02/10/2009 Ordinances 9204ORDINANCE NO. 9204
An ordinance to amend Chapter 22 of the Grand Island City Code; to amend
Section 22-78 pertaining to Color Legend, Section 22-82 pertaining to Loading Zones, Section
22-86 pertaining to Parking Near Intersections, Section 22-88 pertaining to Parking Near Fire
Hydrants, Section 22-113 pertaining to Snow Emergency Routes, Section 22-114 pertaining to
Snow Alert/Emergency; Parking Prohibition, Section 22-115 pertaining to Parking on
Residential Streets, Section 22-116 pertaining to Vehicles on Snow Emergency Routes, Section
22-117 pertaining to Snow Alert/Emergency; Notice, Section 22-118 pertaining to Temporary
Provisions; Precedence and Section 22-119 pertaining to Removal of Stalled or Parked Vehicles;
to repeal Sections 22-78, 22-82, 22-86, 22-88, 22-113, 22-114, 22-115, 22-116, 22-117, 22-118
and 22-119 as now existing, and any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to
provide for publication and the effective date of this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. Section 22-78, 22-82, 22-86, 22-88, 22-113, 22-114, 22-115, 22-
116, 22-117, 22-118 and 22-119 of the Grand Island City Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
§22-78. Color Legend
(1) The use of yellow paint upon the curb of any street shall indicate obstructions such as
traffic islands within the traveled way. Yellow paint or yellow plastic markings or appropriate
signs shall also be used to indicate the boundaries of safety zones and no parking zones.
(2) The use of yellow paint upon the curb of any street in conjunction with appropriate
signs shall designate fifteen minute parking zones or loading zones.
(3) The use of white paint or white plastic markings upon the surface of the street shall
indicate pedestrian lanes, traffic lanes, and parking spaces.
(4) The use of blue paint upon the curb of any street or the paved portion of any parking
space shall indicate that such space has been set aside as a handicapped parking space.
(5) The use of green paint upon the curb of any street in conjunction with appropriate
signs shall indicate that such space has been set aside as an express zone parking space.
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ORDINANCE NO. 9204 (Cont.)
§22-82. Loading Zones
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to stop, park, or leave such vehicle
standing at any designated loading or unloading zone for a period of time longer than twenty
minutes, except when necessary for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers,
merchandise, or materials.
The Street Division shall designate such loading and unloading zones by causing the curb
to be painted yellow, and shall either paint on such curb or sidewalk above it the words,
"Loading Zone," or shall appropriately place loading zone signs.
§22-86. Parking Near Intersections
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, for any purpose
whatever or for any period of time whatever, within twenty feet of any street intersection, or on a
sidewalk, or within an intersection, or on a crosswalk, or within 30 feet of any flashing signal,
stop sign, yield sign or other traffic control device located at the side of the roadway, or within
20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, unless designated as parking stalls painted on the
roadway.
§22-88. Parking Near Fire Hydrants
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle, for any purpose
whatever or for any period of time whatever, within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant.
Division 4. Regulations to Facilitate Snow Removal
§22-113. Snow Emergency Routes
The streets described below are hereby declared to be snow emergency routes in the City
of Grand Island, Nebraska. Appropriate signs or other traffic control devices shall be installed
indicating the existence of such snow emergency routes. A designation of any street, avenue,
road, or highway, or portion thereof, as a snow emergency route shall in no way affect
designation of that street, avenue, road or highway for any other purpose.
Anna Street between Blaine Street and South Locust Street;
Adams Street between Stolley Park Road and Anna Street;
Bismark Road between Locust Street and the east City Limits;
Blaine Street between U.S. Hwy 34 and Third Street;
Broadwell Avenue between Anna Street and north City Limits;
Cannon Road between North Road and Viking Road;
Capital Avenue between Engleman Road and Shady Bend Road;
Cherry Street between Bismark Road and Sutherland Street;
College Street between Broadwell Avenue and Webb Road;
Custer Avenue between Third Street and Capital Avenue;
Darr Avenue between Faidley Avenue and Seventh Street;
Diers Avenue between the dead end south of Richmond Circle and Capital Avenue;
Eddy Street between Anna Street and State Street;
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Eighteenth Street between the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad and St. Paul
Road;
Faidley Avenue between Diers Avenue and Broadwell Avenue;
First Street between Greenwich and Plum Street;
Fonner Park Road between Stuhr Road and 320 feet west of Sylvan Street;
Fourth Street between Broadwell Avenue and Sky Park Road;
Greenwich Street between First Street and Second Street;
Harrison Street between Stolley Park Road and Anna Street;
Howard Avenue between Faidley Avenue and Tenth Street;
Husker Highway between U.S. Highway 30 and U.S. Highway 281;
Independence Avenue between Manchester Road and Highway No. 2;
Koenig Street between Blaine Street and Vine Street;
Lafayette Avenue between State Street and Capital Avenue;
Lincoln Street between Anna Street and 13th Street/Broadwell Avenue;
Manchester Road between Viking Road and Engleman Road;
New U. S. Highway No. 30 between the West City Limits and Second Street;
North Front Street between Webb Road and Broadwell Avenue;
North Road between the Husker Highway and Highway No. 2;
Old Highway No. 2 between North Broadwell and Highway No. 281;
Old Potash Hwy between West City Limits and Custer Avenue;
Old U. S. Hwy 30 between the west City Limits and New U.S. Hwy 30 Overpass;
Pine Street between the Union Pacific Railroad and First Street;
Pioneer Boulevard between Blaine Street and Stolley Park Road;
Pleasant View Drive between Bismark Road and Fonner Park Road;
Plum Street between Sutherland Street and Second Street;
Riverside Drive between Stagecoach Road and Stolley Park Road;
St. Paul Road between Fourth Street and Capital Avenue;
Second Street between Garfield Street and Plum Street;
Second Street between Webb Road and Garfield Street;
Seedling Mile Road between Stuhr Road and the east City Limits;
Seventeenth Street between Sycamore Street and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe
Railroad;
Shady Bend Road between the south city limits and Airport Road;
Sky Park Road between Fourth Street and White Cloud Road;
South Front Street between Vine Street and Walnut Street;
South Locust Street between Walnut Street and south City Limits;
Stagecoach Road between Blaine Street and Locust Street;
State Street between 17th Street and North Road;
Stoeger Drive between Seventh Street and Baumann Drive;
Stolley Park Road between the west and east City Limits;
Stuhr Road between Fonner Park Road and U.S. Hwy 30;
Sutherland Street between Cherry Street and Plum Street;
Sycamore Street between First Street and Capital Avenue;
Tenth Street between Broadwell Avenue and St. Paul Road;
Third Street between Blaine Street and Walnut Street;
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U.S. Hwy 30 between Plum Street and the east City Limits;
U. S. Hwy 34 between the west and east City Limits;
U. S. Hwy 281 between the north and south City Limits;
Vine Street between Fonner Park Road and South Front Street;
Walnut Street between Fourth Street and South Locust Street;
Webb Road between U.S. Hwy 281 south and North City Limits;
Wheeler Street between Fourth Street and Capital Avenue;
13th Street between Engleman Road and Eddy Street;
17th Street between Walnut Street and Sycamore Street.
Amended by Ordinance No. 9087, effective 11-8-2006
§22-114. Snow Alert/Emergency; Parking Prohibition
Whenever the mayor or their designated representative, shall find, on the basis of falling
snow, sleet, or freezing rain, or on the basis of an official forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau
predicting snow accumulation, sleet, or freezing rain, that such weather conditions will make it
necessary that motor vehicle traffic be expedited, they may declare a snow alert/emergency.
Such declaration of a snow alert/emergency shall state the time that said alert/emergency will be
in effect. During such snow alert/emergency all parking of vehicles on snow emergency routes
shall be prohibited. The prohibition imposed under this section shall remain in effect until snow
or threat of snow as indicated by the U.S. Weather Bureau has passed and the emergency snow
route cleared, or until the formal declaration of a snow alert/emergency has been terminated by
the mayor or said designated representative.
§22-115. Parking on Residential Streets
Whenever during a snow alert/emergency the mayor shall determine that conditions make
it necessary that parking on local and residential streets should be prohibited or restricted for
snow plowing and other purposes, the mayor may put into effect a parking prohibition on parts
of or on all local and residential streets by declaring that parking be prohibited on one side of the
local and residential streets, designating either the odd or even address numbered side, at their
discretion. In such declaration, the mayor shall state the date and time on which such parking
prohibition shall take effect. The prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by
announcement by the mayor, who may then declare that there shall be in effect a parking
prohibition on the opposite side of those local and residential streets designated above, which
prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the mayor. While the
prohibition is in effect, no person shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any side of
a street whereon parking is prohibited.
§22-116. Vehicles on Snow Emergency Routes
Whenever a motor vehicle becomes stalled for any reason, on any snow emergency route
on which there is a parking prohibition in effect, the person operating such vehicle shall take
immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway of such snow emergency
route, either onto the nearest cross street which is not a snow emergency route, or other
appropriate location. No person shall abandon or leave a vehicle in the roadway of a snow
emergency route, except for the purpose of securing assistance during the actual time necessary
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to go to a nearby telephone or to a nearby garage, gasoline station, or other place of assistance
and return without delay.
§22-117. Snow Alert/Emergency; Notice
The mayor or their designated representative shall cause each declaration of a snow
alert/emergency made pursuant to this chapter, to be publicly announced by means of broadcast
or telecast from broadcasting stations with a normal operating range covering the city, and may
cause such declaration to be further announced in newspapers of general circulation when
feasible. Each announcement shall describe the action taken, including the time it became or will
become effective, and shall specify the streets or areas affected
When the conditions which gave rise to a parking prohibition placed in effect pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter no longer exist, the mayor or their designated representative may
declare the prohibition terminated, in whole or in part, effective immediately upon
announcement or at a later specified time.
§22-118. Temporary Provisions; Precedence
Any provision of this chapter which becomes effective by declaration of the mayor or
their designated representative upon the occurrence of a snow alert/emergency, takes precedence
over other conflicting provisions of law while in effect, except that it shall not take precedence
over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency
vehicles, or emergency traffic directions by a police officer.
§22-119. Removal of Stalled or Parked Vehicles
(1) Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove or have removed a
vehicle from a street to another place or location on a street or to a lot, garage, storage yard, or
other similar facility designated by the police department when:
(A) The vehicles on a snow emergency route are in violation of this division.
(B) The vehicle is stalled on a snow emergency route on which there is a parking
prohibition in effect and the person who is operating said vehicle does not appear to be
removing it in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) The vehicle is parked on any street in violation of this division.
(2) Such vehicle removal may be made by towing to the city automobile pound, pursuant to the
provisions of Chapter 22, Article IV, Division 3, of this Code, or the police department may
cause such vehicles to be removed to a private lot, garage, storage yard, or other similar facility;
and any such vehicle shall not be released therefrom except upon payment by the owner of the
vehicle to the person or persons in charge of the lot, garage, storage yard, or other similar facility
for the cost of towing, and the cost of storage, at the appropriate charges as listed in the most
current fee schedule, during which time the vehicle remains stored, and a receipt for such fees
shall be issued to the owner of the vehicle.
(3) It shall be the duty of the person or persons in charge of the lot, garage, storage yard, or
other similar facility designated by the police department to keep a record of the name of the
owner of all vehicles towed in under the provisions hereof, together with the registration number
of each vehicle, and the nature and circumstances of each violation, and the amount of fees
collected hereunder, and to deliver a report of each day's transactions to the chief of police not
later than one day following the day for which the report is made.
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ORDINANCE NO. 9204 (Cont.)
SECTION 2. Section 22-78, 22-82, 22-86, 22-88, 22-113, 22-114, 22-115, 22-
116, 22-117, 22-118 and 22-119 as now existing, and any ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith be, and hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its
passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: February 10, 2009.
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Margare ornady, Mayor
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RaNae Edwards, City Clerk
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