotel business loading zone for a period exceeding three hours a day at any time during the hours from ten p.m. to eight a.m. of the following day.

(3)    “Person” means every natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or organization.

(4)    To Park (or Stand) a Vehicle. There is a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of a violator vehicle was the person who parked such vehicle.

(5)    “Hotel valet parking service” means a hotel, or independent contractor, which provides a driver to operate a vehicle to and from a parking location so that the driver and passengers in the vehicle may unload and load at the hotel.

(6)    “Vehicle” means every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon or by which any person, or property, shall or may be transported or drawn upon any public highway excepting devices moved by human power. (Ord. 4291 § 1 (part), 2011)

12.50.020 Hotel business loading zones regulated.

(a)    Hotel business loading zones shall only be allowed along the city street adjacent to hotel entrances and exits and shall at all times be reserved for use by hotel business related vehicles, both commercial and noncommercial, in loading and unloading hotel business related persons or commodities and provision of hotel valet parking services.

(b)    The hotel valet parking service shall record the vehicle license numbers of vehicles which are in the custody or control of the hotel valet parking service and shall identify such vehicles by placard or similar device visibly displayed in the window of the vehicle.

(c)    Hotel business loading zones shall not be used for overnight parking.

(d)    It is a civil infraction for any person to park or stand a vehicle as follows:

(1)    In a hotel business loading zone for a purpose other than temporarily stopping to load and unload hotel business related persons or commodities;

(2)    In a hotel business loading zone, unattended, unless a placard or other device clearly identifying the vehicle as hotel business related and allowing for such parking, as required in this section, is visibly displayed in the window of the vehicle. (Ord. 4291 § 1 (part), 2011)

12.50.030 Hotel business loading zones to be designated and signed.

The chief of police or delegate or the director of public works or delegate is authorized to designate hotel business loading zones. Such designation shall be shown by signage and other appropriate indicators marking the limits of the hotel business loading zone. (Ord. 4291 § 1 (part), 2011)